Mediocre Aggies Beat Down Wildcats
19-0 in Saturday’s Season Opener
Cadets Show Five Minutes
Of Football to 15,000 Fans
By BARRY HART
Battalion Sports Editor
A&M played just enough football Saturday afternoon to
beat the Villanova Wildcats, 19-0, but that’s about the extent
of it.
For about five minutes the Aggies showed 15,000 sun-
beaten fans the type of football that sent them out of the
Southwest Conference cellar and to a surprising 7-2-1 record
in 1955. Other than that Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant’s eleven
bordered on the mediocre in the season’s opener.
As usual, the Cadets ground out a lot of real estate—325
yards on the ground, but it was mostly in spasmodic thrusts.
“The only good thing I can say about the game,” said
Coach Bryant, “is that we won and they didn’t score.”
The same combination that
LOOK, MA, I’M FLYING—appears to be the situation as an unidentified Villanova back
falls forward for a short gainer in last Saturday’s football action. Also in on the bird-
man act is an Aggie (also unidentified) making the tackle. Number 52 on the left is
Wildcat Team Captain Joe Ryan. —Photo by Don Bissett.
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DALLAS, (A 5 )—Defense is some
thing- they’re not worrying about
in Southwest Conference football
this season if statistics of the first
week of play can be taken as an
indication.
It’s get those yards and those
points and do it more than the
other team.
Texas Christian, the defending
champion and favorite to repeat,
is the leading instigator of this
plan. Last week the Horned Frogs
whipped Kansas 32-0 and in doing
so rolled up an awesome 540 yards
rushing and passing. They allowed
Kansas 143 on the ground, but the
Jayhawks made none in the air.
There were some horrendous de
fensive records, but except in the
case of Texas they didn’t keep the
team from winning. Arkansas, for
instance, allowed Hardin-Simmons
409 yards but won 21-6. Southern
Methodist granted Notre Dame 329
yards but beat the Irish 19-13 with
their own 306.
whipped Rice in 1955 broke
the gate to the season’s first
score late in the first period as
Quarterback Jimmy Wright
pitched a perfect pass to room
mate Loyd Taylor for the first
points. The play covered 30 yards
and Taylor, who took the ball on
the 15, went over untouched,
thanks to a good block on the lone
Wildcat defender by Bobby Keith.
The Aggies second touchdown
came at the 2:56 mark of the
third quarter. Murry Trimble got
the show rolling with a fumble re
covery at the A&M 42 and for a
while it looked like the Aggies of
old.
WITH RODDY OSBORNE at
the helm, Bryant’s men moved the
58 yards in 11 plays, with Os
borne and Jack Pardee doing most
of the strong-arm stuff. Pardee
picked up 28 of the total on five
thrusts at the middle while Os
borne ran for 19. John Crow, who
got the ball only seven times all
day for 51 yards, turned on the
power for the final seven and the
six points. Taylor missed his sec-
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Tuesday, September 25, 1956 PAGE 3
Rockdale Crushes
Consolidated, 46-0
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Cross Country
Team Expects
100 Candidates
“A&M’s cross country team
will be ‘green’ this year,” ac
cording to Coach Frank (Col.
Andy) Anderson. About 100
inexperienced ambitious hope
fuls are expected to draw uniforms
for a berth on the 1956 squad.
Three seasoned runners current
ly pace the list of candidates. Fidel
Rul Jr., Ed Blake, and Edward
Weeren top the list of distance
men which also includes such as
pirants as Ervan Zouzalik, Bass
Redd, and Ronald Kirkpatrick.
Jack Head, Charles Flannagan,
Anthony Erisman, and Sanford
Collins are other top contestants.
ond straight conversion attempt,
the same number he missed the en
tire 1955 season.
Just after the teams had chang
ed ends at the advent of the <f inal
period, Crow picked off an Os
borne-deflected Villanova pass and
returned in nine yards to the Ca
det’s 37. With Osborne carrying
ing twice for 27 yards after Pardee
got five, Keith gathered in Os
borne’s pass for 27 yards and a
first down on the Wildcat 17.
DON WATSON, on one of his
two carries for the afternoon, pick
ed up four and. George Gillar, re
placing Pardee, swept left end for
11 and a first down on the two
where Osborne slipped in for the
touchdown. Taylor kicked true
and the score stood 19-0.
By MAURICE OLIAN
CHS Correspondent
Rockdale’s impenetrable defense
held the Consolidated offense to 11
yards rushing and 15 passing in
Friday night’s battle of the
“Tigers.” Rockdale romped to a
crushing 46-0 victory, effortlessly
maintaining an unscored season.
Travis Walker started the one
sided scoring spree just 2:20 deep
in the first period with a 16-yard
jaunt resulting from a Rockdale
fumble recovery by Lee Murray,
Tiger defensive ace. Bill Buetow
converted for Rockdale.
Erroll Robinson boosted the score
13-0, climaxing a tremendous
ground drive amassing three first
downs before the talley, still in
the initial quarter. Bill Scurlock
caped off a sustained 81 yard
march in the second period with a
36 yard scoring sprint and Buetow
added the extra marker.
In the fading moment of the
third quarter Rockdale ripped off
six fast first downs before Walker
broke loose on another paydirt
scamper for a 27-0 lead. Buetow
again converted beautifully.
Robinson was the next to rack
up his second TD of the night as
the undefeated team posted 19
points during the game’s final 10
minutes. Conversion was no good
and the count was 33-0.
Rockdale took possession of the
ball on CHS’s 36 after a bad punt
and three plays later A1 Garza
snagged one of Robinson’s aerials
for another score. Minutes later
Garza sacked a CHS blocked punt
and completed scoring for the
night with his second trip across
the double stripe.
A&M Consolidated now has a
1-2 record and travels to Houston
this Friday night for a skirmish
with the District 10-AAA Smiley
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First downs 16
Rushing yardage ......192
Passing yardage S8
Passes attempted 20
Passes completed 8
Passes intercepted by . . 0
Punts 7
Punting average 29.4
Fumbles lost 2
Yards penalized 60
Score by quarters:
Villanova 0 0 0
A&M 6 0 6
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