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PAGE 4 Friday, November 2, 1956
Sooners Try Colorado
Nation’s Gridders
In League Action
By JACK HAND
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oklahoma turns to family warfare Saturday with its
shiny 35-game winning streak and its No. 1 ranking m the
nation riding against once-beaten Colorado.
The trend is toward conference and league competition
among the major college football teams with only a sprinkling
of intersectional tests. , . . , ,
Pittsburgh’s invasion of Minnesota, a clash between t
No 11 and No. 8 teams in the latest Associated Press po ,
should provide another interesting test of Eastern vs. West
ern football. Pitt, beaten once, is battling with Penn State
and Syracuse for Eastern honors and Minnesota, once tiec,
knocked over favored Michigan last week.
Notre Dame’s three-game
losing streak and sad 1-4 sea
son record rub some of the
lustre from the meeting of the
Irish and up-and-coming Navy
at Baltimore.
Georgia Tech, second - ranked
among the football powers, meets
a Duke team that has shown signs
of real strength. Powerful Ten
nessee jousts with Coach Jim Pa-
turn’s North Carolina boys, who
have beaten only Maryland.
The big surprise of last week
was Michigan State’s defeat by Il
linois. Now Michigan State bumps
into Wisconsin, hoping to recap
ture lost prestige and a higher
ranking. It’s the same story foi
Michigan, dropped by Minnes.ota,
in its game against unbeaten Iowa,
the current Western Conference
leader. Ohio State, right behind
Iowa in the tight race, pklys at
Northwestern and Illinois is at
Purdue in other conference games.
Arkansas, fresh from a sur
prise victory over Mississippi,
plays the tough Texas Aggies,
who ended Baylofs unbeaten
string in a Saturday night game.
Stanford can strengthen its Rose
Bowl position in the Pacific Coast
Conference by whipping a twice
beaten UCLA team after its 27-19
decision over Southern California.
Perhaps the top Eastern game is
the clash of Penn State and Syra
cuse, two teams with 4-1 records,
at Syracuse in a duel between
State’s Milt Plum and Syracuse’s
Jimmy Brown. In the Ivy League,
Dartmouth is at Yale, Cornell at
Columbia, Byown at. unbeaten
Princeton and Penn at 'Harvartf.
Army entertains, a strong Colgate
team that upended Yale a week
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the fifth-ranked Aggies tomorrow night on Kyle f ield
against the invading Arkansas Razorbacks. Marks, a jun
ior, has knocked 1955 all-SWC wingman bebes Stalling,
onto the second team-
Field Wide Open
Replacing Price
Is Texas’ Problem
By ED OVEKHOLSEK
AUSTIN, (A 5 ) — The Univer
sity ,of Texas, still buzzing from
Ed Price’s sudden resignation as
football coach, faced the tough
problem of replacing its top two
men in athletics.
The field of possible successors
to Athletic Director Dana X. Bible
and Price apparently was as wide
open as state’s wind-washed planes.
Bible had announced earlier he
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was stepping out of an active role
in September, 1957.
Both men had devoted a total of
75 years to athletics, a big part
of it at Texas.
Top university officials and
alumni indicate it may be along
while before final selection is!
made. This is the general picture:
First, the university will have to
settle basic questions as to wheth
er it will or will not consolidate
the two jobs. If it does not, then
consideration will be made as to
whether or not to get an estab
lished “big name” coach or a
young coach who might make the
grade at Texas with its rugged
Southwest Conference schedule.
Claude Voyles of Austin, memb
er of the board of regents, said
it was his personal opinion that
“we would want a young man on
his way up rather than an older
man on his way down.” Voyles,
vice chairman of the board, em
phasized that was only his own
feeling.
Finally the university will have
to see if it can get what it wants.
This presumably would be a rough
er road to run if a big name is
involved.
A combination of the jobs—as
held for many years by Bible-
presumably would save the uni-
veVsity money salarywise. How
ever this apparently is not a major
worry now.
Dozens of names were already
circulating with no one in a re
sponsible position yet wanting to
publicly point toward any indivi
dual.
Red Sanders at UCLA, Jess Hill
at Southern California, and such
former Texas greats as Bobby
Layne and Tom Landry have been
unofficially mentioned.
Texas has lost five of six games
this season and is headed for one
of its worst years. In his resigna
tion yesterday, Price said “it is
unfair to the team for us to ha've
a house divided . . . these boys are
entitled to the full support of the
alumni.”
Jim Montgomery, writing a
column in the. Daily Texan, stu
dent newspaper, said: “Chalk up
another one for the howling pack
of, win-hungry wolves. They final
ly did, it. They got Ed Price.”
Aggies, SMI Pointing
SWC Showdown
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Editor
The raucous Southwest Confer
ence football race hits the half
way mark Saturday and the signs
say Texas A&M and Southern
Methodist will be setting up a
showdown.
The high-riding Aggies, last un
beaten team in the league, clash
with the outfit that knocked them
out of the title last year—Arkan
sas—at College Station. But this
time A&M is a heavy favorite to
brush the Razorbacks aside.
Southern Methodist, the only
other team unbeaten in conference
play, gets downtrodden Texas, mad
about its coach being forced to
resign, at Austin. SMU is a handy
choice but prospects are that the
going Wili be much tougher
against the Longhorns as the re
sult of the coaching situation.
Ed Price quit as head man of
the Longhorns in the midst of a
dismal season but will finish put
the campaign. Chances are the
football team will fight harder as
a tribute to Price.
Also, it will be Homecoming day
at the Forty Aci’es—another in
centive to the Longhorns to slam
the team they haven’t lost to since
1949.
While these two crucial battles
are being waged, Texas Christian
and Baylor, a couple of disappoint
ed and angry teams, will meet in
comparative obscurity at Fort
Worth to see which hangs onto
a chance of winning or sharing the
championship. Both were victims
of Texas A&M.
Rice, which lost to Southern
Methodist but whipped Texas last
Saturday, isn’t particularly wor
ried this week. The Owls play
Utah of the Skyline Conference in
an intersectional game. Rice is ex
pected to roll over the Utes.
If A&M and Southern Methodist
win as expected they will face
each other Nov. 10 at Dallas with
the conference championship on
the line.
Texas .A&M comes up to its bat
tle with resurging Arkansas in the
best physical shape in weeks. It
will be seeking to avenge that
7-7 tie which Arkansas outplayed
the Aggies last year. This dead
lock eventually proved the margin
by which A&M lost the champion
ship.
Coach Jack Mitchell of the Raz
orbacks typically declares that
“we don’t have a ghost of a
chance” but the statistics indicate
otherwise. The Porkers lost to
Texas Christian 41-6 it is true
and A&M beat TCU 7-6, but Ark
ansas started back up right after
that. It almost beat Baylor, then
it swatted Mississippi 14-0. Miss
issippi had beaten Houston 14-0
and Houston actually outplayed
Texas A&M in a 14-14 tie.
This game will be the battle
of the fullbacks—Jack Pardee of
Texas A&M and Gerald Nesbitt of
the Razorbacks, two of the finest
football players in the country. It
also will match the top ground
gainers of the conference.
' The Texas-Southern Methodist
struggle will send the two top pas
sers of the league against each
other with prospects of a lot of
scoring.. Joe Clements of lexas
leads the conference in passing
and Charlie Arnold of Southern
Methodist is a close second.
SMU has won three and lost two
for the season, Texas has won only
one out of six. But past records,
it has been shown repeatedly, mean
nothing when these two bitter ri
vals get together.
Texas Christian is favored to
beat Baylor, especially since its,
great quarterback, Chuck Curtis,
will be in shape to play. Curtis
suffered a kidney injury in prac
tice Tuesday but it was found to
be of minor nature and he’ll be
ready.
Utah is being brought to Texas
by a former Texan—Jack Curtice.
It has a record including defeats
to UCLA, Wyoming and Idaho but
victories over Montana, Brigham
Young and Denver. This record
wouldn’t indicate that Rice can
expect much trouble.
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