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College Station (Brazo* County?, Texa»
Tuesday, November 6, 1956
Tigers Lose., 14-13
Almost Beats
Cyp ress-Fa irhan ks
By MAURICE OLIAN
CHS Sports Correspondent
A&M Consolidated wrested a
moral victory Friday night in a
13-14 encounter with favored Cy-
press-Fairbanks’ Bobcats. The Bob
cats salvaged the game, but not
face as the scrappy Tigers, winner
of a single tilt, ground out 13 first
downs to the opposition’s 10.
Coach Horace Shaffer’s eleven,
in dropping their second straight
conference fracas and seventh in
eight outings this season, actually
deserved a better fate. They roll
ed up four penetrations, twice be
ing halted on the Bobcats three-
yard line while the hosts failed to
penetrate the CHS 20 on any oc
casion other than their two touch
downs.
If the Tiger conversion attempt
had been successful, the game
would have been theirs on the
basis of first downs.
Slippery Alton Arnold led the
CHS running attack and in the
air CHS managed 79 yards on 11
completions in 20 attempts. Edgar
Feldman connected on nine of 13
tosses in the second half alone, but
most of them were short jump
passes and totaled only 61 yards.
Bill Kavanaugh sparked the
Tiger defense, getting in on al
most every other tackle. Stead
man Davis, the hustling 155-pound
linebacker, and Arnold, who inter
cepted three pases and almost
snared a fourth were outstanding
for CHS.
The Bobcats completed only three
of 14 aerials for 99 yards. Of that
total, 79 yards led to the first
Bobcat tally. Cypress - Fairbanks
netted 158 yards rushing. They
couldn’t move following the open
ing kickoff and punted out to their
own 41-yard line.
On the Tigers first play from
scrimmage Arnold took a pitchout
from Feldman, got his key block
from George Carroll and raced
down the left sideline for a quick
6- 0 lead. Jim Wright kicked the
point after, and the Bengals had a
7- 0 bulge.
On the Bobcat 20 David Horn
heaved a long aerial to midfield
that was batted around like a
volley ball. Finally, the Bobcat
All-District end, James Oldham,
emerged from the confusion with
the pigskin and pi'omptly out-ran
the Tiger defenders to pay dirt.
Oldham converted to tie the score
at 7-7.
Midway in the second period
another Horn-to-Tillota pass was
good for 14 yards and a touch
down.
The Bengals multiple offense
started moving in high gear late
in the tilt. With Feldman com
pleting five of seven passes, the
Tigers marched from their own
31 to a first down on the Bobcat
10-yard line.
Defensive pass interference on
a toss to Don Davis put CHS with
in one yard of the double stripe.
Feldman went across on a quarter
back sneak, but Wright’s conver
sion attempt sailed wide to the
right, the first miss in ten straight
tries, and the Tigers trailed 13-14
as the clock ran on.
A&M Leads Defense;
TCU Paces Offense
DALLAS, (A 5 )—Southwest Con
ference football teams don t pass
much any more but statistics show
that this still is the biggest pro
ducer of touchdowns.
Charley Arnold of Southern Me
thodist has connected on 48 of his
passes and eight of those shots
were for touchdowns. Nobody has
gotten that many scores by run
ning.
Arnold will be throwing for
touchdowns all the time Saturday
because he goes up against the
toughest defensive team in the
league against a ground attack-
Texas A&M. The stingy Aggies
have allowed only 136.7 yards per
:jrame by running. They’re tough
against passing, too, but not as
much as Texas Christian, which
has allowed an amazingly low 29.8
yards per game through the air
and the Aggies have given up 57.4.
Arnold is the leading passer of
the conference, yardage and
touchdown wise. He has rolled up
710 yards with his throwing. He
hasn’t completed as many passes
as Joe Clements of Texas, how
ever. Clements has connected on
56 out of 108 for 597 yards.
Two of the leading ball-carriers
also will be seen in action in the
SMU-Texas A&M game. They are
Charley Jackson of SMU, who
ranks second with 441 yards on
67 rushes, and Roddy Osborae of
Texas A&M, who has romped to
407 yards on 104 tries.
Texas Christian still is the lead
ing offensive team with 329.2
yards per game but Texas A&M
is moving up. The versatile Ag
gies are averaging 313.1 for third
place, just 2.2 back of second
place Rice. The Aggies are far
away the best defensive outfit, too.
They have granted only 194.1 yards
per game both rushing and passing.
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WHO’S GOT IT—A&M’s Bobby Marks does as he inter
cepts an Arkansas pass on the Aggie two cutting short
the Porkers second scoring attempt late in the third quar
ter.
Ag Rifle Team Edges Hogs
A&M’s Rifle Team edged the
University of Arkansas team
Saturday by a score of 1388 to
1387.
High men for the Aggies and
their scores were Dyek Boles of
Austin, 284; Ken Beaird of
Brazoria, 281; Don Phillips of
Houston, 277, Ed Wheeler of
Corpus Christi, 274; Larry Myers
of Groves, 272; Carl Carpenter of
Cleburne, 262.
Aggies Still Fifth in AP
As TCU Moves to 17th
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The first complete election re
turns of the day show Oklahoma a
clear winner in the Associated
Press weekly football poll with 172
districts reporting in the seventh
vote of the season by sports writ
ers and sportscasters.
Although they had a bad scare in
the first half, trailing Colorado
19-6 at the time, the Sooners came
back to win their 36th straight
27-19. They lost part of their
first-place support but still rated
No. 1 on 116 of 172 ballots, almost
four times as many as runner-up
Georgia Tech.
On the basis of points, 10 for
first, 9 for second, etc., Oklahoma
had 1,554 to Georgia Tech’s 1,453.
Tech had 30 firsts, Tennessee, with
1,252 points and 11 firsts, and
Michigan State, with 1,102 and sev
en firsts, followed.
Michigan State regained lost
prestige by whipping- Wisconsin
33-0. The Texas Aggies beat Ar
kansas, 27-0, to hold fifth place.
Minnesota moved up to sixth on
its 9-6 edge over Pittsburgh, which
fell from 11th to a tie for 20th.
Despite a 6-2 victory over North
western, Ohio State fell a peg to
seventh and Miami edged up a
notch by topping Florida State,
20-7.
Syracuse powered its way into
ninth place by downing Penn State
13-9 and Michigan advanced to
10th by shading previously unbeat
en Iowa, 17-14.
The top teams, with first place
votes in parentheses:
1. Oklahoma (116) . . . 1,554
3. Tennessee (11) • .
4. Michigan State (7)
5. Texas A&M (1) .
6. Minnesota . . .
7. Ohio State (1) .
8. Miami (1) . . ■
9. ’ Syracuse' (1) ' . •
10. Michigan
1,252
1.102
872
680
. 572
. 453
. 225
. 190
SECOND 10;
2. Georgia Tech (30)
1,453
11. Clemson ....
12. Navy (3) ....
13. Florida . .
14. Oregon State ...
15. Iowa . . . .
16. USC . . . .
17. TCU . . . .
18. Colorado ...
19. UCLA (1) . . •
20. Pittsburgh - Stanford
. . 158
. . 127
. . 119
. . 96
. 83
. 76
. 72
, . 30
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