» ■ P O R T L A N T By BARRY HART Battalion Sports Editor The NCAA refusal to lift our probation is felt with varied reactions around the Southwest Conference. There are many so-called “sympathizers”, but are they? Let us not forget who put it to us in the first place—our own “friends” in the SWC. I, for one, will never believe that the SWC would have lifted their probation, if the NCAA hadn’t placed one of their own on us last May. Only Texas, of all the league schools, has nothing to lose by our getting off the ban and playing in the 1957 Cot ton Bowl. SMU, TCU, Rice, Arkansas and Baylor all have a chance to be the host team on Jan. 1. The Longhorns are already out of it, so what do they care? As it looks now, unless Baylor goes unbeaten the rest of the season, any of the possibilities will have lost at least three games. The Bears have lost a pair. The hoped-for outlook around the conference is that the Aggie team will fall apart, lose the next two games against Rice and Texas, and finish in a tie or worse for the crown. “Some expect them (the A&M team) to fold,” observed Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant Wednesday morning. “Others think they have more to ’em than that and I’m in the latter category. We’ll get the answer Saturday.” I’ll go along with The Bear on that count. If anything, this latest action on the part of the NCAA will make the Aggies a better team. If they are the type of boys I think they are, they’ll be harder, tougher and meaner from here on out. It’s a bitter pill for Jack Pardee, Lloyd Hale, Bebes Stallings, Bobby Lockett, Bobby Drake Keith, Dee Powell, Don Watson, Dennis Goehring, George Gillar and Bob Clen- dennon to swallow. The seniors will be the hardest hit, for the rest of the squad has at least another year left. I can’t see the 10 seniors giving up at this point. They’ve come a long way since the Thin 30 of 1954. They’ve given their all for three seasons—they won’t quit now when the going is roughest. Look for near mass murder on Kyle Field and Memorial Stadium this Saturday and on the 29th. The Aggies are mad and they’ll prove who deserves to go to the Cotton Bowl. Let the also-rans fight among themselves. Electrical Engineers Civil Engineers Mechanical Engineers BOOKING FOK A CAREER WITH A FAST-GROWING ELECTRIC COMPANY? Texas Electric Service Company, one of the largest utility companies in Texas, (but not so large that an ambitious young man wouldn’t be noticed) offers numer ous opportunities for college graduates. Representa tives of the company will be glad to give you more details about the type of job opportunities in this rap idly growing electric utility firm. A REPRESENTATIVE OF TEXAS ELECTRIC SERV ICE COMPANY WILL BE AT TEXAS A&M, MON DAY AND TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 and 20. AR RANGE WITH THE PLACEMENT OFFICE FOR AN APPOINTMENT. LFL ABNER Aggies Work on Pass Defense; Osborne Hurt Tho Rattulinn .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas Thursday, November 15, 1956 PAGE 5 By BARRY HART Battalion Sports Editor A&M’s grim-faced warriors for got their disappointment at being refused by the NCAA and con centrated on the Rice Owls’ pass ing attack Wednesday. “We didn’t look good on pass de fense,” observed Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant. “We looked like it was something new to us. Only (Gene) Stallings did any good.” The Aggie first two units worked out only an hour and 10 minutes be fore Bryant sent them in. The A&M head man planned no hard practices or contact work the rest of the week in order that his team h PROBABLE STARTER SATURDAY—will be Bobby Con rad at quarterback in place of the injured Roddy Osborne. ' ,--'Y LT ^ Lo*fj the best \h SPORT AMD DRESS SHOES By AL CAPP sNiFftf'-cH eov.rr-vo' IS BAKIW' TWO BIRTHDAY CAKES .7' > TWO WEDDIN' CAKES/ X I