Fish Host
Tomorrow
Shorthorns
at 2
p.m
.
AUSTIN (Spl.)—The Univer
sity of Texas and A&M freshmen
clash on Kyle Field Saturday at
2 p.m. in a game that may decide
the Southwest Conference cham
pionship for first-year teams.
The Shorthorns, with one of the
best freshman squads in many
years, will be a touchdown favor
ite to win over the thrice-beaten
Aggie Fish.
A Texas victory will give the
Shorthorns at least a tie for the
league frosh crown and possibly
the undisputed title, depending on
the outcome of the game involving
the TCU Wogs and the Rice Owl
ets, the teams currently tied with
the Yearlings for the SWC lead
ership.
Anchored by a line averaging
better than 215-pounds per man
and wing-ed by two rugged, 230-
pound ends, the Texas freshmen
are being counted on to help the
University recover its prestige
during the 1957 rebuilding season.
They have won three games while
losing one in 1956—their only loss
a 13-7 upset to Rice. Last week
the Shorthorns surpidsed the pre
viously unbeaten Wogs.
The contest, a Shrine benefit
for Central Texas crippled child
ren, will bring together the two
school's freshmen teams for the
19th time. Texas holds the edge
in the series 11 games to seven.
The Shriners have sponsored the
battle for nine straight years and
the Shorthorns hold a 5-4 edge on
this series. There has never been
a tie.
The Fish will field a team that
represents Coach Paul (Bear) Bry
ant’s third recruiting effort. The
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Bryan
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first Bryant-recruited squad, the
1954 Fish team, downed the Short- „ „ ^
horns, 20-7, and it is around this T*-
group that Bryant has moulded
his highly-successful varsity elev-
en this year. g) ^
While the freshman game be- : -i '
tween these two state schools has \ *
usually been a high-scoring af-
fair, this year’s promises more on
the defensive side. Bryant’s teams
are noted for their defensive abil
ity and the Fish edition is no
exception.
The Shorthorns, on the other
hand, have held their opponents to
50-yards a game rushing and to
little yardage passing. Bobby
Lackey directs the team at quar
terback and does most of the pass
ing and punting. He has two big,
tall ends to shoot at in Larry
Stephens of Angleton and Wiley
Feagin of Conroe.
Quarterback Charles Milstead
and Halfback Gordon LeBoeuf lead
the underdog Fish. LeBoeuf, the
Port Neches all-stater, has gained
201 yards in 41 carries to almost
double the output of Milstead, run
ner-up with 108 yards. LeBoeuf
leads the Aggie scorers with 25
points while Milstead stands sec
ond with nine.
Milstead has punted 15 times for
a 40-yard average and his five
completions of 18 attempts have
gained 58 yards through the air.
QUARTERBACK CHARLES MILSTEAD—starts Satur
day against the Texas Shorthorns in the 10th annual
Shrine Game on Kyle Field.
STARTING LINKUPS
A&M
Bill Caruthers .
Ben Havard . .
Albert Taylor .
Larry Ward . .
Buddy Payne .
Gale Oliver . .
Paul Alexander .
Charles Milstead
Gordon LeBoeuf
Henry Colwell .
Bill Newcomb . .
LE
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
RE
QB
LH
RH
FB
Texas
. Wiley Feagin
. . Curtis Dyer
. J. Shillingburg
Howard Jackson
. Henry Sledge
. . Dick Jones
. Larry Stephens
. Bobby Lackey
. George Blanch
.Bobby Matocha
. . Mike Dowdle
Fencing Meet Here
The second annual A&M In
vitational Fencing Meet will be
held tomorrow in DeWare Field
House starting at 2 p. m.
Rice, the University of Houston,
Texas University, the Galveston
Buccaneers and the 1 Galveston
Independents will make up the
contenders for the two-day affair.
Consolidated Quint
Opens Play Tues.
By MAURICE OLIAN
Consolidated Correspondent
Coach Larry Hayes’ 20-member A<^M Consolidated Ti
gers basketball squad finds its season opener, a Nov. 27
clash with Richards at Tiger Gym, rapidly approaching.
In his second year as head basketball coach (his Tigers
were co-champions of District 25-a last year), Hayes has
only two lettermen back from the 1955-56 quintet. The re
turning monogram winners are Bobby Potts and Bill Hall,
who along with Donald Patton are the lone seniors on the
squad.
Seven squadmen are on hand in juniors Bill Kavanaugh,
Bill Breazeale, Joe Randolph, Jerry Mills and Jerry Holland,
with sophomores Don Avera and Kirby Jackson.
Other candidates battling
for spots on the starting five
include freshmen John Mar
tinez, Bruce Thompson, Fred
Brison, Larry Godfrey and
Billy Mac Miller along with sophs
Alton Arnold, Johnny Barger,
Wilburn Kurtpatrick, Billie Let-
better and Kenneth Cooner.
Coach Hayes observed that
much of the success of this sea
son’s cage team, which will be
forced to use speed and aggres
siveness to overcome an obvious
lack of heigdit, will depend upon
the improvement of these boys
who are playing their first year of
high school basketball.
Hie Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Friday, November 23, 1956 PAGE 3
Bryant’s Original8
Out to Crush Texas
By BARRY HART
Battalion Sports Editor
Two years ago Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant took his
“Thin 30” to Austin and lost a tough, 22-13, game to the
University of Texas Longhorns.
It was the Aggies’ ninth loss in 1954 and eight sopho
mores played important roles although losing. Today that
same eight, now seniors and the core of the 1956 Cadet foot
ball team, are making that same trip next Thursday with
the situation somewhat altered.
As the 1954 contest found the Aggies with only one win
and wallowing deep in the cellar of the Southwest Conference.
The reverse is true in 1956 with the Longhorns, winners of
but one game this year, on the bottom and Bryant’s Aggies
riding the top of the heap,
undefeated with a 14-14 tie
against Houston their only
blemish.
Coach Bryant likes to refer
to his eight-man core as the “Boys
from Junction—the heart of the
team”. Around them the A&M
head man has built the Aggies
from the SWC door mat to the na
tion’s fourth-ranked power. They
won one, lost nine in their Sopho
more year, battled the odds for a
fine 7-2-1 season and league run
ner-up in 1955, and are currently
8-0-1 on the year.
Thanks to the NCAA, Jack
Pardee, Don Watson, Dee Powell,
Lloyd Hale, Dennis Goehring, Bob
by Lickett, Bobby Drake Keith
and Gene (Bebes) Stallings will
be playing, their final game for
A&M in Memorial Stadium
Thanksgiving Day.
The original eight have set one
record and can finish their ten
ures with another. This is the
first team that won the SWC
crown only to find themselves in
eligible to be the host team in the
Cotton Bowl. If they win Thurs
day, the Aggies will be the first
A&M team to beat the Steers in
Memorial Stadium, a fitting cli
max to eight brilliant careers.
Can they do it ? The “Boys from
Junction” are out to make sure
they do. We’ll see next Thurs
day.
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