Owl Crew Forecasts
Hurricane For Aggies
By GARY ROLLINS
Battalion Sports Editor
In the Rice Owl football bro
chure, the Owls of 1957 are de
scribed in weather terms as being
“fair and warmer, with occasional
scattered thundershowers.”
However, it appears that those
occasional scattered thundershow
ers have suddenly boomed into the
stratosphere and blossomed into
a King-sized (no pun intended)
hurricane. Warning flags have
been run up along the Southwest
Conference coast, with all craft
taking cognizance.
Strangely enough, Rice Stadium
has been the scene of many varie
ties of strange weather phenomena.
The stadium itself is suggestive
of some gigantic aircraft carrier
perched on a sea of asphalt, its
press box resembling the super
structure.
In the fall of 1955, a storm
laden cloud hung back for a full
56 minutes of the Rice - Aggie
game. However, with four minutes
remaining, lightning struck—not
once—but three times in the same
place—the Rice end zone. Many
were injured.
The stadium almost never re
covered from the shock. But, just
as Galveston after the great hur
ricane in 1900, the Rice Owls have
fully recovered.
They have donned their best
fighting dress blues and are now
seagoing birds again.
They are skippered by the wisest
of the wise, Commodore Jess
Neely. With his crew of junior of
ficers, they plan a counterattack
against the Texas Aggies.
Last year, with a small ship,
they cruised into Kyle Field, and
were promptly torpedoed by a 21-
7 score. They limped back to port
and repaired.
Rice’s Ryan, No. 2 Quarterback
Frank Ryan of Ft. Worth, a 6-3, 200-pounder, might well
be a starter on any other SWC football team but at Rice he
is second team behind the fabulous King Hill. Ryan has com
pleted 15 of 27 passes for 206 yards and three touchdowns.
Wesley To Hear
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The Rev. Bob Monk will address
the Wesley Fellowship on the life
of John Wesley tonight at the
group’s weekly meeting. His talk
will be entitled, “250,000 Miles on
Horseback.”
This will be the first in a series
of programs on Methodism. Group
discussion will follow Rev. Monk’s
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Now they set sail at full
strength against the biggest
armada of all, the Texas Aggies.
They plan to use every means of
combat available to beat the
Cadets. Being a versatile fighting
unit, they will come both by land
and sea. Their previous skir
mishes have made them the num
ber one offensive unit in the SWC.
King Hill is their chief gunner.
He averages 7.4 yards every time
he touches the ball. In 131 thrusts
this year, for either passes or
sallies into the seawall, he has
rolled up 968 yards. He leads the
fleet with total yardage, far
above Longhorn Walter Fondren.
The USS Owl has averaged 374
yards per contest. Every time an
Owl back ventures forth he aver
ages 4.3 yards gained.
Their front line of old salts
averages 196 pounds per man.
They have as their chief bosun’s
mate Larry Whitmire, seafaring
tackle from another seaport,
Corpus Christi.
With Buddy Dial grabbing
aerials, and Raymond Chilton
racking up the yardage horizontal
ly, the Rice fleet is more than a
formidable opponent for anyone.
Some secret weapon would be
appreciated by the Texas A&M
Athletic Department.
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Wednesday, November 13, 1957 PAGE 3
Crow Tops On AP;
Rated Week’s Best
Carl Luna of Garland
Sophomore guard Carl Luna, a 6-0, 200-pounder from Gar
land, turned in his best performance of the season against
SMU last week and has helped to solve mid-line problem
that existed at start of season.
Aggies Work In Mini
By JIM CARRELL
A&M is a school of traditions.
Once more the weather, in a
traditional manner football coaches
in the Southwest would like to see
end, was a bit inclement, though
Tuesday’s.-customary rain was ab
sent.
For a change, however, the Ag
gies were able to work outside
under the lights on fog-shrouded
Kyle Field. Still yesterday’s norm
ally lengthy practice was shortened
two periods since the soggy turf on
the field would stand no more
punishment.
“The workout was a little sloppy
but the field was too,” said Coach
Paul Bryant after practice. “We
needed to get in a little outside
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work even if we did cut it short.”
The Aggies worked on defenses
against Rice’s vaunted offense,
currently leading the Southwest
conference. A&M’s offense, kick
ing game, pass defense and -extra
point and field goal protection
came in for a shai'e of attention
in the workout.
“Who wrote that story quoting
me as saying ‘I might as well hide
my guards after the SMU game’?”
asked Bryant of a group of re
porters in his office. “I never said
any such thing.
“Our guards played their very
finest game of the year”, continued
Bryant. “That’s no way for any
one to talk about boys who played
as well as ours did.” V ,
, A ciio-.s, gr^ied . .movie re
po fts of Aggies games only sub
stantiated what the coach had said.
Guards Carl Luna, Allen Goehring,
Tommy Howard and Jim Stanley
played their best game of the year.
SMU probably wishes the coach
had hidden them.
The Associated Press
One important reason why Tex
as A&M is rated the nation’s No.
1 college football team is that John
Crow, a 210 - pound halfback,
never has failed to turn in a first
rate performance.
Crow did even more than usual
as the Aggies topped Southern
Methodist last Saturday and his
efforts were recognized today
when he was named Associated
Press Back of the Week.
Crow drew the strongest recom
mendations from sports writers
who watched him, even though the
statistics of the game weren’t
especially impressive. He carried
the ball 20 times and gained 89
yards, an average of 4.4 yards a
carry. But most of those yards
were made to count.
On the Aggies’ 65-yard drive
that clinched the game, Crow
made three-fourths of the yard-
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age, smashing the last two for the
touchdown. He gained 24 of the
Aggies’ 49 yards on their first
scoring march, setting up the
touchdown with a seven - yard
blast.
In addition, Crow ran back two
kickoffs for 49 yards, a punt foi
ls and threw one pass for 21
yards. When he wasn’t lugging the
ball, he looked superb.
On defense Crow was just as
effective. He intercepted two
passes and ran them back for 30
yards and he stole a pass from
Lon Slaughter on the Aggie 10 to
prevent an SMU touchdown.
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