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By BOB WEEKliY
The sweet smell of succ«m doesn't come easy to the Af-
gie squad. It took weeks of labor, gallons of sweat and spirit
that can only come from having desire.
Even the elements seemed to be against the Farmers.
Rain cancelled workouts, mud slowed down practice sessions
and in Saturday's game against .Maryland the wind decided
to take a hand.
But the Cadets dug in a little deeper and came through
Determined Farmer Eleven
Drops Maryland Squad, 14 -10
By BOR WEIKLEY
Battalion Sparta RSitor
Tba brash young Aggian, herdad
by juniar tailback Charley Mil
•teed. »termed SS yards in the
third quarter far s touchdown.
with their second straight victory. Fullback Gordon LeBoeuf 1 than hold a raging Maryland aloe
found out that it takes more than just carrying a ball to win i an for a 14-10 victory ip wind
a game. He blocked and turned in the beet game of his »wopt ( oilaga Bark. Md
career. | Tha Terrapins wars in A AM ter-
Little Allen Goehring and Carter Franklin, small guards
up against giants, made all-American selections look sick
IHck Gay was a tiger on defense and big John Tracey looked
like he wanted to play ball.
It was a team victory with few outstanding players.
Each man was a “mustard cutter" blocking downfield and
tackling with the savagery that haa made A4M feared in
football circles.
Htory throughout th« fourth quar
ter. the threat* ending with s re-
rovsred fumble end two intercepted
pause*, one for s touchbark
Miistaad and Gordon LeBoeuf
w-orad tha Cadete' touchdown*, but
it wa* Miistaad s great dutch pass
ng that saved tha day Tha blond
dent body backing them they will be.
S W C Statictics
DALLAS tf** -Alvin Hartman, craned lf> 9 yards on his run*. He
the sophomore from Hondo, is the haa earned only 12 time*, how-
most effective handler of a foot- ever, whereas the leading ball-
hall m tho Southwest Conference, carrier, Larry Hklunan of Baylor.
I be Rice quarterba. k averages has taken the pigskin M> time*
for 25.’1 yards, an average of 4.7
Hartman doesn't lead the pss*
er» but he gets the most yards on
his throws, averaging 24.1. Louis
Humphrey of Baylor, No. 1 in
rompleUona, ha* tried 47 and con
nected on 35 for 358 yards. Don
Meredith of Southern Methodist,
The Ags face one of the toughtr tssma of ths confsrsnce ^ J UB ' or 414 everything but take up
Saturday in Kyle Field TCTJ is an up and down team that I ^kau at the boa office, eomplet
can tie great one Saturday and sorry the next, and at their ,our ot ** v< ‘ n for «7
worst they are good. (yards, scoring one touchdown and
AAM will have to be up to win this one. With tha stu- ra,n ’ n * 34 yBnl * on th * ground
It wra* Milatend's 37-yard pitch
to end Don Smith, on the Maryland
H yard line, that set the stage fur
I the winning touchdown
A few momenta earlier, Bubba
iMclean, a third airing tailback,
had scampered 20 yards for the
4ga to put the Cadets in scoring
position.
Milstend scored the touchdown
on a 3 yard dash around end,
thank* to the savage blocking of
l*Bi>euf and fullback Dick Gay
Ha then passed to Randy Sim* for
111.1 yard*- a firwt down.
He hasn't figured in as many
piaya as the other* but on the 25
tkat he has engineered he has
gained 252 yards, putting him in
sixth place in Southwest Confer
ence total offense.
The leader in this department n
J.m Monroe, the passing man of
Arkansas, who haa thrown for 3b4
yards—an average of 4.1 per play.
Don Meredith, Southern Metho-
diat quarterback, is the second
most effective play director. He
has sained 349 yards »n 57 plays
for a 6.1 average.
The. runner doing the most dam
age is Tirey Wilemon, - Southern
Methodist halfback, who has av-
Easy Session Set
For Aggie Eleven
short of q firat down and were 4 LeBoquf waa the Ag»
loading ground gainer with
forcod to kick, a abort one that
yieldod only 19 yards.
AAM drove to the Maryland 22-
yard line, hut an m terc apt ad pass
started the Terrapins on a 88-yard
touchdown drive.
A 14 yard holding penalty aad a
pass the asm* distance from Mii
staad to end John Tracey started
the Cadets ts a tying touchdown in
the firat quarter They get it in
the second period on a beautiful
8 yard run by LeBoeuf straight up
the middle.
Ml stead passed to Smith in a
try for two eatra point*. Smith
caught the ball, but waa out of the
end son* and Mary load led 7-6.
A 24 yard punt by Miistaad uito
the wind put Maryland in posset
sian un the Ag 27 enth less than
two minutes to play in th* first ,
baif Lliable to get past the 11 !
sophomore Vince Scott kicked a
field goal from the 16 to put the
Terps anead 14-6 at the half.
Although they were l>adly out
distanced in statistics, the Aggie*
left little doubt that they were the
better tram. The wind, a small
gale, held down the Cadet's pass
ing and punting, but even at that
disadvantage they pushed the
heavier Tarps around the field
with aiasterfal *a*e
31
yards on 13 carries, followed by
McLean with 21 yards on two tries.
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the 2 points that made the score 1
read 14-10 in favor of the Ags H.irhi^r"Tr<u«.
The game started with the Kami- t* *»
ers chosing to kick off so they 1 ‘
in second place, has attempted 4<i would have the strong wind to NantoT* 4 7 fnr *1
and completed 14 for 313 yards | their barks. The Terps were held I
Tho leading paM-receiver
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Charley Barnes of Arkansas, who
ha* taken 14 throws for 165 yards,
and the top punter is Fat Bailey
of Rice, who has averaged 48.0
yards <.n 13 boots. Al Witcher of
Baylor is second with 13 for 181 *
Texas ia tha only undefeated I
tea m left in the conference but
the Longhurna are far off the pace |
both in offense and defense. Texas
Christian top* in each. The Homed
Frogs have averaged 343.5 yarda
per game on offense and have
given up only 178 per contest
has averaged At* yard* on
offense and allowed 245.5.
Enthused <>vef their fin# show
ing against the University of
Maryland Terrapins last week the
Aggies opened preparations for
TCU and the Southwest Confer
ence op» ner this week with light
workout in sweats.
Coach Jim Myers worked the j The University of Houston's
first two teams in sweat clothes | rro*» country team defeated the
last night while the other unit* Texas AAM runner* her* SaUir-
wrimmaged. The squad went over day 23 to .32.
Aggie Harriers
Defeated by IH
game plan* for TCU, the Saturday
afternoon opponent
Movies of AIM's 14-10 victory
Maryland in Washington last Sat
urday revealed the top hands were
tailback Charley Milstead, tackle
Ken Beck, center Roy Northrup
and fullback Gordon l,eBoeuf.
The Ags escaped from the Mary
land tilt without any major injur
ies. Only center Gale Oliver and
blocking back Bill Hawthorne are
expected to Lake light workout*
this week.
Jerry Smartt of UH was firat
running tha three-mile course ia
13 minute's, 59.9 semnda. Freddy
Du lock of Texas AAM waa second.
The Aggies' Jimmy Ring, Charles
Hajovsky and Richard Hickman
came in 5th, 7th and 8th in the
race. A number of promising fresh
men from AAM also ran in the race
but their position* did not figure
in the outcome.
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