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THE BATTALION Tuesday, September 29, 1959 PAGE 3 Spartans Head For Aggie Territory Left halfback Herb Adderley, Michigan ley Milstead, not in the picture, stopped State’s leading ground gainer, circles the Adderley after the short pickup. Chasing Farmer’s right end for a two yard gain the State player are Aggies Roy Northrup Saturday at East Lansing, Michigan. Char- (56) and Gordon LeBoeuf (37). Tigers Battle Hearne to Tie; Face Giddings Friday Night SWC CHART SOUTHWEST CONEERENCE Season Standings W L Pts. Op. Arkansas ... 2 0 41 7 Texas ... 2 0 46 0 Texas Tech .... 2 0 35 28 Baylor ... 1 0 15 7 Texas A&M .... 1 1 23 72 Texas Christian 1 1 14 27 Rice ... 0 1 3 26 Southern Methodist .... 0 1 12 16 LAST WEEK’S RESULTS Texas A&M 9, Michigan State 7 ; Bay lor 16, Colorado 7 ; Georgia Tech 16, SMU 12 ; Louisiana State 10, TCU 0; Arkansas 13, Oklahoma State 7 ; Texas 26, Maryland 0 ; Texas Tech 15, Oregon State 14. THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE Saturday—Texas A&M vs. Mississippi Southern at Mobile: Baylor vs. Louisiana State at Shreveport; Rice vs. Duke at Durham, N. C.; SMU vs. Navy at Dallas ; TCU vs. Arkansas at Fayetteville; Texas vs. California at Austin; Texas Tech vs. Tulsa at Lubbock. LEADING SCORERS Player TD PAT TP Ken* Talkington, Tech 2 1 13 Jess McGuire, A&M 2 0 12 Jack Collins, Texas 2 0 12 Ronnie Bull, Baylor 2 0 12 Jim Monroe, Arkansas 2 0 12 Steve Butler, Arkansas 12 8 Bake Turner, Tech 12 8 By RUSSELL BROWN CHS Correspondent The A&M Consolidated Tigers and the Hearne Eagles swam their way up and down Tiger Field for 48 minutes Friday night with nei ther team denting the scoring col umn in a non-district tilt. Both clubs threatened. The Ti gers of Coach Ed Logan advancing to the three yard line of the op posing Eagles while Hearne was stopped on the Tiger 12. The deadlock was the second knotted count for the District 18- AA Eagles thus far, the other coming at the hands of Navasota of District 21-AA, as compared to two victories. The contest ended a two-game losing losing streak for the Tigers, District 21-AA fa vorites, bringing the Bengals’ rec ord to 1-2-1. The game, statistics-wise, was just as close as the score. Both clubs penetrated only once while Hearne racked up 11 first downs and 205 total yards gained against the Tigers’ 10 first downs and 199 total yardage. Both teams fum bled four times, Hearne losing the ball twice and the Tigers recover ing all but one bobble. Coach Ed Logan expressed satis faction at the Tiger showing in spots, but commented, “Our line looked very good in spots, and our reserve backfield men (Cyril Burke and Irvin Todd), subbing for the injured Dee Smith and Brenner Sayers, showed up well, but there are still many mistakes to iron out.” The Tigers were without the services of end Virden Smith, backs Sayers and Smith, and defensive guard Geoi’ge Outlaw because of injuries. Friday the Tigers tangle with Giddings in Giddings with a hint of single-wing offense in the air for the Tigers. Giddings has only seven seniors and three lettermen, but boast a good crop of sophs and freshmen and could be contenders. GET THEM READY FOR SCHOOL WITH A THOROUGH EYE EXAM Let their first exam be an eye exam and help them make better grades throughout the coming year. See Dr. Smith this week. Dr. G. A. Smith, Optometrist Specializing In Eye Examinations and Contact Lenses * Bryan Optical Clinic 105 No. Main — Downtown Bryan, Texas Aggies Outlast Try Mississippi Elated over their upset victory at Michigan State last week the Texas Aggies continue on the road against Mississippi Southern at Neutral Mobile, Ala., Saturday night. The traveling Cadets do not play before the home folks until Oct. 10 when the Houston Cougars journey to Kyle Field. A&M op ened at Dallas with a 14-20 loss at the hands of unbeaten Texas PORT SLANT By BOB WEEKLEY S Pinkie Downs, the effusive, liv ing spirit of Aggieland, came bursting into the office Monday morning waving a book and holler ing at the top of his lungs, “It ain’t so.” subtracted from the total. Thus he actually ran 267 yards for that touchdown, since a field is approx imately 53 yards wide and he raced across four times, then skipped 65 for the score. What “ain’t so” is that Texas’ brilliant sophomore Jack Collins didn’t pull off such an outstanding feat when he raced 86 yards for a touchdown against the Univer sity of Maryland Saturday. The Aggies can top that by exactly 181 yards. Harold V. Ratliff, noted sports- writer for the Associated Press, carries this story in his Towering Texans, a book published in 1950 concerning sport sagas of the Lone Star State. Victor M. (Choc) Kelley, who once played at A&M, may have made the longest run with a foot ball in the history of the game. It happened like this: The Aggies were playing Lou isiana State at Baton Rouge, La. A&M had the ball on its 45-yard line near the side of the field. Kelley took the oval and darted for the sidelines, but seeing he was cut off, reversed and ran across the field. Again he saw tacklers coming in, so he turned and ran across the field once more. But he was headed off, so he turned and twisted his way through his opponents to the other side of the gridiron. Balked again, he turned still once more and raced back across the field. Over on the side he found himself clear, so he sprinted for a touchdown. In all that maneuvering he had It happened in 1907 and, so far recorded, nothing has come along to equal it since. The Aggies won that game, 11-5. Touchdowns in that day and time counted only five points. That season the Farmers posted a 6-1-1 record, losing only to Texas Uni versity. Curiously enough, the Ca dets played the Longhorns twice that year, and played them to a scoreless tie the first time around. Seemingly to refute this story the A&M football brochure pub lished by Jones Ramsey, sports publicity director for A&M, lists the longest run from scrimmage as being made by All-American Bob Smith in 1950 against Texas Tech. The jaunt carried for 81 yards. ★ ★ ★ Charley Milstead, the Aggies co- cdptain and quarterback, was hon ored by The Dallas Morning News this week as Back of the Week. The story carried this quote con cerning the Tyler senior made by Jim Myers, head coach and ath letic director at A&M: “Th^ best (Milstead’s performance) I have ever seen in my coaching career.” Guard Allen Goehring received an honorable mention for Lineman of the Week. E. J. Holub, Texas Tech’s candidate for All-American center, received the honor. Spartans, Southern Tech, then won a great victory in the Big Ten Saturday afternoon with a 9-7 shocker over Michigan State. The Aggies fly charter into Mo bile Friday and will headquarter at the Battle House, returning Sunday morning. Kickoff is 8 p.m. (CST). A&M played the MSU game conservatively with Chuckin’ Char ley Milstead playing it cautious. He used lots of power plays up the middle, a large dose of quick kicks and few passes. That was the game plan for State and it payed off as the eager, hard-hitting Ag gies caused four Michigan fumbles and recovered all four, two of them setting up both the touchdown and winning field goal. Milstead, one of the nation’s top passers and field generals, quick- kicked 64 yards on the opening A&M offensive play and State ne ver recovered. Another exchange of punts plus a captured fumble on the MSU 16 set up the only Aggie score, Milstead grinding it out with the aid of Fullback Gor don LeBoeuf and eventually scor ing from the one. Later, early in the second quarter, another fum ble paved the way to Randy Sims’ 31-yard field goal. After that the Aggies played ag gressive defense. The Spartans scored on a long drive with the second half kick-off but were forced into a passing game late with Milstead and Bob Sanders in tercepting two important passes in the fourth period. Although it was a team effort, several individual Aggies showed up pleasingly well with Milstead the outstanding player on the field, both offensively and defensively. Coach Jim Myers termed Mil- Stead’s performance “one oij the greatest iri my career.” He had seven unassisted tackles and played a total of 50 minutes. Others who showed up well, ac cording to movie reports, were Jon Few, Sanders, and Linemen Buddy Payne, Wayne Labar, Roy North rup, Wayland Simmons and Rich ard Love. Few, who missed three weeks of practice, as did Love, be cause of injuries, was' a key man defensively and also will give the Aggies much needed punch on of fense. Although the Cadets failed to move the ball a great deal, Myers thought “the offense was effec tive,” especially in view of the fatal mistakes the hard-knocking Aggies forced on the Spartans. Scout Elmer Smith reported Mississippi Southern is “probably the biggest, most aggressive team we will play.” He said the South erners’ line averages 215 pounds end to end and is deep in strength and ability. Southern trounced Trinity of Texas, 29-8, in the op ener Saturday. Three Aggies came out of the game with minor injuries but all are slated to be ready this week. LeBoeuf has bruised ribs, Pete Angermiller has a bad knee and Larry Broaddus has a bad shoul der. The first two are fullbacks while Broaddus is the No. 2 center behind Northrup. This will be the first meeting of the two clubs, although A&M has previously met Ole Miss and Mis sissippi State. THE A&M SMOKE HOUSE Real Pit Bar-B-Q Plate Lunches Bar B-Q Sandwiches Come & Taste The Difference 44X0 College Main Hospitalization & Life Insurance TOM WASSON Representing Metropolitan Life Insurance Company TA 2-6232 Office TA 2-6995 Res 2016 Texas Avenue ATTENTION! All Engineering Students American Society of Mechanical Engineer’s organization meeting Tuesday. Sept. 29 1959 7:30 promptly MSC ASSEMBLY ROOM New Membership Service at 7:00 gone 10 yards back of the line of scrimmage, thus lost that much. But since he made it up racing to the touchdown it should not be FR E NEW! INSTANT! 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