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Jinxed Fish Seek First Win
As They Meet Kittens Tonight
By JOE CALLICOATTE
Six of the injured are members of
With an open date and plenty of
the first
two
units and have seen
practice behind them the “one
considerable
action this year.
point jinxed” Aggie Fish meet the
University of Houston Kittens on
Kyle Field tonight at 7:30.
Ronnie Brice, who was the lead
ing passer in both of the freshman
games, is out with an injured knee.
Injuries are taking their toll in
Mike Davis, starting end, and Ed-
the Fish camp with the number
die Dolezal, second team right half
running into the double figures.
are sidelined
with ankle injuries.
Probable Starting Lineup
A&M
Houston
Bobby Huntington
LE
Robert Young
James Walton
LT
Ronnie Johnson
Jim Harper
LG
Bill Howell
Jerry Hopkins
C
Dean Elliott
James Phillips
RG
...Rufus Williams
George Hogan v
RT
Billy Davis
Don Ramsey
RE
Jerry Arnold
Tommy Janik
QB
Billy Roland
Jon Mason
LH
Larry Broussard
Ronny Ledbetter
RH
Mike Carew
Lee Roy Caffey
FB
Billy Pursley
Sam Byer, who was the leading
ground gainer in the TCU Wog
game, has an injured hip. Don
Sanders is definitely out and Alex
Cortese is doubtful. ,
Against TCU and Baylor the
Fish matched the opposition statis
tic-wise, but couldn’t come out on
the heavy end of the score. In
the TCU game the Cadets missed
their chance to win the game on a
field goal try in the closing min
utes. When the Cubs came to Kyle
Field, Jon Mason, 9.7 speed mer
chant, took the opening kickoff
back 93 yards for a touchdown,
but the extra point attempt failed
and the Fish went down again by
one point when'the Cubs scored in
the fourth quarter.
Ronny Ledbetrter is the leading
ground gainer after two games
with 86 yards and a 3.7 average.
Dallas Has Football Troubles
With Coming of Pro League
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Editor
All indications are that Dallas
will have football running out of
its ears next fall. Not only will
it have Southern Methodist play
ing five games in the Cotton Bowl
plus the Texas-Oklahoma game and
the annual professional exhibition,
but the American and National
professional leagues will be taking
up all the Sundays.
The American Football League
is the brain child of Lamar Hunt,
the wealthy young Dallas oil man
who couldn’t get a franchise in
the National Football League years
ago, so he decided to form his own
league.
Hunt jumped in and got a lease
on the Cotton Bowl for next fall
but it wasn’t exclusive. He can
use the dates he wants but the
open dates are obtainable by
athers.
The National Football League
said it wasn’t so that it planned to
move into ^Amerj can Football
League territory just to render a
blow to the budding young circuit.
Yes, said the NFL, it planned a
long time to expand and right now
(just after the American Football
League was organized) seemed the
most propitious time.
So the National Football League
apparently will place a club in Dal
las for 1960 and that will make
two pro teams in this city that
wasn’t able to support one 7 years
ago. The ill-fated Dallas Texans
are well-known. Dallas bought
the floundering New York Yanks
franchise in 1952 and kept it half
a season. After losing $300,000
the men backing the club turned
the franchise back to the NFL.
It’s different now, though, says
Hunt and his cohorts. In the first
place, Hunt declared, Dallas didn’t
give pro football the proper chance
when it first had it. You have to
expect to operate at a loss while
you’re getting sta iled on a thing
as hazardous as pro football.
Those who brought in the Dallas
Texans say the reason the project
failed was poor management and
poor promotion and a losing team
to boot.
Hunt won’t have to buck any of
those things. He taking plenty of
time to plan the operation and
since he’s starting in a new league
he will have as good a chance as
anybody else of a winning team.
The Dallas Texans had to compete
in a league that already had estab-
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lished teams and weren’t able to
get players of top caliber either.
But a losing team is the least of
Hunt’s worries. What has him
bothered is the prospect of compe
tition with another club in a city
that isn’t big enough to support
two. There appears to be enough
two. He can see nothing but losses
on the ledger for both. There ap
pears to be enough money behind
each to carry on a fight for sur
vival indefinitely if the people are
so inclined.
Two pro clubs playing every
Sunday also will eat into the rev
enues of the colleges. Southern
Methodist might have to return to
its bandbox stadium for it games
because it would handle the crowds
available then, and also cut out the
15 per cent rental SMU has to pay
on the Cotton Bowl.
It would appear that everybody
is in line to lose if’ there are two
pro football teams in Dallas.
Brice has connected on 7 of 12
passes to rack up a total of 67
yards. Mike Davis is the top re
ceiver with 37 yards on four
catches.
Top rushers behind Ledbetter in
clude Lee Roy Caffey of Thorn-
dale with 76 yards, Byer of Marlin
has 53 yards and Mason of Los
Cruces, N. M., rounds out the top
men with 45 yards.
Coach Tom Chandler said he
thought the large number of in
juries was due to the heavy scrim
mage that the team has been
through during the past fen days.
Chandler said he hoped to be
able to break the “one point jinx”
that has gotten hold of the Cadets
for the past two games and also to
score a lot more touchdowns. He
cited Caffey, Tommy Janik of Both
and Ledbetter as doing a good job
in the backfield. George Hogan,
225 pound tackle fi'om Longview,
Jerry Hopkins, 215 pound center
from Mart, James Phillips, 210
pound guard from Freeport, Jim
Harper, 195 pound guard from Bor-
ger and Keith Huggins, a 230
pound Houston tackle, are all doing
respectable jobs at their positions.
Following tonight’s contest with
the Kittens the Fish will play the
Rice Owlets here Nov. 12 and fin
ish the season against the Texas
Shorthorns at Austin, Nov. 21.
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THE BATTALION
j'lmisday, October 29, 1959
PAGE 5
Ex-Aggie Has Football Spirit;
es Contests on Recorder
Barney Welch, the Aggie intra
mural director who thinks sports
is a way of life, has a brother-
in-law who is a rabid A&M foot
ball fan, and wouldn’t miss seeing
or hearing the weekly game for
anything.
Welch’s kinsman, Carl Braunig
’48, will watch the football game
of the week on television, but will
record the A&M game as it is
played over the radio on his tape
recorder. Only one of the Aggies’
games, Arkansas, is scheduled to
be televised this year.
That night when things calm
down he will start the recorder
and listen to the Aggies play, but
will religiously take the 15 min
utes required off for the halftime
ceremonies, “because things are
done that way.” When he figures
the halftime is over he will sit
down in front of the recorder again
for the second half.
The A&M ex refuses to let any
one tell him how the game came
out before listening to it, wanting
instead to hear the game as it was
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