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THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 7, 1962 FROM THE Sideii ined By Van Conner . Last week’s Battalion prognostications met with 40 per cent success on a tough weekend when the upsets we picked didn’t materialize and the ones we didn’t, did. We named four out of 10 and only came close on one score. This, of course, is indicative of the exciting, unpredictable nature of major college football across the country. It also shows how lucky most of those other sportwriters can get. Seriously, we don’t pretend to know as much about pick ing gridiron victors as those guys who make it their fulltime job. But everybody’s been bugging us to take the plunge so we’ll try again this week. Besides, it’s fun. Ags Lose Craig, Hoyak \ The Cadet football squad has had more disappointments than just the Arkansas game this week with the discovery that two linemen will join fullback Jerry Rogers on the out-for-the-season list. Junior tackle James Craig had a knee injured during the Razofback tilt and the doctors arid coaches feel he should take the rest of the year off. And sophomore guard Joe Hoyak got tangled up with influenza. He has been advised by the team physician not to participate. Head blocking May Be Outlawed Next years fans may see NCAA football teams being penalized 15 yards for the notorious “head blocking.” Accord ing to AP Newsfeatures sports editor Frank Eck, the Foot ball Rules Committee of the NCAA will discuss the practice arid possibly outlaw it. Not too many years ago doctors and officials were calling for improvement of football headgear to alleviate an increas ing amount of head injuries. Equipment manufacturers per fected their helmets to the point at which they can now be used as weapons, says Eck. Northwestern Tops Nation; Texas Still Fifth Despite Narrow Win Over SMU By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS If the Rose Bowl football game were to be played this week, it could boast of being an unofficial match for the national champion ship between the No. 1 and No. 2 ranking college teams. Northwestern and Southern Cali fornia, driving toward a possible clash in Pasadena, are pace-set ters in the weekly poll of the Associated Press. Each has won six straight games. Northwestern, which squeezed past Indiana 26-21 Saturday on a late passing drive by Tom Myers, retained top place in the standings with 24 of the 49 No. 1 votes of the special panel of sports writers and broadcasters and a total of 442 points. On the basis of ten points for a first place vote, nine for second, etc, Southern Cal, who hurdled a formidable obstacle in Washington 14-0, took over the No. 2 rung with 409 points, The Trojans wei*e picked as the nation’s best by six of the voters. ALABAMA AND Mississippi, boomed for a meeting in the Sugar Bowl, followed in the No. 3 and No. 4 positions, respectively, after receiving nine first place votes each, Alabama made Missis sippi State its seventh victim of the season 20-0 while Mississippi finally managed to beat Louisiana State, an old rival, 15-7. Completing the top ten, which underwent a brisk shakeup, were: Texas, No. 5; Arkansas, No. 6; Missouri, No. 7; Wisconsin, No. 8; Louisiana State, No. 9, and Min nesota, No. 10. Only the East is not represented in the latest standings. The Mid dle West has four teams in the top ten, the Southeast has three, the Southwest two and the Pacific Coast one. The Pacific Coast hasn’t had a national champion since Southern California won the mythical title in 1939. Minnesota, in 1960, was the last Big Ten team to head the final poll. Alabama won it in 1961. NORTHWESTERN, No. 1, and Texas, No. 5, were the only teams to hold their positions from a week ago. Alabama dropped a notch; Mississippi moved up from sixth place; Arkansas, 17-7 winner over Texas A&M, jumped two rungs; Southern Cal gained one, and Louisiana State fell from fourth to ninth. Missouri, Wisconsin and Minne sota are newcomers to the list, rooting out Michigan State, Wash ington and Auburn. .^E < ZJriun<^(e tciuran t 3606 So. CoDege Bryan, Texas LUNCHES from 75^ on . . . That can’t be beat! AGGIE SPECIAL Hamburger Steak Chicken Fried Steak 95* POOR BOY SANDWICH 95* — A Real Treat! PIZZA PEE Plain 50* & $1.00 EVERY FRIDAY All the Fish you can Eat $1.00 STEAK Charcoal Broiled — Heavy Beef SUNDAY DINNERS Famous Foreign Dishes 11 1 jig! wsspif m ' : ■ miirnm mmmmmmmpmm -"J . Vs 111 , ;x: s 111 iiiipi Craig Lost For Season James Craig, 215 pound junior tackle from A&M-Arkansas game. Craig drew praise Jasper, is out for the season with a knee from Coach Hank Foldberg for his play in injury suffered in the third quarter of the several games. V. Porkers Dominate 8WC Statistics Arkansas’ Razorbacks escaped from a weekend battle with the Ag gies retaining their SWC team sta tistics lead and adding to their in dividual leaders. The Hog’s pace the offensive de partment with 361.6 yards per game and the defensive end allow ing- 208.1 yards per game. The Aggies maintained their standing in both departments — eighth in offense, 200.3 per g-ame, and third in defense, 260.1 per game. Texas, while squeaking by Sou thern Methodist 6-0, dropped to fourth in team offense and held second in defense. Arkansas’ Ken Hatfield replaced A&M’s George Hargett as the punt retui-n leader getting 204 yards on 12 returns. Hargett is second with 148 yards with 15 returns. Larry Elkins, by virture of a 92-yard return against TCU, took over third place. 0 Ri Billy Moore increased hiss son scoring total to 60 pointst two TD’s against the Aggie hold the conference scoring i- Tom McKnelly of Arkansas Hi: into second with two extra pti and a field goal against tti(( dets. The stats become monotojj when the leading ball carriersn named. Arkansas holds tile three spots. Moore paces the hr triumvirate with 414 yards ii carries. Fullback Danny Brabham,il breeched the Aggie line fori yards, ranks second with 335 jai in 90 carries. Jesse Branch istts ^ having toted the ball 74 times! 327 yards. In the passing department, lor’s Don Trull enjoys a comfe able lead over runner-up Sqp= Gibbs. Trull has hit on 75 of! passes for 986 yards and sh touchdowns. 50 Pontiac Tempests FREE! America’s hottest new sports convertible! 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