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College Station, Texas
Friday, September 24, 1965
THE BATTALION
Tech Challenges TU
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
Texas Tech’s Red Raiders play
the big one-for them — Saturday
night at Austin when they open
the Southwest Conference foot
ball championship race against
Texas.
They will learn in a hurry
whether they have reached the
stature necessary for conference
football competition. A team
must beat Texas to know it has
finally arrived.
In five years of trying Tech
has had its season ruined by
losing to the Longhorns. The
nearest they ever have come
was 17 points. Most times the
margin has been frighteningly
wide.
Tech looked good last week in
SWC Sidelines
TOM MURRAH, 185-pound
Aggie guard, shrugs off his lack
of heft with: “I don’t worry
about my size. I realize I can’t
overpower anyone so I concen
trated on quickness and being in
the right position to hit people.”
A nephew of Cap Murrah, an
Aggie immortal, Tom is com
manding officer of his military
company and made 6 A’s and
IB last spring in compiling 60
grade points on 21 semester
hours.
A professional survey reveals
that two million people tune into
the SWC games brought to them
each week by Humble, now in its
32nd year of broadcasting. This
total does not include the thou
sands whose ears are glued to
the Arkansas network each week.
... In the past Rice has utilized
a guard to share linebacking
duties on a “rover’ basis. This
year Jess Neely is utilizing an
end, normally Bert Barron to
add breadth and quickness to the
linebacking patrol.
In describing how Texas cov
ered up its mistakes in the in
augural with Tulane, Mickey
(Houston Post) Herskowitz ob
served that the Longhorns
“buried their own mistakes, like
a doctor.” . . . Texas’ David
Conway hiked his string of extra
point placements to 31 as he ran
Texas’ game score to that figure
in the shutout of Tulane.
An oil portrait of the late Don
Pierce has been hung on the north
wall of the Kansas Memorial
stadium press box that has been
named in his memory. . . . Bay
lor’s Harlan Lane caught more
passes (9) than any other SWC
player ever did in a season in
augural, but he also was con
spicuous with his blocking.
In selecting Texas to win the
SWC championship, Jim (Fort
Worth Press) Browder paid his
respect to the Longhorn defense
by picking three players to make
the all-SWC defensive team and
two other defenders for all-
Sophomore recognition. Texas
did not have an offensive back
chosen for either team and only
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beating Kansas 26-7 but the
Raiders have looked good before
only to fall to the power of
Texas. Some hint that it’s as
much psychology as football
ability.
Anyway, the Texas-Texas Tech
game, with Texas a 13 point
favorite, headlines the second
week of the conference campaign.
In the openers last week the
league came off well indeed,
winning six of eight intersection
al games.
one offensive lineman. . . . When
Alabama lost and Texas won last
week, Darrell Royal pulled all
even with Bear Bryant as the
winningest coaches in the ’60s
with identical 48-6-2 won-lost-
tied records.
George Wright, who turned
over Baylor sports information
duties to Dub King while con
valescing from two rounds of
major arterial surgery, feels the
medics showed little mercy in
prescribing orange and white
capsules. Then before he could
shake the nausea, he was asked
to start taking vitamin pills
shaped like footballs, and colored,
of course, burnt orange!
Oklahoma State’s Phil Cutchin
emerged from the Arkansas in
vasion with a number of impres
sions: (1) That Arkansas is
better offensively than a year
ago and (2) That his players
must have thought it was an 8:30
game instead of a 7:30 one.
(Arkansas led at half-time, 21-0).
. . . When the SWC touring
scribes stopped at TCU, they
asked Abe Martin: “What is
your greatest concern?” Martin
answered: “Whether these young
sters can keep working and im
proving in the face of reverses.’
Remembering that TCU faced
Nebraska last week, goes against
Florida State this week and
Arkansas the next, one under
stands the Frog coach’s concern.
There are only six of these
games against the outside foes
on the card Saturday but the
league isn’t expected to score
as highly, percentage wise, as
last week.
Arkansas clashes with Tulsa
and the Razorbacks are solid
two-touchdown choices.
Baylor meets Washington at
Waco and the Bears, who sur
prised by whipping Auburn 14-8,
are mild favorites. In the other
four, though, the conference is
expected to sink up to its
armpits.
Illinois has its 1964 backfield
intact, including the great full
back Jim Grabowski.
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Ag Guard Excels
In Grades, Block
SALLEE TO START SATURDAY
Bill Sallee, 180-pound halfback from Midland, will start at
weakside back ag-ainst Georgia Tech Saturday afternoon.
He and injured Jim Stabler will alternate at the position.
Southern Methodist, whose 7-3
victory over Miami last week
was as much of an upset as
Baylor’s triumph, journeys to
Urbana, 111., to meet Illinois.
The Methodists will find them
selves seven point underdogs, al
though the Illini started the sea
son last week by losing 12-10 to
Oregon State.
Murrah Tabbed
Tom Murrah, the Texas Aggie
guard from San Antonio, not only
may be the lightest starting line
man in the Southwest Conference
this season, he also may be the
smartest.
Murrah, at 185 pounds, is small
by high school standards these
days. But, approaching his senior
season at Aggieland, he owns two
varsity letters and currently holds
down a starting defensive guard
post.
Murrah has a career academic
grade point average of 2.77 out
of a possible 3.0 for the past six
semesters and has been nomi
nated by Texas A&M for the
Academic All-America football
team.
The stocky San Antonio lad
shrugs off both his lack of heft
and his mental prowess. “I don’t
worry about my size,” he says.
“I realize I can’t overpower any
one so I concentrate on quick
ness and being in the right posi
tion to hit people.”
During the past spring semes
ter when he was toiling through
a rough spring football session,
Murrah carried 21 hours and com
piled 60 grade points by posting
6 A’s and 1 B.
weren’t playing football I'd
able put off studying, tb
I’d have time later to doj
For All-Academic
Rice, which beat Louisiana
Tech 14-0 and couldn’t get much
credit for it, can attain that
objective Saturday if it knocks
over the opponent of the week —
well-rated Louisiana State.
Rice and LSU clash at Baton
Rouge with the Tigers 15-point
favorites much to Rice’s dismay.
The Tigers started last week by
beating Texas A&M 10-0 but
couldn’t score a touchdown un
der its own power. Yet LSU is
strong defensively and that may
also be Rice’s long suit. This
one looks like it might wind up
a tie.
The Aggies are in Atlanta bat
tling Georgia Tech, which had
a disappointing opening — a 10-
10 tie with lowly Vanderbilt.
But Tech isn’t expected to play
a tie with A&M — the Yellow
Jackets are nine-point favorites.
Texas Christian, which got
smashed by Nebraska last week,
hosts Florida State. The South
ern visitors are 6%-point favor
ites.
By The Associated Press
Is it possible?
Do the Baltimore Orioles have
any chance of overtaking the
front-running Minnesota Twins
in the American League pennant
race ?
“It’s not too late until you’re
out of it,” said Orioles’ Manager
Hank Bauer, “and my players
certainly don’t feel they’re out
of it.”
The Orioles remained in it
Wednesday by beating Min
nesota 5-2, handing the Twins
their third straight defeat and
keeping them from reducing
their magic pennant-clinching
number below three — which
seems to have become a tempo
rary roadblock.
DALLAS — Thirty-eight play
ers, including Aggie guard Tom
Murrah, have been nominated for
the 1965 SWC All-Academic foot
ball team that will be selected at
the conclusion of the season by
a panel of area sportswriters.
Nomination for the team re
quires a B average or better on
optional periods: entire college
career, either of the previous two
semesters or both. Nominees for
1965 include outstanding scholars
who are majoring in such de
manding courses as pre-medical,
pre-law, mechanical engineering,
business, mathematics, pre-dental
and chemistry.
Among those achieving the
highest marks are Center Randy
Stewart of Arkansas, a mechani
cal engineering major who has
compiled a 3.82 grade average
of a possible 4.0; Tom Murrah,
A&M guard majoring in account
ing, who has a 2.77 of a possi
ble 3.0; John Scovell, Tech sopho
more quarterback, 3.76 of a pos
sible 4.0 (11 A’s and 4 B’s as a
freshman); Dan Jones, TCU de
fensive halfback who has a 3.6
of a 4.0 possible in pre-med work.
The nominees are:
GUARDS (4) — Tom Murrah,
A&M; Jim Swanson, Rice; Gary
Cooper, TCU; Benny Brott, Bay-
lot.
CENTERS (3) — Jack Howe,
Texas; Randy Stewart, Arkansas;
Edwin Blankenship, TCU.
BACKS (15) — Jack Brasuell,
Jim Lindsey and Larry Watkins,
Arkansas; John Scovell, Tech;
Donnie Oefinger and Ronnie Reel,
SMU; Mike Adams, Jimmy Duf-
fey, Dan Jones, Steve Landon
and John Richards, TCU; Roger
Mike Marshall, Eddie Whiddon
and Richard Defee, Baylor;
Chuck Latourette, Rice.
LINEBACKERS (3) — E. A.
Greshman and Olan Nelson,
TCU; James Haney, Tech.
Cougars Face
Undefeated
Cincinnati
Wills Stealing Way
To Dodger Flag
ENDS (9) — David Anderson
and Paul Becton, Baylor; Terry
McWhorter, Tech; Bert Barron,
Rice; Sonny Campbell and Ron
ald McMillion, TCU; Dave Cor-
der and Doug January, SMU;
Gilbert Coats, Tech.
TACKLES (4) — Roy Brown,
Tech; Mike Moore, SMU; Larry
Clore, TCU; Wayne Barginear,
Tech.
By The Associated Press
The Los Angeles Dodgers have
a new streak going — Maury
Wills.
He exploded out of a drastic
base-stealing slowdown Wednes
day night and ran the Dodgers a
step nearer the National League
lead.
Wills, who had stolen only two
bases in 19 previous games this
month, stole three and scored
after each theft — climaxing his
efforts by carrying across the
winning run on Lou Johnson’s
llth-inning single as the Dodg
ers overcame the Milawaukee
Braves 7-6.
HOUSTON <A>>—The Univers
ity of Cincinnati, boasting a five-
game winning streak, plays
Houston, a team unable to score
in its first two games this sea
son, in the Astrodome Friday
night.
The Cougars approached the
season with considerable fanfare
centered on Warren McVea, a
173-pound halfback rated by some
as the best broken-field runner
in Texas high school history. But
the San Antonio Negro, the first
of his race to play for a major
Texas college, has been unable
to get going.
As a result, Houston hasn’t
scored this season. It was beaten
by Tulsa 14-0 and by Mississippi
State 36-0. In fact, the Cougars
haven’t scored since they were
beaten by Cincinnati, the Missouri
Valley Conference champions, last
year 20-6.
The game is the only one in
volving major colleges on a
sparse Friday night schedule.
Cincinnati compiled an 8-2
record last year and began this
season by whipping Dayton 28-0,
holding the Flyers to 79 yards
total offense and minus one on
the ground.
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Murrah is commanding offi
the athletic company, was
sergeant last year and u\
outstanding military soph
two years ago.
He faces two years of?
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once his milittary tour is
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Tommy Nobis, guard, as:
Phil Harris of Texas,
George Gaiser and QB1
Oefinger of SMU, tackli
Cunningham of Arkansas
Jack Eisenhart of Bayk
linebacker Rick Jones of
Tech.
“I allotted my study time
better,” he explained. “I knew
I had just a certain amount of
time for studying and I took
advantage of it. I do better
when I’m busy, anyway. If I
Jefferson advanced to ft
quarterfinals in 1961, 1
senior season.
About his senior seas
A&M, Murrah says, “I’m l
forward to it. I think
gonna surprise a lot of pi
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