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Page 6 College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 9,1966 THE BATTAUOt Stallings Says Possibly, just possibly, Texas A&M could go into Saturday's Southwest Conference football scuffle in some capacity other than underdog. For seven of eight games this campaign, . the Aggies have drawn the black bean of the un derdog. The Aggies were shaky favorites over Tulane, but suc cumbed nonetheless, 21-13. A&M Coach Gene Stallings grinned at his weekly press con ference and predicted a pretty good ball game with the Rice Owls. “It should be a pretty evenly matched game,” he said. “They’ve got some good young kids and we’ve got some good young kids. I’d say we’re about even. We shouldn’t be the underdog, but we shouldn’t be the favorite, ei ther.” A glance at the Owls’ strong showing against Arkansas indi cates Rice might be due the fav orite’s tag. The Owls spotted the Porkers 17 points, then roared back to go ahead 20-17 in the third period. Arkansas finally banged out a victory, however, 31-20. Against another stout and common foe, the Owls upset LSU 17-15 while A&M settled for a 7-7 knot with the Tigers. Both bounced Texas Tech convincingly and both gave SMU fits before bowing. Stallings was naturally disap pointed with Saturday’s 21-14 loss to SMU. “I’m disappointed more for our seniors than for myself,” he remarked, “They don’t get an other chance to win and they deserve more after such great leadership and effort they have provided for our squad this year.” The Aggie coach was asked what is legal for a defensive player to do against a potential pass receiver. “The defense can’t grab hold of a man,” Stallings explained. “A defensive man can ward off the offensive man. He can block him as long as the offensive man is between him and the man with the ball, but he can’t push the offensive man once that man has gotten behind him.” Contrary to popular belief, Stallings was not chiding SMU Coach Hayden Fry about his men holding up Aggie receivers. But Stallings wouldn’t say what the apparent sharp words were about. “If they held us every play,” Stallings commented, “It would n’t have been Hayden’s fault. He wasn’t an official.” Asked about A&M’s kickoffs, all of which appeared to be mis- cued on-side kicks, Stallings said, “They were not on-side kicks. We were trying to kick the ball on the ground down to about their 26-yard line. The kick had two objectives. One was to elim inate the possibility of a long runback by Jerry Levias. The other was to give us a chance to WHATABURGER 1101 S. College — Across From Weingarten “WORLD’S LARGEST PURE BEEF BURGER” • i/4 Lb. Pure Beef In Every Whataburger • MADE WITH 100% PURE BEEF GROUND DAILY AT WHATABURGER PHONE 823—1864 — Your Order Will Be Ready "Business is for the birds!" Who says so? Lots of people do. Some right on your campus. And for rationale, they point an accusing finger at business and say it lacks “social commitment.” Social commitme'nf? 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He spurred the Mustangs to paydirt in four plays, leaving 49 seconds of the 1:36 that remained in the first half when Aggie kicker Glynn Lindsey put his toe into the pig- hide. Stallings didn’t see much dif ferent about the SMU setup in the second half, although Coach Fry was quoted as saying he re aligned his horses at intermis sion. “There was nothing strikingly different,” Stallings said. “They had some good blocks and inter ceptions in the last half.” Quizzed about a call for a pass on a first and goal situation from the SMU five, Stallings refused to second-guess himself. The pass, intended for Tom Buckman was picked off by Pony Pat Gib son in the end zone, killing an Aggie threat early in the third canto. “It was the right play,” he commented. “We hadn’t moved the ball too well on the ground. I’d caught the tempo of the ball game earlier when we failed to make a first down at their 35 on a fourth and one situation.” The already heavily bandaged Aggries suffered further casual ties in the Dallas warfare. Cen ter Jim Singleton reinjured a knee and is all but definitely out of the Rice game. Halfback Wen dell Housley, who ran very well against SMU’s massive line, has a hurt shoulder. To make matters worse, Tackle “Mo” Moorman is in University Hospital with the flu and Guard Gary Kovar has an infected toe. And Gilbert Smith, who blocked an SMU field goal try and snared a big pass for the Aggies, twist ed an ankle in practice Monday. Still, Stallings isn’t crying the blues. He thinks the Aggies will be fairly sound for Rice. Loyd Curington, who saw only limited action against SMU, is stronger now and may see heavier duty before an anticipated 50,000 peo ple in his hometown. drive a’67 - - OATSUN then decide THE COMPLETE SPORTS CAR! 96 h.p. All-synchro 4-speed. 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