P*it« 6 Colleffe Station, Texas Wednesday, November 22, 1967
THE BATTALION
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NEW YORK <AV — The
Thanksffiving football week-end
and what store of goodies do
we have for the teams still seek-
bowl berths and improvement in
the national rankings?'
Well, there’s a stick of cotton
candy for Texas A AM, which
should upset favored Texas; a
fat pig with an apple in its
mouth for Rose Bowl-bound Min
nesota and a stuffed turkey for
Penn State.
For the picker, a gixxard.
Last week: 37-16, .703 Season
430-151, .740. /
Texas A4M 25, Texas 20: You
can almost hear bones rattle as
the Aggies’ Gene Stallings bids
for a date against his old tutor.
Bear Bryant, in the Cotton Bowl.
Oklahoma 20, Nebraska 10: The
Sooners clinch the Big Eight title
and set their sights on Tennessee
at Miami.
Sports Aplenty
Aggies
By Four
By GARY SHERER
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possibly making 70 per cent correct for a final season read
ing. The final two weeks will have to be pretty close to
perfect as 52-28-2 is a little short of 70 per cent.
This week will produce some real donnybrooks as con
ference championships, bowl invitations and a lot of pride
are riding on these games. Six conference races should be
decided by this weekend. Five of the major conferences
have already seen title-clinching.
In the past, upsets usually don’t occur late in the
season. The good teams have jelled completely by this
point in the season and the upset possibility is lessened.
Not so this yipar* No less than six upsets came about last
week and a few rated teams escaped with victories and
narrowly avoided a loss.
The Aggies aren’t the only team to make a comeback
this season. TCU has awakened after a five-loss start
and have a chance to figure in the Southwest Conference
finish.
A real Cinderella story was turned in by the Wake
Forest Deacons of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The
South Carolina school had staggered through its first six
games and had been generally man-handled. They finished
the season Saturday with their fourth straight fictory.
Because the year has been so unpredictable, one can
plainly see that it has to be a tough task to pick the out
come of the games.
After that classic bit of rationalization, a bunch of
guesses for this week is in order. -
TEXAS A&M 21, TEXAS 17
Numbness will reign following this game.
MIAMI (FLA.) 28, NOTRE DAME 20
The Irish finish the year wdth a bad at-home record.
PURDUE 24, INDIANA 12
Boilermakers seal the Hoosiers fate and win an Oaken
Bucket.
MINNESOTA 39. WISCONSIN 9
That smell of ’Roses’ makes monsters out of the
Gophers. '
YALE 21, HARVARD 14
The oldest rivalry of them all should be a head-
knocker.
OKLAHOMA 15, NEBRASKA 7
Sooners nail dowm the Big Eight title.
MISSOURI 14, KANSAS 6
Mizzou wants a bowl bid—anybody interested?
MEMPHIS STATE 20, NORTH TEXAS STATE 19
Mean Green run into somebody meaner.
SOUTH CAROLINA 12, CLEMSON 10
Paul Deitzel wins over Frank Howard in a coaching
battle.
FLORIDA 22, FLORIDA STATE 20
Gator Bowl bid could be riding on this one.
This Thursday’s game at Kyle Field should produce
perhaps the most exciting game of the week. It already
has caused a stir because of the debate over to televise or
not to televise.
Regardless of TV coverage, the important thing is
winning that game. The Aggies have come from a long
way back to be where they are now and this talented group
of footballers should be able to ‘make something happen’
Thursday afternoon. * -
A new Aggie joke should be in order as the ‘Turkey
Day’ game approaches. “Hey, did you hear about the guy
that thought the Aggies Are Back bumper stickers were
just a joke?
Aggies-Longhorns
Lead SWC Slate
GRADY ALLEN
ROBERT CORTEZ
DAN SCHNEIDER
BILL SALLEE
IN FINAL GAME
These five senior* will play
their last game in Kyle
Field on ’Turkey Day.’
By JERRY GRISHAM
Who will represent the South
west Conference in the Cotton
Bowl Jan. I against “Bear” Bry
ant’s Alabama Crimson TMc?
That is the 964,000 question and
the Texas Aggies can answer the
question once and for all tomor
row In Kyle Field. By now, every
one in the state of Texas knows
that all the Cadets have to do
is win or tie the Texas Longhorns
to end up in tall cotton.
Tomorrow’s 74th meeting of the
blood rivals will pit Texas the
infantry scoring leaders of the
SWC, against the Aggies, the no.
1 producer of tochdowns by air.
Twenty of Texas’ 25 tochdowns
have been scored on the grouty*
this season, with Tailback Chris
Gilbert and Quarterback Bill Brad-
ly sharing the team scoring
i leadership with nine' tochdowns
[ each.
ARM, already assured of a eo-
. championship, has scored 14 of its
. 24 touchdowns through the air.
Edd Hargett has thrown for 13
of those, and Wing beck Bob Long
has caught seven of the scoring
aerials.
GILBERT, who rushed far 202
yards in the upset loss to TCU,
leads SWC ball carriers by *
whopping margin with 968 yards.
If he gains as much as 32 on
Turkey Day, he will become the
first SWC player in history to
gain 1,000 or more twice in a
career. He rushed for 1,060 last
■alien. ’
Stallings Stresses
Defensive Game
MARK WEAVER
‘Mean Green'
Faces Test
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (*» —
North Texas, newly crowned
champion of the Missouri Val
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away Saturday from its first un
defeated season in 52 years of
football.
The Mean Greens' last obstacle
was Memphis State, newest mem
ber of the conference but not
competing for the football title
until next ynar.
North Texas has only 31-31
tie with New Mexico State to
mar its otherwise perfect record.
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By JERRY GRISHAM
When you are playing a team
whose offensive unit has as its
quarterback the Southwest Con
ference’s total offense leader and
as. jts tailback the conference's
best rusher what do you have to
a lot of faith in?
The answer as Texas ARM
Coach Gene Stallings is well a-
•ware is the defense.
“AGAINST TEXAS we’re going
to have to play the best defensive
game we’ve played all year,” the
Aggie coach said Tuesday in his
weekly press conference. He
pointed out that against the Uni
versity of Texes on Thanksgiving
Day anything less than the best
just won’t be enough.
He singled out the Texas tial- *
back Chris Gilbert as a real threat
to the Aggies.
“Gilbert la the single best run
ner in the country,’ he noted.
As far as the Aggies’ health is
concerned Stallings seemed optim
istic. Wendell Housley who broke
his foot in the game against
Arkansas and has been the only
serious injury 6n the team this
week is reportedly improving.
“HOUSLEY ran pretty well
yesterday," Stallings said. “I do
n’t know what that means. We
weren’t going full speed and did
n’t have any contact."
Stallings praised the work of
the Aggies in the building of the
Aggie Bonfire and said that he
and the team's five seniors, Grady
Allen Robert Cortex, Mark Weav
er, Dan Schneider and Bill Sallee
will speak to the crowd at the
bonfire tonight.
“Not only those but the whole
team will be there,” he noted.
Bluebonnet Bowl
Eyes Ags-Texas
HOUSTON 'A*! — Indications
were Tuesday that Thanksgiving
Day’s traditional football game
between Texas and Texas ARM
will determine Colorado’s oppon
ent in the Dec. 23 Bluebonnet
Bowl.
A victory or tie by ARM
would give the Aggies the host
spot in the New Year’s Day Cot.
ton Bowl at Dallas and Apparent
ly send Bluebonnet officials look
ing outside the Southwest eon.
fere nee for a team.
Texas coach Darrell Royal has
said his team would not consider
a bowl bid if the Longhorns are
dropped to a 6-4 season by a loss
to the Aggies.
For what it’s worth the scoring
of the two teams in conference
and non-conference play has been
remarkably close. After nine
games the Longhorns have scored
179 poinU. The Aggies have
notched 181 points. In league
play against common foes Ttxas
has rolled up 138 points and the
Aggies have scored 137.
In points scored by the opposi
tion there it a marked difference.
Nine opponents of the Longhorns
have scored 113 points against
them while ARM’s foes have scor
ed 181. The trend, however, {is
reversed in SWC play with Texas
opponents scoring 89 points while
Aggie foes have scored 71.
IF THE AGGIES win or if thfy
tie tomorrow the title race will be
over and this Saturday's SWC
games will be just so muck wind
ow dreseing. But should the Long
horns outscore the Aggies, two
schools will go on the field this
weekend thinking championship
thoughts.
The remarkable TCU Horned
Frogs, hotter than a Monte Carlo
gambler, are riding a three-game
winning streak, including last
week’s upset victory over Texas,
and a Frog sweep of their last
two games against Rice and SMU
combined with an ARM defeat
would make .the Froggies co
champs.
And a Texas Tech win over
Arkansas Saturday, in Little Rock
combined with an Aggie loss
would give the Raiders a chunk
of the championship pie.
Then it really gets confusing.
Should Texas win, Tech win and
TCU lose the Aggies, Horns, and
Raiders would share the crown
with Tech going bowling by vir
tue of having never represented
the SWC in the Cotton Bowl.
BUT! If Texas wins. Tech
loses and TCU comes through in
the next t*to weeks, the Aggies,
Texas and the Frogs tie for the
title and since the Longhone and
TCU have both gone to the bowl
since the Aggies last played-there
in 1942 it would be the AGs’
honor to celebrate New Year’s in
Dallas.
A Texas victory combined with
-losses by Tech and TCU would
automatically give the Loaghorns
the bowl berth.
Texas, Tech and TCU victories
would result in an unprecedented
four-way tie with Tech going to
the Dallas Classic. It would really
be much simpler and casing to
understand if the Aggies just
licked Texas on Thanksgiving.
CONFERENCE Standings also
rest on the Bsylor-SMU contest
in Waco Saturday. The two teams
will decide the conference cellar
dweller. If the Ponies win, it will
assure the Bears a last place
finiah but a Baylor victory will
knock the Mustangs down to the
bottom to keep the Beers com-
pany.
With two weeks to go in the
season there are still four teams
in the running for the conference
title. With only an eight-member
league, you know that's really
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