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Thursday, October 10, 1968 i[f “asketta; to kickoj oUege Bai 1 Oklahom game nit] )ec. 26. tuquesnej the touni ne follow down w| dty. Rowit ™d activitj faces i 'St gamec ig is pittf; resident All Spoil 1 the paii mament, 1 and 36, louncemfi “We 1 have of colli id at ie natioi ast seas? verage Hi Rich Tran l.U. witk ?e, numk season. S he natioi last sea»: a 26.2 pi with tha 1 perforr rhole shoi jht in ti per gas mber foi umber sii t a Mafi mber foffl 1 offense. BATTALION College Station, Texas Page 9 Sport8 Desk Aggies Over Tech, 31-10 by John Platzer If You Need A Big Clutch Play Just Call On Aggies’ Mr. Long BATT PICKS Southwest Conference teams start playing- for keeps this weekend with three conference openers on tap. The Aggies open their SWC and home seasons Saturday against Texas Tech while Baylor opens against Arkansas and South ern Methodist opens against Texas Christian. Many of the most evenly matched games of the season are scheduled Saturday making this one of the roughest weeks of the year on sports writers. Last week we hit on 13 of 17 games for a .765 percentage. TEXAS A&M 31, TEXAS TECH 10: The Aggies are due for a great game and it could come against the Red Raiders. Tech has a fine offense but its defense isn't strong enough to hold A&M in check. SMU 24, TCU 21: Sophomore quarterback Chuck Hix- p ison has given the Mustang’s a scoring- machine with his pin- Itji point passing. As long- as the Methodists have Jerry Levias they start out most games with an advantage. ARKANSAS 35, BAYLOR 7: The Razorbacks began the season as one of the most underated teams in the nation but three straight wins have changed that. The Bears al ways give the Hogs a tough time but this year they are just full/*! Q TEXAS 17, OKLAHOMA 14: The Longhorns aren't this good and the Sooners aren’t this bad but Texas wins this one almost by habit. Since James Street took over at quarterback for Texas, their opponents’ point making po tentials have been cut in half. KANSAS 35, NEBRASKA 21: In the first three games of the season Kansas has scored more points than any other team in the nation and they should continue the barrage against unbeaten Nebraska. LSU 24, MIAMI 17: The Bengals will continue their winning ways but not before getting a scare from Ted Hendricks and Company. GEORGIA 17, MISSISSIPPI 10: This battle of all- southern powers is strictly a toss-up. The Rebels will still be celebrating their win over Alabama, however, allowing the Bulldogs to sneak by. TENNESSEE 28, GEORGIA TECH 12: The return of Richmond Flowers has added the spark to make the Vols one of the top teams in the country. MICHIGAN STATE 14, MICHIGAN 13: The Spartans get revenge and recapture the state championship. PURDUE 45, OHIO STATE 17: The Buckeyes have one of the top ten teams in the country but how do you stop such players as Mike Phipps and Leroy Keyes? The only team that could give the Boilermakers a good test this season are the Green Bay Packers and they don’t have an open date on their schedule. PENN STATE 8, UCLA 7: After last week’s upset at the hands of Syracuse the Bruins will be up but not high enough to pull an upset of their own. AUBURN 21, CLEMSON 7: Both teams have fine all round squads year after year but neither can ever come up with the great teams. Coach Gene Stallings calls him a “big clutch player” and his mates say “you name the game and he’ll beat you at it.” They’re speaking of Bob Long, the talented senior wingback on Texas A&M’s football squad. He has made all-SWC in both football and baseball. He can shoot golf (lefthanded, by the way) in the low 70s. He was a splendid basketball player back at Paris (Tex) High School. It was about a year ago that Long made one of his greatest clutch plays for the Aggies. It was against Texas Tech, this week’s foe, and the Aggies faced fourth and 10 with only 15 sec onds left in the game and Tech leading 24-21. Edd Hargett passed downfield and Long, sur rounded by at least four Tech defending battlers, made a mirac ulous catch at the Red Raider 15. A&M called time and there .were three seconds left and Hargett ran 15 yards for the winning TD. Later Long made a catch and run for an 80-yard TD that put A&M in a 10-7 final win over Texas that meant the SWC title and a Cotton Bowl berth. Going into this season he held the school’s career record for TD pass receptions with 11 and he has added to that with two more already this year, one against LSU and one against Tulane. Long is a jack-of-all-trades. He is the kickoff man, tries the long field goals, is one of the two deep men on kickoff returns and he could punt and play quarter back if necessary. He isn’t the fastest man on the squad but he has quickness, great hands and endurance. The past two years he has had the fastest time in the mile among all A&M football players. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Poss Long of Paris. His father is an elementary school principal and his mother is a history teacher. Bob is a math major. This week he’ll try to figure out a way to get A&M back on the winning track when Tech comes to College Station. Dave John Bob Mike Richard John Mr. Game Mayes Platzer Palmer Wright Campbell Fuller X Tech vs. A&M A&M A&M A&M A&M A&M A&M A&M SMU vs. TCU SMU SMU TCU SMU SMU TCU TCU Bay. vs. Ark. Ark. Ark. Ark. Ark. Ark. Ark. Ark. Okla. vs. Texas Okla. TU Okla. TU Okla. TU Okla. Neb. vs. Kan. Kan. Kan. Kan. Neb. Kan. Kan. Neb. LSU vs. Miami LSU LSU LSU LSU LSU LSU Miami Miss. vs. Georgia Miss. Georgia Miss. Miss. Georgia Miss. Miss. Ga. Tech vs. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Ga. Tech Mich. S. vs. Mich. Mich. St. Mich. St. Mich. St. Mich. St. Mich. St. Mich. St. Mich. St. Ohio S. vs. Purdue Purdue Purdue Purdue Purdue Purdue Purdue Purdue Last Week 7-3 6-4 7-3 8-2 5-5 6-4 6-4 Total 25-11 24-12 13-7 18-12 16-14 19-17 15-15 Percentage .695 .667 .650 .600 .533 .528 .500 BOB LONG Paper Says Americans Not WinningFriendsAtOlympics MEXICO CITY — Ameri cans are not winning friends and influencing people in the Olympic Village, a Mexican newspaper said Wednesday. “In some bathrooms signs were put up saying ‘Yankee, Go Home’,” added the Sports Jour nal Ovaciones. Meanwhile, the U. S. Olympic Committee held an urgent meet ing earlier to discuss the feasi bility of making U.S. athletes off limits to journalists altogether. “The harassment of the ath letes has been t e r r i b 1 e,” a spokesman who declined identi fication said. “If this keeps up, we will have to bar our boys from the news media complete ly.” Instead, it was believed a sys tem of organized news confer ences would be installed at the American headquarters in the village or at the press center. The Ovaciones said reporters sought to interview U.S. athletes Tuesday but were refused. The paper said American officials ex plained that the reason was that the international press was mis quoting the athletes. WrEcK TeCh! Sports Car Club To Sponsor School An auto-cross drivers school for all sports car buffs will be sponsored by the Texas A&M Sports Car Club, as announced at the recent organizational meet ing. The intentions of the TAMSCC- sponsored school to be conducted by driver Mike Bozardt are to instruct drivers in auto-cross driving techniques and to help drivers understand the capabili ties and limitations of their cars. The school will be in the Mont gomery Ward parking lot on Texas Ave. at Villa Maria Rd. on Oct. 13 beginning at 10:00 a.m. The cost of entering will be $1.50 per person and $1.00 for club members. The new officers and sponsor of TAMSCC are as follows: Mike Bozardt — sponsor, Allan Wecckerling — president, Emil Pela — vice president, William Cadwallader — secretary, George Eby — treasurer, Dick Goss — activities director, and John Mc- Auley — publicity. The next meeting of TAMSCC is Oct. 10 at 8:00 p.m. in the YMCA. Everyone interested in the school should come for de tails or call Mr. Bozardt, 845-2811 or 846-4106 for information. perma-crease Westbury Slacks Jim Mnrncs umberfittp men’6 toear 329 University Drive 713 /846-3706 College Station, Texas 77840 GhJSiO^&l (EJnkuhjanPF For Complete Insurance Service Dial 823-8231 Ray Criswell, Sr.; Ray Criswell, Jr. “Insure Well With Criswell” 2201 S. College Ave., Bryan, Texas PIZZA INN FREE DORM DELIVERY Open 11 a. m. to 12 p. m. Sundays 1 p. m. to 12 p. m. Call 846-6164 or 846-9984 For Orders To Go Or Eat In 413 Hwy. 6, So. Across from the Ramada Inn Decals Pocket Books Bumper Stickers Billiards Comic Signs Pin Bali Party Records Third National Bank Comic Records Aggie Theatre Popular Albums Pin-Ups Magazines Novelties We cash aggie checks AGGIE DEN Open 8 a. m. till midnight 7 days weekly DON T MISS IT!! Town Hall Kicks Off Its Regular Series With: i (7 * Anita Bryant *, “One of the most exciting female vocalists in the world.” *.... Former “number one female recording artist of the year.” *.... Ex runner-up- Miss America. tp: V, i m * Leon Bibb ★ .... Credited with reviving popular interest in folk mup *.... W ^ mu sical “C<% A/Jhis fall. *.... 24 wecx^^ v ^^turday night spv$y n X* Negro talent. O *.... Soon to do mo .e with Sidney Poitier. * .... 4 appearances on the A&M campus-He was widely acclaimed & well received the last three times. FRIDAY NIGHT ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM ADMISSION: Student Activity Card (Plus ID) Town Hall Season Ticket Single Admission Ticket Date or A&M Spouse $1.50 Faculty & Staff (A&M U. System)....$3.00 Public School Students $2.00 Patrons $3.00