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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.
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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 $1.00 for
club members.
The new officers and sponsor
of TAMSCC are as follows:
Mike Bozardt — sponsor, Allan
Wecckerling — president, Emil
Pela — vice president, William
Cadwallader — secretary, George
Eby — treasurer, Dick Goss —
activities director, and John Mc-
Auley — publicity.
The next meeting of TAMSCC
is Oct. 10 at 8:00 p.m. in the
YMCA. Everyone interested in
the school should come for de
tails or call Mr. Bozardt, 845-2811
or 846-4106 for information.
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Town Hall Kicks Off Its Regular Series With:
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Anita Bryant
*, “One of the most
exciting female
vocalists in the world.”
*.... Former “number one
female recording artist
of the year.”
*.... Ex runner-up-
Miss America.
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Leon Bibb
★ .... Credited with reviving
popular interest in folk
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night spv$y n X* Negro
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*.... 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.
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