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VOLUME 64
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1968
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Midnight Yell Practice, Dance,
Band Debut Also Featured
By DALE FOSTER
Battalion Staff Writer
A full weekend of activities, to
be kicked off by Town Hall at
8 p.m. tonight, is in store today
and Saturday for A&M students.,
staff and campus visitors.
The first Town Hall presenta
tion of the 1968-69 season, featur
ing Anita Bryant and Rich Little,
will be followed by midnight yell
practice prior to A&M’s first
home appearance.
On Saturday dedication of
Texas A&M’s expanded Kyle
Field will precede the 7:30 p.m.
gridiron clash between the Aggies
and the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Before and after the game, Alpha
Phi Omega will launch the first
part of the Campus Chest Drive,
collecting donations from former
students and other spectators.
TALENTED songstress Anita
Bryant takes the stage tonight
at G. Rollie White Coliseum,
along with actor and television
comedian Rich Little, replacement
for Leon Bibb.
The much-heralded Miss Bryant
has received three gold disks for
million-record sellers “Till There
Was You,” “Paper Roses,” and
“In My Little Corner of the
World.”
Guest appearing frequently on
TV, she has toured the world
with evangelist Billy Graham, re
ceived two standing ovations at
White House performances, and
bean named to the Oklahoma Hall
of Fame.
Little has been guest star on
several TV shows this year and
has performed at several Big 10
schools, including Purdue and
Wisconsin, to large, enthusiastic
audiences.
THE FORMER star of NBC-
TV’s “Love on a Rooftop,” which
ran during the 1966 TV season,
has appeared on the Ed Sullivan
Show six times and guest per
formed on the Joey Bishop, John
ny Carson, and Dean Martin
shows.
in which Bibb has a leading role.
Midnight yell practice in Kyle
Field will climax Friday night
following an APO sponsored
street dance in The Grove which
will feature the band, “The
Chrome Elephant.”
HEAD YELL LEADER Bill
Youngkin, impressed at a Monday
meeting by the spirit shown by
President Earl Rudder, Coach
Gene Stallings, and other univer
sity administrators, noted, “If
the rest of the student body will
show the same type of spirit and
back the team the way these men
are, there’s no way that Tech
can walk out of here Saturday
but second in the conference.”
Leading off Saturday events
will be a stand-by inspection of
the Corps of Cadets from 7:00-
10:30 a.m. by eight Inspector
General teams.
Dorms, grounds, and all cadets
except those in the band, which
was inspected Thursday, will be
subject to inspection. The event
is designed to evaluate all cadets
as well as to increase the pro
ficiency of freshmen and sopho
more cadets in addressing an of
ficer.
Later in the day the Corps will
start evening activities with a
6:20 p.m. march-in and review
at Kyle Field.
PRECEDING Saturday’s game
will be the 7:15 p.m. ceremony
dedicating the expanded, reno
vated 54,000 seat Kyle Field. The
program will include remarks by
A&M Board of Directors Chair
man L. F. Peterson of Fort
Worth and Building Committee
Chairman H. C. Heldenfels of
Corpus Christi, also a board mem
ber and past chairman.
The first Campus Chest Drive
at Aggieland in four years, of
which the game collection is a
part, has a fund goal of $7,500.
The money will be used for stu
dents through activities of the
Student Senate Welfare Commit
tee.
He will be on the marquee op
posite multi-talented Anita Bry
ant as a stand-in for Leon Bibb,
Negro singing star who had to
cancel due to an accident on the
set of a new Sidney Poitier movie
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
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The Aggie Band will make its
first public appearance at half
time activities of the A&M-Tech
game, at which time 114 freshmen
will become veterans of the 264
member musical organization.
Under Lt. Col. E. V. Adams,
now in his 23rd season as band
director, the group is hailed as
the largest marching military
band in the nation and has enter
tained millions through the years.
HERE TO HEAR TONIGHT
Lovely songstress Anita Bryant will open Town Hall’s
regular season at 8 p. m. tonight in G. Rollie White Coli
seum. Appearing with her will be comedian Rich Little,
former start of NBC-TV’s “Love on a Rooftop.”
Raiders Gallop In
For Home Opener
ON TARGET
Quarterback Edd Hargett limbers up his pitching arm while his teammates check out
their blocking assignments in practice Thursday. The Southwest Conference's second lead
ing offensive player seeks to bounce back from the least productive game of his career
to lead the Aggies past undefeated Texas Tech Saturday. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Smith Discusses Education
On Campaign Prop-Stop Here
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Managing Editor
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith, Demo
cratic candidate for governor, dis
pelled rumors to the contrary
and said here Thursday that as
governor he would not recom
mend any changes in the amount
of funds allocated to state uni
versities.
“I’d leave that up to the legis
lative processes,” he said. “Gen
erally speaking, I think the leg
islature, through its deliberations,
comes to a reasonable and fair
method of allocating funds to all
the colleges.
“I know that sometimes some of
the colleges feel they didn’t get
quite as much as they should
have and that so many of them
justify what they got on what
the other colleges received. Es
sentially, however, they all come
out about the same.”
SMITH, noticeably weary from
a day of whirlwind prop-stops in
Central Texas, landed at Easter-
wood Airport late Thursday for
an early morning reception today
in the Ramada Inn.
He did not miss the chance,
however, to criticize GOP guber
natorial candidate Paul Eggers
and his stand on Texas Educa
tion, a position Eggers had said
was his major concern when he
visited College Station two weeks
ago.
Referring to figures Eggers
used to illustrate that Texas was
ranked low in comparison to
other states in preventing illiter
acy and dropouts, Smith told The
Battalion: “You can get any
figures together you want to,
saying Texas is 30th, 40th or
50th in this, that and the other.
It all depends on how you deter
mine them.
“I HAVE NO IDEA where he
got those figures — you could
just pull them out of a hat,” he
continued. “I don’t know that
there is anything authentic about
them. I know that he (Eggers)
hasn’t had the experience to know
too much about education”.
Citing the education field as
the one in which he has worked
the most in his 18 years in the
Texas House, Senate and as lieu
tenant governor, Smith said that
he would push for a better pro
gram for higher education by
working through the top educa
tion leaders in the state.
“The governor doesn’t have the
knowledge to solve all the educa
tion problems, but he must have
the capacity to pull together peo
ple who do have the knowledge
and work out programs of im
provement,” he declared.
On the subject of limiting en
rollment at state universities.
Smith said that such decisions
should be left up to each school’s
board of regents or directors.
After the reception this morn
ing, Smith continued his 45-city
campaign wind-up tour of the
state.
By JOHN PLATZER
Battalion Sports Editor
The undefeated Texas Tech
Red Raiders gallop into Kyle
Field Saturday night at 7:30 in
search of the Aggies’ most valu
able possession, the Southwest
Conference football championship.
Coach Gene Stallings’ defend
ing champions found the key to
the pot of gold last season in
Lubbock when they defeated Tex
as Tech 28-24 on the last play
of the game. The Aggies then
swept through their next six
games, including a 20-16 win over
Alabama in the Cotton Bowl.
Tech, picked to finish second
to the Aggies for the second
straight year by the SWC sports-
writers, currently shares the con
ference lead with Arkansas at
1-0. For the season they are 2-0-1
while the Aggies have posted a
1-2 record.
AFTER OPENING the season
with an unimpressive 10-10 tie
against Cincinnati, the Red Raid
ers surged to the front in the
conference race with a 31-22 vic
tory over Texas. Coach J. T.
King’s team rested up for Satur
day’s game last week with a 43-
13 romp past Colorado State,
The Aggies dropped their op
ener to Louisiana State 13-12
and came back with a 35-3 vic
tory over Tulane before losing
to Florida State 20-14 last week.
The game will match the SWC’s
number two and number three
total offense leaders in the Ag
gies’ Edd Hargett and the Red
Raiders’ Joe Matulich. Hargett,
who will be attempting to bounce
back from the least productive
game of his career, has gained
454 yards in 92 plays while Matu
lich has been responsible for 433
yards in 100 plays.
BACKING UP Hargett in the
Aggie backfield will be wingback
Bob Long, tailback Larry Ste-
gent and fullbacks Wendell Hous-
ley and Dave Elmendorf. Housley,
who missed the first three games
with a bad knee, is expected to
see his first game action since
last season’s Cotton Bowl.
Elmendorf, a sophomore from
Houston, filled in for Housley
against Florida State and scored
both Aggie touchdowns. For the
season Elmendorf has gained 159
yards on 24 carries for a 6.6 av
erage while Stegent, the SWC’s
sophomore-of-the-year in 1967,
has rushed for 281 yards on 46
carries and 6.1 average.
The emergence of Elmendorf
and the return of Housley com
bined with the steadiness of Ste
gent gives A&M their best ground
attack since the days of John
David Crow and Jack Pardee.
THIS RENEWED RUNNING
threat and a defense which has
allowed the fewest points of any
team in the SWC are the Ag
gies’ top strengths, according to
Tech coach King.
“A&M is a much better foot
ball team than it was a year ago.
For one thing, they have more
breakaway potential. But mainly,
they have a much better defense,”
King said.
Ten of A&M’s starters on de
fense from last season are back
with sophomore end Mike DeNiro
filling the vacated spot. Jim Pi
per will be at the end slot oppo
site DeNiro while Rolf Krueger
and Harvey Aschenbeck will man
the tackle positions and Lynn
Odom will be at middle guard.
All-America Bill Hobbs and
Buster Adami will head the line
backing corps while Ivan Jones
will be at safety and Curley Hall
man, Ross Brupbacher and Tom
my Maxwell will be in the de
fensive secondary.
TOP OFFENSIVE THREATS
for the Red Raiders are half
backs Jimmy Bennett and Roger
Freeman and fullbacks Tony But
ler and Jackie Stewart. Freeman
has been the team’s top ground
gainer with 182 yards on 42 car
ries for a 4.3 yard average.
Larry Alford, a defensive safe
ty, leads the SWC in punt re
turns with 224 yards in 10 re
turns and one touchdown.
The top two punters in the con
ference will also be matched Sat
urday as the Aggies’ Steve O’
Neal kicks against Tech’s Kenny
Vinyard. O’Neal, the SWC’s top
punter last season, is averaging
43.2 yards on 17 kicks while Vin
yard has a 43.4 average on 19
attempts.
AN INEXPERIENCED offen
sive line of two sophomores, two
juniors and a senior is expected
to start for the Aggies. Jack
Kovar will be at center while
Carl Gough will be at one guard
and either Allan Hanson or Gary
Gruben is expected to be at other,
Jim Parker and Tom Buckman
will be at tackles. Jimmy Adams
and Barney Harris will start at
the split end posts.
The offensive line of the Red
Raiders, on the other hand, is
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“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
Civilians N ame Parliamentarian,
Six Honor Council Members
The Civilian Student Council
Thursday named a parliamen
tarian and six members of a
Civilian Honor Council and began
civilian organization for work on
the Bonfire.
The Council also passed a reso
lution urging haste in the con
struction of lights for perimeter
parking areas.
Joe Tijerina, an entomology
major from Brownsville, was
elected to the parliamentarian
post, thus completing officer elec
tions for the group.
Named to the Honor Council,
to rule on violations of the Aggie
Honor Code, were James Turley,
John Davis, Bobby Ulich, Randall
McKee, James Kyzar and Robert
Edgecomb. CSC President David
Dilks announced the appoint
ments.
Garry Mauro, junior yell leader
and head of the Civilian Bonfire
Committee, reported that his
group is gathering chain saws,
trucks, jeeps and axes for work
on the Bonfire before the Texas
football game Nov. 28. He said
one area chief for every three
residence halls will be named to
supervise work in the cutting
area, which civilians will have to
themselves for the first time this
year.
“We’re going to have at least
1,000 more civilians out working
on Bonfire than we did last year,”
Mauro asserted.
In other business, Larry Schil-
hab said his committee to plan
the civilian-sponsored all-Univer-
sity dance Nov. 16 is now consid
ering bands to play for the dance.
The affair will be held in Duncan
Dining Hall following the Rice
football game here.
WEATHER
Saturday—Cloudy Morning. Part
ly Cloudy Morning and Evening.
Winds Southerly at 10 mph. High
83. Low 68.
Kyle Field—Kickoff 76 Degrees.
Sunday—Cloudy to Partly Cloudy.
Winds Southerly 10 to 20 mph.
High 86. Low 71.
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PRE-GAME PRACTICE
George Rau leads Company E-2 and Reveille, the Aggie mascot, past the reviewing stand
in Thursday's practice Corps march-in for the Texas Tech game. Bert Kinkead carries the
company guidon at “present arms”. (Photo by Mike Wright)