Page 4 College Station, TexajS Friday, September 26, 1969 THE BATTALION Ags Invade Corn Fields For Huskers By Richard Campbell Battalion Sports Editor The youthful Texas Aggies, fresh from a painful lesson taught last Saturday night by the LStJ Tigers, will fly to the corn fields of Nebraska Saturday for a re gionally televised 1:50 p.m. game with the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Coach Gene Stallings will go a predominantly sophomore line up again with 11 tabbed at start ing slots for the Cadets. In two previous meetings, each team owns a win. In 1930, Nebraska prevailed 13-0 and in 1955, the Aggies won 27-0. Husker Coach Bob Devaney is opportunities for: Engineers, Geologists and Business Graduates Campus Interviews OCTOBER 7, 8, 1969 CITGO Cities Service Oil Company An equal opportunity employer CITCO — TRADEMARK CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY, SUBSIDIARY OF CITIES SERVICE COMPANY. currently the winningest coach in the country and is pointing to ward his eighth straight winning season at the helm of the Big-8 power. Defensively, the Huskers look solid with ten returning starters and a host of veterans. The top hands include All-America can didates Dana Stephenson, a half back and All-Big-8 in 1968, and Ken Geddes, the All-Big-8 line backer who moved to middle guard in the spring. If there is one ingredient which the defense will have, it would have to be size. Reading across the defensive front five they are 228, 260, 224, 226, and 215. The only spot where the Corn huskers may encounter some problems is at quarterback where sophomores Jerry Tagge and Van Brownson played in the opening 31-21 loss to Southern Cal. Join ing him on the offense are only four returning starters but they held up well in their 10-point loss to the powerful Trojans. The Aggies came out of the clash with the Bayou Bengals with few injuries and should have everyone except tailback Larry Stegent ready for action. Stegent has still not worked out in any contact drills and Stallings has said that he will not play until he has some contact in practice. “Our defense gave up a lot of points last week,” Stallings said, “but I think that they will be all right.” Hopefully, the LSU game gave many of the sopho mores a chance to grow up and that they will settle down a little more against Nebraska. The Aggie offense will again be led by junior quarterback Jim my Sheffield, who completed 10 of 21 passes for 52 yards against the Tigers. Tabbed to start in the backfield are soph tailback Steve Burks and soph fullback Marc Black, who led the Aggie rushers with 30 yards on 7 car ries. Senior wingback Barney Harris rounds out the backfield. Pro Football Tops In Nation By Ted Smits Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (A*)—Professional football is solidly the nation’s No. 1 sport, followed by college football in public interest with baseball third. This is the finding of a nation wide readership survey conducted by The Associated Press Editors’ Association Sports Committee un der the chairmanship of Larry Jinks of the Miami Herald. The sport that made the great est rise in recent years is pro fessional basketball, now ranked fourth. The Church..For a Fuller Life..For You.. Copyright 1969 Keister Advertising Service, Inc. Strasburg, Vo. Here is the River — to some an avenue on their trek westward — to others an obstacle to be crossed. Today it brings shiploads of needed supplies to the towns along its banks, carries their products to ware house and factory. Tomorrow it can escape those banks, leaving death and destruction in its wake. For the River must be ruled by man! Yesterday it brought pure water from mountain streams to thirsty lips. Then somebody made it his gutter. Like all our mixed blessings the River can help or hurt. It is just one of those gifts of God whose value will always depend on our good sense and initiative, our respect for God's intent and our concern for the needs of others. Call it a by-product if you please — but one of the results of faithful religious worship and service is that so many mixed blessings become real blessings! Scriptures selected by the American Bible Society Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday II Kings II Kings Psalms Psalms Amos Amos Amos 9:1-13 13:14-21 27:1-14 130:1-8 1:1-8 2:1-16 3:1-11 rcip: t t VMM:, sill 1 ) Juneraf ^J4om BRYAN, TEXAS 502 West 26th St. PHONE TA 2-1572 Campus and Circle Theatres College Station College Station's Own Banking Service University National Bank NORTH GATE Sure Sign of Flavor SANITARY Farm Dairies Central Texas Hardware Co. BRYAN • HARDWARE • CHINA WARE • CRYSTAL • GIFTS Mu. ICE CREAM AND MILK The Exchange Store ‘Serving Texas Aggies’ BB&L BRYAN BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Said Jinks: “In the beginning, there was a question: Do readers — ordinary readers, not just friends of the sports editor — really want all those statistics we run in our sports section ? “You’d better believe they do. The answer came through clear and sharp. Among other major conclusions of the survey: “Stock car racing and drag racing are increasingly popular among younger readers, but still rate relatively low among the sports reading public as a whole. “Most readers prefer separate game stories to roundup stories. “Most readers prefer stories emphasizing background and ex planatory material to straight, detailed game accounts. “Most readers like to read per sonal stories about sports stars. This is particularly true to wom en readers.” “The survey, restricted to read ers describing themselves as ‘in terested’ or ‘very interested’ in sports news, indicated that sports readers depend strongly on news papers for relevant tabulated de tails—box scores, football sum maries, racing entries and results, and the like.” A total of 97 newspapers as signed reporters to conduct the readership interviews following a pattern drawn up by Carl J. Nelson Research, Inc. In all, there were 789 interviews with males and 188 with females. Of the men interviewed, 631 or 80 per cent said they were very interested in professional foot ball, 132 or 17 per cent said they were interested, and 26 or 3 per cent said they had no interest. Thus professional football had a total of 97 per cent either very interested or interested. College football had 71 per cent very interested and 25 interested for a total of 96. Baseball was close behind with 95 but this was divided into 58 per cent very in terested and 37 interested. Other sports, with the very interested figures first, followed by the interested and the total, were: professional basketball, 40- 42-43-85; college basketball, 40- 42-82; Indianapolis type car rac ing, 25-50-75; golf, 31-40-71; box ing, 22-47-69; track, 21-48-69; fishing, 27-33-60; horse racing, 19-41-60. Women readers followed almost the same pattern, with the top sports showing: professional foot ball, 57-33-90; college football, 54-36-90; baseball, 42-47-90; pro fessional basketball, 31-42-73; college basketball, 29-47-76; In dianapolis type car racing, 13-49- 62; golf, 25-44-69; boxing, 5-24- 29; track, 16-36-52; fishing, 9-30- 39; horse racing, 14-46-60. “The results of our survey are underline by the cumulative findings of the Nelson Research firm based on 125 daily news paper studies conducted during the past five years. Using male readers only, and not restricting the questions to those expressing an interest in sports. Nelson found 21 per cent of men reading baseball box- scores, 14 per cent reading bas ketball boxscores, 36 per cent reading professional football standings, 38 per cent reading baseball standings, 14 per cent (reading racetrack entries and results and 9 per cent reading golf tournament scores.” Dallas Tackle Injures Knee DALLAS OP)—Dallas could be without its starting offensive left tackle Sunday when it meets New Orleans in a National Foot ball League game. Tony Liscio injured his right knee in practice Thursday and it was not immediately deter mined whether he will be avail able. Rayfield Wright will step in for Liscio if the injury fails to heal by Sunday. Penn State’s basketball team will have senior Phil Nichols at center next season. He is 6-feet-9. Bob Fittin, a sophomore from Elmhurst, 111,, adds height to the team. He is 6-8. FROM THE PRESSB0X by Richard Campbell Funny how things can change in one short year. Who would have thought that cellar-dweller Rice would score eight touchdowns in their first game? Even if it was VMI they beat: Coach Stallings was asked what he thought about Rice scoring all those points and what he knew about them. “I’ll know more about them after this weekend,” he said, “and if they score 55 against LSU then I’ll start to worry.” QB Jimmy Sheffield did an admirable job punting for the Aggies against the LSU Tigers since he was pressed into the position last week when regular punter Mitch Robertson burst a blood vessel in his leg. Sheffield punted 13 times for a 37.2 average and got away a beautiful kick from his own end zone when a bad snap forced him to hurry it. The Aggies generally were in agreement that LSU played tough but clean and as one said, “. . . They didn’t do any loud-mouth popping off on the field.” Stallings has said, “I don’t say that playing at home is an advantage but I do say that playing away is a disadvantage.” I hope that he will take this into consideration when making out some of the future Aggie schedules. The 1969 schedule, with tough teams like LSU, Nebraska, and Army, is made additionally tougher by seven on the road and the first five in a row away. The Aggies have six games on the road next year and play Ohio State and Michigan along with perenially tough LSU, all away games. The first open dates to schedule games don’t come until 1973. Future opponents for the Aggies feature Cincinnati, Washington, Kansas, Kansas State, and Illinois. Just walking around near the freshman footbal practice field has got to make us Aggies feel a little better. There are some real monsters out there warming up to defend their 1968 predessesors’ undefeated record. Size is not the only consideration Coach Stallings made when he reemited these standouts because most of them even know how to play football. How does this size get you? Buster Callaway (6-4, 235), Bruce Best (6-3, 240), Boise Best (6-1,230), Thomas Burk (6-6, 215), Mike Faulkner (6-3, 220), Robert Gerasimowicz (6—2, 225), Butch Kamps (6—3, 245), Steve Kirk (6-5, 230), Mike Marshall (6-1, 230), Gary Martin (6—1, 225), Herman Mauch (6—3, 220), Jimmy McFarland (6—4, 215), and finally, Ralph Sacra (6—5, 225). Just to have someone the size of these guys taking the field in maroon and white makes you just want to watch them demolish their foes. Their first opportunity comes Oct. 2 in Kyle Field at 7:30 p.m. when they host the TCU Wogs. Billy Joe Polasek, a 5-10, 170-pound split end, and Steve Luebbehusen, a 6-0, 195-pound rover, will be two of the 11 sophomores scheduled to start for A&M against the Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday afternoon.