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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
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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
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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
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9:1-13 13:14-21 27:1-14 130:1-8 1:1-8 2:1-16 3:1-11
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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.