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Fish Tackle Picadors Tonight By Mike Wright Assistant Sports Editor The Texas Aggie Fish will lay a perfect 3-0 record on the line against the Texas Tech Picadors tonight in Kyle Field. Kickoff time is at 7:30 for the final Fish home game of the season. Last week the Fish blitzed the Rice Owlets 38-6 on a wet field in Houston. Vance Kerbow sup plied the necessary offensive against Rice as he rushed for 149 yards in 19 carries and scored three touchdowns. For the sea son he has lugged the pigskin for 260 yards in 41 carries for a 6.3 average. The Fish defense which has been tremendous in three games GOLF CLUB SNACK BAR The exclusive golf club snack bar is not just for the exclusive use of golfers. It is for you too. Come by this delightful new snack bar for a hamburger, cola, french fries or a big piece of pie. Try our “Putter". You will be pleased. OPEN DAILY FROM 10:30 A. M. TO 4:30 P. M. 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Kerbow has im proved 200 per cent, and our de fense is really hitting.” The Fish finally broke the hab it of not scoring in the second half last week as Kerbow broke for a thirty yard scoring run on the Fish’s first offensive play. “We really don’t know much about Tech,” said Keller, “But I know that quarterback Greg Wa ter, Fullback Gaines Baty, and halfback Ed Lee Renfro were highly sought after when they were seniors and they’ve been do ing a good job.” The Picadors plan to start an offensive unit composed of Rog er Napper, split end, Vince Free man, left tackle, Harold Lyons, left guard, Mike Hunter at cen ter, RusselP Ingram at right guard, Larry Peterson, right tackle, and to round out the line at right end Larry Burnett. In the backfield in addition to Waters, Baty, and Renfro, the Picadors will have Andrew Gon- da at flanker. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED The Fish will counter with a defense that in three games has recovered 12 fumbles and inter cepted 10 passes. The front four for the Fish will be Ralph Sacra, left end, Butch Kamps, left guard, Boice Best, right guard, and Max Bird at right end. Line backers will be Greg Hall at strong linebacker, Gary McCaf frey at middle, and Grady Hoer- mann at weak linebacker. Kent Finley will start at rover. Deep men for the Fish will be Robert Murski at left halfback, Gary Whitehead at right halfback and Brad Dusek at safety. The Fish close out the season November 21 against the Uni versity of Texas Yearlings on the Astroturf at Memorial Sta dium. FISH SWEEP Lex James (11) comes around the right end on an option play against the Baylor Cm Jimmy Aycock (33) eventually got the ball on a pitchback and picked up six yati Both will be in action tonight in Kyle Field at 7:30 when the unbeaten Fish meet! Texas Tech Picadors. (Photo by Mike Wright) There’s been a lot of huffin’ and puffin’ around conference lately concerning the team of officials worked the A&M-Arkansas game Saturday. Frank Bro; B fin of Arkansas said that they were the some ones who 11 p 1 creed the Razorbacks’ encounter with the Baylor Bear st d i che The ructu wrer Waco Oct. 11. The Bears held the Hogs to a 7-7 tit three quarters before Arkansas finally pulled it out! Several sportwriters and coaches have commei rather vehemently about some of the calls which thest land ficials made. They have worked the A&M-Arkansas, A th t] TCU, and Arkansas-Bay lor games, and all three games k arRH | been criticized after for their inconsistency in calls. me t Generally, any griping done by losing coaches isj Mar* looked upon as sour grapes and cast aside because los ^shi coaches are not supposed to have the right to compl ee dw That’s well and good, but when even some of the wini in y ; coaches take the time to cast stones at the officiating maybe there is some credence and a sound basis for griping. Cliff Speegle and Wilbur Evans of the Southwest ference have been consulted in regards to the perform of some of the SWC officials. Game films are usually best criteria available for evaluating the officials’ made during the course of a ball game. These samefil serve either to indicate the official or show that the 1 he made was lousy. I Let’s face facts, the official is counted on in a (J ball game in much the same way that a player is. Hi W| judged solely upon his performance under pressure! admittedly, the job is not easy. But there is also anotl side to the coin because the official has an obligation to I teams and fans to perform as ably as he can in the kl of battle. And if he cannot do this with a clear consciefn then the time to turn in his whistle has come. No doubt that everyone can recall certain install where the officiating was atrocious, but this is not problem. 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