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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, November 18, 1969
THE BATTALION
Rice Owls Hold Off Aggies, 7-6
By Richard Campbell
Battalion Sports Editor
The Rice Owls were like a shark
going after a prize catch Satur
day afternoon as they edged the
Texas Aggies, 7-6, before a home
coming crowd of 41,000 in Rice
Stadium.
The scrappy Owls smelled an
upset in the making after they
charged to a 7-0 lead and then
braced themselves for the Ag
gies’ fourth quarter awakening
which fell short.
Sophomore tailback Mike Spruill
had only 121 yards rushing going
into the contest but made folly
of Aggie tacklers all day long
while cruising to 124 yards on
31 carries. He plunged three
yards for the only Owl score and
became the runniest Owl of the
year with his clutch performance.
The Owls snapped a six-game
losing streak by corralling the
Aggies for the first time since
1964. The Cadets seemed to be
uninspired after the oddsmakers
had given them a ten-point edge
over Rice and didn’t get its touch
down until six minutes had pass
ed in the final quarter. However,
defensive end Rodrigo Barnes
rushed Aggie quarterback Rocky
Self hard and hurried his two-
point conversion pass which fell
incomplete in the end zone. Self
had scampered 17 yards himself
for the score.
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Notre Dame, feeling a finan
cial pinch and needing a boost
in prestige, broke a 45-year tra
dition Monday and agreed to meet
the Southwest Conference cham
pion, Texas or Arkansas, in Dal
las’ Cotton Bowl Jan. 1.
Texas and Arkansas clash at
Fayetteville, Ark., for the title
Dec. 6. The loser’s consolation
is a date with Mississippi in the
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans.
Mississippi’s jolting 38-0 victo
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Calif., the grandpappy of them
all, had to await week-end de
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The bowl pictures at a glance:
ROSE — Southern California
(8-0-1) or UCLA (8-0-1) vs.
Michigan (7-2) or Purdue (7-2).
COTTON—Notre Dame (7-1-1)
vs. Texas (8-0) or Arkansas (8-0).
ORANGE — Penn State (9-0)
vs. Missouri (8-1).
SUGAR—Mississippi (6-3) vs.
loser of the Texas-Arkansas
game.
GATOR Dec. 27 — Tennessee
(7-1) vs. Florida (7-1-1).
The bowl-conscious Southeast
ern Conference again will be busy
but will not saturate the major
bowls as is usually the case.
Auburn (7-2), with a game re
maining against Alabama, goes
to the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl at
Houston Dec. 31, meeting Hous
ton (6-2). Alabama accepted a
Liberty Bowl spot in Memphis
Dec. 13 and Georgia agreed to
play in the Sun Bowl at El Paso
Dec. 20, but opponents haven’t
been named.
This had to be the most frus
trating afternoon of the year for
the Aggies, who twice muffed
scoring opportunities in the sec
ond half, failing to take advan
tage of short punts by Rice’s
Bucky Allshouse. Nothing could
go right as the alert Owls sec
ondary swiped three of Self’s aer
ials in the first half and prompt
ed Coach Gene Stallings to re
place him in the third quarter
with junior Jimmy Sheffield, who
managed to pull the Aggies as
close as the three yard line. But
he eventually overthrew Jimmy
Adams in the end zone to squelch
the drive.
Nebraska, Kansas State, Colo
rado, Air Force, Oklahoma and
Arizona State are all in the run
ning.
The last time Notre Dame
played in a bowl was 1925 when
the team featuring the famed
Four Horsemen defeated Stan
ford, with Ernie Nevers, 27-10.
Larry Stegent remained again
the only defensive bright spot
for A&M as he rambled over,
around and through the Owl de
fense for 100 yards on 22 carries,
the fourth time he has rushed for
100 or more yards this year.
Father Edmund Joyce, execu
tive vice president of Notre
Dame, said the change in policy
was due to an urgent need for
funds to finance minority stu
dent programs and scholarships.
The Irish stand to get more than
$300,000 from the game.
The Owls, behind the quarter-
backing of Stable Vincent, were
not particularly impressive but
they moved the ball well when
they had to especially on their
final possession when the Aggies
needed to have it. On that drive
alone, Sruill carried the ball 10
times and got two crucial first
downs to nail the lid on the Ag
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