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. ••• ' ;•'■■■■ October 7, It [HE BATTALION Wednesday, October 7, 1970 College Station, Texas Page 7 38 . Ill At Fort Worth .. . Aggie Fish open season tonight against Wogs By JOHN CURYLO Assistant Sports Writer The Aggie Fish football team opens its 1970 season tonight in Fort Worth when they meet the TCU Wogs in Amon Carter Sta dium at 7:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on radio station KORA beginning at 7:30 tonight. It will be the 22nd meeting of the two earns, in a game spon sored by the TCU Ex-Lettermen’s Association. TCU leads the series 14 wins to six with one tie. The Fish have won the last two games, 9-3 in 1968 and 27-26 last year. The Wogs field one of their biggest teams this season, aver aging 250 pounds in the offensive line. Defensively, TCU weighs 227 pounds per man in the line. The game features a rematch of last year’s San Antonio AAAA ;d A&M Monfe bi-district playoff, as TCU’s Mike Morrison (San Antonio Sam Houston) faces A&M’s Tim Trim- on for the heii; : i assistant coat of Tech wa$at| same time, ith the Crimoi /jackets, r five seasons, md Stailingssai said, and add#: LjT. Georgia wa e Raiders for 30 persons- —who died ini ■rustle the Ags ite and Michigi only a few m Pickard said, state we weien' le mistakes wlit yard relay by Curtis Mills ait d record by tb y meeting, he National AAl ast spring at tb Stockholm. sold for the Ted :off. or the conferent th and south, an and under will!) 7:30 p.m. contes tig mier (San Antonio Lee). Last winter’s game was won by Lee 56-14, who went on to the state finals, where they lost to Wichita Falls 14-3. “It’s going to be awfully hard to run against TCU,” Fish Coach Jim Keller said in looking at TCU’s size. “We’ll have to throw and hope we can keep them off our quarterback.” In addition to Trimmier (6-4, 190), the Fish also have Mike Rigsby, a 6-1 185-pounder from Houston Smiley, at quarterback. A&M also lists split ends Eric Elkins and Bobby Hughes as the top receivers. Hughes is from Houston Sam Houston, while El kins played high school football for Dallas Jesuit. Across the line, Fish offensive starters are tackles Keith Rice of Nacogdoches and Kevin Smith of Houston Westbury. The guards are Richard Semands of Houston Sterling and Mike Cady from Washington, D. C. Darrell Talia ferro of Arp is the starting center. Dan Sibley, a 6-3 230- pound guard from San Antonio Lee, is a starting candidate, but he is out of action with an injury. The tight end is Make Bruton of Nacogdoches Campbell, a 6-2 209- pound non-scholarship athlete. With the exception of Trim mier, the backfield starters are not definite. Keller will choose between Pat Herring and Garry Smith at tailback. Herring is 6-1 and 180 pounds from Beaumont South Park, while Smith, 6-1, 190, is from Bossier City, La. David Standish or Dwight La- Bauve will be the starting full back. Standish is a 6-0, 190- pounder from Arlington. La- Bauve, from Lafayette, La., is 6-1 and 180. The wingback will be Bobby Merren, 6-0 and 195, or Grady Harris, 6-0 and 180. Merren Aggies show improved play against Michigan -0 record. Tbf ist week in whif 0. Having 3' [uadrons 11, ig 2-0 records ai nd A-l. Tanglf Vtclnnis, 3-0, cot class of civilis rful Tanglewoo :2-6, and Walto in high scoris c. ntinues in ® Walton and La' in Class D. M-l -1, E-l, Squadro l 2 are all unde B. ishoes is head®: eek as 1-1 sport lead their leag'- ! Squadron 11,! -1 all have high yards per gait® i’s scorers wit ir an average i ee games. Mari touchdowns for ;e of 18 points, n, Utah junio place in puntia! 1 average on m wins ten’s Rifle Teal rst two match!* A&I and Stephrt ersity. 26 match, Atf points to A&T >eat Austin Ur' 2,466 on Oct. *' re out of a pos in Gary ''PI—The HousW 12-year vetera : Ken Gray Tue* e injury hospital r, four-year reg® Dame, vgent, was waive r by the St. Loid retired. He too cal and passed ill sign a central By CLIFFORD BROYLES Battalion Sports Editor With four games under their belts, and an even split in the win column, the Texas Aggies are looking forward to Saturday’s Southwest Conference opener with Texas Tech. The Red Raiders, led by new coach Jim Carlen, have posted a 3-1 mark thus far this season. Their lone loss came at the hands 6f the highly rated University of Texas at Austin Longhorns. They are a good veteran foot ball team,” Coach Gene Stallings said Tuesday of the Raiders at his weekly press conference in the Letterman’s Lounge. “They have a lot of people back from last year and they’ve won three out of four, which def- nitely will help their morale.” The Red Raiders attack is led by Charlie Napper, who is con sidered the sparkplug of the team. How far Charlie Napper goes, so goes the Raiders. Napper is just an adequate pas ser, Stallings said, but he moves the ball exceptionally well. Reviewing the Michigan game, be said, “I thought we played good. Of course ybu play to win and we didn’t. ‘With the exception of only a couple of positions we showed a marked improvement over last week (Ohio State).” In fact, Stallings said, he could n’t single out one player who didn’t play at least pretty good in the contest which saw the Aggies come to within a hair of dumping the seventh ranked team in the country. “The hitting was exceptionally hard,” the coach added, noting that several sports writers from across the country had talked with him about the hard hitting of the contest. Michigan defense backs Bo Rather and Tom Darden caused considerable damage and provided one of the few weak spots in the Aggie playing. Rather set up a missed field goal try with a 44 yard putn re turn and Darden got off returns of 13, 18 and 8 yards in the con test. “Punt coverage and fumbles were the most disappointing as pects of our game,” he said. “We played defense,” the coach emphasized as he stressed the fact that this was the most satisfying aspect of the game for him. “We had allowed just so many things to go wrong the week before.” “I thought Steve Burks and Doug Neill ran exceptionally well. Our offsensive line did a good job. They’re getting better as the season progresses. The Aggies have now completed one of the roughtest non-confer ence schedules that you could think up much less play and come out with very few injuries and a 2-2 record although most prog nosticators had them ready for a 1-3 record no matter what kind of football they played. The injury list is a bright spot as the Aggies have received only a few injuries since opening the season. Still sidelined, however, are Clifford Thomas, Lenard Millsap and Gris Johnson. Linebackers Steve Luebbenhus- en and Dennis Carruth will re turn to practice this week, Stal lings said. “I don’t feel any different to ward the conference race than I did before the nonleague games,” he said. “I said from the statr I thought this team would be one that would improve from week to week, and considering Michigan we def initely did that. If we continue to improve they we’ll win some ball games and if we don’t then we won’t. The new blades vs. Horelce* We wen. In an independent test, some indepen dent men shaved one side of their face with a platinum or chromium blade. They shaved the other side with our Tripleheader 35T shaver. When they finished shaving, we had them feel their faces. 7 out of 10 said our Tripleheader shaved them as close or closer than either the platinum or chromium blade. Some of the men were surprised. But, frankly, we weren’t. Because the Norelco Tripleheader is a totally different kind of electric shaver. It has three shaving heads that float, to follow the curves of your face. Our blades are rotary. So they shave in every direction. (Because your beard grows in every direction.) And we make our shaving heads ultra-thin. So it’s possible to get a really close shave. And practically im possible to nick or cut yourself. The Tripleheader comes in a Cord and a Rechargeable model. Either way, you can’t lose. played high school ball for Neder land, and Harris is from Arling ton. Defensively, the Aggie line has Kevin Owen and Marshall Jack- son as the starters, with Rusty Pool as the top substitute. Owen, 6-3 and 210, is a Jacksboro prod uct. Jackson, .from Nederland, is 6-4 and 190. Pool is from Victoria, and he is 6-2 and 203. The guards will be Billy Wil liams, 6-0 and 190, and Mike Stautzenberger, 5-11 and 215. Williams is from Killeen, and Stautzenberger is from Shreve- Sheffield holds punting lead Jimmy Sheffield maintained his Southwest Conference puting lead Saturday when he punted for a 41.2 yard average on eight kicks. The Aggie punter now has a 41.3 average on 17 kicks to lead defending NCAA punting cham pion Ed Marsh of Baylor by a yard and a half per kick in sta tistics released this week by the Southwest Conference office in Dallas. Top performances by Texas Tech’s Marc Dove and SMU’s Gary Hammond changed some of the SWC stat leaders. Dove returned four punts for 104 yards, including the longest of the season, a fifty yarder, to surpass last week’s leader (Dave Elmendorf) with a 13.1 average on eight returns and Jerry Moore of Arkansas is second with a mark of 14.0 on six returns. Elmendorf is also third in kick off returns with an average of 24.6 Sophomore Raymond Rhodes of TCU leads in the category with a 30.9 average. Hammond took over the SWC rushing lead with 157 yards against Northwestern, and also boosted his lead over Hugh Mc- Elroy in tandem offense to 146 yards. Hammond has 546 yards and McElroy 401 yards in four games. Lex James ranks third in pas sing and second in total offense. Bill Montgomery of Arkansas is the total offense leader and James trails Chuck Hixson of SMU and Steve Judy of TCU in passing statistics. McElroy ranks fourth in re ceiving with 16 catches and Hom er May is eighth with 12 recep tions. May has caught more TD passes thany any received among the leaders with three. You can’t get any closer. © 1970 North American Philips Corporation, 100 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. 10017. port, La. Possible starters Robert Dennis and Tommy Roderick are out wtih injuries. The starting linebackers will be Jimmie Tinsley, Billy Wiebold and Charles Murphy. Tinsley is 6-2 and 195, and he is from Dallas Kimball. Wielbold, from Beau mont Forest Park, is 6-2 and 210. Murphy is a Monahans product, who is 6-2 and 200. The cornerbacks are Charles Billingsley, 5-8 and 165, from Odessa Permian, and Chris Hent- zen, 6-0 and 188, from Dallas Jesuit. They are backed up by a set of Bryan twins, Mark and Winkie Benbow, both 5-10 and 175. Starting safeties are Bill Nutt and Mark Green. Nutt, from Brenham, is 5-11 and 180. Green, from Odessa High, is 6-3 and 210. The backup man at both safeties is Terry Savage, a 6-0, 185- pounder from Duncanville. Nutt will be the Fish punter. He is backed up by the top place- kicker, Tom Shirk, 5-11 and 185, from Sierra Vista, Ariz. The backup placekickers are Merren and Jeff Pollicoff, 5-10 and 200, from Bryan. Assisting Keller with the Fish are former Aggie footballers Curley Hallman, Jim Piper, Tom Buckman, Ronald Cole, Robert Stansberry and Waymond Light- foot. Besides Morrison, Wog Coach Clifford Taft starts Gene Moser, Tom Mraz and Steve Patterson in the offensive backfield. The ends are Danny Brown and Steve Okerson. The 250-pound line has Merle Wang (225) and Sidney Bond (280) at the tackles, Mike Nolin (235) and Charles Davis (265) at the guards and Jackie Ray (215) at center. Defensively, the Wogs list sev eral starters who are also offen sive starters. Ed Robinson and Gene Keith are the ends, Terry Thiebaud and Wang are the tackles and Davis is the nose guard. Linebackers are Nolin and Jim McNiel. The cornerbacks are John Stem her and Steve Brad- dock, while the safety is Harold Muckleroy, The TCU rover is Jeff Heinichen. Other Southwest Conference freshman games this week are Texas Tech at Arkansas; Baylor at Texas Thursday, and SMU at Rice Friday. Arkansas defeated SMU 30-13, and Rice beat Wharton Junior College 40- 14 last week. ONE DAY SERVICE AGGIE CLEANERS LAUNDRY & ALTERATIONS NORTH GATE J. C. (Jim) Harris Jimmy Sheffield THE BUG SHOP, Inc. 1911 So. 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