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Page 4 College Station, Texas Friday, October 27, 1972 THE BAIT/ 45,000 Expected For Bear Homecoming Hope For Repeat Of 1971 Against By BILL HENRY Battalion Sports Editor Remember last year? The Texas Aggies stood 1-5 with losses coming to Nebraska, LSU, Cincinnatti, Tech and TCU. Being very disheartened with the performance, the Aggies beat Baylor, Arkansas, SMU and Rice. A victory over Texas would have put the Aggies in the Liberty Bowl. The beginning circumstances are still the same with the Aggies 1-5 and it being time to play the Bears again. BETA SIGMA PHI BENEFIT DANCE FOR THE COMMUNITY MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER Friday, Oct. 27, 1972 8-12 p. m. LAKEVIEW CLUB $5.00 Per Couple Dennis Ivy & The Waymen JAY’S SABER INN Package Store Come by and let us show you our selection of fine liquors and wines. Weekend specials every Friday and Saturday. We appreciate your business. Student Discount Open: 10:00 a. m. to 9:00 p. m. Monday Thru Saturday 701 Texas Ave. at Saber Inn 846-7755 Will the Aggies be able to start another win streak ? Saturday’s game will be be tween two new Southwest Con ference coaches, each searching for their first league victory. And it will pit the nation’s ninth and tenth worst college football teams as picked in Steve Harvey’s “The Bottom Ten.” The Aggies are ninth and the Bears made it tenth by “fumbling 15 times in the rain against Ok lahoma State.” Baylor’s Grant Teaff has lost to Arkansas in his only confer ence start and stands 2-3 overall. Victories came against Miami, which embarrassed Houston last weekend, and Missouri, who also upset Notre Dame the same week end. Emory Bellard has lost to both TCU and Tech in SWC action and is searching for the right combination of players to find that lone league victory after coming so close the past two weeks. A&M leads in the overall series of 69 games, 39-22-7. Baylor has won the past two contests played in its stadium, however. A&M started its winning 1971 streak with a traumatic 10-9 win at Kyle Field. It was Pat Mc Dermott’s record-setting 63-yard field goal that put the Aggies ahead late in the fourth quarter. Two years ago, Baylor scored two touchdowns in the final 10 seconds of the first half for a 29-24 win in front of the home coming crowd. In 1968, it was an other 10-9 game but this time it went to Baylor. Baylor comes into Saturday night’s contest almost even in rushing and passing yardage. The Bears have passed 103 times, completed 56, had eight intercepted and gained 627 yards. Rushing has netted them 814 yards in 255 plays, scoring six touchdowns. A&M is more adept at running with the football, but since soph omore Don Dean has taken over the starting role, passing yard age has picked up considerably. So far this season, the Aggies have rushed 305 times for 1,066 yards and 10 touchdowns. Passing has netted 786 yards on 57 of 110 attempts and three touchdowns. Baylor is quite similar to the Aggies in one respect—fumbles. Baylor has fumbled 32 times and lost 18. A&M has fumbled 31 times and lost 19 of them. Baylor wins the contest, however, by having played in only five games compared to A&M’s six. Leading rusher for Baylor is tailback Gary Lacy who has car ried 86 times for 352 yards and three touchdowns. Fullback Gene Wilson is second by carrying the ball 29 times for 138 yards, but no touchdowns. Brian Kilgore, an other tailback, has carried the ball but 12 times for 55 yards. Two sophomores, Robert Arm strong and Neal Jeffrey, handle the quarterbacking chores for Baylor. Jeffrey is the starter and an excellent passer. He’s hit on 47 of 84 for 513 yards and two touchdowns, but he’s had five intercepted. Leading rusher for A&M, Mark Green, suffered a sprained knee against TCU last weekend and will not play Saturday. Green has carried the ball 59 times for 322 yards and three touchdowns. Second-place rusher is Brad Dusek with 280 yards on 50 car ries and one touchdown. Bubba Bean is third with 167 yards on 49 carries and three touchdowns. Dean has thrown 48 passes and completed 29 for 440 yards and two touchdowns. He has had three intercepted. Drastic lineup changes have been made for the Aggies against Baylor. Bellard is displeased with the blocking performance of his offensive line and three of five linemen have been changed. Skip Kuehn is still at offensive center, but guards for Saturday night’s contest will be freshman Henry Tracy, moved up from third team center, and Ricky Seeker, moving from his tackle position. These two players re place co-captain Todd Christo pher and Buster Callaway, both seniors. At tackles will be Ralph Sacra and Mike Park, moved up to replace Seeker who took over the tackle job two weeks ago. Split ends will be freshmen Richard Osborne and Carl Roach es. Tight end will be Homer May. The backfield will be made up of Dean at quarterback, Dusek at fullback, Skip Walker will be at right halfback and Bean replaces the injured Green at left half back. A&M’s defensive unit will be the same as against TCU. Tackles will be Boice Best and Bill Wiebold. Ends will be Max Bird and Paul Hulin. Linebackers will be freshman Ed Simonini and seniors Grady Hoermann and Kent Finley. The defensive secondary will be Corky Sheffield and Roberl ski at cornerbacks andLaJ , and Dwight LaBauve at«■ vOl* Pat McDermott a Haddox will handle plactj while Murski does thepitetj Next week the Aggies t at home against Arl Homs Visit Rice, Tech At SMU Highlight Football Action Saturday Plantation Oaks Apartments <r#ff Halloween Party On Tennis Courts 1201 Hwy. 30 Friday, Oct. 27, 1972 7-11 p. m. Featuring 1 Rock Music From The Bourbon Riff FREE BEER & COKES ID’s Required Cash Prizes For Best Costumes By KEVIN COFFEY Assistant Sports Editor After last week’s showdown match with Arkansas, it appears that the Texas Longhorns are again in the driver’s seat of the Southwest Conference. The ’Horns seem to be perenial champs down this way and they are shooting for their fifth straight SWC championship and Cotton Bowl appearance. Texas showed it had an offense to go along with their already acclaimed defense by scoring 28 second half points in their 35-16 nationally televised rout of the Razorbacks. Texas takes on an improved Detroit Visits Dallas Monday DALLAS (AP) — The Detroit Lions hope to break the jinx of Texas Stadium when they meet Dallas Monday night while the Cowboys try to play like World Champions for a change. Both teams own 4-2 records going into the nationally tele vised National Football League game. Dallas, the Super Bowl titlists who are in Washington’s shadow in the National Conference East, have yet to lose a game in Texas Stadium—a span of eight regular season and three exhibition games. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED Rice team and Rice is one of the teams facing that second loss and thus elimination from the SWC race. While Texas was whipping Arkansas last week, the Owls dropped their SWC opener to SMU, 29-14. Rice will have to ride the pass ing of Bruce Gadd if they are to spoil the hopes of the high flying Longhorns. Kickoff is slated for 7:30 p.m. with Texas a 13-point favorite. An offensive show should be on tap in Dallas Saturday when Texas Tech and SMU have at it at 2 p.m. Tech’s offense is ranked eighth nationally, while SMU’s point production ranks tenth on the national charts. Tech will have to cope with the Pony running attack of Maxon and Morris while SMU must stop 1970 SWC rushing champ Doug McCutchen and newcomer George Smith. The Mustangs lead the nation in rushing defense. SMU has been installed as a three-point favorite for the important Cotton Bowl clash. Non-conference games dominate the rest of the action involving SWC teams. TCU has the unen viable task of facing mighty Notre Dame the week after the Irish suffered what was perhaps the most embarrassing defeat in their proud history at the hands of lowly Missouri, 30-26. Notre Dame is fourth in the nation in total defense and will have to stop the running of TCU’s sophomore halfback Mike Luttrell. The fighting Irish are a big 21 point favorite for the 12:30 p.m. kickoff at South Bend, Ind. The Houston Cougars, the most confusing and inconsistant team in the conference faces Mississip pi State Saturday at 1:30 p. m. Houston has been up and down all year playing well in a losing effort against Arizona State and excellently in dumping previously unbeaten San Diego State, but then falling to the likes of Miami 33-13. Houston is a four point favorite and the outcome depends on what kind of mood the Coogs are in. The Arkansas Razorbacks take in the North Texas State Eagles at 7:30 in Little Rock Saturday night. North Texas is winless m six starts and has a record of 1-42 against SWC foes. Arkansas must bounce back after their loss to the Longhorns, but the mean green shouldn’t give them much trouble. No point spread has been set on the game due to the enor mous favorite roll for the Hogs. This is another in what appears to be a series of deciding weeks in the SWC. Who will challenge Texas? SMU? Tech? Can Ark ansas hope to bounce back into the title picture? Will Baylor re peat as the SWC cellar dweller? Tune back next week when per haps these and other questions can be answered. PAWN LOANS Money Loaned On Anytlj Of Value. Quick Cash For Any Emergency. See Us For Ready Casl Today. 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