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y V letes n architecture or said Pickard. meisman Trophy Candidate Poses Problems for A&M THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1973 Page 11 Winner of the “I-wish-I-hadn’t-saiid-that” &vard of the year has to be the Arkansas band isually choose tlit) Umber who went up to Roosevelt Leaks after a or their interest in| longhorn work out and said, “Good luck tomorrow you’re gonna need it.” It wasn’t the first challenge Leaks had en- untered in that year-long week which followed fexas’ crushing defeat by Oklahoma, but it may ell have been one of the last. Rosey didn’t an- er the guy ... he just looked at him with that |onny Liston stare and came out swinging on Sat- day. In perhaps his best game as a Longhorn, the t away with any: S-'l, 220-pound punior fullback from Brenham shed for 209 yards, scored three touchdowns and id his two longest runs at Texas—59 and 43 yards for scores. “He did everything you could ask a fullback I) do,” marveled Fred Akers, UT’s offensive coordi- [ator in charge of the backfield. “He had a bunch n great blocks. In fact, on one play he knocked down three men. •ainers are seniors B jf wasn ’t enough, Leaks then broke A&M’s nd Rick Evans, jc B 0 i, Smith’s rushing record with a 342 yard per formance against SMU. The supercharged effort by Leaks and the longhorns, which was climaxed by the 34-6 win srs include seniors! ver Razorbacks capped a week of soul-search- id Mike DeWitt,jii ^ w hich came about because of the shellacking ker and A1 Alem es Bruce Miller anJ and freshman Gsr 1 and David Rejeife nen are dedicatedtot; ootball and take its he managers repoit d about two hours -H tice and four hours ame. They often i eir job until an! k-out stops and rss nner with the teat their interest in f. tple of a lot of int ag man from Paris| in contact with 1 irs,” Packard a trainer or a ns putting up witl igs. “The players patience just til oer. football player A bridge player iout his opponent s the table and football it’s Pickard said. eh and Mike Grii es Travis Cox and Hi d freshman David ft iners and managersli jobs and performdi ions, but they hart common they “mil football players si! he sport.” by Oklahoma. “There were a lot of us who weren’t playing as we should,” said Leaks, who joined captains Glen Gaspard and Bill Wyman in leading a self confession session Monday night prior to the game. “We were ashamed to admit it, but I felt like my first four games were poor ones.” Leaks averaged over 100 yards per game in those first for games, but the Longhorns man aged only a 2-^ record. And that’s not success to Rosey. “My primary consideration is the contribution I can make to the team—how I can best help us win football games. All the other things—All-This and All-That—are nice, but secondary. If I were to make All-American that would be cool. If not, my world won’t come to an end.” Leaks, who served as a Sunday school teacher in Brenham, enjoys working with young people and hopes some day to coach on a high school level. To the youngsters, the fellow who grew up with two sisters on a farm near Chappel Hill offers this advice about playing football: “Play because you want to play . . . not be cause the kids in the neighborhood think it’s the thing to do or because somebody pushes you into it. Play only if you want to.” For the moment, Rosey wants to. CHAPULTEPEC Mexican Restaurant 1313 S. College AGGIE SPECIAL DINNER — only $1.45 After 5 p. m. Includes — 3 enchiladas, refried beans, 1 taco, Spanish rice, 1 chili con queso, tosta- das & cheese dip, iced tea or coffee. Special good Tuesday thru Friday Under Management by: Mr. and Mrs. Cedillo evin s orner SWC Season Rushing Leader Rosey Leaks If you think Rice’s band was obnoxious, well, they are courteous bmpared to the Rice Thresher, the Rice newspaper. | In a pre-game story under the by-line of T. G. Kahuna, the lllowing paragraph appeared: Undoubtedly the fans will be up. There is nothing quite so disgusting as an Aggie. Put a bunch of them together and you get not only the Aggie Fascist Band, but the most obnoxious, ludicrous group of followers the world has ever known. They all come down together from the armpit of America, College Station. The Crack Thresher Sports Staff hates the Aggies so much that we’d pick a Rice win even if A&M were number 1 in the nation. (Heaven forbid!) Remember, Dick Gottlieb is an Aggie. Any school that has the Yogi Bear theme song as a fight song deserves derision. When you hear those clowns screaming at the top of their Texas World Speedway lungs, “What comes out of a Chinaman’s ass; Rice, Rice, Rice,” you’ll know what we mean. Well Agro-Americans, we may excrete it, but you’ll eat it, 23-21. The only thing that can be said for the article is T. G. Kahuna was lose with his prediction of the score, lory Bellard aii There is no excuse to degrade another school in print the way the sday on KyleFieii ^sher has here. A few weeks ago a writer for the Daily Texan, UT’s a victory over tin ic hool paper critized the Thresher for not being serious in the handling )fthe Edwin Collins incident. Now I can see its point. Editorial freedom is indeed great, but no excuse for irresponsi bility. During this past weekend 1 have lost a lot of respect for Rice University. I really thought the halftime was funny until “The Mob” read on “The War Hymn.” This piece is disgusting. In other parts of the article, A&M’s football team is referred to as ‘those vile derelicts from College Station.” If this is the way the Aggies are going to be treated by Rice, it’s Top Teams Face Tests Weekend Action Pits Elites By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Top Twenty, with first- 18. Oklahoma St. 5-2-2 16 Unbeaten Ohio State, which place votes in parenthesis, sea- 19. Missouri 7-3-0 15 prepped for Saturday’s show- son records and total points 20. tie Kansas 6-3-1 14 down against Big Ten co-leader Points tabulated on basis of 20- tie Pittsburg 6-3-1 14 c of 144 victoria s hired awayfroi e offense in 195i IMS lUIPMENT ve dealership snsak 3m IT ON DISPLAY, ent—JVC, RCA, n Sale! AST 30TH STREET lN, TEXAS 77801 paper and band, perhaps we should refuse to play Rice again. Why should our fans, players and coaches be subjected to trash like this. I hope everyone will write the Rice University administration and ask why material like this is being printed against fellow Southwest Conference schools. I hope they have the answer. And remember, Rice won the SWC Sportsmanship award in 1971. Last year, Aggie fans were abused at the Rice-A&M basketball game in Houston and coach A1 Conover had to eject a football player from the crowd. My association with the Sports Information Department at Rice has been excellent and I really doubt that this disease, as it seems to have infested Rice, has taken over the Owl Athletic Department. The Thresher staff obviously is very unprofessional for letting such a travesty to appear in print. I don’t know who is to blame in the final analysis. With A&M catching undeserved hell from both the band and the school paper it would seem that the Rice administration better take a close look at the activities of those persons that represent Rice University. / Accounts Michigan with a 55-13 rout of winless Iowa last week, retained the top spot in The Associated Press college football ratings, an nounced Tuesday. There was no change among the positions’ of the top 13 teams from last week’s poll. The Buckeyes received 34 first- place votes and 1,142 points from the nationwide panel of 62 sports writers and broadcasters partici pating in this week’s poll. Second-ranked Alabama, which meets Louisiana State Thanks giving Day in a Southeastern Con ference showdown, got 16 first- place mentions and 1,082 points. Oklahoma, which can clinch the Big Eight title by beating Ne braska Friday, received nine first- place votes and 973 points to re tain third place. The next three teams each re ceived one first-place vote. Mich igan held down fourth place with 845 points, Notre Dame was fifth at 760 and Penn State was sixth at 672. Completing the top 10 were LSU, 577; UCLA, 469; Southern California, 405, and Nebraska, 391. UCLA and Southern Cal meet Saturday in a battle for the Pa cific-8 crown. Texas, Texas Tech and Arizo na State retained the top three spots in the second 10, but last week’s No. 14, Missouri lost to Iowa State 17-7 Saturday and dropped down to 19th. Houston, idle Saturday, climbed one notch to 14th and Miami of Ohio, which has completed a 10-0 season, mov ed from 17th to 15th. North Carolina State finished 16th, followed by Tulane, Okla homa State and Missouri. Kan sas and Pittsburgh tied for the final spot in the top 20. 18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. 1. Ohio State 34 9-0-0 1,142 2. Alabama 16 9-0-0 1,082 3. Oklahoma 9 8-0-1 973 4. Michigan 1 10-0-0 845 5. Notre Dame 1 9-0-0 760 6. Penn State 1 10-0-0 672 7. Louisiana St. 9-0-0 577 8. UCLA 9-1-0 469 9. So. Cal. 8-1-1 407 10. 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