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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 1975
Rugby Club Takes Two
Whites, Maroons beat Baylor
By GERARD A. O’DONOVAN
Contributor
The Aggie Ruggers won two
games from Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston on Saturday.
In the opener, the Whites (varsity)
defeated a very tough and under
rated Baylor Medical side by 16-13.
The Maroons clearly outshone their
White counterparts and won hand
ily, 17-7.
The White squad began play and
appeared to be trying to de
monstrate their having never
played the game before. The three
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week lay-off', unquestionably, made
a big difference for it was indeed a
flat, rusty fifteen that began the
game for the champion Aggie
Whites. Though the Aggie football
team had but two weeks off, they
should take note lest any compla
cency sets in.
John Rayton opened the scoring
with a 15 mile-per-hour crosswind
in his favor, with one of his patented
dropped goals. The Ags led 3-0 until
just before the half when Baylor
scored beneath the posts for a try
and a two point conversion. The
Medics took their 6-3 lead into the
second half and what wind there was
would favor them too.
At half-time, which lasts five mi
nutes in Rugby games and neither
side leaves the field, Tony King,
Rayton, Alan Jeffrey, Billy Good
rich and hustling Robert Moorman
put things together and they
worked.
After the half, Tim Field, who
played his best game ever at
fullback, kicked a 37-yard penalty
goal into the crosswind to tie the
score at 6-6. Baylor responded in
similiar fashion, with a 30-yard pen
alty goal and the spirited Meds went
ahead again 9-6. Ever-improving
Phil Cook saw to it finally that the
Ags had to punch one over and he
did for a well-taken try, his third in
the last two games. The conversion
was missed and the Ags led 10-9.
Another penalty was called against
Baylor and once again, Field split
the uprights from 42 yards, to in
crease the Aggie lead to 13-9.
Baylor was effective in neutraliz
ing many of our lineouts, but some
fine second efforts, three in a row,
by Ray Zwartjes, started passing
movements and their goal line had a
charmed life. We should have
scored three more times.
However, it was the Baylor lads
that almost scored when their
center broke abruptly after a scrum
and raced 65 yards for what ap
peared to be a certain try, since he
had a trailer alongside him. Field
did the only thing that could stop
the play. A panther-like leap, a
ferocious tackle, and the ball was
loose for Rayton, Rick Reno, and
forwards Fitch and Moorman
and the Ags were off and running.
Back came Baylor for more and
though the ball carrier stepped out
of bounds and encircled the corner
flag, the referee awarded a try,
overruling the touch judge.
BU took it anyway as the referee
changed touchjudges. The score
was tied once again at 13 each, as the
two point conversion squirted along
the ground, the proud ball being
ashamed of its misuse. Ever resi
lient, Rayton rallied his side once
more and Wayne Womack was
quite unlucky not to have scored -
near the flag. The Aggie passing had
become more crisp now and Curly
Hillard’s passes to Alan Jeffrey, to
Rayton, to Womack looked just like
what the doctor ordered. At long
last, Hillard whipped yet another
pass to Jeffrey who found Rayton
ever alert and when I saw John gaze
goalwards, I knew that the Aggie
surgery was successful.
John wafted his fourth dropped
goal in two games to give the Aggies
a hard earned 16-13 victory.
It was pleasant to watch Field
play like a classic fullback, tackling
and kicking when he had to. In the
end it was the talented toes of Field
and Rayton that did it again.
Rugby is still a team sport and the
most important ingredient of star
dom is the rest of the team. At prac
tice and when watching our col
leagues play, we might remember
that.
Butch Lewis and his Maroons
were superb in the second game.
There were always on top, winning
most of the set scrums and lineouts.
Appropriately, the Maroons
opened the scoring with a goal by
Lewis from 35 yards out. Back came
Baylor, and pushed over a try that
was unconverted. The Ags trailed
4-3. Lewis, who has a peculiar habit
of circling the scrum or lineout
found outhalf John Collier ready, to
Barry Metz, Metz quickly to flying
Collier passed Frank Burke who
sent Robert Stevens over near the
flag. Vintage stuff it was, despite a
missed conversion.
At the half the Maroons led 7-4.
Baylor responded with a 50 yard
penalty goal and tied it again at 7-7.
The controversial penalty be
came a catalyst and the Maroons
started to play ball. Collier, after a
short pass from Lewis, faked and
raced 65 yards to score. The Ags led
11-7. Two lineouts and two scrums
were won by the Aggies with Frank
Burke playing superbly and tackling
everything tbat was not Maroon.
When Baylor did challenge, they
were thwarted by fullback George
McKirahan, a player usually on the
White side, hut the rigorous cur
riculum at the Vet School kept him
from practices. He never had a finer
game. His tackling was timely, his
running truly majestic, and it was
fitting that McKirahan should score
final try.
On a defensive play near his own
goal, he dashed 85 yards, dodged
two tackles, ignored another, and in
facile style, raced past the Baylor
fullback for a try which he put down
beneath the posts. McKirahan en
joyed himself oil Saturday. Lewis
made the conversion and the Ma
roons were classy 17-7 winners.
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and the wrong one I have chose
. . .” — Bob Hope, in Son of
Paleface.
George Allen, Tom Landry or
Don Coryell—or Don Shula or Lou
Saban, for that matter, could sing
that lament, too.
With half the season gone, those
National Football League coaches
have teams locked in what are prov
ing to be life-and-death struggles in
the two conference’s Eastern divi
sions.
Out in the not-so-wild West,
meanwhile, Los Angeles and Oak
land appear to be travelin’ along,
singin’ a song, with division champ
ionships for the taking by virtue of
default.
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ween East and West, there are a
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pair of Central Division races — and
they’re as different from each other
as the nation’s two borders.
To get specific, let’s get the runa
way races out of the way first.
In the National Conference
West, the Los Angeles Rams won
the division title in a four-game wal
kover a year ago. They’re 6-1 this
year and already have tbat big a lead
over San Francisco, Atlanta and
New Orleans this season. And, with
a cream-puff schedule, they figure
to win this year by an even wider
margin.
The NFC’s Central Division qual
ifies as a yawner, too. The only
question remaining is whether the
Minnesota Vikings, the only un
beaten team at the season’s halfway
mark, will stay that way through the
remaining seven games. The
injury-wracked Detroit Lions, sec
ond at 4-3, can give the Vikes their
only serious challenge.
In the American Conference
West, the Oakland Raiders have the
only winning record at 5-2. Denver
and Kansas City are lurking in the
background, two games off the pace
with 3-4 records, but neither the
Broncos nor the Chiefs are consi
dered serious contenders, barring a
collapse by the Raiders.
That takes care of three playoff
berths, thus leaving five up for grabs
— and eight teams trying to grab
them.
The two tightest races are three-
team affairs, the National Confer
ence East and American Confer-
skins have the hardest road to cover,
facing St. Louis, Oakland, Min
nesota and Dallas.
This isn’t a prediction, though.
Just an overview. After all, “on any
given day ...”
Over in the American Confer
ence’s Central Division, the
Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Oilers
and Cincinnati Bengals are each
6-1. And each has an even stickier
problem. Unlike the NFC East,
where two of three teams seem
playoff-bound, only one of the AFC
Central’s three contenders could be
around in the post-season road to
Super Bowl X.
wild card.
Again, based on the schedule, the
Bengals appear to have the best shot
at the Central title, having Buffalo,
Houston and Pittsburgh as their
only really tough games. The Steel
ers are next in line, facing Houston
twice, plus Cincinnati and Los
Angeles as serious threats. The Oil
ers have to be considered longshots.
Along with their two games against
Pittsburgh, they must also battle
Miami, Cincinnati and Oakland.
Houston’s only “soft touches’ are
San Francisco and Cleveland.
That’s because the AFC East has
two challengers — Shula’s Miami
Dolphins, 6-1, and Saban’s Buffalo
Bills 5-2. One will win the division
title. But the other could draw the
The Dolphins have to be given
the edge in the AFC East. They
have only two real problem games
left — Houston and Buffalo. The
Bills, on the other hand, face not
only Miami but Cincinnati, St.
Louis and Minnesota as well.
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In the NFC East, Allen’s
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Louis Cardinals are each 5-2. Un
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will win the division title, another
will win the conference’s wild-card
playoff berth and the third will be
left out in the cold.
Based on the remaining seven
games, Dallas appears to have the
best shot at the title.
The Cowboys’ only tough oppo
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Washington. The Cardinals face
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