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by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
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THE BATTALION Page 15
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, I960
Alborn pleased with Hertel,
named Coach of the Week
area tilt highlights playoffs
United Press International
The Texas High School Coaches
Association is celebrating its 50th
iniversary and during that half-
ecade there have been many out-
l landing schoolboy football games.
)Ub fOll ^ at P romises to be one of the
1 gbre memorable occurs Saturday in
Texas Stadium as fourth-rated Plano
, w T / lets No. 7 Dallas Highland Park in
, V i(/j(llClass AAAAA quarterfinal.
^ The game has all the makings for a
I t |f at one — two natura ^ rivals lo-
flr)Kfilfd c l° se together who have met
lllsllljmDre both on the district level and
bthe playoffs.
nitcd Press inieniiJ And, more the 40,000 fans —
AGO — The KiJ&jably the largest crowd to ever
cer League L |iatch a Texas high school football
ze its franchises Re — are expected for the 2 p.m.
lie divisions, ghiRoff. Many will be looking for a
the top two teicpiatch of the 1977 quarterfinal in
along with five fhjch Highland Park built up a 28-
Ijnt, fourth-quarter lead only to see
aer action TdRed-up come-from-behind 29-28
ranged for dispersRo victory,
terminated frai l T just don’t know what to expect
eport on the statu other than it should be one of the
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Highland Park Coach Frank Bevers.
“Both teams have changed since
1977, and we have different person
nel which means we play different
football.
“But, the excitement should be
there, and both teams may be a little
better this year than they were
then,” he said. “It’s just a great feel
ing to be involved in a game like this
one.”
As for Plano, Bevers says the
Wildcats are well coached, have
great poise, and will stick together
when things get tough.
“Plano doesn’t beat itself,” he
said. “When you finish a game with
them, you know you’ve been in a
game. This one will be no different. ”
Bevers called the 1977 matchup
“one of the greatest games I’ve ever
been associated with.”
“It was a fans’ game — one where
you were afraid to go out to the hot-
dog stand because you would miss so
much. And for us, unfortunately,
those who left early missed a whole
lot. Plano just hung in, played good
and finally won. That’s a compliment
to them, after having been down by
28 points.”
The Plano-Highland Park is one of
four great Class AAAAA quarterfinal
meetings. Others find second-rated
Port Arthur Jefferson meeting Hous
ton Stratford, 1978 state champion,
for an 8 p.m. Saturday Astrodome
date; Amarillo and No. 6 Odessa Per
mian playing at 2 p.m. Saturday in
Lubbock’s Jones Stadium; and fifth
rated San Antonio Holmes facing
Alice in a 7:30 p.m. Friday meeting
at Austin’s Memorial Stadium.
Classes AAAA and A will both play
semifinals this week, six-man has its
state championship game, and Clas
ses AAA and AA are also down to
quarterfinals.
Top-rated Bay City and sixthrank-
ed Huntsville meet in one Class
AAAA semifinal at 8 p.m. Friday in
Houston’s Rice Stadium, while Lub
bock Estacado and ninth-ranked
Paris play the other semifinal at 3
p.m. Saturday in Wichita Falls.
In Class A, top-ranked Falls City
faces fourth-maked Valley View at 8
p.m. Friday in Belton and second-
ranked Valley plays third-rated
Rankin at 7:30 p.m. Friday in
Snyder.
Defending champion Milford
plays Highland at 7 p.m. Friday in
Comanche for the six-man state
title.
Quarterfinal matchups in Class
AAA pair Littlefield and third-rated
Stamford at 7:30 p. m. Friday in Lub
bock, eighthranked Decatur and
top-rated Pittsburg at 7:30 p.m. Fri
day in Rockwall, West and Waller at
8 p.m. Friday at Kyle Field in Col
lege Station, and Van Vleck and
lOth-rated Port Isabel at 8 p.m. Fri
day in Robstown.
United Press International
HOUSTON — Rice’s upset win
over the Houston Cougars marked a
significant power change in the
Southwest Conference and a person
al victory for Ray Alborn, the Rice
Owls head coach who made a diffi
cult decison before this season.
In that 35-7 win, senior quarter
back Randy Hertel passed for three
touchdowns when he had several
reasons to give not one hoot about
the outcome. Alborn had changed
the offense before the season, de
valuing Hertel’s passing talents, and
during the season he had benched
Hertel.
“Randy is a high-caliber young
man, ” Alborn said following the win.
“He could have been such a problem
to our program. But he became re
spected no matter what role he play
ed. He became a leader in his own
way. ”
As a result of the win, Rice’s first
over their cross-town rival in five
seasons, Alborn was named UPI’s
National Coach of the Week.
As a result of Rice’s successful 5-6
season, Alborn, 41, has found him
self with more than the highly re
garded educational programs at the
tiny private school with which to
pitch the state’s high school football
players.
“We now can compete in recruit
ing with the big boys,” Alborn said.
He added he wanted to share the
honor with his 23 seniors, many of
whom he recruited while he worked
as a Rice assistant coach four years
ago. He became head coach in April
19 78.
“This is a great way for our seniors
to go out,” he said. “They went
through what I would call some
slaughters, some real disasters. But
they had some fairly glorious football
games, too.”
Rice’s win culminated a massive
shift of power in the S WC, which has
been dominated by the state-
supported schools for years. Rice’s
win was the 12th of the season for the
private schools over a state-
supported school. The state schools
won eight.
Alborn credits the 95-scholarship
limit for colleges with causing the
parity among teams.
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United Press International
NEW YORK — Joe Charboneau,
heir apparent to Rocky Colavito
leveland’s next baseball hero,
named American League Rookie
from terniinalftB' e Year Wednesday by the Base-
i Writers Association or America.
^T-l h " b °"T -ceived 15 firs,
i ffortL F e votes from the 28-member
ers tin .r i femittee to easily outdistance Bos-
I h ;Si!S D r f s, , ap,elo "' who r ked ?
ir ,1 „ J ree nrst-place votes. Minnesota
^hTtiwi^P-be,, also received
“ j. u«iK ee hrst-place mentions and
Hidings ™ll»f hed thirc f in , he balloting
! The 28 writers were asked to list
p, | Beir three choices for the award
tenil6l( ith a fi rst 'Pl ace vote counting for
,s ' v e points. Second place was worth
, ff iree points and one point was
S SlHII for a third-place mention.
. f Im really so happy,” said Char-
attenrield, A. J ■ neau, who was out dining with his
T-Austin, lu'i fe when informed of the honor. “I
iversitys at t ‘ sn’t expecting this at all. There
oordinator o; ere so many super rookies in the
irts information *-|ag U e an( j ^’ s a rea j h onor to win
ition to coorllI jterguys like Stapleton and Bums.”
ns of brochures, Toronto’s Damaso Garcia finished
rs, Battenfie urth, also picking up three first-
sketball and on ae e votes, and pitcher Britt Burns
rations ofwoiM» the Chicago White Sox finished
j m r ^ es Pi te four first-place men-
3 of Mercedes, | s , p e t ers G f Detroit finished
,raduate on ® v lh and Dick Dotson of the White
id went to i ava fft was seventh.
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itions and pul
med his duties. 1 '
i going nuts not being able to
play,” said Charboneau. “ ... You
know, I once told my wife if I made
the big leagues. I’d make Rookie of
the Year for her. For a while, I
thought I put my foot in my mouth.
What an honor. With news like this,
you can pull me away from the din
ner table any time.”
Although he gained most of his
acclaim with a potent bat that drilled
23 homers and knocked in 87 runs for
the Indians, Charboneau drew
almost as much attention for his
reputation as a flake.
The 6-foot-2, 200-pound slugger
astounds teammates with such feats
as opening beer bottles with the
socket of his eye, eating six lighted
cigarettes at once, drinking beer
through his nose and swallowing an
entire raw egg — shell and all.
And, as a handyman, nobody can
match the skills Charboneau has
shown with a pair of pliers. He once
used the tool to reset his nose —
which has been broken three times
— and also extracted a bothersome
tooth. His ability to consume fluids
through his nose came about when
doctors were forced to surgically re
move all the damaged cartilege.
But Charboneau was no joke on
the playing field this season and he
captivated a city that is starved for a
winning baseball team. Go Joe
Charboneau,” a song performed by a
group called Section 36 that occupies
that section in Municipal Stadium,
reached No. 3 on the singles chart in
Cleveland. A Super Joe poster,
featuring Charboneau in a Western
hat and a cape, has been selling out
all over town.
Leading the Indians to a respect
able 79-81 record in 1980, Char
boneau, who played left field and
designated hitter, batted .289 and
brought some dignity to a team that
has been ridiculed for years. Along
with Miguel Dilone, who batted
.341, the Indians finally boasted
some offensive punch and the people
of Cleveland rediscovered the In
dians.
Coaches have raved about his pati
ence at the plate and a willingness to
work, but are most impressed by his
lack of fear when facing some the
league’s finest pitchers.
“I’ve never been knocked down by
a pitch,” said Charboneau. “And I
never will be ... I’ve been hit all
over, but... I won’t go down in the
dirt. ”
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