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Sports
A&M may spoil Owls’ homecoming
Strona Rice offense collides with Ag defense
By Anthony Wilson
Sports Writer
Snap, crackle, pop.
The Rice Owls should begin
emitting these sounds at 1:30 p.m.
Saturday from Rice Stadium in
Houston where they will battle
Texas A&M in their homecoming
game. Rice is 2-5 for the year and 0-
3 in conference play.
Although the Aggie offense has
sputtered most of the season, it will
get its chance to light up the
scoreboard against the Owls. Of the
eight teams in the Southwest Con
ference, Rice ranks dead last in total
defense, giving up 489 yards per
game, and in rushing defense, giv
ing up 291 yards per game.
That should be good news to
A&M running backs Keith Wood-
side and Darren Lewis, who had his
second 100-yard game of the season
last week against Baylor, and to
quarterback Bucky Richardson.
Richardson, who rushed for 45
yards against Baylor, leads the team
with a 7.7 yards-per-carry average.
Richardson’s running ability has
Rice head coach Jerry Berndt more
than a little concerned.
“It appears they (A&M) have de
cided to go with a more option-
oriented attack,” Berndt said. “Ri
chardson is the guy who makes that
attack go. The last couple of games
they have done an outstanding job
with Richardson running the op
tion.”
Rice’s passing defense has given
up an average of 197 yards per
game, ranking it sixth in the confer
ence. The Owls’ defense has allowed
37 touchdowns this season.
By comparison, A&M’s defense
ranks First in total defense and rush
ing defense and second in passing
defense in the Southwest Confer
ence. It has allowed nine touch
downs this season.
The Rice offense, however, is on
the opposite end of the spectrum
from its defense. It ranks second in
the conference in total offense with a
391 yard-per-game average. The
Owl passing attack averages 188
yards per game, fourth in the SWC.
Rice is fifth in the conference in
rushing with a 202 yard-per-game
average.
Rice’s offense is spearheaded by
quarterbacks Quentis Roper and
Mark Comalander, running back
Lorenzo Cyphers and receiver Dar
rell Goolsby.
Roper, a 5-foot-9, 175-pound ju
nior, has passed for 832 yards and _
four touchdowns and rushed for
231 yards and three touchdowns this
season. Comalander, a senior, has
passed 446 yards and two touch
downs.
Cyphers is Rice’s all-purpose back
who leads the team in rushing and
receiving. The junior has rushed for
465 yards and five touchdowns this
season in addition to catching 23
passes, one for a touchdown.
Goolsby is second on the team
with 21 receptions. He has averaged
13.7 yards per reception and scored
one touchdown.
Roper and Goolsby team up to
provide Rice with one of the most
potent return combos in the nation.
Roper, the Rice and SWC season re
cord holder for kick return yardage,
has averaged 25.6 yards per return
on seven returns. Goolsby is second
in the SWC with a 18.9 yard average
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By Tim Stanfield
Sports Writer
When Texas A&M took the field
at Rice Stadium on November 16,
1957, it did so as the No. 1 team in
the country.
Yes, Coach Bear Bryant’s fourth
— and final — Aggie squad had
taken that slot from the Oklahoma
Sooners on October 29, following its
14-0 win over the Baylor Bears.
Senior halfback and defensive
back John David Crow was on his
way to becoming both Texas A&M’s
and Bryant’s only Heisman Trophy
winner, but his thoughts that day
were on the Rice Owls.
“I felt like going into the game
that we had better talent than Rice
did, though they had such players as
King Hill, Frank Ryan, Buddy Dial,
and Don Gillis,” Crow said Thursday
morning. “Yet we were pretty thin
and had had some injuries along the
way (including Crow, who had
missed two games due to a knee
problem).
“But all of us had no doubt that
I we were going to win our final two
regular-season games and become
" the national champions.”
Bryant had put the team through
ksome tough practices during the wet
week leading up to the game, leaving
^Crow and others to ponder later if
I that had contributed to A&M’s
I shocking 7-6 loss.
“Coach Bryant wasn’t one for ex
cuses, nor am I, but the fact remains
that we were mainly a senior team on
which about 14 players shouldered
the load,” Crow said. “By the eighth
game of the season, we were worn
out and some of us nursed injuries.
aE
“I still believe that we had the bet
ter players, but, at least on that day,
Rice was the better team.”
Coach Jess Neely’s Owls had split
their first six games, including a loss
to Darrell Royal’s initial Texas
squad, but caught fire late in the sea
son.
Led by all-purpose backs Hill and
Ryan, the Owls entered the fray 4-3,
finishing at 7-4 after a 20-7 loss to
Navy in the Cotton Bowl.
A missed extra point cost the Ag
gies the game, but only two weeks
earlier, they had defeated Arkansas
by the exact score when Hog place-
kicker Freddie Akers had missed an
extra point and a short field goal.
Crow, who scored the Ags’ touch
down in that game and sealed the
win with a last-minute pass intercep
tion in the A&M end zone off quar
terback George Walker, recalled that
contest clearly.
“Arkansas’ last drive was set up
when our quarterback, Roddy Os
borne, surprised us all by throwing a
pass toward me that Don Horton in
tercepted,” Crow noted. “There was
no way I was going to catch him, but
somehow Osborne ran him down.”
In between the Aggies’ two 7-6
games they had defeated the South
ern Methodist Mustangs (with soph
omore quarterback Don Meredith)
19-6.
All Crow did that game was to
rush for 89 yards on 20 carries, score
the winning touchdown on a 2-yard
run, return two kickoffs for 49
yards, complete the only pass he
threw for 15 yards, and intercept
two passes (returning one of them
30 yards.
For his efforts he was named the
Associated Press Back of the Week.
Crow was — and is — proud of
the fact that A&M was ranked first
in the polls. He told a reporter back
then that he “hoped and prayed that
we can stay there”.
On that cool November af
ternoon, the Aggies’ hopes and
prayers went by the wayside, out
done by a gritty bunch of Owls.
Late in the contest Ryan broke
through the A&M line, shook off an
attempted Crow tackle and took the
ball inside the Aggie five yard line.
Hill replaced him and scored the
winning touchdown, re-emphasizing
the depth at the skill positions that
Rice had.
Yet Hill had to make a game-sav
ing tackle later in the period after
Crow had broken into the clear.
“I can recall thinking later that
had I run straight at King — and
then made a move away from him —
I could have scored because back
then I was faster than he was,” Crow
pointed out. “But I angled away
from him, and he used the sidelines
to eventually pin me down. I proba
bly should have scored on the play.”
When the clock expired, so did
the Aggies’ dream of being national
and SWC champions, a bitter pill for
them to swallow.
Things got worse in a hurry, for
rumors that Bryant was leaving to
return to Alabama proved to be
true, though Crow never felt that it
affected the team very much.
“Coach Bryant didn’t like distrac
tions, and that certainly was one,” he
said. “But our seniors were also lead
ers and I really don’t think we lost to
either Rice or Texas because of
that.”
Indeed the Longhorns beat A&M
9-7, as Crow scored the only Aggie
touchdown, and Texas went on to
the Sugar Bowl (where Mississippi
beat them 39-7).
For Crow and his fellow seniors,
all that was left as a team was to play
Tennessee in the Gator Bowl on De
cember 28.
“We were all disappointed, but
still wanted to beat the Vols,” Crow
said. “Late in the game, I put a good
lick on running back Bobby Gordon,
which some people out there still re
call to this day.
“They kicked a field goal to win 3-
0, and that night at a banquet, 1 was
named the outstanding player on
the losing team. I was embarrassed
to accept the trophy, for I agreed
with Coach Bryant that if the team
lost, there wasn’t any individual suc
cess to be had.”
Crow won the Heisman Trophy in
early December, and soon thereafter
was made the first pick in the Na
tional Football League draft. The
Chicago Cardinals chose him, and
he had a fine career with them and
the San Francisco 49ers.
But he will always recall with dis
appointment the dreary day that the
Aggies lost their chance at the na
tional championship.
Poor Wildcats to take yet another beating this weekend
From the Associated Press
One of the problems with being in
the Big Eight Conference if you’re
not Oklahoma or Nebraska is that
you must play Oklahoma and Ne
braska every year.
However, only winless Kansas
State (0-6), which can least afford it,
has to play them back-to-back this
season.
The Wildcats must have improved
some. They were 56-point under
dogs at home against Oklahoma but
are only SSVfe-point underdogs at
Nebraska, which played a near-per
fect game in trouncing Oklahoma
State 35-0.
The Cornhuskers won’t have to be
anywhere near perfect. The pick is
Nebraska 56-0.
Last week’s prediction record was
33 right and 19 wrong for a percent
age of .635; for the year, 210-89-4 —
.702. Against the point spread, last
week’s mark was only 14-23-1 —
.378; for the season, 88-105-5 —
.456.
Saturday’s only game between
members of the AP Top 20 finds
No. 20 Michigan favored by 7 V2
points at No. 15 Indiana.
Michigan leads the series 35-8 and
has won 15 straight. Two weeks ago,
Indiana stunned Ohio State 31-10 to
snap an 0-30-1 streak against the
Buckeyes. Not this time. The pick is
Michigan 24-14.
Colorado at No. 1 Oklahoma (fa
vored by 37): Oklahoma 42-7.
No. 3 Miami, Fla. (no line) at Cin
cinnati: Miami 49-7.
Mississippi State at No. 6 Auburn
(by 27): Auburn 35-10.
North Carolina State at No. 7
Clemson (by lOVa): Clemson 34-14.
California at No. 8 UCLA (by 28):
UCLA 38-17.
Colgate at No. 9 Syracuse (by 34):
Syracuse 42-14.
Southern California at No. 10
Notre Dame (by GYz): Notre Dame
24-20.
Kentucky at No. 12 Georgia (by
10): Georgia 27-13.
Georgia Tech at No. 13 Tennes
see (by 13‘/a): Tennessee 34-10.
Illinois at No. 14 Michigan State
(by 1634): Michigan State 28-14.
Minnesota at No. 16 Ohio State
(by 11): Ohio State 21-14.
No. 19 Oklahoma State (by 3) at
Missouri: Oklahoma State 24-14.
Arizona (by 7‘/a) at Washington
State: Upset Special of the Week ...
Washington State 28-24.
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