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Saturday afternoon Houston Coach
Jack Pardee will lead his undefeated
Cougars onto the floor of the Astrodome
to do battle with the Texas Aggies, who,
in turn, want to demolish any Cougar
dreams of an unbeaten season.
Yet, almost 30 years ago to the day
(October 13, 1956), Pardee was a mem
ber of Coach Bear Bryant’s then-unde-
f^ated Aggie squad that took on a once-
beaten Cougar squad equally intent on
ending similar Aggie wishes.
Before 67,000 fans at Rice Stadium,
the largest crowd ever to see a Cougar
game, Houston blunted a late Aggie rally
on its own 1 yard line with 0:33 to play
and came away with a 14-14 “upset".
“It was early in the year," Pardee said
Wednesday evening. “We didn’t know
that we’d have had a perfect season if we
lad beaten Houston.”
A&M brought a 3-0 record into the
:ontest, having defeated Villanova (19-
)) at Kyle Field, LSU 9-6 (in Baton
louge) and Texas Tech 40-7 (at the Cot
on Bowl).
Houston was 1-1, having defeated
Mississippi State 18-7 and lost to Ole
Miss 14-0.
The Cougars, then members of the
Missouri Valley Conference and only in
heir 11th season of college football,
ooked toward the game as a way of
laining instant respect if they could
wing an upset over the ninth-ranked Ag-
jes.
On the other hand. A&M had just
quared a debt with Tech and had TCU
Baylor looming ahead in what
limed out to be a tough SWC season.
But Bryant knew that Houston would
e a formidable opponent, especially
ince they could throw the ball well.
“We think Houston will be our critical
ame, and it will take a good team to
eat them,” Bryant said. "This will be a
ood measuring stick as far as we are
I oncemed. ’ ’
The Tuesday practice prior to the
thoo^ Jaibome quarterback Aggie reserves
xlief gainst his top defensive unit. Claiborne
How. ft ompleted 72 percent of his passes,
orcor.D Buell to the Bear’s displeasure.
ame Bryant had assistant coach Jerry
Tim Stanfield
Flashback
“Either we have to work like the devil
on our pass defense or else put Coach
Claiborne in at quarterback for us," Bry
ant said.
On top of that several Aggies had
come down with the flu prior to the Tech
game and remained less than completely
healthy, though Pardee wasn’t one of
them. In the days of one-platoon football
coupled with the rule that once a player
left the field he couldn’t return to the
next quarter, any starter that couldn’t
play was a tremendous detriment to the
team.
Pardee did have sore shoulders before
the Houston game — and came out of it
with a seperated shoulder. But the pre
game injury didn’t keep him from taking
on Houston, though Bryant had told the
press that Pardee might not see action.
All-America lineman Dennis Goehr-
ing wasn’t even supposed to suit up for
the Ags, but he not only played but
played well.
Goehring, who blocked a Cougar field
goal attempt in the second quarter
against Houston, said Wednesday that
though Pardee was timid and shy when
he came to A&M from tiny Christoval he
quickly won everyone’s respect.
"Jack had played six-man football in
high school but adjusted to the college
came easily,” Goehring said. “I think
his strength comes from his always being
a Christian person. You could see that
quality in him from the start.
"He did surprise me once when we
were freshmen, though. In one game just
as he was hit. Jack tossed the football to
me. Our coach asked him what happened
and he told us that was normal in six-
man football and that temporarily he had
forgotten where he was.”
Also on that squad were two juniors
who later played several years in the Na
tional Football League, halfbacks Bobby
Joe Conrad and John David Crow.
Conrad recalled that Pardee came to
Yell practice
scheduled for
Houston club
For students and fans wishing to at
tend Yell practice tonight before to
morrow’s football game, the ritual
will be held at midnight at Johnny B,
Dalton’s in Houston.
The country-western dance hall is
located on 1-45 North at the comer of
Rankin and Kuyendalj in Houston.
ft was formerly held at Hermann
Park between the zoo and the plane
tarium, when the Aggies played ei
ther the University of Houston or
Rice University each year.
A&M with a lot of raw talent and a will
ingness to learn.
“Jack was — and is — a student of
the game,” Conrad said. "Coach Bryant
coached it out of him. He has been
sucessful as a player and coach at every
level of football.”
Crow, who along with Pardee was an
All-America in 1956, concurred with his
teammates in their assessments of Par
dee.
“Jack is a nice guy and always has
been,” Crow said. “It’s great for me to
be able to call him my friend, which he
has always been except when we were on
the field in our pro years.
“Even though I knew him as well as
anyone else. Jack never spoke to me on
the field the entire time I played in the
NFL. He was just a tough guy on the
field and a great player.”
Though the Aggies had all these out
standing players, plus others, the Cou
gars weren’t awed that day.
Crow fumbled on the first play of the
game and Cougar Rudy Spitzenberger
recovered at the A&M 20. Houston
scored six plays later, as Harold Lewis
ran 7 yards for the touchdown.
A&M tried to retaliate, but after mov
ing 73 yards, Don Watson fumbled and
the Cougars’ Don Boudreaux recovered
on the Houston 7.
The Aggies tied the game in the sec
ond quarter when a host of them blocked
Don Caraway’s punt, which John Tracey
recovered for a touchdown.
Tracey was in the game because
Bobby Keith Drake had suffered a bro
ken nose (an injury that ended his ca
reer). Ken Hall kicked the extra point
and at the half the game was tied at 7.
A&M had made two goal-line stands
in the second quarter, stopping the Cou
gars at the 1 yard line and then only a
foot from their goal.
Pardee stacked up Caraway ending the
first Cougar rally, and had help from
Langston when he corralled Caraway at
the A&M one-foot line to end the second
threat.
After the teams exchanged punts in the
third quarter, A&M moved for its second
touchdown, going 57 yards in 13 plays.
Quarterback Roddy Osborne ran for the
touchdown after faking to Pardee, and
Lloyd Taylor kicked the extra-point.
Houston came right back for its sec
ond touchdown, a 63-yard drive in 11
plays with sophomore Bill Koons getting
the score on a 5-yard run. Incidentally,
that was Koons first collegiate rushing
attempt.
Koons scored with 11:03 to play, but
the Aggies had one last drive in them.
After Crow downed Owen Mulholland’s
58-yard punt at the A&M 9, the Aggies
moved 90 yards to the Cougar 1.
Pardee ran for 10 yards on the first
play, then Osborne completed passes to
Crow (13 yards), Taylor (18 yards) and
Tracey (11 yards).
On first down at the Houston 30 Tay
lor escaped down the sidelines for 20
yards and a first down at the Cougar 10.
There the red-shirted defenders held,
stopping Osborne for no gain, allowing a
7-yard pass from Crow to Taylor and
limiting Osbome to 2 yards on third
down.
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