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Longhorns Defend X-Coimtry Title on Monday (See Story on Page D9 Austin, Texas, Sunday, November 17, 1968, Page Dl Post 7th Straight Victory oank Fro teers gs 1L THB YARDSTICK coach Darrell Royal got'by hitting Bubba Thornton, he Finally, with left in thej Hanker CotUm Spcyer and had the! it intercepted at the TCU 39 by quarter, Street toiipietcd enough of the gore and turned 0f the game-turning 78-yard Two TCU Flrsf downs it, VorO ruining 373 47 Yords passing 1)7 Ml Return yards 45 70 tne job back over to Billv Lloyd. However, ha came back ta even the sco-e with Lloyd by quarterback James Street and Passes 1-19-2 punt return in last year's upset of Texas, for 31 yards and then completed a 52-yarder to flanker S.W.C. STANDINGS his first team cohorts. They promptly restored some Pet. finishine a snanov 81-vard Dush Texas ..,.5 1 0 a 24-vrd touchdown to Les Brown with 1:07 in the runts J-44 7-33 Fumbles lost I 2 Penalties 101 91 By LOU MAYSEL Sports Editor FORT WORTH-The order by driving 70 yards for a game.

833jspeyrer in front of the goal 667nosts. Soevrer went down from Arkansas 5 1 0 SMU ..........4 2 0 Texas Tech 4 2 0 The Longhorns gave the his wide left eid set and ict (See STEERS, Page D5) crowd of 40,000, who were touchdown and with the score up to 33-7, Royal let the reserves finish out the remaining 12:26 left in the game. During it, TCU reserve Baylor 3 0 .400 favored by sunny 71-degree University of Texas Longhorns started a clinical vivisection of the TCU Horned Frogs here Saturday at TCU-Amon Carter Texas ....2 4 0 .333 TCU I 5 0 .167 Rice ...0 5 0 .000 weather at kickoff, an Indication 19 21-47 0 7 1421 run (Feller kick) 14 pass from Street Texos Texas Christian TEX Street 1 TEX Spevrer (kirk tallei of how they intended to rule the quarterback Busty Underwood Stadium but it eventually turned into a messy 47-21 butchering. day with their first possession. seized upon the lesser defensive resistance to hit touchdown passes of 31 and 52 yards to vrarr i drive into a 15-mile-an-nour quartering wind by sneaking the They set up for business at their eight after a penalty on offset a pair of touchdowns by Tex FG Feller 37 Tex Gilbert 5 run (Feller klckj Tex FG Feller 41 TCU Fondren SO pass Interaction (Merrltt kick) TEX Worster 7 run (Feller kick) TEX Callison 49 run (Feller kick) TCU Thornton 31 pass from Underwood (Underwood kick) TEX Coilison I run (Feller kick) TCU Brown 52 pass from Underwood (Merrltt kick) A 40,000.

the opening promptly put kickoff a final yard. Htppy Feller kickei together aithe point. whatever their grade for neatness, the Longhorns' seventh straight victory since they got their house in order kept the Longhorns in a tie for the Southwest Conference lead v-AiK'Vwrt: gilbert; Is rv I 1 rlJi -V it yr7-. -So. "i- fi 'I ''W Texas reserve fullback Bobby Callison who galloped 49 and Street tried lot the long bomb touchdown march of 17 phys.

only one of which was a pass.l on the second possession to with Arkansas. Furthermore, it left them only a Thanksgiving Day triumph eight yards on plays that Wors-tre might have handled in tougher games. The Longhorns rolled up 490 yards of offense and tied their attack to Worster's 137 yards on 28 carries through the TCU line, over Texas away from the host role in the Cotton Bowl. which seemed primed to stop The Longhorns started carving up the Frogs with touchdown marches of 92 and 81 yards with their first and third Baylor Dashes Raiders' Hopes the wide plays of Chris Gilbert. The Frogs shut Gilbert down to 60 yards on 13 runs, which possessions of the game to take still lifted his season rushing total to 1,047 yards and his a 13-0 lead.

career figure to 3,146. The latter figure placed him sixth in the NCAA career rushing totals. THE YARDSTICK Tech Baylor power panthers. Meanwhile, the Texas defense much of the past week with a Badgers' leg infection. Coach John First downs 1 71 Rushing yardage 135 244 Passing yardage 71 29 Return yardage I 29 Passes 6-11-1 17 331 downtrodden Baptists.

14-point Even so, though, coach J. T. Slowly, with fullback Steve Worster leading the Texas offense, the Longhorns raised it to 16-0 at the half and finally had the scoreboard reading 26-0 before their erring ways caught up with them late in the third period. But after the Frogs got new life with Billy Fondren's 80-yard return of a pass interception, underdogs on the basis of a 1- King's men had capitalized on repeatedly thwarted the sluggish TCU offense, which missed injured power backs Ross Montgomery and Norman Bul-ich. The two sat out the game with Punts 7-44 4-3 Fumbles lost 2 2 Yards penallied 5 Si season record, rose up enough Baylor errors to appear headed for triumph.

Then Saturday to jam three final Baylor found the key the period touchdowns down the Stoff Photo by Johnny Jenkins CHRIS GILBERT HOLDS PRECARIOUSLY TO BALL AS HE PLOWS TO TCU'S 4-YARD LINE Frogs' Billy Lloyd gets past Texas defender Danny Abbott to make stop on fleet Longhorn injuries while Marty Whelan and Sammy Rabb filled in with By GEORGE BREAZEALE Sports Staff WACO Memo to Darrell power game, behind suen gullets of Texas h's behemoths, making off with a blockers as guards Bob out much success. Royal and Texas: make up a The Longhorns held the Frogs 42-28 triumph and switching on a beacon light to illuminate a couple dozen commendation to just 94 yards of offense ribbons and rush them to possible Cotton Bowl path for through three quarters and Stephenson and Richard Dennard and tackle Richard Stevens, blasting out the crevices for tailback Gene Rogers, who set a new school rushing record of 139 yards on Texas. permitted them no closer than Baylor's football forces who are no longer passing pussycats, but Burnett, Montgomery Lead Hogs Razorbacks Stun SMU Mustangs 19 yards to the goal line until Down 28-13 at one stage, the battling Bears moved within Fondren picked off reserve pilot 24 carries, and for fullback Joe Norwood's pass and range of the upset on a pass Pinkie Palmer, who chiseled out dotted drive late in the third worked his way 80 yards into the yardstick like the wind. SMU scored once.i Hayden Fry thought the, opportunity to nail down at least opportunities for touchdowns. the end zone.

That one earlier threat, which 95 on 26 trips. Now, return to yesteryear early in the third quarter when Baylor was on the abyss of extinction. involved 61 yards of ball quarter. From then on, though, it was mostly plain, violent vanilla as Baylor's offensive line simply outmuscled a Red Raider First downs 25 21 Rushing yardage 71 210 Passing yardage 323 111 Return yardage 9 Passes 32-51-1 13-23 0 Punts 4-33 4-40 Fumbles lost 4 4 Hixson threw touchdown passes of 8 yards to Jerry Levias, 18 yards to Frank Stringer, 13 yards to Mike scored twice, scored three times, yea, the Mustangs scored even a fourth time while a regional television audience movement, came largely through the passing of Ted Fay Razorbacks were given a few more seconds than they were due on the last play, and at the final gun he raced across the field, collared two officials and told them so in no uncertain terms. But it was a case of wasted words.

a share of the 1968 conference championship. The Porkers got maximum mileage from their precocious sophomores, Bill Montgomery and Bill Burnett, and from a ball-hawking defense that was a thing of sheer delight for three Down, 14-7, at halftime, BU waicnea pop-eyea wonaer defense which hadn't been ana uan carter, who ran a By DAVE CAMPBELL Special Correspondent hit quickly for a touchdown after the second half kickoff quarterback shuttle throughout intimidated all year. And the and Frank Broyles suffered through the longest quarter-hour most of the game, young Bruin defense, uplifted in Richardson and 20 yards ta Pinky Clements. The last one came with just 55 seconds remaining. SMU then tried an onside kick but couldn't make the strategy work.

After that, UTI LE KOCK With a mere but Tech halfback Gary Golden The Texas front of Loyd parallel, swarmed in to limit the Plainsmen to only two fourth HOW TOP 10 TEAMS FARED Associated Press 1. Southern Cal Beat Oregon State, 17-13. 2. Ohio State Defeated Iowa, 33- 27. 3.

Penn State Blasted Maryland, 57-13. 4. Michigan Beat Wisconsin, 34- 9. 5. Georgia Beat Auburn, 17-3.

6. Missouri Lost to Oklahoma, 28-14. 7. Kansas Beat Kansas State, 38-29. 8.

Texas Defeated TCU, 47-21. blocked Terry Cozby's extra point try, apparently stemming frantic 15 in building up that 35- Wainscott, Leo Brooks, Bill In those final minutes tireless Mustan point advantage. quarter first downs while the Atessis and Bill Zapalac teamed up with the linebacking help to 15 minutes remaining in the fateful meeting between! But iust when il appeared Southwest Conference leaders Broyles would have to summon Arkansas and Southern kittle Rock Fire Department Methodist here a a yjt0 8et neryy Mustangs out, afternoon, the Razorbac the scoreboard clock caught the clock clearly was on football game hung in the Arkansas' side and the Porkers noi(j tne Frogs t0 just 27 yards balance. chunker Chuck Hixson fired four touchdown passes and directed his team to the Arkansas 16- rushing through the three Considered absolute master of the Southwest Conference Burnett scored on runs of 1, 2 and 5 yards. Montgomery threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Chuck Dicus and a 5-yard scoring aerial to Bruce Maxwell.

The defense left the quarters they worked. The Frogs wound up with 47 championship race in early made the most 01 u. For three quarters, the Mustangs were in the same; condition grounded. With end Lynn Garner and tackle Gordon McNulty making life miserable multitude in War MemoriaLthem foreclosed on them.iyard line on two other Stadium was living high in the Razorbacks with a -possessions, and all that added Heaven. (W'W 35-29 victory and a share up to record devastation in the The skies were clear the sun'of first Place witn rip-roaring! fourth quarter against a Frank yards of rushing after losses totaling 51 yards were deducted Porkers in point-blank range for Baylor's momentum.

When Bear safetyman Steve Lane tried to field a Kenny Vinyard punt shortly afterward, (See BAYLOR, Page D4) Texos Tech ....9 14 14 9-21 Baylor 0 7 14 2141 BAY Hugqins IS pass from Stuart (Cozby kcl TECH Sawyer 5 run (Vinyard kick) TECH Eyons i pass from Sawyer (Vinyard kick) BAY Roqers 17 run (kick blocked) TECH Freeman 1 run (Vlryard kick) TECH Freeman 5 run (Vinyard kick) BAY Lewis 14 pass from Palmer (Rogers run) BAY Rogers run (Corby kick) BAY Palmer run (Corny kick) BAY Rogers 6 run (Colby kick) JOXXI and put together 211 yards Texas. Broyles team. Never before has; three of those touchdowns by was warm, representatives of no less than five bowls were in Pleading for just one more one of Frank's teams been hit passing, much of it by Underwood, who completed his for him, Hixson could find the range for only 111 yards upstairs, and during that span October after big victories over Texas and defending champion Texas Tech never really asserted itself offensively this sunny afternoon, partly because of the absence of fullback Jackie Stewart by injury and only spot duty by halfback Roger Freeman, hospitalized seven of 11 tries for 130 yards 9. Notre Dame Beat Georgia the stands, and the explosive chance, the Mustangs used all so hard so late. Porkers were putting on a show their time-outs to stop the clock,) But in the end the game's first and having the time of theirjthen they watched helplessly as'45 minutes outweighed the final SMU managed only one full in the final period.

Tech, 34-6. recovering Mustang fumbles at the SMU 17, 5 and 21-yard lines. Arkansas practiced a little charity itself in the final quarter, losing fumbles at the Razorback 25 and 37-yard lines. On both occasions the quick- blown threat a 12-play, 62- The Lubbock sophomore made 10. Arkansas Outscored SMU, 35-29.

it respectable on the scoreboard yard march to the Arkansas six 15, enabling the Porkers to advance to their season finale against Texas Tech in Lubbock that ended with a fumble. lives in a 35-0 laughter against the Porkers, on the fourth down, the outclassed Mustangs. stayed in the huddle and let the And then here came Perunajlast 25 seconds of the game tick around the mountain, running away. next Saturday with an firing Mustangs cashed in the McNulty recovered that one, just as he also recovered a Pony bobble in the third quarter at the SMU 21 that set up a touchdown. In all, SMU fumbled six times and lost four of them a turnover mark the Razorbacks managed to equal exactly.

The Ponies fumbled on their first play of the game, giving the Porkers the only break they needed in gaining an upper hand they never lost. Richardson bobbled at his own 17, Rick Kersey recovered and the Hogs scored In four plays. The big play was a 10-yard Montgomery pass to Dicus at the four. Burnett took it over from there in two thrusts straight ahead. Arkansas, enjoying great field position all through the first half, cashed in an opportunity from its own 47 at the midpoint of the second quarter.

Burnett zipped for 20, a pass interference call against SMU moved the Porkers on down to the SMU 15, and a Montgomery pass to Dicus gained the final three. Bob White kicked the extra point he kicked five straight (See BURNETT, Page D4) Soutnern Mettiodlst 0 Arkansas 7 7 21 35 Arte jrnett 1 run (Wttlte kick) Ark Dicus a pass from Montgomery (White kick) Ark Burnett 2 run (White kick) Ark Maxwell 5 pass from Montgomery (White kick) Ark Burnett run (White klckl SMU Levms I pass from Hixson (Flem ing pass from Hixson) SMU Stringer II pass from Hixson failed) Srau rrw.o Dy jofuvty JenKtn UPI Ttiephoto SMU Richardson 1) pass from Hixson fLevkn doss from Mlxson) SMU Clements 20 pass from Hixson MUSTANG QUARTERBACK CHUCK HIXSON GRIMACES AS HE FACES A CERTAIN LOSS Arkansas' Lynn Garner charged in to down Hixson while Hogs were leading, 35-0 (Lesser kk) LONGHORNS' STEVE WORSTER PICKS UP FOUR YARDS AGAINST HORNED FROGS UT's Forrest Wiegand lays block as TCU's Chuck Forney moves at angle for tackle 000..