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Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 41

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7 1 yrrm i- i 4- r- 4 YANK In ory Pap (-D Abilene toorter-JImg SECTION ABILENE TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 5 1958 PAGE ONE rrr COLORADO RIPS JAYHAWKS 31-0 Menainry Craste HnofttoroDD LAWRENCE Kan MV-How-ard Cook a slashing tailback engineered Colorado to an amazingly easy 31-0 Big Eight victory over outman-ned Jayhawks Saturday Cook a 185 pound senior scored the first touchdown on a 17-yard run passed to lanky quarterback Boyd Dowler for two more booted a field goal from the 23 yard line 'and made good his only place kick for an extra point Colorado regarded as a real threat to Big Eight football empire picked up its second victory of the season both in the conference Kansas suffered its third shut out By joe mclaugiilin Reporter-News Sport Writer In the greatest offensive show in the history powerful Indians broke records by he dozens Saturday night as they completely annihilated Texas Lutheran Bulldogs The final score was 63-0 That score was the widest map- rort noun NcMVERY TEX LUTHERAN Pint Dnni RtteMna Yardaaa 44 PkMM! Yanteaa TO el 21 Plan Completed al 25 Pant- Intercepted far fnr S7J Paste Ava for 277 for remittee Yarda for 42 eat 2 Ranger JC Wins 13-6 Abilene Captures 2 1st BOHLING ROLLS Hardin-Simmons halfback Dewey Bohling tries to go through the LSU line at Baton Rouge Saturday night nut was stopped for no gain by Emile Foumet (65) Louisiana State won the game 204 Wirephoto) stoby nanus BANGUI 1C MURRAY RATE 1 Tint Down 171 luMna Vardan IN Paaainf Vardan II Mails Paaaaa Comptetad 1 a( 11 Taaan Intercoptad Br 1 for Si Paata Artran ter 40 7 for 4S Fmaltteo yrtte The Abilene team romped to its 21st consecutive victory Saturday afternoon at Fair Park Stadium with a 206 triumph over Sweetwater Clark Robinson scored three touchdowns in leading the Abilene to the one-sided win After a1 scoreless first quarter Robinson scared from the two for a 66 Abilene lead Sweetwater went ahead as errald scored from the 15 and quarter back Homer passed to right end Turnbo for the extra points Robinson put Abilene back in front in the third period with an 80-yard touchdown amper Don McMiOen plunged one yard for the next Eaglet TD then Larry Mauldin scooted 70 yards with an intercepted pass for another Abilene score Robinson added the final touchdown with five-yard run knocked him outof roby in nevus LIU Pint Down IS 127 Net Yards RuahinS 2M 101 Yarda Gainad Paaainf IN 4I Passes Completed at 14 Paaaaa Intercepted Br 1 rumbles Leal 4 Cor Penalties yds i far SI I far 17 for 4i RANGER (RNSL-Ranger Junior College won its second game of the season Saturday night defeating Murray State Agricultural College of Tishomingo Okla' 124 The Ranger crew scored In the first and second quarters to coast in Captain Jim Clark sewed on a 25-yard pass and run play taking a heave from quarterback Dick Maxwell for the first Ranger score in the first quarter It climaxed a 60-yard drive A conversion attempt by kicking failed Ranger made it 13-0 in the second quarter as end Wayne Cromer caught a five-yard pass from quart-back Jack Waggoner closing a 48-yard march The kick bj halfback Leo Saveli was good Murray scored its only TD In the fourth quarter on a 24-yard pass play from quarterback Jerry Greenwood to halfback Tim An-quoe Ranger missed two more scor ing opportunities being halted the 12 and 15-yard lines Score by Quarters: RANGER JC 6 7 0 0-13 MURRAY 0 0 0 6-6 Brown bounds Matheme faked a pass then circled left end from four yards out for the touchdown kick was good and LSU led 13-0 with 5:43 remaining in the first half Davis was a thorn in the H-SU attack booting the ball four times for a 50-yard average The Pokes survived a abort 14-yard kick by McGuire that went out on the H-SU 38 as Matheme threw a fourth-down pass wild and long Oates was in his hair on two straight plays after stopping Purvis for no gain on the second down LSU made only one drive worth mentioning in the second half reaching the Cowboy 24 with the second half kickoff The Tigers spent the rest of the See COWBOYS Pg 3-D Georgia Tech Blanks Tulane TOUCHDOWN COMING UP McMurry end Dalton Hicks of Comanche pulls in a 25-yard pass from quarterback Terry O'Brien of Lubbock in the second quarter of the McMurry-Texas Lutheran contest Saturday night The play carried to Texas three-yard-line and set up third touchdown By FRED BANNER ReporterNews Sports Editor BATON ROUGE The Hardin-Simmons Cowboys chased the LSU Tigers all over Tiger Stadium In the second half here Saturday night before 45000 screaming fans But the Cowboys stuck their head in the den three times in the first half and the Bengals damped down for a 20- victory It was the largest crowd ever to watch a Hardin-Simmoos football team play and had it not been for a costly fumble and a bad pass from center the score would have been much closer For the second straight week the Fete Hart was the best Adlback on the field adding the Tiger crop to Baylor's Larry Hickman in his wake Bid the Pokes made too many mistakes in the first half for their usual sensational passing show to pull it out The Cowboys completed 19 of 35 for 201 yards and had only two intercepted Hayseed Stephens connected on 11 of 16 for 95 yards while Jim Tom Butler connected for eight of 19 tor 108 yards Each had one interception Actually tt was quarterback Warren Babb playing despio the death of his father Saturday morning rather than All-American candidate Billy Cannon who hurt the Pokes the most Cannon and Hart each netted 83 yards to tie for leading ground-gainer with Cannon toting 11 times and Hart 15 The Tigers sewed twice in the first quarter on drives of 65 and 43 yards before Hardin-Simmons put together a 94-yard inarch for its only score in the second quarter Rabb scored from the two and second team quarterback Durel Matheme circled end for four yards for the first two Tigers TD 22 Plays Stephens maneuvering the Cow boy second unit except for starting right half Dewey Bohling guided the 94-yard sewing drive It took 22 plays fw the Purple and Gold to go all the way with Western Neal Wilcox and Sammy Oates at ends Delmer Tipps and Cliff Maiming at tackles Doug McGuire and Johnny Jones at guard iSeatus Drinnon at center and ullback Gene' Uccellini and left half Joe Allen completing the the backfield Uccellini dived for the last six inches but the key plays on the drive were passes of 12 yards to Bohling 25 yards to Oates nine yards to Wilcox plus a timely sneak by Stephens for a first down on the Tiger 38 Bohling missed the kick but the Cowboys were still trailing 13-6 with 6:13 left in the first half But with Fletcher Fields back to punt from the Poke 22 Drinnon unloosed a bad center pass and Field was tackled on the Poke 11 On the first play Cannon shot through the line and went the necessary 11 yards to cook the goose Fullback Tommy Davis kicked the extra point and LSU wound up the scoring with 1:25 left in the first half LSU got its first touchdowr without any help from H-SU mistakes The Tigers went 65 yards in 12 plays the first time they got the ball nullifying a beautiful 53-yard kick by Fields that set them back to their 35 Rabb was the guiding genius hitting left end Billy Hendrix for 14 and 13 yards and right half Johnny Robinson tor 11 Cannon -added 22 yards in four trips in the drive and Rabb applied the finishing two-yard touch with 8:17 left Davis' kick was wide to the left Butler's fumble recovered by guard Ed McCreedy on the Cowboy 43 led to the second Tiger TD Pit took the bayou boys Duly five plays but one was a beauty as Don Purvis Cannon's sub raced all the way to the Poke 15 on a 28-yard- reverse before Earl gin of victory in the school's his tory and it was also the most points ever scored by a McMurry team The Indians beat Corpus Christ! University in 1956 576 for the old record and again in 1949 58-12 for the most points Coach Tommy Warriors tuning up for the big game with Abilene Christian College next Saturday at Fair Park Stadium amazed the small crowd of 1000 with their phenomenal passing and running attack Employing the entire bench and the most of the last hal! what the freshmen and team members are affectionately called by the coaching staff and varsity members) the Indians amassed 600 yards total offense another school record The most total yardage previously by McMurry in one game was 533 yards against Corpus Christ! in 1949 The Indians touted 320 yards passing and 280 rushing The 320 passing surpassed still school record It previously was 171 yards against Austin Cot lege in 1949 In all McMurry had seven different players scoring touchdowns with fullback Ernie Davis of Stamford paving the way with three tallies on runs of four nine and 57-yard pass reception from quarterback Terry O'Brien It was strictly no contest from the opening kickoff McMurry scored on its second play from scrimmage on a sensational 76-yard touchdown pass play from O'Brien to halfback George Bridges Only 55 seconds had elapsed Fullback Davis rammed off tackle for the two point conversion and the Indians were off and running It seemed like no time when the Indians got the ball again and after a beautiful 60 yard punt by Lutheran halfback Buzzy Denyer the Tribe waltzed 70 yards in only eight plays to score Davis capped the march with a four yard run around right end on a pitchout with 8:40 remaining in the first quarter Bridges ran the conversion across and McMurry led 16-0 Key play of the drive was a 30-yard pass from to end Dalton Hicks Reserves poured onto the field even this early in the game but the first and second units played more in the first half Early in the second quarter the Indians drove 65 yards in nine (days to score with Jim Boyd cracking off left tackle from the three After a five yard delay- of-game penalty passed to Boyd for the extra points and 246 lead The key play in that drive also was an O'Brien to Hicks pass that Hicks made an excellent catch of for 34 yards Still the visiting Bulldogs wera bottled up by the ferocious defensive activities of the Tribe and McMurry took possession of the ball again on the Lutheran 25-yard line when halfback Gerald Combs intercepted second unit quarterback Paul pass From that point the Indians scored in four plays when second unit fullback Bobfay Hartgraves of Sweetwater slammed through the middle from the one End Don Flippin of Colorado City made a brilliant catch of third unit quarterback Randy Rolen's pass for the play that set up the TD The extra point run was no good and the Indians held a 306 lead with 4:50 remaining in the half They scored again with only 23 seconds left in the half when Davis rambled nine yards around right end Jimmy White of Haskell booted the extra point for a 376 halftime margin Big play of the 55-yard drive (which took only five plays) was a 32-yard scamper by Fred Austin of Winters Intermission settled no problems for the Lutherans as McMurry scored on the first play after holding TLC From the Indian 43 O'Brien who had enough time to blow up a deflated football and then throw it tossed a pass to Davis who was wide open at the Lutheran 40 and the speedy fullback romped the rest of the way The play covered 57 yards The point-after running attempt ffailed and McMuny led 436 In the fourth quarter with the first and second units watching from the bench quarterback Charles Winstead of Coleman tossed a pass to Richard Compton of Colorado Gty seven yards and another TD Winstead passed to Jim Sadler for the two print conversion and it was 516 The TD eame after an 85 yard ATLANTA (AP)-Georgia Tech mixed a stout defense with the cunning of reserve quarterback Walter Howard Saturday to defeat Tulane 146 in a Southeastern Conference football game A crowd estimated at 38000 saw the defense led by center Maxie Baughan halfback Joe Dclany and fullback Larry Fonts set up the scoring chances And sophomore Howard taking over from starter Fred Brasclton directed the touchdown sorties with cool adept ffakery TCch scored in two quarters despite a sluggish attack that remains unimpressive after three games The Yellow Jackets now own a 2-1 record and Tulane has lost three in a row Delany punted out of bounds at the Tulane 2 setting up the first touchdown early in the second quarter He grabbed Gaude Ma short return punt and brought it back to the Tulane 21 Howard a master hall handler then directed the payoff drive in five plays scoring the touchdown from the 1 Fonts fell on an errant Tulane pitchout at the Greenie IS and opened the door for the second touchdown a 15-yard pass from Delany to end Fred Murphy host in nevaxa TWC 11 Pint Down 117 fat Yard Bmhiiis 21 Net Yarda Panina 1 MI Paaaaa Completed 2 Paaan Intercepted By 2 1 of 2 pumblea Coat 1 el 1 far 417 Pmte Ava Idr 311 far Peoelttea Yds far 42 result of a well executed 65 yard drive and the other scored on the surprise element of the delayed handoff The Wildcats went by ground and air for the first touchdown and quarterback Hawkins it on a fourth down sneak the one-foot line But the play in the drive was a leaping catch of a Dm Harbor pass end Keith Davis good for 16 to the seven-yard Fullback Henry Colwell paw to the one-yard line on a of off tackle slants and sneaked twice for the By MAL ELLIOTT Reporter-News Sports Writer EL PASO A 27-yard scamp-fay halfback Jim Armstrong behind a block by big Robert McLeod and a couple of points on the controversial conversion play broke a victory drought for the Abilene Christian College Wildcats here Saturday night as they scrapped to a 14-6 triumph over the Texas Western Miners on a damp field Guard Moody Conner on a couple of clutch extra punts the old fashioned way the kick put the game out of reach of the Miners Conners on the first ACC touchdown in the third quarter despite two Miners bearing down on him then toed the ball neatly between the uprights after Armstrong's run to make it 146 The two teams battled to a scoreless first half of missed opportunities but the Wildcats staged a second half comeback featured two markers one thescore scored from key by yards line ered pair Hawkins Tulin Ga lerfe Howard Tor Murphy (Wtlli ki-kl Tarh-Murphy is NI iron Datear (Write kirk) SOPH FULLBACK Rams Fall To Midland The Miners who started the second half with determination just as they did after the opening kickoff pounded out 80 yards capped off by a couple of neat pass plays one a 27-yarder from freshman Quarterback Johnny Furman to end Lee Jones to the ACC four and the other a three-yarder from Furman to Jones for the marker But Furman's crucial extra point kick try was wide to the right and the Wildcats took the kickoff and drove right back to go ahead 74 It was the first victory in three tries for the Christians and left Texas Western with a similar 1-2 mark High point of the Abilene Christian offense was the terrific pcss catching of Davis who snagged two of three for 38 yards on a couple of key plays Armstrong was the Wildcats leading runner with 59 yards in six carries and fullback Bill Lovelace was next with 43 on 12 tries Charlie Bradshaw the Miners little fullback from Abilene was the Texas Western leader with 65 yards in 16 attempts The ACC offense was clicking here tonight rolling up 310 yards in total offense including 200 yards on the ground against the team which ranks first in defense in the Border Conference Harber completed six of 11 passes for 74 yards and Hawkins two of four for 36 -The combination of Armstrong and McLeod also got the Christians off to their final TD march the ACC back sweeping the right end and getting 12 yards on blocks by McLeod and Lovelace Harber passed nine yards to end Don Raney and Lovelace blasted over the right side of the line for another first down Then the Miners got tough stopping Lovelace and halfback Veon Scott for short gains on three tries The Wildcats drew an illegal motion penalty back to the Miner 27 and on fourth down Harber faked to Scott going to the right but handed to Armstrong who swung back around the left side and went all the way The game also featured the kicking of reserve fullback Bill Locke who booted the ball clear out of Miami Thumps 14 to 8 Baylor story in Floras Flrte Down Mukhin! 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Yardaia Pamca hhwwM Ptmti Pamhlni Lost Yarik Praalterd The Carter Woodson Rams Abilene Negro high school football team dropped a 126 decision to Carver of Midland Saturday night at Fair Park Stadium Halfback James Bell tallied the only score in the quarter on a five yard run climaxing cn 85-yard drive A pass from quarterback Virgil Livingston to end James Mason provided the extra points Midland scored once in the second quarter and a second TD the third period Woodson now has a 2-2 season record The Score by Quarters: MIDLAND 0 6 6 0-12 WOODSON 0 0 0 fourth WACO Tex Sophomore fiiiiharh Frank Bouffard in his ifCTind varsity game led the Miami Hurricanes to a 14-8 victory Saturday night ever previously unbeaten Bears Bouffard a 200 pound powerful and tenacious ground gainer piled up heavy yardage on vital Hurt-cane scoring drives with considerable help from the polished passing arm of colorful Fran Curd Miami scored in the second and fourth periods and eight points came less than 40 seconds before the game's end It was largely a defensive contest marred by and minus thrills until last-minute touchdown push of 41 yards in five ptays- quarterback Bill McMillan passed to end Albert Witcher for the Bear's lone touchdown then threw to Billy Pavliska far the two-pointer yards to lead in rushing yardage He far outclassed Larry Hickman who managed to gain only 22 on five carries Bouffard halfback Joe Pleve and George MacIntyre were the big wheels when Miami rolled 73 yards in 13 plays for the Hurricane's second score A 31-yard pass from Curd Doug Hildebrandt set up first touchdown It was Bouffard who bulled his way 13 yarda two plays later for the Hurricane touchdown Fullback Jim Stevens added the placekick alter the touchdowns Villanova Wins TOUGH GOING FOR ACC Bill Lovelace Abilene Christian College fullback lidc hits an obstacle in this third down try against Texas Western on Kidd Field in NEWTON Mass (AP) Senior quarterback Jim Grazione scored a pair of touchdowns and passed for another to lead a bail-hungry Villanova team to a 21-19 upset victory over favored Boston College Saturday El Faso Saturday night Putting on the stops are TWC end Ben Lybrand (80) and guard Jim Young ACC took a 7-6 lead early in the second half and finally won 14-6 (AP Wirephoto) 7-14 Miami Bouffard earried IS times for 93 Baylor lee McMURRY Pg 2-D lee ACC Pg 9-D 4 1.

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