The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1954 Page: 6 of 8
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THE THRESHER
NOVEMBER 12. 1M4
Results of
Activities
Touch Football
This has been the final week of
league play in touch football. As
this goes to press all the leagues
but the Thursday league have
champions determined. The Mon-
day League winner is the B-Bar-B
Riders (for the 2nd straight
year); Tuesday league, the
Clowns; Wednesday League, Kay's
Cowboys (who have run up a to-
tal of 112 points in three games);
Thursday league will either be the
Tubies or Windless Six who play-
ed this Thursday; and Friday
league, the Wolves.
The playoffs for the tourna-
ment champion will take place
this next week. The B-Bar-B Rid-
ers meet the Clowns, Kay's Cow-
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boys meet the winner of'the Tub-
ies vs. Windless Six game. The
Wolves will meet the winner of
Kay's Cowboys game. Then the
final game will be between the
winner of this game meeting the
winner of the B-Bar-B vs. Clown
game.
The results of past games are:
Kays' Cowboys (32) vs. Could
Be's (0).
Sexy Sextant (28) vs. Old
Baldy's (8).
Windless Six (12) xs. Clipper's
(6).
Polecats (4) vs. Little Blue (6).
Big Spooks (20) vs. Sad Six
(21).
Middies (0) vs. Wolves (33).
Rally Club vs. Terrell's Terrors.
(Rally Club won on Forfeit.)
Rebels (13) vs. Could Be's (13).
The tennis singles, and doubles
matches are running behind due
to cold and wet weather but play-
ers are urged to contact their op-
ponents and play the matches as
soon as possible. No results of
matches have been turned in since
the last issue of the Thresher.
Intramural entries close Satur-
day, November 13, for basketball,
handball singles, table tennis
singles and doubles, badminton
singles and squash. Students are
reminded that Saturday is a holi-
day so you better sign up today.
Volleyball
The women's volleyball tourney
is entering the final games. Several
league games remain to be played,
but league winners have emerged
from both the Tuesday and Wednes-
day Leagues. The 0. W. L. S.
(green) came through the season
undefeated, leaving the O. K. L. S.,
C. R. L. S., Metigs, and Volleyette^
in their path. The OWLS have
played exceptionally spirited volley-
ball, with all players doing yeo-
mans work; however, there are al-
ways a few standards on any win-
ning team. We prefer not to call
these players stars, but rather "the
most aggressive players." Shirley
Dittert, team captain; Lannie Price,
defensive second line player; and
Elaine Schwinger, primary spiker
of the offensive play, seem to be
the backbone of the team. It re-
mains to be seen how effectively
the consistent AWL play will hold
against the indomitable Green
Hogs Overtake Owls
Twice To Win 28-15
Geese, the Wednesday League
winners.
The Geese, a group of juniors
who bound themselves as freshmen
to cop the title, return as contend-
ers this year after a less success-
ful '53 season. The Geese, cap-
tained by Joan Smith and supported
by such standouts as Joan and Jane
Ryba, Marilyn Webb, and Wanda
Ragland, became league champs af-
ter defeating the V. C. L. S., E. B.
L. S., Slimey Eight, and O. W. L.
S. (white. Spectators are invited
to the championship game some
time next week. Watch th bulletin
boards in the lounge in the gymna-
sium for the date.
After watching 10 of the most
conscientious teams in volleyball
history at Rice battle for a month,
it seems only fitting that some
of the outstanding players should
be mentioned, even though their
teams didn't take league honors.
Among those players were Mary
Beth Harris of "Slimey Eight";
Anne Verner of the O. K. L. S.;
Sandra Reynolds and Nell Jennings
of the "Volleyettes," and Barbara
Whitworth of the "Metigs."
Honors have never been given
the winners of the women's swim-
ming meet which was held the last
of October. The following were
the results:
50-Yard freestyle—Carolyn Dear-
mond (winner).
25-Yard breaststroke — Ann
Farmer (winner).
50-Yard backstroke—Patti Blagk-
ledge (winner).
75-Yard Individual Medley—Patti
Blackledge.
75-Yard Team Medley — Black-
ledge, Farmer, and Dearmond.
Saturday is deadline date for en-
tries in Women's Basketball, Wo-
men's Badminton Singles, and Wo-
men's Table Tennis (singles and
doubles). Sign up by Saturday at
5 P. M. in the Physical Education
Office. o
racked up 117 yards running to
become the game's leading
ground gainer, 3 passes for a
total of 27 yards, 4 punts for 48
yards, and 1 kickoff for 43 yards.
The opportunistic Owls scored
the first touchdown which was set
up by Don Wils'on's recovery of
an Arkansas fumble on their 19
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and it took Rice seven plays to
cross the goal line. Nesbit sneak-
ed over from the one but Rice
still led 6-0 after Throckmorton
missed the extra point. The tre-
mendous Hogs came bristling back
with slick passing, something for
which Rice could not find the an-
swer, and went ahead 7-6 after
netting 70 yards on 14 plays. This
ended the scoring for the first
half, a half which indicated the
small difference between the two
teams.
The difference was that Arkan-
sas had better punting, passing,
pass defense, and passer protec-
tion, and Rice had better running
and led in nearly all the statis-
tics. In the second half the Owls
suffered from two bad breaks
which hurt considerably. Walker
returned a second half Nesbit
punt for 63 yards and a touch-
down, but Kenny Paul and Jack
Throckmorton both had part of
Walker on the 50 yard line. After
the Arkansan had relaxed and
stopped his forward motion the
two Owls released him but Walk-
er again started running and went
all the way to score. The game
movies showed that not only was
his forward motion stopped by
Paul and Throckmorton, but that
By RICE ASTON
The faulous Hogs from Arkansas came from behind twice
last Saturday to beat Rice 28-15. The Owls played a magnifi-
cent game and lost no face in bowing to the Arkansans. Moegle
and Morris Stone had great afternoons which enabled Rice to
lead in nearly every statistic except passing. The mighty Moegle
never crossed the goal line but
Walker's knee had touched the
ground when he had bobbled the
ball on first catching it. A tough
break for the Owls but it is best
that the incident-be forgotten af-
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ter the facts have been brought
out.
Moegle returned the kickoff 48
yards to the Hog 42 yard line,
and brilliant running and block-
ing by the Owls led by Mac Tay-
lor and Bryant Stone enabled Rice
to pull up 12-14. Again the Rice
men were unable to add the extra
point. Several plays later the
Hogs were unable to move and
the Owls worked the ball down to
the Hogs' 10 yard line where a
fourth and five situation was fac-
ed. Jerry Hall was sent in to"
attempt a field goal which was
nothing less than perfect. It was
kicked from the 17 yard line and
Rice again led 15-14.
The Owls stopped the next Ar-
kansas bid on their own 26 yard
line where Page Rogers received
a quick kick, but an Arkansas
touchdown, was set up as Berry
intercepted a Proctor pass on the
Rice 3-7. The "deadly Walker to"
Matthews combination gained to
the Rice 10 yard line where Rice
suffered its second bad break. As
Matthews was run out of bounds,
Mendel Laviage came in to make
sure a reoccurence of the Walker
episode did not happen and the
Owls were penalized down to their
1 yard line for tackling out of
bounds. Two plays later Arkansas
went ahead by 21-15.
Nesbit returned the kickoff to
the Owl 42 yard" line, then his
running mate Moegle got 23 yards
to the Arkansas 35. Nesbit found
Holland open on the Arkansas 18
yard line apd shot him a perfect
pass. This was as far as the great
Rice team ever got and Arkansas
took over on downs. With about
two minutes left in the game the
great Arkansas* sophomore George
Walker ran 38 yards to score
again, after his teammate Benny
Berry had made another crucial
pass interception on the Rice 38.
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