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*Texas Coast
Duck Survey
Shows Drop
AUSTIN — Duck population
along the Texas coast showed a
definite decrease this year over
1960, in a waterfowl inventory-
taken by biologists of the Game
and Fish Commission and the U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The inventory along the coast,
made Nov. 18-22 inclusive, show-
ed an estimated waterfowl popu-
lation of 91.0,899 as compared with
1,463,500 for the same time last
year.
The biologists estimated' the
duck population at 695,514 this
year with 859,600 in 1960; the
goose population at 188,794 as
compared with 437,600 last year,
while the coot population estima-
ted was 26,491 as compared with
166,300.
Because of bad weather, con-
siderable area in the Corpus
Christi-Lavaca segment had to
Jfee omitted.
The survey was made by Char-
les Stutzenbaker, Game and
Fish Commission biologist, with
E. B. Chamberlain of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, flying a
Gruman Goose, as pilot observer.
All the important waterfowl habi-
tat was covered between the Sa-
bine river and the Rio Grande,
with small exceptions, according
to the report.
Last year, the heaviest water-
fowl concentration was in the area
between the Sabine and Galveston
Bay. This year, the heaviest con-
centration was in the area be-
tween Corpus Christi Bay and the
Rio Grande.
The heaviest decrease in spe-
fic percentage-wise was of the
Northern Mallards, where there
was a drop of 25,000 birds. The
pintail population held steady, as
did the Canada Goose. Snows and
blues ,however, showed a heavy
decrease.
15 Grid Deaths
Measures Search
Kyle Panthers Roll
Over Taylor 65-50
CHICAGO m — The record of
15 prep football deaths in the 1961
season has the National Federa-
tion of State High School Athldtic
Associations seeking new safety
easures.
Clifford B. Fagan, executive
secretary of the association, told
the Associated Press Tuesday.
“The federation is going to
campaign for sitricter enforcement
of regulations governing such
things as piling on and tackling
out of bounds. We also want to
see a reduction in the use of
forearms on defense.”
The federation began keeping
records in 1931 and represents
20,000 high schools in every state
except Texas. The 15 direct
deaths are (the highest on record.
There were 14 recorded in 1935,
1946 and 1957.
There were seven other foot-
ball fatalities which fell in the
indirect category. These included
players stricken by heart seizures
in Warm-up routines or who died
from various infections and dis-
eases.
Nine of the direct faltalities oc-
curred during games, six in prac
tices. The federations said 720,-
000 boys participated in prep foot-
ball the past season making the
death rate 2.08 for every 100,-
000.
PAN AM WINNER
McALLEN (ff) — Host Pan Am
erican College won its Holiday
Basketball Tournament by beat-
ing Emporia State (Kan.) 77-65
Tuesday night.
The Taylor Ducks had a rough
night in Kyle Tuesday when they
were only able to take one out of
three games with the Kyle Pan-
thers. The varsity dropped their
con est; 50-65; the B team lost a
squeaker, 40-43; and only the
freshmen were able to keep it
"rcm being a dismal night for
they won the opener of the triple
header, 43-22.
Coach Rick Sherley’s quintet
was never able to adjust fully to
the abbreviated Kyle High court
and loose officiating that made
the contest unusually rough. Ri-
to Hernandez sank twenty of the
Ducks’ points primarily on a good
eye at the free throw line. The
burly senior made five field goals
and ten out of 12 charity tosses,
but was nosed out for the game’s
high man by Leo Herzog who
canned 21. points from all over
the court.
The Ducks dropped the game
in the first half after both teams
had a slow start and Taylor let
Kyle jump to an 8-0 lead before
Ervin Isensee finally tipped in
a rebound for the Ducks to get
them on the board. Doug Ruthven
hit from outside and Hernandez
and Isensee each made a pair of
free throws that cut the quarter
to 14-8.
The Panthers really moved in
the second quarter and hit for 22
big points that carved' out the vic-
tory. LaCaze began to wheel off
the front post and Herzog started
dr pping in field goals from out-
side before the Ducks could get
off Ithe ground. LaCaze also dom-
inated the boards for the hosts
and Taylor just didn’t get any
second shots. The short court cut
ut Taylor’s fast breeze entire
ly so all the twelve points that
the Ducks got in the second eight
minutes did was keep the score
a bit more respectable, 20-36.
Twice in the third quarter Tay-
lor was able to pull to within
six points, but everytime Her-
"o'v pulled the Panthers out. In
the third quarter Taylor made
18 points as Hernandez got four
cut of five at the free throw line
plus a field goal; Mucha made a
field goal and a free throw; Ruth-
ven made two field goals and
Isensee added another. Late in
the quarter Roger Youngblood got
a free throw and a field goal so
that Taylor trailed, 38-48, going
into the last quarter.
The Panthers were determined
to avenge an earlier 47-38 beat-
ing they’d taken from, the Ducks
in Taylor and they cranked up
their offense again in the last
quarter to move to seventeen
points as compared to only twelve
for Taylor. Early in the quarter,
Ruthven and Hernandez each got
field goal to gnaw at the lead,
but Randy Miller found five of
his 13 points and Kyle was able
to stay out of danger. Nyle Mann’s
entry into the game improved
the Ducks’ rebounding consider-
ably in the last half and Tayllor
got off more shots to account for
its increased point total.
The B team had a poor third
quarter that blew their five point,
20-15, halftime lead as Tommy
Coers went into a hot streak that
helped him end up with 17 points
for his night’s work and lead
the game’s scoring. Nyle Mann
made 14 for Taylor and Rodney
Kind was right behind' him with
12.
Kyle jumped into the lead in
the B contest too and with Coers
setting the pace, the Panthers
had 12 points to the Ducks’ 5 at
the end of eight minutes of play,
Only Mann was able to score
from the field in the first quarter
but Jimmy Freels made two free
throws to go with another by
Mann so that the Ducks weren’t
too far behind.
Mann and Kind led the way for
the big second quarter offensive
and the defense cut Coers off to
enable Taylor to grab the lead
by outscoring Kyle 15-5. Mann
got seven of those points, Kind
made six, Wayne Schroeder hit
two and Larry Moehnke canned
o free throw for the total.
Coers came back strong at
the half, hitting four out of six
attempts from the field including
two consecutive steals (that
brought the score to 21-20 and
set the stage for Heidman’s tying
free throw. Only Schroeder and
Moehnke could hit from the field
for Taylor and the two teams
were tied., 26-26, at the quarter’s
end.
The lead changed hands several
times in the final eight minutes,
but Montage put down any
chance of the Ducks pulling the
game out by making a field goal
and a free /throw in the final
minute.
In the ninth grade game that
opened the night’s play, the Tay-
lor freshmen broke the game open
in the third quarter and went
on to their easy win. Big Wayne
Schroeder was top scorer with
19 points on seven baskets and
five free throws, followed by Lar-
ry Moehnke who made fourteen
points. Roy Reichenbach made
six and Billy Mucha got four for
the Taylor total of 43 points.
Only three points separated the
two teams at the end of the first
quarer when the Ducks were
in front 9-6. Each of the quintet
duplicated their scoring in the
second quarter so Taylor had an
18-12 halftime lead.
Then in the third six minutes
the Ducks came to life and
scored 15 points in six minutes of
play. Moehnke made seven and
Schroeder got six while Taylor’s
defense clicked well enough to
keep the Panthers from making
more than five points.
Owning a 33-17 lead, Taylor
coasted to ten more points in the
last quarter. Reichenbach’s four
points led the way and once again
the hosts were held to five points
for the final margin.
The Ducks have one more night
of play this week. On Thursday
the Pflugerville Panthers come to
Taylor for a doubleheader. After
that the Ducks v/ill be idle until
December 27 when they leave for
Carthage and the Gas Capital In-
vitational Tournament. Taylor is,
the defending champion in this
'East Texas classic.
Spahn Named
Top Athlete
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Warren Spahn, the pride of
Milwaukee, who became the sev
enth major league pitcher in base
ball history to win 300 games,
was named the veteran athlete
of the year for 1961 today.
The brilliant 40-year-old south-
paw breezed ito victory in an As
sociated Press poll of 251 sport:
writers and broadcasters. He wor.
out over such other oldumers as
Archie Moore, the partial light-
heavyweight boxing champion;
Stan Musial, baseball’s elder
statesman; Jerry Barber, th-
PGA ititleholder and New Yarl
Giant quarterbacks Y. A. Tittk
and Charley Conerly.
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WILLIAMS WINS FIGHT
HOUSTON (/P) — It took Cleve
land Williams just 44 seconds 0
score his 43rd knockout Tuesda;
night in a heavyweight mater
with Jim Wiley.
San Diego,
Oilers Play
For Crown
HOUSTON (/Pi — San Diego and
Houston meet for the Ameiicai
Football League championship
Sunday, and the Oilers can just
be thankful Billy Cannon tool
care of the skeptics.
The Heisman Trophy winner
from Louisiana State had a hard
time last year when he made hi'
pro debut. He got battered and
benched.
He was threatened with the
bench early this season because
Lou Rymkus, then coach of the
Oilers, said he thought it might
help Billy play better football.
But Cannon responded. Wher
Wally Lemm took over for Rym-
kus in mid-October, Cannon Start-
ed a running binge that led him
to the league’s rushing title, a
one-game rushing record and a
tie for the most touchdowns in
one game.
Cannon is only part of the story
of Houston's nine-game surge
from ithe bottom to the top of the
league’s Eastern Division.
The Oilers set several records
in lining up the title rematch,
and some of the marks are good
enough to be records in either
pro league,
The defending AFL champs are
the first team in the AFL or the
National Football League to gain
more than 6,000 yards in a single
season. The Oilers picked up 6,288
in 14 games. No team in either
league has ever matched the 4,392
yards Houston gained on passes.
No other team in the AFL or NFL
has scored more than 500 points
in one season. Houston scred 513.
George Blanda, in his 12th pro
year, passed for 3,340 yards and
36 touchdowns—-more Ithan any
other quarterback has done in
either league.
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Rice, Texas Tech
Win Cage Games
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
’ Rice and Texas Tech won bas-
ketball games Tuesday to push
the Southwest Conference to a 21-
18 margin *tn intersectional con-
tests.
Kendall Rhine scored 21 points
to lead the Rice Owls to a 71-64
victory over Vanderbilt. Texas
Tech broke loose in the second
half t oswamp the University of
Oklahoma 70-42.
Rice held a 13-point halftime
lead and built it to 21 points in
the second half. Vanderbilt trim-
med the margin to six points but
Rice held on to move its rec-
ord to 4-3.
Del Ray Mounts dumped in 20
points, 14 in the second half, to
pace Texas Tech to its lopsided
victory. Oklahoma’s- soft defense
limited Harold Hudgens to 10
mints for Tech but freed the
Raiders’ outside shooting.
Baylcr travels to Atlanta to
neet Georgia Tech, and' Texas
Christian is host to Oklahoma
City at Fort Worth in intersec-
tional contests Wednesday night.
Arkansas, season leader in the
conference with a 5-1 record,
plays Louisiana State at Shreve-
port Thursday.
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Arkansas, Texas
Prepare for Bowls
Taylor Daily Press, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1961, Page 3
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arkansas’ Razorbacks held' their
'ast workout on home soil Tues-
day preparing for the Sugar Bowl
game, while the Texas Longhorns
scrimmaged against Mississippi
offensive patterns.
The Porkers, -who take on the
Crimson tide from Alabama in
he Sugar Bowl at New Orleans
Jan. 1 were again held to an in-
door workout
Meanwhile in Austin, the Long-
horns were looking better than on
Tuesday, Coach Darrell Royal
said.
Royal ran the fourth team as
Ole Miss offense, and the Texas
freshman team was the Ole Miss
defense. Royal has scheduled
scrimmages through Thursday,
when the Longhorns will break
until Dec. 26 for the Christmas
Holidays.
Arkansas coach Frank Broyles
concentrated his squad on hard
running, then issued football shoes
with instructions to “run as much
as you’re running while you are
home.”
Arkansas leaves the day after
Christmas for Baton Route, La.,
where they will use Louisiana
State facilities.
Texas will work in Austin until
just prior to he game in Dallas
Jan. 1.
John Vaugh hasn’t host a bowl
game to a Southwest Conference
team in the 15 years he’s coached
Mississippi’s football teams.
But the soft-spoken Texan fig-
ures his Rebels will get their
most severe test then they face
Texas in the Cotton Bowl New
Year’s Day.
“They’ve got the most explo-
sive offense that we’ve faced in
a number of seasons,” drawls
Vaught ,whose 1961 team finished
with a 9-1 mark and the top of-
fensive record in the nation.
Vaught-coached teams own four
victories over Southwest Confer-
ence teams in as many bowl
games.
The Rebels last met Texas ip
the 1955 Sugar Bowl, where they
drubbed the Longhorns 39-7. Their
only Cotton Bowl appearance was
in 1956 when they whipped TCTJ
14-13. Ole Miss downed' TCU 13-9
in the 1948 Delta Bowl at Mem-
phis and whipped Rice 14-6 in the
1961 Sugar Bowl.
Overall, Vaught’s bowl record
is 6-2, with losses to Navy and
Georgia Tech in the Sugar Bowl
the only blemishes.
Vaught gained on Oklahoma’s
Bud Wilkinson this season in his
bid to become the nation’s win-
ningest active coach. Vaught has
a 120-30-7 record for 15 years and
is second only to Wilkinson’s 129-
24-4 mark.
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