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STEPHENVILLEFlash- Marv's Rattler in San Antonio.mg that familiar old basketball power, Coach Glen Whitis' tall and talented Howard Pa\ne Yellow Jackets opened their 1968-69 campaign with an easy 100-83 victory over the out-Wclassed Tarleton State College Texans here Monday night The Jackets go game Wednesday they call on theSt Mary’s is already 1-0. squeezing out a 65-62 victory over Corpus Christi University in its opener.HPC MAKES its first home appearance next Monday night against Tarleton, Season tickets after bigger to all home games in the Brown-night when wood Coliseum went on sale to rugged St.. the general public today. Ducats can be picked up at the coliseum.The Jackets won breezing here Monday as Whitis substi-wtuted freely throughout the mismatch.HPC steadily built a comfortable lead in the early going and were on top 19-8 six minutes deep in the contest. It was 31-14 midway through the opening half and 43-20 with fiveBUCKS 1We DeservedWoodyBv DAVE GOLLISTCOLUMBUS, Ohio lt;AP) -‘‘We deserved it.” This wasOhio State Coach Woodv Haves’reaction to news Monday nightthat his unbeaten Buckeyes had•been voted No 1 in the Associated Press’ major college weekly football poll.Hayes learrx^d of the ranking just before he addressed a crowd of l.ioo persons at OSl s annual football banquet. He made the announcement and set off thunderous applause andcheers for his gridders, w'howere assembled around him on the speaker's platform.“Without exception,” Hayes said, “every man on the squaddid the best job possible. They did 90 per cent of the work.”His Rose Bowl-bound Buckeyes crushed Michigan 50-14 Saturday to clinch the Big Tentitle. OSl finished the regular season with a 9-0 record.“1 didn t have much to do with it actually,” Haves said “IV 'thought. I coached better last year. But the boys made the difference.”Our talent is diversified thisi Lseason.” Haves said. If we can t beat you one way, we'll beat you two other wavs.”The Buckeyes topped the AP poll in 1954 and won the Rose Bowl that year. 20-7 over South-ern California.This year’s Buckeyes also will face Southern Cal, which slipped from No. 1 to No. 2 in this week's poll and closes its regular season Saturday against Noire Dame.Harris Shares OffensiveHonors in Final LSC GameStallings HintsSomething NewCOLLEGE STATION. Tex. LAP) — ‘‘We might just have something new. and we might not.'1 Texas AM football coach Gene Stallings said Monday as he closed Aggie workouts to the public.The Aggies, defending Southwest Conference champions, are preparing for their season finale Thanksgiving Day against the University of Texas,The sixth-ranked Longhornscan wrap up a share of theSWC crown and a trip to theCotton Bowl with a victory over•»the Aggies, who enter the gamewith a 3-6 record AM closes out home drills tonight and will bus to Austin Wednesday for a workout inMemorial Star! mm he to re theNACOGDOCHES - Sometimes the top stars of a game are overlooked when a teamloses.Take Howard Pavne s JamesHarris, a junior halfback. TheYellow Jackets lost to McMurrv.•*24-22 but Harris was one of several stars for Coach James Cameron.All Harris did was rush for 124 yards on 14 carries and score once on a 66-yard run.Harris joins Texas AI’s Dwight Harrison and East Texas Slate's Tom Black as the offensive stars in the Lone Star Conference. Harrison caught five passes for 116 yards andthree touchdowns —15.5 and 54 yards—and rushed twice for 51Ayards as his team defeated Southwest Texas 39-0 for the LSC crown.Black scored twice in the final period against Stephen F.Black made four catches for 159 yards.Outstanding defensive stars include SFA's Ronald Collum, end. ETSU’s Don Yyods, linebacker, and McMurry's John Bentley, tackle.Collum led a fired-up Lumberjack defense the.t helf halfback Arthur James to a net gain of 85 yards, and dropped quarterback Benny Kirkland six times for a minus 42 yards. Collum had six key tackles and three first assists.Hynds set up East Texas State s tinal touchdown with a fumble recovery, me of two he recovered in the game, and had six tackles and one assist to his credit.Bentley, one of McMurrv s ton defensive stars all year, turned in 13 tackles in Ins team’s win over Howard Pavne.¥¥Hrc. nwifqfqa HftarebH«*nd lt;ck.s110012Sinches6035715Davis127035927McGhee71111315Coleman597ft217Utecht57441014Day34004^ jF letr.her033323Mauldin00011o !Pr^sner00170iTota;s.3«A42750100 ?TSC lt;83»14Moore3ft%A1nDean122122226 jLedbetter3103559 ;Pavlor011101 |Harden002402Ivy271fS435 \Davis1A0o12 1Shcr man9779101127 JTotals.307023303983 •HalftimeScore HPC50, TSC,24Total Fouls HPC 21, TSC 21 Fouled Out; Mauldin (HPC)★★minutes to play.The Jackets raced to their biggest lead of the half, 48-21,shortly before intermission.VWhitis got a good look at his reserves in the second half and the Texans made it respectable with a flurry late in the game.Lee Coleman, a 6-6 freshman from Oakland, Calif . playing his first game, registered the 100th Payne point with a bucket at the final buzzer.vIICOLEMAN was one of five | Jackets scoring in double lig-I ures. Mighty Fred Davis set the pace with 27 points and he I grabed nine rebounds as the ; Jackets won the battle of the boards, 50-39.Coleman had 17 points, cocaptains Bill Sinches and Dan McGhee 15 each and Marvin I techt 14 I techt led Jacket I rebounders with 10.Perry Sherman was the showmfor Tarleton, scoring 27 pointsand plucking 11 rebounds off the glass. Steve Dean was a step back with 26 points andDavid Moore chipped in with 11.It was a typical HPC effort in the shooting department The Jackets shot a scorching 60 9 per cent from the floor, connecting on 39 of 64 attempts The Paynemen were 22 of 29 fromthe foul line for 75 9 per cent.The Texans shot 42 9 per centfrom the field on 30 of 70 andcashed in on 23 of 30 from the charity stripe for a good 76 7 per cent.\tIItc(fIrffrrttr*3A ilk f in**» r*■ •
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Brownwood, Texas, US
Tue, Nov 26, 1968
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