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Against McMurry Indians■'Dogs go for I 1th winThe Texas Lutheran College Bulldogs, still ranked as the No, 1 team in the nation in the NAIA Division II, will try for 11 victories in a row Saturday as . they take on the McMurry College Indians fromAbilene,Game time for the action will be 7:30 p.m. in Matador Stadium,The Indians, now 4-3 for 8 the season are a steadily I improving ball club, reports Bulldog coach Jim | W acker, and they will be 8 coming to us after a 24-14 win over MiUsaps College,Leading offensive threat for the McMurry squad is quarterback Lonnie Hobbs,who earned national rankings last year. An excellentfor toshContreras, Barry Schulz, po-I rothy Uhr, and Darlene Zunker, Eight contestants share fifth place with totals of 48: Robert » Adair, Dick Campbell, Robert 1 Cockrell David Driggers, Tex ! Saengerhausen, Marvin Wilke,' Russell Weilbaeher, and Dennis W. Zuber.Holding down sixth place with -•-.. 47 correct picks are Jo Aim '4feew»nn, Michael Morgan, Margie Hoy iteich^\ enbach, M-ke SchmTftriferfy Sal* azar Jr., Jerry Schriewet%3H Cont’d Page 6: Bands perform at TLfi game* Bind Day” will be observed ■ at Texas Lutheran College Saturday night, Oct, 26, when the TLC Bulldogs meet the Indiana from McJVHrry College.Area high school bands willlii ...passer, he also runs the option extremely well, according to scouting reports.Defensively, the Indians have Good size, and excellent team quickness, Wacker stated.In the series record, which covers periodic games from 1957, the Indians hold the edge, with six wins to only three for the Bulldogs. TLC has taken the last two in the series, winning 21-13 in 1972 and 33-12 last season.In the national NAIA rankings TLC continues to place in the top categories, Last week the Bulldogs were ranked in first in total offense and second in rushing offense. The team, is averaging 363 yards rushing and 482 yards total offense each game. Leading gainer for TLC is Terryl Johnson with an average of 104,5 yards per game — 11,2 yards peraverage,is also throwing for an average of 33 yards per game to add 123.8 yards per game to the total offense figures.Displaying a depth of power before a record Parents' Might crowd, coach Jim Wacker ran the gamut of lour strings of players Saturday as his Bulldogs defeated the Austin College Kangaroos 57-0.M'ire thin 4,000 p3rson-, in-cluj.ng the parents of Bui Wags players, watched asfiveqiarter-baeks moved the team down thefield in a variety of plays to score eight touchdowns, and make three 2-point conversions. An additional three points were added to the lop-sided score via PATS.“High point for the evening for me, ’ commented Couch Wacker, “was ihe performance of the entire offensive unit. . , the first through the fourth strings!’The point spread also continues as the Bulldogs now have 239 points for the season to only 27 for their opponents.er than in any previous game, with John Turner, offensive center from Ran Antonio Bracken* ridge, winning the Bulldog Award as the outstanding lineman.Others rating high in the near-perfect game were tackles Jim Perdue and John Tackett; guards Jerry Ellis, Steve Mzyk, and Jocky Gadison; and end RobertValdez.1'wo crucial factors in the victory, Wacker reported, were the blocking of wide receivers John Hickey and Brock Kalm* bach, and the “tremendous down-field blocking of the offensive line.Saturday's action for the No, I rated team in Division II of the NAIA was one in which the offensive line completely doml* nated physically.Tailback 'ferry 1 Johnson posted 170 yards in 13 carries and scored two touchdowns; fullback Charles Franks added another tpuciidown and 59 yards in four carries, while quarterback Mike Washington nude two Tps and rushed for 77 yards in five carries, None of the starting backs played more than a good gams during the rotation play, racking up 83 yards rushing in 11 carries.A combination of the third and fourth units played the lastquar* ter and moved the ball 96 yards for ths final TD,Two freshmen hooked up to score the last tally-!-with Alan Roberts, fifth quarterback toplay, hitting tight end Robert Rutkowski op a 12-yards pass.Quarterback Gary Valdez also connected on a 16-yard throw toend Dennis Ortm?-nn for a count* er, and scored himself with a one-yard run.The Bulldogs added to the scoreLont’d Page 5carry,Mike Washington, with 7,3 yards per carry T*® first line rated out high-%Bulldogs blast Kangaroos 57-0
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Seguin Gazette
Seguin, Texas, US
Thu, Oct 24, 1974
Page 28
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