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ACC Outlasts Jackets
In Season Finale, 49-30
ACC Strikes Early,
Jackets End Strong
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Friday Morning, November 28, 1958
WHOA, BOY! — Howard Payne’s Al Schlosser (22, at right) and an unidentified
Yellow Jacket, at lower left, put the grip on Abilene Christian College halfback
Veon Scott after Scott had romped seven yards for a first down on the Howard
Payne 33 in the second quarter. ACC won the wild-scoring battle, 49-30, before
1,000 fans at ACC Stadium Thursday. (Staff Photo by Don Hutcheson)
By JOE McLAUGHLIN
Reporter-News Sports Writer
Abilene Christian blitzed How-
ard Payne for four quick touch-
downs in the first quarter Thurs-
day, but the Wildcats had to
stave off the sensational passing
at freshman quarterback Dale
Byerly of Coleman in the second
half for a 49-30 season-ending
victory.
It was tlie highest scoring bat-
tle in the victory of the storied
rivalry between the two teams —
one that dates back in 1920. The
triumph was ACC's 11th in the
28 games played Two were 0-0
ties.
Approximately 1,000 fans brav-
ed near-freezing weather and a
biting cold 20-mile-an-hour south
ACC
STORY IN FIGURES
Average
, Yards
• Lost
completions were for touchdowns,
two to big end Robert McLeod of
Merkel on 21 and 56 yard scoring
plays and a 35-yarder to halfback
Jim Armstrong. He also passed
to Armstrong for a two-point con-
version.
Despite the fine passing of By-
erly and Brooks, the Wildcats in-
tercepted seven of the aerials,
five of Byerly's. Howard Payne
took the opening kickoff and
Byerly returned from the goal to
. , .the 12. He ran eight yards on
wind to watch the Thursday scor- a keeper but on the second play
ing fiasco.. .
The Wildcats scored four touch-
downs before the Yellow Jackets
could recover and it was 29-0 af-
ter one quarter The two teams
battled on even terms in the sec-
ond period and it stood 29-0 at the
fumbled and McLeod pounced on
the loose ball at the nine.
On the first play halfback Veon
Scott took a pitchout and skirted
right end for the nine-yard touch-
down. Moody Conner’s kick was
wide and It was 6-0 with only
half
The third quarter. Howard
Payne dropped all notions of a
running attack and Byerly and
Willie Brooks began tossing bul-
lets all over the field to score
two touchdowns It was 35-14 after
three quarters. Both teams scored
twice in the final period
Byerly completed 13 of 26 aer-
ials for 241 yards while Brooks
hit on four of nine for 62 yards.
Together the two amassed 17 of
35 passes for a whopping 303
yards. Byerly tossed three touch-
down passes and scored the
other
This was ACC's day, however,
and senior quarterback Don Har-
ber of Abilene had one of his
finest in passing for 125 yards on
five of 10 attempts. Three of the
a minute and a half gone.
Wildcat end Thurman Neill gob-
bled up Al Schlosser's fumble on
the ensuing kickoff on the Howard
Payne 29 after the latter had
returned the ball from his 12.
On the seventh play, fullback
Bill Lovelace slammed off left
tackle and scored from the three
easily. Harber passed to Jim Arm-
strong for the two-pointer and it
was 14-0 with 10:30 left in the
period.
Howard Payne held onto the
ball on the next kickoff but could
not make a first down and punt-
ed out to its own 48. Armstrong
hit for seven yards and Scott
made six before Harber lobbed
a long pass to Armstrong who
was wide open at the 15. In all
it was a 35-yard play. Lovelace
ran the extra point right through
the middle and it was 22-0 with
YSLETA CHIEF — Dean Byrum, 160-pound senior
left halfback, is the most dangerous runner in the
Ysleta backfield which the Abilene Eagles will attempt
to halt Saturday at Ysleta. Byrum has picked up 518
yards rushing in 54 carries in six district contests.
(Photo Courtesy El Paso Herald-Post)
Weather Clouds
Travel for Eagles
By FRED SANNER
Reporter-News Sports Writer
Only cloud on the Abilene Eag-
les’ horizon Thursday was the
slim possibility that they might
have to travel to El Paso by bus
Friday morning instead of flying
Friday afternoon.
However, barring worse
weather conditions to the west,
the Eagles, 39 strong, will leave
Abilene Municipal Airport Friday
afternoon at 2:45 in two chartered
planes for the site of their Satur-
day afternoon bi-district contest
with the Ysleta Indians.
The Eagles will make the Hilton
Hotel at El Paso their headquar-
ters Friday and make the short
trip to Ysleta about 11:30 Satur-
day morning.
Coach Chuck Moser worked the
Warbirds in the Eagle Gym for
seven minutes to go in the period, an hour Thursday, then moved
outside for another half hour. A
Again the Yellow Jackets
couldn't move following the kick-
| off and Byerly's punt traveled
| only 16 yards against the strong
wind and ACC was in business
. again at the HPC 48. Seven plays
later Johnny Veltman took a pitch-
, out and rambled 19 yards around
I right end to score Conner kicked
short workout will be held Friday
morning if the aerial transporta-
Tulsa Wins,
North Texas
Nabs Crown
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Tulsa's
bowl-hopeful Hurricane methodi-
cally ground out a 25-6 decision
over Wichita's Wheatshockers
Thursday on the line blasting of
Bob Brumble and Ronnie Morris
and pinpoint passing of Jerry
Keeling.
The Tulsa triumph dashed
Wichita's hopes of a Missouri Val-
ley Conference champion-
ship and gave the title to North
TULSA. Okla. (AP)—Statistics of Thurs-
days Wichita Tulsa o Hi T TULSA
First downs
Rushing yardage
Passing yardage
s intercepted by
les lost
penalized
12 24
113 313
94 197
20 9-20
3 1
6-45.7 4-45
3 2
Texas State. It enabled the Hurri-
cane to deadlock Houston for sec-
ond place.
Tulsa finished its season cam-
paign with a 7-3 mark, Wichita
with 4-5-1.
Brumble and Morris, who be-
tween them carried the ball 46
times for 245 yards, each scored
a touchdown and Keeling passed
22 and 30 yards to Billy Neal for
two more.
Wichita's tally came with 3%
minutes left in the game when
Dick Young tossed 28 yards to
Jerry Davis.
A holiday crowd of 10,818,
chilled by a 36-degree temper-
ature, watched Tulsa mount a 19-0
lead in the first half as Brumble
and Morris alternated in rippping
can, to be at the airport at 2:30.,. . ..
p.m. to give the Eagles a sendoff. the Shocker line in a duel for the
The traveling squad: ---- -
EN'DS — David Parks, Louis ship.
Adams, Charles Flynn, Clevie The title went to Morris, who
Powell, Reggie Crosby, Bobby
Schick.
TACKLES — Frank Aycock,
Jerry Osborne, Jimmy Gilstrap,
Johnny Howe, Ned Butler, Bill
Walker.
conference rushing champion-
GUARDS — Don Hughes, Rip
Howard, Leroy Johnson, Ray
Crumpler, Joe Mack Howard,
Rusty Burnett, Chuck Green.
CENTERS — Arch Ratliff, Jer-
ry Jackson, Johnny Garner, Gra-
ham Holland.
QUARTERBACKS - Freddie
Martinez, Charles McCook, Charles
Lacy. David Winkles.
HALFBACKS - Stanley Cozby,
carried 13 times for 148 yards to
send his season total to 624. Brum-
ble toted 23 times for 97 yards
to wind up 596. He ran his season
carries to 173, a new school rec-
ord.
The Shockers’ Ted Dean, who
had 486 yards entering the game,
was held to 27 in seven tries and
finished with 513.
Despite his scant yardage, a 22
yard run by Dean was his team's
longest ground gain and as the
game ended he intercepted a Tul-
sa pass and returned it 56 yards
to the Hurricane 18.
AGC
a ha
in 11
Win
STI
Tim Walter, Sarge Newman, An-
dy Springer, Bobby Austin, Ger-
ald Williamson, T. A. Buchanan,
Paul Tidwell.
tion plans stay in force.
Booster Club President George
Stewart urges all members who Mike Wayman.
FULLBACKS — Charles Harris-
on, Ronald Conklin, Steve Newton,
Wichita ............0 00 06
Tulsa 7 12 0 625
Tulsa—Brumble 2 run (West kick)
Tulsa— Morris 3 run (kick failed)
Tulsa— Neal 22 pass from Keeling (run
failed)
Tulsa Neal 30 pass from Keeling (kick
failed) _
Wichita—Davis 28 pass from Young (Fass
failed)
Lions Win, 24-14,
good and it was 29-0
ACC threatened to score again
near the end of the first quarter,o ■
driving to the 15 before a O Parian (aamahlac
yard clipping penalty wiped out I ■ QVlKvl omDIes
the threat.
Howard Payne finally managed DETROIT (AP) - A pair ofwesnotr copy Z stidete, de Thore
its initial first down with only six fourth down gambles backfired on day’s Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers
minutes left in the half Then the Green__________
the Jackets moved to four in a row and the Detroit Lions beat them KushiMdoardase
Passing yardage
Passes
Passes intercepted by
Punts
Bay Packers Thursday National Football LAS PAEKTS
■ all the way to the ACC nine be-24-14 in their traditional Thanks
$ fore Neill intercepted Brooks' pass giving Day contest.
at the seven.
In the third quarter. Coach
Nick Nicholson’s Wildcats march-
ed to the HPC three-yard line
before a fourth down run was
stopped short
Moments later, center David
Gilger recovered Harber's fumble
on the HPC 36 in three plays,
HPC scored. Byerly's beautiful
49-yard pass to Johnny Wilson put
the Jackets on the ACC 15. Then
Byerly hit Wilson again for a six-
yard gain to the nine and on the
third play he passed to Wilson
for the nine-yard TD. Then the
Coleman rookie hit Fred West for
the two-point conversion with 7:30
left to make it 29-8.
After ACC stalled, Howard
Payne took over on its own 28
In three plays, the Jackets scored
A crowd of 50.971 sat in 25- Fumbles lost
degree cold and a national tele- Yards
penalized
LIONS
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15-30 7-22
5 42 3-47
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Utah Edges Past
Utah State, 12-7
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Monk
Bailey and halfback Larry Wilson
led Utah to a 12-7 victory over
Utah State Thursday and a possi-
ble fifth place finish in the Sky-
line Conference.
It was the final conference game
of the season. Utah has a non-
conference tilt scheduled in Ha-
waii next month.
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ARCTIC SWAN DIVE — Howard Payne’s sensational _ . .
freshman quarterback, Dale Byerly (with ball above), hard ground ended up in an eight-yard gain but on
gets a rude landing on the first play of the game the next play he fumbled, resulting in an ACC touch-
Thursday with ACC That's ACC’s Veon Scott (23) down—the first of many Thursday as ACC walloped
throwing the body block while Moody Conner (50) Howard Payne, 49-30. (Staff Photo)
vision audience looked on in com-.
fort as these two tailend teams Three plays later McGeetook a
battled it out for nothing but pres short pass over the middle and
tige in the National Football with some fancy broken field run-
League —ning completed a 30-yard touch-
Quarterback Tobin Rote direct-down run. When the Packers
ed the Lions to an 87yard scor-again went ahead in their third
ing drive in the third period, then . ,
plunged across for the score that yards with a pass from quarter-
enabled Detroit to take the lead back Bart Starr and got the ball
after Green Bay had led twice to the Detroit 1. Another ex-De-
But the Lions got two huge as- troiter, Don Mcllhenny, plunged
sists when the Packers' Max Mc-
Gee back to kick on fourth down
deep in his own territory elected
to try to run for a first down.
Both times McGee failed and both
times the Lions moved in to score
The score was tied 7-7 in the
first period and the Packers faced
fourth down at their own 19. Mc-
Byerly passed to Harvey Neal 12
yards to the 40. then ran 13 yards
for a first down to the ACC 47 but still had time to get the kick
On the third play Byerly passed away. Instead, he ran the ball and
to Johnny Bullock who got behind was dropped one yard of the nec-
the safety man to catch the 47-essary yardage. Detroit's Jim
yard scoring aerial Byerly's pass Martin then booted a 32-yard field
comes in at right Byerly's swan dive on the cold, for the two-pointer was incom- goal that stood up for a 10-7 half
| plete and ACC’s lead was whittled time lead
to 29-14 with four minutes left Green Bay. with only one vic-
tory in 10 NFL games, marched
74 yards in eight plays and seized
a 14-10 lead early in the third pe-
Gee got a low pass from center
period drive, McGee raced 25
across from there
Buckies Have Two Key Injuries;
Turner Says Mustangs ‘Ready’
in the quarter.
Don Freiling got the thrill of
his life seconds later when the
185-pound junior center from San
Antonio intercepted Byerly's pass
on the ACC 40 and returned it
40 yards to the HPC 19. Two
plays lost to the 21 and then
Harber hit McLeod with a 21-
BRECKENRIDGE-The Breck -touchdown on a pass interception ready Saturday." Coach Elwood lines off the field himself "be-
enridge Buckaroos have two im- the first time the two powers met Turner said of his Sweetwater cause it helps to pass the time,
portant casualties as their all this year Breck won that one. Mustangs Thursday "We had a That last day gets to be awful
Important bi - district clash with 3520 little slump for two or three long " ,
Sweetwater approaches Coach Bellard held a brief work games but we’re ready now." "Our foxks are really ready for
Second unit fullback Maurice out Thursday afternoon and has Seven of the Mustangs who
Mehaffey will definitely miss the scheduled a 45 - minute drill Fri-tarted against Breckenridge last
game He re-injured in the Weath day afternoon 1 * - -
erford game a knee which he had The Buckaroos will leave Breck
enridge about noon Saturday and
long ”
initially hurt against Sweetwater
in the season opener.
But more serious perhaps to the
Buckles' hopes is a bad ankle suf-
fared by star end Larry Parker in
the Weatherford game. “
Parker sat out of the Vernon
game last week and Coach Emory
Bellard sounded rather blue
Thursday as he discussed how
much playing Parker will be able
to do Saturday night at Sweetwa-
ter.
Parker was the boy who caught
three touchdown passes against
Sweetwater and scored a fourth
make the Longhorn Motel their
headquarters in Sweetwater
At least five of the Buckaroos
were starters last year when
Sweetwater defeated Brecken-
ridge. 18-13. in the bi - district
round at Breckenridge
There are halfbacks Joe Ed
Pesch and Jimmo Wilson, guard
Larry Kimberlin (a center last
year), tackle Charles Huddleston
and end W H. Roberts
Ponies All Well
SWEETWATER - "We’ll be
year in the bi-district game at
Breckenridge will be on hand Sat-
urday to greet the Stephens Coun-
ty powerhouse again
Ends Pat Fraley and Jackie
Fielder, center Eugene Creech,
fullback James Parker, halfbacks
Eddie Scott and Ardis Gaither
and quarterhack John Bryant all
saw heavy action last year
Coach Turner pronounced all
of his squad in top shape after a
Thanksgiving Day workout. The
Mustangs will work out briefly
Friday.
Turner has saved one job for
himself for Saturday. He always
Both clubs had difficulty holding
on the ball in the first half each
losing it twice on fumbles and an-
other time on an interception,
Al Carmichael fumbled Starr’s
pass at the Green Bay 12 and set
up Detroit's first touchdown as
Lions linebacker Joe Schmidt ran
the fumble to the 5 and rookie
Ken Webb got the touchdown from
the 1.
The triumph left the Lions with
a 4-5-1 record in the league and
the Packers with a 1-8-1 mark.
Green Bay .. 7 0 2 014
Detroit 10 0 7 7—24
Green Bay: TD, McGee (30), pass from
Starr): Mcllhenny (1, run) PAT, Martin 3
uns 2. .
Detroit: TD, Webb <1. run); Rote 1,
run); Gedman, (4, run). PAT, Martin 3
FG—Martin (32).
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PERFECT YEAR
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn o
— Mississippi Southern's de-
fense preserved its first per-
fect football season Thursday,
stopping the University of
Chattanooga on four thrusts
from one yard out in the last
quarter to win 20-13.
The 9-0 season included vic-
tories over North Carolina
State and Virginia Tech, giv-
ing the Southerners a claim
to national small college su-
premacy.
With time running out in the fi-
nal period. Green Bay had anoth-
er fourth down situation at its
the grab. Harber’s pass for the own 24. Again McGee tried to run
two-pointer was blocked and ACC —then in desperation lobbed a
lead. 35-14. with 1:30 left in the feeble pass that fell 10 “* frozen
period, turt.
Byerly returned the kickoff 48
yards to the ACC 27 and seven
plays later he sneaked over for
the touchdown from the two. Bul-
lock scampered around left end
yard scoring strike. McLeod
fought off two defenders to make
this game, too. Last year the play-
offs were all new to them but now
they know what it means to the
town," Turner said
A thousand standing room only
tickets have already been sold
but Turner stressed that there is
a lot of standing room around the
sides and ends of the Mustang
Bowl and that nobody will be turn-
ed away.
Both teams have a 9-1 record
this season Sweetwater lost to
Breckenridge and Breckenridge
bowed to Abilene.
"Our loss to Breckenridge help-
ed us,” Turner said. "I just hope
their loss to Abilene didn't help
them too much."
for the two-pointer and it was 35
22 with 14:10 left in the game
The Lions took over and took
just six plays to score. Gedman
went over from the 4
Although McGee's failures on
fourth down cost his team 10
points, he scored the Packers'
first touchdown and set up the
other.
ACC caught fire again and scor- . n -__-
ed two quickies Lovelace banged Yale Lary fumbled a Green Bay
off right tackle and sprinted 30 punt in the first period and ex-
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