The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1971 Page: 4 of 6
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Li'I Brown Jugs go down in defeat
by MIKE ROSS
My article last week, which I
have officially "eaten" at the
request of Cheryl Szpak, tasted
pretty bitter this week, as the
Jones Jockettes beat the Little
Brown Jug!s 20-7 last Sunday
in the 7th Annual Powderpuff
Football Game. I'd better get
out of the predicting racket
while I'm still even.
Jones used three long plays
and a quick defense to stop
Brown in a game where neither
offense was able to move the
ball consistently. Brown had two
sustained drives, one of which
ended in a 10-yd scoring toss
from halfback Katy Ross to end
Ann Fannin. The other ended at
tin' Jones 18 after the Jones de-
fense bottled uj) the Brown
sweeps, and the halfback pass
stopped clicking.
Alpha Morgan scored first
for Jones, racing 39 yards up
the middle. The same play
failed for the PAT. Early in the
-ocond quarter, Brown went
ahead 7-<i, with the halfback
pass accounting for both the
touchdown and conversion.
On the next series, Jones QB
Cheryl Szpak handed off to
Margaret Thompson, heading
around left end. Just as she was
swarmed by the Brown defense,
she handed the ball to end Karen
Epstein on the reverse, and she
streaked 45 yards for the touch-
down, with four blockers down-
field to block the lone Brown
defender in the way. A look-in
pasis from Szpak to Epstein ac-
counted for the extra point.
In the second half, both de-
fenses really got tough, with
most of the scoreless third quar-
ter played in Jones territory.
Still, Brown was unable to pe-
netrate the wall of linemen and
linebackers that clogged and
stopped the Brown offense. Fi-
nally in the 4th quarter, aided
by four penalties against Brown
in six plays, Jones moved the
ball to its own 45 where Szpak
threw a short pass to Brenda
Walker, who outran the Brown
secondary for the final touch-
down. Margaret Thompson
dashed over for the conversion.
Jones Coach Alan Woelfel
said that he wais proud of his
"boys" on their showing and
Bob Casagrande added that he
thought that tlhe defense "got
tough when they had to." Brown
coach John Waits attributed his
team's downfall to the superior
speed of the Jones defense and
praised Karen Epstein's play at
ilin,ebacker. She repeatedly stop-
ped sweeps on either side of the
field. The Brown runners were
rarely able to turn the corner.
All is quiet on the intramural
front, with the College Football
championships continuing. Yes-
terday, Richardson and Hanszen
met and Will Rice and Lovett
battle today at 4p.m. The win-
ners will decide the champion
next Friday, at Rice Stadium.
Women's extramural volley-
ball season is over, much to re-
lief of everyone concerned. Rice
won three games, two over San
Jac and one over HBC. The
Women's Tennis team has start-
ed formal practice.
'Connection' surprisingly exciting
by ANDY HURLEY
Three kinds of movies are
typii-ally and innately Ameri-
ca;): the cops-and-robbers mo-
lality, the Western, and the
lavish musical comedy. In Hous-
ton now is the latest avatar of
that first genre, a film called
The French Connection. Even
though this film sounds as
though it ought to have an ex-
tended i:un at any of Houston's
numerous skin flick theatres,
actually it serves up another
kind of dish altogether. The
movie is almost completely tra-
ditional — there are so few sur-
prises in its plot (which is some-
filing like a New York-filmed
The l'oppy is-Also a Flower
mated with Bullitt) that one is
puzzled, somewhat, to find that
the movie is as near a complete
success as film-makers turn out
today.
Gf no llackman turns in his
host performance since Down-
Mill Racer or Bonnie and Clyde,
and Roy Scheider as the other
half of the narc team turns out
to be very nearly as consum-
mate an actor as Hackman.
Fernando Rev as the French
connection is the perfect aristo-
crat-badman and brings to the
film a slickness, poise, and
self-assuredness that counter-
points very effectively the
tough-guy American cops.
Anyone who goes to Holly-
wood movies has seen this one
a dozen times — a hundred
times if you watch late movies
on TV, since this movie calls
up nothing so much as the 40's
golden-age cops - and - robbers
films that Aldo Ray or William
Bendix were always showing up
in. It's about a team of cops
with a hunch that a big drug
transfer is about to take place.
Nothing's going down on the
streets now — "Everybody's
hungry," as they put it — and
the cops have to figure out
where, when, and how the drop
is going to happen. A car is
the main suspect at one point,
but "a bunch of Spic car-
thieves" effectively foul Hack-
man and Scheider's stake-out.
The car is hauled in, though,
and in an unbelievably comic
scene — dead-serious to the
hard-working, fairly stupid
cops — is thoroughly and pain-
stakingly demolished to find
the heroin. And the heroin is
found, but not confiscated, be-
cause the narcs want the whole
gang. And so on — you've heard
enough, right ?
This banal story-line is trans-
muted into box-office gold by
sheer professionalism. Every
shot produces just the right
amount of suspense or comedy
or repugnance. Every part in
the film is cast and played
brilliantly. The chase-scene is,
it's billed, the best thing since
Bullitt — better, even, since
it's realer and a hell of a lot
scarier — edge - of - the - seat
stuff. And, as I discovered about
halfway through the film and
as Pauline Kael has pointed
out, the sound-track is a mas-
terpiece. Not much -music, but
the sounds of car tires on wet
brick streets, the sound of feet
squishing through mud, the
sound of windshield wipers work
so well to heighten one's sense
of the reality and tenseness of
that world one is participating
in for a couple of hours that you
find yourself straining to hear
and to see far more than in
many other movies. The movie
is visually exciting too — not
symbol-laden, but real, and
kind of grubbily pretty, a little
depressing.
It's a really fine unassuming
movie — it seems to embody
no pretense to art, and it be-
comes an exhilarating m^vie
experience.
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Freed, DeBow. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1971, newspaper, November 11, 1971; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245117/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.