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Show Must Tumble Santa Clara To Stay in Grid Picture By LEO J. TURNER ' DALLAS, Texas, Oct 4 (UP) Texas A. and M perennial peren-nial dark horse, today remained the Southwest conference' lone hope of crashing into the national football picture. The Aggies meet SanU Clara at San Francisco Friday night with 32-0 victory over Oklahoma A. and M, and 14-0 triumph over Centenary behind, them. The Texans need a smashing vie-' lory over SanU Clara, who battled to a 7-7 tie with Utah last week, to gain national recognition. Their only other intersect lonal tilt Is with Vlllanova at the Tyler, Texas, Rose festival the following week. Coach Homer Norton, under fire from the alumni, has a forward wall that holds. Behind It romps Jolting John Klmbrough, the 210-pound 210-pound back who has torn conference confer-ence lines to shreds for two years. Passing Is handled by Walemon Price, who last week tossed .34 yards to Jim Thomasea for a touchdown against Centenary. Broken-field running Is taken cars of by a sophomore, Derace Moser, who has plenty of Southwest conference con-ference coaches worried. Braised Favorites The other conference favorites, badly bruised In opening skirmishes, skir-mishes, will try to recover in their own division this week. Texas Christian, defending champions cham-pions who were defeated 6-2 by U. C L. A. on the coast, open the conference race against Arkansaa, victims of a 19-0 licking by Mississippi Missis-sippi State last week. The Christiana" defeat revealed that Coach Leo (Dutch) Meyer needs a line with punch to protect Jack Odle and Connie Sparks, who carry the strength of the T. C U. offense In their passes. Rice, with Its famed Ernie Lane and Olle Cordill, who ran the southwest dizzy as sophomores two years ago, fell 13-12 before an underdog un-derdog Vanderbilt team last week. Vanderbilt swarmed over a Rice' second string team to score two touchdowns and a conversion In the last four minutes of the game. Rice will compare Us strength with Texas A. and M. when It meets Centenary, which the Aggies beat last week. S. M. V. tn Wana-nt Southern Methodist, butchered by graduations, fought Oklahoma to a 7-7 tie. The Methodists meet North Texas Teachers this week In a warm-up for Notre Dame the following week and Marquette on October 21. Texas, with an outside chance for nauonal attention, will get Its first hard teat when Coach Dana X. Bible sends his sophomore-studded sophomore-studded team against Wisconsin at Madison this week. Texas defeated defeat-ed an Inexperienced Florida team 14-0 last week. Baylor, 34-4 victor ever little Southwestern In Its opener, plays Oklahoma A. and M. at Stillwater, Okla to compare Its form with the team that surrendered 32-0 to tha Texas Aggies two weeks ago. |