The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1970 Page: 4 of 6
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Owis revive to beat Aggies, breaking SWC loss string
By MARTY BELASCO
and GARY RACHLIN
Rice's Owls staged a brilliant
second-half comeback Saturday
to nip the Aggies, 18-17. Rice
was down and seemingly out
when, with 4:30 remaining in
the third quarter, Larry Wall-
ing recovered an Aggie fumble
at the A & M 23-yard line. The
Owls who were don 17-3 at the
time then came to life, as tail-
back John Cardwell dovp over
right tackle for the final yard
and Rice's first TD. Instead of
going for the automatic one •
point conversion, however,
Coach Hagan elected to send in
Philip Wood for a two point
try. Wood responded by run-
ning around the end for the
two points.
Following a short Aggie
punt, Rice scored on its next
possession, as back-up quarter-
back Bruce Gadd's passing and
Cardell's running highlighted
the drive. It was a slutch 3 yard
run by Macon Hughes on the
fourth down which produced
the touchdown, and Mark Wil-
liams PAT gave the Birds the
victory margin.
Much of the strategy of the
game was dictated by the strong
twenty mile-per-hour wind. The
Owls won the coin toss and
elected to take the wind. This
strategy proved effective as
Mark Williams booted his first
field goal of the year, (a re-
spectable 41 yarder). But A &
M, with the wind to its back,
put ten points on the board to
lead at the half, 10-3. The Ag-
gies were aided by the recovery
of a Stahle Vincent fumble at
the Owl 23.
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The Aggies surprised Rice by
electing to receive against the
wind and then (marching 80
yards for the touchdown. Now
down 17-3, Hagan elected to
take advantage of the weather.
Combining Bruce Gadd's pin-
point passing and the running
>of Wood, the Main Street Won-
ders responded to present de-
parting coach Hagan with a
victory.
Much credit must go to the
Rice defensive uniit for another
fine performance. Roger Roitsch
looked like the Ail-American
candidate he was billed as at
the start of the season. The de-
fensive secondary did an out-
standing job, with cornerback
David Keys playing his best
game of the season. But no-
where was the defensive effort
appreciated more than in the
final minute and one-half of
the contest. The Ags had just
blocked a Bucky Allshouse punt
and taken possession on the
Rice 47. On first down on the
Rice 35, Roitsch stormed in and
dumped Aggie quarterback Joe
Mac King for an eight yard loss.
This proved to be one of the
big plays in the game, as an
Ag-gie field goal attempt on
fourth down fell just eight feet
short.
ediforial
Another play worth mention-
ing occurred earlier in the final
period, when Allshiouse, in deep
punt formation at his own 30-
yard ine, faked the kick and
courageously ran for the first
down, thereby allowing the
Owls to use up more time and
finally to place 'the Ags in poor
field position. After the game,
Coaoh Hagan explained that the
decision to run was Allshouse's
alone, and was not a trick play
sent in from the sidelines. An-
other Rice player, elaborating
•on the risk involved on such a
play, added that 'if Allshouse
had not made the first down
yardage, he should have gotten
up and mm right out of the
stadium.
The Owl team showed its ap-
preciation of Coach Hagan by
presenting him with the game-
ball. Hagan, however, refused
to take credit for the victory,
commending his players on their
fantastic comeback perfor-
mance. In our opinion, however,
Hagan's intelligent strategy as
well as the inspired play of the
Owls accounted for the victory.
Although Hagan denied em-
ploying any basic changes in
the offensive attack except for
a counterplay using running
back Macon Hughes, it was ob-
vious that some changes for the
better took place. The Owls em-
ployed a triple-set backfield and
moved the ball well most of the
first quarter. Also, the half-
back (usually Hughes) handled
the ball regularly in addition to
the normal quarterback-tailback
repertoire.
Hagan masterfully juggled
his two quarterbacks in the sec-
ond half, taking full advantage
of each player's individual tal-
ents. His decision to go for two
points following the Owl's first
touahdown was a logical and
carefully planned bit of stra-
tegy. In short, this team looked
little like the Hagan-coached
team which had lost four
straight games.
This weekend, the Owls en-
tertain the TCU Horned Frogs
in Rice Stadium in Hagan's
farewell home appearance. The
home forces still have a chance
to salvage a 5-5 season record
and another fiired-up perform-
ance is anticipated. The Frog-
gies, fresih from a 58-0 trounc-
ing by Texas, bring a 3-5-1 rec-
ord into the game. They are led
by quarterback Steve Judy, an
outstanding passer, and sopho-
more running back Raymond
Rhodes. We look for the Owls
to make it two in a row with a
17-13 decision.
Local sportswriter's attack unjust
Jack Gallagher, sports writer
for the Houston Post, played a
"fun" game Thursday (Novem-
ber 12) morning — kick the
coach while he's down. That
morning he wrote an article
entitled "Rice job got the best
of Bo Haigan." His article con-
tained not one constructive
thought — it was just a com-
plete smear of Coach Bo Hagan.
Even if everything he said
was true, we disagree with the
timing of Gallagher's article.
Bo Hagan had already resigned
his position at Rice. If Jack
Gallagher felt strongly that
Coach Hagan was not doing an
adequate job due to the rea-
sons he (Gallagher) mentioned,
why didn't he write his beliefs
before Hagan tendered his resig-
nation. By writing the article
after the resignation, Gallagher
managed to help no one while
hurting others. Tsn't he won-
derful ?
However, we don't believe that
everything Gallagher wrote was
true. First of all, consider his
statement that "Alumni and
friends of Rice (who) volun-
teered to help in the athletic
program found they were not
wanted." Coach Bo Hagan said
that thiis was completely false.
He said "Help from alumni and
interested fans was solicited
and never turned down." Hagan
went on to explain that since
he has been Athletic Director,
he has devoted the month of
May to traveling around the
state of Texas talking to (and
forming if necessary) Rice
Booster Clubs with the ex-
pressed purpose of soliciting
help for recruiting from alumni
and other interested persons.
For some reason, unknown but
to God, Jack Gallagher inter-
prets Hagan's efforts as proof
to the belief that "Hagan pre-
ferred to work alone."
Throughout his article, Gal-
lagher criticized Hagan's desire
for a good organization by say-
ing that he overdid it — "Every
function was performed accord-
ing tb the clock." Gallagher
then proceded to tell a little
anecdote to illustrate his point.
He said that Joe Davis, an as-
sistant coach during the Jess
Neely era and at the begin-
ning of Hagan's regime, stop-
ped Hagan one morning and
asked, "Bo, do you have a min-
ute." According to Gallagher,
the following happened: "In
brisk business-like fashion the
head coach consulted his watch
and is supposed to have an-
swered, 'I've got exactly 30 sec-
onds'." We asked Hagan about
this incident and he said it
never happened. He called it a
complete fabrication.
What reason do we have to
believe Hagan over Gallagher?
The answer is in Gallagher's
article. He wrote, "After be-
coming head coach and athletic
director his (Hagan's) personal-
ity changed. He was withdrawn,
uptight, often inaccessible to
the press." This is a blatant lie.
We have known Coach Hagan
since the last week of August
and have had weekly scheduled
interviews with him. If we
wanted to talk to him at some
other time, he always arranged
it so we could. With uis he was
completely accessible. It would
seem that if Coach Hagan was
prone to making himself scarce
to the press, he would have
demonstrated this tendency with
us. We say this for. two reasons.
First of all, until his resigna-
tion announcement, we were his
toughest critics in print.' Sec-
ondly, about 50% of our inter-
views were spent in violent dis-
agreement between Hagan and
us. Despite this, Coach Hagan
remained very co-operative and
cordial to us.
It is true that Bo Hagan can-
not be described as being ef-
fervescent. However we found
him to be a warm and sincere
person — he was by no means
withdrawn and uptight.
We feel that Jack Gallagher's
article showed a complete lack
of taste or good sense. What is
worse, most everything he
wrote about Coach Hagan was
false. We guess this shows to
what extreme a wholly incom-
petent writer will go to get
copy.
Belasco, Rachlin
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