Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-02

Cowboys Face
Stiff Competition
By MORRIS sIEGEL

g DALLAS, NOV 2-Its not Just hard to avoid becom-
ing interested in football in Texas It's impossible To the
visitor it appears every vacant lot not only has set Of
goal posts but they're constantly being used.
Unlike Washington where often there's not one col
ege or pro game in the neghborhood on a week end,
there's enough for everybody down here.
The problem of selection and even this is not
too big most you're born to the coors. You're
either for Texas Texas AIM, SMU TCU, Texas Tech,
Rice Baylor but you choose sides It's heresy to root
for two schools There's such thing as co-exstence
Today Texas Is jumping with rivalry. Here in Dallas
it's the Longhorns with perfect six-game record stak-
ing their No. l rating against SMU in the Cotton Bowl
At Waco Baylor plays host to TCU. In Lubbock, Texas
Tech will be taking dead aim at Rice Only Texas AIM
is out of State The Aggies at Little Rock for fracas
against Arkansas.
THAT'S NOT ALL. Add to this a dozen small schools"
plus than 1000 high school games and you can see
what as the Dallas Cowboys besides their 16 record
The Cowboys in their fourth NFL season, are sick
team the box office They've got four home games left
including tomorrows inconsequential scufe with the
Redskins Between them, the two have won only three
games.
Their meeting is not likely to tax the $4,000 capacity
of the Cotton Bowl 1t probably will be played before co.
900 empty seats The Cowboys are so pressed for specta
tors they're allowing five youngsters, 16andunder, to
see the game free when accompanied by one adult VINO
haspurchased SIS ticket.
Fortunately the Cowboy owners can afford this in
diligence They are bankroed by the wealthy Murchisons
But even the Murchsons regardless their inexhaus-
BILE stockpile, won't take it too much longer
FANS CAN'T COMPLAIN that the Cowboys aren't Of
fering interesting football It's been to interesting The
Cowboys usually furnish most Of the excitement but its
the opponents who usually wind up winning the game
In the past few years have made their choice
They're for dull winning team every time over an IN
teresting loser, If there is such an animal
Their sweetheart has become Texas University where
Darrell Royal riding shotgun The Longhorns are about
as exciting as report Of the OARS resolutions commit
tee but Texans don't to care Texas their papy
This is indeed strange here where such terms as
"Aeral Circus and "Singn Sammy" and Singsnot
Davey were born to pay tribute to the air shows pro-
vided by Ray Morrisons old sU teams and the legend
airy Sammy Baugh and Davey OBrien.
Royals Longhorns don't play 1t this way at ALL Their
most interesting play either quick kick or dart be-
tween tackle and guard. But it's paying Off
Royal an Oklahoma quarterback under both the late
Jim Tatum and Bud wilkinson, doesn't have to defend
his system The record speaks for itself Unbeaten last
year and headed for the type of "duness this
son.
1.-THE best thing a coach hope for" Royal says,
sis to please the majority And the only to please the
majority is to win"
Like all splt-T disciples Royal is ball control
teacher.
The statistics bear out how well his Longhorns are
doing their job In the first six games Texas has owned
the ball 44O plays to only 295 for its opponents.
Boiling it down, it means the Longhorns run three
plays for every two by the other team Passing isn't
entirely taboo on Royals teams, but they be ex-
pected to throw the ball about often Republicans
and sullen southerners support Kennedy backed BILL
Shortly after Royal took charge Texas rival up
the young coach conner We're gonna have to get
up nightly early in the morning to cope with that codger
the observer said.
Even that won't help Royal has defense for it also
This morning, for example, he had the Texas publicity
man up playing host to an alumni breakfast at am.