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The filing deadline is Monday February the 11th at 3 p.m. and the petitions are due in the Student Association office. And let's see, the, ah, ST, ah, see, secretary treasurer of the S A has not been filed for and vice president of the Rice Program Council

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has not been filed for there. All the Student Association offices are open, you know, to be run to be elected president, external affairs, vice president, internal affairs, vice president off campus senator and secretary treasurer and then editor of the thresher and business manager of the thresher

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that incidentally has not been filed for president, vice president, secret secretary treasurer of the Vice Program Council are all open. All the Honor council positions. Two sophomore, three, junior, four senior and I believe 2/5 year are all open and they've been filed for all of them.

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But of course, you could t keep more. We've only had three people file for tr, uh, cheerleaders so far. Two guys and a girl. And let's see, Campany editor and Campany business manager. I don't think either of those have been filed for anything else. Ok. Let's

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see. Uh, oh, what about the campaigns? And stuff. Did you say anything about like how much money and everything could be spent? And the campaign, the maximum amount of money you can spend on your campaign is $25 and that's even including donations to you. It doesn't

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matter where the money comes from. There are election rules available in the office. Um There are only certain places on campus where you are allowed to put up signs and posters. One thing to emphasize is that the campus mail is not allowed to be used for

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this election. You can anything else? The honor the Clydesdale hitch is seen from coast to coast in state fairs, harsh shows and parades and they've won hundreds of trophies and ribbons and they appear in the Rose Bowl parade every year when they put on an exhibition.

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The Clydesdales pulled a 3.5 ton wagon and a series of intricate maneuvers. The driver holds eight separate reins laced through the fingers of both his hands. He has individual control of each horse and they're trained to respond to his slightest command. Years ago, these skills were

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necessary as horse driven brewery wagons made retail deliveries, jackknifing the wagon into a dock or unloading zones with the precision and deafness com comparable to the present day tractor trailer driver and the geldings in this hitch have earned their championship rating throughout the years. Uh They're,

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they're also known as the Gentle Giants. Now, the Clydesdales, uh originally came from Scotland with feathers on their legs, flying and thunder coming from their huge hooves. The Budweiser Clydesdale eight horse hitch is an awesome sight of power as they majestically. Prance Bion Parade. Many wonder

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how such power can be controlled. Actually, the Clydesdales are as gentle as they are big in spite of the cheering crowds and the excitement and enthusiasm of the occasion. The Clydesdales remain amazingly calm proving that they are the gentle giants. All righty. Let's see. Um, ok.

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Do you know how long they're going to be here and things like that? They will be out here at Bush Bird Park, uh, through Sunday and they are on display from 930 until six each day and they are, uh, in the hitch, uh, each day from

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1 to 4. Ok. What's the purpose of their being here? Is this advertisement or? Well, it's, uh, public relations for the Anheuser Busch, uh brewery or, uh, the most widely traveled horses in the United States. They ride 40,000 miles per year in, uh, three vans which

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were especially built for them. Two of the vans ha, uh, have the Clydesdales and the third van carries the huge brass trimmed wagon, the portable stalls and the other equipment required for their appearances. And they always take 10 on each trip to make sure that a

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are definitely available for the hitch. Ok. Well, uh, I really appreciate it quite a bit. Is there anything else you know, you want to add or anything you have to say about it or anything like that. No, that's about all the information I have on them.

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We'd be delighted to, uh, have everyone come out and, and view them. Ok, thank you very much. OK, appreciate it. Bye bye to lead off Rice sports news by reporting on the football team and that may be fine if you don't have any other good news

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to report on. But we do have another team at Rice that are doing surprising things and are in fact threatening to win the Southwest conference championship. As I'm sure you will know. I'm talking about the cross country team last week competing in a 10 team invitational

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meet here in Houston. The Owls clearly established themselves as one of the three primary contenders for the Southwest conference crown Rice placed first in the meet beating last year's Southwest conference champ Texas by over 40 points. Sophomore Jeff Wells paced the team by capturing first place.

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He w he was closely followed by senior Bob Nelms coming through for third place, John Lodwick sixth and then Steve S shoulder and Gary Huss with Roy Trump adding important depth. We talked to sophomore John Lodwick and here's the conversation, John, uh how, how did the

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team feel about their performance? Uh last Saturday? I think everyone was pretty happy. Uh Everyone did run real good and coach May was, was particularly happy. He said it was one of the best he's ever seen a Rice team do. Now, that race was six miles,

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the conference M race, however, is only four miles. Will that hurt or help Bryce or will it have any effect on perhaps the other teams in the conference too? Well, I, I think who is a definite contender for the title? We'll have, we'll do a lot

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better on a four mile course and I think most of the teams in the conference are probably better at four miles. We, we got good six mile depth, but we should be ready to go for four miles too. Ok. Now we hear reports that is doing

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some fancy stepping down there in the Ozarks. Now, is there any truth to these reports? I'm sure there is. Uh, I think Arkansas must have a great team and they got lots of recruits, uh, international recruiting from, from Ireland and they got a real good coach

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and, uh, people are really getting fired up at Arkansas about cross country. So I know, I know they'll be ready for the conference meeting. Now, you yourself, um, I'm sure, probably don't feel you've had the best season, uh, so far. But how do you view your

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progress, uh, as of this point, as compared to say to last year? I, I'm real happy. I, I'm having a real good time running this year and, and I guess I'm pretty happy the way the way things are coming out and goes, I think that's, that's

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why I'm most happy because, because we're really good this year and everyone seems to know each other better and it's more of, of a friendly atmosphere and, you know, everyone's just kind of running together as a team, you know, it's real good. Well, big question now

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is what's up next for the, the rice s, well, we got a, uh, a district NCAA meet. It'll be in Houston here and it'll be a six mile run. Not this Saturday, but next Saturday and uh, all the schools in the conference will be there plus

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a bunch of others from, uh Northern Texas and Louisiana. And that, that's, that's usually a pretty important meet, although not as big as the conference. That was John Lodwick. Well, the Rice football team dropped their third straight game to SMU last Saturday. Nothing new. Same old

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formula offense can't score when they got the ball down to the 25 defense week. And the whole team crumbles seemingly in the second half. The only bright spot this season really is the play of place kicker Allen Pringle who booted three field goals last weekend. Also,

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uh, doing a commendable job is freshman James Sykes. We had our reporter in the field. David Beer speak with James. And here's this conversation, James, the Rice football team's record stands now at one and four. You individually were number one in the nation last weekend in

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kickoff returns. First of all, what do you think of your performance so far? Well, I think I have performed well on the kickoff return, but I need to show some performers in the backfield. Which, what we are liking. A lot of, you know, we're liking a

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lot in the backfield. It's not together, well, it's together, but we don't have what it takes to be a winning football team and to be a winning football team, you have to have a lot of good things and you need speed in the backfield and you

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need, uh, men who are willing to play the game, not someone, we're just out there because they think they know the game. You need somebody who want to play the game. And I think, and I'm one of the person who really want to play football and,

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uh, I think I should be plans some offenses back for Rice to make the offensive program better because it's not as well organized as it should be. Well, how do you feel about the team's one in four record so far? Well, the one and four record

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that's not too good because we should have won those games. We have played all exceptional one which, uh, they was better than we was and they beat us because of their better because they was better than we were, wasn't too many mistakes made in that game.

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It's just that the team was better than us. And they played ball and they won and, but the rest of the teams, we was about equal. We lost on our mistakes. We did things we shouldn't have did and we did them and they end of the

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field which gave them a chance to do great things and they did and we lost. So in order to win, we're gonna have to quit making the errors we have been making and I think no, that some of the errors have been cut out. We're not

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making as many as we was at first and that, that will help the team a lot while the team travels to Austin this weekend to play Texas. Just what is the team's attitude before the game? Well, I think that the team is not together, they're not

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really ready. Oh, well, they're really, they're ready to play Texas. But the attitude, that's why I was playing them. It's not like they have been, they are ready to play them in some respect, but in another respect, they are not. And I think that the team

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will not win this game if they don't change before Saturday. Do you personally think that we have a chance of beating Texas? Yes. I think we have a chance of beating Texas because I've seen when Miami beat Texas and Houston beat Miami and we had a

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great chance to beat Houston, but we made mistakes, like I said before, we made mistakes that hurt us and they won the game and we played Houston a good game and Houston beat Miami 30 to 7 and Miami beat Texas 20 to 15, which show that

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we can beat Texas too. Well, has the Edwin Collins affair affected the team's attitude in any way? Or is the team's attitude right now caused by this incident earlier in this week? No comment, no comment. What is the black attitude toward the whole affair? No comment.

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Well, James, you may be starting against Texas this weekend in the backfield. Do you think that you deserve this position? Yes, I think I, I deserve this position. Claude because I played well in a game against uh SMU and I think they realize and the other

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half back, he played well, but he'd been playing all the year and he didn't do too much better, but he played a fairly good game and this is the first game I really had a chance to run the ball. So, and I, I really ran well,

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I think, and I think they think that I ran well too because they want to give me a chance to start off against Texas. I know that football players don't have time to think of much else besides the game itself. But just what is your opinion

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of Rice University? Well, I would say, right, it's probably one of the best schools in the conference. You can get a good education and the professors will help you if you're willing to help yourself. Well, let's go for recreation. It's not much fun around. But, but

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education wise, it's one of the better places to go. That was a honest interview with James Sykes. I don't think there's any need to go into the events of this past week for they have been amply covered by other media. Suffice it to say that the

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Edwin Collins incident merely precipitated problems that were underlying the team all during the season. Besides from the difficulties on the football team this year, Rice has been getting a lot of ink nationally. Ah as you know, uh Rice is being investigated for alleged infractions of NCAA

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rules by the 1971 football team. The violation illuminated uh in the book, Saturday's Children centers mainly around one player, Rodrigo Barnes. Now with the Dallas Cowboys, when Barnes was at Rice, the press gave him generally good ink trying to build him up as an all American

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selection. However, he was instrumental in any of the team's success, knew it and took advantage of it further. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the charges against him were true. Therefore, you are awarded KTR US Sports Bum of the week. Tune in next week for

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another edition of Sports Bum. As you well know, the Rice football team went down to defeat at the hands of the fighting Irish of Notre Dame 28 to nothing last Saturday as in previous weeks, Notre Dame was overly generous in making mistakes yet, the Owls couldn't

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capitalize one key point in the game was in the second quarter with the Owls trailing 14 to nothing. They had marched the ball down to the Irish 18 and a score then would have put the s only seven behind at half time. However, as countless times

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before Rice blew their opportunity with a pass interception. Now with all their nonconference games behind them, Rice can get down to business and they open their 1973 Southwest conference season against SMU tomorrow night in the Rice Bowl. The Ponies have so far demonstrated a crunching rushing

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attack as it appears. Now, the elves can't rely on their offense to win the games for them. So the outcome will probably hinge on the defense's ability to hold down the score. I talked to defensive back coach Jack Westbrook and here's the conversation. Now, how do

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you evaluate to clear the defensive backfield? And where's the room for improvement? Well, we feel like at the defensive backfield, they're fairly experienced and, uh, they've been doing a good job. Uh, I think that there's a little room for improvement possibly on our, uh, passing segment.

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They've been doing a real good job supporting the run, uh, and we've missed several tackles. I think we have to improve on our, our tackling. But overall, uh, we feel like we're doing a pretty good job. Teams only been averaging a little over 80 yards a

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game throwing the ball on us. And that's what you're supposed to be doing by GS protecting against the pass right now, as you mentioned, just in the, respond to the last question, how many games this year you will be facing, uh, teams that predominantly run? Like

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SMU does this, how does this affect the play of the defensive back film? Does it add additional pressure? Well, you don't want to be lulled to sleep, so to speak. In other words, you're, uh now it's just as important in a secondary to be a hitter

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as it is to be a pass defender. And the thing that you have to be careful against a team, like SMU is that they'll run, run, run, then all of a sudden when you're looking for a run, they'll come up and hit you with a big

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pass. And of course, when they have somebody like, uh Harrison out there wide, it's a, a jet uh to throw the ball to, he's always a, a deep threat. So you have to be mentally alert all the time in the Notre Dame game specifically. I read

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that one touchdown, uh in which Notre Dame scored by passing. Uh the receiver was wide open and it was, they say it was due to a mix up in the backfield. Now, what are the specific, uh what specifically happened? And when do you use, let's say,

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man to man coverage as opposed to a zone coverage. Well, we're basically a zone team. We'll use zone coverage probably 80% of the time. But of course, when you get down real close to the goal line, there's not enough room to use zone and usually have

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to go to a man to man type thing and the Notre Dame situation. Um, we were blitzing our linebackers and putting on a big rush which forces us into a man to man situation and we simply had a combination call between an inside safety in a

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corner and they got confused on the play action type situation and, uh, no one picked up to tight in. I see when the defensive backfield is mentioned, I guess the name that comes to mind to most people is Bruce Henley. What are your feelings about his

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play this year? And, and, uh, how about giving us a rundown on, on the other players too in the backfield? Well, a lot of people are disappointed because Bruce hadn't been intercepting passes, you know. But, uh, to me, I think a big thing in a secondary

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is not to intercept so much, but to prevent completions. And, uh, our opponents are, haven't, aren't throwing or completing, are not completing 50% of their passes. And I think that's what you're really striving for Bruce has gotten a lot tougher this year. He's in on a

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lot more tackles and he's doing, he's doing a real good job for us. He's like having a coach on the field out there, he, he's a leader and the rest of the players respect him and look up to him. So I'm not at all disappointed in

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what Bruce has done. He's made a couple of mistakes, but so is everybody else. And I think it, uh, you know, he's gonna have a tough time breaking the Southwest conference interception record, although he only needs four because people are aware that he's back there now.

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So they're not throwing the ball in his area. Other people, I'd say that Preston Anderson who plays our strong safety or monster for us is just doing a super job. He's been consistent every week grading in the nineties on our grading system every week. And, uh,

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he's a real hard nosed ballplayer and he's, he's intelligent and he's doing a real fine job and our corner, Cary Cooper who just played a great game this week and, uh, had probably the best hit that we've had all year long when he knocked that big

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full back to his knees, uh, is doing a real good job for us and, uh, very consistent. And at the other side, we've, uh, had some consistent play out of, out of Donnie Bernsen, but he was got hurt last week in practice and didn't get to

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play and we came in and played with Mike Culpeper and it's up until this week, he'd only played about five plays all year. So he was really a little inexperienced and really the first contact that he's, that he's had in a full speed situation. But, uh,

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we felt like that he came in and he made some mistakes and, but, uh, overall he didn't do a real bad job as defensive back coach. What are your duties in getting your group ready for a team such as SMU and what do you expect SMU

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to do? Well, of course, with two great running backs like they have back there, you, you've got to expect them to run the football, um, and they, we know that their quarterback was a passing quarterback last year. And so we know he has the ability to

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throw the football and like I mentioned before, they have a great, great wide receiver. Uh, so my duty really is just to coordinate the defensive backfield. We, we run about six or seven different coverages or combination of coverage is in the secondary and we have to

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coordinate that with what we're gonna do up front and, uh, as far as getting them ready, we just continuously try to look at things that SMU is gonna do or any opponent is gonna do and, and, uh, study, we have certain keys that will force us

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to do one thing or another and we just have to be polished on it so that we try to eliminate a mental mistake. All right. Well, thank you very much for spending time with us and we wish the Alison good luck in the conference open. Ok,

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thank you. That was Coach Westbrook. The Rice soccer team is presently holding down third place in the southeast division of the Texas college soccer league with a two and run record, but the s have set their sights at the top and I chatted with coach Doctor

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Ed Hayes.