It hardly seemed a happy Homecoming Day for the Rice Institute Owls. Texas A. & M. was in town, and the awesome Aggies were flaunting a 14-game winning streak, ranking No. 1 in the nation and riding roughshod toward the Cotton Bowl on the broad shoulders of John David Crow, everybody's Ail-American and the hardest running halfback in college football. Short of calling on some friendly farmer to shoot down Crow, the Owls figured to be pecked to pieces.
But those wise birds were tougher than they looked. They ruffled up their feathers and flattened the visitor before he could get...
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