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JFPORT
FODDER
Those troubled brows and har-
rassed looks you see these days on
football coaches come mostly from
their concern over what to do to
counteract what is generally called
“Screwy” defenses. By that term
is meant the five man line and all
its variations. The devilish thing
started in the Southwest, but now
has every coach in the United
States trying to figure how to
make his offense go against it.
Homer Norton of A. & M. was one
of the “Screwy” defense pioneers,
but can’t figure out a decisive
answer.
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What does the screwy defense
do? Well, last year in the Aggie
game against S. M. U., the Cadets
never knew where the Mustang de-
fensive men were. Sometimes they
had three men on the line of
serimmage, sometimes more. Noth-
ing is more disconcerting to a
blocker than to dash madly out
to put a real block on an opponent
and then find that worthy nowhere
in sight. It’s downright disconcert-
ing, and is playing the mischief
with highly developed offensive
tactics.
Many remedies have been sug-
gested, ranging from a rule fore-
ing the defense to have at least
six men on the line of scrimmage
to the development of special plays
to use against the five or less man
line. Strangely enough, the screwy
defense was originated as a de-
fense against passes, but has
proved a better defense against
running plays than against passes.
It’s just another reason why
football coaches have trouble sleep-
ing at night and sometimes say un-
kind things to their wives and best
friends.
The Aggies will have more men
participating in the All-Star game
at Dallas Labor Day night than
any other school. Joe Routt and
Virgil Jones, guards, Roy Young,
tackle, and Dick Vitek, back, will be
on the All-Star side. Playing with
the professional Washington Red-.
Skins will be Charlie Malone, star
Aggie end of a few years back.
September 5 will see some 60
members of the Aggie 1938 foot-
ball squad reporting at Kyle Field
for equipment, with practice start-
ing the following day. The open-
ing game will be against Texas
A. & I. from Kingsville on Sep-
tember 24, followed by Tulsa at
Tyler on October 1, and Santa
Clara in San Francisco on October
8. Incidentally, the Santa Clara
team, winner of last winter’s Sugar
Bowl game at New Orleans, is
rated as one of the Nation’s out-
standing teams. On the Saturday
following this battle comes the first
conference test, and a vital one,
when T. C. U. comes to Kyle Field.
While the Aggies are playing in
Frisco, the Frogs take on Pop
Warner and his Temple Owls at
Temple. That’s about an even
stand-off.
If the Cadets can “take” the
frogs they will be a long step
along on conference honors.
The consensus of opinion among
the experts is that T. C. U. and
Rice are favorites for the champ-
ionship, with the rest of the boys
listed as horses of a very dark
color. S. M. U. is expected to bob
up with a dangerous team, Morley
Jennings thinks Baylor will be bet-
ter than last fall, Texas University
is certain to be much stronger and
Arkansas is not singing the blues
despite the loss of last fall's key
stars, Robbins, Sloan, Hamilton
and Benton.
As for the Aggies, they have as
good a chance at the title as any
team in the league. They meet the
favorites, Rice and T. C. U. at Col-
lege, but have a big hump ahead
in playing Texas at Austin. No
team in the league can match Dick
Todd as a running threat, and if
his blockers can get him into the
open often enough his flying feet
might bring a title to Aggieland
for the first time since 1927.
The Aggie coaches are ready.
Head Coach Norton will again
have Bill James coaching the line,
and Marty Karow will take over
the backs for his first campaign
at A. & M. Manning Smith will
handle the “B” team or reserves
and H. R. McQuillan will ride herd
on the freshmen, assisted by Char-
Side-Line Coaches
Go Into Training
In order that contestants in
the annual side. line coaches’
contest may start getting in
condition, the AGGIE announc-
es that the big battle will again
be staged this fall. The entry
blank will appear in the Sep-
tember 15 issue of the AGGIE,
which must be returned post-
marked not later than noon
October 1.
The nature of this year’s
prizes has not yet been deter-
mined but they will be inter-
esting. Last year nearly 300
men entered the contest and
it is expected that this number
will be increased this year.
John M. “Kraut” Kenderdine, ’34,
has recently been transferred from
Houston to Midland, Texas, where
he is branch manager of the Nor-
vell-Wilder Supply Company. He
reports seeing quite a fer A. & M.
men on his travels through West
Texas. His company is a wholesale
dealer of heavy hardware, and oil
and mill supplies. John was a mem-
ber of the Aggie football squad
while a student at A. & M.
E. Pace McDonald, ’19, was elect-
ed county clerk of Anderson
County in the first primary with a
majority over two opponents. He
was later appointed to fill the un-
expired term of his predecessor
who died. He has previously been
in the automobile business in Pal-
estine. He was a letterman in foot-
ball at A. & M. on the 1918 team.
W. D. Staples, ’31, sanitary en-
gineer with the Temple-Bell County
health unit, has been awarded a
year’s scholarship at Harvard Uni-
versity. He will work this winter
on his masters’ degree. Upon com-
pletion of his graduate work, he
will return to the Texas State
Health Department.
A recent campus visitor was J.
M. “Shorty” Noel, ’29, from Don-
aldsonville, Louisiana.
Preston G. Schiwetz, ’29, is with
the South Texas Cotton Oil Com-]
pany at Houston, Texas. During
his A. & M. days, Schiwetz was a
distinguished student and took
part in many campus activities.
A. L. Scales, 27, gets his mail
at P. O. Box 126, Tallulah, Louisi-
ana. Bob is general Superintendent
of the Gallagher Asphalt Co.
Melvin Echols, ’41, is living at
4703 Manett, Dallas, where he is
employed at the Swarthchild Jewel-
ry Store.
T.. E.{ Davis; 30, is living at
Chico, Texas, where he is in the
ranching business.
M. M. Davis, Jr., ’30, is a farmer
and cattleman at Charlotte, Texas.
Robert N. Daniel, ’31, gets his
mail at Box 6, Duncanville, Texas.
J. L. Keel, Jr., ’30, is with the
Tretolite Company and gets his
mail at Box 689, Corpus Christi.
J. R. Boriski, ’27, resides at 2701
10th Street, Port Arthur, where
he is connected with the Gulf Oil
Corporation.
Lawrence P. Looney,
his mail at 2323 Rio Grande Street,
Austin, Texas. Looney is in the
gasoline and oil business.
Miles M. Carpenter, ’02, is promi-
nent in the mining business in
Tucson, Arizona. He gets his mail
at P...0.:341 of that city.
ley DeWare and Virgil Jones. Lil
Dimmitt will look after the in-
juries and help in other ways and
“Dough” Rollins will pick up all
the loose ends. In the business of-
fice E. W. Hooker will put every-
body on the 50—and on the out-
side the Side-Line Coaches will put
in another arduous season.
So far as is known the Aggie
squad will report in fine shape.
Summer rumors that Owens Rog-
ers and Bill Dawson would be un-
able to play have proved ground-
less. Don’t be surprised if Dawson
ends up as a tackle. He played that
position in Junior College, and his
defensive weakness at end looked
bad last spring.
See the September 15 AG-
GIE for a complete report on
the 1938 football squad.
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Pierre M. Honnell, ’30, who was
awarded his professional degree in
electrical engineering by the A. &
M. College at the June commence-
ment exercises, has accepted a
fellowship at Massachusetts Tech
for the coming year and will work
on his doctor’s degree. He received
a leave of absence from his posi-
tion in the Geophysical Department
of the Texas Company, Houston,
to do this further graduate work.
Since his graduation in 1930,
Honnell spent three years in the
Bell Telephone Company’s Research
Laboratory. He spent a year in
Europe doing graduate work in
Vienna; and more recently, has
been in the Geophysical Department
of the Texas Company, Houston.
He has already reported for his
work at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
Charles M. Mast, ’34, has accept-
‘ed a position with the Employers
Casualty Company working out of
the San Antonio office.
R. F. Brockschmidt, ’38, is with
the Texas Cities Gas Company,
901 Washington Avenue, Waco,
‘Texas. Brockschmidt writes that
he likes his new loaction very much.
Lieutenant James G. Cage, ’36,
writes that he has been transfer-
red from the CCC Camp at Uvalde
to Co. 2898-SCS-38-T, Floresville.
W. H. Bremer, ’38, has accepted
a position with the Hughes Tool
Company, 300 Hughes Street,
Houston. His residence address is
1117 Altic Street of that city.
Chas. B. Foster, Jr., ’38, is with
the Texas State Highway Depart-
ment at Childress, Texas, where he
is living at 201 - 4th Street, N. E.
Don V. Shuhart, ’20, gets his
at P. O. Box 906, Salina, Kansas,
where he is with the Soil Conserva-
tion Service. Shuhart is a former
Aggie track man.
Ed S. Martin, ’36, is an engineer
with the Lubbock Steel Works, 214
Avenue O, Lubbock, Texas, and
gets his mail at P. O. Box 1493,
Lubbock, Texas.
Doyle Williams, 29, has changed
his address from Tyler, Texas to
115 Hillside Avenue, Nutley, N. Y.
Williams is a sales engineer for
the Worthington Pump and Ma-
chinery Corporation, 2 Park Ave-
nue, New York City.
Sidney C. Lee, ’32, has recently
been elected to the office of county
attorney of Bowie County with-
headquarters at New Boston.
T. John Moore, ’36, gets his mail
at Box 386, Freer, Texas.
Richard Haughton, Jr., ’37, is in
the printing and publishing busi-
ness with his father at 3116 Com-
merce Street, Dallas.
Franklyn T. Fields, ’38, has been
appointed registrar for Schreiner
Institute, Kerrville, Texas. Fields
is quite enthusiastic over his new
job.
L. E. Joyner, Jr., ’38, is teach-
ing vocational agriculture at Po-
teau, Oklahoma and has been on
the job since the first of July.
Dr. J. W. Heaton, Jr., ’38, is with
the Bureau of Animal Industry and
at the present time is located at
Jefferson City, Missouri.
Part of the staff of this year’s
very successful coaches’ short
course, staged at A. & M. each
summer by the Athletic Depart-
ment, is shown above. In the pic-
ture, left to right, are: Homer H.
Norton, head of the A. & M. Ath-
letic Department; P. E. Shotwell,
Longview high school coach whose
Loboes won the state school boy
football championship last fall;
Bob Berry, ’26, former Aggie grid
star whose East Texas State
Teachers College Lions won the
T. I. A. A. football championship
last fall; and Earl Rudder, ’32,
recently named football coach at
John Tarleton Agricultural Col-
lege, Stephenville. Norton, Shot-
well, and Berry were among the
instructors of the short course.
Another major instructor was J.
V. “Siki” Sikes, ’28, now line coach
at the University of Georgia. All
other members of the A. & M. Ath-
letic Department likewise took
part in the short course. Over 100
Texas coaches were present.
George H. Moore, ’29, is Assist-
ant Gulf Coast Sales Manager of
the Baroid Sales Department of
the National Lead Company and
gets his mail at Box 478, LaFay-
ette, La.
Ira B. Duck, Jr. ’38, is head
of the Pedigree Department of the
American Jersey Cattle Club, 324
West 23rd Street, New York City,
N. Y. His residence address is 232
Eighth Avenue, New York City,
N.Y.
A. M. Schmidt, Jr., ’38, has ac-
cepted a position with the South
American Gulf Oil Company at
Bananquilla, Columbia, South
America. Schmidt’s home adddress
is Gregory, Texas.
Glenn R. Miller, ’38, is selling
all kinds of insurance for the
Langham Insurance Company, 15th
Floor Cotton Exchange Building,
Houston.
Podge M. Reed, ’32, is a Lieu-
tenant in the U. S. Air Corps and
at the present time is stationed at
Hamilton Field, California. Reed
writes that Hamilton Field is a ver
pleasant place to be stationed and
that he is enjoying his duty.
Jack Skaggs, ’38, is with the
Baroid Sales Department, a sub-
division of the National Lead
Company, Houston, Texas, and
likes his work very much.
James S. Todd, Jr., 29, is a
ranchman at Nowata, Oklahoma.
Robert A. Knapp, ’17, who is a
Lieutenant Commander in the U.
S. Navy, is stationed at San Pedro,
California, in care of the U. S. S.
Idaho.
W. O. Jones, 18, who has been
acting city engineer of Fort Worth
since 1937, was appointed formerly
to that post recently. He became
associated with the city engineer’s
office of Fort Worth in 1921. He
is a member of the American So-
ciety of Civil Engineers, a past
president of the Fort Worth A &
M. Club, and of the Fort Worth
Technical Club.
J. M. Isbell, ’03, has been ap-
pointed division highway engineer
at Wichita Falls. He previously
served as assistant division engi-
neer in that area.
J. B. Cunningham, ’36, is ser-
vice manager for the Firestone
Store at Harlingen, Texas.
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