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| 1 ON KYLE FIELD By E. C. “JEEP” OATES Battalion Sports Editor BMIHIUIH 8 When the football season started the Aggies had two senior letter- men at ends, but after the Cente nary game these two men, Joe White and Bill Duncan, find them selves way down the list. Bill Buchanan and “Soc” Sterl ing, a junior college transfer and a sophomore, will be the starting wings Friday night in Frisco. Herb Smith looked good at the wing posi tion while he was in. He was the Cadet captain for the fray. John Kimbrough has started leaving devastation in his wake again. He ruined about four Gen tlemen Saturday. Euel Wesson did not give an inch of ground over his tackle. When he grabbed the Gent ball carrier on one attempt and just held him it made the Cen tenary star mad. Someone in the press box yelled, “big poppa has him”. Ernie Pannell, Charles Henke, Leon Rahn, Sterling, Buch anan, Marshall Robnett and Odel Herman were the outstanding line men. “Waltzing Willie” Conatser, John Kimbrough, Walemon “Cotton” Price, Derace Moser and Marion “Dookey” Pugh were the stars -in the backfield. Jim Thomason had a rough day. He said the end either slugged him in the stomach or the mouth every time he threw a block his direction. Price was injured during the fray. He received a twisted knee, but will be ready to go Friday night. In noticing Dick Freeman’s sport column in the Houston Chronicle Sunday we found him talking about golf or something right here in the middle of football season. George White, sports auth ority for the Dallas News, picks Arkansas to win the pennant with S. M. U. and the Aggies tying for second place. The says the Mustangs will lose two games and the Aggies will lose one and tie two. He picks Arkansas to beat us and Rice and T. G. U. to tie us. If there They're Picking MANSFIELDS For Style: Which Mansfields have Like a pretty co-ed Has dates.. .* Plenty! For Value: Which Mansfields give Like a coach gives Advice... Generously! Most Style* isc style* i •5 J TENNIS OXFORDS TENNIS SHOES HOUSE SHOES SNEAKS GRIFFIN’S SHOE POLISH Wl MBERLEV ■ STONE DANSBV W. . LS CLOCKIERS — Aggies Defeat Gentlemen 14-0 Ernie Pannell To Fill One Tackle Position BY JIMMIE COKINGS Big Ernie P a n n e 1, 207 pound, 6.2 tackle, is one of the two rea- W/ - sons why Head \ ^ Coach Norton _ • * . ivjf is not worry- ing about his tackle posi- tions this year. Last season, due to the con- gfanne// sistent play of George Bran- som, Pannell did not see too much service bue he played enough time to win his varsity letter. This sea son Ernie has won the starting job at one of the tackles and is capable of playing All-Conference if he so desires. He is classed as one of the hardest tacklers that the Aggies have. He is one of those heads-up Pannell calls Waco his home and came to A. & M. from John Tarle- ton Junior College. At John Tarle- ton he lettered two years in foot ball and was selected all-junior conference tackle during his second year. He played football and went out for track while attending high school near Corsicana and received three letters in each sport. Ernie is teamed up with Boyd to give the Aggies two of the class iest tackles in the conference. If he continues his present playing he will see lots of service in the Aggies’ forward wall this season. Joe Boyd Joe “B o o Hoo” Boyd, has already been put on the so - called spot when Francis Wal lace, sports writer for the Saturday Ev ening Post, picked him to be the number one tackle of the nation. Wallace put Joe in the tackle position in his “Preview All-American Team”. Boyd was selected last year as one of the tackles on the “All-Con ference” eleven and if he picks up where he left off last season he will again be a choice for the all conference team. “Boo-Hoo” was only a sub in 1937 but before the season ended he won the starting berth and re ceived his first varsity letter. He hold down the role of starting tackle last season and played a jam-up game at his position. In fact his playing was so outstanding that he was voted by his team mates as the most valuable player. He played football at Dallas Technical High School and at Paris Junior College before coming ^to Aggieland. He won football letters at both places and in 1934 received all-city honors for his playing at the Dallas school. Joe made his freshman grid nu meral in 1937. He has played cen ter, end, and tackle during his football career and is capable of is another tie with Rice this year, the state of Texas will not be large enough for both teams and probably some offi cial better have a police escort to take him out of the state. “Rats” Watson is still remem bered for being the “twelfth man” on the Rice team two years ago. The conference did not pick up any glory this past week. T. C. U., Arkansas and Rice lost intersec tional frays while S. M. U. tied Oklahoma, and A. & M., Baylor and Texas trimmed only fair teams. Coach Norton’s Aggies will prac tice tonight in El Paso and tomor row night in Los Angeles. Santa Clara was held to a 7 to 7 tie by Utah. A couple of years back the Aggies trimmed Utah. It was at that time when the players cleaned up on a bunch of negro waiters in Salt Lake City. John Kimbrough only has one leg hurt, but he has them both wrapped up so the opposition will not know which it is. In Oklahoma City he wrapped only one and the Cowboys tried to pull that lipib off. Battalion Sports PAGE 3 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS OCTOBER 3, 1939 Intramural Managers Hold First Banquet of Season Monday Night The senior and junior office managers of the intramural or ganization were introduced to those who attended the first banquet of the season given for all organi zation leaders of intramurals in the banquet room of the old mess hall Monday night. The banquet was the official opening of the ’39 season with the nearing of the opening date of play next Monday. W. L. Penber- thy acted as the chairman and explained to the group the princi ples of leadership in the games and the object of the program. Most of the students present were already familiar with the program, many having • served as managers last yjear. INTRAMURALS With Hub Johnson Eats and more eats. A pretty nice banquet was held last night for all the intramural managers of the campus and organization force. I happened to be around and en joyed it very well except for the presence of the same old green peas. Many of the boys met some of the men they had no idea had anything to do with the program. Welcomed to the staff is W. A. Moore who is also serving the in tramural office as a junior man ager. Some first hand dope ought to come through him. Battery funds have been collect ed and many new footballs have been seen floating around the grounds, especially in the dust bowl near the new dormitories. First Hq. Field Artillery, last year’s touch football champions, are pre paring for repetition of records, while “B” Coast Artillery, with its last year’s Class B champions in the sport now playing in the line up as upperclassmen, and “C” Cav alry second place holders round ing off the rough spots to give them a fight for the honors. There is still need of some soph omore managers on the office staff. Some good men have reported and should give some noted service this year. If you are interested and hap pen to be in the sophomore class, drop around and see ‘Mr. Penny’. While “C” Cavalry has some of its men on the football field, an other group is haunting the gymn preparing for the opening games of basketball. This troop played some good ball to covet the title last season and is planning on re turning to the floor as strong as ever with the return of Jake Wilk to school this September. October 9 is drawing near, so beware the coming Monday if you aren’t ready to face the unknown opponents. Tell you more Thurs day and by Saturday sure there should be some definite schedule announced. holding down any of these posi tions but prefers the tackle job. If you have seen him in action, you will agree that he was made for that position as he is a powerful and deadly tackle and loves to smear the opponent’s plays. As a freshman, Joe won the heavyweight boxing title of the freshman class and in his sopho more year he annexed the college heavyweight boxing crown. Dur ing the same year he turned “Lon- dos” and won the heavyweight wrestling title. But last year he did not enter into ring competition due to a hand injury and could not defend his titles. However the titl es did not pass out of the posses sion of the football team as Mar shall Robnett entered both events and walked away wearing both crowns, keeping up with the tradi tion that heavyweight titles be long to football players. Joe is playing his last year for the Cadets as he will receive his sheepskin at mid-term. He is ma joring in accounting and statistics and hopes to become a C.P.A. when he gets into the business world. Al though playing football takes up lots of his time he manages to find time to be near the top in his class work. T.C.U. Horned Frogs Tackle Razorbacks In Arkansas Saturday The records show plainly that the Arkansas Razorbacks are hard for T. C. U. to handle in Fayette ville. Yet the Horned Frogs have the job of trying to handle the Razor- backs in Fayetteville this week, come Saturday afternoon. Two years ago the two elevens battled to a 7-to-7 tie up in the Ozark City. In 1935 the Frogs managed to win by six points, but the Razorbacks handed the 1933 Christian eleven a 13-to-0 drub bing when Coach Francis Schmidt made his last trip there as head grid man for T. C. U. The Frogs hold an edge over the Razorbacks on the 15-game se ries which started back in 1920, having taken 10, lost four and tied one. The all-time score is T.C.U. 204, Arkansas 144. FACULTY TENNIS CLUB TO HOLD TOURNAMENT A singles tournament of the Faculty Tennis Club starts this Saturday afternoon, October 7. Prizes are to be awarded the win ner and runner-up of the tourna ment, and also the winner and runner-up of a consolation tourna ment. Entries and dues may be turned in to Dr. J. H. Quisenberry of the Genetics Department, or to T. H. Terrell of the Engineering Draw ing Department. The Animal Husbandry Depart ment is planning to send several head of cattle to the State Fair at Dallas. In addition to Augus- Hereford shorthorn steers and Aberdeen-Angus breeding cattle, the outstanding Angus heifer of the A. & M. herd will be sent. Af ter the Dallas Fair the Angus heifer will be sent to several ex positions over the country and fin ally to the International Livestock Exposition at Chicago where, ac cording to Professor Williams of the A. H. Department, has a good -chance to be judged cham pion. Williamson Rates A. & M. as 37th, Santa Clara 57th By PAUL WILLIAMSON Bernie Bierman’s Minnesota Gophers jumped into the 1939 national football lead with a 62 to 0 victory over the Wildcats from Arizona In a week-end of screwball scores. The upsets of the past week-end set the period down as the biggest week of completely screwball scores in modern football history. These upsets went against favored hopes of fans and cold calcula tions of the Williamson ratings. Because there were so many more haywire scores the system’s percentage dropped sharply from 93 per cent of the previous week to an overall efficiency of 84 or 85 per cent disregarding upsetting ties. This week finds the Texas Ag gies in 37th place, with Santa Clara in 57th place, with a 3.7 dif ference in their percentage rating. This week: Moser, Kimbrough Star As Gents Bow To Cadets 9 10 feet Team Minnesota U. 100.0 98.6 N. Carolina U. 98.3 Boston Col. 97.6 Notre Dame 95.6 Holy Cross Pittsburg U. Brown U. 95.1 95.1 94.1 Oregon State Purdue Mississippi State S. M. U. 94.1 93.6 93.6 92.6 Oklahoma U. 92.6 Tennessee U. 92.3 U. C. L. A. 92.1 Tulane 91.1 Fordham Carnegie Tech Baylor T. C. U. 90.6 90.1 90.1 90.1 Alabama U. Vanderbilt 88.8 88.1 Army 88.1 Arkansas U. Texas A. & M. 87.6 86.9 Navy Rice 86.2 86.1 L. S. TJ. 85.9 Texas U. 85.1 Texas Tech 83.6 Santa Clara 83.2 Nebraska U. Temple U. 83.1 82.4 Villanova Hardin-Simmons 81.6 79.0 Centenary 77.1 With John Kimbrough crashing over for two touchdowns and Wale mon Price making good both his kicks, the Aggies trimmed a strong defensive Centenary College team here Saturday by a score of 14 to 0 before a crowd of approxi mately 9,000 fans, included in which was the largest number of Aggies to ever witness a football fray on Kyle Field. Marshall Robnett kicked off to the goal line and the Gents were forced to punt out. During the first quarter the Aggies stayed in Centenary territory all the time. During the opening period John Kimbrough took the ball and after faking into the line, raced around left end for some 15 yards and a touchdown. The Gent that tried for a tackle near the goal line was knocked over. Price placed his try for extra point in the middle of the uprights. Coach Norton then filled the field with his second team and they battled the visitors on even terms. In the third period the Aggies worked the ball into scoring terri tory and again Kimbrough smashed across the pay line standing up. Price again converted. Conatser took a punt on his own 47 and wiggled through the whole team for a counter, but the Cadets were offside and the play was called back. The Gents never threatened and with two minutes to go, ran two plays into the line in order for the time to run out. ►They were a badly crippled crew when the fray ended. Kimbrough smashed some ribs on one of the Gents who tried to tackle him. Texas Agrgies Centenary H. Smith Looney Left End Pannell Partin Left Tackle M. 'Robnett Steeples Left Guard Vaughn Holloway Center Henke Campbell Right Guard J. Boyd Jones Right Tackle Sterling Patterson Right End Price Birkelback Quarterback Moser Barnes Left Half Thomason Bowerman Right Half J. Kimbrough Wilkins Fullback Centenary 0 0 0 0— 0 Texas Aggies 7 0 7 0—14 Texas Aggies Scoring — Touchdowns, Kimbrough (2) ; points after touchdowns, from placements. Price (2). Substitutions : Texas Aggies—Ends, Jack Kimbrough, Duncan, J. White, Dawson, Buchanan, Cowley ; tackles. Wesson, Ruby, Routt, Joeris; guards, Rahn, Bucek; cen ters, Herman, Hauser, Shelton ; bac Jeffrey, Conatser, Audish, Pugh, F. White, Williams. Cent. First downs 4 lacks, Spivey, ga Forward passes attempted Forward passes completed Yards gained passes 20 5 11 2 25 36.4 93 >p. fumbles recovered by .... 1 Yards lost penalties 40 ■Includes punts and kickoffs. gained pas Passes intercepted by nt. p: g Avg. ♦Yards kicks returned Opp. fumbles recovered by s lost penalties ept Runback of Int. passes Punting Avg. from Serin A.&M. 12 162 19 7 99 4 89 31.* 103 0 25 Ransom Thomas, who served eight years for embezzling $1,250, 000 from a packing company, still faces a judgement for double that amount. 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