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By E. C. “JEEP” OATES
Battalion Sports Editor
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In looking over some of the
grid results of the past week, it
is noticed that San Francisco Uni
versity tied Santa Clara 13 to 13.
The Cadets have played both of
these teams in the past.
Dick Todd tallied 13 points when
his Washington Redskins in the
pro league walloped the Pitts
burgh Pirates 44 to 14.
John Kimbrough ousted Adams
of Arkansas for the conference
lead in scoring this week. He
scored 12 points for a total of 30.
■Crain of Texas added two touch
downs to run his total points to
25. They are followed by Adams,
Ark., 24; Johnston, S.M.U., 18,
and Witt, Baylor, 18.
Two conference games will be
on the program this week when
the Aggies, undefeated, meet T.
C. U., which has yet to win a
game; Texas has Arkansas at
Austin; Rice goes to New York to
tangle with Fordham; S.M.U. has
Marquette at Dallas and Baylor
travels to Lincoln, Nebraska to
hook up with Nebraska.
Was mighty Pitt broken up last
year? . . . from their record this
season one would never suspect
such a thing.
“Batch” Elkins, star quarter
back on the recently formed quar
terback’s club, questions a state
ment that was recently made in
this column. It was stated that
the Aggies would be trying to keep
their Rose Festival record clean.
In 1935 Dave Smukler and his
Temple mates ran over Taylor
Wilkins, “Bomber” Lindsey, Crow,
Nick Willis, Johnny Morrow and
the rest of the Aggies to win 14
to 0.
“Batch,” we were talking about
recent records and were not dig
ging into your long past memor
ies. Some of these boys are mar
ried and have children now, which
is getting ahead of both of us.
Harry Faulkner, assistant foot
ball coach and one of the scouts,
said, during the game Saturday,
“Villanova is not playing the brand
of ball today that they did last
week when I scouted them.” Har
ry, they didn’t get a chance to
play ball Saturday. The Cadets
wouldn’t let them. Faulkner did
say, though, that he expected the
Aggies to win.
Some of the Villanova boys tried
to get a little rough, but the
Aggies stopped them on that count,
too.
Tickets for the T.C.U. fracas
are on sale at the athletic office
now.
Goddard College is believed to be
the only institution of higher
education in the U. S. that does
not use academic regalia at com
mencement exercises.
Each Hunter College (in New
York City) student spends an
average of 1,650 hours riding sub
ways during their four years in
college.
Wildcats
End 23-Game
Win Streak
Villanova came all the way to
Texas Saturday to get their record
of not having been beaten in 22
games broken. The Aggies took
it upon themselves to break the
record and did so by scoring 33
points in the first half and then
letting the reserves have them
during the second half. Final score,
Aggies 33, Villanova 7.
The Yankees came down with
the once famous Notre Dame shift
and they looked very good shift
ing, but after the shift was over it
was all A. & M.
A. & M. tallied 19 points in the
initial frame and 14 in the second.
Villanova scored seven points a-
gainst the reserves in the final
period. First downs were in the
Aggies’ favor 8 to 4 while on
the ground the Cadets had a net
of 105 to 35 for the visitors. A.
& M. made 116 yards passing to
50 for the Wildcats.
John Kimbrough was the act
ing captain for the cadets. He took
the opening kickoff and returned
17 yards. Kimbrough hit the line
for two yards and then when
Pugh’s pass was intercepted, he
recovered the fumble by the Wild
cat. John made the first tally by
ploughing the line from the one
yard line. He made the second
touch from the nine yard line, go
ing over standing up.
Jeffrey passed to Thomason for
a touch, but it was called back
and the cadets penalized.
The other touchdowns were made
by Conatser, who raced a punt
back for 65 yards, and Spivey and
Moser. Moser scored after taking
a pass from Pugh on the Villanova
11. Spivey scored his on a five
yard lunge across right ta,ckle.
A. & M. just played the game
they are capable of and the visit
ing bunch never had a chance to
get started. With 33 points whist
ling down in a half with another
six pointer being called back, the
other team has very little chance
to get set to stop the onslaught
let alone try to do any scoring
themselves.
Safety Advisor Is
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LaJolla, California, as safety ad
visor of the National Youth Ad
ministration was announced to-day
by Administrator was announced
by Administrator Aubrey Williams.
Mr. Smith will work with the
technical staff of the national of
fice and with State Youth Admin
istrators in formulating standards
and operating procedure designed
to prevent accidents and to en
hance safety of project employees
and the public.
A native of New Mexico, Mr.
Smith attended public schools in
Iowa, and took college preparatory
work in schools of Illinois.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
OCTOBER 17, 1939
Aggies Gain 26th Place After Villanova Rout Saturday;
Williamson System Places S. M. U. 19th, Baylor 28th
came through for the Williamson
system by stomping the strongest
Iowa team in years 27 to 7 to gain
first place in the national ratings
with 97.1.
In the pre-season appraisal the
system picked Michigan to win the
Big Ten penpant. Its demonstra
tion against Iowa indicates Michi
gan is well on the way.
The surprising Pittsburgh Pan
thers eked out a 14 to 13 victory
over Duke’s Blue Devils in a
game which the system called a
toss-up and a hard fought battle.
For that showing Pittsburgh rates
second place with 96.7.
Although the System had its
worst week in history, as men
tioned in detail later, it did ex
ceptionally well in picking the win
ners in the major games. Best
picks were as follows:
Louisiana State over Rice (7-0);
Notre Dame over S.M.U. (20-19);
Texas Aggies over Villanova (33-
7); Oklahoma over Texas (24-12);
Stanford tying U.C.L.A. (14-14);
Washington State over Washing
ton (6-0).
Discounting the upsetting ties
the System had an 80.6 efficiency.
Perfect Team
100.0
1
Michigan
97.1
2
Pittsburgh
96.7
3
Duke
96.6
4
Mississippi U.
96.1
5
Oklahoma U.
94.7
6
Kentucky U.
94.6
7
Tulane U.
94.1
8
Ohio St.
94.1
9
L.S.U.
93.0
10
N. Carolina
92.9
11
Alabama
92.2
12
Tennessee
92.1
14
Auburn
91.6
15
Notre Dame
91.4'
18
Miss. State
91.0
19
S.M.U.
91.0
25
Purdue
90.1
26
Texas A. & M.
90.0
28
Baylor
89.9
32
U.C.L.A.
89.4
40
Texas U.
87.8
42
Arkansas v
87.3
55
Oklahoma A. & M.
85.1
61
Santa Clara
84.7
64
Hardin-Simmons
84.6
74
T.C.U.
84.6
75
Villanova
84.0
87
Rice Institute
83.1
Navy Wants More
Aviators; Number To
Be Trained Is Doubled
The Navy Department has an
nounced a program of tremendous
expansion in its air forces effec
tive immediately. This expansion
plan calls for the training of hun
dreds of young college men who
will be recruited from civilian
ranks and taken into the Naval
service. To these young men, who
have a minimum of two years in
college and who can qualify physi
cally, the Navy offers a thorough
course in aviation training in all
its phases.
Seven Years’ Duty
Upon completion of this training
period the student is commissioned
as ensign, U.S.N.R., and sent to
duty with the aviation units of the
fleet. After three years’ service
he is promoted to lieutenant (jun
ior grade) with the option of four
more years’ duty. During this ser
vice he builds up an aviation back
ground which gives him an unex
celled standing in this profession.
While in service, he receives the
full pay and allowances of his
rank.
To young men interested in
aviation, this presents an excep
tional opportunity. The actual
flight training covers all types of
sea and land planes, single and
multi-engined. The ground train
ing consists of a thorough course
in navigation, radio, engines and
airplane structure.
To be eligible for this training,
candidates must have the follow
ing qualifications: Be an Ameri
can citizen between 20 and 28
years old; unmarried; of sound
physical condition; have minimum
height of 5 feet, 6 inches; a mini
mum weight of 132 pounds; and
have at least two full years of col
lege education.
Classes for this training will
assemble at Pensacola on the first
of every month throughout the
year, and qualified candidates may
INTRAMURALS
With Hub Johnson
It seems that the first week of
intramurals finished rather suc
cessfully with a big varsity game
in Tyler that also finished in the
same manner.
Basketball games outnumbered
the rest of the sports with the
spotlight resting on the 3 Hq. Field
Artillery-B Chemical Warfare tilt.
Ravey and Francis of the Hq. scor
ed 7 and 6 points respectively to
take the scoring lead as they ran
up a 28 to 1 victory over the chem
boys.
E Coast Artillery just marked
up a win over H Infantry as the
game ended in a 6 to 6 tie. The
winners held one 40 yard penetra
tion over the Infantry team.
Sam Arisco, brother to Mike,
the scorer of the lone point in the
3 Hq. FA-B Chem Warfare game,
led Company A of the Chemical
Warfare Service to a close 21 to
17 win from E. Infantry. Jackson
and Robbins were high point men
for the Infantry while Warnke
and Terrell led the floor for the
Kiest Hall team.
In football games the last few
days, G (jJoast Artillery held D
Infantry to no penetrations and
walked off with a 12 to 0 win, G
Infantry downed D Coast Artillery
19 to 0, A Chemical Warfare
topped F. Infantry 6-0, and A
Coast Artillery registered the same
score over D Field Artillery.
Noticed on the floor doing their
best or their worst were Herman
Spoede, playing a rough game of
basketball as H. Coast Artillery
dropped a 15 to 8 game to B In
fantry, with J. B. Ashworth scor
ing 10 points for the winners.
David Yarbrough scoring the lone
four points as the A Engineers
lost to Hq. Cavalry in a game that
saw only one point scored in the
first half, that in favor of the
horsemen.
Ranchgirls Again A
Feature of Ft. Worth
Stock Show This Year
Ranchgirl honor guests will be
a feature of the Southwestern Ex
position and Fat Stock Show at
Fort Worth again in 1940, John B.
Davis, secretary-manager, has an
nounced.
A representative of the show has
visited the leading rodeos and cat
tle sections of Texas and New
Mexico during the summer, secur
ing photos and information on po
tential guests. A number of young
ladies are being considered, and
Davis states that final selection
of the eight young ladies will be
made shortly.
Following the policy initiated by
the show last year, each young
lady will be strictly non-profes
sional, an expert horsewoman,
and a representative of the live
stock families in the section she
represents.
New and attractive features are
being worked out for next year
for the girls to demonstrate their
horsemanship.
Four of the girls who appeared
in the world’s championship rodeo
here this year have gone to Madi
son Square Garden rodeo in New
York, October 4 to 29, as honor
guests. Officials of the New York
show adopted the feature after its
popularity was proven at the Fort
Worth rodeo. The four girls chos
en to go to New York were Miss
Peggy Minnick of Crowell; Miss
Fern Sawyer of Cross Roads, New
Mexico; Miss Walter Fay Cowden
of Midland; and Miss Sydna Yokley
of Canadian.
choose the month they desire to
go to duty. Interested young men
are urged to write immediately
for information and application
blanks to the Senior Member, Nav
al Reserve Flight Selection Board,
U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensa
cola, Florida.
Conatser Becomes
Double Threat In
Aggie Backfield
BY JIMMIE COKINGS
Bill Conatser, the new find in the
Aggie’s backfield, has finally made
a touchdown that the referees
could not call back. Bill broke in
to the scoring column in the Tyler
game against
Villanova when
he took a punt
on the Aggies
30 yard line and
raced through
the entire Villa
nova team for a
70 yard touch
down jaunt.
When his 60
yard touchdown
run was called
back in the Cen
tenary game,
Conatser was dubbed by sport-
writer’s as the hard luck boy of
the conference. He earned this
title after having a total of three
touchdowns called back by the of
ficials. He had one called back
last year and two this season.
Conatser, who last year was put
into a game to punt when needed
has been doing some fancy running
for the Cadets. Norton has re
alized this year that Conatser can
run with the ball as well as he
can punt it. He has been turning
in some runs, using a phanton
change of pace and some neat side
stepping in eluding his tacklers.
Bill won his first varsity letter
last year by carrying, the brunt
of the Aggies punting assignments.
Statistics show that he led the
Aggie punters with an average of
45 yards, which is considered a
good average for any kicker. He
received a second letter as a high
jumper on the track team last
spring.
His home is in Denison, Texas,
where he played for the local high
school. He lettered three times
each in football and basketball
and received two letters for
track. In his senior year he
was selected as a back on the
all-district team. He served as
captain of the football and basket
ball teams in his last year in high
school. He entered A. & M. in
1937 and won freshman numerals
in football and track.
Bill is teamed along with Derace
Moser to give the Aggies two of
the best broken-field runners and
punt-returners in the conference.
Punt returning is Conatser’s spec
ialty and we hope the opposing
punters do right by him, so he
can have a chance to display to
the fans all points of his specialty.
J. T. Lund Attended
Industrial Seminar
As A. & M. Delegate
Dr. J. Thomsen Lund, assistant
professor of agricultural econom
ics, was the farm management rep
resentative of A. & M. at the 1939
Summer Industrial Seminar con
ducted last month by the Ameri
can Farm Implement Manufactur
ers’ Association with the co-oper
ation of American Society of
Agricultural Engineers.
The seminar included instructors
in agricultural engineering and
farm management from various
state colleges. The work included
visits to the manufacturing plants
of various farm machinery com
panies, demonstrations on the use
and effectiveness of farm machin
ery and consideration of power
machinery on farms.
The University of Chicago has
an endowment fund of $65,400,000.
Some 70 college and university
presidents are graduates of Indi
ana University.
Some University of Louisville
buildings originally housed a
juvenile reform school.
The Universities of Texas, Okla
homa and California at Los An
geles have been given special Will
Rogers Memorial Scholarship
funds.
Cadets Point
To TCU Game
At Ft. Worth
BY JIMMY JAMES
Next week the Aggies, Corps
Team, and all, make the trek to
Cow-town to invade a very dan
gerous nest of air-minded Horned
Frogs.
A. & M., with three victories
tucked under its belt, is now pre
pared for what many of the play
ers call the game which will either
make or break them. The oppo
sition, although losing its fir’st
three attempts by close margins, is
due for a comeback.
T.C.U. is now feeling the ex
pected blow of losing such men
as I. B. Hale, Ki Aldrich, and
Davey O’Brien, all-American men
of the 1938 season. An unex
pected blow came last week when
Jackie Odle, supposed successor
to O’Brien, broke a thumb. Ac
cording to doctor’s reports, Odle I Medical schooCthe benefit "pic-
New Instructor Talks
To Pre-Med Society
The Pre-Medical Society held its
first meeting of the year recently
in the Biology lecture room. John
Howard, president of the club,
opened the meeting with a welcome
to the new members that were pre
sent.
Dr. G. E. Potter, new instructor
in the Biology Department, was in
troduced to the club as the new
sponsor for the coming year. He
addressed the club for a few min
utes mainly for the purpose of
getting acquainted with the mem
bers.
After Dr. Potter’s address, Al
lan Neighbors, secretary-treasurer,
read the minutes of the last club
meeting held last June.
Following the reading of the
minutes, a discussion was held as
to the time and place of future
meetings. It was decided that the
club would meet on the first and
last Tuesday of each month in
the Biology lecture room.
Among the other topics discuss
ed were the annual trip to some
will be missing from the line-up
the rest of the season.
Besides being due for a come
back, the Horned Frogs showed
much improvement in their passing
game against Temple. Another
sore spot in the Aggies eyes is
the discovery of a new passing
ace who reminds the fans of Sam
my Baugh and Dave O’Brien. The
young man’s name is Glenn
Cowart, a quarterback, who got to
play because Odle was left at home.
Another improvement is borne out
in the statistics of the Texas
Christiain, Temple fracas. Statis
tics show T.C.U. made fifteen first
downs to Temple’s nine.
The Aggies start this game in
fine physical condition and say
that if they don’t get any “warts”
from the toads, they should be off
fpr a fine season.
Ten Oklahoma And
Texas Boys Named
Naval Air Students
That ten Oklahoma and Texas
college boys, including one Texas
A. & M. graduate, have been nomi
nated for naval aviation cadet
training for duty in the October
15 class has been learned from
U. S. Naval Air Station in Pen
sacola, Florida.
The men, who will be sent to
Miami, Florida, for one month of
training and then to Pensacola for
the full course of training are Ric
hard C. Elwell, Texas A. & M.,
R. L. Gittings, University of Okla
homa, Oswald L. Lee, Hardin-Sim-
mons College, R. Le Rhea Cowan,
Austin College, R. F. Gabler, Hard
in Simmons College, V. W. Stall-
cup, Northwest Texas State Teach
ers College, W. C. Rivers, South
western State Teachers College,
George Garza, Southwestern State
Teachers College, R. W. Ross,
Maryville College, and A. C. Roach,
East Texas State Teachers College.
A class is sent to training every
month of the year by the U. S.
Naval Air Station. Information
may be obtained by those inter
ested by writing to A. Laverents,
Lieutenant, U. S. N. R., Senior
Member, Naval Reserve Flight Se
lection Board, Sixth, Seventh and
Eighth Naval Districts, Pensacola,
Florida.
ture show, and the annual club
picnic. Nothing definite was plan
ned on these subjects.
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