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ON KYLE FIELD By E. C. “Jeep” Oates Battalion Sports Editor There were two boys streaking for the goal line at the same time Saturday. Crain of Texas and Conatser of A. & M. were both on jaunts for over 80 yards towards and across the goal line of Arkan sas and T.C.U. respectively. John Kimbrough was not oper ated on Saturday night as was planned. He is in the local hos pital undergoing treatment for an injured leg, but it was not neces sary to lance the wound. He will be ready to go against Baylor and will be out for practice in a cou ple of days. Fred Shook has much more re spect for Kimbrough and Robnett this week than he did last. Bill Conatser is just as danger ous a runner as Crain of Texas. He has raced for touchdowns in every game except the one against Santa Clara. Some of his long runs have been called back, but the fact remains that he has made them just the same. Th Aggies have the will to win this season and it is that little extra push that they get from it that is making them the feared team of the Southwest. S. M. U. Rated Leading Team S.M.U. is the leading team in the conference according to the Williamson Rating System, which is looking more like “Bull” every Basso Air Service Solo Course $38.00 Instructions $5.00 per hr. Airport Phone 8520F2 Madisonville Highway, Bryan Texas time it comes out. The Ponies are in bad shape if reports from there are true. Preston Johnson and Ray Mallouf, their two leading backs,'are in the hospital. Mallouf is out for the season and Johnson has been advised to play under no conditions for two weeks and, better still, not to play again this year. The Mustangs are rated the highest by Williamson, although they have lost one and tied one, but the Associated Press looks at things like they are and picks the Aggies for the top team in the Southwest and one of the leading teams of the country. goes'/ '-qv/=?AZz>- -r-a.O, Outstanding performer in the line for T. C. U/s luckless Horned Frogs this year has been Buddy Sherrod, junior right guard. Hand icapped somewhat by injuries since the opening game, Sherrod has still managed to deal opponents plenty of trouble, both on offense and defense... Bobby lettered last year as a sophomore... He weighs 190 pounds and was an all-state performer during his high school days at North Side, Fort Worth. .. We tried to pick the teams the reverse of what we thought they would finish last week, but then Rice had to come along and spoil that. Here is a bet though, this column was the only one in the country to pick Sam Houston to win, even in fun. Here is one to remember: Kitts will not be foot ball coach at the Houston school coming 1940. Santa Clara Wins Santa Clara topped St. Mary’s Sunday at San Francisco. Yes, that is the same team that won the Cotton Bowl game last year. They were top heavy favorites, but then so was Rice. Jim Davis pick ed the Bronco team to win by an upset in that tilt. College Years magazine is run ning a Betty Co-Ed beauty contest and a winner will be selected from each section of the nation. If anyone is interested in submitting a picture of his girl friend for the contest he may get his informa tion by writing to this column. Girls submitted must be college students. Tues. & Wed. Oct. 24 - 25 Former President Herbert Hoov er is chairman of a special com mittee to select a successor to Ray Lyman Wilbur, retiring pres ident of Stanford University. I ON THE GRIDIRON IT IS A. & M. i I ALL THE WAY • ! FOR YOUR UNIFORMS IT IS THE UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP ALL THE WAY You Can Not Go Wrong When It Is “Tailored by Mendl & Hornak’ DNIFORM TAILOR SHOP North Gate AGGIES BURY FROG JINX Battalion Sports PAGE 3 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS OCTOBER 24, 1939 AGGIES RATE 24TH PLACE AS MICHIGAN LEADS By Paul B. Williamson Michigan ran wild over Chicago to hold its No. 1 rating of the na tion in a week-end of playing that saw several football “upstarts” trip their traditionally stronger brothers. The 85 to 0 trouncing Coach Herbert Crisler’s Michigan Wolver ines gave Chicago was the big gest defeat in Chicago’s gridiron history. For that overwhelming victory Michigan advances to its top rating to 99.9. (Editor’s note: Chicago is the team out for all the big time players in all sports.) Cornell, which played under wraps in two previous triumphs this season, threw off the hood t( smother supposedly-strong Penn State 47 to 0 and gain second place in the national rating with 98.2. Mississippi continued its cham pionship stride by blanking St. Louis U. 42 to 0, to win third honors with a rating of 97.9. Duke came through for the Williamson Rating to beat Syracuse 33 to 6 and earn a fourth-place rating of 95.9. Fifth place goes to Okla homa, which turned back Kansas 27 to 7, for a rating of 95.2. Tennes see stopped Alabama’s bowl game march with a surprising 21 to 0 victory and stepped up to sixth place with a rating of 94.5. The System had called ;for a possible upset, but gave the shade to the boys from Alabama. Most of the teams played ac cording to form established by previous games this season but there were some games in which upstarts rose up to smite down big names by victories over much weaker teams. Among the good picks . . . Michigan over Chicago (85 to 0); Northwestern over Wiscon sin (13 to 7); Purdue over Michi gan State (20 to 7); Texas Aggies over T.C.U. (20 to 6); Texas over Arkansas (14 to 13); Mississippi over St. Louis U. (42 to 0); L.S.U. over Loyola of the South (20 to 0). The week’s play was important because it saw under-cover teams emerge and saw teams with repu tations for power against lesser op position meet their masters in teams that had played consistent ly good football against most even ly matched strong squads. Unexplainable upsets include: Sam Houston Teachers’ nosing out of Rice 9 to 8; supposedly poor Washington and Lee conquering West Virginia 9 to 0 for the first time in 28 years; and several other crazy results. Perfect team 100.0 1 Michigan 99.9 2 Cornell 98.2 3 Ole Miss 97.9 4 Duke 95.9 5 Oklahoma U 95.2 6 Tennessee 94.5 7 Tulane X 94.1 8 L. S. U 93.2 9 Ohio State 93.1 10 N. Carolina U 93.1 11 Kentucky U 93.0 12 Wake Forest 92.9 14 Pittsburgh .91.8 15 Alabama 91.6 17 St. Mary’s, Calif 91.6 19 Sotith. Calif. U 91.4 20 Notre Dame 91.3 21 S. M. U —91.2 22 Purdue 90.4 23 Holy Cross 90.4 24 Texas A. & M 89.6 25 Minnesota 89.5 28 Baylor 89.1 32 Georgia Tech 88.6 33 Fordham : 88.6 40 Texas U 87.9 42 U. C. L. A 87.5 43 Arkansas U 87.3 47 Navy - 86.7 59 Carnegie Tech 85.2 62 Oklahoma A. & M 85.0 65 Hardin Simmons 84.6 73 Texas Tech 84.1 74 Santa Clara 84.1 77 T. C. U - - 84.0 79 Villanova 84.0 81 Marquette 83.8 82 Army 83.6 84 Vanderbilt 83.4 93 Texas Mines 82.6 94 Rice 82.4 126 Centenary, La 77.4 178 Sam Houston Teachers....73.0 247 W. Texas State 65.8 253 Southwestern, Texas .....65.0 308 Schreiner Inst 60.3 526 San Angelo J. C 45.1 Derace Moser, sophomore back for the Aggies, is shown above circling back on the football field after running the ball 15 yards across the goal line and a touchdown for the Aggies during the A. & M.-T. C. U. game Saturday. Frog Jinx Gone, Aggies Ready For Baylor Bruins By Jimmy James With the great Horned Frog jinx a thing of the past, the Ag gies are now priming for the Baylor Bruins. It seems that the A. & M. gridders of 1939 are gifted by realizing that this old Southwest Conference is not won until each and every game is turn ed into a victory. Saturday the Ole Army takes on one of the strongest contenders for top honors in the Southwest Conference, Baylor University. The Bears, who have won three games and lost one this season, feature a running attack led by a sopho more, Jack Wilson. In fact, Coach Morley Jennings played Wilson very little against Nebraska, sav ing the “Baylor Hope” for the Aggie tilt. Saturday will also be the renew al of a battle started ‘way back in 1899. Out of the 36 games play ed the Aggie have won 23, lost 8, and tied 5. Baylor is also credit ed with handing the Aggies the second worst lacing ever received in A. & M.’s history. The score- board read: Baylor 46, A. & M. 0. The worst defeat in history belongs to Texas who whipped the Aggies 48 to 0 in 1898. “Shoot the gigger to the Frogs, John Boy” Kimbrough and his great powerhouse gang come into their sixth week of play without serious injuries and should be rarin’ to go again. The Bears, however, this past week-end suf fered greatly in that their all conference bid at center, Robert Nelson of Bryan, had to leave the Nebraska game in favor of an in jured shoulder. The extent of this injury has not yet been determined. Saxet “GOOD” Ice Cream BRYAN DAIRY STORE 109 E. 26th BRYAN LET'S DANCE AGGIES!! Have fun—Sure! But won’t you have more fun if you know that your Tux is the last word in style and makes you look your best. Fashions change in evening clothes, too. Come in and see these smart Tux in Midnight Blue, Single or Double-Breast ed models. $25.00 and $27.50 FORMAL ACCESSORIES Arrow Tux Shirts Arrow Tux Ties Tux Vest or Cumberbands Hickok Tux Jewelry Interwoven Tux Socks Bostonian Tux Oxfords t t r r~» WIMBERLEY STONE DANSBY -is CLOChlERS Moser, Conatser, John Kimbrough Score; Aggie Power Overwhelms Frogs With John Kimbrough, “Mose” Moser, and “Dancing Bill” Conat ser scoring touchdowns, the Aggies romped on T. C. U., jinx, tradition and all, and trimmed them, 20 to 6, in Fort Worth Saturday, before some 30,000 spectators who braved the broiling sun and the report that all tickets were gone. Reports from both schools were that many of their leading men were out with injuries, but when the teams took the field the starting lineups in the programs were right. Robnett kicked off to T-C-U."" and after their attack failed they punted to Moser, who fumbled, and the Frogs recovered. After two plays the Frogs passed to Clark, great Toad halfback, who scampered across for the lone T. C. U. touchdown. Until this time the Cadets looked ragged. For the rest of the first half, which was about 27 minutes, the Cadets pushed the Frogs all over the field. In the waning minutes of the first half the Aggie stars pushed the ball to the T.C.U. three yard stripe. They took time out and were penalized five yards for excessive time-outs. Then Price dropped back and slipped a short pass to “Big John” who rumbled over the goalline. “Rusty” Cowart and another Frog tried in vain to keep Kimbrough from crossing the goal, but he just ran over them and kept going. The “goat” of the game was none other than the man who scored the second Aggie touchdown, Derace Moser. He fumbled several times during the ball game and it was he who fumbled the punt at the start of the game, but the Frogs would have scored that touch from any place on the field unless Clark had broken his leg in the run. After advancing the ball deep into T.C.U. territory, Kimbrough faked a plunge into the line, but Moser took the ball on a “Bootleg” and raced wide around right end for the tally. Before this the Cadets were in a 6-6 tie and Daw son was warming up to attempt a field goal. Late in the game Bill Conatser intercepted a Frog pass on his own eight yard line and took off for 92 yards. It was the best down field blocking that has been shown in this conference. Thomason al most beat the wind out of one of the Frogs with a block and Kim brough piled another up, and from there on down the field the whole Aggie team was taking the Frogs to the ground as “Willie” raced on to outrun the last two Toads. The stars of the game were Robnett, Kimbrough, Thomason, Pugh, Price, Moser, Conatser, Boyd, Routt, Pannell, Wesson, Henke, Rahn, Vaughn, Hauser, Herman, Smith, Sterling and Buchanan. 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