ON
KYLE FIELD
By
E. C. “Jeep” Oates
Battalion Sports Editor
Owens “Slick” Rogers Is Back At A. & M.;
Football Poll Places Cadets In Fifth Place
Owens “Slick” Rogers, the Aggie
quarterback and captain of last
year’s grid team, is back at col
lege. He and Charlie Trail, sen
ior yell-leader last year, are rep
resenting the Fidelity Union Life
Insurance Company and have of
fices over Aggieland Pharmacy.
Slick lettered in football for
three years and was secretary of
the “T” Club.
Football Team Leaves Tonight
The sports writer’s poll has the
Aggies in fifth place this week.
Tennessee is still rated at the top,
but they fell off a lot in votes'
on account of their sorry sched
ule. Tennessee plays about two
good opponents each year and the
other games are against , small,
easy teams. It is so bad that
even the Tennessee students, fac
ulty and exes are griping about
it.
Arkansas Has Basketball Players At Ends;
Band Going To Ozarks Is Fine Move
The Porkers have some of the
tallest ends in the country in
Frieberger and Britt. Frieberger
stands six feet eight inches in the
ozone and weighs something like
230 pounds. All of the veteran
ends go over six feet two inches.
That is some contrast over the Ag
gies’ little Herb Smith who has
to put on high heels when he goes
to a dance so that he will be as
tall as the girls! Here is a bet
though, Smith will give a bqtter
account of himself Saturday than
any of the Porker ends with
their height and weight.
The entire Aggie Band will go
to Arkansas this week and make
the ball players feel that they are
playing before a home crowd.
Everyone who had anything to
do with making this possible is to
be complimented. The faculty is
also due a vote of thanks for
granting authorized absences for
seniors to make the trip. The
faculty voted to a man for it.
Aggies, Baylor, S.M.U. And Fordham Favored
In Games To Be Played Saturday Evening
Texas A. & M. will be favored
to win over Arkansas by about 18
points. The Cadets have beaten
T. C. U. by 14 points and the
Porkers barely nosed them out 14
to 13. Baylor gave the Razor-
backs a good lacing and the Cadets
beat the Bruins by 20 points. Villa-
nova beat Arkansas 7 to 0 and the
Cadets trimmed the Wildcats by
26 points.
S. M. U. will stop Jack Crain
enough to win. Coach Matty Bell
of the Ponies will have a defense
that will keep the Steers from
running wild. He always does
stop the opposition. The Ponies
rate right along with Notre Dame
and Oklahoma, and Bible’s crew
are not so high.
Baylor and T. C. U. are about
even and the game may go either
way by a small margin^ but it
looks like the Baylor line will be'
a little better than the Frogs can
weather. Wilson and Witt should
give the Bears enough points to
win.
Rice plays Fordham and it looks
like another reverse for Kitts and
his once-touted Owls. The Rams
will not beat the Owls as much as
lots of people think.
Predictions
A. & M. 19, Arkansas 7
S. M. U. 14, Texas 7.
Baylor 13, T. C. U. 6.
Fordham 20, Rice 13.
TEXAS LONGHORNS WILL STRIVE
TO RETAIN TOP CONFERENCE BERTH
Riding in an unfamiliar posi
tion atop the Southwest Con
ference standings, with the Texas
Aggies as company, Dana Bible’s
surprising Texas Longhorns plan
ned this week to carry their come
back fight into an enemy camp at
Dallas. It will be the first con
ference start for Matty Bell’s
Southern Methodist Mustangs, who
tied Oklahoma and held Notre
Dame to a one-point victory earlier
in the season.
Texas has defeated Arkansas
and Rice in the conference, won
intersectional games from Florida
and Wisconsin and dropped one to
Oklahoma, 12-24, a foi'tnight after
the Mustangs tied the Sooners 7-7.
The Pony back who scored that
tying touchdown against Okla
homa, junior Ray Mallouf, is out
for the season with a severe injury,
while Texas has taken on Pete
Layden, versatile sophomore full
back who had been out of action a
month before going into the Rice
game last Saturday. Layden scor
ed a touchdown the first time he
handled the ball, completed six out
-of nine passes, kicked off well and
picked up several nice gains from
scrimmage.
Layden and Noble Doss, sudden
ly flashy soph halfback from Tem
ple, teamed with Cowboy Jack
Crain to give Texas its punchiest
attack of the season'. Crain con
tinued his spectacular running,
racking up a 32-yard and an 80-
yard run from scrimmage, return
ing a punt 42 yards and swelling
his net gain on runs, passes and
punt returns for the season to
about 700 yards.
The Longhorn line played its
best game against Rice, with guard
Ted Dawson and tackle Park
Myers outstanding. The injury
list was almost extinct this week,
although tackle Don Williams still
was having knee trouble and center
Red Goodwin was banged up, as
usual, after an afternoon of crash
ing line-backing.
By winning their second confer
ence game, the Longhorns doubled
their quota of the last four sea
sons. They scored a single South
west win in 1935, 1936, 1937 and
1938.
After he ate 301 clams at one
sitting, Mike Spano of East Islip,
N. Y., claimed a national record.
Henke Teams With
Robnett At Aggie
Guard Positions
By Jimmie Cokinos
Charles Henke
started out as
a tackle on the
Aggie grid team
but was concert
ed over to fill
a guard post.
He is teamed
with Robnett to
give the Cadets
two of the best
guards in the
conference. This
pair’s work has
come slose to
the same caliber of performance
that Joe Routt and Virgil Jones
used to turn in for the Aggies,
same caliber of performance that
Joe Routt and Virgil Jones used
to turn in for the Aggies.
Henke’s six foot two frame car
ries his 204 pounds around the
gridiron in a speedy fashion, and
he is able to pull out of the line
in good style to lead interference
for the fast Aggie backs as they
start round their opponent’s ends.
He lettered last year as a tackle
playing behind Joe Boyd. But this
year Coach Norton in spring prac
tice looked ahead and saw that
if Henke stayed at tackle he would
not see any too much action. So
he tried Henke in the guard spot
and it seems that Henke liked the
move very much because he has
been turning in some spectacular
play at that position.
Because of his ever-alert of
fensive playing, Henke is able to
detect weakness in the opponents’
line. He reports his finds to the
signal-caller who in turn tries a
play over their weak points, the
results usually being quite favor
able.
He won a fish grid numeral in
1937, and his play this year has
improved by leaps and bounds
over that of preceding years. Ag
gie railbirds have noticed this im
provement and are saying that
he is the most improved player on
the Cadet’s 1939 squad.
40 Players
Scheduled To
Make Jaunt
Aggie Team Faces
Third Conference
Foe In Arkansas
By E. C. “Jeep” Oates
Coach Homer Norton will leave
this evening at 6:10 p. m. with
about 40 football players for
Fayetteville, Arkansas, where his
charges will meet the Arkansas
Razorbacks Saturday afternoon
before a large homecoming crowd.
It will be the third conference
game for the Aggies and the
fourth for the Porkers. The Ca
dets have won both of their games
by scoring 40 points to the oppo
sition’s six. The Porkers have
won over T. C. U. but have lost
to both Baylor and Texas. The
Hogs won over the Frogs with a
last minute score, but then lost to
the Steers in the same manner.
Baylor just tromped the Porkers.
A. & M. has beaten the team
that Arkansas nosed out and then
swamped the team that beat the
Hogs. A. & M. beat Villanova 33
to 7 and last week Villanova beat
Arkansas with an 80 yard run in
the third quarter after the Porkers
had outplayed the Wildcats all the
way.
Arkansas is known as the “pass-
ingest team in the nation,” but
their passing has been stressed to
such a point that they have for
gotten to run power plays and
they are now suffering from the
effects.
The Southwest Conference is
noted for its passing, but a pass
ing team alone has never won the
title. It takes a balanced ball
club to win anywhere. That is
what is taking the Aggies through
the mill in good shape this year.
They have next to the best pass
ing in the conference and the best
running attack. This coupled with
the best defensive team in paying
dividends.
Norton is taking some 40 men
with him. All of the players are
in playing shape, but he wants to
be prepared to take advantage of
his reserve strength if 'it is need-
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PAGE 2
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
NOVEMBER 2, 1939
INTRAMURALS
With Hub Johnson
INTRAMURAL SWIMMING
MEET POSTPONED
Due to the fact that a great
number of students anticipate be
ing off the campus this weekend,
the intramural department deem
it advisable to postpone the in
tramural swimming meet which
had been planned for the weekend.
The event will be held at a later
date to be announced in the near
future.
Football scores—
F Field Artillery, 12 to 0, over
G. Infantry.
C. Cavalry topped A Chemical
Warfare, 7 to 0.
D Field Artillery dropped 7 to
0 to C Infantry.
Basketball games of the past
two days—
L Infantry surpassed 1 Combat
Train 29 to 6.
2 Combat Train fell 9 to 4 to
C Field Artillery.
M Infantry, 26 to 5, over B Cav
alry.
E Coast Artillery held the lead
of 18 to 16 over H Infantry.
Some fine games have been seen
on the basketball court this sea
son but Monday seemed to be the
all-round day.
At 4 o’clock E Coast Artillery
and H Infantry met in a fast game
that saw the Coast boys mark up
a 13-to-6 lead in the first half
and then slow their pace with
the pressure applied by Bob Lane-
dale as he led the Infantry team
to a 10-point rally in the last
perid. This was the best of the
day.
Later that day L Infantry held
First Combat Train to four points
in the first half and to two points
in the last half, and with Kirby
in the lead ran up a score of 29
to 6.
M Infantry (the Infantry boys
seem to play in the best games)
ran up a 26-to-5 score over B
Cavalry. The game was inter
esting even though it was a bit
topheavy. The Infantry boys took
over the score board and kept a
more accurate account than the
scorekeeper. Cawling was the
high-point man of the game with
nine credits.
When two Field Artillery bat
teries meet anything can happen,
and it did. It looked like a game
of football and only half as many
fouls were called as could have
been. Both managers agreed that
it was the roughest they had ever
seen. Both teams were rough and
fought, tackled, hacked, and trip
ped right up until the last whistle.
The final score, C Field 9, Second
Combat Train 4.
has been played. Records show
that the Cadets have never won
a game from the Porkers at Fay
etteville.
Several hundred Cadet students
are planning on following the
team Friday afternoon and they
may furnish that something, that
the team has been needing in the
Ozarks.
ed. He wants to win a ball game
in Arkansas and he will use every
thing he has at his command to
do so.
These two teams have met on
the field of battle 12 times.
Arkansas has won seven frays and
the Aggies four. One tie game
Second Headquarters Field Ar
tillery won the only tennis matches
of the last two days. Beati and
Jensen won over McMillan and
Fitzgerald of C. Chemical War
fare. The other match was a
forfeit by the Chem boys.
FOR
Eye Examination
And Glasses
Consult
J. W. PAYNE
DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY
Masonic Bldg. Bryan, Tex.
Next to Palace Theater
Williamson Picks
S.M.U. Over Texas
By Paul Williamson
This week should be a relative
ly quiet one compared with some
of the hectic football weekends
just past. Most of the games
should run true to the William
son scientific football rating.
The consensus may consider
some of the selections by the sys
tem as probably radical. They
all should be hard battles and
closely fought. If mathmatical
ratings are followed, however, the
system’s favorites should win.-
Best long shots of the week,
which should not be such big up
sets after all, are Georgia Tech
to upset Duke, Louisiana State’s
Ken Kavanaugh to snag a few
passes more than Tennessee can
handle, and for Oregon State to
upset mighty Southern California.
Here are the picks. The favored
team in CAPS. The letter “T
after a team means a possible tie
or upset.
TEXAS A. & M. 96.2 Arkansas
S. M. U. 91.8 Texas
BAYLOR 87.2 Tex Chris.
ABILENE CHR 64.6 Austin Col.
U. C. L. A. 89.5 California
SO. CAL. 94.2 Oregon St.
OREGON 88.2 Wash. St.
ARIZONA 78.9 Centenary
FORDHAM 88.0 Rice
NOTRE DAME 92.7 Army
93.9 Ga. Tech.
DUKE
GEORGIA
VILLANOVA
MINNESOTA
OHIO STATE
IOWA
MICHIGAN
DARTMOUTH
PITTSBURGH
NAVY
85.7
86.9
85.0
57.8
86.3
91.4
85.4
77.4T
82.3
84.4
88.8
68.5
85.3
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93.1 Indiana 89.0
89.3 Purdue 88.0
99.3 Illinois 81.0
87.2 Yale 85.1
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