Tulane Shattered By Aggie Team - In Last Meeting
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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Aggie Cagers Are Impressive in 43 to 41
Win Over Sam Houston State Teachers
The Aggie basketeers looked
mighty good . Wednesday night
when they outlasted the Sam
Houston Bearkats in a fast "game
to win 43 to 41. Sam Houston
has a better than average team,
but they had to play second fiddle
to the Aggies who were led in
point-making by Bill Henderson, a
sophomore.
Woody Varner, Tom Tinker, Jude
Smith, J. T. Lang and the rest
of the boys looked plenty good.
Between halves the S. H. S. T. C.
band and girl cheer-leaders put on
a show that was plenty good to
look at. They really go in for
basketball and entertainment over
Huntsville way.
It looks like the basketeers
have gotten the fever of winning
from the football team.
Band Will Be Taken to Sugar Bowl Game;
Southern Pacific Offers Best Route
It has been announced that the
Aggie 210-piece band will be sent
to the Sugar Bowl. This will add
greatly to the color of the mid
winter sports show.
Students will all sit together at
the game and they may purchase
tickets for $1.75 plus slip from
coupon book. The Athletic De
partment is absorbing part of the
cost of the tickets so that more
students may make the trip.
We do not know what railroad
will be selected to carry the band,
but we do know that the South
ern Pacific offers the best route.
They have a direct line from here
to Houston and from Houston to
New Orleans. It is their main line.
Letter Comes in Praising Dick Todd;
Notes on Sports From Here and There
Garrison Smith, formerly of the
class of ’40 and now a resident
of Alfred, New York, sends us a
clipping on the Washington Red
skin-New York Giant champion
ship game. Here are some quotes
from the paper. “Dick Todd, more
slippery than a cake of soap, ran
back a punt for 30 yards and a first
down on the 47. Todd returned
Strong’s kick 36 yards to the 47.
Twice Filchock passed to Todd in
the flat, and that elusive little
back, sidestepping tackier after
tackier, went up to the 25. . . .
For the Redskins, the backfield
stars were Filchock and Todd. Al
though Anvil Andy Farkes was
hurt early it is hard to conceive
how he could have been as good
as Todd.
Friday after the Texas game,
Wilbur Evans, striving sports writ
er for the Austin American, pop
ped off about the sorry play of
the Aggies. He made some re
marks about Kimbrough not look
ing so good and about the Ag
gies not having a team 20 points
better than Texas. He thinks that
T^xas would like to play the
Cadets again and from the way
his story reads, he thinks Texas
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might beat the Aggies, etc.
Mr. Evans just showed how lit
tle he knows about this game of
football. He just couldn’t take the
licking that Texas had to take.
Here is one point we would like to
make clear. JACK CRAIN IS A
SWELL BALL PLAYER AND
FROM WHAT THE PLAYERS
TELL ME HE WAS THE BEST
BOY ON THE TEXAS TEAM.
He did play clean football and
not that stuff that the rest of
them played.
Joe Boyd and John Kimbrough
both made Kate Smith’s All-Amer
ican team. They will both be giv
en watches for this honor. Kim
brough is leaving today for St.
Louis where he will be named on
the All-American Football Board’s
All-American team.
The Athletic Council has given
its word that the Aggie players
will be given proper awards for
their Sugar Bowl game besides
their awards for being conference
champions. ■
Marshall Robnett has stepped
into the All-American picture. The
United Press named Kimbrough,
Boyd and Robnett on three of their
teams.
This writer will interview Joe
Boyd this morning at nine o’clock.
The program will be over radio
station WBAP.
TCU Names Three
Aggies as AU-SW
The 1940 Horned Frogs are go
ing to have to face again eight
of the 11 players they picked as
tops among their 1939 opponents.
The T. C. U. footballers placed
three seniors, four juniors and
four sophomores on their all-op
ponent eleven.
Three of those named are from
A. & M., three from Baylor, two
from S. M. U., and one each from
Arkansas, Texas and U. C. L. A.
No opponent was picked unani
mously by the Frogs, but Mar
shall Robnett, Aggie guard, led
the field, with Joe Boyd, Aggie
tackle, only one vote behind him.
The Frogs’ all-opponent selec
tions :
Ends—Woodrow Strode, U. C. L.
A., and Roland Goss, S. M. U.
Tackles—Joe Boyd, A. & M., and
Don Williams, Texas.
Guards—Leonard Akin, Baylor,
and Marshall Robnett, A. & M.
Center—Robert Nelson, Baylor.
Backs—John Kimbrough, A. &
M.; Preston Johnson, S. M. U.;
Jack Wilson, Baylor, and Kay
Eakin, Arkansas.
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GEO. STEPHAN, Pres.
Ags Defeated
Green Wave By
Score of 13-6
Tulane and A. & M.
Have Met 11 Times
In Previous Years
“Tulane’s vaunted Green Wave
here Saturday was shattered into
a harmless spray against a rock
like magnificient Texas Aggie
team.” Those were the lead lines
of the Houston Post on October
10, 1933 giving the account of the
last meeting of the two teams.
That was the year Matty Bell
coached the maroon and white to
a high point and won this inter
sectional tilt. It was the first im
portant win for a southwest team
in many a year.
Kimbrough, was also on the
team then as now. Not the same
Kimbrough but his brother. Bill.
He too was a back and played a
mighty good game.
The game was played before a
crowd of 17,000 people. There will
be a great difference in the crowd
as well as in the type of ball that
was played those six years ago
when A. & M. and Tulane play
January 1.
Bill Couser and “Frenchy” Dom-
ingu were the stars of the Aggie
eleven and thrilled the stands with
long runs, short passes, and beauti
ful defense work.
The Aggies were playing for re
venge that year for the preceed-
ing year the Wave had stopped
them with a score of 26 to 14. This
was the worst defeat ever handed
them by the Tulane team.
Back in the ‘old days’, the Ag
gies and the Tulane eleven met
off and on to open their respective
seasons. In these games the Ag
gies usually finished much the bet
ter team but when the two were
reunited in 1929 for a five year
schedule, the winning honors
changed hands.
The all time standing for the
two teams is as follows:
Year A. & M. Tulane
1902 17 6
1906 18 0
1907 18 6
1910 17 0
1912 41 0
1917 35 0
1929 10 13
1930 9 19
1931 0 7
1932 14 26
1933 13 6
The all-time record shows the
Aggies winner of seven games with
a total of 172 points and the Tu
lane Wave winner of four with 82
points.
AGGIE AND 0. U.
P0L0ISTS PLAY
HERE SUNDAY
The Aggie polo team will swing
mallets against the University of
Oklahoma Sunday at 2:30 on Jack-
son Field. New Mexico, Oklahoma
University, and A. & M. are tied
for the conference lead with two
wins and two losses each. A
double win by either team will
place them in the top notch in the
conference.
Judging from the records thus
far, these two teams are pretty
evenly matched and should show
the spectators just how the game
is played. Oklahoma U. has the
same record against New Mexico
and Oklahoma Military as the Ag
gies and are being led by Bob Gal-
breath former New Mexico star.
If the Cadets plan to take this game
in their stride, they will have to
remember Field Rule No. 8—“The
side scoring the most goals wins.”
BATTALIONS—
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1939
PAGE 3
Leading Scorers
Player — School Touchdowns
John Kimbrough, A. & M 10
Crain, Texas 8
Conatser, A. & M 7
Johnston, S. M. U 6
Witt, Baylor 5
Gillespie, T. C. U. 5
Moser, A. & M 4
Davis, Texas 4
Eakin, Arkansas 4
Adams, Arkansas 4
Nelson, Baylor 0
Con
Field
versions
Goals
Total
0
0
60
8
0
56
0
0
42
3
0
39
0
0
30
0
0
30
0
0
24
0
0
24
0
0
24
0
0
24
12
3
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INTRAMURAL
. HIGHLIGHTS .
Cadets Retain Lead Among National
Schools in Williamson’s Rating
By HUB JOHNSON
Games are coming pretty fast
now but there are still signs of for
feits that make some clean records
look a bit dark.
Aggie Team Picks
All-Opponent Team
The Aggie team took time out
yesterday in their regular run of
life to pick their all-opponent
team composed of members on
teams they met this year.
Arkansas and Baylor each had
two men named and the Santa
Clara team had four. The Cali
fornia team was also chosen as the
toughest team they had met this
year. All other southwest teams
had one man named except T. C. U.
Nelson of Baylor and Simming-
ton of Santa Clara were beat by
one vote each.
The team as chosen by the Ag-
gis is,
End—Hickey, Arkansas.
Tackle—Sanders, S. M. U.
Guard—Akin, Baylor.
Center—Schiechl, Santa Clara.
Guard—Hogan, Santa Clara.
Tackle—Myers, Texas.
End—Anahu, Arkansas.
Backs— Eakin, Arkansas; Wil
son, Baylor; Johnson, Santa Clara,
and Cordill, Rice.
BOXING CLUB RECEIVES
BOXING INVITATIONS
The A. & M. Boxing Club has
recently received invitations to
fight matches with two colleges;
Texas University and Arkansas
Polytechnic Institute. Dual
matches are asked for in each case,
which means that each team would
fight once at home and once at
the other school.
Fifty men are at present mem
bers of the club and taking part
in the sport.
A bearer is impeding the prog
ress of a CCC camp in Deer Lodge,
Mont. Each night he stealthily
dams up spillways which are drain
ing the lake.
Touchfootball is still on the field
and will be there for some time to
come. Three leagues have come to
definite finishes but there still re
main many games to be played.
1st Headquarters Field Artillery,
F Field Artillery, and I Infantry
have claimed league championships
and will play in the final play offs.
I Infantry made their second
bid for a top honor by downing C
Coast Artillery 13 to 0 and allow
ing them no penetrations. This puts
the Infantry team back up with
the leaders in the season standing.
E Field Artillery registered two
40 yard penetrations and one 20
over B Coast Artillery and the
Headquarters Signal Corps closed
out A Infantry with one 20 and
one 40 to nothing to take the lead
in their respective leagues.
The top teams of the handball
schedule thus far are A Coast
Artillery and 1st Headquarters
Field Artillery.
The coast team claimed their last
against 2nd Combat Train, 2 to 1.
First Headquarters won by the
same score over B Signal Corps.
Forston, Latham, Denny, and
Hancock were the winners for the
Field team while Lyons and Oliver
took the signal team’s win.
John Yowell is urging his 2nd
Headquarters team on a bit this
year in the handball tournament.
By Paul B. Williamson
Texas A. & M., champions of the
Southwest Conference, is the col
leges’ and the Williamson system’s
choice as the outstanding team of
the nation after the last big play
ing-week of the 1939 season.
Along with the scientific rating
is a balanced poll made from ques-
tionaires from 400 odd colleges
from one end of the nation to the
other and from every conference
and group. These teams are rank
ed according to the points gained
in that balancing. These points
were calculated by tallying again
st each team its position in a list
of 15 or less on each questionnaire.
A vote for a team from a school
in its own geographical section
was called a “home” vote and from
a team away from its section an
“away” vote. The points were to
talled by assigning 15 points for a
first choice, down to one point for
15 th choice, among the “home”
votes—and 20 points for a first
choice, down to 6 points for 15th
choice, among the “away” votes.
The total of all the points for each
team are given in the “PTS.” col
umn of the accompanying “COL
LEGES” list.
With A. & M. on top of each
list with 5,033 points in the college
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poll, S. M. U. took 22nd place on
the Williamson rating and 27th
position on the poll. Texas Univer
sity was 48th on the Williamson
ranking and 50th on the student
poll.
No. Williamson
1 Texas A.&M.
2 Tulane
3 Cornell
4 Tennessee
6 So Cal.
6 Clemson
7 Duke
8 Missouri
9 Nebraska
10 Iowa
11 Boston Coll
12 Notre Dame
Geo Tech
Princeton
U.C.L.A.
WR Colleges
98.1 Texas A
97.7 Tulane
97.4 Tennessee
California
Oregon State 93.2 Holy Cross
Alaba:
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20 ±'ennsyl
21 Oklahom;
22 So Meth
23 Ohio State
24 Pitt U.
25 Santa Clara
97.4 So.
96.4 Cornell
95.5 Duke
96.3 Ohio State
96.0 Missouri
94.3 Notre Dame
94.1 Iowa
93.8 Duquesne
93.7 U.C.L.A.
93.6 Michigan
93.3 Oklahoma
93.2 North Carolina
ama
nesne
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ni
ahoma 92.4 Orego
So Methodist 92.4 Alaba
Pennsylvania
93.1 Clemson
93.0 Nebraska
92.8 Georgetown
92.6 Geo Tech
92.4 Oregon State
92.3
92.2
92.1
Alabama
Santa Cla:
San Jose
Princeton
PTS.
& M 5033
4389
4263
3906
3727
3157
2954
2904
2669
2657
2177
1419
1148
1019
983
956
739
693
681
615
491
872
294
292
281
Aggies Mark
Up 41-43 Win
In 1st Game
Aggie cagers are now hitting the
floor pretty regular and will con
tinue to do so until the first of
March. They opened the season
with the Sam Houston Bearkats
Wednesday night, taking their
first, 43 to 41. The Sam Houston
team came here last night for a
return game, losing 40 to 44.
The Aggie five are scheduled to
play in San Antonio on the 11th
and 12th against the St. Mary’s
Rattlers. The week of the 18th the
team enters the Tulsa Tourna
ment. They will spend Christmas
Day at home and then travel to
Oklahoma City to enter the Sooner
State Tournament which lasts un
til the last day of the year.
Arrangements are being at
tempted to have the team play in
Louisiana and Mississippi while
the football team is in training
for the Sugar Bowl.
Other games will be scheduled
before the Southwest Conference
opens in the second week of Janu
ary.
Below is the conference schedule
for the Aggies.
January 6 T. C. U. at College
Station
January 13 Baylor here
January 18 Rice here
January 20 S. M. U. here
January 23 Rice Houston
January 30 Baylor Waco
February 16 Arkansas here
February 17 Arkansas here
February 21 Texas Austin
February 24 T. C. U. Ft. Worth
February 26 S. M. U. Dallas
March 2 Texas here
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