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L > M \ w * f » 4 ♦ ^LE^i E-C-Jeep' OATES BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Jimmie Cokinos Pinch-Hitting ■ DICKINSON’S SYSTEM WRONG; HE PICKS AGGIES SECOND Here is a bit of news that we pass on to you that carries quite a smell. The University of South ern California’s unbeaten but twice- tied Trojans were rated as the na tion’s champion college football team of 1939. This was the way Professor Frank G. Dickinson of the University of Illinois headed his system of awarding national gridiron titles. He had the Tex as Aggies rated in second place, and Cornell, Tulane, and Tennessee ranked third, fourth, and fifth re spectively. Af-THl ASSEAVULY HALL | (t HI, FOLKS! We're millionaires now . . . and am I the all- 1,'. American playboy! Get fettaaa set for some grand fun! -t ® th r |3big hit! IHE HARMS RIDE HIGH LEWIS w * W * MICKEY STONE•ROONEY CECILIA ' F AY PARKER • HOLDEN Screen Play by Agnes Christine Johnston, Kay Van Riper and William Ludwig Directed by GEORGE B. SEITZ Saturday, Dec. 16 12:45 P. M. DEFINITELY A NEW HIGI IN SCREEN COMEDY! Ginger as the glamorous shopgirl “mother” of a doorstep baby — wooed by Playboy David, chased by Jitterbug Frank tom twixt loyalty, love and a living I (fingot ROGERS "Pavid NIVEN The gayest romance that ever stayed one jump ahead of your leaping heart! Saturday, Dec. 16 6:30 — 8:30 - Professor Dickinson, who by the way, teaches Economics, has been awarding national football titles since 1924. He says that his sys tem takes everything into consider ation in ranking the teams. Much stress of the selection is based on the strength of opponents of the teams considered. For this honor the Trojans will receive the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy for 1939. The trophy is given each year to the team that Dickinson’s system selects. The donation is sponsored by Notre Dame’s famous horsemen—Jim Crowley, Elmer Layden, Don Mill er, and Harry Stuhldrehr. With this point in mind, we be lieve the strongest competition in the nation can be found right here in the Southwest Conference. We can’t agree with Prof. Dickinson when he says that the football played on the West Coast is better than the type played in this con ference. Don’t take our word for it; let’s see what the fellow has to say about the west coast teams that has seen them play. Coach Norton, who saw the U. C. L. A.- Southern California game, came back with the report that the for ward passing out there does not even come on a par with that of this conference. Their defensive attacks do not seem to lead any where; they reach a certain point and from there on they don’t know what to do. No sir, we can’t agree with the professor with his top team. Well, anyway, let’s not worry too much about ^this “sys tem” as it is just one man’s opin ion. FINAL A. P. POLL HAS CADETS AS NATION’S NO. 1 TEAM The Aggies were rated by the A. P. final poll as the number one team of the nation for 1939. This vote is compiled by the outstanding sport writers of the nation along with other authorities of football. We believe that this poll is the best in the country as it is taken from men that know what football is all about and from men whose first interests are in the game and not in some other field, (economics for instance). WHOLE SQUAD, BAND, REV WILL MAKE SUGAR BOWL Coach Norton is taking the whole football squad to the game in New Orleans. Every man who came out for varsity football and re mained, including the ineligibles who didn’t see a minute’s service, will make the trip. There will be about 50 players to make the jaunt. Also making the trip will be the Aggies’ famous 210-piece Band. The A. & M. Athletic Council will take care of the Band expenses, making it possible for the Band to be on hand. Even ole Reveille, the dog mascot, will be there to lead the Band on the playing field. No definite check has been made on the number of students expect ed to make the trip, but according to the ticket office, about 1,500 student tickets have been sold al ready. This is a small number of students to go to the Sugar Bowl for such an important game and if the team is expecting any backing at all, more students than a mere 1,500 should be in the stands to yell for the team. Come on boys, let’s get to New Orleans New Year’s Day; don’t let the team down now. They will be needing that “extra something” when they play Tulane “and that extra some thing” can be supplied only by the “Twelfth Man.” Fourth down and two to go . . . John Kimbrough, the Aggies’ All- American fullback who suffered a broken eardrum in the game with Texas, will be in top shape for the Sugar Bowl game . . . The foot ball squad will be the guest of Sonja Henie’s skating show to night in Houston ... In return for this invitation, the Aggie team will present Miss Henie with an Aggie blanket . . . What’s this we hear about Rice’s line coach, Lou Hertenberger, handing in his res ignation? . . . Maybe he is beating the Houston Wolves to the punch . . . Here is a clipping that was sent in to the Bat office via mail. It was taken from one of New Orleans leading newspapers: “For the benefit of Tulane, op ponent of the Aggies in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans. The style of the Aggies is fairly simple. They tackle so hard it hurts clean up in the stands. Sooner or later the man they tackle is going to lose the ball and temporarily his interest in the ball game. The Ag- Cadets Take Denton Teachers 31 to 29 Game Is 5th Pre-Season Meet of Year The Aggie cagers played their fifth pre-season game Thursday night as they met the Teachers from North Texas State Teachers College in a fray that saw the Cadets trailing 27 to 29 with only ten seconds left to play, but in that time the Cadets rang the basket for four points to win 31 to 29. A. & M. jumped into an early lead when Jude Smith broke the ice to give the Aggies a 2 to 0 lead. The Cadets led most of the way, but the game dragged slowly until the last minute. At halftime Coach McQuillan’s boys held a 15 to 14 lead. During the last minute the Ag gies saw they were going to lose the game if they didn’t do some thing and do it in a hurry. They had the ball down near the Teach ers’ basket, but could not put it in. The Teachers then wrestled the ball away from the Aggies and went down to the Aggie end of the court to stall. Only about 15 seconds remained when J. T. Lang grabbed the ball and headed towards the Teachers’ goal. He stopped and crouched way out in “right field” and let go a “peg” that was good for two points and the game was tied up. The Teachers put the ball back in play, but Bill Henderson stole the ball from one of the bewildered visitors and passed to Tom Tinker, Aggie high-point man for the game, who passed into the goal from the “40 yard line” to win the game just as the gun fired, end ing what was otherwise a listless game. Woody Counts of NTSTC was high man with 11 points and Tinker was the leading Cadet point-maker with nine, being fol lowed by Henderson with eight. LONGHORNS, RED RAIDERS IN CAGE MEET TONIGHT The Texas Longhorns, defending basketball champions of the South west Conference, receive their first critical test of the practice season this Friday and Saturday at Austin when they meet the Red Raiders from Texas Tech. In their opener with Sam Hous ton Teachers of Huntsville, the Steers came out on the long end of a 57-37 score. They then took Southwest Texas to the tune of 52-28, with reserves playing the second half. The starting line-up will prob ably include Moers, Spears, Hull, Chester Granville, and Denton Cooley. This year’s team is the same as last year with the excep tion of Capt. Willie Tate, center. A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold. gies fall on the ball and then they give it to Kimbrough to carry for a touchdown.” . . . How about this idea . . . the two conferences, Southwest and Southern, should make some kind of agreement whereby the winners of each con ference meet each other in the Sugar Bowl. This would assure each conference winner a bowl game and would give the fans in this part of the country a chance to see the best teams in this sec tion play . . . Looking over the statistics of the conference football play we see that Arkansas, the team that calls itself “the passing- est team in the nation” was out- passed this year . . . Opposing teams threw passes that collect ed 774 yards while Arkansas had to be satisfied with 742 yards . . . In this department the Aggies had the' best average with a percent age of 432 . . . Come on Army! on to New Orleans where hellza- poppin’ New Year’s Day. Dear Jeep: I have been to a few of the A. & M. polo games and was sur prised each time at the number of Aggies attending. No one seems to care about this sport, and yet it has been said by those who know real polo that we have one of the finest teams in this section of the country. How about giving the team a good build-up and maybe someone will come out Sunday when they meet the Lamesa Club Sunday eve ning for the second time. —An Aggie. BATTALIONA— SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1939 PAGE 3 AGGIE TEAM RETURNS IN GOOD SHAPE TO TRAIN FOR NEW YEAR’S DAY GAME Once more the thud of leather on leather and of bone on bone was heard on Kyle Field yesterday as the Aggie football team re turned to training in preparation for the New Year’s Day Classic. The whole squad returned in good shape and Coach Homer Nor ton seemed well pleased at the look of things. There is a lot in store for the Aggies as the Tu lane Green Wave plays the game similar to the way the cadet team plays it. They’re rough and play constant power. From now until two days be fore Christmas the squad will practice daily. Then each man will head for home to spend Christmas with his family. After their brief visits at home, the boys return to College Station to continue their grind and remain here until a few days before the game. New uniforms are in store for the team and will be used in the game. New Orleans is preparing for the day as well as the 70,000 people who plan to attend. Here-to- fore the game has been just one of the great bowl games of the nation but this time, with two teams that most authorities rate high on the list, it is standing as the greatest bowl game of the day. Basketball at A. & M. Has Been The Neglected Sport; Improvements Needed By Jimmie Cokinos After watching the Texas Aggie basketball teams for the past four years we’ve reached the point where something must be done for this sport. If you have followed basketball at Aggieland for the past years you too will agree that basketball in A. & M. has been slightly neglected insofar as ma terial is concerned. For a sport that attracts as many as 5,000 fans (there were even more at the Aggie-Steer game last year) one can scarcely overlook the need and necessity of material. Teams that played here last year, who are the visiting team, even have more players in uniform than the Aggies. This year the Aggie bench has but nine men. Coach McQuillan has done his best with what he has. He should be congratulated on the way he has whipped into what looks like a conference team the ma terial he has had. Coach Ralph Wolf, of Baylor, last year came over to Coach Hub after the Ag- gie-Baylor game and shook Coach McQuillan’s hand and told him that he has done wonders with what he had out for basketball and should be commended on the way he coached the boys. As far as Aggie victories go we’d like to quote an A. & M. of ficial’s hope for future Aggie teams that we ran across while reading in a scrap-book: “I hope that I can live to see the day when any athletic team representing Texas A. & M. will be the most feared team on the schedule of the rest of the teams in the conference. I hope that I can live to see that minute when an Aggie team steps on a grid iron, the very sight of them will cause their opponents to feel slightly licked before the contest has even started. The Texas A. & M. teams will be the “dreaded” teams that others must face. Take our basketball team for instance. Why can’t we be the ones to cause the other teams to have fear for? Why must we continue to be the “stepson” in basketball ? Basketball at A. & M. has been neglected and for the past several years has been the stepson of A. & M. athletics. The thing that one should think about is that there are other athletic teams representing A. & M. Perhaps the college of ficial who made the above state ment should take his dream to heart. Waco, Texas, Dec. 16.—Baylor University continued a record en rollment year by registering 2,150 students last week for the winter term of school, an increase of 60 over the same period last year. INTRAMURAL . HIGHLIGHTS . By HUB JOHNSON Engineers moved into the win column Thursday evening by claim ing a booth in the final match for the tennis crown. Guy, Oswalt, Curry, and Nolen were the win ners as the ‘bridge builders’ turn ed back the 3rd Hq. Field Artillery in two matches. In a quarter final game A Field Artillery, last year’s champs, down ed Headquarters Cavalry in three matches. The Field team is de termined to take it again and have the same team as of last year with the exception of V. C. Denton who lettered on the varsity squad. B Infantry closed out to C Engi neers 3 to 0 in three games of fast handball. Muse, Cloninger, Mc Culloch, Timm, McKee, and Gray were the men composing the win ning teams. The 2nd Combat Train Field was matched against D Coast in water polo and was playing the best game. With one point mark ed up for the Coast team, Womble forced the goalie of the opponents against the bank to tie the score. From then on it was tigher than ever and Goalie Sorelle for the Field boys was getting a good going over. On one misplay he drew back to pass to mid-pool and accidently touched the goal for the Coast team. The final score, 2 to 1, with Coast in the lead. Class B swimming meet is sched uled for 3 o’clock this evening with teams due to report at 2:30 for organization. The preliminaries should prove a bit interesting, in fact, as much so as the finals which come off tomorrow at the same time. Entry cards for Class B table ten nis, or ping-pong if you so choose to call it, have been called for by December 18. It seems as though the program will be pretty crowd ed on the return to classes next year. Speedball is scheduled to start right away, the fish start ping pong, the football playoffs will be in order, handball will still be the speed game, and the Class A swimming meet will be in prep aration. The Washington Monument, which is 555.5 feet high, is one-half inch taller in summer than in win ter. RIDE THE BUSSES SAFE, DEPENDABLE & COURTEOUS Serving Aggieland for Over a Quarter Of a Century Bryan-College Traction Co., Inc. Aggies Nosed i* Out In Polo t am Houston State Teachers Figure hey’re Top Team Match Friday The Cadets were nosed out in the last few minutes of play in a hard fought game of polo Friday afternoon on Jackson Field by a superior Lamesa team. The game went rather slowly in the first half, with only one score being made and this during the second period when Woodward put one through for Lamesa on a pen alty shot. Fast riding and hard hitting a plenty came in the fourth period when Spencer Barron pushed one out of a goal post scramble to tally for the visitors. The most spectacular play of the afternoon followed when Sid McDonald brought one all the way down the field to mark one up for the Ag gies. Maloney accounted for the second Cadet score of the period when he lifted the ball out of a corner of the field and rolled it between the flags. During the fifth period both teams made one goal. Williams for the Aggies and White for Lamesa. Gus White’s penalty shot and goal in the sixth period made him the high point man of the game with a total of four tallies. Officials for the game were: Um pire, Jack Hays (Calif.); Referee, Maj. Wing (Army). Summary A. & M. Points Lamesa Points Maloney, Carl 1 Woodward, A. C. 0 Jones, Asas 0 Barron, Eri 0 McDonald, Sid 1 Barron, S. 1 Williams, T. A. 1 White, Gus 4 Total 3 5 HOUSTON A. & M. CLUB ENTERTAINS AGGIE TEAM 18TH Players and coaches of the championship Aggie football team will be guests of the Houston A. & M. Club at a dinner dance to be staged at the Rice Hotel in Houston on the evening of Decem ber 18. The Houston Post “Most Valu able” trophy will be awarded and presented at the banquet. A floor show will be given and dancing enjoyed after the snappy program which the Houston Club declares will be brief. Members of the football squad and their coaches will be introduced and Homer Nor ton will speak. Visitors from many South Texas points are expected to be present for the party, as well as repre sentatives from other Texas cities and other A. & M. clubs. Style predictions from a college columnist: This winter the fash ionable co-ed will find the bustle a stern necessity. By Hub Johnson How about this ? Students of Sam Houston State Teachers Col lege are yelling because they have not been asked to play in a post season bowl game of great import ance. As told by one of the future teachers, it all came about at the idea of Albert Reese of the Gal veston Daily News. Of course it’s done by compara tive scores but still it seems strange. Sam Houston beat Rice 9 to 8. Rice tied Arkansas 12 to 12, making the teachers’ team a point better than the Razorbacks. Arkansas defeated S. M. U. 14 to 0, so the Bearkats are 15 points better than the Ponies. Since S. M. U. lost to the Aggies by 6 to 2, they say Sam Hosuton is 11 points better than A. & M. And if you argue with them about who is the No. 1 team of the nation, they’ll come out with another flow of teams and num bers. This one is over Tennessee. If Sam Houston was 11 points better than the Aggies (think of that), they would be 30 points bet ter than the Owls, due to the 19 to 0 defeat by A. & M. Rice lost to Vanderbilt 14 to 12, leaving the Bearkats 28 points better than the Commodores. Tennessee covered Vanderbilt 13 to 0 making Sam Houston 15 points better than the unscored-on Volunteers. Sam Houston has sure improved on paper since they were defeated by the North Texas Teachers. At least they were asked to the Celery Bowl in Louisiana but turned down the bid. Barber Shop La Salle Hotel O’Conner - Jones Expert Radio Repair STUDENT CO-OP Phone No. 139 North Gate Men’s Imported All Wool MUFFLERS % ij nr-"- ■ In Gift Box 980 If he’s particular in his tastes, you’re sure to find exactly what he wants in this complete selection! 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