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THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940
Texas A&I Brings Improved Team To A&M
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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Champions Can Repeat! But SMU
Looms As The Team We Have To Beat
This opens another new year
and already many have stuck their
necks out to rest under the swing
of the old conference ax.
Now yours truly takes his place
on the proverbial limb and calls
off how they look to him.
Jess Neeley will be the door
opener to the cellar with the Rice
Owls flying in. They won’t go in
as bad as they did last year how
ever, but it does take a few games
to forget. Jimmy' Kitts led the
Owls to a championship his first
year at Rice and Dana X. Bible
did the same here but such a mir
acle seems out of the question for
this year.
Putting it over on the Owls
and probably finishing a step
ahead will be the Arkansas Razor-
backs or the Texas Christian Horn-
frogs. The “great” hornfrog team
left nothing at graduation as was
shown last year and Dutch Meyer
himself will need more than just
a year to rebuild such a team as
that of ’38. The Razorbacks could
even creep up a bit further but
they stand in much the same way
as T. C. U. for they were hard hit
at graduation last year. The
Ozarks always furnish some good
ball players and Arkansas will be i
et. Dana. Bible’s plan will start to
show results but won’t quite make
the grade. In saying his plan will
start to pay off is meant for his
sake it had better. Baylor on the
other hand is always the dark
horse of the conference and always
credited with spilling a high rid
ing team but at the same time
lacking the vim and vigor to fin
ish strong.
Southern Methodist will be the
team to beat. They have a strong
reserve and as many returning
squadmen as have the cadets. Last
year they ran for a tie for second
place and came the closest to
stopping the Aggies in the confer
ence.
If the field is muddy again this
year, many a fan will pull all his
hair out of his head or catch
another case of pneumonia.
The Aggies have the hard rode
to ride. They meet the Bears, Pon
ies and Longhorns on foreign
soil and these will be the three
majors of the year. Injuries play
an awful role in the same game
and may strike at any time. Ar
kansas came close to beating the
cadets here on Kyle Field year
before last. The feathered flock
strong but will lack that certain) from Rice must be given credit
something as of last year when
by the records they won the larg
er majority of their games. But
by the scoreboard they were al
ways the under pups.
Baylor University and Texas
University will have a tussle for
the team to go in the upper brack-
for a couple of games and who
knows the breaks might be set
that way. The Texas Aggies will
come in between two of the teams
mentioned or on one of the ends.
That’s about the best way to put
it at this time. At any rate “Cham
pions can repeat!”
Larger Battalion Sports Staff;
Sarge Carrol Takes Leave of A. & M.
This year assisting on the-
sports page will be Bob Myers of
Harlingen from Field Artillery
as Assistant Sports Editor. He
wrote a good bit last year and
handled the intramural column the
second semester.
Jack Hollimon now from Hous
ton and formerly of Thomas Jef
ferson, San Antonio, and Charlie
Babcock of Beaumont will fill out
the staff with Martin Howard ad
ding a word now and then.
■ “It’s the finish that makes the
champion.” With these words his
everlasting philosophy Sarge Car
rol served as manager of athletic
equipment for 13 years. In his
first year, 1927, under Bible the
Aggies brought home the bacon
and ever since then he looked for
ward to a repetition of the event.
Last year was the year and Sarge
Carroll with many a strange story
he could tell takes his leave of
Stars of the College Football Teams
Sign With Pros For the Coming Season
Throughout the summer the
great Kevatwitch has signed a
contract with the Zulchville Leop-
ords. Here are a few from the
country over.
“Cotton” Price and “Whizzer”
White will combine their powers
and skill by joining the Detroit
Lions. In 1938 White played with
the Pittsburg Pirate eleven and
last year studied at Oxford on a
Rhodes Scholarship. Price joins
the National Football League team
at an unclosed figure, but one
which is expected to be around
$2,500.
Young Bussey who thrilled the
Houston fans during his high
school career at San Jacinto and
yet at the same time gave offic
ials many a worry and who later
sparked the Louisana State Uni-
Is Javelina
Grid Mentor
Javelinas Open
Schedule Monday
Playing San Jose
Coach Bud McCallum will bring
his Texas A. & I. Javelinas here
Saturday, September 28, to open
the Aggie grid season and to
put another game behind them be
fore they begin their march for
their twelfth Alamo Conference
Championship.
These two teams have met many
times before and in 1934 the
Javelinas rode the Aggies play
for play and finished with a tie
at the end of the final quarter.
Sixteen lettermen returned
early this season to prepare for
their strenuous ride and seven
lettermen from St. Edwards, Aus
tin, joined their ranks when their
school voted to discontinue foot
ball at the close of last year.
Among the four backs who
transfered is Leonard Haustentab
who will carry most of the weight
in the passing attack.
Sacks Mattingly, 195 pound back
who spent his freshman year at
Rice, will do the hard running and
the punting.
The Javelinas opened their sea
son Monday, September 16,
against San Jose in California.
These two teams played a close
game of 9 to 0 last year with the
Texas team falling on the lower
side. Last year the San Jose team
was the high scoring team of the
nation, marking up 324 points.
Victory over teams backed by
larger schools mean much to the
teams of the smaller conferences
and in such games the under
pups play their hardest. Long will
the Southwest Conference re
member such a win by Sam Hous
ton State Teachers College over
Rice Institute and there are a
good number of Aggies who
haven’t forgotten the tie game
of 1934.
Coach Homer Norton
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versity, signed with the Chicago
Bears for the coming season. Team
mate Ken Kavanaugh also joined
the Bears after the All-Star-
Green Bay Packer game.
George Cafego, “Bad News” to
the fans of the nation, was traded
by the Chicago Cardinals to the
Brooklyn Dodgers for a pair of
Notre Dame stars.
The old team of Patterson to
Boyd which so long was reported
by the Baylor Bears will be renew
ed this season as Billy and Sam
both sign with the Pittsburgh
Steelers.
It seems that Southwest foot
ball changes things throughout the
country. Kay Eakin who is now
among the ranks of the New York
Giants will change the game from
the old rough ’em and roll ’em to
the fast and high moving type.
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If They Repeat- - Norton
Last March the annual spring'
practice was cut one day short
by an unscheduled norther which
swept through the Brazos bot
toms and dropped the mercury to
below freezing. Coach Norton call
ed the squad together for a short
talk in DeWare Field House and
told them they will have to be 15
to 25 per cent better than they
were in 1939 if they have hopes
of breaking the Southwest Con
ference tradition that thhe champ
ions do not repeat.
He promised them no 1940
championship but left it entirely
up to the players to work toward
that aim if they want to be on top
again.
“I want you all to keep your
selves in good physical shape, get
in some good licks on your studies,
work at good hard work this sum
mer and come back here the first
Tuesday in September in the same
kind of physical shape the team
did last season and then we will
see what can be done about that
1940 schedule,” Norton told them.
He pointed out some of the weak
nesses which have shown up dur
ing the training season and ad
vised the players to give some
thought to correcting the errors
before they pull on football togs
next fall. “None of the mistakes
you made is so serious but what
all can be corrected and I am sure
they will be ironed out before we
play Texas A. & I. next Septem
ber.”
Back in his office in the shadows
of the Kyle Field Stadium, Nor
ton took time to size up the pros
pects for 1940 at more length.
25% STRONGER
Question—“Do you really believe
that the Aggies will have to be
15 to 25 per cent stronger than
1939 to repeat?”
Norton—“I certainly do. S. M.
U^ Baylor, and Texas are all go
ing to be stronger than they were
last year and just remember that
we have to play those three teams
on their home fields. You don’t
have to ask me about our chances
of beating Texas in Austin, just
look at the records.”
Question—“Do you think the
fame that came to the Aggies this
year will have any effect on their
play next year?”
Norton—“No I don’t think so.
Those boys are a fine bunch and
I haven’t seen any swelled heads
among the whole lot of them. They
seem to play to win for the fun of
it and are not much concerned
with what is said of them in the
newspapers. Would you believe it
if I told you that they come into
the room where we clip papers
and read the comics instead of
turning to the sports pages first.
Does that look like they are fame
conscious.
Question—“Will you give me the
final standing for 1940?”
Norton—“You seem to want me
to hang myself, don’t you? Well,
here it is: S. M. U. is the team
everyone will have to beat. Baylor
is the big threat and Texas, with
its plan bearing fruit is the dark
horse. T. C. U., Arkansas, and
Rice are all in a bunch with any
of them likely to cause trouble.”
Question—“But where will the
Aggies be?”
Norton—“Just playing their 1940
schedule one game at a time like
we did last year.”
Experiments have been made to
indicate that teachers have most
of their disciplinary problems on
windy days.
Norton Holds School
For Coaches In August
With Record Attendance
The annual Texas A. & M. free
coaching school was held during
the month of August and a rec
ord attendance of 152 coaches and
students made it one of the out
standing coaching schools of the
year.
Football was the main course
with the Aggie coaches Homer
Norton and Marty Karow, “Siki”
Sikes of the University of Georgia,
“Puny” Wilson of Sam Houston
State Teachers College, and J. G.
Keys, of Lubbock High, leading
the discussions. The school was run
informall with round table
talks being made most of the day.
Wilson, the coach who took a
teachers college team to a victory
over the favored Rice Owls in 1939,
was a major contributor to the
conferences, but he was hesitant
to reveal any of the plays that
upset the Southwest Conference
team. He was afraid they might
►backfire on him in his gridiron
jaunts this fall.
Coaches Norton and Karow
discussed football from the Aggie
style which permits plays run
from the double wing and box for
mations. Norton dealt with the
team as a whole while Karow
spoke mainly on the duties of the
backs.
“Hub” McQuilla, Texas A. &
M. basketball coach, took over
the cage work, while Trainer “Lill”
Dimmit gave exhibitions on first
aid and the treatment and preven
tion of injuries.
Dough Rollins, Aggie track
coach, gave his views on the cind
er sport with Karow taking one
period to talk over baseball.
After the close of the Aggie
school Coach Norton boarded a
train for New York where he con
ducted a school at the World’s
Fair.
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Reunion of “Dan Russell Sunday School Class” next Sunday.
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