H.O/HUB" JOHNSON
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Texas A & I Will Be No Pushover;
Javelinas In Great Shape After San Jose
One of the biggest little teams-f-
of the Nation will see action on
Kyle field this week end when the
Texas A & I Javelinas, in fine
shape after their surprise victory
over the San Jose Spartans last
week, invade Aggieland. The drub
bing received by the Spartans at
the hands of the Hogs has created
much enthusiasm for the game
which was originally considered as
little more than practice.
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Competition for honors at the
tailback position will be between
the star players of each team.
Francis Sacks Mattingly, A. & I’s
outstanding fullback is expected to
do great things against the Aggies
and Jarrin’ John Kimbrough will
be out to show the fans that a
summer of politicin’ hasn’t affect
ed his football playing ability.
Although some experts are pick
ing S. M. U. over U. C. L. A. in
their coming game, most of the
non-partisans are flipping a coin
to make the choice. This game will
be the first of 48 constituting the
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BY PAUL B. WILLIAMSON
Southern Methodist, the Wil
liamson system’s choice for the
Southwest Conference crown is
only a scant six-tenth of a point
behind Duke, the team that gets
the nod for National champions.
S. M. U. goes to California this
week to play U. C. L. A. and has
all the edge on dope to knock
them over. The game will be play
ed at Los Angeles—which gives
the Bruins an edge. Fog some
times rolls across that field, and
dew frequently makes the grass
wet. The home boys have learned
the tricks on that field; the Mus
tangs had better prance and pass
cautiously.
Texas Aggies are picked to win
over Texas A & I by a wide mar
gin but even so the Cadets may.
have trouble with the bunch from
Kingsville. Those guys off the King
ranch college are plenty tough!
Here are the picks for this week:
Teams in Capitals are favored.
TEXAS A. & M 94.1
Texas A. & 1 88.2
S. M. U 98.0
Uclans 89.8
TEXAS 92.4
Colorado 82.3
TEXAS CHRISTIAN 90.0
Centenary 81.5
TEXAS MINES 80.4
North Dakota 75.8
SAN MARCOS 66.7
Schreiner 62.5
ST. MARYS, TEXAS 75.0
Daniel Baker 63.1
N. MEX. STATE 72.7
Howard Payne 65.7
OKLAHOMA A. & M 90.1
Texas Tech 82.1
TEMPLE 86.8
Muhlenburg 66.3
AB. CHRISTIAN 74.5
Commerce 70.4
ARKANSAS 83.7
Edmond T 73.8
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Southwest Conference football sea
son and is to be played Friday
night in Los Angeles, California.
Coach Matty Bell and three full
teams boarded a train at noon
Tuesday for the choicest inter
sectional game of the week.
In order to prepare the team for
the game on the coast, where fog
and dew occasionally hamper
teams from the southwest, the
Mustangs received soggy field
training during the last two work
outs. Incidentally , your regular
columnist, before leaving for Hous
ton, let it be known that S. M. U. is
a cinch winner in this fray.
Charles McGaffey, the Mus
tang’s firey center, will not accom
pany the team to California for
the Uclan game. Coach Bell has an
iron clad rule that no married man
can play for S. M. U. and the ath
letic council said it had been learn
ed that McGaffey was married.
The Methodists plan to work out
at Tuscon, Arizona, Wednesday
night and in Los Angeles upon their
arrival there.
T. C. U. ’s starting line-up is
being changed daily with injuries.
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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1940
Page 3
Intramurals
Activity Will Begin
Soon After Banquet
By Bob Myers
As far as activity in this de
partment is concerned at present,
the cubbard is bare but plans are
being made for the largest and
best program in the history of the
school. “E” Field Artillery, hard
hit by reorganiza
tion of their regi
ment, will be de
fending champions
in the class “A”
division and are
very determined to
keep the coveted
flag for another
year at least. By
""" the same token,
Myers “ F ” Field Artillery
—fish of this year will have the
responsibility of keeping all other
hands off the freshman flag.
All class “A” managers are due
for a big feed in the very near
future, with W. L. Penberthy, head
of the Physical Education depart
ment, as principal speechmaker of
the evening. The purpose of the
annual banquet is primarily a get-
together of the entire Intramural
department and staff to acquaint
managers with new rulings and
plans and to brush up on the old.
Second Headquarters Field Ar
tillery was seen down at the gym
in the form of Johnny Ragland who
was dropping ’em through the hoop
pretty with unerring accuracy. He
wouldn’t say whether the workout
was in preparation for the coming
Intramural season or just an at
tempt to avoid buying a longer
belt.
Polo Team Meets
To Discuss Season
With Major Burnett
The Texas Aggie polo season
got under way Monday night when
Major E. M. Burnett of the Cav
alry gathered his prospective
players in a meeting to discuss
the coming year. Plans and sched
ules for the team were consid
ered.
Major Burnett expects to have a
hard-riding aggregation as the
men reporting are both versatile
and talented in the game. The
possibility of scholastic difficul
ties is ever present, however, and
the Major is hoping that the boys
will be able to make the class
room hurdles as well as the polo
team.
The club will clash with some
worthy opponents during the seas
on and allindications are that the
Quarterback Kyle Gillespie was the
first casualty when his balky knee
gave way in an open field tackle.
Kyle is being kept on the sidelines
while Dean Bagley pilots the No.
1 eleven. Another ailing Frog is
sophomore Bill Ramsey who had
two bad teeth pulled and is re
cuperating in fine style.
In spite of the hard luck, Coach
Meyer says “We don’t look like
world beaters, but we’re definite
ly stronger than last year and if
injuries don’t throw us for too
much of a loss, we’ll win a reason
able share of our games.’’
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A & I Javelinas
In First Game
Of 1.940 Season
By JACK HOLLIMON
When the Texas A. & I. Jave
linas boarded a bus for California
and a game with the San Jose
Spartans, they were enroute to
play the “first” college football
game in the United States for 1940.
Strangely enough, San Jose State
was “first” in scoring honors dur
ing the 1939 season, and the Jav
elinas were the “first” team to be
victorious over the Spartans in two
years. The score of that grid iron
clash of last week was 10-0.
As if those “firsts” weren’t
enough, the Javelinas have several
more to add to a “first” season.
They are the first opponents of
America’s “first” team, the Texas
Aggies, on Kyle Field September
28.
A. & I. has been “first” in the
Alamo Conference every year
since the “first” year, 1936. They
also are scheduled to play the
“first” game of the Alamo Con
ference race on November 16 when
they open the season with St.
Mary’s Rattlers in San Antonio.
The game between the Texas Ag
gies and the Javelinas will be the
“first” test of a team picked to
be “first” in the nation in 1940,
however, it is not the “first” time
a team has been picked for that
the only “first” that counts is af-
distinction and discovered that
ter the conference flag has been
safely tucked away, unscathed.
“Flumadiddle”, “flunk,” “gas”,
“flinty”, “gold region” are words
included in the newest volume of
the Dictionary of American Eng
lish being published by the Univer
sity of Chicago. It even includes
“gin palace”, which is a “grog
shop of a pretentious or gaudy
appearance.”
team will emerge wiht several
marks in the win column. Arizona,
New Mexico Military Institute,
Oklahoma Military Institute, and
the San Antonio Polo Tourney will
furnish some stiff competition for
the Aggies.
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SMU Opens Friday With UCLA
In Weekend’s Biggest Encounter
The ever interesting prospect of
a clash between Southwest Con
ference and Pacific Coast giants
will be offered California fans and
fans in general Friday, when the
Southern Methodist Mustangs open
the 1940 season in a tilt with the
U.C.L.A. Bruins in the Los Angeles
Coliseum. Included in the mater
ial being transported West was
the best collection of offensive
performers to represent S. M. U.
in a number of years, and what ap
pears to be the best all-around ag
gregation since the Rose Bowl crew
of 1935.
The Mustangs will be consider
ably weakened at tackle positions
because of the loss of Lynn Bar
nett, 200 pound right tackle, who
is out with a rib injury. Barnett
was one of the three letter men at
tackle. Matty Bell, Mustang coach,
said Joe Pasqua, who lettered in
1938, but was out last year with
an injury, will take over Barnett’s
right tackle position, while Fred
Harris, the other letterman tackle,
will remain at the left side of the
line. The Mustangs were not partic
ularly strong at that position to
start with, and the loss of Barnett
for the important U. C. L. A.
game is a distinct blow.
■ On their home field, soggy foot
ing and a wet and slippery ball
gave the Mustangs a taste of what
they may expect on the coast
where the fog and dew occasionally
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