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IPIkfiSi I -’j' HO.■HUB* JOHNSON BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Southwest Conference Teams Score Wins Over Country; WUson Sets Baylor Back Falling into Mr. Williamson’s style of writing, the system hit a new high this week-end. The Ag gies ran over the Tulsa Hurricane, T. C. U. won the first conference game from Arkansas, Rice Insti tute came from a low rating to close out the Centenary Gents, Bay lor won over Denver up in the Rockies but took a great loss in doing so, Texas University made its great bid to the nation by BDRKHALTER’S , GROCERY V EAST GATE On New Highway No. 6 ! <►>< Have You The Latest Records? f “TO Never Smile Again” Tommy Dorsey Orch. “God Bless America” Kate Smith “The One I Love” Tommy Dorsey Orch. “Jivin’ with Jarvis” Lionel Hampton Orch. “Mi Conga” Xavier Cugat Orch. You are welcome to come in and play our records. HASWELL’S BRYAN defeating the Indiana Hoosiers, and Southern Methodist used a bit of force in turning back the Den ton Teachers. The only one against our books was the Santa Clara win over U. C. L. A. The Bruins’ loss might decrease the number of on-lookers next Sat urday in the Coliseum but Southern California plays away from the coast, thus leaving a good welcome. The great loss for the Baylor Bears was the carrying off the field of Jack Wilson. On an at tempt to snag a pass in the Denver game, Jack was kicked in the kid ney. The rupture will keep him in the stands for the remainder of the season. Last year as a sophomore, Jack won the praises of all the coaches and scribes of the South and this season had already made a strong bid for the All-Southwest eleven. Baylor falls a notch with this loss and will be fighting to stay in the upper bracket. “California Here We Come” will be the tune after dinner tonight. We’ll catch the 6:12 streamliner Long Sleeve Styles for All-Winter Wear! Men’s Topflight* SPORT SHIRTS 98# NOW sport shirts have become year ’round fa vorites ! Fine cotton gabardines and twills in rich solid tones. Smartly tailored with pleated pockets and long sleeve with adjustable cuffs — some even have saddle stitching on the collar! •Exclusive with Penney’s J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC. “Aggie Economy Center” Bryan, Texas A FRIENDLY BANK AND A FRIENDLY CITY WE ARE AT YOUR CONVENIENCE AT ALL TIMES m NATIONAL BANK BRYAN, TEXAS BOMBAY SLACKS (Altered & Pressed) $3.45 JUNIOR BLOUSES . $7.50 up JUNIOR SLACKS . $4.00 up FISH SLACKS . $1.50 up SENIOR BOOT PANTS .$7.50 up • Everything Is Guaranteed By Us • LOUPOT’S TRADING POST Class of ’32 North Gate Farmers Stifle Golden Hurricane 41 To 6 And Another One Marland Jeffrey crashes over in the third quarter for the Aggies fourth touchdown, with Jake Web ster doing a swell job of blocking. • By Phil Golman Kimbrough, Smith, Henderson, Jeffrey, Simmons And Moser Score Touchdowns Williamson Rates Farmers Second In This Week’s Poll By Paul B. Williamson The Big Reds of Cornell take the place of Duke’s Blue Devils at the top of the nation’s football teams after about the craziest week-end of upsets imaginable. Cornell clanked Colgate 34-to-0 to gain the top rating of 99.9, while Duke was losing to Tennessee 13- to-0 for a tobaggan out of the leading ten. The System had picked Duke and we offer no alibi. Coach Bob Ney- land’s Volunteers were just more horse than we figured. For its victory, Tennessee moved into the first ten at sixth place. Credit the System with some mighty good picks, even with the deluge of upsets that cut us down to a win-or-lose efficiency of 81 per cent—the lowest since the Wil liamson system’s inception. We picked a lot of winners that most other experts didn’t. Closest pick in the major games was Colorado 7, Kansas State 6. Both teams were rated at 81.3, but we shaded in favor of Colorado. Michigan’s 21-to-14 triumph came over Michigan State vindicat ed our choice in a battle of the giants. Oklahoma came through in a close one to justify a reverse of our pre-season ratings, by nosing out Oklahoma Aggies 29-to-27. The System was practically alone in picking Auburn to knock over Tu- lane, 20-to-14. Tulane showed great improvement over the previous week when Boston College swamp ed the Green Wave 27-to-7. Outstanding picks were Rich mond over V. P. I., 13-7; Texas over Indiana, 13-6; George Wash ington over Manhattan, 21-18; Minnesota over Nebraska, 13-7; Notre Dame over College of Pa cific, 26-7; Ohio State over Purdue, 17-4; and Northwestern over Syra cuse, 40-0. Other good picks were Western Reserve over Akron, 6-0; North Carolina over Davidson, 27-7; Ford- ham over West Virginia, 20-7; Georgia Tech over Howard, 27-0; Illinois over Bradley, 31-0; Ken tucky over Washington and Lee, 47-12; Baylor over Denver, 14-7; Detroit over Catholic U. f 13-0; South Dakota State over Omaha, 12-7; Georgetown over Temple, 14- 0; Marshall over Dayton, 26-12; Pennsylvania over Maryland, 61-0; Portland over Pacific U., 25-7; Rice over Centenary 25-0; Georgia over South Carolina, 33-2; Stanford over Oregon, 13-0; Texas Aggies over Tulsa, 41-6; T. C. U. over Arkan- BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 PAGE 3 Intramurals This Week Is Real Beginning for Intramurals FORFEIT DOGHOUSE •f'when four troops suffered defeat. F Coast Artillery won from A Troop, 3-0; 1st CHQ over MG Troop, 3-0; A Field Artillery over C Troop, 3-0; and I Infantry took Headquarters Troop 2-1. 2nd CORPS HEADQUARTERS 4th CORPS HEADQUARTERS to Dallas and the board the Texas and Pacific to El Paso. There the squad will work out Wednesday and will go through the paces at Tucson, Arizona, Thursday. Friday the group will be conducted on a tour through one of the studios. Saturday after the game the team will be honored with a dinner dance at one of the studios. An appeal was made at the be ginning of the year to the senior class by Dean Kyle in behalf of the freshmen football players. Once again this plea is being made, this time by one of the coaches. Give these boys a break. They face the varsity squad a good number of times each week and at (Continued on page 4) By Bob Myers With a week-end of football and Corps trip to San Antonio out of the way, thoughts of the cadets return once more to intramural sports. This week marks the real beginning of another season with games scheduled for all sports in both classes. Class A offers ten nis, handball, and basketball; class B, swimming touch football, and basketball. Twelve games were played on Thursday and Friday to formally open Class A sports. Incidentally, two of these openers were for feits. ★ F Engineers and L Infantry won Tennis matches from B Sig nal corps and E Coast Artillery respectively by 2-1 margins. K In fantry won by forfeit from the 4th CHQ. The cavalry boys took a beating on the handball courts Thursday sas, 20-0; Toledo over Davis Elkins, 34-12; Navy over Cincinnati, 14-0; Villanova over Penn Military, 53- 14; Wake Forest over Furman, 19- 0; Washington State over Montana, 13-0; and Wichita over St. Bene dict, 33-0. This Week’s Standing (Leading games reported through Oct. 6, 1940) Perfect Team 100.0 1 Cornell U 99.9 2 Texas A. & M. 99.7 3 S. M. U 98.0 4. Northwestern 97.6 5 Michigan U 96.7 6 Tennessee 95.7 7 Ole Miss 95.4 8 T. C. U 94.5 9 Boston College 94.3 10 Ohio State 94.1 11 Wake Forest 93.8 12 Minnesota 93.5 13 Texas U 93.4 14 Iowa U 93.1 15 Kentucky 93.0 16 Stanford 92.9 17 Duke 92.7 18 Purdue 92.6 19 Auburn 92.2 20 Princeton 92.1 21 Michigan State 92.0 22 Fordham 92.0 23 Georgetown U. 91.8 24 Georgia Tech 91.8 25 Southern California 91.7 31 L. S. U 91.2 38 Oklahoma A. & M 90.3 41 Santa Clara 90.0 42 Rice 89.8 47 U. C. L. A. 89.0 48 Baylor 88.9 49 Tulane 88.8 53 Tulsa 87.7 58 Texas A. & I 87.3 60 Arkansas U. 86.8 By Jack Hollimon The Texas Aggies rolled over the Tulsa Hurricane in the Alamo Stadium at San Antonio Saturday to the tune of 41 to 6. Blasting a highly-vaunted Hur ricane line to shreds, and loosing a mighty air attack, the Aggies dis played only the basic fundamental plays of the game and their suc cess gave them their second win of the 1940 season. Twice in the first period the Aggies found pay-dirt and the score at half time was 14 to 0. These counters were made by Mos er on a reverse from the 13 yard line and by John Kimbrough on a power play from the 2 yard marker. Both points after the touchdown were good, with a pass from Pugh to Simmons for the first, and a perfect conversion by Pugh for the second. After a 63-yard march in the third period, the combination of Pugh to Simmons proved effective again when they chalked up an other six points the aerial way. Adding the extra point was Pugh with another perfect kick. With only a few remaining minutes in the third quarter, Pugh tossed one into the arms of Bill Hender son who filtered across the goal in brilliant form. This gain was good for 58 yards. Pugh came through with his third placement for the day and the score stood at 28 to 0. Joe Rothe set the stage for a score in the fourth when he made a run of 60 yards, late in the third period. Jeffrey teamed with Spivey to get the ball across the goal with Jeffrey going over. “Dog” Daw son kicked the point-after-touch down. Tulsa came back with a reck less air attack in the fourth quar ter when they pushed by the Ag gie second-stringers for a touch down. They failed to convert suc cessfully when Henry Hauser blocked the kick. Bama Smith, speet merchant for the Cadets, intercepted a Hurricane pass on his own 20 and raced through the Tulsa defense for a A Coast Artillery’s nine point spree in the second half of their gasketball game with G Infantry was just one goal short of winning as the “paddle feet” managed to hit the hoop enough to keep the lead and win the game 12-11. D Cavalry won a one-sided game from E Infantry 13-4 while Headquarters Cavalry took a very close one from E Engineers 10-9. Sabins of 3rd Headquarters Field Artillery led his team to a 16-11 victory over A Infantry and same out high point man of the game with nine points to his credit. B Field Artillery won from 2nd CHQ by forfeit. ★ Swimming coach Art Adamson started his life-saving class last night at 7:30 and announced that any one interested in joining could do so by reporting to the pool next Monday night at 7:30. ★ Rifle shooting starts this month and organization managers are re minded to begin preparations for this sport. Out of 57 entries for intramural activities only five have not paid their entrance fee to date. This is a very good indication that consid erable interest is being shown in this years program. ★ At a managers meeting recently it was decided to alter rules con cerning handball, tennis and horse shoe pitching. Formerly, a team showing up with only five of the required six players could forfeit the one match and use the extra man as a substitute in the other two matches. Under the changed rules, as adopted by vote of the managers, a team must have at least six men on hand at the be ginning of the matches in order to substitute. Municipal Engineers To Hold Annual Short Course, December 4-5 Municipal engineers will hold their annual short course at Texas A. & M. College, Dec. 4-5, accord ing to an announcement made here by Col. Ike Ashbum, executive as sistant to the president, Dr. T. O. Walton. The course will be in charge of Prof. E. W. Steel, head of the mu nicipal and sanitary engineering de partment of the college and is ex pected to have an attendance of approximately 30 engineers. touchdown. Richardson’s try for point was no good. Playing under midsummer con ditions, the Aggies triumphed over a great Tulsa team that was ca pable of turning the tide at any time. The final score was Texas A. & M. 41 — Tulsa 6. Desk - Chairs Study Lamps, etc. McCULLOCH- DANSBY CO. “Complete Home Furnishers” Phone Bryan 164 Sophomore Class Holds First Meeting Tonight The sophomore class will have its first meeting of the current year in Guion Hall immediately after yell prac tice tonight. 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