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- * <* * With Hub Johnson Saturday another fired team will take to Kyle Field to stop the Ag gies. Last week they rolled over Ole Miss in the last period, but it will forever be unknown as to whether it was their real strength that made such a win possible or wheth er it was the determination created among the players themselves. Sunday in the Waco Tribune- Herald Jinx Tucker ran in his report of the game the following article: “They have overcome another hurdle, and a far higher hurdle than they anticipated; so down at College Station Saturday, Arkan sas will set up another one, and it will be the first of only four more to go—four to go for national glory—four to go for glory such as has never come to a member of the Southwest conference—four to go. . . ” On he went in one of the most expressive articles written on the battle of the two teams, but never was it mentioned that this is a Smart Quarter Brogue for Town or Campus. Soft, Rugged Tweed. Bootmaker Finish . . . 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The Tigers have lost three men from the squad since school has started, two by injuries and one by ineligibility. Beezley will be shifted to Todd’s place in the backfield while Jim my Cashion who throws smashing blocks like Jim Thomason, will be at his prime during the game with the Bulldogs. Beezley and See- man will act as co-captains for the tussle. Head Mentor Mance Park re ports that the Tigers will most likely play a running game. The Crockett Bulldogs have a larger team than the Tigers, but they are slow on defense. Their of fense is exceptionally good, due to a senior backfield. The Tigers are a class B team while the gridsters are'a class A squad. Neverthless, the Tigers are expected to make a fine show ing. race when the runner isn’t al lowed to tip a single hurdle. It is always taken for granted and then forgotten. Monday night at yell practice someone from far in the rear cor rected “Foots” as he said we still had four games to go. “Five,” he yelled, already setting the Aggies in a post season tilt. There is one game Saturday. That’s all we care now. The team looks at it this way, and they ex pect the Razorbacks to be at their best. Baylor fell to the Arkansas giants in one they thought would be their easiest. The Aggies won’t have an easy game the rest of the season and When in Doubt About Your Eyes or Your Glasses, Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Optometrist Masonic Bdlg. - Bryan HAVE YOUR FRIENDS TO COME BY AND FILL THEIR CAR WITH ®GAS Our Ladies Lounge Is One Of The Best IF YOU WANT YOUR CAR WASHED AND GREASED CALL GRANT’S Service Station Phone 4-1120 150 to 5 p. m. CAMPUS 200 to 11 p. m. THURSDAY “HAWAIIAN NIGHTS” with Johnny Downs - Constance Moore Mary Carlisle also Aggietone News featuring the Aggie-Baylor Game • FRIDAY and SATURDAY Clark Gable and Joan Crawford —in— “STRANGE CARGO” Selected Shorts — Late Football News BATTALIONA— THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 PAGE 3 Intramurals Final Playoffs In Basketball And Handball Due To Start Soon By Bob Myers Basketball and handball occu pied space on all Class A schedules Monday and Tuesday to shorten the distance between the start and finish of these two sports. With touch foot ball on its way for the upper- classmen, it won’t be long un til final playoffs start in basket ball and handball. A Engineers took over from the Artillery band in their handball game and now by a score of 2-1. Dulling - Muris and Valentine- Teague scored for the Walton Hall bunch; Roberts and Cargile were responsible for the Band match. The Band intramural teams have played many close games this seaT son but have hard luck on play offs. Mr*n FORFEIT DOGHOUSE 2 Corps Headquarters 3 Corps Headquarters A Cavalry 2nd Headquarters Field Artillery C Coast Artillery ing was concerned but everyone accounted for a few points. End- score was 22-7. Langdale and Gillette led H Bat tery to a 36-6 victory over the B Cavalry by racking up 15 and 10 points respectively. It was Coast Artillery all the way. Although A Field Artillery had the high point man, they could n’t click and went down before C Infantry in basketball by a close score of 18-15. Rogers and Sim mons teamed up to score six points apiece and led their team to a three point win. Rutherford of the Field made 11 points for high man. Class B basketball got wild and wooley in the midst of excite ment when C Engineers outpointed E Infantry 17-13. The game be longed to either team all the way and wasn’t decided until the smoke cleared after the final whistle. M Infantry three to nothinged B Signal Corps in a speedy game of handball. Nayovitz-Edmundson, Levy-Ballow, and Ballard-Gage combinations were just a little too much for the dot-dash boys. Keist Hall unlounged when B Chemical Warfare outplayed A Coast Artillery in handball to the tune of 2-1. Malone-Farmer, and Ivy-Davis accounted for the win- nig matches and Kroemey-Byrd combined to win a match for the “buzzard-busters”. The Coast Artillery took over on the basketball court and won their two games on one-sided scores. B Coast and H Infantry played a nip and tuck game up until the half with the score only 5-4. At this point B Battery got their fire built and proceeded to accumulate a mul titude of points. None of the play ers were outstanding so far as scor. haven’t had one yet that the oppos ing team wasn’t above their normal strength. Arkansas Saturday—forget the rest! Opening their season against Central Oklahoma Teachers, the Razorbacks surprised no one by defeating them 38 to 0. When T. C. U. rolled over them in their first conference game, it all looked dark for the Porkers. Then came the Baylor Bears, and the Hogs told the gang they were once again to be considered. They marked up 11 first downs to the Bears’ 3, ran up 133 yards to Baylor’s 36 and passed for 128 as compared to the Bruin’s 38. In the Texas game they fell to the underside of the score but their defensive game was the part recog nized by the scribes. And yet they fell only one behind the Longhorns in first downs, and nearly matched them yard for yard on passing and running. The score went to Texas, 21 to 0. This was another game when the Hogs ran the field close and wide and passed from one end to the other, only to draw the wrong side. Last Saturday the tide turned and the Arkansas Razorbacks con nected. “It can’t happen here,” was the cry of the Balkan countries. The same cry has been heard since the Baylor fray. There is no jinx say ing Razorbacks don’t win here for in ’34 they tied the Aggies and in ’36 they topped them 18 to 0. A & M Picked As Easy Winner Over Razorbacks By Paul B. Williamson The Golden Gophers of Min nesota are the Williamson System’s choice to topple Lynn Waldorf’s Northwestern Wildcats in the big gest gridiron battle so far this season, and a battle to remember. Both teams are undefeated and untied in the Big Ten Conference or in their intersectional games. Both Bernie Bierman of Minnesota and Waldorf are outstanding in football stategy. Minnesota has an edge on the Williamson Ratings with 98.3 against 96.6 for North western, with the possibility of a deadlock. Down in the South, Clemson’s Tigers take a remarkable record of 13 straight victories against Tu- lane at New Orleans. Clemson has to get by Tulane and Auburn to be Wave of Tulane has come back a “bowl” candidate. The Green strong after a disastrous start, but the figures say Clemson by a touchdown or so. The Mustangs of Southern Meth odist are the System’s choice to knock over Texas. This is S.M.U.’s first Southwest conference game, and may indicate the wisdom of this forecaster’s pre-season ap praisal of the Mustangs as strong title bidders. Nebraska, ripe from a triumph over Missouri, meets another “blood foe” in the Oklahoma Soon- ers at Norman, Oklahoma; and should win. Among the other close big games scheduled this week end, the Sys tem picks Duke over Georgia Tech, not forgetting that Duke barely “Passingest Team” Tackles A&M Saturday Game Promises Razzle-Dazzle Plays With Surprises Expected By Jack Hollimon The passingest football club in the nation, capable of springing a razzle-dazzle surprise at any time, will oppose A. & M. on Kyle Field Saturday flying the col ors of the Arkansas Razorbacks. They are an aggregation of rough and tough mountain boys and just to prove they are loaded, they have knocked off two undefeated teams this year. Those two clubs were Baylor, the team that gave the Aggies so much trouble last Saturday, and Mississippi who was blasted from the magic circle by a close 21-20 score. Harold Schmidt is a slick ball runner with a spinning backfield that has a real ability to carry the mail, and every time he touches the hide it might mean a spec ial delivery job. He is Arkansas’ leading ground gainer, and coupled with Little Harold Hamburg, the top passer, they are able to do lots of ball handling. If height can turn the trick, then 1940 is Arkansas’ year because they not only have John Freiberg- er, who is 6 feet 8 inches tall and the tallest player in the Southwest football, but every other end is at least 6 feet 2 inches. These ends are good for plenty of hokem. Any time the right end O’Neil Adams comes around for an obvious end- around play and then fades back and tosses the hide to left end Mau rice Britt, the other team is in for a confusing afternoon. This hap pened in the Mississippi upset. Arkansas has passed over 1000 times from 1936 through 1939 and their best year come in 1937 when they made 140 completions out of 308 tries. That year saw them gain 2003 yards the aerial way. When the closing minutes of their skinned by 7 to 6 last year; Penn over Navy, and it ain’t no breeze; Georgetown over Syracuse in a test that will show whether Georgetown is really big-time; Tennessee over L.S.U., although the Bayou Tigers say they’re not scared. Some more of the big games to watch are: Oregon State over Cal ifornia, and the California Bears always are dangerous; Carnegie Tech over Cincinnati; Colorado to get by Utah in its championship drive; Oklahoma A. & M. over Creighton in a close one; Tulsa over Detroit, in a very close one; Duquesne over Marquette, both with the same rating of 86.6; Ford- ham over North Carolina, unless “Sweet Jim” Lalanne and All- American end Paul Severin run wild; Auburn over Georgia, in the oldest series in the South. It’s Iowa over Purdue, perhaps, and Alabama over Kentucky by a nose. Wake Forest gets the nod to down George Washington, and San Jose State should take Loyola of Los Angeles in a mighty close game. We favor St. Louis over Wichita, but keep your fingers crossed. tilts are pressing them, footballs fill the sky in an attempt to even things for the Porkers. They have lost several games in the last 60 seconds of play. High in scoring along with the other conference stars is Aubrey Neal who has rolled up 18 points in five games. Neal, behind pow erful blocking, has galloped across to the six-point ground three times with ease. Thousands of fans will witness this contest on the hallowed ground of Kyle Field next Saturday, and when they leave the game, only a few will be ready for any more pigskin frivolities. That’s the kind of football that is invading Aggie- land from the Ozarkland. Coach Norton Named To Rules Committee Collegiate Football Coach Homer Hill Norton was in formed yesterday by A. M. “Bo” McMillian, head football coach at Indiana, of his appointance to the rules committee of the American Football Collegiate Association of which Lou Little of Columbia ser ves as chairman. Last year, Coach Norton was mentioned as one of the outstand ing football leaders of the country and was mentioned as a possible coach for the direction of the South team in the annual North-South contest. The committee makes recom mendations for changes and revis ions of the rules to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE FOOTBALL STATISTICS (Through Games of Oct. 26) (Compiled by E. C. Oates, Texas A. & M. from statistical summaries submitted by team representatives.) Games A&M—Opp 5 Ark—Opp 6 Bay—Opp 5 TCU —Opp 5 Tex—Opp 5 SMU —Opp 4 Rice—Opp 4 First Downs 62 39 58 46 43 51 48 47 65 53 37 32 45 28 Net Gains Rushing 774 127 576 414 666 275 609 580 847 525 521 452 695 371 Net Gains Fwd. Pass. 646 480 593 442 343 669 491 505 595 549 387 301 267 211 Net Gains R & P 1420 607 1169 856 1009 944 1100 1085 1442 1074 908 753 962 682 Fwd. Pass Att. 87 94 112 92 65 126 98 98 108 99 67 53 58 66 Fwd. Pass Comp. 43 42 37 40 27 46 53 37 55 44 23 17 20 20 % Completed .494 .447 .330 .435 .415 .365 .541 .378 .509 .444 .343 .321 .345 .303 Own Fwd. Pass Intcp. 7 13 11 10 9 9 4 11 8 15 6 4 6 9 Avg. Punt 37 38 32 38 34 33 37 28 37 34 31 37 35 35 I Yds. Lost Pen. 295 219 168 273 215 125 210 270 222 185 135 223 240 204 HMIDKERWIEF TEST PROVES VITRI zone RIIDHVS SPOTLESS Always clean and free from goo no matter how often you smoke it. Challenging higher- priced pipes in briar quali-^a^B ty and value. Ji, WM. DEMUTH & CO., NEW YORK SPECIAL For Friday and Saturday 10 lbs. Pure Imperial Cane Sugar 490 1 lb. can Cranberry Sauce, 2 for 230 No% 2 can Premier prepared Prunes, 2 for 270 No. 2»/ 2 can Much-More Peaches, 2 for 280 No. 2 can Cut String Beans, 3 for 230 Ranch Style Beans, 3 for 220 10 lbs. Russett Potatoes 290 3 Bunches Carrots 100 Apples and Oranges, doz. 170 AGGIELAND GROCERY For Prompt Service, Call Us We Deliver - - Dial 4-5344 Thursday, October 31 N-KILGORE JC 67.0 Cameron Agri Friday, November 1 N-Austin 66.4 ABILENE CHRISTIAN 73.2 N-DENTON TEACHERS 76.0 San Marcos 66.7 N-TEXAS TECH 88.6 Miami, Fla 82.0 Saturday, November 2 TEXAS A. & M 98.7 Arkansas 89.0 Texas Christian 87.9 BAYLOR ..‘ 87.9 Texas - 91.0 S.M.U 94.0 N-RICE .: 91.7 Texas A. & I 86.7 California 86.3 OREGON STATE 89.3 CORNELL 99.0 Columbia 88.8 Creighton 86.0 OKLAHOMA A. & M. 86.9 DUKE - 96.3 Georgia Tech - 90.8 DUQUESNE 86.6 Marquette 86.6 IOWA 89.9 Purdue 86.8 OHIO STATE 92.0 Indiana 90.4 Oklahoma 89.3 NEBRASKA 94.2 OREGON 87.0 Montana 80.7 TENNESSEE 97.0 Louisana 88.0 TULANE 92.1 Clemson 86.8 Army 83.1 NOTRE DAME 99.5 Uclans 86.4 STANFORD 96.8 VILLANOVA 86.9 Kansas 79.6 W. Texas Teachers 77.1 HARDIN SIMMONS 83.5 WISCONSIN 88.7 Illinois 88.0 Sunday, November 3 San Francisco - 84.6 SANTA CLARA 88.0 Everybody knows what happens when thirst meets ice-cold Coca-Cola. That thirsty feeling leaves and a refreshed feeling comes. Pure, wholesome, deli cious,—ice-cold Coca-Cola satisfies completely. ^ THE PAUSE THAT R E FR*-"’ Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Co. by Bryan Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.