A&M Drops SMU; Points Toward Rice
With Hub Johnson
Owls Fly From Buffalo
Bayou for Shot at A&M
Saturday the folks from home
are coming up to try their fea
thered tricks on the Aggies. The
Eice Owls have slipped up and sur
prised many of the onlookers with
their rejuvinated squad.
The first year Jimmy Kitts led
the Owls around, they ran off with
the Southwest Conference flag.
This is Jess Neeley’s freshman
year at the bayou school and the
Houston people are pushing his
team hard for, all the wins they
can get.
Only once have the Owls gone
down in defeat and this was a-
gainst the hard fighting Green
Wave of Tulane.
“Little” Texas A. & I. scared
the life out of them but Neeley’s
boys showed what they had in re
serve as Brumbley booted the field
goal and sacked up the game.
This week end they come here
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Aggie Team
Muddy Field Is
Reminder of ’39
Game At College
Playing before a capacity crowd
of 28,000, the Texas Aggies won
their eighteenth consecutive game
by defeating the Southern Meth
odist eleven 19-7 in Ownby Stad
ium last Saturday afternoon.
On a field that was soggy de
spite its tarpaulian covering, the
Mustangs found A. & M.’s line
solid from end to end and were
forced to take to the air with a wet
ball for their yardage. On the first
exchange of punts, Bill Conatser
got off a nice 60 yard kick that
made its exodus on SMU’s one foot
line. Presto Johnson immediately
dropped back for a kick to take
the ball out of the danger zone.
Fast rushing linemen crowded the
kicker and the Aggies took over
on the Mustang 33 where the ball
went out of bounds. A 16 yard pass
from Pugh to Buchanan started
the drive goal ward. Another nine
yards were accounted for when
Thomason snagged Kimbrough’s
pass. Kimbrough then made it a
first down in a sweep around left
end and Conatser took it over be
hind excellent blocking on the next
play after four and one half min
utes of play. Pugh converted for
his tenth in a row.
The Mustangs took to the air
again in the second quarter and
scored on a long pass from Mal-
luff to Brown about the middle of
the period. Johnston made good the
conversion to tie the ball game 7-7.
Ruby’s fast charging cost the Mus
tangs 12 yards in the ensuing play
and the remainder of the period
was taken up by a punting duel
with two league wins behind and
hard set in their determination to
take another.
New Yelling Attracts
Comment from Officials
Flem Hall, Saturday, made an
other statement. This time it was
to a few individuals but just as
true as his column appeared to be
two weeks ago. The change in the
yelling system of the Aggies will
lead to favorable comment from
all section of the country.
Sunday morning in the North
Texas papers the majority of the
scribes all commented on the
sportsmanship of the Aggies.
Last Saturday’s Battalion car
ried a copy of Coach Fred Thom
sen’s letter to Coach Norton in be
half of the Arkansas team.
Below is an excerpt from the let
ter written to Dean Kyle by J. W.
St. Clair referring to the agree-
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Conatser goes over for the Cadets first touchdown early in the initial period, to put the Aggies out in front by 6 to 0, a few seconds later
‘Dookie” Pugh converted for his tenth straight conversion which made the score read 7 to 0.
Cross-Country
Team Wins Dallas
Meet Friday Evening
The Texas Aggie harriers paced
their way to a victory over S.M.U.
in a dual cross-country meet held
in Dallas Friday over the Mus
tang course. Laney, A. & M.’s
crack runner, officially slipped
under the wire in number one pos
ition to help clinch the team win.
Following him across were Garett
of S.M.U., Wilmeth, Elmode, and
Mayer, all of A. & M. Clark took
seventh for the Aggies to aid team
scoring.
Actual winner of the race was
Thompson, ineligible because he
is still in high school, and second
place was filled by S.M.U.’s in
eligible junior college transfer,
Gibson. Laney galloped into third
spot.
Champions of the Southwest Con
ference will be settled one week
from tomorrow at the conference
meet to be held in Austin at Tex
as University when all teams will
be vieing for supremacy. A. & M.
enters this meet with one victory
and one defeat.
between Johnston and Conatser.
Play was resumed in the second
half with the Mustangs making
a drive down the field on passes.
This time it was a hard drive
through to the secondary by Rob-
nett that cost SMU 14 yards. John
ston punted and Conatser took the
ball on A. & M.’s 25 and returned
it to SMU’s 35 for the most beau
tiful return of the game. Tommy
Vaughn’s blocking can be credited
with an assist on the last 25 yards
of this run.
It was Kimbrough right, left and
through the middle who set up and
made the second score for the Ag
gies on the south end. Fans crowd
ed around the end zone made it
necessary to try for conversion at
the north end. Pugh failed to make
the extra point and the score re
mained 13-7.
A. & M.’s third score came in
the last period after a series of
fumbles and recoveries. Routt’s vi
cious tackle knocked the ball out
of Malluff’s hands and Jim Ster-
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BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
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Fish Meet Rice Slimes On Kyle
Field For Second Seasonal Game
The Aggie Fish will play their
second game of their season here
Friday afternoon, Nov. 15 on Kyle
Field at 3 o’clock when they meet
the Rice Slimes.
So far, the records show that
the Fish have won over Allen Acad
emy 18-0, but as that game was
played in a cloudburst in a swamp,
not too much is known about their
ability under fire.
Since they reported at the open
ing of school, they have been play
ing the Aggie varsity daily and
while they never have outscored
them, the Fish have put up some
great defensive stands against
John Kimbrough’s devastating
smashes.
The squad originally totalled over
100 candidates but class rooms got
some, others got home sick and
then some others just decided comp
etition was too tough and dropped
out. However, Head Coach “Hub”
McQuillen and his assistants,
Chdrlie DeWare and Dr. Virgil
Jones, are still able to find about
80 gridsters on hand every after
noon.
No attempt has been made to
thin down the squad and every boy
who drew equipment has had his
chance “to make the team”, as the
players call it. One such boy is
Dick DeArment, of Bessemer, Pa.,
who, unknown to anyone at A. &
M., walked in and asked if he
would be permitted to try for the
freshman team. Like anyone else
who asks for a uniform, he got it
and reported to Coach “Mac”.
Dick said he had played half
back up in Youngstown, Ohio, so he
was assigned to the umpteenth
team until he counld be looked
over.
He showed ability as a back, but
before he could be moved up be
yond the third team Line Coach
Bill James spotted him crashing
through the regular Aggie line on
placement attempts. He put Fresh
man Line Coach “Brahma” Jones
“on him” with instructions to make
a guard out of him and the results
were that Dick DeArment, an un
known, today is listed as one of the
two starting guards on the Aggie
Fish team. He may have been a
great back, but from the way he is
playing guard, no one would ever
know if he even knew how to hold
a ball and run with it.
DeArment is the only out-of-Tex-
as boy on the big squad and came
to Texas A. & M. to take a course
in fish and game, a study offered
only to graduates in the part of
the country where he was raised.
He is the only Aggie athlete en
rolled in this course and is making
good marks in his studies.
Right now, McQuillen and his
staff are in a quandry about the
starting lineup but as near as he
can guess, this far ahead, he plans
a lineup which will include: Ends
—leonard Dickey, Alti; and Tru
man Cox, Donna; Tackles—Earl
Whitworth, Bastrop, or Jimmy
Montgomery, Moran; and Dudley
Bell, Beaumont; Guards—DeAr
ment and Darrell Pedigo, McGreg
or; Centher—A. J. Mercer, Temple;
Backs—Leo Daniels, Bryan, left
half; Lincoln Roman, Houston,
right half; Robert Williams, El
dorado, quarterback; and Dennis
(Andy) Andricks, Brenham, full
back. Dickey and Andricks are
members of the Kilgore Junior
College team last year, but all
others are direct from high school
in their home towns.
Intramurals
FA BAND
OVER KINF
DOGHOUSE
FULL AGAIN
Myers
By Bob Myers
The Artillery Band had a new
drum major on the basketball court
last night when Webb led the mu
sicians to a 19-9 victory over K
Infantry. After taking a scoring
lead early in the game, the Band
boys kept hitting the basket for
lucre points. An interesting fact
about the game was that every
man on the winning team managed
to account for at least one point.
Still in the Field Artillery we
find E Battery riding hard over
the bridges of C Engineers. Up un
til the last 40 seconds of play C
Company hadn’t scored, but then
someone got careless and fouled
Anglin. Even though the singleton
does look small compared to the 23
of the opponents, it looks and reads
much better than a “goose egg.”
Hudson and Patterson led the raid
for the winners and accounted for
six points apiece.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
2nd Corps Headquarters (2)
3rd Corps Headquarters
B Cavalry (2)
Infantry Band
C Infantry
G Infantry
I Field Artillery
F Engineers
B Engineers
C Cavalry
Another game of basketball
found a very tight match between
C Chemical Warfare and A Signal
Corps. They decided that the engi-
A&M Still No. 1
After Weekend Of
Outstanding Games
By Paul B. Williamson
John Kimbrough and company
of the Texas Aggies stay as the
national leaders after jarring the
Mustangs of Southern Methodist
19 to 7.
The Aggies and Stanford came
through for the Williamson Sys
tem last week in two of the three
outstanding games. Stanford’s In
dians turned back Washington’s
Huskies 21 to 10, and emerged the
only undefeated and untied big
team on the west coast. For that
accomplishment, the Indians rank
as No. 2 in the nation.
The Gophers of Minnesota bur
rowed through on a muddy field to
nose out 7-6 over an inspired Mich
igan squad, and upset the System
on a very close rating. We picked
Michigan on six-tenths of a point
difference in ratings—97.6 to 97.0.
Tom Harmon and his mates play
ed a fine game, but the score says
Minnesota was better.
Perfect Team 100.0
1. Texas A. & M 99.1
2. Stanford 98.0
3. Tennessee 97.5
4. Minnesota 97.2
5. Cornell 96.9
6. Duke 96.8
7. Michigan 96.7
8. Northwestern 96.2
9. S. M. U : 95.3
10. Nebraska 94.4
11. Notre Dame 94.3
neers should win but couldn’t de
termine whether the East side
bunch or the West siders would re
ceive credit for the win until the
last ball was played. C Company
came out on the long end of a 13-
12 score. Powell did high scoring
honors with a total of six.
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Owls Will
Meet Aggies
On Kyle Field
Brumley and Keel
Star In Backfield
Of Title Contenders
Jess Neely, newest coach of the
Southwest Conference, leads his
valiant Rice Owls onto the sacred
ground of Kyle Field Saturday in
an attempt to drop the Aggie
juggernaut from the fast-thinning
ranks of undefeated and untied
teams of the nation. A. & M. has
rolled up 18 consecutive wins and
Rice is undefeated in league play
which gives this clash the head
line spot on the Southwest Confer
ence.
Rice features a well-oiled run
ning attack with Bob Brumley
carrying the heavy duty, and air
attacks come through the rifle
arm of diminutive Gene Keel. On
the defensive, Owl followers have
cause to be happy because Rice’s
line is rugged and hustling through
out sixty minutes of play. Captain
“Tuffy” Whitlow holds down cen
ter and he can stay in any kind
of company, while the rest of the
forward wall is formidable to all
of the Owl opponents.
While snatching victories from
top notch teams, Rice has come for
ward as a real threat to Aggie
supremacy that is well on its way
to a second term. The Houston club
outplayed and outfought one of
Texas University’s best combina
tions since Bible came to help them
from the muck of cellardom, and
when a bunch of sophomores make
more first downs than Arkansas
as did Rice in Fayetteville last
week, they must be putting every
thing they have into advancing the
pigskin. Their win pver the Pork
ers set them up as extremely
worthy opponents of Texas A. &
M. and the Aggie powerhouse is
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