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* > ft * * $ ) A r ; t : t -r i ^ 4 » > *♦ I / H.O. , 'HUB // JOHNSON BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Aggies, Sharing Lead With SMU, Rice, Remain On List of Five Undefeated Teams Saturday the Fighting Texas Aggies cinched a tie for the South west Conference Championship, but as soon as the final gun sound ed and the distributing of the TOP COATS For The Holidays Ahead Don’t go walking down the street all hunched up . . . Step Out . . . briskly in one of the new— Warmth Without Weight TOP COATS See the new fly front models. Come in and try them on— COATS of QUALITY at ECONOMY PRICES $18.50 - $19.50 $24.50 BULLOCK and AKIN Bryan praises was complete, the Texas Longhorns were taken to mind. Looking over the nation, the Ag gies now stand with only four other undefeated teams. Minne sota, Tennessee, Stanford, and Boston College kept their records from blurs this past week while Notre Dame fell to Iowa in the up set of the day and Cornell yester day un-officialy forfeited the Dart mouth “fifth down” fray. Dart mouth was credited with the game, 3 to 0. The Rice win leaves the present seniors of A. & M. with three heavy wins over the bayou school and a tie against the Owls and Rats Watson Already the bonfire has shown signs of life. Wednesday night a week will be the death day of the pile and the final build up for the Austin game. Thursday the Aggie fish and the Texas Shorthorns tangle in their annual battle. The Texas freshmen boast heavier wins over Allen and the Rice Slimes but the close of the Official Thanksgiving should see the Ag- Have Fun! Come to Uncle Ed’s— where there is a good dance floor and latest hit tunes. Have you tried any of our fresh hot pit barbe cue? HRDLICKA’S AGGIES, we want to buy your JUNIOR SERGE SHIRTS and JUNIOR SLACKS. Also we are now ready to give you high prices for your SECOND TERM books. MAKE A LIST OF YOUR NEEDS TODAY AND BRING THEM TO LOUPOT’S TRADING POST North Gate Cross Country Team Enters SW Conference Meet Coach Frank Anderson will take his cross country team to Austin next Wednesday where they will enter a Southwest Conference meet between S.M.U. and Texas. This meet will decide the cross-country championship. The team has a record of one win and two losses. They defeated S.M.U. two weeks ago, lost to Abilene Christian early in the sea son, and dropped to Texas the past week. Coach Anderson expects his team to give a tough tussle to Texas and S.M.U. Texas, which will be favored to cop this meet, features the running legs of Umstead. He ran 2.7 miles in 12 minutes and 30.7 seconds. They have other tracksters who are well capable of adding a few points to the Longhorn team. The Aggies will have at least two men who will provide the team with points. They are Co-Cap- tins Laney and Wilmeth. Laney, a one-armed runner, lead his team to a victory over S.M.U., while Wil meth staked his team with the best rating in the Texas meet. S.M.U. has only one man capable of salvaging a place in the meet. Texas Aggies Are No. 1 Team 3rd Straight Week By Paul B. Williamson Texas A. & M.’s victory over Rice and the second best line in the South western conference leaves the Ag gies in the No: 1 positon. Stan ford, with a clean 28-14 victory ov er Oregon State, repeated at the No. 2 post. Minnesota’s powerful 33-6 drive over Purdue edged Ten nessee out for the No. 3 ranking post. Tennessee, while dropping an improved Virginia, 41 to 14, met a team of less calibre than Purdue. Michigan, S.M.U., Nebraska, and Cornell remained among the first 10, along with two newcomers, Boston College and Georgetown Un. iversity. Duke and Northwestern however, dropped out. Cornell’s position depends, how ever, on the final decision of the judges whether the big reds beat Dartmouth 7-3 or whether Dart mouth beat Cornell 3-0. Cornell's winning touchdown, many believe, came from a fifth down. The victories of the first eight leaders were picked correctly by the System. Other good predictions included California over Oregon, Hardin-Simmons over Catholic U. —a honey! ,Columbia tying Navy, Denver over Utah State, George Washington over Kansas, Alabama over Georgia Tech, Ohio State over Illinois, Penn State over New York U., Nebraska over Pitt, Princeton over Yale, Texas over T.C.U., Texas Tech over Wake Forest—another honey!—,Tulane over Georgia, Utah over Colorado State, Drake over Washington of St. Louis, Marshall over Xavier of Cincinnati, and Arizona over Loyola. Old man winter—like it levels its snow and ice—leveled many teams to common teams over the week-end, resulting in several dis astrous and very unexpected up sets. Sewanee, once mighty but now gie fish with a clean record. Tomorrow the cross country team travels to the capital city for the Southwest Conference run. The meet will probably be a trio-affair, with the Long horns finishing first, the Aggies second and the Ponies last. The predictions went down with the limb again this week as Bay lor again under the leadership of Jack Wilson upset the Tulsa Hur ricane, and the Hornfrogs failed to come through against Texas. How we put North Dakota over Iowa is even beyond us for it was the Irish who tangled and lost. Any way it started out from notes as Notre Dame. L. S. U. fought the best of their season and ended on top of Auburn for the second miss call in the national affairs and today Cornell gave us a third. Boston College won by a lone point from Georgetown, Minne sota trampled over Purdue, Mich igan won over Northwestern, and Stanford defeated Oregon for a tie on their league title. Sunday “Honest John” passed away. He was known to the rest of the world as Joe McClosky, but to the baseball world as just “Honest John.” The father of Texas League Baseball was 78 years of age at his passing away in Louisville, Kentucky. BATTALION. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 PAGE 3 Intramurals Weekend’s Activities Spotlighted Due To Absence of Varsity Football By Bob Myers With the Varsity footballers tak ing a rest before their clash with the Longhorns, this Saturday’s activities in the sports world at Aggieland will be focused on the intramural cross country run. The “fish” will lead off at 2:30 and Class A runners will hear the starting gun at 3:30. All runners are requested to be on hand at least one half an hour early. The rifle range was opened yes terday for try-outs in Class A rifle shooting. Organizations are urged to have their men down as early as possible in order to avoid the crowded conditions that have been present during the last few days of try-outs in previous years. Scoggins of I Infantry led his team to a 32-4 basketball victory over a four man team from B Cav alry with an individual scoring re cord of 12 points. Headquarters Signal Corps were the underdogs at the half in their basketball game with A Cavalry but came back in the second per iod behind the accurate shoot- Trailing all the way, B Engineers suffered defeat at the hands of F Infantry in a fast game of bas ketball when Pealor got hot and led the “paddle feet” to a 15-8 vic tory with his sparkling play. Polo Team Wins From Mexico City By Score of 8 to 6 By Jack Hollimon Aggie Poloists came through with a hard woh upset victory over an 11 goal Mexico City team on Jackson Field Sunday by the score of 8 to 6 when A. & M. put on the field one of the smoothest combin ations that Aggieland has seen in years. The strong Mexico City club gave A. & M. malletmen the fast est and toughest tilt of the season but the Cadets emerged victorious after the game had seesawed back and forth several times. T. E. P. Honey and Jimmy Rin- this time. The win over Rice last Satur day gave the Aggies a cinch tie for the Southwest Conference championship and acording to Jim Thomason and “Chip” Routt, who aptly expressed the opinion of the team, “We aren’t goin to share it with any (to put it mildly) —body.” Just for the benefit of the rec- in as mighty tiny, set the upset gait with its 25-13 victory over Washington & ^' ee —Hie first “major” victory for Sewanee in years. Iowa for the third time many meetings, stopped Notre Dame, this time 7-0. Each time, Notre Dame came up to the meeting undefeated and untied. “Down went MacGinty.” This Week’s Rating Perfect Team 1 Texas A. & M 2 Stanford ~ 3 Minnesota ] 4 Tennessee 5 Michigan 6 S. M. U. 7 Nebraska 8 Cornell 9 Boston College 10 Georgetown 11 Northwestern 12 Penn State 25 Notre Dame 33 Tulane _ 35 Rice 36 Tulsa ; 40 Texas 47 T. C. U. I 52 Arkansas 54 Baylor 67 Texas A. & L 100.0 99.3 _ 98.6 _ 98.2 _ 97.9 _ 96.7 _ 95.3 95.0 _ 94.6 _ 94.5 94.2 _ 94.1 _ 94.0 ._ 91.3 _ 89.4 _ 88.8 88.8 88.0 _ 87.7 _ 87.1 ._ 87.0 _ 86.1 USE Mobilgas FOR FULL POWER- LONG MILEAGE Drive in at our sign of the Fly ing Red Horse for a tankful of Mobilgas. You’ll like the quick response . . . smooth accelera tion . . . full power and long mileage that Mobilgas gives. In traffic, or on the highway, Mo bilgas delivers Balanced Per formance. Let us fill ’er up with Mobilgas, today! AGGIELAND Service Station East Gate Dial 4-1188 Henderson Stars As Aggies Use Passes To Down Rice Owls 25 to 0 Texas A. & M. took to the air Saturday afternoon against Rice Institute and then trampled the Owl defense for a 25 to 0 victory. Held at bay by a fighting Rice for ward wall, the Aggies loosened the opposing defense with bullet Henderson, and crashed through for scores that gave A. & M. at least a tie for a Southwest Con ference Championship. Fired for a win, Rice played well over their heads in the opening seven minutes, but the going got too rugged for them and A. & M. took control of the contest. Late in the first period, A. & M. sent Henderson into the tilt. He snatch ed the ball out of the air to give the Aggies a first down on Rice’s 20 yard line, and caught another that was good for two yards. His wingmate, Jim Sterling, filtered in to the end zone for the first score on a pass from Marland Jeffrey. Pugh passed to Henderson for another first down on the Owl 39 yard line and Moser took the ball across after a completed pass with an end run which counted six more points. Pugh again connected with those sticky fingers of one of the best receivers in the conference, Hen derson, to mark up another touch down. Henderson took it over to leave the crowd breathless at half- ing of Schram to take the game 13- 9. Sayles of the Cavalry was the ord, here is the all-time Texas Ag- high point man with 7. gie-University of Texas record: YEAR PLACE A.&M. TEXAS Scoring was practically at will, 1894 Austin 0 38 the Machine Gun Cavalry twenty- 1898 Austin 0 48 threed to two’ed H Infantry in a 1899 San Antonio 0 6 one-sided game of basketball. Hold- 1900 San Antonio 0 5 er and Hasse were the men who 1900 Austin 0 11 gathered in a majority of the Cav- 1901 San Antonio 0 17 airy’s score while Santonio brought 1901 Austin 0 32 H Company’s side up out of the 1902 San Antonio 0 0 lower levels with a two point has- 1902 Austin 12 0 ket. 1903 1904 Austin 0 Austin 6 29 o4 A&M To Turn 1905 1906 Austin 0 Austin 0 27 24 1907 Dallas 0 0 Jinx Breakers 1907 1908 Austin 6 Houston 8 11 24 Thanksgiving Day 1908 1909 1909 Austin 12 Houston 23 Austin 5 28 0 0 Facing the undefeated, untied 1910 Houston 14 8 Aggie football team on Thanksgiv- 1911 Houston 0 6 ing day will be an eighteen year old 1915 College Station 13 0 jinx; for it has been exactly eight- 1916 Austin 7 21 een years since an A. & M. football 1917 College Station 7 0 team has won a game from the Un- 1918 Austin 0 7 iversity of Texas Longhorns on 1919 College Station 7 0 their home field. In addition to 1920 Austin 3 7 this unholy jinx, the statistics 1921 College Station 0 0 show that the Cadets have scored 1922 Austin 14 7 only one touchdown. This occured, 1923 College Station 0 6 as many will remember, during the 1924 Austin 0 7 Turkey Day game of 1938 when the 1925 College Station 28 0 Aggies recovered a fumbled ball 1926 Adstin 5 14 behind the Longhorn goal line. 1927 College Station 28 7 Texas won this game by a mar- 1928 Austin 0 19 gin of one conversion and finish- 1929 College Station 13 0 ed their season with six losses and 1930 Austin 0 26 ONE win. 1931 College Station 7 6 During the past three years, 1932 Austin 0 27 all jinxes, with one exception have 1933 College Station 10 10 been broken and after a series of 1934 Austin 0 13 19 consecutive wins, they are faced 1935 College Station 20 6 with the one exception. 1936 Austin 0 7 Much has been said about the 1937 College Station 7 0 power of the jinx since the year 1938 Austin 6 7 that members of the present team were cuffless and they are de- 1939 College Station 20 0 con-Gallardo turned in perfect work with the stick to standout for Mex ico City, while for the Burnettmen there was no individual star. The Aggies were a clicking polo mach ine that moved into position and played as one man. A. & M. improves with every en counter, and in the coming clash with Oklahoma next Sunday the Aggies will be riding and slamming that ball for another win. The cadets will play Mexico a return engagement in Mexico City during the Christmas holidays if present tentative plans are com pleted. time with his exhibition of aggres sive end play against a team from his own home town. After successive passes had set A. & M. on Rice Institute’s four yard line, John Kimbrough cata pulted over the double line for the Aggies’ final score in the third period. Outstanding players for A. & M. were Henderson, Kimbrough, Sterl ing, Thomason, Henke, Routt, and Robnett, while Rice had Brumley, Hartman, Bassett, and Captain Whitlow as pillars for the defense of “Rice’s Honor.” Score by periods: Texas A. & M 0 19 6 0 25 Rice Institute 0 0 0 0 0 ; PALACE TUBS. - WED. Edw. G. 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