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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
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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-
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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
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_ 98.2
_ 97.9
_ 96.7
_ 95.3
95.0
_ 94.6
_ 94.5
94.2
_ 94.1
_ 94.0
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_ 89.4
_ 88.8
88.8
88.0
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_ 87.1
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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
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