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HO.'HOD" JOHNSON
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Writer To Serve On All-American Board;
Bonfire & Dance Moved To Tuesday Night
Your writer has been asked
to help select the National Inter
collegiate Sports Writers Associ
ation All-American players for
the year. Other Battalion sports
writers who have been given this
honor are Alton Queen, Sam Levine
and “Jeep” Oates.
Joe Routt was named on the
team in 1937 and Joe Boyd was
selected last year. Dick Todd, Mar-
*Way in front
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shall Robnett and John Kimbrough
have also been recommended in the
past but made less important
squads.
Board members are asked not to
nominate their own players in
line-ups but to list the same as a
group of candidates.
’After much unfavorable com
ment, the bonfire and dance dates
have been changed from Wednes
day night to Tuesday. The change
was necessary due to the number
of students who plan to leave for
“Forty Acres” right after their
last class Wednesday.
Here’s a question for all time
books. Is the Aggie football team
a machine?
Saturday, Tommie Vaughn went
down in a pile-up and failed to
come up. Coach Homer Norton af
ter pleading with the firey center
decided to let him stay. For thir
ty minutes he played the same
type of football that Vaughn has
always played. Sunday morning he
was told that the Aggies had won
—he had played out of his head for
the whole first half but as many
say—it was not over his head. He
played one of the best games ag
ainst the Rice Owls. Is he one of
the nuts of the Aggie machine 1 ?
Statistics show two Aggies in
the top seven ball carriers of the
Southwest Conference. Marion
Pugh is in, fourth place with an
average of 4.1 yards per try. John
Kimbrough has set an average of
3.63 yards per carry. In the top
seven are three Baylor Bears, one
S.M.U. player, and a Rice Owl,
yet John has carried nearly as
many times as all three Bears. Are
these the drivers of the Aggie ma
chine ?
The fly wheels are played by
Pugh and Bill Henderson with Jim
Thomason and Jim Sterling.
The passing attack has added
many yax-ds to the books when the
ground way was hard. Pugh and
Jeffrey send the skin into the air
ways with Bill Henderson, Jim
Thomason and Jim Sterling on
the other end. Dookie has an aver
age of .583 per cent and has ac-
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Around End—
Leo Daniels (49) is here shown skirting end against the Rice Slimes last week. He will lead the
Fish this afternoon in Austin when they tangle with the University Shorthorns. Other Aggie
Freshmen in the picture are Ellis Hollis (37), and Dennis Andricks (39). On the ground are two
Slimes blocked out by a fourth fish behind them.
Aggie Fish to Test Bible Plan
On Texas’ Memorial Stadium Today
Woolverton And
Daniels To Lead
Freshman Attack
Memorial Stadium in Austin will
be the scene of a Thanksgiving
Day football clash this afternoon
when the freshmen teams of Tex
as A. & M. and Texas University
tangle in their annual prelude
to that traditional game on Novem
ber 28th. Both clubs, undefeated
and untied, boast similar power and
ability which sets the game up as
a climax of freshman football
for 1940.
A. & M. vanquished Rice by the
heavy score of 26 to 7, and the Owl
ets fell before the Shorthorns 19 to
0. Both teams dropped Allen Acad
emy handily and today a battle is
expected to find the air around
Austin filled with pigskins and
cleated athletes.
Leo Daniels, looking like Aggie
immortal Dick Todd who has been
burning up the professional
leagues this year, does wonders in
a broken field and he couples with
“Wolf” Woolverton to give the
Aggie fans many happy memories.
Still trying to make a success
out of a system called “the Bible
Plan,” Texas will send a combin
ation of orange-clad players against
A- & M. that should make those
junior editions of the National
Champions hustle and rustle in
an effort to stem a Shorthorn
stampede. A. & M. can move around
on their own, however, and the tilt
will be a test between two aggre
gations that have equal chances for
victory.
Consolidated High
Prepares Grid Team
For Marquez Struggle
By Dub Oxford
In reach of the highest stakes
an A. & M. Consolidated Tiger
team has ever sought, the Tigers
were hard at work this week pre
paring for their District 26-B
championship battle with the Mar
quez Yellow Jackets at Forest Field
tomorrow night at 7:45.
The Tigers will face the hardest
ball club they have ever run up
against, and must stop the best
offense they have faced all year in
order to gain district honors.
Last Friday, Marquez crushed
Centerville 39-0 while the Tigers
beat Centerville 40-0. This tends to
show that the Tigers have very lit
tle edge over the Yellow Jackets.
This is the first time that the
Tigers have ever approached a
title since their beginning of in
terscholastic football five years
ago.
Fitz, of Marquez, is high scoi*e
man of the district, while it is be
lieved that Todd of the Tigers
would have been high tally man if
he had not broken his leg at the
first of the season.
BATTALIONA—
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 PAGE 3
Intramurals
Hq Signal Corps Is First Team
In Class A Basketball Semi-Finals
By Bob Myers
Managers are reminded that en
try cards for class A water polo
and class B Ping Pong must be
turned in by 6:00 p.m. Friday.
Class A Basketball is fast com
ing to a close with Headquarters
Signal Corps being the first team
to reach the semi
final bracket. In
their game with
5th Corps Head
quarters Tuesday
night, they only
had one point on
their side of the
score card at the
half way mark
and came back in
the second half to
chalk up sixteen points behind the
accurate shooting of Schram to
run away with the game 17-5.
Another fast moving, hard-
fought basketball game between
3rd Headquarters Field Artillery
and H Field Artillery saw the 3rd
Hq. team rally in the fourth quar
ter behind the ball hustling of
Francis and shooting of Sabins
to come out on the long end of
a 24-19 score. This game was the
league playoff and placed the
winners in quarter final play.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
2nd Corps Headquarters
3rd Corps Headquarters
4th Corps Headquarters
C Infantry
D Coast Artillery
M Infantry
E Infantry was another team
that trailed at the half way only
to rally and come out victorious.
B Signal Corps led 7-4 at the half
but couldn’t get going in the sec-
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Early Turkey Day
Features Football
Games Hard To Pick
By Paul B. Williamson
On President Roosevelt’s early
Turkey Day, Thursday, November
21, there will be several important
games. The championship of the
smaller teams in Ohio depends upon
the outcome of the Dayton, Ohio-
Wesleyan game where the System
picks Dayton overwhelmingly.
The championship of Virginia
may be decided in a very closely
rated game between Richmond
and William and Mary, with Wil
liam and Mary underdogs by the
slim rating comparison of 87.1 to
87.7.
While no other games this Thurs
day are championship affairs, the
names involved mean close follow
ing by interested fans. Among
those games, the system picks
Fordham over Arkansas, Colorado
over Denver, LaSalle over Penn,
Texas Tech over St. Louis, Wash
burn over St. Benedict’s, Western
Reserve over Case, and Xavier of
Cincinnati over Ohio Univers
ity. The last one should be a hot
ly-contested battle.
SATURDAY, probably the most
interest will be attached to the
meeting between Cornell and Penn
in a traditional Thanksgiving
meeting of many year’s standing.
Cornell’s earned rating of 94.6 on
the assumption they beat Dart
mouth 7-3, gives them the shade
over the Quakers , with the rating
of 93.9. However, if the Dart
mouth debacle indicated slipping of
the “Big Reds”, and Penn’s 48-0
rout of Army last Saturday was
truly ‘ a mighty comeback, then
Thursday, November 21 — New Thanksgiving Day
Home Team
WR.
Visiting Team
WR
Denver
81.3
COLORADO
83.9
FORDHAM
92.5
Arkansas
87.1
MISSOURI
87.0
Kansas
78.1
SAM HOUSTON
75.7
Stephen F. Austin
67.3
UTAH
81.7
Idaho
77.8
WASHBURN
72.7
St. Benedict
69.2
Friday, November 22
Schreiner
64.6 KILGORE
73.4
Southwest Conference Football Statistics
- (Through Games of Nov. 16)
%
(Compiled by E. C. Oates, Texas A. & M., from statistical summaries submitted by team representatives.)
Games—
A&M —
8
Opp
Ark —
8
Opp
Bay —
8
Opp
TCU —
8
Opp
Tex — Opp
s'
SMU —
7
Opp
Rice -
Opp
7
First Downs
94
77
88
79
72
86
74
74
88
90
75
47
80
61
Net Gains 'Rushing
U56
296
711
905
1060
651
911
1072
1178
875
730
625
1193
795
Net Gains Fwd. Fass.
969
811
890
680
508
973
785
672
930
918
889
556
354
608
Net Gains R. & P.
2225
1107
1601
1585
1568
1624
1696
1744
2108
1793
1619
1181
1547
1303
Fwd. Pass Att.
140
152
174
142
119
179
159
149
156
175
148
98
84
118
Fwd. Pass Comp.
71
69
57
64
42
72
73
55
75
75
69
33
24
41
% Completed
.507
.454
.328
.451
.353
.402
.459
.369
.481
.429
.466
.337
.286
.347
Own Fwd. Pass Intcp-
11
19
23
14
15
14
13
17
1-3
25
15
11
10
18
Avg. Punt
37
36
33
35
35
34
38
36
37
36
36
36
35
35
Yds. Lost Pen.
442
285
273
445
355
294
319
435
367
285
220
313
337
319
Varsity Takes Monday Off Before
Preparing For Thanksgiving Meet
The Texas Aggies went back to
work Tuesday after taking Mon
day off following their victory
over Rice Saturday and set about
getting ready for their final game
of the Southwest Conference seas
on against the Texas Longhorns
in Austin, Thursday, Nov. 28.
Backfield Coach Marty Karow
scouted the Steers for the past
two weeks and brought back the
not surprising news that the
Longhorns will be tough anywhere
let alone on Memorial Field in Aus
tin where the Aggies have never
won a ball game. “I believe that
they have been going on all
season and just waiting for their
game with us”, Marty said. “They
have looked great against some
teams, according to what I have
read, and they have shown me
that they have more than they used
on the field in the past two weeks.
Don’t take it for granted that the
Aggies are a cinch to win. ”
Marty went on to compare the
season records of the two teams to
show what he meant. “All right”,
he said, “so they lost to Rice and
we beat the same team, but just
remember that we have to play
them in Austin and only three A. &
M. teams have won there since 1894.
teams have won there since 1894.
(A. & M. won in 1902, 1909 and
1922). Would you bet on a horse
QUARTER BACK CLUB
A. & M. and the Rice Owls tan
gle again tonight as the Quarter
Back club offers the game pic
tures in Guion Hall tonight af
ter yell practice. The picture will
start immediately after yell prac
tice.
Franklin Field will seat many a
happy Quaker fan in Philadel
phia.
that won in only 3 out of 24 starts
on a certain track,” he asked
after counting up the number of
times A. & M. and Texas have
played in Austin.
He says Pete Layden, R. L. Har
kins, Jack Crain and two or three
other backs cause lots of trouble
and advised the punters not to kick
down the field unless they want to
get run over on returns.
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Dinah Shore
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Tommy Dorsey
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Bea Wain
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