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CAGERS OPEN 1941
SEASON IN AUSTIN
Tonight over on “forty acres”
the Southwest Conference basket
ball season will get off in a great
start with the Longhorns slated
to meet the defending champs, the
Rice Owls.
Pre-season games give th§ bay
ou feathers the favors. The long
trip over the country might help
to equal the two forces. Still we
have to take the Houston five in
this tilt.
Cage Team lAquamen Take Twin Bill in Kansas City
Tangles With
Rice Jan. 11
Team of Record Breakers
Three New Records Set by Cadets;
Water Poloists Swamp KCAC11-0
Saturday night in Houston the
Aggies open their schedule with
the Owls. If Dawson and Hender
son can come up to the play of
the remainder of the squad in this
week’s practice, the cadets will
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College and Bryan
Henderson And
Dawson To Resume
Season’s Play
With Captain Bill Dawson and
Jitterbug Henderson returning to
the hardwood floors, the Aggie
cagers are rounding off the final
rough spots for their gruelling
test with the Rice Owls this com
ing Saturday.
Regarded as a possible “dark-
horse” in the conference race, the
cadets could well upset the dope
bucket and turn back the Houston
squad. In pre-season games the
Owls hold a big edge over the
Aggies. They have climaxed a ten
game series with eight wins and
2 losses to Long Island University
and Sam Houston Teachers. The
Aggies on the other hand have
won three games and lost five.
Both teams split their series with
the Bearkats of Huntsville. The
Owls have turned back such teams
as Southern California, La Salle,
Albright, and L. S. U. Their loss
to the strong Long Island team
ended in a 61 to 57 score.
Coach Buster Brannon will start
three of the Owl’s 1940 champ
ionship team. These include Bob
Kinney, who has been named as a
possible All-American, Frank Cars
well, two times all-conference and
the same threat as Kinney, and
Bert Selman, the scrapping guard
of the feather flock. Placido Go
mez who was also a member of
the starting crew last year is out
indefinitely with a broken ankle.
The other starters will probably be
Harold Lambert and Bill Gloss.
The Aggies have played most
of their games without the services
of the two gridders and have still
shown some fine form. Against
the strong Sooner Aggie squad the
cadets seemed to hit their peak
for preseason games.
Charlie Stevenson, better known
on and off the floor as “Fat Boy”
will start the duel for the Aggies
and will add the points to the score
board. Two sophomores who pro
mise to develop as the season moves
along are Raymond Klutz and
R. B. Bayer.
With the team at full force, Dun
can, Dawson, Stevenson, Klutz,
Bayer, and Henderson will travel
south to pluck the feathers.
Tonight in Austin the Owls and
the Longhorns open the season.
This game will go far in telling
who will be the conference title
holders for the ’41 season.
scare the tail feathers from the
birds.
How we’ll get there after the
extra classes is beyond me.
Members of the team which tripped to Kansas City during the holidays are shown above.
Front row, left to right, are Keil, Taylor, McKey, Ponthieux, Renaud, Goodman, and Smith.
Back row, left to right, are Stephens, Davis, Conway, Couch, Adamson, Japhet, Dewelle, and
Hensley.
Ponthieux is captain of the water polo team and Hensley is captain of the swimming team.
BATTALION.
JANUARY 7, 1941
PAGE 3
Final Football Ratings Released
With Consideration for Bowl Games
1. Stanford > 99.3
2. Boston College 98.6
3. Minnesota 98.1
4. Michigan 97.8
5. Miss. State 97.5
6. Tennessee 97.2
7. Texas A. & M 96.4
8. Santa Clara 96.2
9. Fordham 95.8
10. Nebraska 95.4
11. S. M. U 95.0
12. Washington 94.7
13. Pennsylvania 94.6
14. Northwestern 94.3
15. Georgetown 94.2
16„.,,Alabama 93.9
17. Mississippi 93.2
18. Duke 92.7
19. Duquesne 92.6
20. St. Mary’s Cal 92.4
GOLDEN GLOVES TO BE
HELD IN BRAZOS COUNTY
In the past years this section
of the state has been included in
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LOOKS LIKE THE STANFORDS
Clark Shaughnessy and his Le-
land Stanford Indians—those al
most fabulous Indians and their
miracle-making coach — are the
Williamson choice for the No. 1
football team of the nation.
Those Indians out of the west
whooped right through Biff Jones
and his power machine from Ne
braska 21 to 13 in the Rose Bowl
to earn their place as the national
leaders for 1940. It was the last
touch of a master-gridmachine
builder, and Shaughnessy did it
with expert deftness.
the Temple section of the Texas A.
A. U. Golden Gloves contest. For
the first time the section has been
split and Bryan and College Station
have joined to form a second.
Temple always boosted a strong
squad and removed the few Aggie
and Allen Academy boxers from
the series in the first round.
The contests will take place the
latter part of the month. Now is
the time to loose the extra pounds
and get back in shape.
21. Cornell 92.0
22. Rice 91.5
23. Notre Dame 91.4
24. Texas U 91.2
25. Navy ' j 91j.l
26. Oklahoma 91.0
27. L. S. U 90.9
28. Syracuse ..J. 90.8
29. Columbia 90.7
30. Auburn 90.5
31. Ohio State 90.3
32. Colgate 90.2
33. Pittsburgh 90.1
34. Hardin-Simmons 89.9
35. Missouri
36. Wisconsin
37. Penn State
38. Tulane
39. Indiana U.
40. Temple U.
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... 89.8
... 89.7
... 89.6
... 89.5
... 89.4
... 89.3
Open Letter to Billy Sansing:
Sports Editor The Daily Texan
With a lot of praises to the
Texas team that played over their
heads November 28, we still look
at it this way—if the Aggies did
in six minutes time what the
Fordham Rams tried to do in the
other 54, we’ll still take the win.
If you call it seedy, perhaps we
can sow these seeds and build up
another club.
The swimming team returned
here this week-end with two vic
tories under the belt. They won
their only meet and water polo
game on their annual trip.
ASSEMBLY HALL FEATURE
GREATEST FOOTBALL SHOW
Tomorrow and Thursday the As
sembly Hall run the picture “Knute
Rockne—All American”. This is
one of the best football pictures
ever filmed. In it the story of the
development of the forward pass
and the Notre Dame shift is told.
Shaughnessy had done the best
anybody could at the University of
Chicago for several years after
setting houses afire at Tulane and
Loyola of the South. But nobody
dreamed last September, much
less the Williamson System, that
Leland Stanford, under Shaugh-
nessy’s new tutelage would end
up in the 1941 edition of the Rose
Bowl.
And yet, Mr. Shaughnessy and
his Indians were right in there,
with necromantic swiftness, for
one of the most remarkable tenth
successive victories of any football
team in any football season. In
coming from behind twice to down
a great set of Nebraska Huskers,
the Stanford team, according to the
Williamson System, gets the palm.
We had picked the Nebraskans
to win, against our own. Decem
ber ratings. They played superbly
against Stanford, but it wasn’t
good enough. Had the Huskers
played the same kind of football
against Minnesota, their only reg
ular-season champions, as they
did against Stanford the Golden
Gophers would have been bur
rowing yet.
So there it stands: Stanford, na
tional football champions of 1940.
It is one of the few times that the
Williamson System has named an
undisputed national f o ot b a 11
champion.
Coach Frank Leahy’s Eagles of
Boston College refused to admit
the overwhelming defeat that
stared at them from the ranks of
Tennessee’s great Volunteers. Be
hind all the football mechanics
there was a determination and
spirit to win, and those are things
that just aren’t figured on a math
ematical basis. Had the Vols held
up like they started out, the Eag
les would have been routed. But,
“Woe to the conquered.” The Eag
les screamed and clawed to cqme
from behind twice and win 19 to
13.
Running quickly over the other
Bowl results: Mississippi State
came through for the System and
took Georgetown 14-7; Texas Ag
gies rammed through in the last
few minutes of play for a weird
Local Boxers
Organize Unit
For Golden Gloves
An association is being formed
at College Station under the aus
pices of the Amateur Athletic As
sociation to organize a Golden
Gloves boxing tournament for Col
lege Station and surrounding ter
ritories.
Tom Taylor and Paul Lowry are
directors of the association that is
composed of local businessmen and
citizens and anyone desiring in
formation pertaining to the tourn
ament can get full particulars from
them.
Winners of local matches will
receive awards in the form of either
boxing robes or jackets and run
ners up will probably be given suit
able trophies. In addition to this
winners will be given an all-ex
pense trip to Fort Worth tq par
ticipate in the fights there.
The matches will be held on Jan
uary 27, 28, and 29 either at the
College Station Gym or in the ring
at Allan Academy. All proceeds of
the fight will go to further in
terest in amateur sports in this
district.
Dick Menchacha, national cham
pion of 1940, will fight in the mat
ches and indications show that
Allan Academy boxing teams will
participate in full.
Entry blanks will be run in this
paper later and until then, pros
pective entries are urged to be
gin training as early as possible so
as to be in the best of condition
for the contests.
Included in this district will be
College Station, Bryan, Navasota,
Brenham, Huntsville, Hearne, and
other surrounding towns.
By Bob Myers
While Cadets were drifting back
to Aggieland from all points af
ter the holidays the A. & M. swim
ming and water polo teams were
in Kansas City, Missouri, break
ing records and bringing recog
nition to the school.
Three existing pool records were
shattered and one tied when the
Aggies swam against the Kansas
City Athletic Club. Not content
with setting new records, the Ca
dets went further and took first
place in all events except diving
and backstroke. No entry was made
in diving and Conway came in sec
ond in the backstroke.
Bob Taylor “showed the Missou
rians” by knocking them off of
both the existing 220 yard free
style and the 440 free style pool
records. New times were 2:20.4
and 5:17.4 respectively.
Harold Hensley finished the
50-yard free style in record time
of 24.2 to tie the existing pool rec
ord in that event.
The third record to be broken by
the team came in the medely relay
event when E. W. Conway, Jim
Davis, and N. A. Ponthieux com
bined to set a new time of 3:20.5.
The Cadets completely outclas
sed the Kansas City water polo
team and slipped the ball in at all
angles to score eleven points to
the opponents nothing.
Hensley led the scoring spree
with three goals and Smith, Re
naud, and Davis, took care of two
apiece while Pontheiux and Good
man rounded out the final eleven
with one each.
The teams left Dallas Thursday
January 2 after witnessing the
Cotton Bowl Classic and return
ed Sunday January 5 loaded with
records and covered with victory.
13-12 score over the Fordham
Rams; and Fresno State, as pre
dicted against the System’s De
cember Ratings, downed the Uni
versity of Hawaii 3-0 with a field
goal booted by Substitute Guard
Dale Mickelwait against a chill
and lusty breeze in the final per
iod.
The System went down with the
“line” and most other published
predictions in picking the South
over the North at Montgomery,
Ala.; The East over the West at
San Francisco, and Arizona State
Teachers of Tempe at El Paso in
the Sun Bowl. The figures and
the “dope” pointed that way. The
scores after the game pointed the
other way.
The scores: North 14, South 12;
West 20, East 14; Reserve 26,
Tempe 13. In all three of those
games stars from minor colleges
and little-mentioned players from
major schools stood out above
highly publicized headliner names
from the regular season.
In other holiday-season games,
the System was right on Fresno
State 3, Healani 0 in a Christmas
Day game in Hawaii; and, Geor
gia Tech turned back California
13-0 at Atlanta on Dec. 28.
Austin Is Scene Of
Early Cage Climax
AUSTIN, Jan. 6—The climax of
Texas U.’s home basketball season
will come early this year—no later
than Tuesday night, when the high
scoring Rice Owls invade Gregory
gym for the opening game of the
’41 Southwest Conference season.
Some 10 months ago the Owls
clinched the conference champion
ship on the same floor, nudging the
defending champion Longhorns by
one point in a bristling battle. Since
then the Texas team has been wait
ing for another crack at the Night-
birds, and Tuesday’s game will draw
a full house—about 8,000 patrons.
The Longhorns may be getting
their chance for revenge a year
too late.
Calling Car
No. 1313!!!
—Go one mile west on
airport road and you will
find the place where the
Aggies can have a better
time.
Reservations are
accepted.
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Selected Shorts
“QUICKER’N A WINK” “WALDO’S LAST STAND”
NEWS REEL
Group marketing of eggs by 20
Sellers in Floyd county netted
these producers $412 in November.
Wednesday and Thursday
January 8-9 — 3:30 & 6:45 Each Day
Great Coach!
Great American!
Great Guy!
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Also Selected Shorts
“All Girl Revue”
“Wild Horse”