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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Aggies Open Southwest Schedule In Bayou
City Tonight Against Once-Defeated Owls
Once-Beaten Owls Are Aggie Prey Tonite
Tonight in Houston Coach Hub-*
McQuillen will send his cagers a-
gainst a scrapping bunch of Rice
Owls. Downed in their first fray,
the feathered flock will be throw
ing their best against the Aggies
to stay in the top bracket race.
The main attraction of the game
will be the combination of rafter
reachers. Bob Kinney, All-Ameri
can material on the Rice five,
stands “six foot six”; Bill Gloss
reaches the same height; Stanc.il
Norton towers six feet four inches;
and, Frank Carswell, the fastest
guard in the conference stands
close to the six foot mark.
Wearing the maroon and white
and reaching above the 72 inches
-mark are Jamie Wilson, Bill Hen
derson, Harold Duncan, Bill Daw
son and Ray Jarrett, along with
a few more.
Game time is set at 8:15 p.m.
It will be played in the Sam Hous
ton Coliseum, located across from
the city hall. There will be a good
number of 40 cent tickets for
those who arrive early.
For once in the history of sports
for the Rice Owls, the jazz band
will not b present due to the play
ing of the “Philadelphia Story”
in the adjoining building.
Anyone leaving at 5 o’clock and
having more room might fill their
car by contacting your writer in
room 201 number 4.
Coaches Of Student Teams Hard At Work
Roughing Up Boys For Charity Game Sunday
Thursday night the two coaches -
of the student grid teams, Charlie
DeWare and Virgil Jones, met
with some sixty or seventy boys
each to start their one week train
ing for the contest.
Each squad will be narrowed
down to thirty men.
Members of DeWare’s Whites
are from the Field Artillery, Cav
alry, Coast Artillery, and Band.
Jones’ men come from the Engin
eers, Infantry, Corps Headquar
ters, Signal Corps and Chemical
Warfare.
Further interest has been arous
ed by the announcing of the fact
that the game will be played under
the revised rules. This will be the
first football game played in the
country under the new rules.
Complete uniforms will be is
sued Monday afternoon and hard
practices will begin Immediately.
Coaches Open
Grid Practice
Yesterday afternoon saw Coach
es Charlie DeWare and Virgil
Jones on the practice fields with
their charges preparing for the
coming charity football game to be
played on Kyle Field.
Thursday night the two teams
met in different parts of the cam
pus and received instructions from
their coaches.
The Maroons are representing
the Engineers, Chemical Warfare,
Signal Corps, Corps Headquar
ters, and Infantry. The Whites are
from the Field Artillery, Band,
Coast Artillery, and Cavalry.
Monday afternoon the two
squads are to be issued uniforms
for the next week’s practice.
The Bryan Chamber of Com
merce has offered its help on the
game. Tickets will be jssued to
each organization as well as dis
tributed in Bryan.
BATTALION.
JANUARY 11, 1941
PAGE 3
Intramurals
K Inf Fish Win Basketball Crown;
Turnouts for Water Polo Increasing
Brazos County Refused Golden Gloves Meet
In Order To Give Temple Drawing Card
For a good number of years—•
since the beginning of the Gold
en Gloves, Temple, Texas has been
the local point for the tournament
representing this section. A move
was made this year to break up
this section and hold a tournament
here or at Bryan. The Temple
tournament is held each year dur
ing the final exam week and thus
prevents many good boxers from
A. & M. from entering.
With this thought in mind the
attempt to create a new district
was made. Fifeen Central Texas
counties send boxers to the Tem
ple fights. It is a well known fact
that Temple boasts a strong boxing
team and many of the boxers who
would have a chance In the state
finals are' knocked from the list
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■in their first bouts.
A boxer from Texas A. & M. is
a drawing card and an extra fea
ture for the Temple tournament.
With this in mind, Walter R. Hum
phrey, editor of the Temple Daily
Telegram and manager of the Tem
ple tournament, refused to release
the one county of Brazos.
A well formed tourney was in
its nucleus here in this locality.
Many more boys would be able to
participate in the contests. Even
permission from the state offic
ials had been given, resting on the
permission of the manager of the
Temple tournament.
This seems to be putting the orig
inal idea on which the National
Golden Gloves competition was
started. The betterment of sports
manship was the main idea with
the offering of every boy a
chance to try his hand at the old
game. Now private interests have
come between the boys who were
to be aided and the final buntings.
In addition to the Aggie-Owl
game in Houston tonight Texas
and Arkansas will fight it out for
the early lead in the conference
race. The Razorbacks have been
named by many as the favorites
in the race but the Longhorns ov
erturned the dope bucket by de
feating the Owls early this week.
Southern Methodist University
and Texas Christian University will
tangle in Dallas for the Mustang
opener.
Two of the 13 recognized sports
Two of the 13 recognized sports
found themselves without coaches
this week with the loss of Major
E. W. Burnett, Cavalry, and Lam
bert Molyneaux.
Major Burnett had coached the
polo team two years and had fur-
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W. F. MUNNERLYN, *26, District Mgr.
Associates:
H. E. Burgess, ’29 Sidney L. Loveless, ’38
Paul L. Martin, ’39 0. B. Donaho
R. C. Franks Gene Hart
Athletic Council
Votes To Give 31
Football Letters
At a meeting of the Texas A. &
M. Athletic Council Thursday
morning, varsity letter awards
were approved for 31 members of
the 1940 football team, and four
members of the cross country
team. Numerals were approved for
28 members of the freshman foot
ball team. The annual football
banquet has been set for Friday,
January 24, at which time the a-
wards will be made.
Football players receiving their
varsity letters included: Roy Bu-
cek, William Buchanan, William
Conatser, Harold Cowley, William
Dawson, Henry Hauser, William
Henderson, Charles Henke, Odell
Herman, Marland Jeffrey, Jack
Kimbrough, John Kimbrough, Der
ace Moser, Ray Mulhollan, Ernest
Pannell, Marion Pugh, Leon Rahn,
John Reeves, Marshall Robnett,
Joe Rothe, Chip Routt, Martin
Ruby, Howard Shelton, Elvis Sim
mons, Earl Smith, Marshall Spi
vey, James Sterling, James Thom
ason, Tommie Vaughn, Jackson
Webster, and Euel Wesson.
Cross country minor sports let
ters were awarded to: E. W. El
more, V. W. Laney, E. B. Mayer,
and Eugene Wilmeth.
Freshman numerals were a-
warded to 28 first year men as
follows: William Andrews, Dennis
Andrix, Dudley Bell, T. A. Carlile,
Warren Clifton, Truman Cox, Leo
Daniels, Jamie Dawson, Richard
DeArment, Leonard Dickey, Rich
ard Hill, William Hodge, Ellis Hol
lis, Victor Kaspar, James Kishi,
thered the game here at A. & M.
with rapid strides. His teams hav
beeen recognized among the best
intercollegiate fours in the coun
try.
Major J. F. Stevens has taken
over the duties of coach until a
successor is appointed.
Those who will be in line for the
job are Lt. Col. A. G. Wing, Cap
tain E. A. Elwood and Sergeant
George Moss.
No successor has been named for
Duke Molyneaux who has coached
the fencing team for the past two
years.
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By Bob Myers
It happened Monday, but news
as good as this warrants recogni
tion even if it is just a little late.
In the class B basketball finals,
“Fish” Robinson led the quintet
from K Infantry to a decisive
23-13 victory over
I Infantry with his
uncanny shooting
ability and stellar
floor work. This
game leaves the
title in K Com
pany’s hands for
the coming twelve
months and winds
up intramural bas
ketball competition
a 2-0 win. Wright, White, Ischoepe,
and Crawford were the racket
swingers who won the win.
Myers
for the current school year.
A Field Artillery came through
on a six point margin to take a
touch football game from C Engi
neers with the game ending 6-0
while E Infantry plowed and pas
sed their way through the A Cav
alry team for a 13-0 win.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
I Field Artillery
A Cavalry
3rd Corps Headquarters (2)
3rd Headquarters Field Artil
lery (3)
A Coast Artillery
H Infantry
K Infantry
D Coast Artillery
4th Corps Headquarters
A quarter final handball game
between E Field Artillery and A
Infantry finished 2-0 in favor of
the Artillery at the end of two
games. Worthington and Hudson,
and Donnell, and Crowder won
their matches in record time to
make it unnecessary to complete
the third game.
Going back to the pool we find
a one man wave of scoring in
Huber of G Coast Artillery who
recked ’em to the extent of four
points to make it a 5-0 win over
Headquarters Signal Corps when
added to the singleton of Stan-
berry.
B Field Artillery took another
step toward the handball finals by
taking an eighth finals game from
C Coast after three fast, hard
fought games of “batting the ball
around”. Stokes, Houston, Shea,
and Marks took care of two of the
matches while Marsh and Meleon-
con won the third to end the game
2-1 in favor of the “buggy-boys.”
More of the teams are showing
up for water-polo games, but there
are still an unusual number of
forfeits. Teams that have with
drawn from competition, automa
tically forfeit the remainder of
their scheduled games.
Irwin, Richey, and Hughs led
the scoring for C Cavalry when
they found the water-surrounded
goal once each to down B Chemi
cal Warfare 3-1. Farmer account
ed for the losers one counter.
Widely Played
Speedball Shows
Traits of Football
By Spike White
The game of Speedball is not
a game that the Intramural Depart
ment just dreamed up to fill in
between football and baseball. It
may be an unfamiliar game to
most Texans, but it is a widely
played game in colleges and high
schools in the East, the Mid-West
and on the Pacific Coast. Here
at A. & M. it has been one of the
most popular intramural sports.
Speedball is a combination of soc
cer, football, and basketball. Such
a game sounds a little impossible,
but actually the rules are few
and simple. It is a game that can
be enjoyed the first time it is
played and yet which offers gen
erous possibilities for individual
improvement and fine team play.
Basically speaking, speedball is
the game of soccer with a rule
thrown in that allows the ball to
be caught in the hands any time
that the ball is caused to go into
the air by striking or being struck
by a player. In other words, any
time that the last thing the ball
touched was a player’s body, it
can legally be caught in the hands
and then passed, punted, or drop-
kicked.
The game of speedball is kin to
basketball in that it is a non-
contact game in which the ball
may be passed from player to play
er. As in basketball, no blocking,
tackling, or running with the ball
is permitted.
Every effort has been made to
keep the rules as simple as pos
sible and speedball’s success as
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Buster Brannon’s Cagers Throw First
Stone In Path of “Dark Horse” Aggies
Jitterbug Henderson
Returns To Cage Court
After Cotton Bowl Fray
By Jack Hollimon
Houston’s Coliseum will be the
scene of A. & M.’s opening con
ference basketball game when they
tangle with Rice Institute’s de
fending champions tonight before
approximately 5000 fans.
Captain Bill Dawson and Bill
Henderson will lead the Aggies in
to the fray and they promise to
make Coach Hub McQuillen’s crew
hard to down.
Rice will be attempting to smash
back into the win column after
having fallen before Texas last
time out in a surprising upset.
The Owls will feature Bob Kinney,
backboard artist, and Frank Cars
well, scorching goalmaker. Pre
season dope had Rice picked to
repeat their conference victory
of last year, and A. & M. is
rated as the “dark horse” of the
circuit.
Last year A. & M. and Rice set
a record for points scored in the
Southwest Conference when the
Owls toppled the Cadets 67 to 54
for a total of 122 points.
A. & M. will start the tilt with
Bill Henderson and Ray Jarrett
forwards; Captain Bill Dawson,
center; and Charley Stevenson
and Harold Duncan, guards. Hen
derson, fondly known as “the Jit
terbug”, was all-Southwest choice
of last season, and Jarret is a jun
ior college transfer. “Dog” Daw
son, Crockett product, is playing
his last year for A. & M. and he
was one of the conference leading
scorers last year. Dawson has been
elected captain of the Aggie team.
CUjarley Stevenson and Harold
Duncan hold down their guard
positions with ease.
The Owls will spring 6’ 6” Bob
Kinney of San Antonio, Frank
Red Cross Life Saving
Examinations Tonite
Tonight at 9 o’clock some 22
students will take their final ex
amination in Senior Red Cross
Life Saving in the college pool.
The exams were scheduled to
come off before Christmas but the
early dismissal caused the post
ponement.
Instructions started seven weeks
ago with 40 members composing
the class. Now at the final day,
only 22 remain.
During spring R. E. Plastid will
come to the college to hold in
structors examinations. Students
successfully passing their tests
tonight will be eligible for the
degree.
Reviewers who will examine the
students tonight are Nickey Pon-
thieux, Red Hutchins, and Spike
White.
Carswell, Bert Selman, and Harold
Lambert of Houston, and Bill Tom
Gloss of Hearne against the Aggie
defense. Kinney made all-South
west last year as a sophomore.
Carswell has gained that honor for
the two years of his competition at
guard. Selman was the hero of
Rice’s title drive in 1940. Lambert
has replaced the injured Placido
Gomez in the lineup. Gloss hails
from Hearne where he was an out
standing athlete and he has been
putting them in the basket reg
ularly this season.
Henderson is expected to step out
and fill the loop frequently for
more honors against Rice teams.
He smothered the Owl football
team with sensational pass snat
ching this fall when he and his
mates trampled the feathered crea
tures 25 to 0.
Much improvement has been
shown by the Aggies after foot
ball playing regulars finished with
their Cotton Bowl business and
took to the maple court. This game
is slated to lend much light to
Southwest Conference contenders.
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HASWELL’S
Bryan
Twelve letter men will return
next year to form the Aggie foot
ball squad along with many squad
men who saw service this year and
a number of hold outs.
Those lettermen returning give
the squad four ends, two tackles,
two guards, and four backs.
Lettermen returning are Sterl
ing, Simmons, Henderson, Cowley,
Bucek, Mulhollan, Wesson, Ruby,
Moser, Spivey, Webster, and Smith.
Notes here and there . . . Fred
Wolcot won the Sugar Bowl title
at New Orleans in the high hur
dles by beating out Boyce Gate-
wood, Baylor ex. . . .he then placed
third in the Sullivan award. . .
he plans to participate in the in
door meets in the East this winter
, . Charlie DeWare is picking his
assistants for the Maroon team
from the list of centers. . . .it was
told that Virgil Jones is going to
attempt to run the “Rocker T” for
mation in his baclfield. . . .who
can coach fencing. . . Washing
ton State wants the Aggies to
come up for a game next year. . . .
it’s a long way to Tacoma, Wash
ington. . . let’s go to Houston with
the cagers. . . .30
The Artillery Band took their
game of water-polo by a narrow
margin of one point over E Engi
neers. Final score was 2-1 with
bandsmen Armstrong and King
and castleman Pace accounting
for the goals.
L Infantry made their game
with D Engineers a one point af
fair when Brown slipped one by
the goalie that stood alone the
entire game.
F Engineers had a slight edge
over F Coast Artillery on the ten
nis courts and came through with
D. R. Luethy, A. J. Mercer, James
B. Montgomery, J. S. Pytell, Bert
P. Richey, Lincoln Roman, W. W.
Slaughter, Robert Utley, Shelton
Wagner, Earl Whitworth, Robert
Williams, F. A. Wolters, and Wil-
liard Woolverton.
Fullsize All-America silver foot
balls mounted on ebony pedestals
were voted to John Kimbrough,
All-America fullback; and Mar
shall Robnett, All-America guard
for their being selected on one or
more leading All-America teams.
This award was Kimbrough’s se
cond. Joe Routt won the first ball
in 1937; Joe Boyd and John Kim
brough won them in 1939 and this
year it was Kimbrough and Rob
nett.
Only 12 of the football letter-
men will return to the gridiron
wars next year for the 1941 team
and those 12 include eight juniors
and four sophomores.
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