HO."HUB" JOHNSON
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Baylor Victory Surprises Many Scribes;
Aggie Basketball Manners Not Up to Par
Saturday night the Aggie cagers
got back into the black column. It
was pretty much a surprise to a
lot of the scribes over the con
ference but they were warned that
the Aggies are back in the run
again—at least for a good rating
in the second bracket.
Mid-term slows down the sports
world in collegiate athletics a bit
but this week-end the disappointed
Bears take on the T.C.U. Horn-
frogs.
Sunday morning the traditional
after game bull session was in full
swing. One of the Aggie players
stated that the way the corps
treats the visiting players turns
about when the cadets get away
from here.
At one stage of the game the
referee called time on himself in
an attempt to find out who was
shooting pins at the Baylor boys.
We can’t say that the Aggies were
doing this—it was only a com
plaint from the Bears. It was quite
evident that there was too much
booing while the visitors were at
tempting free throws.
Bull Ring, O.D., Tripper to New York—
Just Three Days Activity for John Kimbrough
Bull ring one day—Officer of
the Day the next—and off to New
York the next—what a life to lead.
John Kimbrough tomorrow takes
to the air for another flight east.
Sunday he reported to the se
cond floor of Ross Hall in the
newly prescribed manner, Monday
and Tuesday morning he held
down the duties of Officer of the
Day in the new area, and tomor
row he dons a parachute for the
quick trip.
“I’m having too much fun to
sign any contract”, he said in one
breath. Then he stopped Chip
Routt and made him button his
collar. Back he came then with,
“I’ll sign if they give me a nickle.”
As to what he’ll do, you’re guess
is as good as mine. I say he’ll sign.
As to what figures, you’re guess
is still as good as mine.
“T” Club Expresses Appreciation For Help,
Cooperation That Made Benefit Show Success
Thanks are in order from a few
of the sporting organizations.
The “T” Club gives their thanks
and appreciation to all who aided
in making another annual benefit
show a success. Sunday’s showing
of the Rice and Cotton Bowl games
proved a great success.
From the sponsors of the benefit
football game two weeks ago—
thanks to Sergeants Hahnel, Star
nes, Thomas, Wisnoski, and Misen-
heimer, and Privates First Class
Anderson, Carroll, Colson, Lawson,
Mauldin, Swann, Wood, Yates and
Sabo (no kin to Saba of F Field
Artillery) for the part they play
ed.
Mid-term will find one less
writer on the sports staff. Any
one having an urge and a lot of
time to spend hanging around the
various minor snorts fields is wel
come to come down any Monday,
Wednesday or Friday between one
and five o’clock.
Cotton Bowl Re-Broadcast Is Sensation At
Banquet; Spring Training Starts Next Month
Notes from here and there . . .
Many fans sat up and took notice
last Friday night as the radio
broadcast of the first few minutes
of the third quarter of the Cotton
Bowl game came floating out of
nowhere . . . spring training will
get under way the middle of next
month . . . John Scoggin was asked
to play football after the showing
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“Keep to Your Right at the North Gate and
You Can’t Go Wrong”
Hq Cavalry Wins Grid Championship
Downs G Coast
In Bitter Battle
With Extra Time
26 Yard Penetration
Wins Tilt for Cavalry;
Bob Langford Is Star
By Mike Haikin
In one of the hardest fought
battles of the year, Hdq. Cavalry
emerged as the mighty intramural
football champion when it downed
a gallant bunch of men from G
Coast Artillery by a 20 yard pene
tration. The bitter battle was just
as close as the score indicated. At
the end of the regulation time, the
score was tied up at one 40 yard
penetration apiece, which forced the
game into extra periods. From
there the Cavalry drove on to vic
tory.
Standing head and shoulders
above all was diminutive Bob Lang
ford. His passes were a grand sight
to observe. With needle-like precis
ion, each and every pass was true
to its mark but some of the Caval
ry boys just, couldn’t hold on to
them. Besides his offensive zeal,
Langford also stood out like a sore
thumb on defense by coming up
with three enemy passes.
The game started out with a
punting duel between Kincannon
of Hdq. Cavalry and Tillery of
G Coast. Both men averaged at
least 45 yards on every kick. G
Coast, however, gained first blood
when Holley broke through to
block Kincannon’s punt on the Cav
alry’s 43 yard line. Thompson and
Tillery were stopped, however,
and Tillery’s punt went out of
bounds on the Cavalry’s 18 yard
line. From there Kincannon pass
ed to Callahan for twenty yards,
but Tillery intercepted Langford’s
pass to end the half.
Hdq. Cavalry scored a 40 yard
penetration to tie the score just as
the half opened. On an exchange
of punts, G Coast had the ball on
their own 24 yard line. After three
passes gained absolutely nothing,
Tillery went back to punt, only to
have it partially blocked by Voss
and Gilruth. The ball went out
of bounds on the Coast’s 45 yard
line. On the first play, Langford
fired a pass to Voss for a 40-
yard penetration and tied up the
score.
The score remained the same un
til the end of the game, whereupon
a four-minute half was agreed upon
by the two captains, Langford and
Thompson. Kincannon’s 60 yard
kick at the start of the extra per
iod proved to be a stimulant for
Hdq. Cavalry. On the first play,
Thompson’s pass was intercepted
by Langford who ran it back to
the Coast’s 33-yard line for a
40 yard penetration.
Langford then passed to Kin
cannon for 7 yards to put the ball
on the Coast’s 26 yard line. On
the next play, Langford ran the
Coast’s right end for 9 yards to
give Hdq. Cavalry a 20 yard pene
tration and put the game in a
sack. Bob Mabe’s blocking was ter
rific on that play.
The game ended with a flurry of
passes by G Coast that fell in
complete. Besides Langford,Kincan
non and Mate looked good in the
backfield. Kincannon’s kicking was
a thorn in G Coast’s side, while
Mabe’s blocking made Langford’s
passing game click. In the line , it
was Voss and Maloney, who time
and again, broke through to down
the Coast men for a loss. Tillery
and Thompson were the main guns
for G Coast. Tillery’s kicking and
passing kept the Coast boys in the
game, while Thompson’s defens
ive work kept the Cavalry team at
bay.
he made in the benefit game,
playing on pulled ligaments in one
leg ... he chooses the baseball
diamond in favor of the gridiron
. . . Bill Conatser got in the “T”
Club show free Sunday .
Saturday’s night game was writ
ten by many as another of the
games in five years played at Ag-
gieland that the Bears failed to
win . . . two years ago the Bears
won 38 to 34 here at College Sta
tion ... it does however make five
years straight that the game has
run in the same manner, swinging
first one way and then another
with the difference in final counts
very little . . . Sammy Dwyer re
turns to the hardwood floor after
a year and a half on the side line
. . . he was elected captain of the
’39 team but failed to make the
grades at mid-term . . . the same
happened last year . . . with him
will come Mike “Iron Man” Cok-
inos, a brother of Jimmy who
scribbled for the Batt last
year ... 30.
BATTALION
JANUARY 28, 1941
PAGE 3
Intramurals
Speedball In Spotlight as D Cavalry And
1st Corps Headquarters Chalk Up Wins
By Mike Haikin
D Cavalry’s decisive win over H
Infantry and 1st Corps Hdq.’s
squeeze over A Engineers, were the
two feature games played on the
speedball field. The Cavalry boys
gave H Infantry its. third straight
setback, 10 to 3, as Callahan,
Haines, and Rider ran the “paddle
feet” wild. First Corps Hdq.’s win
was much closer, with the score
being only 5 to 3, over A Engi
neers.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE N
E Coast
D Field Artillery
In the only tennis match of the
day, G Coast came through with
a hair-raising victory at the ex
pense of E Field Artillery, 2 to 1.
As the dreaded final exams near,
the intramural program will just
about be at a standstill- Speedball
will be the next main excursion in
Class A intramurals after mid-
“Cotton” Price
Returns to A & M
To Complete Study
Walemon (Cotton) Price, ace
quarterback and passer of the Tex
as Aggie teams for 1937-38-39,
will return to the campus with
the opening of the second semes
ter, according to a letter received
by Marion (Dookie) Pugh, his
successor as No. 1 passer last year.
Price lacks but a few hours of
credit for his degree in Liberal
Arts with a physical education ma
jor and hopes to complete the work
so he can receive his degree in
June.
Since leaving A. & M. last year
he has played professional foot
ball with the Detroit Lions serving
as understudy for the famed “Whiz-
zer” White as their quarterback
and passer. He says he has not
signed a contract for 1941 but has
been offered a boost of his 1940
figures and says he probably will
accept sometime this summer.
Price came to A. & M. from New
castle high school and won fresh
man numerals in football and bas
ketball but dropped the cage sport
in his sophomore year. He letter
ed three times in football and was
elected honorary co-captain at the
end of the 1939 season when the
Aggies were the Number 1 team
of the Nation.
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and at low prices, too.
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LAUTERSTEIN’S
North Gate
term, with volleyball taking the
spotlight here and there.
Pingpong continued to be the
main issue in Class B intramurals
as the freshmen continued their
battle for the “celluloid ball” cham
pionship. A Field Artillery contin
ued to win as they pleased when
they handed both B Infantry and
F Coast a 4 to 1 setback. In other
games, D Engineers blasted A Sig
nal Corps into submission, 4 to
1; the Infantry Band squeezed past
2nd Hdq. Field Artillery, 3 to 2;
C Cavalry came through with a
.500 record for the weekend by
downing Hdq. Signal Corps 3 to
2, and dropping a 4 to 1 tilt to
G Field Artillery.
Bill Beck Serves
Notice He Will Leave
A&M To Enter Randolph
Bill Beck, lanky junior yell
leader of the Texas Aggie Cadet
Corps, has announced that he will
resign from A. & M. to enter a
preliminary school for flying. Af
ter that, he intends to enter the
flying school at Randolph Field.
Beck, an agricultural student
from Pecos, was scheduled, along
with Skeen Staley, to lead the
“twelfth man” in their quest for
another Aggie football champion
ship. He was elected junior yell
leader the latter part of last year
and has done a great job in assis
ting Chief Yell Leader Buster
Keeton and Senior Yell Leader
Foots Bland.
The Baylor-A. & M. basketball
game was the climax to his yell
leading career. Starting from the
A. & I. football game and ending
with the Baylor basketball tilt,
the blond boy from the Artillery
band has yelled his lungs out. His
leadership has been one of the fea
ture attractions of a successful
footbal season for the Aggies. Ev
ery Aggie will miss his ever-joking
manner and his leadership of the
Aggie cadet corps. At the same
time everyone will wish him all
the luck in the world in his new
enterprise.
A&M Breaks Losing Streak
By Nosing Out Baylor 33-31
Henderson Is Snnrk t* 16 himself or passing
. . it out to a team mate. It was this
Of Inspired Quintet
That Refused Defeat
Before a crowd that filled De-
Ware Field House to capacity, the
inspired Aggie quintet broke their
three game losing streak with a
33-31 win over Baylor Univers
ity. Playing their first home game
of the season, the Cadets were
sparked by the ball hustling of
J. T. Lang and the uncanny abil
ity of Bill Henderson to hit the
basket on those two-point shots.
Henderson was below his usual
form but still managed for 17 of the
Aggie 33. This placed him well a-
head of Bryski who had 10 and
Dawson with 7 for high point man
of the game. In the last 20 sec
onds of play it was this four
sport man from Houston who sank
the two points that ultimately spell
ed defeat for the Bears.
Play under the basket for the
rebounds invariably found Lang
in the thick of it either coming out
ball hustling play that gave A.
& M. possession of the ball the
majority of the time and proved
to Baylor the old adage: “You can’t
score without the ball.”
It was anybody’s ball from start
to finish but it was the finishing
seconds that brought the fans to
their feet to witness the fight
ing Aggies take the contest from
a hard playing favored Baylor
team.
Aggies Versus Westpointers
To Highlight 1943 Schedule
Army versus Army, or words to
that effect, will be the headlines
in 1943 when Texas A. & M. and
the United States Military Acad
emy meet on the gridiron at West
Point, New York.
If the scheduled game goes off
without a hitch, the present Soph
omore class of Aggieland will be
the “boot men” who lay plans for
a corps trip to a school that is not
ed for its hospitality to visiting
teams and their supporters.
Confusion of both sides yell
ing for Army should provide addi
tional color for the occasion and
make it a “Must” game of the
year for all football fans.
The box score:
Aggies—
Henderson, forward
Lang, forward
Dawson, center
Duncan, center-guard
Nabors, guard
Jarrett, guard
Stevenson, guard
PG FT PP TP
8 1 1 17
Totals 14 B 10 33
Bears FG FT PF TP
Parks, forward
Terry, forward
Belew, forward
Walters, forward
Frivaldsky, center
Vaughn, guard
Bryski, guard
Wilson, guard
6
3
2
2
4
4
10
0
Totals 13
9 81
Lots of things he doesn’t want
come to the man who is im
patient.
It’s time to give Uncle
Ed’s the nightly visit
for a cup of coffee.
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