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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Carr-Sweeney Returns to Aggieland To Try
Top Gagers Tonight in DeWare House
Basketball again! Looking for
ward to a few weeks off during
the mid term lull, we woke up the
other morning to find that Coach
McQuillan had scheduled a return
engagement with the Carr-
Sweeney five of Houston.
Early in the season the bayou
team topped the Aggie cagers by
one point. Since then the cadets
have been up and down, and down
again. Last Saturday night they
hit the high road once more.
Tonight the Aggies ought to
cash in again.
“Uncle Bill” James, Coach at Three League
School, Highly Praised Line Coach of Aggies
Violets, roses, blue chips, or call
them what you may, nevertheless,
today’s praises go to Coach W. N.
“Uncle Bill” James.
For four years he played at Cen
tre College with Bo McMillan and
Matty Bell. He coached one year
at Birmingham, Alabama and two
at Fort Worth, Texas. For seven
months he coached at T.C.U. and
nine years he built lines for Texas
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He came to A. & M. in ’35 and
has had three All-Americans since
then. Joe Routt, Joe Boyd, and
Marshall Robnett go down on the
books as his boys.
“Uncle Bill”, as he is known to
the gridders and to his friends, is
one man who will always be re
membered by the great Texas
Aggies.
The Houston ex-Aggies threw
quite a party for^he gridders last
Monday night. Sports editors of
the three Houston news releases
all praised the cadets and sang
their songs of lean years ahead
for A. & M.
“They aren't made nor created—
“Teams like the past two just
happen.”
“The greatest bunch of boys
Fve ever known and had the
pleasure of traveling with,” quot
ed Bruce Layer.
Dick Freeman said the same as
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Swimming Team
Holds First Home
Meet With Dallas
Swimmers are treading water un
til after finals and will swing into
action in their first home meet
against the Dallas Athletic Club
on February 8.
The tean/ has been on a practice
diet since their victorious return
from Kansas City where they
double-billed the Kansas City Ath
letic Club and copped three pool
records.
Aftre mid-term the Frhshmen will
start their activities and try their
water wings against New Mexico
Military Academy in an opener.
Swimming schedules for both
teams are given below.
Varsity Schedule
Fe. 8 Dallas Athletic Club at
College Station.
Feb. 15 Dallas Athletic Club at
Dallas.
Feb. 22 San Antonio YMCA at
San Antonio.
Feb. 23 Brownsville YMCA at
Brownsville.
Mar. 1 Baylor at Waco.
Mar. 8 Texas U. at Austin.
Mar. 15 S.M.U. at College Sta
tion.
Date and place for Conference
meet unset but likely at SMU.
Fish Schedule
No dates until after mid-term.
New Mexico Military Academy
at College Station.
Texas Freshmen at College Sta
tion.
Baylor Freshmen at Waco.
the other two and wished the
freshmen the same luck the'var
sity had in the past seasons.
Charlie Schwartz, a Southwest
Conference official, raised the in
testinal fortitude to state, “The
fastest thing in the world is the
Texas Aggie football team. They
traveled from the Rose Bowl in
California to the Cotton Bowl in
Texas in 57 seconds.”
A1 Saenger, toastmaster for the
night, kept the crowd in laughs
and presented quite a program on
nature study and the bare facts.
Along about this time of the
year college publicity departments
hit their low spots, sports writers
get very little collegiate news, and
we all go nuts—or should it be
nuttier.
Burris Jenkins, Jr. of the New
York Journal and American named
another mythical team. This one is
his “All-Mythical” Eleven to end
all mythical elevens!
The following is his selection:
Flash Gordon—right end
LiT Abner—right tackle
Lothar—right guard
Tarzan—center
Joe Palooka—left guard
X-9—left tackle
Lone Ranger—left end
Superman—fullback
Popeye—halfback
BATTALION
JANUARY 30, 1941
PAGE 3
Intramurah
E Field Artillery and F Field
Artillery Enter Water Polo Finals
By Bob Myers
Water polo semi-finalists came
through with eliminations to give
E Field Artillery and F Field Ar
tillery places in the finals. E Field
Artillery downed F Coast Artillery
in the last 40 sec
onds of play to end
the game 3-2. Bur
ney, of the Field,
made the winning
shot and Worth
ington accounted
for the other two
points. Other stars
of the game were
Bowman who scor
ed two for the los
ers and Donnell, goalie for F
Battery, who kept the wolf away
from the door time and again by
warding off the scoring attempts
of the Coast Artillery team.
Myers
Baird and Johnson led F Field
Artillery in their semi-final game
of water-polo to take an easy win
of 6-0. Baird scored four goals
Coach McQuillan
On Committee For
Basketball Tourney
The Selection Committee in Dis
trict Six for the National Colleg
iate Athletic Association Basketball
tournament has notified Coach H.
R. (Hub) McQuillen of his appoint
ment to the committee. The tourn
ament will be held in Kansas City,
Mo., with the playoffs commenc
ing on March 21-22 and the finals
being held on March 29.
McQuillan’s appointment dame
from H. C. Olson, National N. C.
A. A. Basketball Tournament Com
mittee Chairman, Ohio State Uni
versity, Columbus, Ohio. The A.
& M. basketball mentor will work
under Jimmy St. Clair, athletic di
rector from S. M. U., who is
chairman of the District Six Com
mittee.
Phantom—halfback
Mandrake—quarterback
If anyone is entering the Baylor
University Badminton Tourna
ment, will they please contact
your scribe. It is desired to start
with the teams entering the Waco
tournament and build similar
playing schedules here.
and Johnson made the other two.
Tennis is coming down the home
stretch and the finals will be
played today. C Chemical War
fare will play the winner of a
match between G Infantry and B
Chemical Warfare. •
G Infantry won their quarter
finals match from a five man G
Coast Artillery team. Each team
won a match apiece and the In
fantry took the game contest by
virtue of an easy rout. Tillery
and Protho won their match for G
Company and Smith, Graves, Lof-
land, and Langley took honors for
the “buzzard-busters.”
A new scoring record was set in
Speedball by C Cavalry in their
22-2 win over D Infantry. The
record was previously held by F
Engineers with 19 and then F In
fantry witth 20. C Troop had so
many stars that the field looked
like a dime store bracelet.
A Chemical Warfare and G Field
Artillery went into the Ping Pong
finals after their 3-2 wins over
H Infantry and A Field Artillery
rsepectively.
In the final go round, A Chem
ical Warfare took the champion
ship 3-2 when Peterson, Wander-
lick, and Morrison won for C Com
pany. Spoede and Morris cashed
in for G Battery.
2000 Entrants In
Baylor Badminton
Tournament
WACO, Texas, Jan. 29—Fifteen
hundred badminton matches will
be played here February 6, 7, and
8 when Baylor plays hosts to the
Southwest Intercollegiate and Open
Badminton Tournaments.
Some 200 players have already
entered the college affair and an
other 150 bird-smashers have sent
in their entries for the Baylor
“Open” Meet which most of the
collegians will also take part in.
Top-ranking badminton players
from Rice, Texas University, Tex
as A. & M., North Texas Agricul
tural College, Hillsboro Jr. College,
Texas State College for Women,
Abilene Christian College, Hard-
Bell County, Land of Strange Stories
Furnishes Team of Stars For A&M Football
Bell County — many strange"
stories have been told of this part
of Central Texas located at the
intersection of coordinates “H”
and “18” on the Texas Almanac
map. Here is another to add to the
long list.
For twenty-five years P. L.
Down, Jr. watched the boys of
Temple, Belton, Holland and other
small towns grow up and make
names for themselves, and then
saw the same boys go off to col
leges and universities over the
country far from the “Brazos
Bottoms”.
At one time he served as Chair
man of the Building Committee for
the college while serving as a
member of the board of directors.
It was during this period that the
Natatorium was named after him.
Bell County has a population of
little over 50,000 and has an area
composing some four tenths per
cent of total area of the State of
Texas, still from within its boun
daries have come such gridiron
greats as Botchy Koch of Baylor
University, and Ki Aldrich and
Sammy Baugh of Texas Christian
University.
Three years ago a move was
made to side track some of these
football stars of Temple High
School down Highway 6 and into
College Station.
Wesson, First Bell Gridder
Euel “Poppa” Wesson was the
first to move into College Station
wearing the glory of Bell County.
Soon to follow were Ray Mulhol-
lan, Tom Pickett, Jamie Wilson,
Stark Miller, A. J. Mercer, Tom
Carlile, and Kelley Utley.
Now on the list of prospects for
the ’41 freshman squad there ap
pear five more of the Temple
squad which played Amarillo for
the State Finals in the Cotton"
Bowl.
Dale Weaver, Ed Dusek, Harold
Attaway, Glen Morris, and Hub
Speer all visited the campus last
week-end, taking in the annual
grid dinner and visiting a few of
the classes and dormitories.
Jinx Praises Weaver
Last year Weaver was ineligible
to play at Temple due to the age
limit but played great ball for the
Decatur Baptist College. Jinx
Tucker writes the following of the
Temple star:
“Dale Weaver, the great
Temple High guard, who was
ineligible last fall, and Ed
Dusek, the fine Temple back,
are going to enter Texas
A. & M. next fall. Do not be
surprised should Weaver be
come an All-Conference guard
before he finishes at A. & M.
He is a tall, rangy boy, weigh
ing 195 pounds.”
Dusek was the power boy of the
Wildcats last season and threw
his weight into the line time and
again for the needed yards. For
additional value he is an expert
place kicker.
Attaway, a heavy tackle having
behind him four years of exper
ience, plays steady ball on both the
defense and offense.
Fast for his heavy weight, Tiny
Morris added his 224 pounds to the
Wildcat line to form the forward
wall.
Speer was to the Temple eleven
the same as Thomason was to the
Texas Aggies. He specialized in
blocking but carried the ball at
times on deceptive plays for long
gains.
’41 Season
Next year Euel Wesson will find
himself one of the top notchers
for the tackle positions and at the
same time facing his final year of
varsity play.
Jamie Wilson who as a fish won
cage, baseball and grid numerals,
will run Henderson, Simmons and
Sterling for an end position. Tom
Pickett will be slinging for a start
in the backfield, and Ray Mulhol-
lan will be fighting hard to take
Robnett’s position in the line.
Mercer at center, and Carlile and
Utley in the backfield will next
year push the varsity experienced
players for their positions with
their one year play on the fresh
man squad.
Complete Squad
Scanning the entire list, it is
found that Downs and V. W.
“Jelly” Woodman have played a
part in bringing to Aggieland an
entire team with two remaining
for reserves.
Here is the Bell County squad:
Steak Miller 192 End
Harold Attaway 190 Tackle
Ray Mulhollan 185 Guard
A. J. Mercer 180 Center
Dale Weaver 195 Guard
Euel Wesson 225 Tackle
Jamie Wilson 183 End
Tom Pickett 180 Back
Kelley Utley 175 Back
Tom Carlile 170 Back
Hub Speer 185 Back
Ed Dusek 190 Back
Glenn Morris 224 Tackle
This team has a weight average
of 192 pounds on the line and 178
pounds in the backfield.
Yesterday Attaway and Weaver
definitely confirmed the satements
that they would play in the uni
forms of the Aggie fish next sea
son.
So it is—another strange story
goes down for Bell County.
A&M Cagers Will Play
Carr-Sweeney Here Tonite
With everyone in the Southwest.
Conference basketball race taking
time off for mid-term exams, the
Texas Aggies will take on the
strong Carr-Sweeney amateur quin,
tet in an exhibtion game tonight at
the DeWare field house .
Refreshed from their recent tri
umph over the Baylor Bears, the
Aggies will seek revenge for the
trouncing Carr-Sweeney gave the
cadets earlier in the season. This
game wil be the final one for A. &
M. until after mid-term, whereupon
the Aggies will take on the cellar
dwelling T. C. U. Horned Frogs.
Sparking the Houston team are
two former All-Southwest Con
ference stars, namely, Bobby Moers
and Levi Craddock. Moers is also
a former All-American from Tex-
in-Simmons, McMurry and Bay
lor wil square off in the Intercol
legiate tournament.
Abilene Christian won the team
championship last year and are
slight favorites to repeat again
this year, but Rice and Texas
will provide plenty of competition
in the men’s division while Baylor
and T. S. C. W. pushing the Abil
ene players in the womens’ contest.
The “Open” tournament seems to
be a wide open race with all of the
leading badminton players in Tex
as, Oklahoma, and Louisiana bat
tling for the top honors. All en
tries to the tournaments must be
in by Saturday and can be mailed
to Lowell N. Douglas at Baylor.
K as University while Craddock spent
his time at Rice Institute. These
two gave the Aggies plenty of
headaches before they graduated
and should be in full shape for
them tonight.
Coach Hub McQuillan will prob
ably start the same line-up that
clicked so well against Baylor. It
will be Henderson and Jarrett at
forward, Dawson at center, and Na
bors and Lang at the guard posts.
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