ON KYLE FIELD
With Mike Haikin
Schedule and Jinxes May Prove to be Big
Stumbling Blocks to Texas , Powerful Eleven
Well, here it is again. Another
hard arid hearty football season—
a season which should provide more
than enough thrills for the aver
age gridiron fan. It is whisper
ed in high circles everywhere that
the crown already belongs to the
Texas Longhorns. Even Texas is
beginning to believe it. There is
no doubt in this writer’s mind that
on paper the Steers have an un
beatable combination, with nine
teen lettermen in Coach Dana
Bible's hands. But in this confer
ence they don’t play football on
paper. It has been the folly and
downfall of quite a number of
teams; Rice is a prime example.
Everyone has said how the Long
horns will win the title, but very
few have mentioned the number
of obstacles facing them. First,
there is a thing called a jinx
which has never given the Long
horns a title in the odd years. (And
we Aggies certainly believe in
jinxes after that Thanksgiving af
fair last year.) Secondly, there is
a matter of the schedule. Texas
faces its toughest foes—the Texas
Aggies and the S. M. U. Mus
tangs—away from home, and it
just happens that both these teams
have their homecoming when they
play the Steers. And, brother, if
you don’t believe a team can be
tough when the exes gather in one
big stadium, you are sadly mis
taken. These are only a few ob
stacles facing Dana X. Bible’s
eleven, and if they don’t watch
themselves it may well prove their
downfall.
Norton Puts Ags Through Heavy Drills
Conference Schedule Opens September 27
With Every Team But Rice Seeing Action
The Southwest Conference pries
open the lid to its schedule Sat
urday, September 27, with ail
teams but Rice seeing action. The
Aggies face Coach Puny Wilson’s
hustling Sam Houston State Teach
ers College here, but should not
encounter too much trouble. It
will serve as a fine experimental
test for Coach Norton’s eleven, and
it is almost certain that he will try
different combinations throughout
the whole game. As for the rest
of the conference schedule, Texas
faces Colorado, S. M. U. encounters
the always tough North Texas
State Teachers, Baylor plays host
to the Hardin-Simmons Cowboys,
T. C. U. meets the powerful Tulsa
Hurricane, while Arkansas Razor-
backs take on the Center State
Teachers College.
Aggies Haven’t Tasted Defeat on Kyle Field
Since T.C.U. Frogs Turned Trick in 1938
Not since Davey O’Brien and the
T. C. U. Homed Frogs set them
back, 34 to 6, in 1938, has an Ag
gie team been beaten on their
home grounds. Following their
defeat by T. C. U., the Aggies took
Arkansas and Rice into camp, and
in the next two years they swept
everything coming their way. Ten
consecutive victories found them
selves in the Aggie belt, and they’re
planning to continue this spree this
year. Since that T. C. U. defeat,
the cadets have amassed a total
of 189 points against 23 markers of
their opponents. This year, the
Aggies who are defending their
second conference crown, have the
luck of facing their toughest op
ponents—S. M. U. and Texas—on
Kyle Field, and they may well prove
stumbling blocks to the pre-sea-
son favorites.
Charlie DeWare and Manning Smith to Get
Wealth of Material From High School Stars
The Texas Aggie Fish are slat
ed to open their schedule on Fri
day, September 26, with a game
against the Allen Academy Ram
blers. Coach Charlie DeWare and
Maninng Smith, who have taken
the place of T. C. U.-bound Hub
(Turn to KYLE FIELD, page 8)
Cadets Prep For 1
Sam Houston With
Hard Scrimmage
Coach Homer Norton and his
Texas Aggies have finally hit the
road hard and proper, as Norton
put the cadets through a heavy
drill in preparation for their open
ing game with Sam Houston State
Teachers College of Huntsville
which comes off here September
27.
The Aggies have been practicing
since September 5, but fundamen
tals on blocking, kicking, passing,
and tackling were the order of the
day then. However, the cadets
have gone into serious work, with
scrimmage combined with the fun
damentals.
Offense Around Moser
Running from the double wing
and punt formation, Norton has
centered most of his attack around
Derace Moser, who is the only
backfield starter from last year’s
team. The fleet Stephenville half
back will have the kicking and
passing duties on his hands, be
sides doing much of the ball carry
ing. Lately, in practice, he has
been getting plenty of angle and
distance on his kicks, as well as
doing some accurate passing.
Others in the backfield with
Moser have been Marshall Spivey,
elusive halfback; Willie Zapalac,
dependable blocking back; and
Jake Webster, hard hitting full
back. Alternating with these backs
have been such potential stars as
Leo Daniels, swivel-hipped back
from last year’s freshman team;
Dick Skarke, hustling blocking
back; Tom Pickett, one of the Ag
gies’ ace passers, and Dennis An-
dricks, fullback, who also served
on the Fish team last year.
Weak Middle
Meanwhile, the cadet forward
wall has been working hard and
often to bolster the weakness in
the middle, a place vacated by Rob-
nett, Henke, and Vaughn. Dub
Sibley, squadman center from last
year, has been looking good the
past few days, and it is almost cer
tain that he will be the starting
pivot man against Sam Houston.
Alternating with him at the post
were A. J. Mercer, center from the
Starting His Eighth Year
Aggie Freshmen Face Allen
Academy in Bryan Sept. 26
Fish Have Wealth of Material From High
School Stars; Dusek Among Enrollees Here
HEAD COACH
HOMER. NORTON
Fish squad, and Slats Holder, in
eligible last year. The guard po
sition, however, is not settled as
yet, with Les Richardson, Ray
Mulhollan, and Roy Bucek fight
ing it out. Mulhollan seems almost
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certain to capture at least one post,
but the other will be a serious tus-
tle betwen Bucek and Richardson.
The tackle positions are already
virtually sewed up by Martin Ruby
and Euel Wesson, but competition
is still going strong from such
huskies as Leonard Joeris, big
240 pounder, Leonard Dickey, a
converted end from the freshman
squad; Rob Tulis, an ineligible
from last year, and Jack Swank,
210 pounder.
AGGIE MILITARY SHOP
North Gate
Intramurals
E Field Artillery
Ready to Defend
Intramural Crown
By Dub Oxford
As a well rounded intramural
program ended last year, the intra
mural unit managers were treat
ed to a banquet in Sbisa hall and
the results of the 1940-41 season
were announced.
Repeating their last year’s
laurels, E Battery Field Artillery
won the class A intramural flag
with a total of 840 points. Second
place was captured by Battery G
Coast Artillery with a tally of 780
points. F Engineers took third
place in the program with 759.1
points to their credit.
In the class B intramurals, the
freshmen of E Battery Field Ar
tillery held up the high standards
set for them by the upperclassmen
of their battery. They won the
class B championship with 809.1
points. Trailing the field boys
were F Field and G. Battery Coast
Artillery with scores of 759.1 and
730 respectively.
Awards were given to B. B. Grif
fith, class A manager and to E.
H. Rast, class B manager for their
work during the year.
To give you an insight of the
intramural program at Texas A.
& M., it has one of the most
extensive programs of its type in
the country. The program is open
to all students and freshmen are
required to take part in some ath
letic activity.
Last year 1668 freshmen took
part in the program and 2,610
upperclassmen participated in some
sort of sport. Official intramural
medals are awarded to the mem
bers of the championship teams
and for individual champions in
all sports.
Mr. W. L. Penberthy, better
known to the Aggies as “Mr. Pen
ny,” is in charge of the intra
mural department.
Freshman football at Aggieland
will get off to an early start as
the fighting Fish are scheduled to
meet the Allen Ramblers only two
weeks after school has started. The
Fish meet the Academy boys the
night before their Varsity brothers
take on the Sam Houston Bear-
kats. The game is slated for
Bryan, and will be the first taste
of college football for some forty
stars of the Interscholastic League
who will make up a strong Aggie
Fish team.
The Fish will have two new
head coaches as Charlie DeWare
and Manning Smith take over.
These two mentor stake the place
of H. R. McQuillan, who goes to
T. C. U. as head basketball coach.
DeWare was an All-Conference
center for the Aggies in 1936, and
since then has been an assistant
freshman and varsity center coach.
Smith was an All-American pro
duct of Coach Norton at Centen
ary before he came to Aggieland.
The two should not have much
trouble building a strong team,
since a large number of high school
stars are headed toward A. & M.
Prospects are bright for this
year’s freshmen team. All told,
there are some forty boys who have
indicated that they will enter A.
& M. this fall—forty stars of the
Texas Interscholastic League race
of the past fall. In this bunch
you will find such names as T. A.
Scott of Longview, Otto Payne of
Amarillo, and Dickie Haas of Cor
pus Christi.
At the High School All-Star
football game held in Houston,
there were twelve players who indi-
ctaed that they had chosen A. &
M. as the place for their future
football careers. Among this
group there were all-state and all
district men for every position ex
cept center and end. The boys se
lecting Aggieland were: Guards,
Norman Brown, 184 pound all-
state choice from Corpus Christi;
James Cody, 195 pounder from
Woodrow Wilson of Dallas; Marty
Mertz, 192 pounder from San
Angelo; and Johnny Davis, 181
pounder from Vernon; Tackles,
Clifton Patton, 210' pounder from
Big Spring; Jimmy Edison, 187
pounder from Brownwood. Backs,
Vernon Bellville, 170 pounds from
Yoakum; Ed Dusek, 6 foot 3 inch
200 pounder from Temple and an
all-stater; Jennings Anderson,
speedy 184 pound all-state choice
from Brackenridge of San Antonio;
George Wilde from Graham; and
Barney Welch, a great ball toter
from Stephenville.
Adamson Announces
Swimming Pool Hours
The P. L. Downs, Jr., Natator-
ium, which is one of the largest
swimming pools in the South, will
be open to all students enrolled in
this school. There will be no fee
required.
Pool hours as set by Art Adam
son, swimming coach and instruc
tor, will be from 4 to 5:30 every
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, and
from 3 to 6:30 every Wednesday,
Saturday, and Sunday.
Record Attendance
Here For Coaching
School Last Month
A week full of talks on foot
ball, basketball, track intramural
sports and prevention of injuries
was on the schedule for some 150
high school coaches who attended
the annual free coaching school
here at Texas A. & M. during the
month of ^ August.
The coaching school, which
boasted seven outstanding men of
the sports field and a record at
tendance, was one of the outstand
ing coaching schools of the year.
Highlight of the coaching school
was football, which took up most
of the time of the class work. Bar
ton (Bochey) Coch, Baylor line
coach; Howard (Bull) Lynch, coach
of the Amarillo Sandies; Marty
Karow, Texas A. & M. backfield
coach; and J. W. (Dough) Rollins,
Aggie end coach were the men
passing out the instruction. In
addition to the instruction passed
out by the coaches, Ab Curtis, a
member of the Southwest Football
Officials Association discussed and
interpreted the 1941 rules for the
coaches. Also there were several
Aggie gridsters on the campus and
they very effectively demonstrat
ed what the coaches had been dis
cussing.
Lil Dimitt, Aggie trainer and
head baseball coach covered the
subject of baseball, prevention and
treatment of injuries. Dough Rol
lins the Aggie varsity and fresh
man track coach covered that sub
ject. Marty Karow, varsity cage
coach here at A. & M., discussed
basketball.
Physical Education and intramur
al sports were high in the coaches
program and that phase was
handled by W. L. (Penny) Pen
berthy, head of the Texas A. &
M. physical education department.
Head Coach Homer Norton was
not present at the coaching school
as he was in Chicago, 111., coach
ing the College All-Stars.
There was once a “Red Headed
Club” of A. & M. The color of
the club was red, and the consti
tution of the club stated that,
“All members shall be red-headed,
and redness thereof shall deter
mine his standing in the club.”
Sorority pledges at the Univer
sity of New Hampshire are con
vinced that the quickest way to lose
five pounds in ten days is to go
through “rushing.”
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