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ON KYLE FIELD
With Mike Haikin
Sam Houston Rated Far From “Breathers”;
Ags Hold Five-Game Lead in Bearkat Series
The Texas Aggies open their football season Saturday afternoon
against a Sam Houston State Teachers’ team that is by far the best
Bearkat squad the cadets have ever faced. Twenty lettermen com
prise Coach Puny Wilson’s fine polished team—a team that gave the
Lamar Junior College one of its worst beatings in its career last
Thursday (the score was 51-6). This same team came through with
eight victories out of a ten game schedule last year, losing a couple
of heartbreaking 7-6 battles to Denton and Texas A. & I respectively.
It is much stronger now, and is considered to be the class of the Lone
Star Conference.
However, don’t be too pessimistic about the whole affair. The
Aggies have something to say about all this. As mentioned before, if
they play as they are capable of playing, they! should not have much
trouble. The above paragraph is written only for those who think
that Sam Houston is nothing but a warmup game. The Teachers’
game IS NOT A BREATHER. Let’s get that into our heads. If
the gridsters realize that when game time comes, then the Bearkats
will learn how t obe GOOD LOSERS!
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Ray
Murray, ’35, First Aggie Stationed in Iceland
Aggies Work Hard
On Fundamentals
For Sam Houston
Holder’s Deferment Leaves
Center Situation in Much
Improved Spot; Sibley OK
BATTAUO
SEPTEMBER 25, 1941
Page 3
Ray Murray, 35, former football
star who is in the Marine Corps,
is the first Aggie on the newly
acquired base in Iceland . . . Hub
Johnson, former Battalion Sports
Editor, will hear wedding bells
Friday, October 4 in Houston when
he takes Maudine Suggs of the
Bayou City for a wife ... this
makes the second consecutive Batt
Sports Editor that has gotten mar
ried . . . hope this isn’t a start of
one of those jinxes . . . Gulp . . .
Norman Sper, famous football
forecaster, picks Texas University
and the Washington Huskies to play
in the Rose Bowl game January
1 . . . Seems to us Mr. Sper pick
ed the Aggies and Washington to
play in California last year, but
for some unforeseen circumstance
neither showed up . . . DIDJA
KNOW . . . that Jamie Dawson is
the third of the Dawsons to reach
over six feet . . . Big Dog and
Dooley were both 6 feet 5 inches
. . . that Dick Todd, former Aggie
football great and one of the Wash
ington Redskin stars, still holds
the world’s record for scoring with
318 points ... he accomplished
that feat in Crowell High School
. . . that the T. C. U. Frogs played
94 conference football games since
joining with the Southwest football
group in 1923. . . . that Willie
Zapalac, Aggie blocking back, in
a bi-district game with LaGrange
during his senior year in Bellvilie
High kicked off for his team and
was down field just fast enough
to fall on his own kickoff for a
touchdown—not bad for a boy that
tips the scales at 200 pounds! . . .
that Coach Dutch Meyer’s T. C. U.
Frogs will travel nearly 8,000 miles
in playing six of their 10 games
away from home this season . . .
DIDJA KNOW . . . that Nolan
Sparks, senior Frog left half-back
is the only man on the T. C. U.
squad who will wear the same
jersey number that he wore last
year . . .
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LOUPOT’S TRADIM POST
The Aggie gridsters continued
to show improvement Tuesday and
Wednesday afternoons as they
went through their regular rou
tine practices on a slippery, mud
dy field. Particularly outstand,-t
ing was the passing of the wet
and muddy ball by Derace Moser
and Leo Daniels. Webster and
Zapalac in place kicking were con
sistently placing the ball between
the uprights.
Holder Deferred*
The problem »over the center sit
uation was brightened considerab
ly when word
was received
that Leonard
Holder had been
deferred. Hold
er was called
to San Anton
io by his lo
cal draft board
last week and it
was feared that
2® ctfolder ' he would be lost
for the rest of the season. Dub
Sibley also returned to reg
ular practice Monday but as
yet he has ont taken part in
any hard work or scrimmages. He
will be ready to go against the
Bearkats Saturday.
Wesson, Moser and Daniels were
averaging 45 yards on their punts
against the wind with the wet ball.
Daniels and Moser likewise show
ed great improvement in their
passing as they kept hitting their
receivers when among three and
four defenders.
Snatch Long Ones
Henderson and Simmons showed
up well as pass receivers as they
snatched the long ones the easy
way. Defensively the entire line
showed much improvement.
The boys practiced some of the
plays and put the finishing touches
on them in preparation for the
Sam Houston game. Against the
Fish team the blocking and pass
ing looked much better than last
week.
The backfield combination of
Moser, Spivey, Zapalac, and Dan
iels showed fine skill in running
their spinners. They were unbe
lievably fast and extremely decep
tive.
Norton Pleased
Coach Norton in speaking of last
Saturday’s game with the Fish said
he was well satisfied with the
showing the boys made considering
the amount of time they had put
in on practice. He also added that
they needed lots more work to iron
out the rough spots, especially in
blocking.
In speaking of Leo Daniels, Coach
Norton remarked that he played an
exceptionally good game Satur
day and that he had great possi
bilities.
ITiis Bearkat Means Business
Washington State to Down UCLA In
Feature Game Friday Night-Williamson
By Paul B. Williamson
The Williamson System picks
the Wasington State Cougars to
take the U. C. L. A. Bruins into
camp in their game at Los Angeles
Friday.
The Denver-Iowa State game is
hard to figure but the System
will ride with Denver. We se
lect Creighton over Centenary and
Montana over Brigham Young.
Little San Jose State should de
feat Utah State and St. Louis U.
will beat Missouri Mines. George
town of Washington, D. C., will go
under before the boys from Dixie
of Mississippi.
The Temple Owls will demon
strate their power when they play
Kansas University. Butler has lost
many standout players and should
lose their game to Xavier Friday.
The Williamson predictions for
Friday’s game are listed below.
The favored teams are listed in
captials.
WILLIAMSON’S PREDICTIONS
Home Team Visiting Team
Arizona State TEXAS A. & I.
KILGORE Northeast Center
AUBURN Howard
ADA ST. THRS Oklahoma City
AUSTIN COLLEGE Durant
Brigham Young MONTANA U.
CENTRE Mississippi College
CREIGHTON Centenary
DUQUESNE i Niagara
FURMAN Wofford
Georgetown MISSISSIPPI
Gonzaga PACIFIC LUTHERAN
HOWARD PAYNE San Marcos
Iowa State DENVER U.
NEW MEXICO U Flagstaff
NAVY William & Mary
SYRACUSE Clarkson College
ST. LOUIS U Misouri Mines
SCHREINER Southwestern U., Tex.
S. F. AUSTIN Trinity
TEMPLE Kansas U.
U. Cal. of L. A WASHINGTON STATE
WICHITA Southwestern College
WASHBURN Kansas Wesleyan
XAVIER Butler
Youngstown OHIO U.
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INTRAMURALS
By
DUB OXFORD
“Whenever continuance of life is finan
cially valuable to others, either to family
dependents, business associates, or edu
cational and philanthropic institutions,
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I 1 Mii
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This afternoon at 5:00 p. m. on
the west side of Kyle Field there
will be a discussion of the rules
of touch football.
All freshmen at
tending this
meeting will re
ceive credit for
one game’s par
ticipation. And
incidentally, this
meeting is not
for freshmen on
ly. Any person
Oxford interested in foot
ball is invited to attend.
Intramural Banquet Tonight
Tonight at 6:30 in the banquet
room of Sbisa hall, Mr. Penberthy
will be host to all the athletic and
recreation officers and their as
sistants. These men, selected from
each organization on the campus
will be treated to one of the best
banquets of the year. Mr. Penny
will act in the capacity of toast
master, and he promises that there
will be very little speech making.
Most of the time will be taken
up by just “meeting each other,”
which is the principal purpose of
the banquet.
Intramural basketball will not
start on the dates as planned. The
gym is being refinished and the
floor is to be taken up and re
placed. Of course, if you want to
keep in practice, the little gym
is always available for workouts.
And basketball will begin in earn
est as soon as the floor is finish
ed.
Football Rules
With the Aggies playing Sam
Houston Saturday and intramural
touch football starting Tuesday,
football rules are important infor
mation. Here are the rules used
in touch football and a resume of
American football rules is also in
cluded.
Intramural managers are re
minded to clip these rules for fu
ture reference.
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This Week, Prep
For Sam Houston
This is the payoff week for the
Rice Owls. Favored by their sched
ule, they have started off slowly.
Their first game is October 4, with
Sam Houston Teachers College in
Houston.
“We’re going to work at top
speed this week and work our hard
est,” Coach Jess Neely said after
his squad had gone through a
vigorous scrimmage session Satur
day.
“If we get results, we’ll slow
down a little next week. But, we’
ve got to get those results.”
The Blues, or second stringers,
gave the first team a fit in Sat
urday’s scrimmage. Mostly soph
mores, they held the Whites much
closer than the 20-6 score indi
cated, getting within striking dis-
jtance of touchdowns several times.
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