SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1941
Kats With 20 Lettermen
Back May be Tough Today
THE BATTALION
Page 5
The Sam Houston Bearkats, who
play their second game of the
season when they meet the Texas
Aggies on Kyle Field today are
making a strong bid for top hon
ors in the Lone Star Conference
after having held second place for
the past three years. The Bearkats
opened their season last week-end
by swamping the Lamar Junior
College team by a 51-6 score and
with 20 lettermen in their midst
may prove to be a tough nut to
crack today.
Ben Hightower, End
Pacing the Sam Houston team
are Ben Hightower, end, and Billy
Vaughn, quarterback. Hightower
led the field of individual scorers
in the conference last year.
The other outstanding end on
the Bearkat squad is Van Herrin,
who has proven to be an able
pass-receiver. Behind Hightower
and Herrin are Jack McCann and
Weldon, Kethan, who are a pair of
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Captain Victor Frnka and Tony
Ditta. A converted center, George
Moore, is showing promise of de
veloping into a desirable tackle.
Hardly another team in the con
ference will be able to display a
better pair of guards than Woodell
Grubbs and Edwin Mangum, a
couple of rough, fast 200 pound
sophomores. Grubbs was an all
conference center last year and
looks like an all-conference pros
pect at guard. Backing up the two
first-string guards will be a pair
of numeral men, Marvin Musgrove
and Willie Sirman.
Jackson-Walker
Letterman Cecil Jackson and
Jude Walker will hold down the
pivot position. Jackson, a senior,
weighs in at 195 and Walker who
is a sophomore tips the scales at
190.
The Bearkat squad is gifted with
10 experienced backfield perform
ers. The team has power to burn
in a backfield composed of Captain
capable reserve ends. The tackle
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positions will be played by Sub-
Nolan Dildy, Woodrow and Ralph
Ruthstrom, and Hubbard Law. This
backfield combination averages 202
pounds and has plenty of speed.
For speed and broken field run
ning Sam Houston has Bruce Kivel,
Heston Fitz, Jimmy Driskill, Char
lie Martin, and Jan Jones; in addi
tion to Billy Vaughn.
Sam Houston, is the team which,
in the fall of 1939 upset the Rice
Institute Owls 9-8, and nothing
would please Coach Puny Wilson,
an ex-Aggie football star, more
than to upset the Cadets in today’s
opener.
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1941
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SEHSOR
TEXAS AGGIES
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Name
Home Town
Po.
WeightSxperiei
Roy Fisher
Houston
G
180
Jr.
Dale Brown
Groesbeck
E
180
V
Willie Sirman
Corsicana
G
185
1L
Hubbard Law
Willis
FB
210
3L
Billy Vaughn
Elkhart
QB
165
1L
Weldon Kethan
Groveton
E
190
V
Jude Walker
Edinburg
C
195
1L
Robert Ward
Elkhart
T
195
Jr.
Marvin Musgrove
Liberty
G
180
1L
Victor Frnka (sub c.)
El Campo
T
195
3L
Tony Ditta
Houston
T
210
1L
Cecil Jackson
Thrall
C
185
2L
George Moore
Giddings
T
190
2
Thomas Webb
Jacksonville
T
195
F
Tobe Holland
Livingston
G
180
F
Bruce Kivell
Houston
QB
160
2L
Mendolph Walker
Livingston
T
190
F
Garnett Miles
Anahuac
T
225
F
Findley Kuykendall
Tatum
T
185
V
Nolan Dilby (c)
Elgin
FB
205
2L
E. W. Grubbs
Orange
G
195
1L
Jan Jones
Gatesville
HB
165
V
Jack McCann
Port Arthur
E
170
1L
Heston Fitz
Marquez
HB
165
1L
Jimmie Driskell
Crockett
HB
160
2L
Charles Martin
Edinburg
HB
165
1L
Woodrow Ruthstrom
Houston
HB
165
1L
Ralph Ruthstrom
Houston
HB
195
1L
Jack Fitz
Marquez
HB
160
F
Ben Hightower
Beaumont
E
175
3L
Van Herrin
Mexia
E
170
2L
Edwin Mangum
Groveton
G
180
1L
Clif Gassaway
Rosenberg
G
190
F
Murray Mitchell
Huntsville
E
175
F
Buck Packer
Orange
HB
155
F
Jack Levy
Houston
HB
150
F
Harold Barfield
Conroe
QB
155
F
Raymond Weems
Houston
E
190
V
Baylor Bears Face
Hardin-Simmons In
Waco Opener Today
Head Coach Frank Kimbrough
shoves his first Baylor football
team into action at Waco today
against the Hardin-Simmons Cow
boys and from all indications, he’s
going to have a very busy after
noon.
The Abilene grid eleven hasn’t
lost a ball game since the 1939
campaign and they started out on
the right track again this fall with
an impressive 31 to 7 win over
Texas Wesleyan last week.
Baylor hasn’t been tested yet
but daily scrimmage sessions indi
cate that they are going to have
a much improved offensive ball
club, but just what they have in
store on the defensive side is still
a mystery. Hardin-Simmons plays
a wide open type of football and
lack of reserves in the forward
wall may be more than just an
early-season worry to the Bruins.
The Bears have Jack Wilson, one
of the best all-around backs in the
conference, ready for another full
season and he’ll carry most of the
offensive burdens. Milton “Freight-
Train” Crain, 200-pound fullback
has been moving like a fast ex
press through the line on power
thrusts, and will help with the
Baylor ground game.
Right now, it looks like the Bay
lor mentor is going to throw a lot
of passes at the Abilene team as
he has been working with passing
chores all week. Wilson, Dwight
Parks, Bill Coleman, Kit Kittrell
and Paul Cook have all had their
play in the chunking end and there
will be at least one tosser in any
backfield combination that the
Bears put on the field.
Working in the starting back-
field with Wilson and Crain will
probably be Weldon Bigony at the
blocking back post and Travis Nel
son in at the wingback hole; while
the starting places in the front
line will be filled with Jack Russell
and Ed Hickman, ends; W. B. God-
bold and Bill Stephens, tackles;
Odell Griffin and Lewis Self,
guards and Buddy Gatewood, cen
ter.
The tradition of all intramurais
banquets, good food and few
speeches, was lived up to Thursday
night, when Mr. W. L. Penberthy
entertained the athletic and recre
ation officers and their assistants
in Sbisa Hall. Mr. Penny was
toastmaster and
introduced thei
main speaker of
the evening, E. L.
Angell.
Angel provided
a n interesting
short talk, along
the lines -of in
tramural partici
pation building
fine men. “A
man has to have
qualities of leadership, coopera
tion and training, and I know of
no better place to acquire these
than the intramural playing field,”
Angell remarked .He also stressed
service as one of the chief ideas
of belonging to an intramural,
program.
Mr. Penny then explained many
new rules and reminded the boys
of the old ones. One especially
important new ruling, due to the
many boys living in the corps
headquarters organizations, is that
the boys will play with the out
fit where they live. Mr. Penny also
indicated that, as the gym floor is
Oxford
being torn up, handball will be
started in place of basketball. This
applies to Class A only. The Class
B players will begin their basket
ball at the regular time and play
their games in the little gym.
Here is another new rule that is
important, if you want to keep
your outfit out of the forfeit dog
house. Matches will start prompt
ly at 4:10 and 4:55 p.m. and no for
feit time will be allowed. Last year,
forfeit time was allowed and it
slowed up the games considerably.
So be on time for all your sched
uled games.
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