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Aggies, Owls, and Frogs to Win Today; Also Taking Texas to Drub SMU in Feature Game LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 1.—We arrived in Little Rock yesterday afternoon, with 4 the team taking a final workout in the stadium before game time. Pass drills, Pork ers plays, and blocking were stressed especially in the light drill. The boys seem in good spirit and are quite confident of the game. However, the feature of the afternoon is the game be tween the Texas Longhorns and the S. M. U. Mustangs being played in Dallas before a capacity Jiome-coming crowd. This one will tell the tale in more than one way. In other games we have T. C. U. colliding with Baylor at Waco, and Rice fighting it out with Centenary in Houston. We hit nine predictions out of 11 last week, and hope to match it today. The limb is slowly but surely cracking, and today may be the gloomy day. A. & M.-ARKANSAS ... Ar kansas has shown a lot of scoring punch in its games and may give the Aggies some trouble. How ever, with the reserve power Coach Homer Norton has, it looks like the Ags in another runaway, say, 28-0. TEXAS-S.M.U* . . At the start of the season, we thought that if Texas were to be upset before Thanksgiving, S. M. U. would do it. But after that Rice debacle, we kinda doubt it. Even with the game being played in Dallas with a homecoming crowd and the fact that the Longhorns have never In other games, it’s Tenessee over L. S. U. in a close one, Tulane bouncing back against Vanderbilt, Missouri over Penn State, Penn to hand Navy its first defeat, Stanford in a squeeze over Santa Clara, Notre Dame over Army (possible upset for the Cadets here) by a whisker, Fordham to continue undefeated against Purdue, Wash ington State to pull another upset against Oregon, Ohio State over Pittsburgh, Mississippi over Mar quette by a couple of touchdowns, beaten the Mustangs under Matty Bell, we’ll still take the Steers. The old adage, “there’s always u first time,” should prove true to day. It’s the Longhorns by a 20-7 count. BAYLOR-T.C.U. . . . Here is a battle of crips. Both teams are in a terrible shape, and it wouldn’t surprise us if both of them run out of players before the game ended. Both have been beaten by the Ags, but the Frogs showed a far better line than did the Bears, and, on that account we’re giving T. C. U. the long end of a 7-0 score. RICE-CENTENARY . . . Both are teams that fell by the way- side, but if Rice loses this' one, they’re absolutely through for the season . It’s the Owls by a 27-0 score. Michigan to stomp Bob Zuppke’s Illinois eleven, California to shade U. C. L. A., Minnesota over North western by 7 (the Gophers to con tinue undefeated), Yale over Brown, Georgia over Auburn, Ne braska in a runaway over Kansas State, Cornell by two touchdowns over Columbia, Temple to outscore Boston College, Washington Uni versity over Montana by 34 points, Wake Forest by 7 points over Mar shall, and finally Alabama Univer sity by 13 over Kentucky. Texas Five-to-One Choice Over Aggies -Rice Owls Predict Houston Paper Survey Reveals That Students Disregard Turkeyday Jinx Texas U. is a five to one shot over the Aggies Thanks giving day according to a sur vey made at Rice Institute by the Inquiring Reporter of the Houston Press. “Only one per son out of six asked liked the Aggies as the stronger club,” said the article. One of the students inter viewed gave as his reason for picking Texas the fact that he “just didn’t see how any team could be better.” Another said that if Texas could beat Rice by forty points they can cer tainly beat A. & M. The boys from the Institute even went so far as to accuse the Aggies of being “post champions this year, and coasting on their laurels.” The fact that the Texas team has been getting ready for the Turkey Day game for a long time seemed to impress another Rice man. One of the Aggie supporters simply said of the A. & M. team, “They’re determined to live down last year’s defeat.” Injured Polo Team Encounters Undefeated NMMI Still handicaped by injuries, the Aggie polo quartet will meet a strong NMMI squad on the A. & M. field Saturday morning at 10 and Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Boasting much same squad as their powerful aggregation which defeated the Aggies three times last year, the NMMI boys will be out to continue their unbeaten rec ord. Still without the services of their stellar No. 3, Bill Braid, the Aggies will be striving to even up the score with NMMI and main tain an unbeaten record on their new field. Captain Carl Maloney will prob ably be ready to go at least part time after being out of last Sun day’s game with an injured shoul der. Aggie substitutes showed surprising strength last Sunday in beating a Shreveport team nine to six. These same men will be ready to do service Saturday and Sun day in backing up the weakened varsity. Probable starting lineup for the Aggies in Saturday’s game will be Norris McGowen at No. 1, one of the scoring stars of last Sun day’s game; Captain Carl Maloney at No. 2; Lee Rice at No. 3, re placing Braid; and last week’s spark plug, Walt Hart, at No. 4, T. A. William and Jack Buie, two of last Sunday’s outstanding stais, will probably see a lot of service in addition to other letter and squadmen. The NMMI team is coached by Lt. Col. E. G. Cullum, Cavalry, one of the outstanding authorities on polo in the Army and is ac companied by Capt. T. B. Stapp, assistant coach. Little is known of their present record for this year, but the fact that practically their entire powerful starting line up of last year will be on the fir ing line is sufficient to give the Aggies plenty of trouble. Probable starting lineup will be R. B. Jowell at No. 1; C. Harris at No. 2; J. R. Ufffer at No. 3; and W. (See WATER POLO, Page 4) Let’s Slaughter Those Hogs, Aggies Remember Your Convenient Location When In Need Of Refreshment CASEY’S CONFECTIONERY In “Y” It’s Hog Killing Time In Arkansas Army!! WHEN YOU GET BACK WE WILL BE WAITING TO GIVE YOU SOME FIRST-CLASS CLEANING JOBS. CAMPUS CLEANERS ‘Over Exchange Store” New “Y” Gf:'.! ;:;f W HEN THE W f AT H E R M A N fls AySu«;::^ : ' WIND AND RAIN REPELLENT Akin’: MEN’S CLOTHING & FURNISHINGS 310 N. Main Bryan, Texas Minnesota, Tennessee, Fordham, Penn Doped To Win; Wash St. Picked to Upset Oregon U BATTALION^— NOVEMBER 1, 1941. Page 3 Stellar Aggie Blocking Back 'Willie “Zapalaa A triple threat man who can smash the line or skirt the ends when he carries the ball is Willie Zapalac. Zapalac, who holds down a blocking back position, will see much service in the game today. INTRAMDRALS Upperclassmen do not have to work out in order to participate in the cross country meet, said Mr. Penny yesterday. This column re ported that upperclassmen weie required to work out before ap pearing in the meet, and the column acknowl edges its error. Schedules for Class A football and Class B vol- i ley ball have been sent out and en- Oxford try cards for class B ping pong have also been sent to the managers. Please look at your schedules and have your team report on time. The intra mural office is pleased to report that the number of forfeits due to teams arriving late is decreasing and express their thanks for the fine cooperation of the corps. There will be an instructional period on volleyball Wednesday night, November 5, at 7:00 p. m. The instruction will be held in De- Ware Field House and all fish are expected to attend. One game cred it will be given to all students at tending the lecture. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE Class A— F Infantry, Handball B Replacement Center,, Basketball 3 Hdq. Field, Basketball 1 C.H.Q., Basketball F Coast Artillery, Tennis D Replacement Center, Water Polo H Coast Artillery, Band- ball Class B— L Infantry, Swimming I Replacement Center, Swimming G Infantry, Swimming Recreational Officer’s Meeting The November recreational Of ficer’s meeting will be held in the Civil Enginering lecture Tuesday, November 4, at 5:00 p. m. Many things of importance will be dis cussed and if you can’t be there please send your junior assistant. G Field Artillery Plays Excellent Game Winning over A Signal Corps like A. & M. won over Baylor, G W. J. Douglas, Jr. INSURANCE AGENCY Rooms 18-20, Commerce Bldg. Bryan, Texas Ph. 2-6605 Battery Field Artillery proved their prowess of the hardwood courts Thursday night. The boys who ride caissons piled up 52 points to their opponents five. K Infan try also proved that they too could pile up points, winning over I Field 23-21. The Artillery Band and D Re placement Center had a rousing game, the band boys winning 18-11. H Infantry won their game with B CWS 16-9, and C Infantry won their game with 2 Hdq. Field 16- 3. Texas State Water Polo League To Be Formed This Fall Fans who like their sports rough and tough will have a chance to see some top notch water polo games this winter as Art Adamson, A. & M. Swimming Coach and in ternationally reknowned water pol- oist has announced the formation of the Texas State Water Polo League with teams from A. & M., Texas university, Houston Y. M. C. A., and Galveston Junior Cham ber of Commerce entered. The first game will be played Saturday night when the Aggie en try takes on the Galveston nators in Galveston. The following Sat urday night they will play at Col lege Station and the following ween it is hoped that the Houston team will have rounded into shape so that they can meet the Longhorn entry. Texas university is entering wa ter polo competition for the first time this yar. In the past they have played the Aggies some games but it was a sort of off-the record play since Tex Robertson made no pretense of turning out a finish ed team in that sport at the uni versity. This year he has a team, and Adamson says he will have trouble with the Longhorns from now on. In the past Aggie teams never have lost to them in the rough sport. Adamson is anxious to have en tries from Dallas, San Antonio, I ort Worth, and Waco and would like to round out an eight-team league. Plans call for each team to play a round-robin of two games each. Swimmers interested in forming a team to represent their cities or clubs should write Coach Art Ad amson at College Station. Work is progressing rapidly on an $80,000 ROTC armory build ing at South Dakota State col lege. Williamson Picks Aggies, Longhorns, Frogs to Win By Paul B. Williamson Rolling merrily along in third place this week, in the William son System, the Texas Aggies should prove to be much more than a match for the Arkansas Razor- backs when they clash in Little Rock today. Top game of the Southwest and possibly the nation is the impend ing battle between Texas’ unbeat en Longhorns and the powerful Mustangs of S. M. U. Texas should take this one, but it might be close. Another feature attraction in volves those Golden Gophers of Minnesota, again. After the bat tering they received last week in downing Michigan, can they stop Northwestern’s rampaging Wild cats? We’ll string along with the System and Minnesota. Notre Dame should come through against the Army Mules accord ing to the System, but you can never tell what those Cadets are liable to do in this one. This is one of those grudge affairs and may be a thriller all the way. As advertised by the Williamson System the games last week in cluded an unusually large num ber of close contests. The excep tional toll of upsets the past Week end verified the wisdom of that forecast. This week, thank goodness, there doesn’t seem to be as many toss-ups. As a result the con- tests today should run fairly true to form. The predictions for today’s games are listed below, with the probable winner in capitals. WILLIAMSON’S PREDICTIONS HOME TEAM VISITING TEAM ABILENE CHRISTIAN Austin Col. Arkansas ... TEXAS A. & M. Army ALABAMA Kentucky ARIZONA Baylor T. C. U. Boston Col TEMPLE COLGATE Holy Cross CENTRE Handover Columbia CORNELL COLORADO Utah Citadel S. CAROLINA DARTMOUTH Wm. & Mary DUQUESNE Villanova DETROIT Manhattan FORDHAM Purdue GEORGIA Auburn Georgia Tech DUKE IOWA STATE S. Dakota Illinois MICHIGAN Kansas St NEBRASKA LAWRENCE Ripon Mass. St AMHERST MINNESOTA Northwestern MISS. ST Southwestern Marquette MISSISSIPPI Michigan St MISSOURI NEED A HAIRCUT? Pay Us One Call And : You Will Never Go Anywhere Else Y.M.C.A. Barber Shop & Varsity Barber Shop N. CAROLINA ... N. 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