Aggies to be in Worst Physical Condition
Of Season Saturday; Norton Gives Warning
When the Texas Aggies take
on the Rice Owls Saturday after
noon in Houston, it will be the first
in some three years that the Cadets
have gone into a game so badly
battered. They are undoubtedly
in worse physical shape that they
have been all season.
To those cadets who have not
even given a thought to the Rice
game but have already been talk
ing of the Thanksgiving battle,
take heed to Coach Homer Norton's
words. “We were keyed up for the
S. M. U. game,” the Aggie coach
said Monday. “The boys all want
ed that one and had themselves
in the frame of mind to win it
but, you know, they don’t get that
way every week and what I’m
afraid of is that they will become
over-confident and may lose next
Saturday. Also add to that our in
juries, and we are in a bad shape,”
the coach concluded.
Derace Moser and Jim Sterling,
two of the most important cogs
of the Aggie machine were the
new injuries added to the already
growing hospital roster. Moser
hurt his ankle in the S. M. U.
game,, while Sterling pulled his
shoulder in one of his blocks
against the Mustangs.
So when you start distributing
that good ole propaganda of how
we’ll beat Texas, just don’t for
get there is a strong Rice team,
very hungry for a victory, staring
us right straight in the face. Just
you remember that!
Officiating in Fish-Slime Game One of Bad
Features of Tilt; Trotter, Stout, Davis Star
Dropped by Houston Tuesday af
ternoon and saw the Aggie Fish
snatch victory out of the fire
aganist the Rice Slimes, 13-12. The
game in itself was pretty fair, but
the officiating was sorry. The of
ficials missed so many offenses
that even the writers in the press
box referred to the Slimes as the
“Immortal 13”—11 players plus
two officials. Even Byron Win
stead of the Publicity Department
kept shouting “Rate Watson” un
til his lungs almost gave out. The
writer chimed in with a few but
finally was left far behind by By
ron’s vocal cords.
Both teams’ pass defenses were
slightly off, with passes being com
pleted all over the field. Most
beautiful was George Wilde’s 66
yard pass to Jennings Anderson for
the Fish winning score. The ball
actually traveled 54 yards in the
air before Anderson gathered it
in on the 12 yard line and scamp
ered over for the score. Add J. N.
Trotter, Ben Stout, and Johnny
Davis to that combination and you
pretty well have the stars of the
game. This Trotter boy was the
best lineman on the field averag
ing approximately 65 per cent of all
the Fish tackles Just keep your
eyes on this boy—he’s going places.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Lefty
Bumpers to Get Trial With Detroit Tigers
L. P. “Lefty” Bumpers, the Ag
gies’ great southpaw pitcher of the
past two years, will get a trial
with the Detroit Tigers this year
... if he makes good he may
stick with the American Leaguers
or be shipped to Buffalo, a Class
AA entry . . . Bumpers played with
Beaumont last summer winning
five games and losing seven with
a last place club . . . Texas Uni
versity and the “12th” man . . .
1,000 members of its select stu-
dnet body flourished out to the
station to greet the bewildered
Longhorn players who still couldn't
understand how Baylor ever man
aged for a tie! . . . The Daily Tex-
The Owls Are
Next, Aggies
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College and Bryan
an, student newspaper, called it
the greatest rally in the Universi
ty’s history. We don’t dispute that
angle ... IT PROBABLY WAS
THE FIRST TIME THAT 1,000
MEMBERS OUT OF AN 11,000
TEXAS UNIVERSITY STUDENT
BODY EVER GREETED THE
TEAM. . . It was a great accom
plishment for the student body and
the cheer leaders ... NO DOUBT
. . . the Aggies are still second on
ly to the Texas Longhorns in total
offense . . .the average reads: T.
U. 2449; Ags 2057 . . . however,
the defenesive angle changes hands
. . . Texas has allowed opponents
1057 while the Aggies have let
theirfoes only. 763 yards . . . Ac
cording to a report from the Bos
ton Record, Bill Henderson, Aggie
end, is leading the end candidates
for All-American with 10 votes . . .
he is trailed by Loren McKinney of
Harvard and Holt Rast of Ala
bama, who have 9 votes apiece . . .
Chal Daniel of Texas is the lead
ing guard with 11 votes.
Dr. George D. Stoddard, dean
of the graduate school of the Uni
versity of Iowa, will succeed Dr.
Ernest E. Cole as New York state
education commissioner on June 30,
1942.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1941-
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Owl First Year Stars
Weldon Humble—End
Aggies Working Overtime
In Preparation for Owls
With a tough fight in sight from
the Rice Institute Owls in Houston
Saturday, the Texas Aggies
are working overtime in practice
sessions. The Owls are in fourth
place in the conference race with
one victory and one defeat, while
the cadets are leading the pack
with four wins and no losses.
Derace Moser, the Aggie pass
ing ace, who completed 11 passes
in 26 attempts against S. M. U.,
has been limping around at prac
tice with a swolen ankle. “Mose”
will be in shape by Saturday and is
a good bet to be in the starting
lineup. Willie Zapalac, who has
been nursing an injured knee, is
recovering rapidly and should be
ready to go Saturday.
Jim Sterling, who has been thrill
ing spectators with his smashing
blocking game, pulled his shoul
der in just such a block. Leo
Daniels was kept from passing
in the S. M. U. game due to an
injured shoulder.
Bobby Williams, with a bruised
hip, has been shifted to blocking
back from tailback to fill in for
Zapalac. Tom Pickett is still out
with his rib and knee injuries. This
situation leaves the cadets out of
tailbacks for the Rice game.
The Owls, under Coach Jess
Neely, are working hard in an ef
fort to devise means of toppling
the Aggies from the ranks of the
undefeated and untied teams and
the conference lead. The Owls
have been stressing pass defense
and are trying in every way to
figure a method of stopping the
famed Aggie “aerial circus.”
The Aggies have a wide edge in
the tall-time series with the Owls,
having won 17 games to Rice’s 6.
Two of the games were ties. The
Owls have not defeated the cadets
since 1935. ■*
Clark Wells—Back
Harold Stockbridge—Back
Bill Blackburn—Center
Fish Triumph Over
Slimes on Wilde’s
66 Yard Pass Play
Scoring on a 69 yard runback
of an intercepted lateral, and a
66 yard forward pass, the Aggie
Fish scored their second win of the
season with a 13-12 decision over
the Rice Slimes Tuesday. An
Armistice Day crowd of 7,000 per
sons watched the tilt, which was
a battle from the opening kickoff.
Fish End Tom Goers broke the
ice in the third quarter when he in
tercepted Sultis’ lateral on his own
31 yard line and raced the dis
tance to score. Previous to thF,
the game had been a seasaw af
fair with neither team able t)
reach paydirt.
Shortly after the start of the
fourth quarter, the Slimes march
ed 38 yards to a touchdown, and
a few minutes later went into the
lead, scoring on two pass plays
which carried them from the 45
yard line to the goal.
However, the Fish refused to ad
mit defeat, and with but four min
utes remaining in the ball game.
George Wilde dropped back and
shot a long pass to Jennings An
derson who raced the remaining
distance for the winning score.
The Slimes took the kickoff and
drove down to the Fish 10 yard
line, attempting a field goal from
this point. The pass from cen
ter was fumbled, and the Fish re
covered as the game ended.
Mongomery Starts
Harvard Scholarship
W. J. Montgomery, who was a-
warded a national scholarship at
the Harvard Buisness school, has
enrolled for the first year of his
two-year master’s in business ad
ministration.
Montgomery graduated from A.
& M. in 1941 with a Bachelor of
Science degree.
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INTRAMDRALS
By
DUB OXFORD
Oxford
Judging from the number of
protests filed with this writer since
the last Battalion appeared, per
haps I had better rectify the mis
take made. It was reported that J.
R. Rucker of I Infantry was class
B individual winner. The corrected
statement now reads, J. R. RUNK-
LES OF B INFANTRY WINNER
OF CLASS B CROSS COUNTRY
MEET.
Water Polo in Quarter Finals
Class A water polo is now in the
quarter - finals
and only one
team so far has
progressed to the
semi-finals, name
E battery Field
Artillery. With
Welder of 5 CH
Q making three
goals and Bassin-
ger heaving the
ball in for 2 more,
6 CHQ came out
winner of the match with A CWS.
The Chem boys tallied only 1 point
in the game.
F Field won their match with
2 CHQ by a score of 3-1. Although
the match was one of the hardest
fought battles that water polo ob
servers have seen, the Field boys
were just the better team that
night.
In the match between I Field and
B Infantry, Ralph Inglefield scored
2 goals and F. M. Edwards backed
him up for another point to make
the score 3-1 in favor of I battery.
The game of the evening was the
splashy match between E Field and
C CWS. The game ended with the
score 2-1 in favor E battery, but
that’s not the whole story. Pat
Biggs of E Field scored the only
two goals made, but it was quite
a fight to do so. In fact, half of
the CWS team spent the most of
their time under water and vice
was only 30 seconds left to play
in the quarter final game between
E Infantry and F Replacement
Center. E Infantry was trailing
F Replacement Center 2-0.
On a blocked punt, F Replace
ment Center made, E Infantry took
possession of the ball on the 30
yard line. After two incomplete
passes and with 14 seconds remain
ing to play, a pass was completed
by E Infantry and the Infantrymen
carried the ball over for a touch
down. The try for the extra point
failed and E Infantry won, 6-2.
Willis Jacobs, 27, is the youngest
Ph.D. on the campus of the Uni
versity of New Mexico.
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FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A:
G Field Artillery, Tennis
Class B:
2 Hdq. iFeld Artillery, Swim-
.ming
F Engineers, Swimming
The volleyball courts have seen
lots of action lately, and Recrea
tional officers are reminded that
they are allowed to send down only
twelve men to participate in a vol
ley ball game.
Intramural Heroics and Hysterics
Referee Orville Lee Moore cor
nered me and related a most in
teresting tale. It seems that there
Standings
W
L
T Pts Op
A. & M.
0
0 90 10
Texas
— —3
0
1 129 21
T. C. U....
2
1
0 32 26
Rice
1
1
0 21 52
Baylor ...
1
2
1 39 78
S. M. U
0
2
0 10 55
Arkansas
0
5
0 33 105
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