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A & M, Texas, and Tulsa Picked to Win Today;
Picking Arkansas to Upset Mustangs, 10-7
The Texas Aggies will be looking for their seventh con
secutive win thjs season when they clash against the in-and-
out Rice Owls at Houston this afternoon at 2:30 in a feature
of three conference games and one intersectional tilt. Others
on the program for today include the battle between Texas
and T. C. U. at Austin, Tulsa against the Baylor Bears at
Tulsa, and Arkansas against S. M. U. at Fayetteville.
After all those upsets every week,
it’s a wonder that the sports writ
ers are still alive. However, all
of us have to pick ’em, whether
right or not. So, with a clear
view and a clear mind we dive right
into the middle and hope we car!
come out of it in the same man
ner that we went in. Roll ’em out!
A. & M. - RICE—The Owls are
in top shape for the first time
since the Tulane game and are set
to give the Aggies a tough bat
tle. The Ags, who have won 27
out of their last 28 games, are
too far ahead to turn back now
and should have a slight edge by
tonight. Even though they are'
crippled, we’ll still take the Aggies
by a 17-7 score.
S. M. U - ARKANSAS . . . Here
are both teams which have baf
fled the sports writers and experts
more than once. The Mustangs
have looked none too good all year,
while the Hogs have shown nice
form in their past three games
after a bad start. With the game
being played at Fayetteville before
a homecoming crowd, we’ll take
Arkansas in an upset win over
the Ponies. Just on a hunch, Ar
kansas 10, S. M. U. 7. Watch
for a possible tie here!
TEXAS-T. C. U.—If the Long-
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they played against Baylor, we’ll
reverse our selection and give the
Horned Frogs the call. However,
we feel that the Steers have prof
ited by their mistakes and should
bounce back witli a bang. The
Frogs are good—no doubt of that—
and should they score quickly could
keep that advantage. However
Jack Crain and Company should at
least count three times to give
Texas a 20-7 win.
BAYLOR-TULSA ... The Bears
were definitely at their peak last
week, and are due for a big let
down. The Hurricane has swept
everything in its way since their
6-0 defeat at the hands of T. C. U.
It looks like another breeze for the
Hurricane, with the score of 13-8.
Lookin’ ’em over the rest of the
country, it’s Pittsburgh over Ne
braska, Notre Dame over North
western, Oregon State over Cali
fornia, Stanford over Washing
ton State (Watch out for this one),
Duke over North Carolina but not
in a runaway, Army to upset
Pennsylvania, Harvard over Brown
by 13, Tulane over N. Y. U., Ohio
State over Illinois by two touches,
Kansas State over Kansas and Cor
nell over Dartmouth.
SPORTS SQUIBS FROM
HERE AND THERE
. . . Some comparisons be
tween Rice and the Aggies in their
games this year . . . the Aggies
have gained 822 yards rushing
while holding their opponents to
325 yards . . . the Owls have gain
ed 1259 yards rushing while at the
same time giving up 597 yards . . .
the Cadets however, are fare in
front of the Owls in forward pass
ing .... they have gained 1235
yards while the Owls have 855
yards to their credit .... As to
individual stars they are just about
even .... the Aggies’ Derace
Moser is the leading passer in the
conference having completed 53
passes out of 115 attempts . . . .
the Aggies also lead in pass re
ceiving with Henderson, Spivey and
Sterling in the first three leading
roles .... Stoop Dickson takes the
kicking honors between the Ags
and the Owls with a 39.8 average
. . . . however Moser hit his peak
last week against S. M. U. with
an average of 48.8 yards . . . .
Moser is the leading Aggie ball
carrier having lugged the ball 75
times to gain 324 yards and lose 51
for a net gain average of 273 . .
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1941-
Williamson Picks
Aggies, Texas To
Win in Today’s Tilts
System Also Sees
Possible Upset In
Minnesota-Iowa Clash
By Paul B. Williamson
The System has already been
asked why the Texas Aggies cur
rently rate at No. 1 and Texas
at No. 2, both ahead of Minnesota,
Well, here’s the answer. The rat
ings among other things, take in
to consideration score differences
and difference in rating of respec
tive opponents. The Aggies and
Texas, too, are far ahead of Minne
sota on score-difference over op
ponents just as closely rated
against them as those which Min
nesota played. The same sort of
balancing applies to Duke and
Notre Dame this week.
The 1941 football season swings
into the stretch this week, with
several teams completing their
schedules. Several of this week
end’s games will attract wide inter
est, but few of them will prove
anything.
In this season of unusual up
sets, a lot of anxiety follows Min
nesota’s Golden Gophers in their
clash with Iowa. While the Sys
tem picks Minnesota, this could
easily be an upset. Down in the
Southwest, where upsets are like
ly to happen at any time, the Tex
as Aggies risk their unblemished
record against the Owls of Rice
Institute, and Texas will be at
tempting a comeback against T.
(See WILLIAMSON, Page 4}
THE BATTALION
On Own Camping Grounds
Jess Neely of Rice Always
Puts Out a Fighting Team
INTRAMORALS
By
DUB OXFORD
“Drawling Jess” Neely, . head
football coach at Rice Institute,
made the statement, “We’ll have
a fighting football team,” upon ar
rival there and he was not far
wrong. Fighting football is the
only kind Jess knows how to play.
The story of how Neely, with an
injured arm useless at his side,
captained the Vanderbilt Commo
dores of 1922 in a bruishing bat
tle with Michigan is still related
by Vandy alumni and people around
Nashville.
Neely was at Vanderbilt from
1920 through 1922, playing under
Dan McGugin and Wallace Wade.
The latter is the present coach of
the Duke Blue Devils and was
then an assistant to McGugin. An
example of Neely’s greatness may
be seen in the fact that he was
a back on offense and an end on
defense. A volume, “Vanderbilt
Football,” rates Jess as one of the
greatest of Vanderbilt captains.
Jess is a law graduate of Van
derbilt but he has never practic
ed the profession. He coached one
year at Murfreesboro, Tenn., high
school before returning to Vandy
for his degree. He then accepted
a job at Southwestern university,
Memphis, Tenn., where he good-
naturedly admits he coached every
thing, including girls’ basketball.
In the spring of 1928, he was
assistant baseball coach at Prince
ton before going to Alabama. As
end coach and baseball mentor un
der Wade he remained at Ala
bama through 1930. Neely and
Wade have been close friends ever
since their meeting at Vander
bilt and their styles of play are
similar. He and the famous Rose
Bowl coach of Alabama and Duke
teams have kept in close con
tact.
Coming to Clemson after the
1930 season, Jess was slow in the
beginning, losing 21 games and
winning only 12 in his first four
years. However, he came along
rapidly after these first lean years
and his all-time record for his
nine years at Clemson shows 43
victories, 35 defeats, and 7 ties.
Neely’s 1939 Clemson team was
the greatest, losing only to Tu-
lane’s Sugar Bowl powerhouse, 6
to 7, and scoring 159 points to op
ponent’s 42, outside the Cotton
Bowl game which Clemson won
over Boston College, 6 to 3.
This is Jess’ second year as head
coach at Rice Institute. Under
his tutelege last year the Owls
came through with seven wins and
three losses. The Owls have won
four games and lost two so far this
season with four conference games
yet to be played. Rice’s coming
opponents are Texas A. & M., T.
C. U., Baylor, and S. M. U.
Little Chance Seen
For Gillespie to See
Action Against TCU
Texas is undefeated and T. C.
U. is unawed but not unworried
for Saturday’s battle in Austin.
For the Horned Frogs follow
ers have learned that there is lit
tle chance that Kyle Gillespie will
be able to go against the Steers.
He may play a few downs, but
he won’t be able really to go.
Quarterbacking and passing
duties will be placed in charge of
Emery Nix and Dean Bagiev,
Coach Dutch Meyer has indicat
ed.
Nix, who scarcely played in the
Frogs’ first four contests, has
come up fast in the last three
until he ranks near the top as a
passer and has shown consider
able ability as a field general and,
on occasion, as a ball carrier.
“I don’t see how we can figure
to stop that Texas scoring ma
chine,” Coach Dutch Meyer says.
Reading over the address given
by P. W. Boynton, I came across
these statements, “. . . most im
portant, how he spent his spaie
time. It is from the manner in
which the spare
time is utilized
that an employ
ment man deter
mines a great
deal concerning
the applicant’s
leadership and
managerial qual
ities.” And Boyn
ton is an expert
Oxford on employment.
Needless to say, the intramural
fields of Texas A. & M. College
are some of the best places that
spare time may be spent. Any
person who excells or who even
participates in an intramural game
is being exposed to valuable train
ing.
Mac Sterling
Intramural unit manager Mac
Sterling comes from Dallas and is
a Marketing and Finance major.
When I saw him this afternoon,
he had just finished punching a
bag, and was then making out
Owls Remember Henderson-
Eight Passes inone Tilt- Whew!
Rice’s Nemesis!
9/T(Wenders on
schedule cards. Mac first came
to the attention of the intramural
department when he played in the
Charity football game last year.
He is a senior, member of 4 CHQ,
and his hobby, of all thing, is art.
Mac’s place in the intramural set
up, is football referee.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A—
, E Engineers, Tennis
B Coast, Tennis
A Replacement Center,
Tennis
I Infantry, Handball
Class B
H Replacement Center,
Swimming
1 CHQ, Volleyball.
Sports In Finals
By Chick Hurst
Junior Sports Editor
Wanna make the Rice Owld
Mad?
Just recall to them a certain
afternoon one year ago when a
guy named Bill caught eight con
secutive passes right under then
dumbfounded noses! We’re speak
ing of course about Bill Hender
son, known to most people as
“Jitterbug”.
He wasn’t even good enough to
make the team in high school, and
to quote his own words, “the only
reason I came out for football ac
A. & M. was to see what the game
was like”. Well, according to the
record books, he’s done a pretty
fair job of learning.
In a recent report received from
the Boston Record, showing the
standings of All America candi
dates through games of Oct. 25,
none other than this same Bill Hen
derson is leading in total votes for
the nation’s best end. Also, guess
who is the leading pass receiver
in the passingest conference in
the country? You’re right again,
it’s that Henderson fellow.
Thus far this season he has
snagged 20 passes for a total of
197 yards! Pretty good for a guy
who “just wanted to see what the
game was like”.
However, football isn’t the only
things Bill stands out at. Last
year he became the first man in
Aggie history to letter in four
major sports. Football, basketball,
baseball, and track, he’s played
them all, and has done right well
at them too.
One sports writer, no one knows
where he got his information, had
it that “Jitterbug” was having a
hard time making the team this
year. In the first four games this
season, he has played a total of
151 minutes, more than any other
end on the Aggie squad.
The standings in water polo have
advanced to a final stage. F Field
Artillery is in the finals and the
winner of the match between E
Field Artillery and 5 CHQ will
play F Field for the champion
ship of the school. In class B
touch football, F Field Artillery
and 3rd Headquarters Field Ar
tillery meet each other for the
class B intramural football cham
pionship.
Intramural Scores
Class B. Volleyball—
I Replacement Center 2, A Engi
neers 0
H Replacement Center 2, A Engi
neers 0
C Infantry 2, B Coast 1
F Infantry 2, E Coast 1.
Campus Club Water
Polo Team Will Meet
Galveston at Houston
The Campus Club water polo
team will meet the Galveston water
polo team Saturday night in the
Houston Y. M. C. A. Game time
has been set for 7:30 and all Ag
gies and their friends are invited
to come to the Houston Y and see
the encounter.
The Campus Club team met the
Galveston team here at College
Station last Sunday and the Col
lege Station players won the game
17-4.
Members of the Campus Club
team are: Senior C. W. S. instruc
tor Captain W. S. McCulley, Bob
Cockrell, Joel Coolidge, Joe Levy,
Scotty Stubbs, Jimmie Welder,
Johnny G'arritty, John Griffin,
Nickie Ponthieux, Bobby Scofield,
and Freshmen Foster, and DavN.
Kyle in Houston For
Farm Credit Meeting
Dean E. J. Kyle will be in Hous
ton for the remainder of the week
at a meeting of the board of the
Farm Credit Administration.
Kyle who is one of the direc
tors of the government agency, is
expected back Monday.
Several years ago the annual
State Interscholastic Track Meet
was held at A. & M. instead of
being held at Texas University.
The A. & M. Experimental Sta
tion, with the aid of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture intro
duced and developed Sudan grass.
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