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By (Dike Malkin
Battalion Sports Editor
Aggie-Texas Pact Should Promote Good
Feeling; Let’s Beat Steers on Football Field
The points brought out in the
special meeting between Texas and
A. & M. are certain to restore good
feeling between the two schools,
and tend to keep the rivalry of
the two institutions on the football
field.
Many students here and over at
the “Forty Acres” want to start
a fight with each other at a mo
ment’s notice. So they go and
bash each other’s brains in. What
good does it do? None whatso
ever. It only goes to strain rela
tions between both schools. Some
of these days, someone is going
to get hurt and hurt badly in one
of their so-called scraps. And then
bedlam will really turn loose. An
other one of those Baylor inci
dents of 1926 will take place, and
you know what that means to this
conference.
If the Aggies and the Longhorns
break relations and decided not to
play each other, just think what
it’ll do to this conference. The
Aggie-Texas game is always re
garded as THE game of the year,
and without it, this league may
as well go to the dogs.
So let’s all confine our fighting
to the football field, because one
beating will be bad enough for
Dana X. Bible’s crew.
A & M and TCU Frogs, Picked From Third
To Bottom, Are Now Top Teams in League
Football is certainly a funny
game. Here it is late in Novem
ber, and who are the top two
teams in the league? None other
er than the Texas Aggies and the
T. C. U. Horned Frogs who were
picked at the start of the year
along with Arkansas and Baylor
to fight it out for the cellar. T.
C. U., a team which fought for the
cellar last year, has come up nice
ly since its defeat by the Aggies,
and now rests in the No. 2 slot
of the conference. The Cadets, who
at the start of the year were pick
ed anywhere from fourth to the
cellar are now resting on top and
have already clinched at least a
tie for the title.
Meanwhile the three teams that
were picked for top—Texas, Rice,
and S. M. U.—are well on their
way to become leaders of the
second division in the conference.
Texas already tied and beaten this
year must face the league-lead
ing Aggies on Kyle Field—a field
where no Aggie team has fallen
since the T. C. U. game in 1938.
Rice and S. M. U., already mark
ed up with two defeats apiece face
T. C. U. and Baylor respectively,
and have an even chance to win
or lose these games. However,
both the Frogs and the Bears have
the home advantage, and are
known to be as tough as a boot
on their own camping grounds.
Baylor has lost only two games
and tied‘one, and can still have a
successful season by beating the
Owls and the Ponies.
Only the first and last place is
assured at this late stage of the
season while the other five slots
are a battle between Texas, T. C.
U. , Baylor, Rice, and S.M.U.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Tom
Pickett to be in Top Shape for Texas Game
Tom Pickett, Aggie back, who
has been injured since the N. Y. U.
game, will be in top shape for the
Longhorn fracas . . . Coach Homer
Norton was about to send in Pick
ett in the Rice game but changed
his mind . . . Tom’s greatest ambi
tion is to run over Noble Doss,
Steer halfback . . . Doss and Pick
ett were stars on Temple’s ’37
team . . . the Fort Worth Star Tele
gram, one of the most reliable
newspapers in Texas, had an arti-
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College and Bryan
cle by Harold V. Ratliff, Associat
ed Press writer, who stated that
the Aggies have stolen the “one at
a time” slogan from Texas Univer
sity . . . Mr. Ratliff better take a
glance in his back files because
this is the first year that the Long
horns have ever adopted that slo
gan . . . The Aggies used it in ’39
and ’40 . . . another little error
was printed in Lorren McMullin’s
column which had the Aggies rat
ed below Minnesota in Williamson’s
ratings ... as ybu can see for
yourself today, Williamson puts the
Aggies in the No. 1 slot with an
average of 98.7 ... We admit our
error in calling Washington State
as Washington State University
... it is Washington State College
. . . O. K. now? . . . Texas Univer
sity is still ahead of the Aggies in
total offense according to statistics
compiled by H. B. McElroy and
Roy P. Gates of the Publicity De
partment . . . the yardage is 2,596
to 2,212 .... Leo Daniels is the
leading punt returner in the con
ference, having 11 returns for 212
yards, which is 19.3 yards per re
turn . . . Dub Sibley, peppery cen
ter, leads the conference with pass
interceptions ... he has seven to
his credit for 49 yards . . . Rogers
and Spivey are next with four
apiece for 91 and 86 yards re
spectively. . . . Don’t forget, “RE
MEMBER TEXAS U. AND 1940.”
Dr. Charlotte Boatner, assist
ant professor of chemistry at
Tulane university, has discovered
The department of tropical medi
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Battalion Sports
Aggies Work Earnestly in Preparation
For Texas; Cripples Rounding in Shape
NOVEMBER 20, 1941
Page 3
As the Aggies Clinched Tie for Crown!
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Andy Andricks, Aggie fullback, is shown powering for the Cadet’s first touchdown against Rice Sat
urday afternoon. Coach Homer Norton’s crew countered with two more to down the Owls, 19-6, be
fore 30,000 fans and receive at least a tie for the conference flag. Others shown in the picture for the
Ags are Spivey (10), Moser (just ahead of referee), Richardson (60), Mulhollan (61), Sterling (81),.
Only Rice player that is recognizeable is Buck Sloan (50), captain and center of the Owls.
—Staff Photo by Ralph Stenzel
Ags Rated No 1
By Williamson; TU
Drops to No 16 Slot
By Paul B. Williamson
Those amazing Texas Aggies
stand out as the No. 1 team of
the nation as this crazy 1941 sea
son nears completion. They’ve
amazed everyone, with the possible
exception of their amazing coach,
Homer Norton.
Heads wagged at the close of
the 1940 season, when the knowl
edge dawned that the Aggies
would be without Jarrin’ John
Kimbrough this year. Maybe the
Aggies have missed " Jarrin’ John,
but it seems that Derace Moser is
just about as good.
The Aggies have played eight
games this season, but discount
ing the 54-0 blanking of Sam Hous
ton Teachers in the opener, they
have piled up 209 points to their
opponents 23.. Besides little Sam
Houston, the Aggies have blanked
four teams which include Baylor—
the outfit that tied Texas, and T.
C. U. the club that beat the vaunt
ed Longhorns.
Latest victim of the undefeated
untied Texas A. & M. was Rice
last weekend, which went down
19-6. For their performances, the
Aggies have earned a rating of
98.7 in the Williamson System.
Minnesota? Sure those unde
feated and untied Golden Gophers
of Coach Bernie Bierman are good.
Good enough to rate at No. 2 un
der the Texas Aggies. The Gophers
have done well; they did well to
skin by Northwestern 8-7, and
blank Michigan 7-0. But they
haven’t done as well as the Texas
Aggies. In seven games played,
the Gophers have 145 points
against 32 for their opponents—
quite a bit less than the Aggies’
margin. And, both Minnesota and
Texas A. & M. have met an aver
age opposition of class one-and-
seven-tenths in seven games each.
The Texas Longhorns plummet-
(See WILLIAMSON, Page 4)
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With Buffalo Bisons
As the Texas Aggies are get
ting ready for their top game with
the Texas Longhorns, the A. & M.
High Tigers are preparing for their
championship tussle with the Buf
falo Bisons. Both the Tigers and
the Bisons have won the flag in
their respective zones and are now
getting ready for the district cham
pionship game of 26-B.
According to present plans the
game will be played either this
Saturday or next Wednesday. At
the meeting held this week be
tween officials of the two schools,
it was decided to play the game
in Madisonville instead of on the
home field of either team. The
probable date will be Wednesday
since Buffalo is opposed to play
ing on Saturday.
In the Tigers’ last game they
defeated the Calvert Trojans 19-0
and displayed a well grounded
running attack. Add this to their
already good passing game, and
the Tigers will be hard to beat.
There is little to compare the
Bisons and Tigers by. They have
played entirely different teams; the
only team that both have met is
Marquez, and each won easily. The
Tigers probably have the edge for
they have played a number of class
A teams and have come out on top
in all but one, a defeat by the
strong La Porte high.
INTRAMDRALS
By
DUB OXFORD
All freshmen are required to
have tennis shoes on when partic
ipating in an intramural game.
Especially if the “fish” playing is
participating in a volleyball game.
This ruling by the department is
in the interest of
the boys. How
would you like to
run into a fellow
or get kicked by
a man wearing
leather soled
shoes ? The im
pact would be
quite disastrous,
I’m sure. The P.
Oxford department
attempts to make
all games as safe as possible, and
so far has had no serious accidents
resulting from intramural play.
So let’s cooperate with them to
the fullest extent.
All recreational officers are re
minded to turn in the alphabetical
list of all upperclassmen asked for
by Mr. Penny at the last meeting
of the officers. And all recreation
al officers should now have their
class B ping pong schedules. If
your schedule has not come to you,
please check with the intramural
office.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A:
C Infantry, Handball
3 CHQ, Handball
Artillery Band, Basketball
1 CHQ, Football
L Infantry, Handball
1 CHQ, Basketball
D CAC, Football
Class B:
Artillery Band, Swimming
B Cavalry, Volley ball.
two points for the Field boys.
At the half the game was tied
2-2, but coming back with renewed
.energy and desire to win, another
goal was scored, thus ending the
game, 3-2.
5 CHQ now plays F Field to de
cide the winner of the class A wa
ter polo.
Medals have been awarded to
medals are: B Signal Corps and A
CWS. Individual winners receiving
medals were C. C. Sprinkle and
J. R. Runkles, class A and class B
respectively.
Upsets ,are occuring all over the
nation, and College Station is
no exception. 5 CHQ beat E Field
Artillery 3-2 in the semi-finals
of water polo. This was the first
time in four years that E Field
has been beaten in water polo.
Joe Levy of 5 CHQ scored all
three points for the inmates of Fos
ter Hall and C. M. Taylor made the
winners of the cross coutry race.
Team winners who have received
Horned Frogs
Get Ready For
Two Final Games
Having accomplished the impos
sible by beating the Texas Long
horns, the Texas Christian uni
versity Horned Frogs this week
doggedly set about the business
of getting ready for their remain
ing two contests.
The Frogs, by almost unanimous
pre-season decision a second divi
sion club (even Coach Dutch
Meyer ventured the opinion that is
his boys won five of their 10
games it would be a good season),
until Saturday at least, rest in
second place in the conference
standings.
They have won six of their eight
starts and have a mathematical
shot at a tie for the conference
title. The “if’s” are almost over
whelming, but it could happen.
If T. C. U. can win from Rice
and S. M. U., and Texas can take
A. & M. Thanksgiving, that would
throw the Frogs and the Aggies
into a tie for the flag.
Coach Meyer’s problem right now
is to cook up something that will
stop the Rice powerhouse here
Saturday.
Last year the Owls not only rip
ped through the Frog line; they
also held T. C. U.’s passing at
tack to a mere 39 yards gained.
However, T. C. U. this year
is stronger on all counts than in
1940. The Frogs this year have
picked up an average of 99 yards
a game passing, as against 71
yards last season. Their rushing
average stands at 139 yards a game
as compared with a 116-yard aver
age in ’40.
On the defensive side, the Frogs
have held their eight opponents
to an average of 107 yards per
contest. Last year they yielded
an average of 114 yards in each
game.
Cadets Also Devising Means
Of Stopping Coach Dana X
Bible’s Tricky Offensives
Coming back to work after a
well-earned rest Monday after
noon ,the Texas Aggies are now
laboring hard in preparation for
the long-awaited battle with the
Texas University Longhorns .
Norton is working his charges
in efforts to iron out all the rough
spots evidenced in past games. The
passing attack for which the Ag
gies are famed is being whipped
into shape and an aerial barrage
second to none will be perfected
prior to the Turkey Day game.
The Cadet line, sparked by Dub
Sibley, is going through hai’d
drills, in methods of stopping the
Texas line play. The Aggies,
according to numerous experts,
have the best tackle play of any
team in the conference.
A number of injuries are still
prevalent among the squad but
virtually all men will be in top
condition for the Texas tilt. Tom
Pickett, who has not seen service
since the Texas Christian game,
has been the most seriously injured,
having a bad knee and cracked
ribs, but is expected to be ready
to go. Leo Daniels, still with an
ailing shoulder, will be fully re
covered in time for the Texas
game.
A ‘goodly number of first-
stringers received slight injuries
in the Rice game but are rapidly
recovering. Derace Moser, Mar
shall Spivey, Jim Sterling, Martin
Ruby, Dub Sibley, and Willie Zap-
alac were the players who receiv
ed the minor injuries.
The Cadets are devising means
of stopping the fast, tricky run
ning game of the Steers which has
been so costly to other teams in
the conference. The speedy Tex
as backs are full of deception
and will prove troublesome to the
Aggies.
With a good pass offense, the
Aggies are seeking to improve
their running game up to a par
with the aerial attack. The Ca
dets are surpassed in total gains
only by the Longhorns. The Steers
lead in running offense while the
Aggies are out in front in the
passing game.
Rexford G. Tugwell, governor of
Puerto Rico, formerly was chancel
lor of the University of Puerto
Rico.
Standings
W. L. T. Pet. Pts. Op.
A. & M 5 0 0 1.000 109 16
T. C. U 3 1 0 .750 46 33
Texas 3 1 1 .700 136 35
Baylor 1 2 1 .375 39 85
S. M. U 1 2 0 .333 24 62
Rice 1 2 0 .333 27 71
Arkansas.—0 6 0 .000 40 119
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