By Olike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
Ags Have Little Hope of Upsetting Rice
Tonight; Lee Huffman Shows Much Promise
Coach Marty Karow’s Aggie
cage team will be seeking their
first victory in the past nine games
when they meet the vaunted and
powerful Rice Owls in Houston
tonight, and it is probable that
they will be still seeking that win.
The Owls, who tuxmed back Tex
as, 62-38 in their opener, should
take the Cadets into stride with
out too much trouble, and continue
as pace-setters of the Southwest
Conference race.
Last Saturday’s battle with Tex
as gave the Aggies some ray of
hope for the future even if they
did lose the game. In that game
they uncovered a great guard in
Leland Huffman who may well
prove his worth before the sea
son is out. With their captain,
Bill Henderson, still on the injured
list with a wrenched back, the
Aggies have been taking a bitter
dose from every team that they
have played. However, when
Henderson gets back in shape, the
Aggies will be double-tough, and
here’s the reason.
Of years gone by, the Cadets
have solely placed their hopes on
one man, which in the past two
years has been Henderson, and
that was a bit of a heavy load to
carry. However, this year, there
is Leland Huffman who has shown
in the conference and preseason
games that he will be an asset to
the Aggie basketball hopes. Throw
in Ray Jarrett, Mike Cokinos, and
R. B. Bayer in for good measure
and the Aggies may have some
thing. One thing sure: the Ag
gies have a better team than they
had last year.
Hardened and Experienced Football Players
Makeup Lineup of Maroon and White Squads
The annual Charity game, which
comes off this Saturday, is not
just a game where the players are
just plain sandlotters and are ones
who have had no 1 experience what
soever in football. No, indeed,
not. These players, who are now
under the tutelege of Bill Buch
anan and Bill Conatser, respec
tively, all have had some exper
ience or other in high school, jun
ior college, and freshman football.
Due to one circumstance or an
other, these players were unable to
play varsity ball, but there are
boys today out for this behefit
game, who could make some of
the varsity boys look mighty pale.
So when you come to College
Station to view this game between
the Maroons and Whites, you’ll
not see a bunch of kids running
over each other, but you’ll see a
real football fracas between two
well coached teams playing under
the national football rules!
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Dough
Rollins Toastmaster at Grid Feed January 22
Dough Rollins, track coach and
football end coach, will be master
of ceremonies at the annual grid
iron banquet, which will take place
January 22 ... . highlight of the
feed will be the announcement of
lettermen and presentation of the
Houston Post trophy to Derace
Moser and Martin Ruby . . . they
were elected by a committee of
sport writers as the best back and
lineman, respectively, in the South
west conference . . . the Bert
Pfaff trophy will be presented to
the best blocker on the team . . .
Next Friday night, Arkansas will
battle the Rice Owls in what may
decide the Southwest Conference
championship . . . there seems lit
tle hope for a Razorback win . . .
S. M. U. showed unexpected
strength in holding Arkansas to a
two point win in their two-game
series last week . . . Before the
Louis-Baer fight last Friday which
ended in a one-round victory for
the “Brown Bomber” many scribes
insisted in their writeups that Louis
was losing his punch ... it seems
that the lineotype man left one
of the “o’s” out because Louis was
“loosing” his punch instead of los
ing it . . . Don’t forget the Red
Cross Benefit game Saturday . . .
Let’s all turn out and help the
Red Cross.
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Battalion Sports
JANUARY 13, 1942
Page 3
TEXAS AGGIE FISH BASKETBALL ROSTER
FRESHMAN COACH, MANNING SMITH
No.
Player
Home Town
Pos.
Ht.
Wt.
27
Adams, Homer B.
Dallas
F
6.1
160
28
Hope, Harry E.
Houston
F
6.2
185
29
Hovel, Robert E.
San Antonio
F
6.2
168
30
Woods, James E.
Mt. Enterprise
F
5.11
155
31
Brundrett, E. H.
Texas City
F
6.2
155
32
Clack, Wiley U.
Abilene
C
6.2
160
33
Nash, Charles D.
Austin
G
6.0
179
34
Barton, Robert F.
Pasadena
G
5.9
137
35
Forrest, Robert P.
Onley, 111.
F
6.0
165
37
Whitacre, John A.
Stephenville
G
6.0
160
38
Moore, Gordon A.
Wichita Falls
G
5.9
140
38
Foldberg, Henry C.
Dallas
G
6.2
187
40
Scott, Thomas A.
Longview
F
5.10
170
41
Manichia, Charlie
Houston
G
5.11
175
42
Sample, Joe T.
Dallas
F
6.3
188
Cadets Have Been Defeated in Last
9 Tilts; Owls Have Undefeated Record
INTRAMDRALS
By
DUB OXFORD
Jumping intoi a bit of statistics
for a moment, here is the latest
tabulations of the number of teams
and participations that took place
last year. There were 57 class
A teams and 17 sports offered for
upper classmen.
There were some
10,137 partici
pants and 1,355
contests played.
Applying those
draft number fig
ures to the fresh
men, in class B
there were 52
teams entered
„ . . and 15 sports of-
fered. The total
fish participants number up to
9,440. The grand total of students
participating in intramural games
last year was 19,577. Which
means that Texas A. & M. has the
largest intramural participation
in the United States.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A:
F Replacement Center,
Speedball
A Cavalry, Speedball
F Field Artillery, Speed-
ball
A Replacement Center,
Basketball
Class B:
F Replacement Center,
Ping Pong
H Field.. Artillery, Ping
Pong
B Cavalry, Ping Pong.
Tommy Burnam
Always with a ready smile and
willing to do what ever you ask
him, junior intramural departmen
tal manager Tommy Burnam typi
fies the unsung heroes of the in
tramural department. Tommy is
from El Paso and names Intra
mural sports and “jitterbugging”
as his hobbies. Just where the con
nection between “jitterbugging”
Increase Made In
Aeronautics Staff
To Meet New Interest
The large increase in the num
ber of students at A. & M. college
who are now taking courses in
aeronautical enginering have neces
sitated the addition of two new
men to the teaching staff of that
department, Gibb Gilchrist, dean
of the School of Engineering at the
college, has announced.
Robert M. Pinkerton, graduate
of Bradley Polytechnic institute,
Peoria, 111., in 1929 and later with
the National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, Langley Field,
Ya., and director of the Hampton
Roads division of the University
of Virginia Educational Extension
Service, has been appointed an
associate professor and will teach
aerodynamics. He is an authority
in that field and is one of the few
men who have worked out new
wing sections now in use on aero
planes. He also is a renowned rifle
shot and competes annually in the
Camp Perry matches.
Frank Chapman, graduate of
Louisiana State university, Baton
Rouge, La., in 1940, has been ap
pointed an instructor and will
handle mechanical engineering sub
jects which deal with aeronautical
engineering.
and intramural sports is, I don’t
know. But just ask Tommy, he’ll
tell you.
Tommy is studying mechanical
engineering and is in B Engineers.
He is also the junior assistant to
the Recreational Officers of B
Engineers. As to his preference of
women he is like all Aggies—“It
just doesn’t make any difference,
I like ’em all,” Tommy says.
He is one of five junior intra
mural departmental managers and
will have a chance of being senior
intramural manager next year.
Football Winners
Here is the complete list of
all class A touch football league
winners:
C Infantry
I Field Artillery
A Engineers
Headquarters Signal Corps
F Field Artillery
D Cavalry
I Infantry
G Coast Artillery
A Field Artillery
E Coast Artillery
Tickets On Sale
Today for Jan 17
Annual Charity Tilt
Both Teams Issued
Uniforms; Only Light
Workouts Held Monday
Tickets for the annual charity
football game will go on sale to
day at 25 cents each. Cadets may
obtain the ducats from their first
sergeants, and residents of Bryan
and College Station may get them
from the following local mer
chants: Aggieland Pharmacy, Lip
scomb’s Pharmacy, and Luke’s Gro
cery. The game is to be played
next Saturday, January 17, with
the kickoff scheduled for 2:30.
Meanwhile both the Maroon and
the White squads are hard at
work in preparation for the forth
coming clash. With both squads
having been cut to 25 players each,
and equipment having been issued
yesterday, heavy scrimmages are
thjs order of the day both today
and tomorrow.
Drills commenced last Friday
with fyoth squads going through
calesthenics and limbering up, and
Saturday and Sunday were spent
in learning plays and dummy scrim
mage. Equipment was issued yes
terday, and both squads spent the
afternoon running plays and there
was some light contact work.
After heavy scrimmages today
and Wednesday the teams will be
gin tapering off Thursday, and
Friday will be spent in limbering
up and making final plans for Sat
urday’s contest.
Insofar as offensive styles are
concerned, the teams stack up
just about as they did in last
year’s contest. The Maroons have
a slight weight advantage and lean
more toward the power type of
football. The lighter Whites will
base their hopes upon speed and
deception, with a possible strong
aerial game.
Quite a bit of local interest has
been aroused by the game, and a
large crowd is expected to at
tend if weather conditions are
favorable for the clash. As men
tioned before, all proceds from
the contest will be donated to the
Red Cross.
Aggie Swimmers
Have Many Openings;
Few of Team Back
The Aggie swimming team,
which is beginning its new sea
son, will be built around) a senior,
two juniors, and a sophomore. The
backstroke will be swum by Ernie
Conway, senior letterman and cap
tain of the team, who will be as
sisted in this division by Shrimp
Lapham of Jacksonville.
The team boasts the country’s
outstanding backstroke swimmer in
Sophomore Bob Cowling who is
the State TAAF Champion. How
ever, the team is badly in need
of some backstrokers to assist
Cowling. Bob Taylor, a junior who
has been defeated but once since
coming to A. & M. will take care
of the distance events.
Happy McKey, a junior, will
have the job of filling the .spot
vacated by Conference Champion
H. S. Hensley in the sprint divi
sion.
Coach Art Adamson has issued
a call for swimmers and asks that
anyone interested in trying out
for the Varsity swimming team
contact him immediately. Divers
is the major need on the team
but all others are in demand.
Vermont U Engineers
Obtain Industrial Aid
Private industries are cooperat
ing with the engineering college of
the University of Vermont in mak
ing available modern types of
automotive and aeronautical en
gines to be used by students.
A new 100 horsepower cradle
type dynamometer being set up
in the internal combustion engine
laboratory will make it possible
for students to test horsepower
output of all types of automotive
engines under varying conditions.
This dynamometer is powered by
a fifty horsepower generator giv
en the university by Consolidated
Edison Company of New York.
Defeated in their opening confer
ence game by the University of
Texas Longhorns in Austin Sat
urday night, the Texas Aggies
meet the Rice Owls in the Coli
seum - at Houston tonight at 7:30.
The Owls, with a perfect record
of 10 wins and no losses, are pre
dicted to take the conference flag
in stride this year. Led by All-
American Bob Kinney, the Owls
have defeated all comers without
receiving much opposition.
Kinney, rated by most sports
authorities as the outstanding play
er in the Southwest Conference,
has an uncanny skill at slipping
the ball through the hoops. He
is one of the tallest men in the
conference and is usually the high-
point man in every game he plays.
In the game against; Texas, Kin
ney provided a one-man show as
he scored 25 points even though
he was off the floor for the last
eight minutes of the game.
Little Harold Lambert and Chet
Palmer, two stellar guards, have
also made favorable showings in
the Owl scoring division. Tom
Class, forward, and a mainstay in
the Rice offense, has been held
back by a recently-acquired hip
injury, but will probably be back
in usual form for tonight’s game.
Bill Henderson, the Cadet ace,
is still out of condition due to the
football season but is rapidly
smoothing out the rough spots and
can be expected to make up for
lost time soon.
Leland Huffman, who led the at
tack against the Longhorns, has
been coming through in every
game and is living up to expecta
tions. Ray Jarrett and Fred
Nabors are running high in the list
of Aggie scorers.
Bayer and Jarrett at forwards,
Henderson at center, and Huffman
and Cokinos at guards are the like
ly starters for the Cadets. The
probable starters for the Owls are
Gloss and Gomez, forwards; Kin
ney, center; and Palmer and Lam
bert, guards.
Immediately after the varsity
College Co-eds
Cooperate With
Uncle Sam on Socks
Patriotic co-eds who want leg
appeal without “cheapening them-
eelves” by going bare-legged are
being urged to wear brightly-col
ored cotton stockings during the
defense - made silk hoisery short
age.
Declaring that red, white and
blue cotton stockings are the “rage”
in the eastern collegiate set, Miss
Elizabeth Conrad, dean of women
at Michigan State college, says
she thinks it would be wonderful
is college women all over Amer
ica adopted them.
The middle-aged dean, a foe of
bare legs, appeals to the girls’ pat
riotism in advocating the cotton
hose.
“America needs the silk that
American women put on their legs,
she says. “Let’s have the college
women lead the way in this emerg
ency by voluntarily wearing those
lovely, long cotton stockings.”
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game the Aggie Fish will tangle
with the Rice Slimes in what prom
ises to he an interesting affair.
Both the Fish and the Slimes have
been defeated by the Texas Short
horns.
Texas U Downs
Aggies, 46-32,
In Game Saturday
Staying in front all the way the
Texas Longhorns defeated the Ag
gies Saturday night in Austin, 46-
32. It was the first conference
basketball game of the season for
A. & M. and the second for the
Steers, who were defeated by the
Rice Owls in their first encounter.
The Aggies started the scor
ing as Jarrett hit the loop for
two points, but the Steers took
over and held the basketeers from
Aggieland to a total of three goals
from the floor for the first half.
At the midway mark the score
was 21-10 in favor of the Long
horns.
Opening the second period,
Leland Huffman, one handed artist,
led the Aggies in a spurt, and half
way through the period the Steers
were in front only seven points,
32-25. But Sander and Hargis
sunk shots that put the Longhorh
five in a safe position.
High point man of the game was
the Aggie’s Huffman, who had
a total of ten points. For Texas
the scoring was spread between
all players, with no one garner
ing more than nine points, Hargis,
forward, and Brahaney, guard, led
the Texas scorers with nine points
each.
An interesting sidelight to the
game was the battle between the
two giant centers, Henderson of
the Aggies and Pie Sander of Tex
as. The Texas center faired the
better as he hit the basket for four
field goals while he held the Ag
gie center to one goal.
The Texas Fish, led by John
Langdon with 18 points beat the
Aggie Fish 55-33 in a curtain rais
er to the main event.
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