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Ags Meet Baylor in First Home Game Friday Huffman and Henderson Come Through To Bring Aggies Biggest Upset of the Season Pre-Game Festivites To Highlight Tilt Cadets Seek To Extend Winnings At Bears’ Expense Surprises, surprises, and more surprises! Will they never end. It happens in football, basket ball, baseball, and in every other sport, and it has been more than once that the Texas Aggies turned out to be the culprits. It hap pened again Tuesday night in Houston when Coach Marty Karow’s hustling five sprung one of the biggest upsets in basketball history by edging out the hereto fore undefeated and powerful Rice Owls—the same team that showed the East how basketball is played in downing such powers as Fordham, Phillips 66 Oilers, and LaSalle university. Then they opened their conference season with a smashing 62-38 triumph over Texas university who in turn trounced the Aggies 46-32 in Aus tin last week. We mentioned in this column the day before the game the pos sibilities of the Aggie cage team should Bill Henderson and Lee Huffman get hot one night. Well, Henderson got in shape faster than anyone could hope or suspect and Huffman was hotter than a New Year’s firecracker. Ray Jarrett and Mike Cokinos helped out con siderably with their expert floor game, and the result came about in an Aggie victory. The fact that the players were confident of victory had a lot to do with the result. If a player starts believing that he will get whipped, in all probability he won’t be far wrong. But the Aggies were not that way. All knew that they had a hard game ahead of them, but that the possibility of vic tory was not too remote. Mike Cokinos, fiery guard, said to this writer before he left for the game, “Sure, we’re going to whip the h—1 out of them. You just wait and see. We’ll surprise a lot of people.” No doubt Cokinos knew what he was talking about because most of the 6,500 Aggies are still dumbfounded. Sports Squibs From Here and There; Bill Henderson Receives Basketball of Rice Tilt Bill Henderson, hero of the Ag gie victory over Rice Tuesday night, was awarded the basketball with which he managed to score 15 points . . . Coinciding with the report that Leonard Dickey and Andy Andricks, two of Coach Hom er Nortons most promising grid- sters, are leaving school to enter the armed forces is that Charlie DeWare, co-freshman coach, will be doing most of his coaching in Uncle Sam’s army for the dura tion of the war . . . DeWare, one of the greatest centers produced by Aggieland, has come a long way since graduating—-Starting out as a student assistant under H. R. “Hub” McQuillan, Charlie finally moved up to the freshman head coach position along with Manning Smith . . . DeWare’s real coaching ability was clearly shown last year when he coached the un derdog White team to a victory over Brahma Jones’ Maroons in the annual charity game . . . Char lie loves the coaching game and plans to come back to A. & M. and continue his duties as a coach . . . Such determination certainly cannot go undaunted and we are sure that one of these days Char lie DeWare will get his dream— that of a head football coach . . . Good luck, Charlie . . . Don’t for get the Red Cross Charity game this Saturday at 2:30 . . . Let’s £.11 help out by attending. Sixteen gifts and grants total ing $28,025, including a $10,000 memorial grant for research re lated to purposes of the university arboretum, have been accepted by the University of Wisconsin. Surprising the sports world with an unexpected 36-34 victory over the Rice Institute Owls in Houston Tuesday night, the Texas Aggies will attempt to chalk up another conference victory when they take on the Baylor Bears in DeWare Field House Friday night at 7:30. The Bears made a favorable showing in the National Basket ball Tournament early this sea son. Dwight Parks, Bear guard, was high-point man of the tourna ment with 36 points. At the pres ent time Parks ranks third in the list of scorers of the Southwest conference with 33 points. The Bruins further extended their winning column when they defeated the Southern Methodist Mustangs 45-41 in an overtime game Tuesday night. Parks was high scorer for the Bears with 14 points. Mark Belew, forward, and Frivaldsky, center, each ac counted for 10 points. Jack Wil son, showing that he is skilled in basketball as well as football, sank the goal which took the game into extra time. The opening Southwest confer ence game in the DeWare Field House will be heralded with color ful pre-game ceremonies. The United States flag, flanked by flags of A. & M. and Baylor, will be hung at the south end of the gym. Immediately before the open ing of the game, all the lights will be extinguished and a spot light will light up the Ameri can flag as the Aggie band ren ders the National Anthem. Fol lowing this the band will play the Alma Maters of the two schools. The starting players of the Aggies and the Bears will be introduced in the spotlight as they come on the floor from the dress ing rooms. The game will begin at the conclusion of the cere monies. The tumbling team will probably give an exhibition at the (See BAYLOR GAME, Page 4) Rice Owls Upset By Aggies, 34-36, In Tilt Tues Night The Texas\ Aggies took the role of giant-killers in Houston Tues day night when they upset the Rice Institute Owls in a thrilling tilt that ended with a 36 to 34 score. The highly-touted Owls, rated by most sports authorities as the best cage five in the country, went down before the persistant on slaughts of the fighting Cadets. The Owls led at half-time with a score of 20-18. Sparked by Captain “Jitterbug” Henderson, who led the scorers with 15 points, the Aggies cut loose with everything and fought back to take over. In the closing minutes the Cadets refused three foul shots in order to retain pos session of the ball and froze the ball to keep it away from the Owls. The last five minutes of the game saw only one field goal, by Rice, tossed as the Aggies play ed a waiting game. Bob Kinney, Rice’s All-American basketeer, was so closely guarded that he was able to make only two field goals, both of which were in the first half. Kinney tossed four free throws to bring his total up to eight for the night. Mike Cokinos and Fred Nabors did exceptional defensive work for the Aggies and along with Hender son, Leland Huffman, Bill Under wood, Ray Jarrett, Jamie Dawson, Les Peden, and Bill Nutto kept the ball in the Aggie end of the court enough to keep the Owls from tallying. RICE (34) TEXAS A. & M. (36) Fg Ft Tp Fg Ft Tp Gloss, f 3 2 8 Jarrett, f 2 15 Gomez, f 2 0 4 Nabors, f 2 0 4 Lewis, f 0 0 0 Dawson, f 0 0 0 Walters, f 0 0 0 Underwood, f 0 0 0 Kinney, c 2 4 8 Henderson, c 6 3 15 Palmer, g 3 2 7 Cokinos, g 2 0 4 Lambert, g 3 1 7 Huffman, g 3 0 6 Zander, g 0 0 0 Nutto, g 0 0 0 Peden, g 0 0 0 13 8 34 16 4 36 Officials: A. B. Curtis and Bob Kiersky. Personal fouls: Gloss 2, Gomez, Palmer 4, Jarrett, Nabors 2, Henderson 2, Cokinos 4, Dawson, Underwood 3, Peden. Free throws missed: Gloss, Kinney 3, Lambert 3, Lewis, Jarrett, Cokinos. Half-time score: Rice 20 ; Texas A. & M. 18. 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Cav alry 4-1. Dog House Almost Vacant Again the Dog House is almost empty. This is good work, fellows. Keep it up. The intramural depart ment investigates almost everty forfeit that occurs and they have found that it is usually the for getfulness of the recreational of ficers to remind the boys that they have a game scheduled. A note to recreational officers: Be sure and keep up with your playing schedules. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE Class A: 3 Hdq. FA, Speedball Volleyball Matches in Playoff Class B Volleyball is in the playoffs and recent playoff matches have been taking place im the lit tle gym. Playing the game in an indoor court seems to speed the game up considerably. The offic ials have an easier job, too. They are placed directly above the net and are able to readily see any foul committed. Class A Speedball Speedball is occupying the top place in class A matches now. This game, dreamed up by the in tramural department you might Aggies Score First Win Over Rice Owls Since '37-38 Season When the Texas Aggies pasted a 36-34 upset win over Rice Insti tute, it was the first time a Cadet team has tasted victory over the Owls since the 1937-38 season. It was the day that Pete Dowling, famous Aggie athlete, and his gang of giant-killers got hot and won 28-24 at College Station. Not since the 1930-31 season, however, have the Aggies won over the Owls in Houston. They scor ed a 26-23 victory during that year. LA SALLE HOTEL BRYAN, TEXAS 100 Rooms - 100 Baths Fire Proof R. W. HOWELL, Mgr. Class ’97 say, is very popular with the cadet corps. And the Aggies really play it with zeal. G CAC played the game very zealously to beat C Engineers by a score of 23-3. Next in the line of high scores of the day is D Cavalry. The boys of the “Bangtails” downed F Replace ment Center 17-2. E Field Downs E Engineers E Battery Field Artillery, the home of many intramural cham pionships might be on their way to winning another flag. The members of E battery took D Engineers for a buggy ride. The final outcome of the buggy ride was E FA, 11; E Engineers, 3. Ark Works Hard For Rice Series Friday, Saturday Fayetteville, Ark:, Jan. 15.— This is the week “they go to work” on the University of Ar kansas basketball practice floor as Coach Glen Rose plots Razor- back strategy to be used against the Rice Owls at Houston Friday and Saturday nights. The coming series well may de termine the 1942 Southwest con ference champions, since Buster Brannon’s Owls have been touted as favorites since last spring and Rose’s Razorbacks are far from being willing to be counted out of the title running. A clean sweep of last week’s series against the clever S.M.U. Mustangs shot the Razorbacks to the top of the heap, a spot where Arkansas teams finished nine times in 18 years. Each game was de cided by two points and served to toughen the champs for jobs ahead. Not even the most ardent Razorback supporter is expecting more than an even break at Hous ton, but even a split should leave Arkansas no lower than second place in the standing. Baylor, which shares the spotlight with Arkansas and Rice, has a tough task against S.M.U. In all prob ability the title chase will assume a definite stand by next Sunday. ir=innr JANUARY CLEARANCE Sale! Our Entire Stock Of Men’s Fine Quality KUPPENHEIMER and GRIFFON Suits Top Coats Odd Slacks Sport Jackets and Sweaters This is your opportunity to really save money at these low prices. 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