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Big Ed Sturcken, 224 Pound Back, Is
Great Prospect for Norton’s ’42 Eleven
Footballs were going high in the
air, and uniforms were flashing
again as the gridiron season was
back in force at A. & M. Yes,
spring training; had opened.
Usually, nothing truly interest
ing happens on the first day, but
this time it was different. Sure,
the same procedure was administer
ed to the gridsters as of spring
trainings gone by, but the thing
that interested me more than ever
was some player—a player yoru are
likely to hear of a lot next year.
His name—you probably have
n’t heard of it, or if you have,
you don’t know much about this
boy—is Ed Sturcken. He was one
of the four ineligibles on the team
this past season, a 224-pound back
who could make any line in the
conference give way with his
crushing power. He showed his abil
ity against the freshmen and the
Varsity last year, and whenever
be carried the pigskin—well, the
boys knew about it seconds later.
Power is not the only asset that
this boy possesses. He is a bril
liant passer and kicker and may be
just the surprise package Coach
Homer Norton will produce next
season. His zooming punts tra
velled some 40-60 yards each time
he kicked a ball Tuesday afternoon,
while his bullet-like aerials were
true to their mark each time.
If you think most of this infor
mation is pure speculation, just
stroll over to Kyle Field one of
these days and take a personal look
at this 6 foot 3 inch blond bone-
crusher.
All the coaches have high praise
for Sturcken and expect plenty
from him next season. There’s
not much chance of Uncle Sam
grabbing him because he is but 19
years old.
John Kimbrough could really hit
the line while he was here at A. &
M., but wait until you see Ed
Sturcken. I dare say you’ll forget
Mr. Kimbrough.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Five
Fish Fail to Come Out for Spring Training
Charlie Manichi^, George On-
j\ drej, Dannon Tassos, T. A. Coers,
and Jim Cody have either been
found ineligible for football or have
not registered for the second term
to get some people straight
« .... Derace Moser was chosen as
the most valuable man on the
team at the annual football banquet
last week .... Don’t forget the T
p Club Benefit show at the Assembly
Hall at 6:45 tomorrow It’s on
ly 25 cents and that’s worth con
tributing to a bunch of boys who
work for us during most of the
year. ... TCU is tied for first place
with Arkansas in the conference
race. . . the race isn’t over yet,
but it’s the first time in many a
moon that a Hub McQuillan-coached
« five could look down upon the floor
mat. ... at any rate, they’re as-
, sured of getting out of that cel-
, . lar . . . Talk about hard luck, take
a look at these figures ... in their
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2 point losse sto Rice and Baylor,
the Aggies on each occasion scored
20 field goals to the opponents 19
. . . it’s those gift shots that ap
parently tol dthe tale SMU is
in almost the same predicament. . .
they have lost 6 straight games,
but none have been over 5 points
. . . .Ernie Pannell, former Aggie
tackle, is back in school . . . Some
15 gridsters will sign up for the
February 16 draft registration,
including Leo Daniels, Don Luethy,
Weldon Maples, A. J. Mercer, Tom
Pickett, Dick Skarke, Pete Slaught
er, and Bob Tullis. . . .all of these,
however, are eligible for contracts
next fall . . . .incidentally, should
Luethy and Tullis be drafted. Line
Coach Bill James would lose his
only two experienced tackles on
the squad. . . .
NY, Cotton Bowl
Games to be Shown
In Benefit of T Club
Pictures of the New York and
Cotton Bowl games will be shown
tomorrow at 6:45 in the Assembly
Hail in benefit of the A. & M. T
Club, according to President Pete
Henry.
Admission is 25 cents, and all
proceeds will go towards the an
nual T Club dance which comes
near the close of the semester.
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New Students
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Ags Hit the Road for Tilt With Kats Friday
Cadets to Seek
Revenge for Early
Defeat by Bearkats
With the first semester behind
them, The Texas Aggie cagers
meet the Sam Houston Teacher’s
Bearkats tomorrow night in Hunts
ville at the Bearkat gym. This is
the last non-conference game for
the Cadets and is a return engage
ment for the game played in Col
lege Station last December when
the Teachers defeated the Cadets,
50-33.
The Bearkats are strong con
tenders in the Lone Star confer
ence and at the present time are
in a second place tie with the
North Texas State Teacher’s Col
lege at Denton. The East Texas
Teachers are leading the confer
ence race at the present time.
Joe Walker and Cole have been
doing brilliant service on the hard
woods for the Bearkats along with
Gardner, This trio have been ring
ing up a number of tallies. Don
Walker, a speedy six foot six inch
center, is the sparkplug of the Sam
Houston squad and a battle is ex
pected between Walker and Bill
Henderson, rangy Aggie center.
The Cadets have profited by a
long rest period from scheduled
matches and have spent much time
ironing out the kinks and devising
new scoring plays. The squad will
be in top form and a brilliant dis
play of the cage ability of the
Aggie team should be witnessed
by the spectators.
Mike Cokinos and Lee Huffman,
who have been doing brilliant de
fense work, have shown their prow
ess at looping the balls into the
net in recent drills—Jarrett, Na
bors, and Henderson, the other
three first-stringers, are expected
to come through in high style for
the Cddets.
The Bearkats have a team full
of speed and deception, as was
shown in their encounter with the
Aggies earlier in the season. How
ever, the Cadet squad has shown
much improvement since the op
ening of the season and will go
into the game as slight favorites.
The probable starting lineup for
the Aggies will be Jarrett and Na
bors, forwards; Henderson, center;
and Cokinos and Huffman, guards.
The likely starters for the Sam
Houston Bearkats are Gatlin and
Cole, forwards; D. Walker, center;
and J. Walker and Green, guards.
Pictures Recorded of Intramural Champs;
I Field and D Engineers Are Pictured First
By Dub Oxford
(Assistant Sports Editor)
First semester champions in all
sports have been decided, but some
of the teams are camera-shy. When
they get corraled long enough,
pictures will be taken and the read
ing public will be given an idea of
what they look like off the intra
mural playing field.
I Field and D Engineers
The two pictures today, I Field
Artillery and D Engineers repre
sent the top teams in intramural
competition at A. & M. college and
they proved themselves to be the
number one teams by landing at
the top of the heap and still being
there when the smoke cleared a-
way.
Team Members
Sparked by team members Rob
erts, Radley, Beckley, Acrey, Hall,
Hicks, Ray, Miller, Barber, and
Sims, the I Field boys won their
final game against F Battery,
their “grudge enemies,” by a score
of 8-7. The final game was hard-
fought all the way, but I Bat
tery had just a slight edge. I Bat-
Japs Hold One
Advantage — Many
Can Speak English
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(AGP)—
A Harvard university linguist says
Japan has at least one advantage
over the United States—the ability
of a vast number of her military
officers to speak English while
only a handful of United States
army and navy men understand
Japanese.
This is bound to give Nippon an
edge in questioning war prisoners,
translating intercepted messages
and obtaining information from ma
terial found on men fallen in act
ion, Dr. Erwin O. Reichsauer,
authority on Far Eastern lang
uages, says.
65 Football
Prospects Report
For Spring Practice
Some 65 football prospects re
ported to Coach Homer Norton and
his assistants as spring training for
the ’42 season opened Tuesday af
ternoon.
The 1941 Aggie team suffered
only the loss of 11 lettermen includ
ing Co-captains Marshall Spivey
and Martin Ruby, Derace Moser,
Les Richardson, J. M. Williams,
Zolus Motley, James Sterling, Har
old Cowley, Dennis Andricks,
Leonard Dickey, and Euel Wesson.
Andricks and Dickey still had an
other two years left for collegiate
competition but decided to join
the armed forces.
All the returning lettermen, ex
cept Tom Pickett and Bill Hender
son, reported for practice. Pick
ett was in the hospital receiving a
knee operation, while Henderson
is still engaged in basketball.
Most of the opening day practice
was spent in calisthenics and lim
bering up exercises. Kicking and
passing were handled adequately
by Leo Daniels, Vernon Bellville,
John Whitacre, Willie Zapalac,
and Ed Sturcken.
The practice will continue for
the next 30 days.
Illinois U Makes
Survey of Marriages
Family financial worries are
greatest between the twenty-fifth
and thirtieth years of married life
when sons and daughters enroll
in college, according to a Univer
sity of Illinois survey.
The college of agriculture, after
examining the home accounts of
473 farm families, found numer
ous expenditures are added during
that period.
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Can’t Go Wrong”
tery did not have any trouble in
coming through their league. They
beat everyone in their league with
ease. It was in the finals that they
encountered their stiffest compe
tition.
Fighting hard all the way, D En
gineers triumphed over the Infan
try Band to cop the intramural flag
for tennis.
The boys who wear the “Gold
Castles” as collar ornaments won
the match against the Infantry
Band by a 2-1 score. The Engineers
BATTALION
JANUARY 29, 1942
Page 3
Class A Intramural Winners
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At the top is shown I Field Artillery, winner of Class A football.
Left to right, Roberts, Radley, Beckley, Acrey, Hall, and Hicks.
Back row, left to right, Ray, Miller, Barber, and Sims.
At the bottom is shown D Engineers, winner of Class A tennis.
Left to right, Wood, Kingback, Brown, McCanoe, Ogan, and
LeGrand. —Photo by Jack Jones
INTRAMDRALS
By
DUB OXFORD
Oxford
Entry cards for class A ping
pong and volleyball have been sent
to recreational officers along with
the entry cards for class B horse
shoes, aggieminton and handball.
Mr. Penny re
quests that these
cards be in by
6:00 p.m. tonight.
Recreational of
ficers are remind
ed to check with
their organization
and ascertain the
days that they
will be unable to
play four o’clock
games and indicate the unavailable
days on the back of the entry cards.
Remember, the availability of
your men may be different from
that of last semester.
Aggieminton, a class B sport, is
being played for the first time
this year. The game is very simi
lar to badminton and instruction
periods will be given by Spike
White. Game credits and medals
will be given for participation and
winning in this sport, but no par
ticipation points will be allowed
for the winner.
Pictures of all the class A and
class B intramural winners have
been taken and will be run in fu
ture Battalions. Today’s sports
page carries the class A football
and tennis winners, I Field Ar
tillery and D Engineers, respec
tively.
Don’t forget the recreational of
ficers meeting this afternoon at 5
p.m. in the civil engineering lecture
room. If you can’t be there, please
have your junior assistant repre
sent you.
Mr. Penny will have some very
important news concerning the
playing of games this semester,
five p.m. sharp is the time to re
port.
The playing of games will prob
ably begin Monday or Tuesday of
next week. In the meantime, if
you wish to get in a few licks
of baseball, hie yourself (and your
recreational officer) down to the
southwest corner of DeWare Field
house. The southwest comer of De-
Ware Field house is the intramur
al office and Dewey Hoke will be
glad to check out horseshoes, base
balls and bats to organizations.
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were not like I Field, they had a
tough time conquering the teams
that were in their way in order
that they might get to the finals.
Both teams fought each other to
a finish.
D Engineers, 2 Out of 3
In the championship game, D
Engineers took the first set, 6-2,
6-0. Coming back with renewed
vigor in the second set, the Infan
try Band took it 6-0, 6-4. In the
final set, the deciding factor in the
winning of the championship match
D Engineers won 6-0, 6-3.
Credit for being class A tennis
winners of A. & M. goes to T. W.
Brown, J. K. Shurley, W. C. Kinz-
back, W. Oggar, D. R. Burru, H.
Legrand, D. McCance, and V. D.
Wood.
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