Coach Homer Norton^ 1942 Gridiron
Team Is Improving Greatly Day by Day
The main event on Kyle Field
this afternoon will be the intra
squad game exhibited before the
home folks by Coach Homer Nor
ton’s streamlined Texas Aggie
gridiron machine. “Streamlined” is
the exact word for the edition of
the ’42 eleven for today this team
according to Coaches and “rail-
birds” is looking far better than
did the ’41 team at the same time.
There is, fundamentally, not too
much difference between the two
editions—the ’41 and ’42 teams.
As everyone already knows, the
’41 team absolutely lacked a po
tent running game, but in its stead
possessed one of the best aerial
attacks in the country. Well, this
year’s team compares more than
favourably as far as the passing
game is concerned, and, at this
time, seems to have developed a
strong running attack to go with
their aerial display. Ed Sturcken,
Jake Webster and Otto Payne
have added much power to a seem
ingly average weight team. These
three have been alternating much
at the fullback post, and each packs
a wallop. Leo Daniels, soph ace
last year, is fast developing into
a great threat, and should be the
sparkplug of the team next year.
Yes, the ’42 squad is showing
vast improvement and may be
come a dire threat by next Sept
ember.
As Dean Kyle puts it, “There’s
no law in winning four consecutive
championships.” That’s getting a
bit ahead of ourselves but you
just take time out this afternoon to
watch this team work. The scrim
mage is slated to start at 3 o’clock
so don’t miss out on anything.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; T Club
To Have Benefit Show at Campus, Feb 26
Pete Henry, president of the T
Club, has announced that the Cam
pus Theater will offer the club a
benefit show February 26, the day
before the T dance . . .The picture
scheduled to be shown that day is
“Beau Gesete,” starring Gary Coop
er ... . Ben Stout, star tackle
prospect from the freshman team,
is also an all-time shot-put record
holder in his home state of Okla
homa . . . .Frank Bibbs, cross coun
try letterman, offers this explan
ation as to how he could break in
to the news, “If I break into the
news, it’ll be the obituary column.”
. . . .No cracks, now . . .the boy
deserves plenty of praise for his
contribution to the cross-country
team ... he has worked hard all
year, running five miles per day. .
. . . the draft certainly hit Coach
Jack Gray’s Texas university bas
ketball team right in the mid-sec
tion. . .Gray has an eight-man
W. J. Douglas, Jr.
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The Batt, has decided to go the
way of all poor fools. . . he is en
gaged to Nan Pinchback of Beau
mont and plans to get married up
on graduation. . . . there is a rep
ort that Red Goatley, star pole
vaulter of the Aggie track team,
is ready to quit in order to give
more time to his studies . . . After
making 56 grade points the first
time he has to find time to study?
. . . . All we can say is that Red
will be a mighty foolish young fel
la if he decides to forsake the
track team ... .a boy who can
make that many grade points has
enough spare time to take care of
both enterprises ....
Dr. 0. H. Pepper of the Uni
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Baseball Team
Opens Conference
Schedule May 8-9
Razorbacks Expected To
Be in Top Shape for Bear
Contest at Waco Tonight
The Texas Aggie baseball team
will open its Southwest Confer
ence season this year with the
Baylor Bears in Waco with a pair
of games on March 20-21, and close
it with another two games with
the Texas Longhorns at Austin on
May 8-9.
The schedule for the non-confer
ence games has not been complet
ed but Coach Lil Dimmitt has an
nounced that the Aggies will
swing into action against the Shep
pard Field Flyers, now coached
by Lieut. Marland Jeffrey, for
mer star Aggie outfielder, at Col
lege Station on March 4-5.
Following is the conference sch
edule for the Aggies:
March 20-21 Texas at College
March 31-Apr l..„ S M U at Dallas
Apr 2 T C U at Fort Worth
Apr 11 Baylor at College
Apr 18 S M U at College
Apr 21 Rice at Houston
Apr 24-25 Rice at College
May 1-2 T C U at College
May 8-9 Texas at Austin
85 Take First Aid
Instruction Course
The First Aid Classes which
were organized early this week
and have a total enrollment of 85
men, are getting off to a rapid
start, according to W. L. Pen-
berthy of the physical education
department.
Grid Team to Have Intra-Squad
Battle Today at 3; Public Invited
BATTALIONIL.
0^0^03
FEBRUARY 7, 1942
Page 3
INTRAMDRALS
By
DUB OXFORD
Things in the intramural cor
ner are now moving at a fast clip.
Horseshoes have seen a lot of fast
action, and so has volleyball. Class
A basketball fin-
ff als will be play-
m ed Monday night
with E battery
Field Artillery
and A battery
Field Artillery
vieing for top
honors. The class
A speedball fin
als will probably
Oxford be run off Fri
day and that will probably wind up
all class A sports for the first
semester.
Field Artillery Peppers CWS
Going into the speedball quarter
finals, 2nd Headquarters Field Ar
tillery and A CWS played one of
the closest games this season. At
the half time, A CWS was leading
the match. Coming back with re
newed vigor at the beginning of
the second half, the 2nd Headquar
ters Field team began to rally and
a march toward a score was begun.
The rally for the Artillery was
sparked by Donald Puntch and Bill
Beckman. Artillerymen Power and
Saunders also helped overtake the
test tubes.
The final score of the thrilling
match was 7-5 with 2nd Headquar
ters Field on the heavy end of the
tally. The A CWS team was led
by their company commander, Ken
Terrel.
Volleyball Scores
B Cav, 2; 5 CHQ, 0
3 Hdq. FA, 2; A Eng, 0.
A Cav, 2; FA Band, 1
A CAC, 2; H Inf, 1
D FA, 2; B CAC, 1
Class B Intramural Football Winners
Pictured above is 3 Hdq. Field Artillery, who copped the Class B Intramural football crown. Front,
left to right, Davison, Johnson, Utesch, Barrier, Shaw, Press. Second row, left to right, Peter, Nash,
Warren, Swenson, and Radley. —Photo by Jack Jones
Prospects of Track Team Are Bright; Best
In Seven Years According to Coach Rollins
By Chick Hurst
Nothing much has been said
about them, but when the month
of March rolls around some peo
ple are going to get quite a sur
prise when they take a look at the
Texas Aggie track team of 1942.
According to Coach J. W. “Dough”
Rollins, A. & M. will turn out one-
of the best track teams in the his
tory of the school this year. “In
fact,” says oCach Rollins, “barring
injuries this will be the best team
that A. & M. will have had in the
entire seven years I have coached
track here.”
The squad has been working out
since January 10 and since the wea
ther conditions have been very fa
vorable, it is fast rounding into
shape for the coming campaign. If
the favorable weather continues
and no serious injuries are sustain
ed in practice sessions, the squad
should be in tip top condition for
the opening meet of the season.
Captain of the team this year
is Roy Bucek of Schulenberg. 1c
will be remembered that Bucek was
high point man in the conference
track meet last year, and in addi
tion was presented with a watch by
Coach Clyde Littlefield of Texas
for being the outstanding man to
compete in the conference meet.
Bucek pulled a muscle in practice
last week, and some concern js
felt over whether or not he will
be in first class condition for the
start of the season. However, if the
injury is not rehurt, Roy should
be in shape to face plenty of tough
competition by the time the sea
son gets into full swing.
In addition to Bucek other boys
who will bear watching are Pete
Watkins and Albert Ricks in the
high jump, and Johnny Zeigler and
Joe Vadjus in the distance runs.
These boys have made quite an
impression on Coach Rollins in
their workouts so far, and should
improve still more by the time the
season opens.
As things stack up at this time,
the boys from the Institute in
Houston appear to be the team to
beat for the conference champion
ship. Expert opinion gives Rice the
championship slot in the pre-sea-
son dope, with A. & M. and Texas
slated to fight it out for second
place. But a quick look into the
records will reveal that pre-season
dope is very wrong sometimes, and
quite a few people may be sur
prised when the race is over next
May.
The Aggies will open the cur
rent season by traveling to Laredo
for the Border Olympics on March
6. On March 14 they will have
their first home meet of the season
when they tangle with San Marcos
Teachers here. One week following,
on March 21, they journey to Ft.
Worth for the Southwest Fat Stock
Show meet. On March 28 the Ag
gies go to Austin where they will
compete in the Texas Relays. Fol
lowing this, on April 2, comes
their second home exhibition, a
dual meet with the Texas Long
horns.
The third and last home engage
ment occurs here on April 18, a
quadrangular meet with S.M.U.,
Baylor, and T.C.U. On April 25
the Aggies trek to Des Moines,
Iowa, to compete in the famed
Drake Relays. One week later they
will take part in a triangular meet
in Houston with Rice and Texas.
The season will wind up May 8-9
with the conference meet which
will be held at Dallas.
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Squads to Have Regulation Game If
Weather Permits; Team Working Hard
Coach Homer Norton’s football squad, which has been knocking
heads in recent scrimmages, will strut out for the home folks in an
intra-squad battle Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock, weather per
mitting.
Four Teams
Coach Norton has already divid
ed his 65-man squad into four
teams and each scrimmages the
other on specific days. The grid-
sters are developing into the peak
of condition at a fast clip, and at
the end of practice, February 25,
they should be in midseason shape.
The hard-working footballers
started working out January 26,
and since the conference rules dic
tate that a team can practice but
30 days, the Aggie coaches have
had to work fast in order to get
the boys ready for a heavy grind
come September. Fundamentals
were the order of the day for the
first two workouts, but head-
knocking and scrimmages have as
sumed their respective places.
Ed Sturcken, the Aggies’ new
discovery, and Leo Daniels have
kept up with their advance notices,
and are the bright spots of recent
practice sessions. Sturcken’ s
smashing thrusts and aerial dis
plays have been superb, while Dan
iels has more than made up for the
loss of Triple-threat Derace Moser,
’41 Aggie star.
Jake Webster, place-kicking spe
cialist and regular fullback, George
Wilde, star of the past Fish team,
and Willie Zapalac, blocking back,
too are serving advance notices
that they will be hard to keep out
of the lineup. These three have
shown Coach Homer Norton that
as far as the quality of backs was
concerned, he had nothing to worry
about.
Defensive End
Nute Trotter, who is regarded
by End Coach Dough Rollins as
one of the best defensive wingmen
in the United States, too, has had
more than one coach give him a
wide-open eye. Trotter is the first
string end, and is living up to ex
pectations. His offensive ability
has been slightly below his defen
sive zeal, but coaches have much
hope that he will bring the former
up to par.
Others in the line that have been
doing satisfactory work are Boots
Simmons and Floyd Hand at ends;
Weldon Maples, Ray Mulhollan,
Felix Bucek, and Wayne Cure at
guards, Bill Sibley at center and
Bob Tulis at tackle.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A:
G Replacement Cen., Volley
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Class B:
D Cav, Horseshoes
I Replacement Cen., Horse
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C Inf, Aggieminton
F Replacement Cen., Aggie
minton
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TRADITION
Ark Concludes
Series Against
Baylor Tonight
Non-Conference Games Not
Completed; Open Against
Sheppard Ftyers March 4-5
WACO, Feb. 7.—Texas basket
ball followers will get their third
glimpse of the defending champion
Arkansas Razorbacks in Southwest
conference play tonight when
Coach Glen Rose’s hoopsters en
gage Coach Bill Henderson’s clev
er Baylor Bears.
The series brings together rem
nants of the great machine which
Rose skippered to Arkansas’ ninth
league title last winter and the
team rated as the team to beat for
the 1942 honors. Arkansas goes
into the series sharing the loop
lead with T.C.U., while Baylor
ranks fourth as all entries emerged
from semester examinations.
The Razorbacks have won three
of four league games, breaking
even with Rice at Houston after
sweeping a home set with S.M.U.
The Bears have lost decisions to
Texas and the high-flying Owls,
after downing T.C.U., S.M.U., and
the Texas Aggies.
In all probability the Razorbacks
will be full strength for action
against Dwight Parks and com
pany at Waco. Captain R. C. Pitts,
the team’s leading scorer and fifth
in the conference individual race
will pilot the cardinal and white
quintet from a guard post.
Gordon Carpenter, the 6 foot-
614 inch junior sensation, will be
at center and Clayton (Foots)
Wynne will pair with Pitts in the
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