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THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1942
A & M Sports Due Another Big Season In 1942 - 43
Football
Prospects
Very Rosy
Manning Smith New Cage Mentor
Basketball Chances
Dim; Baseball and
Track Look Better
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By Mike Haikin
One of the greatest athletic
seasons at A. & M. ended in 1941-
42, but, what, ask numerous^ Aggie
fans, lies in store for them during
the , 42- , 43 sport season.
The Aggies won two Southwest
Conference crowns, in football and
baseball, a second place in track,
a sixth in basketball, although
having a better playing record
than the standings indicated in
that sport, a second in golf and
swimming, and a host of other
laurels in the many Aggie minor
sports.
Football Aspirations
But getting back to the pros
pects of ’42-’43, let’s take football
first. The gridiron machine of
Homer Norton that has swept
like a forest fire in the past three
years is again given the drivers’
seat in ’42 by most grid experts.
And there’s plenty of basic rea
soning behind their statements.
Fifteen returning lettermen, five
of whom were starters on the
championship ’41 eleven, conform
the nucleus of Norton’s ’42 grid
team—a team that threatens to
break all the so-called jinxes and
carry away a fourth consecutive
title. Add to the fifteen lettermen,
which includes the brilliant swivel
hipped marvel, Leo Daniels, the
host of prospects from the fresh
man team and a number of prom
ising up-and-coming squadmen,
and Norton and the many Aggie
patrons have another making of a
powerful gridiron machine.
Cage Prospects Gloomy
Jumping from football to bas
ketball, we find a sport that will
really be hit hard by graduation
and possibly army induction. Also
add to that a new coach and the
prospects are rather dim for a
really good season in ’42-’43. Loss
of such stalwarts as Captain Bill
Henderson, Ray Jarrett, Fred Na
bors and possibly a host of oth
ers, the cagers will have a big' job
trying to stay out of the second
division. Maybe the freshman crop
will uncover something promising,
but until then prospects for a good
basketball season look anything
but rosy.
’42 Fish to Help Track
Track comes next and here may
lie the first championship Aggie-
land has had since the] early 30’s.
Although losing such valuable
point makers as Captain Roy Bu-
cek, Jimmy Knight, Albert Ricks,
and possibly Emerick Labus, Joe
Vadjos, Pete Watkins, captain-
elect, Ken Stallings and others,
Coach Dough Rollins inherits the
greatest freshman team in Aggie
history—a team that swept to
overwhelming victories in every
meet this past year.
All of the boys have passed
their work, and, few if any are
eligible for the draft. So you can
at least be sure that track pros
pects for the season of ’43 are
as bright as they were this year.
Another Baseball Crown?
Coach Lil Dimmitt’s first year
as a baseball mentor was a most
successful one and the prospect
for another great season next year
is not at all out of the questiofi.
Gone from his fold are such spark
plugs as Charlie Stevenson, John
Scoggin, Sam Porter, Bill Hender
son, Cecil Ballow and Bill Black.
Of those five, only Scoggin, Bal
low and Porter were the regulars,
with Stevenson and Henderson be
ing the hurlers.
So here’s the setup. The out
field is intact with Cullen Rogers,
Jimmy Newberry and Leo Daniels
all coming back for another try.
The infield has only Ira Glass and
Les Peden, but Dimmitt’s worries
in that respect may be over as
there is I. D. Smith, a promising
young infielder. Smith will prob
ably take short. The biggest wor
ries will be to fill the first base
man’s spot vacated by the hard
hitting Sam Porter and the catch
er’s post left vacant by the de
parture of Captain John Scoggin.
All in all, Coach Lil Dimmitt has
a good ground-work in which to
build up another championship
contending nine.
As for the minor sports, the
Replaces Marty
Karow; Appointed
By Homer Norton
Manning Smith, freshman .bas
ketball and football coach and
head tennis mentor, has been ap
pointed as head varsity basketball
coach in a recent announcement
by Homer Norton, head Aggie
coach.
Smith replaces the now Navy-
bound Marty Karow, who left A.
& M. some four weeks ago. This
marks the second change that has
occurred in basketball this year.
Hub McQuillan, head cage mentor
for a number of years left Aggie-
land for T.C.U. being replaced by
the likeable Karow. Marty, in his
first year, produced an interesting
aggregation, which although they
lost more than half of their tilts
made the game thrilling and excit
ing.
Coming to A. & M. with Homer
Norton in 1934, Smith has been a
valuable cog in the coaching plans
of the Aggie head coach. He has
been the assistant backfield coach
having helped produce some of the
greatest backs in A. & M.’s his
tory. “Smitty” attended Centenary
and while there attained the high
est laurels in football, basketball,
and a host of minor sports includ
ing tennis and swimming. Under
Norton at Centenary, Smith was
a unanimous All-American half
back in the peak of his career.
While here, Smith has also
greatly donated his services in the
respect of a scout, giving a very
close look to some of the tougher
Texas Aggie grid opponents.
prospects are both bright and
dark. The tennis team loses al
most all of its regulars and will
have to start building from the
ground up. The same goes for the
golfers. Coach Art Adamson loses
Bobby Taylor, the sparkplug of
the team the past two years, but
in losing Taylor, Adamson gains
a brilliant prospect in Danny
Green, a swimmer who has beaten
the Aggie ace on every occasion.
Green will, however, participate
on the freshman team in the fall.
The other sports—rifle firing,
pistol, polo, water polo, and fenc
ing—will all come in for their ups
and downs, with one losing many
regulars and the other remaining
intact.
The rifle team will b| hard hit
by graduation but is expected to
be reinforced by a host of promis
ing freshmen. Another great sea
son is expected for the water polo
team, which doesn’t lose too much
material but does gain some val
uable prospects from the past
(See A. & M. SPORTS, Page 10)
Bucek Brother Act Broken Up
As Roy Leaves for Army Post
By Mike Haikin
A. & M. has had only a few
brother acts in athletics, but never
have they come to be as prominent
as that of the Bucek brothers, who
starred in football and track this
past year.
Just when this particular act
seemed to take realization, Roy,
the oldest of the two, finally com
pleted his eligibility leaving only
Felix to carry further the name
of Bucek.
Roy Enrolls in ’38
Roy enrolled here in 1938 and
Felix followed the following year
but it was not until this season
that anyone even took notice of a
real honest-to-goodness brother
act. Roy understudied the great
Marshall Robnett at the guard post
in football for two years, but his
hard work and stamina was not
to be denied in September of ’41
as the elder Bucek took down hon
ors as the starting Aggie guard.
Felix, meanwhile, was held out
of action in ’40, and only saw
little service at the start of this
past year. The Arkansas game,
however, was the payoff, and the
younger of the Bucek boys became
a sensation almost overnight.
Remember the Ark Game?
It all started, as previously
stated, in the Arkansas game. The
Aggies were leading the league
and a loss or a tie would put a
deep crimp in their title aspira
tions. The Razorbacks, who were,
incidentally, playing before a
homecoming crowd at Little Rock,
held the pass-minded Cadets to a
standstill, and, at times had Ho
mer Norton’s eleven on the run.
The battle rocked at an even pace
through three periods and it look
ed like the mighty Aggies had
finally met their match and were
to be held to a scoreless tie.
Then, with the ball in Arkansas’
territory, David Jones, ace passer
for the Razorbacks, unleashed a
passing attack, that almost set
the Aggies back on their heels. At
the moment, Coach Norton des
perate for a pass-protector, sent
in Felix Bucek, with orders to pull
out of the line and defend against
passes. On the first play Arkansas
made the dire error of throwing a
flat-zone pass in Bucek’s territory.
Felix flew in grabbing the ball and
streaked down the sidelines 58
yards for what, the fans call to
day, a “$50,000 touchdown.” And
that gave the Cadets a hard-earned
7-0 victory.
Roy and Felix Bucek continued
their brilliant showing in track.
Roy, the captain and ace hurdler
of the team, led the Aggies to a
surprise second in the conference
meet at Dallas this past May.
Felix also pulled a surprise in a
dual meet with Rice by defeating
the Owls’ ace discuss man, Jim
Deal.
Dough Rollins and Bill James
Both boys attribute their suc
cess to Dough Rollins, end coach,
and “Uncle Bill” James, line coach.
“Both have been really swell to
me,” Roy mused, “they’ve helped
me immensely in everything I ever
did and were directly responsible
for anything that I may have ac
complished.”
Dough Rollins and Bill James,
the two coaches, returned that
compliment long before it was ever
made. “I’ve never, in all my coach
ing days,” exclaimed Dough, “seen
any harder working boys than the
(See BUCEK, Page 10)
Huntington Brown, associate in
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day’s razor, waited two hours for
a luncheon appointment that never
showed up, went to an afternoon
meeting, to find out at last that
it was the wrong day.
Stevens Institute of Technology
has started the “first emergency
course in engineering at the col
lege level” for women.
Seven University of New Hamp
shire seniors are working as dep
uty police officers. Upperclassmen
interested in police work get ac
tual experience in law enforce
ment.
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