Norton Back From Chicago; Comments On
Game, Then Goes Back to Business at Hand
It was a happy and and a bit
tired man who arrived at College
Station from Chicago Sunday after
noon. Coach Homer Norton, who
served under the genial Bob Zup-
pke, head coach of the College All-
Stars, was quite elated over his
short-lived stay at the big city.
Oh, sure his team lost but that still
didn’t detract the grand spectacle
of watching some 101,000 people
file in Soldier’s Field and all the
other interesting sites that one
can gather in while at Chicago be
sides attending to the job of coach
ing a bevy of topflight gridsters.
“You should’ve seen those Chi
cago Bears,” Norton said, “they
aren’t as good as they were last
year, but still they’re the best con-
glamuration of football players in
the world.”
“What about Derace Moser,” the
popular Aggie coach was queried,
“how did he do.”
“Well, I’ll tell you,” Norton
went on to say in his customary
drawl. “Moser had a bit of tough
luck but he did get off a beautiful
quick kick which traveled from one
end of the field to the other. He
only threw a couple of passes, one
of which was intercepted and the
other one a 50-yard fling which,
incidentally was dropped by Mai
Kutner.”
It was easy, then, to note that
Coach Norton wasn’t thinking
much of the aforesaid game but,
instead was already concentrating
on the business at hand. The Aggie
football team opens its regular
season training Saturday and the
Aggie mentor is wasting no time
in making preparations for the
opening day. Only three weeks will
remain after Saturday to set the
Aggies ready—both physically and
mentally—for the season’s opener
against L. S. U.
The Cadet coach will have plenty
of work to accomplish before a
replica of a gridiron machine can
be put out on the field. There’s
plenty of kinks to iron out, espec
ially in the line where the tackle
slot needs plenty of conditioning
and working over.
One thing, however, Coach Nor
ton does have over the 1941 sea
son is a ground work for the team.
Last year, the veteran coach had
but two regulars with which to
build a championship contending
eleven. This year he has four re
gulars plus three proven reserves—
Leo Daniels, Cullen Rogers and
Boots Simmons—in which he can
build up another potentially top
flight team.
Well, it’s a tough road ahead
but you can be sure that the play
ers. Coach Norton and his assist
ants, Bill James, Manning Smith
and Lil Dimmitt, will be plucking
right along until their goal has
been achieved or at least nearly
achieved!.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Jarrin’
John Kimbrough Loses None of Former Poise
It was like listening to an Ag
gie football game on a Saturday
afternoon when the announcer,
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LOUPOT’S
TRADING POST
J. E. Loupot—’32
broadcasting the fray between the
Army West All-Stars and the
Washington Redskins, gave the
Army lineup. . . Cadets tuning in
on the broadcast jumped up and
down on the beds and floor when
Jarrin’ John Kimbrough scampered
58 yeards for a score in the first
minute of play. . . Aggies were
giving most of the cheers to Kim
brough, Thomason, Pugh, et el, but
weren’t at all elated when Dick
Todd of the Redskins and a former
Aggie football great himself would
tote the mail with unrelenting ef
ficiency. . . From the broadcast,
however, Kimbrough’s thrilling run
seemed to be the highlight of an
otherwise long drawn-out game. . .
He hit left tackle (not left guard as
reported by some papers), was
stopped momentarily but shook
loose and high-tailed it for the
sidelines. . . With a grand assist
by Jim Thomason who sent the
Washington line-backer biting the
dust with a vicious block, Kim
brough out distanced the rest of
the field. . . The big former Aggie
All-American certainly didn’t find
a year or so layoff from the grid
game a big detriment in Sunday’s
affair. . . Highlights and sidelights
of the week end’s swimming meet.
The first Gulf Coast AAU meet
ever to be held in the premises of
P. L. Downs, Jr. Natatorium came
off in a grand fashion. . .the cus
tomers were treated to some great
swimming exhibitions, with the
performance of LaVerne Yar
brough, representing Pleasure Pier
at Port Arthur and one of Nicky
Ponthieux’s contribution, easily top
ing the list of tankers. . .Mignon
Martin, diving queen and Sunday’s
main attraction was a bit disap
pointing but still gave the fans
their money’s worth. . . Incidental
ly, it’s Mrs. Martin and not Miss
as previously reported. . .Yep, the
gal in the light blue bathing suit,
Miss (we’re sure of that) Yar
brough stole the show. . . Coach
Art Adamson deserves plenty of
praise for giving the fans a grand
swimming meet. . .Bouqets also go
to W. L. Penberthy, Lil Dimmitt,
Mike Cokinos, Bobby Stephens—
all of A. & M. and Tex Robertson
of Texas university for their ex
pert officiating. . .
. . .Bob Cowling, Aggie breast
stroke specialist, continues his ex
cellent showing in his special event.
He easily won in Sunday’s meet,
(See KYLE FIELD, Page 4)
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Seven Records Fall
In Gulf Coast AAU
Meet Sat and Sun
LaVerne Yarbrough, Port
Arthur Girl, Breaks Five
Marks as Feature of Meet
In the first Gulf Coast AAU
meet held at College Station seven
new records were established. Of
the seven records made, Miss La
Verne Yarbrough of the Pleasure
Pier in Port Arthur shattered five.
In the Junior Women’s Division
held Saturday night Miss Yar
brough reeled off three new re
cords—the 50-yard backstroke, 50-
yard free style, and the 100-yard
free style. The next day in the
Senior Division she broke two more
records; one in the 100-yard free
style, and one in the 50-yard free
style. The other two records which
fell were the 220-yard free style
in the Junior Men’s Division and
the 220-yard free style in the Sen
ior Men’s Division; Conway Moore
of University Park, Dallas, won
the Junior evnt while Joe Demmer
of Tyler took the Senior event.
A. & M.’s freshman sensation,
Danny Green, won three firsts;
one in the Junior 50-yard back-
stroke, one in the Senior 440-yard
free style, and one in the Senior
100-yard free style. George Hean
ey, another Aggie freshman took
firsts in the Junior 50-yard free
style and in the 100-yard back-
stroke. Bob Cowling was the only
other Aggie to grab a first—the
Senior 100-ard breaststroke.
Joe Demmer, the Tlyer swim
ming star, and Danny Green pro
vided plenty of thrills for Sunday
afternoon’s crowd at the Men’s
Senior Division when they finished
nip-and-tuck in three of the after
noon’s event. Demmer grabbed a
first in the 220-yard free style,
but in winning it was pushed
to a new record by Green who took
second. Green got revenge in the
440-yard free style by finishing
first ahead of Demmer. Then in the
last events of the evening—100-
yard free style—Demmer and
Green finished in a dead heat with
Heaney and Looney, both of A. &
M., coming out third and fourth
respectively.
The city of College Station was
(See AAU RESULTS, Page 4)
Some 60 Football Prospects Will
Report to Norton Sat Afternoon
Tackle Slot Main
Worry As Aggies
Prep for LSU Fray
The final games of the Twilight
League have yet to be played off,
but already the interest around
Aggieland has shifted to the com
ing football season. With two pre
season contests already having
been run off the topic of the camp
us bull-sessions is once more the
approaching pigskin parade.
Conference rules prohibit the be
ginning of training until Sept. 5,
which is Saturday, but a squad of
60 gridsters is expected to be out
when the first whistle of ball
training blows Saturday, Sept. 5.
Uniforms and equipment will be
issued Friday, and the squad will
begin heavy drills bright and early
Saturday.
Speculation is rife as to the pro
spects for the coming season, with
the Aggies being rated all the way
from first to fourth in the pre
season predictions for the South
west Conference. Most of the ex
perts agree on one point, however,
that Texas University is once more
the team to beat.
Main worry of the Aggie
coaches is the tackle position on
the team. With Martin Ruby lost
by graduation, and Leonard Dick
ey and Bob Tulis playing ball for
their Uncle Sam, there are two
gaping holes in the line which
must be filled. Fourteen candidates
are trying for the two starting
berths, but every one of these men
with the exception of Leonard
Joeris is woefully lacking in ex
perience and in varsity competi
tion. Most likely starters will be
Joeris and big Don Luethy.
Coach Norton need shed no tears
over the situation at the ends, for
with two letterman, Bill Henderson
and “Boots” Simmons, at this po
sition, and Pete Slaughter and
Truman Cox both experienced
(See FOOTBALL, Page 4)
HIGHUTES*
bif'TTlike Ttjann
Th C Battery Coast Artillery
Class A softball team, the squad
that has pulled a number of “good
ones” out of the bag this season,
came to the front again as they
rallied in the seventh stanza to
nose out A Coast Artillery 5-4.
A Class B soft
's ball slugfest be-
•s tween B Engi-
• neers and E Field
Artillery saw
• players rounding
the bases with
continued fre
quency with the
Engineers top-
Mike Mann P in S the runS-
per-inning tally by bringing in 14
runs in the second The Engineers
finally defeated the Artillerymen
21-17
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
CLASS A
H Infantry, softball
B Infantry, Softball
D Infantry, swimming
Dewey Hoke, who compiles all of
the physical education and intra
mural statistics, reports that only
a small number of men taking in
tramurals for P. E. credit will fail
the course because of an insuf
ficient number of games. Many
men who are shy a game or two at
the present time still have a chance
to make the deadline and get their
credit in P. E. Others whose teams
are in certain playoff matches will
have an added opportunity to ga
ther a few extra games. Remember
—16 games are needed to receive
a passing grade and 20 g;ames are
necessary to earn a grade point.
Recreational officers have been
requested by W. L. Penberthy to
aid in organizing the singing
groups in their organization to
enter “The Aggie Singaroo”, spon
sored by Richard Jenkins, director
of the Singing Cadets, and the In
tramural Department. The details
of this contest have been printed
in a previous issue of the Batt.
Intramural Scores
CLASS A
Softball
* 4th Stoop QMC 10, A FA 8
B FA 11, H Inf. 2
Volleyball
A CWS 2, C Inf 0
Swimming
A Eng. 30, F CAC 18 •
E F. A. 27, A Cav. 21
CLASS B
Softball
E R. C. 6, D R. C. 4
M Inf. 10, A CWS 4
H Inf. 9, 1st Hdq. FA 2
E Inf. 8, A CAC 4
A SC 13, Hdq. Cav. 11
Water Polo
H CAC 0, E Eng. 0
B Inf. 3, 3rd Hdq. FA 0
Tennis
D Cav. 3, F Inf. 0
D CAC 3, E RC 0
3 Hdq. FA 3, MG Cav. 0
E CAC 2, CHQ 1
Class A Swimming
Quarter-Finals To
Come Off Tonight
Class A swimming playoffs have
been bracketed and the actual
meets will begin tonight in the P.
L. Downs, Jr. Natatorium as 3rd
Headquarters Field Artillery up
perclassmen take on the F Field
Artillery Class A swimmers in a
quarter-finals meet. These two
teams drew “bys” when the brack
eting was done and as a result,
skipped to the quarter-finals.
Tomorrow night the B Signal
Corps aquamen meet the B Infantry
swimming team in a second quart
er-final match. This is another
match in which both teams drew
“bys”.
Headquarters Signal Corps has
settled in third quarter-finals
bracket and is waiting for an
eighth-final match to be decided
later this week.
The swimming phase of the in
tramural program is supervised by
Art Adamson, Aggie swimming
coach, who is assisted by a number
of departmental managers.
Battalion Sports
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1942
Page 3
And Danny Green Sets Another Mark!
Little Freshman Swimmer Provides A. & M.
With Best Prospective Aquatic Ace in Years
By Mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
He’s only a little black-haired
youngster, but, brother, can he
swim! That’s a big under-statement
to make about Aggieland’s top
aquatic ace — Marshall Daniel
Green, much more commonly known
as Danny—who has broken more
records than Man o’ War.
Breaking Records His Specialty
When Coach Art Adamson’s
prize package steps into the pool,
the statisticians, sports writers,
time keepers and the customers
already are resigned to the fact
that a new record will be set. For
Danny has been setting marks all
over the state with such efficiency
that even those long standing
marks that are now covered with
dust are at a danger point in fu
ture days to come.
But what about the little swim
mer himself? How did he happen
to choose A. & M., which he now
wouldn’t trade for anything, as his
stomping ground? Well, it’s a long
story (but it’s one that tells the
success of a young kid who put
forth all he had in his endeavor.
Improves A Lot
Danny first learned to swim
when he was just a little shaver
messing around Oak Cliff Y. M.
C. A. at Dallas. He became better
and better and finally was good
enough to enter in a Novice (Ju
venile) swimming meet in 1940.
He had already attracted much at
tention with his swimming skill
at the City Park in 1939 but his
big day came in his first big meet.
Wally Hoffrichter of the Dallas
Athletic Club was present and
when he saw the then 15-year old
tanker out-distance and out-man
the best of the lot in the meet, he
took Danny under his fold and I plug of an otherwise fair swim-
had the juvenile aquatic wonder ming congregation. He set records
swim for the DAC. in the 220 and 440 yard free style
There he proved to be the spark-1 (See GREEN, Page 4)
Question: Lipscomb or Campus Cleaners
Tonight? Managers To Decide at 5 P M
Eight managers—and that
means managers only, Mr. George
Odgee— will meet on the Y.M.C.A.
steps at 5 o’clock today to decide
whether or not the Lipscomb-Lou-
pot game will be played or the lat
ter handed down a forfeit because
of the absence of Lipscombs play
ers.
According to every theoretical
rule, a game is NOT postponed
until it has been announced in
that manner. Whether it rains
cats and dogs or snows like the
blazes, technically the game is to
be played until decided otherwise.
With the football season almost
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