Aggie Blocking and Tackling Shows Vast
Improvement; F. Bucek in Mid-Season Form
It’s back in the saddle again for
Coach Homer Norton and his bunch
of happy Texas Aggie gridsters
as they prepare earnestly for their
coming clash with Lt. Marty Ka-
row’s Corpus Christi Coments. And
they have every right to he happy
after Saturday’s exhibition. If you
were a fan at the L. S. U. game
a week previous you’d swear up
and down that the Maroon and
White team on Kyle Field Satur
day afternoon wasn’t the same ag
gregation that was so soundly
whipped by the Tigers.
Yes sir, it looks like old times
again. Of course, there’s still
plenty of kinks to iron out. There
seems to be something missing—
maybe it’s smoothness or maybe
it’s that certain extra block—but
still something seems to be amiss.
But at any rate, let’s get back
to Saturday’s game. Whereas only
“brush” blocking was used in the
Ags initial tilt, hard contact type
of blocking was seen to take place
continually against the Raiders.
The boys really meant business,
and, although there’s still plenty
of room for improvement, they
showed that certain spark and de
termination which should make
them a strong contender for the
SWC championship.
The tackling also showed up
nicely. Bill Sibley, the Ags’ peppery
center, who formed a bad habit of
tackling the ball instead of the
ball-carrier at L. S. U., showed
worlds of improvement in that de
partment. He came in hard, bowed
his head and tackled as if he really
meant business.
However, Felix Bucek and Wayne
Cure, gards, and Bill Henderson
phenomenal end, garnered most of
the honors for their sensational
playing. This writer continually
harped on the fact that Cure would
make the Aggies a fine football
player if he ever would put out
everything he’s got and it looks
like Wayne has done just that. He
and Bucek were the other two men
in Tech’s backfield, with either
“64” or “67” coming up with the
majority of the tackles.
I’m beginning to become ser
iously convinced that the Aggies’
hustling guard, namely Felix (Hon-
yak) Bucek is certain All-Con
ference material basing most of
my facts, of course, on the two
games played by the Aggies. The
husky Schulenburg “flash” has
proven to be a demon on defense
and if his blocking Saturday is any
kind of indication, he should rank
quite high before the year is out.
Incidentally, the Ags are great
ly fortified at the guard post with
Bucek and Cure and Weldon Map
les and Ray Mulhollan rated al
most on an equal basis. This quar
tet should give the Ags the best
guard play in the conference.
The tackle situation seemed to
perk up Saturday with Ben Stout,
Lennie Joeris, Bill Andrews and Ed
Sturcken doing a creditable job.
Their blocking and defensive play
showed much improvement over
last week’s exhibition. It is still a
decided problem but the way the
tackles played Saturday, Line
Coach Bill James shouldn’t have
much trouble in straightening out
that kink!
STAR OF THE WEEK DEPART
MENT. . .Two great stars receive
honor this week. First, Emory Nix,
the passing T. C. U. flash who
chunked the Frogs to a belated
13-6 win over Arkansas. No. 2
star is Felix Bucek, the Aggies’
sensational guard, who sparked the
Cadet defense against Texas Tech
Saturday afternoon.
Some Guys Have All the Luck But Not Gus
White, Fish Back; Hit by Automobile Sunday
At this time, I want to pause
for a minute or so and pay a great
tribute to a great kid, who’s had
more tough luck while he has been
at A. & M. than all of the other
Aggies combined. You might not
have heard of him but those who
know him will tell you that Gus
White, the sensational freshman
football and polo star, is one of
the most popular first year men
on the campus.
Well, Gus at the present time is
in the college hospital recovering
from an arm injury suffered Sun
day morning when he was side-
swipped by an automobile. Only
a week or so before, he had his
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College and Bryan
football career halted for a few
days when he suffered a broken
nose in a freshmen scrimmage.
And to add more wood to the fire,
Gus found out that he was a wee
bit late to get into his favorite
organization—the Cavalry.
Any other person would have
been tempted to pack up and leave
out but not Gus. He has shown
all the spirit that makes up a great
individual, taking everything with
a smile. I’m sure that everything
will turn out for the best and here’s
hoping that the Lamesa flash gets
back into action as soon as pos
sible. He’s a great football pros
pect and a great guy. Get well
quick Gus, we’re all for you!
SPORTS SQUIBS FROM HERE
AND THERE; A FEW NOTES ON
SOUTHWEST CONF TEAMS
The Rice Institute Owls now
hold the SWC drivers’ seat largely
because of their 27-14 win over
L. S. U. and Texas’ 3-0 defeat at
the hands of Northwestern. . .T. C.
U., too, is undefeated, but they
didn’t look anything like champ
ions in defeating Arkansas 13-6,
. . .The Aggies gained a notch
with their 19-0 win over Tech but
that L. S. U. defeat has sports ex
perts still a bit conservative on
Coach Homer Norton’s charges. . .
This corner’s conviction is that
Texas is yet the team to beat for
the crown, with Rice, T. C. U. and
the Aggies being probable threats
. . .Unless S. M. U. improves great
ly they will probably wind up in
the cellar. . .I’ll admit Pitt Pan
thers had a good offensive punch
but they played no better football
than they did against Minnesota. . .
Incidentally speaking of predictions
this corner barely passed the .500
mark. . .1 picked 9 out of 16 games,
which is a pretty sorry mark. . .
Rice, Baylor, and Tulsa University
were the best picks of the day. . .
Texas, S. M. U., Minnesota, Notre
Dame etc. let themselves be upset,
doggone it!. . .The St. Louis Card
inals are in!. . .When Whitey Kur-
owski, their rookie third-baseman,
slapped that homerun with Johnny
Hopp on base in the ninth inning,
it was a $6,000 dollar hit, for it
was just that each Card received
for winning the series. . .And, oh,
yes, Lil Dimmitt won a $10 hat
from Paul Douglas, MBS radio
announcer. . .Oh, well, don’t say I
didn’t tell you so! . . .Give Otto
Payne, the hard-running Aggie
soph a great pat on the back for
his exhibition Saturday. . .Otto
gave a grand imitation of John
(See KYLE FIELD. Page 4)
Battalion Sports
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1942 Page 3
Highlights of Saturday's Game
Shown above are reasons why the Aggies out
classed the Texas Tech Raiders on Kyle Field
last Saturday. Top photo shows Sophomore
Otto Payne crashing through for six yards and
a first down early in the third quarter. Johnny
Davis (No. 60) is shown coming into the play.
Middle picture shows Vernon Belville, triple
threat sophomore ace, scatting for 12 yards in
—Photo by Phil Crown,
the last period. Henry Foldberg (81) reserve
end is leading the play. Bottom shows Willie
Zapalac gathering in a pass from Leo Daniels
for 9 yards early in the second quarter. A
minute later Daniels connected with Zapalac for
a touchdown. Boots Simmons (No. 82) is follow
ing just behind.
Daniels, Henderson and Bucek Lead
Cadets to 19-0 Win Over! Tech Sat
The Texas Aggies lived up to pre
diction Saturday and came bounc
ing back with a 19-0 defeat of the
Texas Tech Red Raiders. The vic
tory was much more complete than
the score indicated, since the Ag
gies were in complete command of
the situation from the opening gun.
It took only one minute and 54
seconds for the crowd to realize
that the Aggies meant business
and were out to show the world
that the L. S. U. game was just
a mistake. The Aggies kicked off
to the Red Raiders to open the
contest and Callahan made a nice
run back to the Tech 35 yard line.
Two trys at the Aggie line netted
a minus eight yards for the Raid
ers, and on third down they elect
ed to kick. The entire center of
the Aggie line poured through to
block the punt, but the Red Raid
ers recovered, and, on his second
attempt Callahan got off a nice
punt.
Leo Daniels, playing safety man
for the Aggies, gathered in the
punt on the Aggie 45 yard line
set sail for the Tech goal line 55
yards away. Behind the beautiful
blocking of Bill Henderson, who in
cidentally took three men out of
the play, and Felix Bucek, Leo
ambled all the way to paydirt for
the first Aggie touchdown of the
game.
The second Aggie touchdown
came via the aerial route. After
several short passes netted two
first downs, Daniels shot a pass to
Bill Henderson who made a beauti
ful leaping catch, and then flipp
ed a lateral to Boots Simmons
who was trailing him on the play.
This put the ball on the Tech 12
yard line. From this point Daniels
threw a bullet pass to Willie Zap
alac who gathered in the ball on
the Tech five and smashed his way
over with a Tech man hanging on
his back.
At this point Coach Norton be
gan experimenting with various
combinations of both backs and
linemen, and also gave his sopho
mores some needed experience.
However, the Aggies were not to
be stopped and the third touch
down came when a sustained Aggie
drive from midfield culminated in
Otto Payne’s plunging over from
the one yard line for the score.
Although the Aggies won the
contest handily, several rough
(See AGGIES, Page 4)
TUMBLING TEAM
The Aggie Tumbling Team
will meet today at 6 o’clock in
the Ex-Students’ Lounge of the
old" Y MCA, announces Bobby
Stephens. All old members are
urged to attend and any fish
or frogs who are interested in
tumbling are cordially invited
to come to the meeting.
A few old members are re
turning to the team but the
squad is in need of a number
of new men. Practice sessions
are held during the week in the
gym-
The Tumbling Team gives a
number of exhibitions during the
year; the most of which occur
during the half at home bas
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Athletic equipment, in the form
of footballs and horseshoes, is now
being issued to organizations
through their re
creational offic
ers. The deposit
-equired on horse
shoes is two dol
lars, which is re
turned. The total
cost of the foot
ball is $6.60 but
the Intramural
department i s
Mik. Mann taking in half
needs to pay but $3.30 for the ball
and it becomes the permanent pos
session of the organization pur
chasing it.
Dewey Hoke of the Intramural
department requests that all re
creational officers whose oufits
have not paid their five dollar in
tramural fee to please come down
and do so at once.
Today is the last day for re
creational officers to turn in the
entry cards for both Class A and
B sports. These cards may be given
to intramural officials at the re
creational officers meeting which
takes place at 6 p.m. today in the
CE Lecture room. All re
creational officers are urged to be
present as several important points
will be discussed and new rulings
will be revealed. Changes which
have been made in the eligibility
rules and playing rules will be
announced at this time.
“Spike” White announces that
scheduling for the current semes
ter’s sports will begin tomorrow
and the completed schedules will
be sent to all organizations before
the end of the week.
The participation figures for the
past semester have just been com
piled by Hoke who handles the
statistical end of the intramural
department. The total participa
tion in Class A sports is 5,284 and
the Class B figure stands at 4,765;
making a total of 10,049 men par
ticipating in all sports and class
es. The number of different stu
dents participating in Class A
sports is 2,311 and the number for
Class B is 1,373; bringing up a
total of 3,684 different students who
took part in the summer Intramur
al program. These figures show
that interest in Intramural ses
sions in Aggieland has not waned.
All except a few sports showed a
decided increase in participation
figures.
In the normal school year from
September, 1941, to May, 1942,
16 different sports were offered by
department during the two semes
ter session with a total participa
tion of 24,021. During the 1942
summer session, only five sports
were offered and the total partici
pation was computed to be 10,149.
Thus, with less than the usual num
ber of sports being offered it is
seen that the interest is still high.
There will be a meeting to dis
cuss the rules of touch football
Thursday at 6 p.m. in the closed
end of the Kyle Field stadium. *
Aggie Fish Work
For Allen Fray
Coach Lil Dimmitt and his as-
istants, Bill Buchanan, Fuel Wes
son and Charlie Stevenson are
shooting the works to the Texas
Aggie freshmen as they prepare
for their initial game Wednesday
October 14 against Allen Academy
on Kyle Field.
Blocking, tackling and passing
drills highlight the freshman prac
tice. At times, the Fish amble over
to the varsity practice field to
give the Nortonmen a stiff work
out. At other times the freshmen
A and B teams clash against each
other in an old fashioned scrim
mage affair.
So far, the coaches are not set
on their starting lineup but have
indicated who some of the boys
might be. Ends are plentiful and
the positions still are unclaimed.
Roland Phillips and George Stroh-
meyer seem to have a slight edge
at gqard while James Presley is
almost in a class by himself at the
pivot spot. Tackles are still a ques
tion mark although Line-Coach
Wesson can boast of numerous
heavyweight gridsters.
The backfield still is uncertain
with only Marion (Pete) Flanagan,
Sweetwater’s sensational fullback,
being certain of a starting berth.
Until his recent accident, Gus
White of Lamesa was a sure
starter. Others showing up well
include Beryl Baty, backfield star
from Paris, Desmond Zock of Port
Arthur and a few more.
Besides the Allen game, two
other frays are scheduled at pre
sent—tilts with Rice Slimes and
the Texas Shorthorns. Coach Dim
mitt is also attempting to sched
ule games with Ellington Field and
the Waco Flying School but no
thing definite has been announced
as yet.
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