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\ « Aggies in Prime Shape for Corpus Christi Clash Today Intramural Program Opens Mon By (Hike Haikin Battalion Sports Editor Picking Aggies, Texas, SMU, Arkansas And TCU to Win Today; Tulane to Upset Rice Owls Again, as of past Saturdays, it’s football pickin’ time, something that usually gives the humble prognosticator quite a headache. It wasn’t so bad heretofore, but this year, not even such schools as the Burkswitch Teachers College are following the straight gridiron form. When you have a little college as previously mentioned come up and slap down a team as prominent as Notre Dame or Fordham or for the matter of fact any big college, that’s the time to go to the nearby drug store and order a bicarbonate. And that has been the situation as football enters its fourth week of play. Today another week of hectic football will be reeled off. There are so many close games scheduled that all one has to do in order to pick the favored team is just flip a coin. Here we go again, though, stick ing the good ole neck out with some of the rashest predictions of the football year. Here they are— take ’em or leave ’em. A.&M. 20, CORPUS CHRISTI 7 —Coach Homer Norton’s Texas Aggies who rebounded so grace fully from their first defeat should have enough power to turn back the challenge of an improved Cor pus team. The latter has lost many key players through injuries, grad uation, etc., and just don’t seem to have enough strength to turn back the tide. TULANE 12, RICE 6—Our long shot of the day. If some of you may remember I was the bright(?) boy who picked the Owls to defeat a powerful Tulane team in the upset of the day last year, and they came through like champions. This year the tables are reversed BRIEF SHORTS | That Give Long-Term Comfort! | ; ’B.V.D.'s knitted Brief Shorts I are famed for their coolness, | comfort and superior wear! | You'll welcome the mild sup- i port they give you, and the freedom of their special stretch construc tion. There's a very pleasing price tag on them, too—just •Regr. U.S. Pkt. Off. 60c cxe CHICKS B College and Bryan l i^nninniuiiim and Coach Jess Neeley’s charges are in the drivers’ seat, being a slight favorite over the Greenies. Tulane started off the year with a bang but the following slumped badly. Today it should get back on the right track—maybe. If the Owls come through today, they will be definite threats for the conference crown! Two powerful teams clash against each other and one will give way. It’s my hunch that Rice will be the one! TEXAS UNIVERSITY 33, OK LAHOMA SOONERS 0—Follow ing that stinging 3-0 deficit suf fered by the Longhorns to North western last week, it’s this cor ner’s conviction that Coach Bible’s eleven will come back roaring with an overwhelming victory over OU. The Sooners are not as powerful this year as they were in the past, so the Longhorns shouldn’t have much trouble in winning the game. ARKANSAS 20, BAYLOR 13— This is definitely a toss-up af fair but because the game is be ing played in the Ozark country, I’ll string along with those big Razorbacks. They showed a stub born line against T.C.U. last week, while Baylor was having all sorts of fits in defeating Oklahoma A.&M. 18-12. The Pokers win the flip! SMU 13, HARDIN-SIMMONS 7 —If I was basing this pick on the Mustang performance against Pittsburg last week, I would un hesitatingly give the Cowboys a 20 point edge. However, I figure the Mustangs to have improved a 100% and if that’s a fact, they will field a better team than Har- din-Simmons. Don’t underrate the Abilene gridsters—they’ve got a good ball club—but not good enough to tumble two Southwest Confer ence teams in one year. If the Mustangs lose, I honestly will be very much surprised. TCU 27, KANSAS UNIVERSI TY 0—Just a warmup game for the Froggies in preparation for their on-coming clash with the Texas Aggies next week. Kansas is reportedly as weak as their rival, Kansas State, and what Texas did to that team shouldn’t have been done to a dog! Taking LSU to Defeat Miss State in Upset Looking ’em over in the nation I’ll take the Iowa Preflight Cadets in a squeeze over Michigan, LSU by a nose over Mississippi State in the biggest upsets of the deep South, Minnesota to get back in its winning ways by pasting a two- touchdown defeat on Illinois, Ohio State by a nose over Southern Cal, Notre Dame to rise again, this time at the expense of Stanford, Marquette over Iowa State, Geor- (See KYLE FIELD. Pag* 4) LOUPOT’S AN AGGIE TRADITION A GOOD PLACE TO MEET YOUR FRIENDS Cold Drinks - Candy - Sandwiches GEORGE’S Across From New “Y” Ed Sturcken Will Start In LieuOfJoeris Daniels-Franck Duel Expected; Webster In Fine Shape for Game With one win already tucked safely under their belts, the Tex as Aggies go after win No. 2 this afternoon down in the Gulf Coast city of Corpus Christi when they clash against Lt. Marty Karow’s edition of the Corpus Christi Na val Air Station Comets. Game time is 2:30. Arriving at the fair city at 5 o’clock Friday afternoon, Coach Homer Norton’s charges took a brisk workout at the Buccaneer High School Stadium before re tiring in preparation for today’s fray. Sturcken to Start Before he left, Coach Norton announced only one change in the starting lineup. Ed Sturcken, 224 lb. converted back now playing tackle, will in all probability get the call over Leonard Joeris at the right tackle post. Joeris has been troubled with an elbow injury all last week and, at the latest re ports, was not in the pink of con dition. However he will see some service today. Jake Webster—Automatic Jake he’s known to his teammates—has been nursing a knee injury for the past two weeks but Norton indi cated that he would start the Sweetwater back. Webster didn’t see any service against Texas Tech last week at all and, until, this past Wednesday has been act ing in capacity of a spectator in the Aggie scrimmages. However, he was going full steam Thurs day and it is more than a mere possibility that he will start. Should he miss the call, .Bobby Williams, hard hitting mite of the Aggie backfield will take his place. The rest of the team shapes up in fine style. Again as last week, the speed and passing prowess of (See AGGIES, Page 4) Intramurals :By Mike Mann: Monday is the big day for the Intramural department as this marks the opening of the fall and winter intramural season. Outwardly it appears that the in tramural sports program is carried on with a minimum of effort. The activity while the season is in pro gress is mostly routine work but “behind-the-scenes” view immedi ately before the season shows a be hive of activity. The work of dividing the teams into leagues and scheduling games for each of the leagues is an enor mous process. This is carried on, for the most part, by the intra mural departmental managers un der the supervision of the intra mural offices. All of the teams en tered in each sport have to be di vided into equal leagues and a schedule made for each league. In making the schedules each game has to be set for a particu lar hour. Drill days and team availability are just two of the items to be taken into account in setting a time for each match. All this care must be taken to enable each outfit to come forth at game time with its best player material. In addition to setting a time for the game, each must be assigned to a particular playing area with a definite court or playing field designated. Care must be taken not to assign two games to the same playing position at the same hour. The intramural department con ducted a meeting on touch football rules in the stadium Thursday evening for the benefit of the fish and frogs who expect to play touch football. A favorable turnout was seen and it is expected that this meeting will give those who at tended a better understanding of th game. With the intramural program on a one-semester basis the situation of forfeits has become more costly. Forfeits frequently occur at the be ginning of the season due to the fact that the schedules are not ob served closely. The process of get ting settled down also causes an oversight of the schedules. Let’s be careful and keep the Forfeit Doghouse at a minimum every day. BATTALION. SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1942 Page 3 Bolsters Aggie Defense Q&oots Simmons Elvis (Boots) Simmons, the Aggies’ veteran and unheralded end will be back at his old right end post today after being out with an ankle injury for the past two weeks. Simmons, not a flashy player, neverthless, has been an ominous part of the Cadet defense and offense. He is a capable pass receiver and is rated as one of the most blockers on the team. Aggie Rifle Team Begins TYT 1 1* m Marksmanship School Will Be Conducted For All New Members The Corps Rifle Team will open its season Monday, October 12 when the junior and senior mem bers of the varsity squad can re port any time during the following weeks from 9 a. m. until 6 p. m. for practice. Practice will last during the month of October, and scheduled postal matches will be gin the first week in November and last through January. Again a highlight of the team’s schedule is the annual shoulder to shoulder match with the T. S. C. W. team to be fired at Denton. This is the fourth annual affair for the Aggie sharpshooters. Prospects for the coming season are brigKt as Capt. C. A. Williams, team coach, has five lettermen with which to mold his team. Cook, team captain, Crossland, Dixon, Marshall, and Carperton are the experienced members of the squad. Captain Williams will be assisted by Sgt. Coyne. Monday night at 8 p. m. all stu dents interested in trying out for the team should go to the meet ing, which will be held at an an- anounced place. All those coming should bring a schedule of classes so that assignments to the dif ferent sections of the theory in struction can be made. This theory will be given for two weeks before any actual firing is done. At the end of this school eliminations will be held and the survivors will com pose the varsity and fish teams. (See RIFLE TEAM, Page 4) Basketball And Tennis Featured In Class A Sports The opening of the second intra mural program under the college’s speed-up plan will be Monday af ternoon. At the present time three sports are slated to be played in each division with additional sports to be included later. Two sports in each class will begin Monday while the remaining two will start the following Monday, October 19. The class A sports opening Mon day are basketball and tennis and the class B activities will be bas ketball and touch football. The two which will begin on October 19 are class A handball and class B volleyball. Intramural officials ex pect a high participation figure in both divisions of football and bas ketball as both of these sports have been extremely popular in the past. The number of students entering intramural sports have been on the upgrade and the de partment expects to have one of its best semesters in history. The work of dividing the teams into league and making schedules for these leagues began Wednes day and the departmental managers have just finished the long and tedious work. Intramural officials plan to have the schedules placed in the organization boxes in Ross hall sometime this morning where they may be picked up by the re creational officers or their first sergeants. As play will begin Mon day afternoon each recreational of ficer is urged to get his schedules as soon as possible. The average co-ed wears a size 14 dress. A TRADE WITH LOUPOT IS MONEY IN YOUR POCKET WE PROVIDE ---for--- Your Satisfaction — WHEN WE BUY — IT IS OUR POLICY TO BUY THE HIGHEST QUALITY MERCHANDISE AVAILABLE V THIS SAME HIGH QUALITY IS PRESENTED TO YOU AT PRICES YOU CAN AFFORD TO PAY THE EXCHANGE STORE An Aggie Institution