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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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