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Fighting Aggies Will Gatewood, Sibley Duel Features Tilt Ag-s Seek First Win Nortonmen All Set for Big Test Against Of Conference; Bears Baylor Today; Take Short Workout Friday Have a “Home” Team WACO, October 23.—Coach Homer Norton’s Texas Ag gies arrived to this Central Texas city of the Baylor Bears at 3 o’clock and after a short rest took a brisk workout at Muny Stadium. Dummy plays, passing and kicking were par ticularly emphasized before the Ags finally turned in for the night. Incidentally, this big little town of over 55,000 population is all hepped up about the game and a capacity crowd is expected to fill the Waco stadium. Aggies are ar riving here by the hundreds and in all it promises to be a slam- bang affair this afternoon. The Maroon and White skirt ed Cadets are odds-on-favorites to defeat the plucky Bruins of Bay lor University but the gridsters of Coach Homer. Norton are not letting themselves be carried away by such talk. The fully well real ize what Coach Kimbrough’s charges can do on their home field and are all set to meet the chal lenge! PICKING AGGIES, TEXAS, TCU, OLE MISS AND CORPUS CHRISTI IN SWC CLASHES Give you SUPPORT FOR LIFE • Brevs" are ma<_e to give gentle but firm support. An elastic-core cotton insert at the crotch yields gently with every body movement and always returns to its original shape. Neither wear nor washing de stroys the lasting » r . support of "Brevs ” l OUC .• w v-t-iy wear CJU0CHI£RS College and Bryan Well, here I go, sticking out my neck on those blamed predic tions. Won’t I ever learn? Last week’s results brought forth an 80 per cent average, meaning the writer picked 16 games out of the 20 predicted. So, with a little more courage than before, I go into the mess of this week with head un bowed. Let ’em roll! TEXAS A.&M. 21, BAYLOR 7— A bit on the optimistic side when considering the records of the two teams, but I have a hunch that the Aggies will finally hit their stride this afternoon with a varied attack that will sweep the Bruins off their feet. TEXAS 13, RICE 7—Don’t let that exhibition by the Longhorns last week fool you. Arkansas has one of the weakest teams in the nation and just because Coach Bi ble believes in running up a huge score doesn’t mean that Texas has the powerhouse most people are went to believe. Rice is primed for this battle and may turn the tables. I would have, unhesitantly picked the Owls but for that “ma rine” deal a week ago. The boys may still be wanting to show what they can do and if that’s the case, the Steers are going to be in for a tough battle. However, I do be lieve that there’s too much McKay and Field for the Owls and those two boys will make the difference! TCU 27, PENSACOLA 0—The Frogs continue to be undefeated with an easy victory. It’s only a pleasure cruise for Coach Dutch Meyer’s charges and they shouldn’t encounter any trouble from the naval base. CORPUS FLYERS 20, SMU 7— Those highflying sailors of Marty Karow should continue their come back trail unabated. After losing to Texas and Rice respectively, the Comets have found the trail easy in their past two games. Somebody may stop the Karowmen but it won’t be SMU. MISSISSIPPI 16, ARKANSAS 6 —Two weak teams collide against each other, but I’ll give Ole Miss By Calvin Brumley After a week of intensive drill those fighting Aggies arrived in Waco yesterday afternoon filled with determination to give the Baylor Bears a thorough thrash ing. On the rebound from the de feat at the hands »of T. C. U. last Saturday the Aggies are favored to win over the Bears despite the fact that the' Aggies have been able to defeat the Bears only twice when Baylor was playing on the home grounds. Even the great Aggie team of ‘39 was held to a 7 point victory. Highlighting the game will be the duel between Dub Sibley, A. & M.’s all-conference center and Buddy Gatewood—Baylor’s steller pivot man. The outcome of this battle may well decide the all-con ference selection for this year be cause Gatewood was ranked a close second to Sibley last year and on the basis of their play this year many writers favor Gatewood. Closly following in interest will be the prospect of two of the loop’s leading passers—Leo Daniels of the Aggies and Bill Coleman of the Bears—tossing aerial shots all over the field. “Lightning Leo” leads in total yardage gained but “Lit tle Willie”has a remarkable per centage of 540. Coach Norton has been drilling his charges in gruelling blocking and passing workouts for the past week. Special attention was given to blocking the secondary out after the ball carrier has passed the line of scrimmage. Both linemen and backs showed ruthlessness in carry ing out their assignments much to Coach Norton’s delight. Standout in practice this past week was little Bobby Williams, the dimitive flash from Elorado.- Bob’s recent marriage seems to have added zest to his running and that coupled with his usual perfor mance promises to spell trouble for that “good ol’ Baylor line.” Sparking the team in workouts have been Willie Zapalac, “Slick” Rogers and Wayne “Whiskey” Cure with brilliant blocking. “Piano Legs” Daniels is expected to turn in his usual performance with a little extra zip and accur acy due to constant practice this past week. the advantage primarily because they’re playing on their home grounds. Taking a peek at other top- notch games of the nation, I’ll take the Michigan Wolverines by a touchdown over Minnesota in a free scoring tilt, Notre Dame over Illinois, UCLA in an upset victory over Santa Clara in our long shot (See KYLE FIELD. Page 4) m ! HEY!! FISH - FROGS - SOPHS BLOUSES MADE REGULATION FOR ONLY 90c YOU WILL BE ISSUED YOUR BLOUSES NEXT WEEK. BRING THEM TO US FOR PATCHES - ALTERATIONS - GOLD BRAID CLEANING AND PRESSING WE HAVE PLENTY OP GOOD BRAID AND PATCHES AND WE KNOW HOW TO • DO THE JOB Meet Baylor Bears Today BATTALION!) Saturday Morning, October 24, 1942 Page 3 Williamson Picks Baylor Over Aggies in Close Game By Paul B. Williamson The Williamson System comes through with more of its startling predictions, and expects startling- results. This week there are nu merous shockers on the lists, and plenty of upsets are expected. In the Southwest, the best game is to be the Baylor-Texas Aggie battle, with Baylor getting the nod. Another surprising prediction is Ole Miss over Arkansas, and Texas over Rice. In an intersec tional game, I’ll take T.C.U. over the Pensacola Flyers. After that take Missouri over Iowa State, and Home Team WR BAYLOR 89.2 Arkansas 82.6 HARDIN-SIMMONS - 89.0 Rice 90.0 L.S.U 92.8 Pensacola Flyers 83.9 Tulane * 90.2 BOSTON COLLEGE 95.0 Northwestern 90.2 Stanford 84.7 PENNSYLVANIA 87.0 Princeton 87.0 Navy 84.7 Illinois 96.4 INDIANA 92.9 IOWA PREFLIGHT 96.5 Kentucky 90.4 Minnesota ,92.4 OREGON STATE ....91.0 Pittsburgh , 87.0 SCHREINER 77.4 TENNESSEE .94.6 U.C.L.A .92.6 Yale 83.8 Indiana to beat Iowa U. Also Ala bama over Kentucky, Boston Col lege over Wake Forrest, Duke over Pitt, So. California over Stanford, and Georgia Tech over Navy. The game of the week will be played between Notre Dame and Illinois, with Notre Dame winning by a slim margin. Michigan should take Minnesota and Penn to bare ly skin over Columbia. Iowa Pre flight should win over St. Mary’s, Brown to beat Princeton, Santa Clara over U.C.L.A., and North Carolina over Tulane. Visiting Team WR Texas A. & M J....89.0 MISSISSIPPI 84.3 Texas Mines 78.8 TEXAS 90.1 GA. PREFLIGHT 94.2 T.C.U 93.7 NO. CAROLINA 92.8 Wake Forrest 92.4 OHIO STATE 95.2 SO. CALIFORNIA 89.9 Columbia 86.6 BROWN 88.4 GEORGIA TECH 96.3 NOTRE DAME ,.97.0 Iowa U 89.4 St. Mary’s 93.0 ALABAMA 98.8 MICHIGAN :.96.0 Washington St 88.5 DUKE 92.2 Ellington Field Furnam 86.4 SANTA CLARA 93.8 DARTMOUTH 89.3 Aggie Fish Prepare For Game With Rice Slimes on Nov 14 By Henry Holguin, The Aggie fish footballers, after their 71-0 triumph over the Camp Hood aggregation, are ready to go for their coming game with the Rice Slimes. The game is to be played November 14, the day be fore the A&M-Rice varsity game. The freshman game will be played on Kyle Field, even though the varsity game is to be played in Houston. The win over Camp Hood was the second for the fish in as many starts. The freshman team was scheduled to play another service team, the Stinson Field Flyers of San Antonio, but because of trans portation problems the game was cancelled. In the game last Wednesday, Flanagan added 18 more points to his total, when he scored three touchdowns for the Fish. Buryi Baty threw a total of 11 passes and completed 8 for a total of 113 yards and three touchdowns. The Fish compiled 18 first downs to three for their opponents. While the Camp Hood team gained 54 yards, the fish gained 426 yards in rushing and passing. The Fish who made touchdowns were Flana gan, Gear, Butchofsky, Haltom, White, Rollins, and Turner. Stroh- meyer, Dodson, Neuman and Tur ner kicked the extra points. The freshmen didn’t fumble dur ing the whole game, and Camp Hood fumbled but once. The penal ties were plentiful, 12 being in flicted on the Aggies and 4 on the service men. The entire Fish squad saw action in the game. Book Translated By Professors in New Mexico School Publication of an English trans lation of the book-length poem, “The Towers of Manhattan,” scheduled for this month by the University of New Mexico Press, will bring fruition to months of work for two New Mexico High lands university professors. They are Alfred Ortiz-Vargas, noted South American author and jour nalist, now a visiting professor of Spanish at Highlands, and Dr. Quincy Guy Burris, head of the university’s English department. In liquid, rhythmic verse Senor Ortiz-Vargas presents his impres sions of the United States as in terpreted through New York city, and his vision of the future of the western world. Dr. Burris has suc ceeded in translating the poem into English without loss of either beauty or grace. The Spanish or iginal already has been published. Publication of the English ver sion is sponsored by the commit tee on inter-American affairs, headed by Nelson Rockefeller. SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE FOOTBALL STATISTICS A&M—Opp Games Played 4 First Downs 41 33 Net Gains Rushing 249 383 Net Gains Fwd. Passing 427 212 Net Gains R & P 676 595 Forward Passes Attempted 91 55 Forward Passes Completed 42 23 Percent Complete 462 .418 Own Fwd. Pass. Intc ’... 10 4 Average Punt 33.2 35.4 Yards Lost Pen 178 228 (THROUGH GAMES OF 0 ( CTOBER 17) Ark—Opp Bay—Opp Rice—Opp 4 5 3 31 38 61 39 43 28 543 769 720 579 547 408 268 345 573 201 232 221 801 1114 1293 780 779 629 68 57 103 71 45 53 19 23 46 25 13 16 .279 .404 .447 .352 .289 .302 11 4 3 11 4 7 38.8 32.4 29.7 30.0 38.2 37.4 173 140 229 185 116 115 SMU- -Opp TCU- —Opp Tex— -Opp 4 4 5 41 39 63 28 77 34 242 702 780 169 1564 396 495 155 406 396 423 294 737 867 1186 565 1987 690 93 44 82 73 84 78 40 11 36 28 33 27 .430 .250 .439 .384 .393 .346 11 4 8 5 8 10 38.0 33.3 30.9 34.9 40.0 34.6 125 281 226 109 152 157 COMPLETE COVERAGE OF YOOR EVERY NEED ARROW SHIRTS and TIES HANDKERCHIEFS SHORTS WOOLEN AND LEATHER JACKETS SWEATERS All Quality Merchandise THE EXCHANGE STORE AN AGGIE INSTITUTION