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Fish Stake Undefeated Record Against TU Today
Picking TCU, SMU and Detroit in Close
Games, Also Giving Fish Edge Over Yearlings
For the first time this year, Sat
urday will not be a football day
as far as the Cadet corps is con
cerned. Coach Homer Norton’s Ag
gies will treat this Saturday as
just another practice day as they
wind up their preparations for the
Turkey Day affair with Texas Uni
versity next Thursday.
But outside of this, the confer
ence will present two bang-up
games worth going miles to wit
ness. At Houston Rice and TCU
square off for what may be the
championship battle while at Waco,
the unpredictable Baylor Bears col
lide with a likewise unpredictable
SMU Mustang.
Gazing through that well-known
football crystal glass, this writer
again will attempt (and mind you
we say attempt) to pick the dillies
of the week. Yes, I realize after
that Baylor selection over Tulsa, I
should’ve quit but there’s no harm
in trying. So here goes:
TCU 20, RICE 14—The top
Southwest Conference attraction
for the day. Here’s a hunch that
the Frogs have finally found them
selves. Injury-stricken prior to the
Texas game, TCU suffered two
losses, but the minute that Tackle
Derrell Palmer and End Bruce Al
ford recovered from their injuries,
the Frogs went to town. Today they
are in full shape and should out-
score the Owls in a thrilling en
counter.
DETROIT 13, ARKANSAS 6—
The cellar-dwelling Arkansas Ra-
zorbacks have a good chance to
win this one from a seemingly weak
Detroit eleven. But the long trip
and a very weak record on the part
of the Hogs should give Coach Gus
Dorais’ team a slim margin of
victory.
AGGIE FISH 12, TEXAS YEAR
LINGS 7—With Buryi Baty pitch
ing for Coach Lil Dimmitt’s fresh
men, the Fish should win out over
the Shorthorns, but only after a
hectic battle. Only a month ago
the Yearlings gained a tie with
the Rice Slimes and that same
team was defeated by the Cadets
13-6. It’s going to be a close game,
but the Fish should win their first
tilt over Texas since 1937.
SMU 9, BAYLOR 6—The hard
est game to figure out. The Mus
tangs, in my opinion, are undoubt
edly the better team, but you can’t
ever tell anything about those
Bears when they’re playing on their
home soil. Coach Frank Kim
brough’s gridsters are plenty tough
at Waco—ask the Aggies—but I’ll
have to string along with the
Ponies primarily because of a good
aerial game. And Baylor is weak
on pass defense as Tulsa definitely
proved last week.
Predictions of Games Over Nation; Michigan
To Oust Ohio State in Feature Tilt of Day
Over the nation it’s Michigan
over Ohio State by a hair, Ala
bama over Vanderbilt, Georgia
over Auburn in a surprisingly close
tilt (those boys giving 14 points
on Auburn better keep their fin
gers crossed), Georgia Tech over
Florida by any margin they desire,
Oregon over Oregon State, Duke
over North Carolina State, Hardin-
Simmons over Texas Tech and
UCLA over Washington.
Looking further ahead it’s Min
nesota in a close one over Wiscon
sin, Boston College over Boston U,
Indiana over Purdue, Notre Dame
to come back with a decisive win
over Northwestern, Stanford over
California by a nose, Iowa Sea-
hawks over Nebraska, and Pitts
burgh over Penn State in an upset
win.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Bill
Henderson to Take Part in North-South Tilt
. . . Bill Henderson, slam-bang
Texas Aggie end, has received an
invitation to play in the annual
North-South bowl classic held each
year at Montgomery, Alabama . . .
one or two other Aggie gridsters
are expected to be either invited to
this bowl or to some other post
season affair . . . Jumping from
football a second, the comeback
of boxing to the A&M campus is
progressing nicely . . . Already
some 50 prospective leather push
ers have contacted Gus Link, who
has put in much time to this proj
ect . . . Talked to Doc Stocking,
Allen Academy boxing coach, and
he believes that it would be a
splendid idea if that sport would
be brought back to Aggieland . . .
He offered to help out as much as
possible . . . the A&M basketball
team is coming along nicely in its
workouts and should field another
hustling five, one reminiscent of
the Karow-built cage team last
year . . . That particular edition
didn’t win any games, but they in
jected enough interest with their
hustling play and more than once
had DeWare Field House overflow
ing with customers . . . this year’s
team is not centered around one
man but instead responsibility is
heaped on all five players . . .
According to statistics compiled by
Roy Gates and Ed Elmendorf of the
Publicity Department, Leo Daniels
leads the Aggies in passing and
running, is second in punts to Bar
ney Welch and is tops in punt re
turns . . . Coach Homer Norton, in
cidentally, almost guarantees that
the Aggies will score on Texas Uni
versity next week . . . “We may
not win the game,” said Norton,
“but I’ll bet my bottom dollar that
we won’t be whitewashed” . . .
Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? . . .
Hope the coach is right . . . the
fact is that the Ags have scored
but once in Memorial Stadium and
that was the result of a fumble
. . . Talk about a “dream” game,
that Georgia-Georgia Tech tussle
Thanksgiving should prove
to be the tops of all dream games
. . . The Rose and Sugar Bowls are
both at stake, with either team
sure of getting a post-season bid
regardless of the outcome ... If
pre-season dope would have run
true to form, the Aggies and the
Texas Longhorns probably would
be going into their battle unde
feated . . . But that’s Southwest
Conference ijpotball for you . . .
Incidentally, tickets are going fast
for the TU-A&M tilt, so be sure
to get yours before there’s a sellout
. . . the YMCA will have ducats
until 5 p. m. Tuesday . . . you
cannot get any student tickets after
that time . . . Don’t forget, “Re
member TU in ’42.”
OLE ARMY,
LET’S BEAT T.U.
SEE US FOR
SANDWICHES, CANDY,
COLD DRINKS
GEORGE’S
South Station
Ags in Top
Shape For
Today’sGame
Baty Expected To
Hurl Aerials Against
Yearlings' Gene Hill
By Chick Hurst
Senior Sports Assistant
The first round in the coming
brawl with Texas University will
be unreeled in Memorial Stadium
at Austin this afternoon at 2:30
when the undefeated and untied
Texas Aggie Fish tangle with the
undefeated but once-tied Texas
Yearlings in their annual scrap.
Both teams are in top shape for
the encounter, and a thrilling bat
tle is forecast. Sparkplug of the
Yearling attack is Gene Hill, 160
pound flash from Wichita Falls
whpse accurate aerial tosses have
been a feature of the Yearling at
tack this season. In addition to
him, the Yearlings have another
Hill who carries most of the bur
den of Coach Clyde Littlefield’s
well balanced ground attack, Way-
land Hill, former Temple High
School star.
Buryi Baty, standout back of
the Fish who injured his ankle
in the game with the Rice Slimes
is once again ready to go, and the
game will probably turn into an
aerial duel between Baty and Hill.
Gus White, hard driving Fish full
back, who stood out in the clash
with the Slimes is also ready to
go, and will be counted on heavily
by Coach Lil Dimmitt.
The fish will go into the game
rated as slight favorites, on the
basis of their slightly better rec
ord this season. The Fish defeat
ed the Rice Slimes by a 13-6 count,
while best the Yearlings were able
to do with the Slimes was a 7-7
tie, the only mar on their record
this year. However, the advantage
on the side of the Yearlings of
playing in their home stadium is
expected to more than offset this.
In addition to playing at home
the Yearlings boast the further ad
vantage of holding a winning
streak over the Fish dating back
to 1937. Not since the immortal
John Kimbrough and Co. were
freshmen have the Fish won from
the Yearlings, but the Fish this
year are out to snap the string
of Texas victories. Kickoff time
for the battle is slated at 2:30,
and a hard fought contest is ex
pected with the outcome very close.
There were 151 airports and
eleven seaplane anchorages in Tex
as listed by the Civil Aeronautics
Board as of January 1, 1941.
More than 450,000 passengers fly
in and out of Texas airports an
nually.
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Cross Country Held Sunday
BATTALION
Saturday, November 21, 1942
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SfVC’s Leading Scorer
Above is Jackie Field, Texas University halfback, who tops the
Southwest Conference in scoring, will be one of the mainsprings
of the oLnghorn attack when Dana X. Bible’s eleven clashes against
the Texas Aggies next Thursday on Memorial Field in Austin.
Jackie, next to All-American candidate Roy McKay, is the most
potent T.U. back, and it is truly a “Field Day” when that little
halfback gets the ball. He was the leading offensive threat in
Texas’ losing tilt against T.C.U. last week and is certain to be
a thorn in the Cadet side Turkey Day.
Jinx ■ Busters De - Lux
Both Ags and Longhorns Have
Broken Countless No of Jinxes
A couple of pretty fair jinx-
busting outfits, the Texas Aggies
and the Texas U. Longhorns, go to
work next Thursday on the South
west Conference’s greatest remain
ing football hex—the one which
forbids the Aggies to trim the
Steers in the latters’ Memorial
Stadium at Austin.
Matter of Course
Until a couple of seasons ago,
it was taken as a matter of course
that the Southwest Conference
grid champions never repeated,
that Texas would beat the Aggies
at Austin and, conversely, that
the Steers never had a chance to
win on the Cadets’ own Klye Field.
In 1940, however, the Aggies
came through for a SWC co-cham
pionship which, coupled to the title
they won outright the year be
fore, badly strained, if not broke,
the “they don’t repeat” adage.
And last year, when Texas U.
occasionaly had the nation’s No.
1 team, the Kyle Field jinx was
blasted to smithereens by an or-
ange-and-white crew that slapped
a 23-0 shellacking on an Aggie
eleven that already had clinched
the conference crown.
Question Mark This Year
What will happen in this war
year of 1942, in the Southwest’s
last great game before gas ra
tioning ?
The answer will be known at
dusk next Thursday. Until then,
all Gus Fan can do is look at the
comparative records of the two
clubs in this wackiest of all foot
ball seasons—‘and then flip a coin.
At present, the Longhorns share
the conference lead with four vic
tories and one defeat, while the
Aggies are out of the running with
two won, two lost and a tie. But,
as every football fan in the Lone
Star state knows, the records
mean nothing when these arch
rivals get together, as demonstrat
ed by the 7-0 victory of the medi
ocre 1940 Texas team over a
Cadet outfit which had won 19
straight until that meeting in
Austin.
The Austin Jinx Gates from 1922,
when the Aggies beat the Steers
Dean Kimball Speaks
Monday Night at 8:45
Dexter Simpson Kimball, dean
emeritus of the school of engineer
ing of Cornell university, will speak
to the Economics, Industrial Edu
cation, and Marketing and Finance
clubs Monday night at 8:45 in the
Petroleum lecture room.
Dean Kimball, who is on the
campus for this semester giving a
lecture course in industrial educa
tion, will speak on “Problems of
the War Production Board.”
14-7 in the capitol city. Since then,
the Aggies have won no games in
Memorial Stadium, and have scor
ed only one touchdown—that on
a fumble recovered by an Aggie
guard behind the Longhorn goal
line in 1938.
T.U. Holds Edge
Texas is the only team in the
Southwest Conference to hold an
edge over the Aggies in their all-
time series, having won 29 games,
lost 15 and tied four in the string
of tussles which goes back to 1894.
The teams haven’t played every
year since 1894, there being a gap
from 1894 to 1098, and again from
1911 to 1915, but in some of the
early years of the rivalry the
teams met twice.
Up until last season, Texas had
not won a game at College Sta
tion since 1923, when a fumble
recovered behind the goal line tum-
the rtick, 6-0. The two teams
played a thrilling 10-10 tie here
in 1933.
This time the Aggies are not
out to break the Memorial Stadium
huoodoo, but to get revenge for
that 23-0 outrage on Kyle field
last November, while the Long
horns, their hopes for- an unbeat
en season already blasted twice,
are anxious to wind up their con
ference schedule with a third con
secutive victory over their greatest
rivals.
Intramuralists Urged to Report to
Kyle Field at Three ©’Clock Sharp
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock
cross country entrants will start
reporting to Kyle Field to prepare
for the event which will open the
cross country races, All freshmen
are instructed to report to the east
side of the gym at 3 p. m. to ob
tain instructions from the black-
Zapalac and Rogers
Still Out; Secret
Work Holds Sway
Secret practice is still predom
inate in Coach Homer Norton’s
plans, so nothing is known of
what the Cadets are up to as they
make preparations for their crucial
encounter with the Texas Long
horns.
The injury hex is still around
in the Aggie camp with both Willie
Zapalac, ace blocking back, and
Cullen Rogers, wingback and sig
nal-caller, still ailing. However,
Trainer Lil Dimmett declared that
their shoulder injuries are improv
ing rapidly and there’s an even
chance that either will get to play
lots of ball next Thursday.
The Aggies have been going
through a light practice all week
with scrimmages entering into the
schedule now and then. Coach Nor
ton isn’t taking any chances of
having another important player
injury; thus the reason for the
rather light sessions. This after
noon, the Ags will spend most of
their time polishing up ori plays
and formations, with a light scrim
mage expected to highlight the
way’s work.
boards placed there and to receive
the number tokens which they must
carry throughout the race. These
tokens must be turned in to the
officials at the end of the race and
will be used to determine the
placings. This race will begin at
3:30 p. m.
All recreational officers or their
junior assistants are reminded that
it is necessary for them to report
to the Intramural office some time
today to certify the five men who
will run the Class B Cross Coun
try race for each organization.
This need not be done for Class A
entrants.
The starting point will be the
fence on the west side of the prac
tice football fields adjacent to the
stadium. The entrants will run
across both of the gridirons and
head for the drive between the
stadium and gym. They will follow
this drive between the gym and
athletic office out into the street
and turn right as they pass through
the Kyle Field Gate. From the
on the course is clearly and defi
nitely marked with signs reading
“X Country” which will guide the
contestants around the course and
back to the finishing point line on
the east cinder track even with the
50-yard line on the football field.
Participants in the Class A event
must be at the starting point not
later than 3:45 p. m. to go through
the same procedure of organiza
tion as the Class B entrants. The
Class B race will start at 4 p. m.
and the course will be the same as
that followed by the freshmen.
Five men must finish the race to
gain the 50 enlg-y points for their
organization.
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