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t 1 - tv V r r l) i fie Hiin Battalion Sports Editor Aggies Are in Fine Mental Shape for Texas; Latter Must Beat Cadets to Win SWC Crown The warmup season is over. Thursday afternoon in the horse shoe shaped turf of Memorial Sta dium, Coach Homer Norton’s in and out Texas Aggies open their “conference season” against the Texas Longhorns. I say “open their conference sea son” meaning literally that Coach Norton and his boys regard that crucial tilt with Texas University as their whole season, and it’s vice-versa for the Longhorns. It’s been that way for years. Re gardless of how many games either team had won, that final fling of the season was the main affair. In 1938, Texas had not won a game conference or non-conference. But they beat the Aggies, 7-6, and the Orange and White partisans re garded that as a very successful year. Thursday at Memorial Sadium, the Aggies will not only attempt to smash a jinx that has hovered over them for 20 years, but they will also try to gain a revenge for last year’s Kyle Field deficit. The pressure is on the Steers. They have to beat the Aggies to win the conference championship, while the latter has nothing to do but sit back and watch the tide go by. “This game doesn’t mean any thing for us as far as conference standings are concerned,” said Coach Homer Norton, “but we do want to have fun and the only way we’ll have that is by whipping Tex as.” We can beat Texas! It’s been done twice this year and by teams that boast of no spectacular rec ord. Northwestern did it and they haven’t won a game since. TCU accomplished the deed and they fell before Rice, 26-0. Sure, the Long horns are powerful but they’re not invincible. But in thinking of this game, let’s not have our optimism run away with us. We’re not going to beat Texas just because someone comes out and says that we will. That would be pure folly to think of it in that manner. Yessir, the team will have to play its top game of the year, nay, even better than that. To beat Texas university, the Aggies will really have to be a championship team, and the grid- sters fully well realize that. • • The jinx? Well, what about that dratted omen? If Texas can smash a supposedly jinx, well, so can the Aggies. They have the boys that can do it and I’m sure they’ll put out everything that they have. Comparatively, man for man, the Aggies can boast of as good a team as Texas. Certainly, the ends, guards and centers rate as good if not better than the TU forward wall. The backfield may fall a bit Get Set for Those THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS New Arrivals Junior-Senior Uniforms Junior-Senior Caps Cotton Shirts Fish Slacks Officers Field Jackets CXOCKICM College and Bryan behind but they can do quite a number of things that the “Forty Acres” lads are unable to do. One thing sure, however. Mr. Gus Fan, the little fellow, the big guy and the lean guy who pays his hard-earned dough to see the game, will get his money’s worth—don’t you worry about that. Both the Aggies and the Longhorns will see to it! The Aggies are ready for a ball game. Never has a team been more OUT ON THE LIMB A. & M. 7, Texas U. 0. Tulsa 14,.Ark. U. 7 (watch out) Rice 19, Baylor 0. T.C.U. 13, S.M.U. 6. Georgia 20, Georgia Tech 13. ready mentally to play a football game, and the Cadets will play a game that’ll make each and every Aggie smile and say with pride, “FELLA, THAT’S MY TEAM!” STAR OF THE WEEK DE PARTMENT ... To Wendell Wil liams, combination end and back for Rice Institute, who sparked the Owls to an astounding 26-0 victory over TCU. NOTICE Franklin’s will be closed Thanksgiving Day, November 26 WE’RE SOLID FOR OUR NO. 1 TEAM Stomp Those Steers The Student Co-op One Block East of Main Post Office Yearlings Defeat Fish, 12 - 0, in Finale Soggy Ball Bogs DownCadet Passing Attack in Tilt Sat BATTALIONA— On a muddy, rain-soaked grid iron that completely nullified- their passing game, the Texas Aggie Fish lost their first game of the season to the Texas U. Yearlings Saturday in Memorial Stadium by a 12-0 count. This extended the winning streak of the Yearlings to six straight games over the Fish. Wayland Hill and Frank Guess accounted for the scores in the last two periods with long runs. The first half ended with the score deadlocked at 0-0, the Year lings having missed two attempts to score. Early in the game Guess ran the ball down to the 19-yard line for a first down. Jack Mitchell then ran around left end to the Aggie 8, where Guess’s fumble was recovered by Jack Rollins of the Fish on the five. Shaven-headed Bart Haltom once kicked out on the Yearling three, but Texas got out of that hole when Guess kicked out to the the 41. Then a short time later Hal- tom’s kick was blocked on the Ag gie 15 and Texas recovered. Here, however, the Fish put up a goal line stand, and Texas was forced to try a field goal, which was no good. Early in the second half the Yearlings recovered an Aggie fum ble deep in Fish territory, but that T. U. threat was stopped when Guess fumbled and the Fish punt ed out. However, on the next play Texas came back. Wayland Hill took a hiandoff from Guess and ran 35 yards to pay dirt. The second Yearling touchdown came after Haltom punted to Guess on the Aggie 47. On the next play Guess took the ball around right end for 47 yards and a score. The try for point was no good. The starting lineups: Aggies Pos. Yearlings Hotchkiss L.E. Bacek Philips L.T. Hamberger Strohmeyer L.G. Heap Sparks C. Prewitt Neumann R.G. Butler Wright R.T. McFarlane Block R.T. Cowsar White B.B. Mitchell Flanagan W.B. Williamson Haltom F.B. Guess Baty T.B. Hill The score by periods: Yearlings 0 6 6—12 Aggies 0 0 0 0— 0 Extra Battalions Issued Next Month Those students who failed to get a copy of the November issue of the Battalion magazine because the Student Activities office ran out will be given two copies of the December issue, or a free copy of any back issue they may desire, L. D. Boone, director of student activities, said yesterday. Tuesday Morning, November 24, 1942 Page 3 Roy Dale McKay--TU’s Best Griffin And Maddox Win Track Event A CWS, I CAC Take Top Team Places In Intramural Contest Don G. Griffin, A Chemical War fare, and R. M. Maddox, E Infan try, were the individual winners in Class A and B cross country races, respectively, in the runoffs which took place at the Gym Sunday aft ernoon. Griffin was followed by W- B. Morehause, A Infantry, and Scott Potter, B Coast Artillery, who took second and third places. J. T. Moss, F Engineers, second, and L. A. Archer, I Coast Artillery, took third placb, in the Class B race. The winning time set by Griffin was 11:7.8 while Maddox ran the course in a faster time of 10:18.4. The team winners of the races were A Chemical Warfare in Class A and I Coast Artillery in the Class B competition. The team champs were decided by figuring the placings of the five men who (See GRIFFIN, Page 4) ELOY £ /C/4 Y~~ Tex. Bock. McKay Is Top Texas Steer Offensive Star By Chick Hurst He started every game last year . . . but only to kick off. Most of the time he was on the bench. But this year he’s the leading ball car rier of the Southwest Conference, the third leading passer, and the third leading punter. His name is Roy Dale McKay and he’s come a long way from when practically the only thing he did was kick off. HIGHLITES* bifs-Ttlike TTfann T. P. Faulkner led his team mates of D Field Artillery to a smashing 19-6 Class B Basketball victory over E Coast Artillery. Faulkner tallied 19 points and was supported by C. J. Kallina with 12 points and C. R. Anderson with eight. C Replacement Center swamped A. Field Artillery by a score of 29- 9 as W. W. Wil son was high - point man with 10 10 points and was closely followed by T. M. Hood with ’ nine points and L. C. Cantu with seven. W. F. Mik. Mann Griffith with six points and L. A. Archer with four led I Coast Artillery to a 13-5 win over A Infantry. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE Class A Football B Engineers F Engineers E Replacement Center I Coast Artillery Handball I Coast Artillery A Quartemasters Tennis C Replacement Center Class B Ping Pong F Infantry E Infantry E Replacement Center Football H Coast Artillery Basketball C Signal Corps Volleyball E Engineers t Headquarters Cavalry went down in defeat before the on slaughts of A Coast Artillery in a Class A basketball match with a 32-15 score. E. R. Stewart and R. F. Edwards each scored eight points for the winers and E. C. Massingill accounted for six more. When the Aggies face Texas Thursday in the battle which means the season to the Cadets, McKay will be the most feared man in the vaunted Texas backfield. To be sure, the Longhorns have other good backs but without McKay they just don’t seem to click, as the Texas-T.C.U. game evidently showed. Tippjpg the scales at 190 pounds, McKay is one of the hardest driv ing ball carriers in the conference, and in addition he is one of the fastest stepping backs on a broken field. In 114 times he has carried the ball, McKay has a net gain of 671 yards, 81 yards more than his closest opponent. It would seem that practically the entire Texas offense is built around McKay, and he could be classed as a quintuple threat maii. Not only does he do most of the ball carrying, he does practically all the passing, the punting, he kicks extra points and when some one else carries the ball he blocks. Altogether Mr. McKay is quite a guy. PREPARE Have Your Clothes Cleaned for the Game and Holidays WE’RE FOR YOU ARMY, STOMP ’EM Holick Cleaners Ben Youngblood, Mgr. North Gate Williamson Gives TU Edge Over Aggies By Paul B. Williamson This Thanksgiving Day will see several classic football games that are wrapped in many old time tra ditions, and that are always hard fought regardless of current rec ords. This year most of these an nual get-togethers are between op ponents respectively that are very closely ranked by the Williamson system. In the Southwest as usual at this time of year, the chief attrac tion is the annual clash between Texas and Texas A. & M. In this affair the nod goes to Texas, but it is close. With only a few points separating the two teams in my ratings, the game could go either way. Other Thanksgiving predictions are Pennsylvania over Cornell, Tu- lane over Louisiana State, and Col gate over Brown among the name teams, The leading game Saturday, from the standpoint of nation-champion ship, will be the Army-Navy game at Annapolis. This affair is pretty hard to figure, but the system fa vors the Navy. What might have been the game of the year and for the national championship, will come off when Georgia and Georgia Tech meet this week. When the Bulldogs of Georgia fell before Auburn last week 27-13, a possible national foot ball champion fell a week ahead of schedule. As matters now stand, the System takes the Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech. In other games Saturday the Williamson System predicts Ala bama/ over George Preflight, Bos ton College over Holy Cross, in what may be harder than it looks because it is always a tough af fair; Detroit over Oklahoma A. & M.; Ohio State over Iowa Preflight M. in a honey; North Carolina Pre flight over Fordham, and Rice over Baylor in a hard one to decide. A new portrait of Governor Coke R. Stevenson was recently presented to the Texas Memorial Musueum at the University of Texas. Because of its abundance of good flight conditions and its compara tively level terrain, Texas is a nat ural field for both civil and mili tary air activity. We’re Pulling For You, Army Polish Off Those Steers Y M C A BARBER SHOP In the Old “Y” FEATURING THE BEST Cowboy Boots Shoe Repair I HOUCK’S BOOT SHOP North Gate RIDE THE BUS TO BRYAN Safe— Courteous and reliable drivers. Modern, well- maintained buses. Dependable— Buses leave College on the hour. Half hour on Saturday afternoons. 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