Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1942)
Gagers Open Season Wed Aggies Help Unscramble Pacific Coast With Win Over WSC; Webster and Steymann Shine Well, it’s all over now but the shouting. It was one heck of a football year, especially for our Texas Aggies, but now that it’s all over, we can always look on the bright side. Yea, the Nortonmen didn’t gath er much honors this year, but they have the satisfaction of having been the key team to the biggest post season game in the country. If the Cougars had taken the Aggies in stride, they would have virtually clinched a Rose Bowl nomination but now the Bruins of UCLA are quite in the center of the picture. Also the decisive Aggie win put the University of California firm ly in the Rose Bowl scramble, for the Trojans, despite their four losses this year hold a victory over Washington State. A win for USC over UCLA Saturday will probably give them the nomination to repre sent the Pacific Coast at Pasadena and vice-versa. Everyone had a hand in the vic tory, but standing heads and shoul ders above the best of ’em was ■I \ hard- plugging Jake Webster ^ ' who makes it a ^ habit to reel off ““ a superb perform ance in the final ^game of each sea- n. Last year, | he tore that Ala- ;i b a m a line to shreds in the Cot ton Bowl and last Saturday he did a very similar job to the WSC for ward wall. What whs really beau tiful to observe was Webster’s un canny ability to work a cutback c/ G }f / ebster ei^mann after he had managed to break loose into the secondary. It fooled the Cougars completely, who had expected Webster to keep on run ning straight. All our orchids go to big Jake for a really and truly swell exhibition. A new star in the person of Walter “Jelly” Steymann made his appearance Sat urday. Jelly, a tackle, has played only a few min utes all year, but against Washing ton State, Stey- m a n n p 1 a yed some 30 minutes and did it in magnificent style. At the outset of the game, the Cougars were trapping the Aggie linemen with remarkable regular ity, that is, until Steymann made his appearance. Jelly proved to be quite smart and handled himself expertly. Most of the State run ning plays were trap plays and Jelly, instead of rushing like a madman, moved in cautiously. Thus he was able to make many, many tackles. His blocking also was far above par and Coach Nor ton and Line-Coach Bill James were quite satisfied with the big boy’s performance. STAR OF THE WEEK DE PARTMENT . . . This week the honor is equally divided between the Aggies’ line-plunging ace, Jake Webster, whose running zeal gained two of the three touchdowns against WSC, and Virgil Eiken- berg, sophomore Rice back, who sparked the Owls to a 13-7 victory over SMU. Sports Squibs From Here and There; A Few Notes on Activities Following Santone Tilt .... San Antonio proved to be a very popular town in the Aggies’ They’re IKrrow - sistahle ! • This may be a bad pun — but those Arrow ensembles are wonder ful! Shirt and tie were made for each other — and the seamless-crotch underwear is the most comfortable you’ve ever worn! (Shirt and shorts are Sanforized • labeled — shrinkage less than 1%.) Handkerchief har monizes, too. CXOCKl£M College and Bryan ARROW way of thinking ... Polly Krueger, head of the Santone Chamber of Commerce really gave all the Ca dets a swell reception . . . the town was football conscious from the minute the Aggies set foot in San Antonio and all the credit is due to Polly . . . Saturday night all the players, coaches and Aggie enthusi asts were given a big party in the Plaza hotel . . . Babe Hollingbery and his Washington State players were also on hand ... all proved to be very popular with the Cadets . . . following the steak dinner, each member of both teams received an engraved leather pocket-book . . . After the party all Aggies took out for Tankersley’s, a night club very similar to Franklin’s here . . . All this was taken care of by Polly Krueger and the other members of the Chamber of Commerce . . . the Brackenridge High School band and girl pep squad did amply well in representing the Aggies . . . they played the songs and shouted out the cheers in expert style . . . A couple of the gals also provided dates for the Aggie players . . . Wingback Jennings Anderson’s sister, Lorraine, proved to be charming company for George Wilde and Ed Dusek while Ethel May Cobb, who, incidentally was one of the members of that fine Brackenridge pep squad, made the rounds with Fullback Otto Payne . . . Felix Bucek received a real re ception when the train pulled into Schulenberg while on its way to the Alamo City . . . the brass band and cheers all gave their local boy a real ovation . . . Felix received a pair of loud pajamas and a bottle (See KYLE FIELD, Page 4) Randolph Field Is Opponent; Game Set To Go Off At Eight The Texas Aggie cagers open their 1942-43 basketball season to morrow night at 8 p.m. in DeWare Field House when they meet the Randolph Field Flyers, strong quintet from the West Point of the Air. A fast and furious game is expected to be instore for the spectators as the Aggie lineup is enriched by three of last year’s lettermen. Mike Cokinos, Leland Huffman, and Les Peden are the three return ing players who are expected to reinforce the Cadets greatly. Most of the team was lost by graduation last May and therefore, many of the players will be new inexper ienced men who are expected to round into top shape long before the conference race opens. Th Cadet squad, tutored by Man ning Smith, have been working out for the past two weeks in pre paration for the opening game against the Randolph Field Flyers and are rounding into top physical condition gradually. Despite the loss of most of his top players, Smith is expected to produce a team that will deal misery from all angles to other conference teams once they enter the race. The Aggies do not open their conference schedule until January 9 when they meet the Texas Christ ian university Horned Frogs at College Station. The Frogs ended in fourth place in the conference race last year but are expected to be a real threat this year. Wednesday night will be the first chance for the Cadet Corps to see the 1943 cage team in action. It’s up to the 12th man to turn out and give the team good support in their opening effort. Freshman Basketball Team Short of Players; Others Are Requested Freshman Basketball Coach Charlie Stevenson is*’ in need of" players. Only a handful of prospec tive cage hopefuls reported to Stevenson last week and the for mer basketball and baseball star has requested that anyone who de sires to come out for the team to make his appearance immediately at the DeWare Field House. Stevenson further emphasized that it was not necessary for any one to be on a paid athletic job to be eligible for basketball. Every one is welcome for a tryout and each will be given ample opportun ity to make the team. Girl babies learn to speak before boy babies, scientists find. They get the first word and the last. Pertaining to careless conversa tion, let’s remember that even though a face might launch a thou sand ships, a loose tongue can sink them. BATTALION. Tuesday Morning, December 8, 1942 Page 3 Texas A & M College Basketball 1942-43 Schedule Head Coach Manning Smith (Centenary ’34) Captain to be appointed Date Opponent Place Jan. 9 Texas Christian College Station Jan. 13 Baylor Waco Jan. 16 Texas University College Station Jan. 20 Rice Houston Feb. 1 Baylor College Station Feb. 6 Texas Christian Fort Worth Feb. 8 Southern Methodist Dallas Feb. 15 Southern Methodist College Station Feb. 19 Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark. Feb. 20 Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark. Feb. 27 Rice College Station Mar. 3 Texas University Austin Not over 12 non-conference games will be scheduled later. Season probably will open early in December after the football season closes on Dec. 5. N HIGHLITES^ Tflike Ttfann Announcements were made by W. L. Penberthy at the Recreation al Officers meeting Thursday aft ernoon in an attempt to clarify the playing of intramural games dur ing the motion picture activities on the campus. On days when the corps is used all day, it should be understood that all afternoon games are automatically post poned. Whenever cloudy or incle ment weather prevents movie work all concerned should be prepared to play any af ternoon games scheduled unless otherwise notified by the Intramur al office. All night games will be played re- gardless of whether or not the corps is used during the day UNLESS the movie executives use the corps in a special formation at night. Penberthy asked that when ever possible, recreational officers notify the Intramural office when they are being used in the movie shots. Nicky Ponthieux, director of In tramural athletics, was removed from the list of eligible bachelors on Thanksgiving Eve. At 8 p. m. on November 25, 1942, Nicky was married to Frances Carlyle of Bry an. They left immediately for New Orleans on their honeymoon. They jw at home in College Sta tion. CONGRATS, NICKY AND Mika Mann TCU’s Derrell Palmer Only SWC Player On Sporting News’ All-American Teams mv Eleven colleges are represented on the 1942 All-America football team selected by the nation’s col lege sports writers and announced today in the Sporting News, Na tional Sports Weekly. It is the first time in the nine-year history of the poll that some one college has failed to place two men on the honor eleven. Frank Sinkwich of Georgia walk ed away with top honors and the captaincy of the star aggregation, and his backfield mates are Paul Govemali of Columbia, Bill Hillen- brand of Indiana and Bob Steuber of Missouri. Linemen named to the team are Dave Schreiner of Wiscon sin and Bob Dove of Notre Dame, LOUPOT IS STILL OUT IN FRONT We Will Try to Buy: Certain Advanced Engineering Books Slide Rules . . . Drawing Instruments Certain Advanced Agriculture Books We May Be Able to Buy Other Books at Wholesale Prices LOIIPOTS TRADING POST North Gate Ends; Dick Wilding of Minnesota and Gil Bouley of Boston College, tackles; Alex Agase of Illinois and Chuck Taylor of Stanford, guards; and Joe Domnanovich of Alabama, center. There were 482 players nominat ed to the all-star team by the 86 writers who represented colleges in 40 states and the District of Col umbia in the balloting which was compiled by Robert S. Kunkel. Exe cutive secretary of the National Inter-Collegiate Sports Writers As sociation. Second team: Poschiner of Georg ia and Gantt of Duke, ends; Wis- tert of Michigan and Csuri of Ohio State, tackles; Ramsey of William & Mary and Wright of Notre Dame, guard; Moseley of Yale, center; and Holovak of Boston College, Bertelli of Notre Dame, Harder of Wiscon sin and Dobbs of Tulsa, Okla. backs. Third team: Kell eh er of Army and Shaw of Ohio State, ends; Whitmire of Alabama and Palmer of Texas Christian, tackles; Franks and Pregulman, both of Michigan, guards; Naumetz of Boston College, center; and Daley of Minnesota, Castleberry of Georgia Tech, Fekete of Ohio State and Graham of North western, backs. Until we have disciplined our selves to live within our income, we are never really free men. We are taxed for such thriftlessness at every turn. FRANCES! Playoff preparations were made at 6 p. m. yesterday when repre sentatives of the league winners in Class A Handball and Class B Bas ketball met in the Intramural of fice. The drawings for the playoffs were made and the final rounds should begin soon. In a Class B basketball match F Field Artillery smashed H In fantry to the tune of 27-7. Han dling the scoring for the winners were a trio of players: A. E. Au- trey with 10 points; J. H. Jones, six points; and H. O. Campbell, seven points. A fast and furious match saw B Coast Artillery fish nose out the G Field Artillery cagers with a 12-11 score in a game that was anybody’s game un til the final whistle. A. K. Roark of the losing team was the high- point man with nine tallies. R. B. Johns led the Coast team with five points. A lone Class A basketball match saw B Infantry go down in defeat before the onslaughts of A Field Artillery. The final score was 23- 18. L. E. Forrest of the Infantry team led the scorers in the match with eight points. Three touchdowns, two conver sions, and a safety gave A Signal Corps a 22-0 win over E Coast Ar tillery in a Class A football tilt. C Cavalry massed four touchdowns and two points-after-touchdown to whitewash D Infantry by a score of 26-0. C Coast Artillery outplayed C Chemical Warfare to win with an 18-0 score. Other football scores were: H Field Artillery took the Infantry Band by a score of 19-0; Headquarters Signal Corps beat A Cavalry 14-0; and D Cavalry de feated I Coast Artillery 13-0. A single point-after-touchdown earned a victory for M Infantry as they defeated 3rd Corps Headquar ters by a score of 7-6 in a Class A football match. In another match, 7th Corps Headquarters beat A Cavalry 13-7. In two Class A Handball games C Infantry beat B Ordnance 2-1 while H Coast Artillery blanked D Field Artillery 3-0. C Signal Corps beat I Infantry and B Signal Corps took E Field Artillery by scores of 2-1 in two Class B volley ball matches. Tumbling Team To Hold Practice Each Day at Six (TClock Bobby Stephens, captain of the Aggie Tumbling Team, announced Monday that tumbling team prac tice will be held every afternoon at 6 p.m. in the mat room in DeWare Field House. If more men do not begin turning out the team will not be able to give its usual be- tween-the-halves exhibition which has gained so much fame. It is be lieved that the team will not be able to give a show at the game between the Aggies and the Ran dolph Field Flyers tomorrow night because sufficient athletes have not been coming to tumbling prac tice. Come on, you tumblers! Come to the gym any afternoon at 6 p.m. and help the men who are already out in rounding up a full team. Cadets End Doleful Year With 21-0 Win Over WSC Rampaging Jake Webster Gallops in Final Tilt to Lead Aggies to Well-Earned Victory Featuring a dazzling passing at tack plus a superior running game, the Texas Aggies, holding out until midway in the second quar ter let loose a pulverizing attack to smother the Washington State Cougars, 21-0, Saturday afternoon at Alama Stadium in San Antonio. This was the season’s finale for the Aggies an dthe Nortonmen dis played their best form of the year both in the passing and the ground departments. Aggies Strike Hard Set back on their heels for more than a quarter by a hard-hitting Cougar eleven, the Aggies struck back suddenly from their 20 yard line and in seven plays hit paydirt via the air route. Three times, the Cougars marched within the shadow of the Aggie goal in the first and the early part of the seond period but on each occasion they were stopped short of the double stripe. Washington State, after having its attack stopped by interceptions by Dub Sibley and Cullen Rogers, received a big break when Barney Welch fumbled Jay Stoves’ punt deep in Aggie territory and Cen ter Bill Remington recovered on the Cadet 11. However, three plays gained absolutely nothing and on fourth down Fullback Frank Lon- dos’ field goal attack went wide and the Aggie took over on their own 20. Daniels to Simmons for 51 yards There they struck like lightning. Two passes from the arm of Bar ney Welch connected to Rogers for six yards. On third down Leo Dan iels faded back and shot a perfect aerial to Boots Simmons who man aged to sneak behind the Cougar safety. Simmons snagged the ball on the WSC’s 45 yard line and scampered all the way to the 19 before Bob Kennedy, the Cougar’s sensational fullback pulled him down from behind. It was a 51 yard pass play. Two passes by Daniels were wide of their mark, The Battalion Southwest All-Conference eleven which comes out annually following the regular grid season will make its appearance Thurs day morning in the Batt Mike Haikin, Batt Sports edi tor, who has seen every team in the conference in action at least once, will make the picks Dr. N. B. McNutt DENTIST Office in Parker Building Over Canady’s Pharmacy Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas so Norton send in Ed Sturcken, re serve fullback to try his luck. On the first play, Sturcken overshot Bill Henderson, end, by some 10 feet but on fourth down the big San Antonio gridster connected with Henderson on the 5 yard line. Henderson was hit by a galazy of State players and fumbled but Wil- ie Zapalac, blocking back who played a great game, picked up the free ball and scampered across the goal line for a touchdown. Webster kicked goal. Webster Leads Attack That was all for the first half, but burly Jake Webster took care of things for the Aggies during the ensuing period. After a punt exchange, the Cadets had the ball on their own 37. Two plays gained three and on third down Webster took the ball on a handoff from Daniels, broke into the clear and ran all the way to the 14 before he was pulled down to culminate a 42 yard run. However, the Aggie passing game fizzled out and the Cougars took over. On the first play Kennedy fumbled and Ed Dusek recovered for the Ags on the 13 yard line. Vernon Belville, on first down, faded calmly back and shot a perfect strike to Zapalac who gathered the ball on the 1 and drove over. Webster again kick ed goal. It wasn’t long before Webster again engineered another drive for a touchdown. With the ball on their own 47 after the Cougars had failed to make a first down on a fourth down try, Webster and Zap alac alternated in driving for a first down on the Cougar 26. Anoth er play gained 2 and on the next down, Webster hit center and again broke into the clear. He traveled (See Aggies, Page 4) AGGIES. . . KEEP THAT BICYCLE IN TIP-TOP SHAPE Use Our BICYCLE REPAIR SERVICE Quick Service Excellent Workmanship Student Co-Op “The Coke’s in” “That’s the happy greeting heard today when a new supply of Coke arrives at a cooler. Folks wait for it... wait because the only thing like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola itself. Customers smile and start moving up to pause and be refreshed. “There’s a cheerful spirit about this way of accepting wartime restrictions. Morale is high.” BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.