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Football Prospects for 1943 Season Bright
Despite Possible Loss of Nucleus of Team
Now that the football season is
at an end, coaches and football fans
alike are looking ahead and ask
ing the old familiar phrase, “What
of next year’s prospects?” Well,
if there is a gridiron season, and
there is every reason to believe
that there will be, Coach Homer
Norton’s Aggies should have a
wealth of material despite the fact
that the A.&M. speed-up program
will gobble up quite a number of
the present junior stars.
During an emergency period
when the country is taxed to the
limit with a war, it is very diffi
cult to envision a picture of the fol
lowing year’s prospects. Anything
may happen between now and
September, 1943, and the only way
one can even get a small picture
of the future of football at A.&M.
is purely by guessing!
Conceding the fact that such
junior stars as Leo Daniels, Bobby
Williams, A. J. Mercer, Don Lue-
thy and others are called into their
country’s service, Coaches Norton
and Bill James can still boast of
a hefty and powerful aggregation
chiefly centered around the pres
ent crew of sophomore stars. Most
of those that fall in that category
will either hold military contracts
or will be enrolled in some kind
of reserve, whether it’s the air
corps or just plain enlisted re
serve.
And, also, don’t forget some of
those prospective stars graduat
ing from the freshman team. Many
of these boys could have been con
siderably useful to the varsity this
past year and are certain to be
included in Coach Norton’s plans.
For example Ed Wright and Ro
land Phillips have played some fine
ball at the tackle position for Lil
Dimmitt’s eleven this past fall and
there were times when Coach Nor
ton wished he could sneak ’em in
on his own team.
So you see, after all, there isn’t
really any moaning to do for the
1943 season. True, many key men
counted on to be an integral part
of the football machine for 1943
will be playing ball for Uncle Sam,
but that holds true for other
schools as well.
Sit tight, then, and don’t worry
about what is on the menu for next
year. Anything may happen be
tween now and that time and prob
ably will.
A Few Notes on High School Gridiron Race;
Picking Winners in Week’s Quarter-Finals
It’s a funny thing to note how
many Aggie football fans and for
that matter of fact most college
grid enthusiasts who are so in
terested in the outcome of the
high school football race.
I’ve had more people come up
and query me as to the outcome
of the race only to shrug my
shoulders and say the old famil
iar phrase, “I don’t know.” I have
however, followed all the teams
concerned very closely and believe
I can tell the 1942 Texas high
school state champion. I have seen
only one team in action and that’s
John Reagan but that was when
the Heights school in Houston had
its off day.
But back to predicting the win
ner. Most of the sports scribes and
a number of coaches believe that
the Amarillo Sandies will carry
off the bunting but from dope, re
ports and general record, I believe
that the next state champ will be
Lufkin Panthers! I may be wrong,
without a doubt, but those boys,
in and out, have shown more foot
ball ability than all of the other
schools put together. They have
a tough one in Breckenridge this
week’but I believe they’ll triumph
by a two-touchdown victory!
Now to have some arguments
with some of the readers. Here
you are folks — this writer’s
guesses and I do mean guesses
for this week’s high school play
offs:
Lufkin 27, Breckenridge 13
Amarillo 33, San Angelo 7
Reagan 13, Austin 7 (this is a
toss-up)
Sunset 6, Highland Park 0
Incidentally, Talent - Scout Lil
Dimmitt is on the job again and
will be in Dallas watching the Sun
set-Highland Park game to offer
some deserving high school star
(he must be a triple-threater, a
phenomenal blocker and a vicious
tackier) a college education. Next
week, Lil will move in another un
suspecting liar and give his sales
manship talk to some other high
school star. .
But seriously, fans, most of
these high school aces will be in
the next year or so be starring for
some Southwest Conference entry
and that’s the reason for so much
interest. Many of the boys that
make headlines while leading good
ole Joe Doaks High to victory will
undoubtedly fade out in college
and some of those that are only
fair in high school will blossom
oiut into All-Conference or All-
Americans. Those are the kids Lil
will be looking over and not those
over-publicized youngsters who
know no more about playing foot
ball than the man in the moon!
What this country needs right
now is day clubs for night workers.
Some people are fenced off from
success by their own railing.
Lots of girls are very particular
about whom they’ll marry until
somebody asks them.
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Ags Rally in Second Half to Beat Randolph
Cokinos, Dawson
Spark Cadets In
Thrilling 54-41 Win
Surprising a capacity crowd at De
Ware Field House last night, Coach
Manning Smith’s fighting Texas
Aggie basketball team came from
behind in the second half of a the
game with the Randolph Field
Ramblers to chalk up their initial
victory of the 1942-43 cage cam
paign by a score of 54- 41.
The Aggies displayed near mid
season form in downing the coll
ection of former college stars who
comprised the Rambler squad. With
every man in the starting lineup
hustling and gathering points, the
Cadets held the Ramblers to a 2,5
to 23 advantage at the half.
The second half found A. & M.
executing an about face, however,
as Mike Cokinos, agressive All-
Conference honorable mention
guard last season, and Jamie Daw
son, elongated squadman center, led
the way with remarkable passing
under the basket that had the air
corps boys dizzy five minutes be
fore the game was over.
Cokinos was high point man for
the Aggies with 15 points. Dawson
followed with 14. Seven points went
to Pete Watkins who fouled out
midway in the last half. Les Peden
and Leland Huffman, lettermen,
had eight and seven tallies, res
pectively.
Sparkling for the Ramblers were
Les “Pie” Saunder, former Texas
university center, who accounted
for 16 points and a flashy for
ward from Wisconsin, Don Pfahler,
who dropped 11 points through
the mesh.
Randolph was coached by Sec
ond Lieutenant Floyd Burdette
who played part of the game him
self.
A. & M. starting lineup: Huff
man and Watkins, forwards; Daw
son, center; Cokinos and Peden,
guards. Substitutions: Adams,
Pennington, Sabins, Nutto, Sam
ple, and Rouprich.
Randolph starting lineup: Pfah
ler and Clausnitzer, forwards; San
der, center; Kalfain and Landmey-
er, guards. Substitutions: Burdet
te and Towner.
SMU Opens
Cage Schedule
December 15
S. M. U.’s basketball team will
open its season in a game with the
North Texas State Teachers Col
lege Eagles in Denton Dec. 15,
Coach Jimmie Stewart of the Mus
tangs announced today. A return
game will be played in Dallas aft
er Christmas, probably Dec. 30.
Addition of four football play
ers to the court squad will
strengthen the Ponies considerably
as Joe Bob Markette, a junior let-
terman, and Grady Martin, Wayne
Shaw, and Sid Halliday, sopho
mores, are all being counted upon
to see considerable service.
Since Nov. 1, candidates for the
basketball team who were not on
the football squad have been prac
ticing daily and prospects are that
the Ponies will be among the lead
ers in the Southwest Conference.
In addition to Markette, Coach
Stewart has four other veterans
around whom he is building his
team. They are Rusty Baccus, Ben
Harris, Tommy Tomlinson, and
Jimmie Tate. New men pushing
the veterans for starting positions
include Acie Cannaday, Randel
Stringer, Hilton Painter, and Billy
McClelland.
No Extra Gas Will
Be Given for Aggie
Christmas Vacation
The Brazos County Ration Board
states that A. & M. students have
been coming in to apply for extra
gasoline in order to make the
round trip home for the Christmas
holidays.
The Ration Board wants to call
to the attention of all Aggies
that it has no authority whatever
to ration extra gasoline for this
purpose, so it will be impossible
to get extra fuel for the long trek
home.
Dean of Engineering
Returns from Capitol
Dean Gibb Gilchrist of the School
of Engineering is expected to re
turn from Washington, D. C. this
evening where he has been attend
ing an important meeting of the
National Advisory Committee on
Engineering Science and Manage
ment War Training.
Battalion Sports
Thursday Morning, December 10, 1942 Page 3
Foldberg, Welch,
Aggie Stars, Make
All-Soph Selections
These Made the Batt All-Conference Team
Four Rice Institute Owls and
three S.M.U. Mustangs are includ
ed on the all-star Southwest Con
ference eleven selected by Lester
Jordan, athletic publicity director
of S.M.U. A. & M. placed two men
on the team and T.C.U. and Texas
were represented by one player
each.
Named on the sophomore all-star
team are Wendell Williams, Rice,
left end; Tom Dean, S.M.U., left
tackle; Clifton Patton, T.C.U., left
guard; Lloyd Baxter, S.M.U., cen
ter; J. W. Magee, Rice, right
guard; Henry Foldberg, A. & M.,
right tackle; Sid Halliday, S.M.U.,
right end; Joe Magliolo, Texas,
blocking back; Virgil Eikenberg,
Rice, fullback; Barney Welch, A.
& M., tailback; and Bob Perkins,
Rice, wingback.
The sophomore line averages 202
pounds and the backfield 188
pounds.
Three Ags Among Those Picked
On Ba ttA ITS WConference Team
all year. His play almost covered
up the Aggie tackle weakness and
almost defeated Texas university.
He was an All-American in that
Rice game and throughout the year
was as fine a lineman as produced
by Texas A&M in many a sessioh.
By Mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
A fella could go on naming All-
Conference selections for a million
years and I doubt if he could name
a team that would be in accordance
with the public’s views. Already
dozens upon dozens of teams have
been named by so-called experts
and arguments go on every day.
Screwy Football Year
This year is especially a hard
year to name a perfect all-confer
ence selection. In other years, there
have been a few players that have
been unanimously accorded as the
“people’s choice.” Remember John
Kimbrough, Davey O’Brien, Sam
my Baugh, Ki Aldrich and the rest.
No, not so this year. I seriously
doubt if one player named on any
conference selection has been a
consistent performer. It seems that
everyone has had his off moments
and that’s one reason for such vari
ation in all-conference selections.
Now, without more ado, I’ll name
the Battalion All-Conference team.
It’s solely this writer’s opinion, but,
I believe this one will sort of be
in line with what the majority of
the people believe should be on the
mythical eleven. But for the in
efficiency of the Baylor and Rice
publicity departments, the Battal
ion would have been able to run a
layout of the eleven men. How
ever, the Baylor and Rice publicity
directors did not comply with the
request for pictures, so we were
unable to run the layout. At any
rate, here it is—the 1942 Battalion
All-Conference:
Batt All-Conference Team
Ends: Boots Simmons (A&M)
and Bruce Alford (TCU).
Tackles: Derrell Palmer
(TCU) and Stan Mauldin
(Texas).
Guards: Felix Bucek (A&M)
and Weldon Humble (Rice).
Center: Buddy Gatewood (Bay
lor).
Backs: Jackie Field (Texas),
Dick Dwelle (Rice), Cullen
Rogers (A&M) and Roy Dale
McKay (Texas).
I know that this selection will
bring plenty of arguments but just
let us take ’em apart and see what
makes the above team click. In the
first place, I don’t see how any
body could have overlooked the
Aggies’ Boots Simmons at end.
True, he didn’t get the publicity he
deserved, but he played the kind
of ball that even makes opponent
teams stand up and cheer. Bruce
Alford barely noses out SMU’s fine
wingman, Kelly Simpson for the
other terminal. Bruce started out
like a house afire but did have
quite a few moments as the sea
son went along, especially in that
Rice game. But he did prove that
TCU was a weak team without him
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Class A handball and Class B
basketball have reached the play
off stages and a number of games
have already been played in the
eliminations. All of the games
which have taken place to date
have been eighth-final games and
the winners of this round have
moved into the quarter-final brack
ets.
Two Class A handball games
have been decided in the eighth-
final round. B Coast Artillery de-
, feated F Coast
. Artillery by
a score of two
Potter and Scott,
won the matches
for B Coast while
Bess and Tread
way won the lone
Mik* M»nn match for F
Coast. In another handball match
Chemical Warfare beat C Coast
Artillery with a 2-1 score. Burks,
Griffin, Keeney, and Baker won
matches for the Chem boys and
Odom and King won the single
game for the Coast team. The win
ners of these two matches, B Coast
Artillery and A Chemical Warfare,
will meet in a quarter-finals match
at a later date.
In the Class B basketball play
offs we find that three eighth-
final games have been played. The
first match found E Infantry nos
ing out 3rd Corps Headquarters by
a score of 20-17. L. H. Devines and
P. W. Sparks came through for the
Infantrymen to score six points
each to lead the scorers. The ef
forts of the Corps Headquarters
team were held down by a strong
defensive play on the part of the
Infatnry squad.
C Replacement Center turned on
their power to wallop F Field Ar
tillery 12-4. W. W. Wilson led the
Replacement Center team to the
victory as he accounted for seven
of their 12 points. E Infantry and
C Replacement Center will fight
it out in a quarter-final bout soon.
In the third Class B basketball
match D Field Artillery over
whelmed I Coast Artillery with a
22-5 score. M. E. Flores of the
Field squad was the high-point man
of the game with nine points. D
Field moves to a quarter-final
bracket where they will take on a
winner of an eighth-final round
that has not been decided as yet.
Other regular Class B basketball
games saw B Infantry take A En
gineers by a score of 24-12 as E.
W. Guenthner of the Infantry team
and P. R. Clevenger of the Engi
neer squad tied for the high-point
spot with eight points each. R. G.
Crawford, with six points, and R.
S. Hackney, with five, led B Infan
try to a 20-10 win over the E Re
placement Center squad.
B Field Artillery defeated M In
fantry with a score of 19-7 as J. W.
Knoblock scored six points and S.
(See INTRAMURALS, Pag* 4)
so he gets the selection.
Almost the same is true for
A&M’s Bill Henderson, who played
fine ball at the outset and sort of
cooled off at the end. The AP and
UP selected the big boy on their
respective teams and I don’t, at
all, think that was such a bad pick.
He played fine ball but don’t think
any better than his teammate
Boots Simmons.
No Question About Tackles
There is no question as to who
the tackles were on the all-confer
ence team. In and out both Derrell
Palmer and Stan Mauldin stood out
like sore thumbs. I don’t see how
anybody could have left these two
gridsters out. They were easily the
top of the league. Arkansas’ Jay
Lawhon runs a close third for the
tackle post. He did some fine stel
lar work for the Razorbacks and
was about the only thing on the
whole team that resembled a line
man. But for Palmer and Mauldin,
Lawhon was a standout. Ditto for
Zuehl Conoly of Texas. Against the
Aggies Thanksgiving Day, this 190
lb. lineman showed plenty of foot
ball ability, and, based on that day’s
performance could easily have
made any all-conference selection.
When it comes to the guard po
sition, the Aggies phenomenal Fe
lix Bucek easily was the standout
Battle for Guard Post
The other guard post was quite
a battle between Rice’s Weldon
Humble and Ray Rasor, SMU flash.
The latter was a sensation when
the Ags played the Mustangs while
the former gained much of his
(See THREE AGS. Page 4)
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