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Maroon-White Benefit Game to Be Held January 16
Maroon-White Grid Game Is Another Way
To Help Our Country During These Times
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Battalion Sports
Tuesday Morning, January 5, 1943
Page 3
Pete Watkins Paces Aggies In 39-33 Win
Over Duncan Field Flyers Here Saturday
Aggies have always contributed
greatly to the war effort whether
it was money or deeds of valor.
We’ve done our share and certain
ly feel proud of it. The more we
can do to help, the better we all
like it
Now, this brings up the question
of the coming charity football
game between the Maroons and
the Whites, both of which are
composed of cadets in the school
not having any varsity experience.
The project was started by Jake
Wilk, ’40, three years ago, to raise
money for the student aid fund
as well as for the “bundles for
Britain.” The following year,
your writer took up where Wilk
left off, and with our country in
the midst of a world conflict, all
the proceeds were presented to the
Red Cross.
Again, this year, the annual
Maroon-White game will be held,
with all proceeds to go to the local
Army-Navy Relief fund. We all
realize that the money we rake
up for that worthy cause is but
a drop in the bucket but I figure
that a few such drops all over the
country will soon fill that certain
bucket full.
We have very little time in
which to reel off that contest so
.... In that recent US air raid
on Tunis in which a number of
Texans took part was Warren
“Red” Church, Aggie first-string
tackle in 1934 . . . Church was an
over-sized lad who grabbed all
conference honors while here and
who now is putting his bid for
everything is being done to give
the fans’ their money’s worth. Be
sides contributing to a very worthy
cause, you will also be able to wit
ness Aggieland’s finale to the 1942
football year and the opening of
the 1943 season.
Our primary object in sponsor
ing this football contest for the
benefit of the Army-Navy Relief
is the hope that other Texas
schools will follow in our footsteps
in these troubled times and help
our country to the utmost. It
does not necessarily have to be
football, but some other sponsored
contest that will enable the Red
Cross or some other note-worthy
charity society to help out some
needy person or persons.
We realize that this is on a tiny
scale when you compare it with
those relief football games which
take in upwards of $50,000. But
whether it is small or big the
idea behind the deed is all the
same—help somebody out, and in
these troubled times you don’t
know who needs help—maybe it’s
your relative, your buddy or pos
sibly you yourself when you’re
in the trenches.
So, fans, don’t forget the date—
Saturday, January 16, the day of
the Maroon-White gridiron clash!
an All-American post on Uncle
Sam’t team .... He’s off to a
fine start too .... This corner
seldom goes in for criticizing any
thing because I usually don’t know
enough to criticize but here’s some
thing that was very noticeable to
Local Army,
Navy Relief
IsBenericiary
Whites Meet Tonight
In Chemistry Bldg,
Maroons in A&I Bldg
Matron and white uniforms that
were dusted off and put in moth
balls after the final varsity grid
iron game are scheduled once
again to grace the football field
before getting their much needed
and deserved rest.
’Mural Athletes to Participate
This time the well known jer
seys will not cover the bruises of
the men who brought glory to
Aggieland but will instead be filled
by Class A intramural athletes
from the student body in what to
day is known as the Maroon-White
benefit game.
Mike Haikin, Battalion sports
editor, and sponsor of last year’s
contest, will again head the an
nual project, which had its be
ginning three years ago. Haikin
announced that the annual tilt will
be reeled off Saturday January
16, with all the proceeds this year
going to' the local Army-Navy
Relief Fund.
Only players who have not had
any varsity experience—that is,
were not out for football THIS
NOVEMBER —are eligible to par
ticipate. All of these must be
eligible for Class A intramurals
to play. Freshmen are barred
from participating.
Coaches of Teams
Euel (Poppa) Wesson, assistant
freshman grid mentor, will be the
head coach of the Whites, which
will be composed of the following
organizations: Field Artillery,
Coast Artillery, Engineers, Corps
Headquarters, and the Ordnance.
Wesson will be assisted by Leo
Daniels, all-conference Aggie back
and possibly one or two more
A&M grid stars. All members of
the above-named organizations,
who are eligible to participate in
the contest, and who desire to try
out for the team, are urged to be
present at the Chemistry Building
tonight at 8:15. It is very import
ant that everyone be present.
Meanwhile, Cullen Rogers and
Weldon Maples will head the Ma
roon team which will be composed
of the following outfits: Infantry,
Cavalry, Signal Corps, Chemical
Warfare, and the Quartermaster.
All of these will meet tonight in
the Animal Industries Building to
formulate plans.
Practice To Start
Practice will begin almost im
mediately but football uniforms
will not be issued until Monday.
Coaches • of the two teams have
been instructed to cut their squad
down to 25 men apiece as the
availability of uniforms is very
limited.
This Maroon - White football
game was first originated in 1940
by Jake Wilk, then a senior in the
Cavalry for the co-benefit of the
Student Aid Fund and the Bundles
for Britain. Las year, Haikin took
over the sponsorship along with
Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis and Sen
ior Class President Dick Hervey.
Assisting Haikin this year will be
Brooks Gofer, editor of the Bat
talion; and Albert Ricks and Ken
Stallings, star members of the
A&M track team.
Army-Navy Relief
The Red Cross was the sole bene
ficiary of the game last year but
after due deliberation and upon ad
vice of official quarters, it was de
cided to give the proceeds to the
local Army-Navy Relief fund to
help out the sailors and members
of the U. S. Army that will be
stationed here next semester.
Many of the Army men will be
Aggies since the great part of the
present junior class will be induct
ed into the armed forces and sta
tioned here for at least one semes
ter. Much help in forming recrea
tion centers and other moral-build
ing material is in urgent need
here and it is the hope of every
one that the Maroon-White game
will at least help to give the Army-
Navy Relief a slight boost if noth
ing else.
More than $8,000,000 is spent
annually by the Texas government
in the maintenance of correctional
and eleemosynary institutions.
More than $50,000,000 is spent
annually by the Texas government
for the support of free schools
and vocational training.
In a listless game Saturday
night, the Texas Aggie cagers
added another victory to their
string as they defeated the Dun
can Field squad by a score of SO
BS. Pete Watkins, rangy Aggie
forward, led the Cadet attack
with 15 points. Right behind Wat
kins in the scoring division was
Leland Huffman with 10 points.
Pacing the Duncan Fielders was
Chris Hansen, former All-Ameri
can basketeer from Bradley Tech,
who chalked up nine points, most
of which were scored on long, dif
ficult shots. The number two man
on the Flyers scoring list was
“Red” Cox, former Aggie Fish
athlete now at Duncan Field, who
tallied seven points.
The Cadets came out strong at
the start and were leading by a
10-4 score at the end of the first
five minutes of play. As the game
progressed another five minutes
the tally had moved to 18-6. Dun
can Field finally came to life and
scored eight consecutive points to
cut the Aggie lead to four points.
Playoff games are scheduled in
all the current sports on the intra
mural program and the department
is striving to close out the season
as quickly as possible. Numerous
delays during the semester have
made it necessary to crowd much
of the playing into the last few
weeks of the season.
D Engineers defeated L Infantry
by a score of 3-0 in an eighth-fin
als Class A tennis. The Engineers
have moved into the quarter-final
^ bracket where
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on the 1st Head-
' quarters Field
Igpl Artillery netmen.
. The two semi-
Class Hand-
ball matches were
played late last
Mik. Mann ^ght US 8th
Corps Headquarters took on the
E Field Artillery team and A
Chemical Warfare met the E Engi
neers squad. The winners of these
two games will meet later this
week in the match that will decide
the Class A handball champion of
the college.
CLASS A BASKETBALL
In a league playoff C Cavalry
smashed C Field Artillery by a
score of 23-10. E. F. Fmka, with
14 points, led the Cavalrymen and
J. R. Trees was right behind him
with 8. The Field Artillery scorers
were led by M. L. Matthews who
made 10 points.
The Intramural department is
Norton Back From
New Orleans; Settles
Down to Business
Head Coach Homer Norton ar
rived home Sunday from New
Orleans after viewing the Sugar
Bowl battle between Tulsa and
Tennessee to take up business con
nected with athletics.
Much has happened to change
the status of athletics at A. & M.
since his departure for Mont
gomery, Alabama, to coach the
South team in the annual North-
South fracas and Norton will see
what he can do to settle the status
of sports at A. & M.
Norton also announced that the
annual football banquet, honoring
the members of the 1942 Aggie
gridiron squad will not be an
nounced until the return of Dean
E. J. Kyle about January 13.
Five of these eight tallies were
accounted for by Hansen who
Pete Watkins
sparked the Duncan team through
out the evening. The scoreboard
valiantly trying to complete all
scheduled games and finish the
playoff matches before the end of
the semester. The men of this de
partment have done wonderful
work in making up for the great
amount of time lost because of the
movies, weather, etc., and recrea
tional officers should cooperate
with them in every way possible in
their attempt to get all games
played on schedule. If your team
has a game scheduled for a spec
ific time, every effort should be
made to be present at the game
and not request a postponement
because practically every game
now on the books has been post
poned at least once.
CLASS B PING PONG SCORES
E RC 2, E SC 1
Inf Band 3, C CAC 0
3 CHQ 3, C SC 0
A Inf 3, D CAC 0
HQ SC 3, A CAV 0
showed a score of 19-14 at half
time with the Aggies in the lead.
Jamie Dawson and Huffman
scored baskets and Les Peden
made a free throw early in the
second period to lengthen the
Aggie lead but the Flyers made
another spurt within the first 10
minutes of the second half to cut
the score down to 30-26. The re
mainder of the match saw a few
goals made by both sides as each
team fought a defensive battle.
The game was over in a short time
with the Aggies winning their fifth
game in seven starts by defeat
ing the Duncan Field Flyers 39-
33.
Texas A&M <39)
Pos. FG FT PF TP
Watkins F 7 1 0 15
Adams .F 0 0 0 0
Peden F 12 3 4
Nutto F 0 0 0 0
Dawson C 8 0 0 6
(See AGGGIES, Page, 4)
SMU Publications
To Take War Cuts
As a result of a 30 per cent cut
in the budgets of Southern Method
ist University’s Semi-Weekly Cam
pus, school newspaper, and the Ro
tunda, school annual, publication
plans have been curtailed, student
editors said Thursday.
The cut, authorized by the Stu
dent Publishing Company, will turn
the Campus into a weekly newspa
per for the next few weeks, David
Kittrell, editor, said, while the Ro
tunda for the first time in a num
ber of years will not have an ad
ministration section and very few
color photographs, according to
Bob Claxton, editor.
OpenLidWednesday
The Texas Aggies open their
conference basketball race Satur
day night in DeWare Field House
when they clash against the potent
and powerful TCU Horned Frogs
at eight o’clock.
TCU, regarded by a great major
ity of experts as the possible 1943
cage champion, has had a great pro-
season record, having lost only one
game and that to the powerful
Corpus Christ! Comets.
The Aggies, meanwhile, have won
five out of seven games, having
lost one to Corpus and another
one to Randolph Field in a 31-29
up set. However, Coach Manning
Smith’s Cadets haven’t played any
powerful quintet with the excep
tion of Corpus and in each of their
seven games, they haven’t shown
any signs of developing into a first
class cage power. Nevertheless, the
team, centered around a trio of let-
termen and a couple of high-scor
ing squadmen, is a hustling outfit
and is apt to give any team a tough
tussle.
Four other Couthwest Conference
games are booked as the cage cam
paign gets away to a rousing start.
Tomorrow night at Austin, the Rice
Owls, shorn of most of their star
basketeers, including Bob Kinney,
clash against a highly touted Texas
Longhorn five, which sports four
lettermen and a highly regarded
junior college transfer.
Also on tap for the same night is
the TCU-Baylor clash at Waco.
The Bears sport only two seasoned
performances but a host of sopho
mores and holovers may spurt Bay
lor on to new heights.
And then on Saturday night be
sides the A. & M.-TSU clash, Texas
University will trek over to Waco
for an engagement with the Bay
lor Bears.
Anderson County, Texas, was
named for Kenneth R. Anderson,
the first vice-president of the Tex
as Republic.
(See KYLE FIELD, Page 4)
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