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Gagers Open SW Race Against TCU Tonight
Aggies Still Possess Questionable Basketball
Club; Game Tonight May Help Clear Situation
It’s a shame that a team, not
too flushed with experience has to
be at the cross-roads the very
first game but that’s the situation
when the Aggies clash with the
powerful Homed Frogs of TCU to
night.
So far, it’s very hard to tell any
thing about Manning Smith’s team.
At times, they’ve looked like a
pretty fair country ball club and
at other times they resemble some
thing out of Podunk Center. The
Sam Houston State Teachers’ ser
ies, played last Tuesday and Wed
nesday night, proved definitely two
things: (1) the Aggies can score
and score plenty, and (2) the
Maroon team has plenty of troub
le coming from behind.
The latter conclusion is very
important as it is almost a sure
thing that the Ags are going to
battle with their backs to the wall
in the majority of contests. Now,
whether or not that Sam Houston
lesson will be forgotten by the
Ags is a question that only time
can answer.
Now, I could go on and say good
or distasteful things about the
ball club all day long but after
all is said and done there’d be one
pertinent fact that would be stick
ing out like the nose on your face.
The Aggies do have a huslting
club. They may not have a cham
pionship club but it’s a team that
will never admit defeat.
The above statement cannot be
over-emphasized. It is one of the
primary reasons why there is such
a large turnout everytime the cag-
ers have a game at the DeWare
Field House. Many of the fans
presen tonight will probably go
with the idea that TCU is a cinch
but the fact won’t keep ’em away
from the game... They fully well
know that the Maroon shirted Ca
dets will give the Christians a
tough fight, and then, there is al
ways the possibility of an upset.
It’s going to be a real thrilling
ball game tonight, believe me folks.
I’m sort of skeptical of an Aggie
victory and am even picking TCU
to win, but that doesn’t mean any
thing. In fact the Cadets are a
cinch to win now that I have picked
TCU. So come out to the DeWare
Field House and let’s all help beat
the h—1 out of TCU.
Maroon-White Squads Almost Solely Made
Up of Former Ace High School Performers
When the Maroons clash against
the Whites next Saturday after
noon in the Army-Navy benefit
grid game, it won’t be a battle
between a couple of inexperienced
squads, boasting only a bunch of
sandlotters. On the contrary, the
footballers comprising the Maroon
and White squads are very much
schooled in the art of football.
Many in fact a great mapority—
of the boys were brilliant high
school stars, some of whom un
doubtedly made the all-district and
all-state teams.
These have given up football in
college for one reason or another,
but are ready to show their re
spective skills next Saturday af
ternoon. The fact of the matter is
that some of the youngesters easily
could have made the first or sec
ond string on the Aggie team or
any other Southwest Conference
ball club.
Since the idea of the Maroon and
White contest was inaugurated
Coach Homer Norton of the Aggies
has acquired at least one member
each year off the ball clubs. In
1940, the star of the White team,
which won 13-7, was Leonard Hold
er, hard-hitting center and the fol
lowing year found the lanky San
Antonio hustler on the varsity
squad, running right behind All-
Conference Center Bill Sibley.
Last year, the big star of the
game was Eo Ogdee, guard* and
this past season, Ed was the Aggie
second-string guard and improv
ing as the season went along.
So, fans dont’ get the idea that
the Maroon-White grid contest is
played by inexperienced men. It’s
almost like an all-star contest
between two groups of phenomenal
high school aces.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Some
Notes on Hub McQuillan, TCU Cage Mentor
Hub McQuillan, the fine TCU
basketball coach, is really coming
home tonight when his team plays
the Texas Aggies . . .
Hub, you know, formerly coached
the Aggies from 1935 until 1941
....He left last year for TCU as
head cage mentor and assistant
football coach .... since going to
Fort Worth, Mac has elevated TCU
from a consistent last place club
to a good third place in the con
ference race last year . . . This
year, McQuillan boasts of another
fine ball club, a team rated by
many experts as the probable 1943
cage champ .... All Aggies wish
nothing but good luck to the like
able TCU cage coach—everytime
that he is not playing A&M teams,
of course .... Leland Huffman,
who is a starting guard on the
Aggie five, has shown enough im
provement in the past few weeks
to be considered a definite scor
ing threat for the Cadets. . .Le
land is very fast and breaks away
with uncanny speed. . .his best
shot has been a one-handed beauty
from the side court and he has
shown consistency deluxe . . . Note
to Willie Zapalac . . . Will, you
ought to see that there are no
sports writers around when you
start giving out intimate glimpses
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Battalion Sports
Saturday Morning, January 9, 1943 Page 3
DeWare Field House Fracas
Set to Go Off at 8 0’ Clock
D Replacement Downs K Infantry, 16-14
To Advance Into ClassACage Semi-Finals
E FA And A CWS Playf
TCU Field General
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Bob McHenry of Kansas
is the field general of both Iffpf
the Horned Frogs defen-
sive and offensive set-ups
and will open at guard
against the Aggies tonight ' °
McHenry was recently
voted as the most valuable
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man in the Oklahoma City
tournament.
For Class A Handball
Championship Tues
D Replacement Center moved
into the semi-final round of the
Class A basketball playoffs as
they defeated K Infantry by a
score of 16-14. Joe Gilreath with
six points and R. C. Joska with
four led the Replacement center
scorers. I. V. Glass scored six
and J. G. Robinson made four points
for the losing Infantrymen.
Before being beaten in the quar
ter-final round by D Replacement
Center the K Infantry team beat
L Infantry in a close fought eigtht
final match in which Glass and
Robinson made eight points for
the winners and E. B. Strucken
accounted for seven tallies for the
L Company group.
Three other eighth-final matches
were played in Class A basketball
during the week. In the first H
Field Artillery took Machine Gun
Cavalry by a 9-6 score. Troberg
made five points and Wallser got
four for the Artillerymen while
Rouprich scored four while Macy
got two for the losers. The Cavalry
team led at half-time by a score
of 2-0.
A Field Artillery smashed G
Coast Artillery by a score of 17-10
as Ray led the Field score with
eight points as Forrest accounted
for six of the Coast team’s score.
The third match saw H Coast
Artillery take 3rd Headquarters
Field Artillery 16-12 in a nip-and
tuck bout. Ramsey led the Coast
squad with seven points and Ut
ley made five points for the Field
team.
F Field Artillery fish moved
into the final round of the Class
B volleyball playoffs as they de
feated C Replacement Center by
a 2-0 score. They will meet A
Coast Artillery freshmen in the
final round in the near future. The
Coast Fish earned the final sport
by virtue of beating M Infantry
by a score of 2-1. Before taking
C Replacement Center into camp
the Field team beat D Field in
a quarter-final match with a 2-1
score.
The top Class A attraction at
the present time in the handball
final for the college championship
between E Field Artillery and A
Chemical Warfare and will take
place Tuesday at 9:30 p.m.
of an interesting trip such as the
East-West affair ... it seems
that this writer’s article on Zapalac
in the Battalion last Tuesday was
As we look at the intramural
schedules we find that the Class
B ping pong competition will en
ter the playoff stage in the near
future. Only one regular game
is still on the schedule and will
be played soon. Among the last
games were the following: G
Field Artillery over D Replace
ment Center 2-1; H. Field Artil
lery beat C Replacement Center
3-0; and H Infantry took B En
gineers 2-1.
Recreational officers are re
minded of the games scheduled
for this afternoon. A number of
Class A football
playoff games are
among those slat
ed today. Nicky
Pointhieux, Intra
mural director,
has announced
that all of to
day’s games will
be played as
scheduled.
A 1 ”'league playoff, in Class A
basketball saw A Field Artillery
nose out A Replacement Center
by a score of 18-15. Andrews of
reprinted in a number of metro
politan papers and Willie given a
prominent write-up . . . You better
watch yourself, Willie, you know
these sports writers . . .
the Field team was high-point man
with 10 points and was closely
fallowed by Butschek of the Re
placement Center squad who ac
counted for nine points for his
team. Ray accounted for an addi
tional four tallies for the winning
Artillerymen.
Another league playoff, this one
in Class A football, say 1st Head
quarters Field Artillery defeat G
Infantry 2-0 in a game that found
most of the action taking place
near mid-field. The Infantrymen
threatened a number of times and
penetrated their opponent’s 20-
yard line once and 40-yard line
three times but lacked that final
strength necessary to push across
into pay dirt. The Artillerymen
moved the Infantry team back
against their own goal line and
heads-up playing earned them the
only score of the day.
Dewey Hoke of the Intramur
al department is anxious to ob
tain rosters of upeprclassmen
from the few Recreational Offi
cers who have not yet submitted
this list to him. He says all ex
cept five rosters have been turned
in and he wants to make his list
complete.
Army-Navy Relief
Game Tickets Go On
Sale This Afternoon
Maroon, White Coaches
To Cut Down Squads To 25;
Uniforms to be Issued Mon
Tickets for the Maroon-White
Army-Navy Relier went on sale
yesterday afternoon at four de
signated points— George’s Con
fectionary in the new area, Lip
scomb’s Pharmacy, Aggieland
Pharmacy and Loupot’s Trading
Post. Each of those business es
tablishments have an ample amount
of ducats which will be on sale
until Friday afternoon.
Meanwhile, both the Maroon and
White squads continued their brief
workouts despite the cold weather.
The cutting down process of the
over-larged squads will be done
this afternoon and uniforms is
sued to the 25 players of each
team.
Next Saturday’s game, incident
ally, will be the “rubber” match,
with both the Maroons and the
Whites having annexed one tussle
apiece since the series was inaug
urated two years ago. In the first
game, Charlie DeWare’s Whites
upset a heavier Maroon team,
13-7, when with the score tied,
Bob Duncan, a guard grabbed a
fumble in mid-air and trotted sixty
yards for a score to climax a thrill
ing and exciting contest. Last year
it was all Maroons as Bill Buch
anan’s team, sparked by Vance
Carrington and J. D. Scroggin,
blanked the Whitea, 19-0.
Intense spirit and friendly riv
alry has characterized both squads
in recent practice drills and in
dications are that another thrill
ing contest is on tap for the grid
iron fans.
HI6HLITES*
by s-Ttlihe TTJann
Hub McQuillan’s Frogs Boast of Enviable
Record; Ags Hope For Upset Win Tonight
By Mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
Coach Hub McQuillan brings his highly touted Texas
Christian Horned Frogs, current favorites of the 1943 bas
ketball campaign, to the DeWare Field House tonight where
they will engage Coach Manning Smith’s dark horse Texas
Aggies in a feature conference tussle. Game time is 8
o’clock.
It will be the initial league start for the Maroon and
White shirted Aggies and Coach Smith hopes his lads will
make an auspicious showing. The Frogs opened their con
ference schedule last Wednesday night against the Baylor
Bears whom they barely defeated,-f ;; :
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TCU Favored
If pre-season records are of any
indication, then Coach Mac’s Pur
ple will be decided favorites. They
boast of an excellent non-confer
ence record of eleven wins out of
thirteen games, including a com
plete sweep in the recent Okla
homa tournament.
The Aggies, too, have a fairly
good pre-season record, boasting
of seven wins out of ten starts.
Two of those losses were by two
and one points respectively.
Tonight’s game will be a battle
between two teams very similarly
constructed as far as the players
are concerned. Neither club poss
esses any one special star but de
pend on all five men to do their
bit in winning games. The Ag
gies haven’t found a consistant
scorer yet, but do boast of a num
ber of players who have topped
scorers in different games. All
five members of the starting Ag
gie lineup—Mike Cokinos, Pete
Watkins, Les Peden, Jamie Daw
son and Leland Huffman have led
the scoring parade at one time
or another. The most consistant
in recent games has been Huff
man, whose speed and fast-break
ing ability has paid off dividends
for the Smithman. Watkins has
looked rather good, too, and may
be the top A&M offensive threat
(See AGGIES, Page 4)
Varsity Poloists
Play Underclassmen
Sunday Afternoon
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:15
the varsity polo team will vie
with the underclassmen for the
tin cup trophy in what promises
to be a good brand of polo, a nip
and tuck affair from start to fin
ish. ,
With the underclassmen flount-
ing such stellars as Gus White and
Tobin Armstrong, each with a
national polo handicap of three
goals, and M. Mertz with a handi
cap of one goal, Captain W. H.
Owen, polo coach, stated that the
underclassmen had a good chance
of trimming the varsity.”
Opposing the highly touted un
derclassmen on the varsity side
of the fence, Bill Braid, with a
wo goal handicap, himself, captains
the Aggie malletmen leading Clyde
Raley, Jack Buie, and Norris Mc
Gowan.
Notwithstanding the several
handicaps for the under boys, the
match will be played on the flat
with no handicaps taken into con
sideration, said Captain Owen, who
will umpire the clash tomorrow
afternoon.
Swimming Team
Made Up Of 19
Men; More Needed
Jimmy Kiel Is Elected
Capt by Teammates; Seven
Carry Hopes of Swimmers
As the Texas Aggie varsity
swimming team preps for the 1948
season, it has taken time off to
elect Jimmy Kiel, Wichita Falls,
captain of the team for the cur
rent season.
Coach Art Adamson expressed
the team’s dire need for divers
and sprint swimmers. Adamson
says that he would like to talk with
any men who believe that they
will be able to take these posi
tions or who have had any swim
ming or diving experience. At
the present time there are 19 men
working out for the swimming
team. Bob Taylor, stellar Aggie
swimmer who holds the conference
championships in the 100, 220,
and 440-yard races, is coaching the
divers as he will graduate this
month. Taylor has been a main
cog in the swimming team all the
years he was here and his loss
will be sorely felt.
The present team is built around
seven men who are expected to
carry the brunt of the work. The
shortage of swimers is expected to
cause the same results in the con
ference race as last year when
the Cadets took a majority of first
places but did not have enough
placings to take the meet.
Danny Green, freshman from
Dallas, who will lead the Aggie
team this year, has been given
honorable mention on the AUU
All-American swimming team. He
is a distance free-style swimmer
and is expected to place in the
1500-meter race at the National
Intercollegiate meet at Ohio Uni
versity on March 23-24.
Breast-strokers Bob Cowling,
Houston, and Phil Griffin, Fort
Worth, are expected to shine in
the conference race this year.
Cowling, a junior, is the confer
ence breast-stroke champ and
Griffin, a sophomore, is a Junior
National AAU 220-yard breast
stroke champion.
George Heaney, State High
School back-stroke champ from
El Paso, and Everett Brown of
Dallas will do the chores in the
back-stroke division. Ben Looney,
Dallas, and Kiel will handle the
sprint races.
Coach Adamson does not ex
pect the swimming team to have
(See SWIMMERS, Page 4)
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