The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 23, 1943, Image 3

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 23, 1943, Image 3

Newspaper Page TextSATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1943 THE BATTALION PAGE 3 By Harold Borofsky Batalion Sports Editor Aggies Must Stop “Red” Maley, Punch Holes in NT AC Line to Win Today’s Game Well, it looks as if today we'll- either get ourselves a powerful licking or a very rosy writeup in tomorrow’s papers. It’s bound to be one of the two, and if the game is a tie it will probably be the lat ter, just by way of showing what the sports experts think of those N. T. A .C . boys. Latest dope says the North Texas line will average 204.6 pounds and the backfield close behind with 196. Now those are some fairly big boys to go fooling around with, especially when you are trying to outrun them and still maintain your hold on that old pigskin too. While we will have plently of trouble 'trying to cope with that line there’s one thing certain that we must do, and that thing is to stop Red Maley and his passing. If the Aggie line can’t get in fast enough to knock Maley down half the time , we will be a bunch of sad sights when Saturday night rolls around. Of course we’ve got some fine boys. Bryant, Turley and Monncrief are in gopd condition and really have plently of ' spirit, but you can’t pit a boy of 17 against an experienced college man and expect him to make up the difference in guts. It just doesn’t happen that way. So, the first order of the day is: “Stop Maley.” Now for the N-Tac line, and what a line! All college stars, none weighing less than 195, they will be a Maginot line for the North Texas gridsters. The ends will be playing wide to frustrate any Ca det running plays and brother, those boys are stable! Of course, if we had trouble of pile drivers rigged up on wheels .... but back to business. The second order pf the day, especially for the Ag gie line: “Hit that line!’’ That does for the defense. As far as the offense is concerned it will be largely a matter of just how many times we can click with what we’ve got. The third order for the day is “Hit them hard and fast and then do it again harder and faster!” Should we accomplish all of these orders we should win, and your scribe is really pulling for the Rules and Results Of Intramural Games Announced Touch Football And Basketball Games Up Now The first week of Intra-mural competition got into full swing this week with games in both foot ball and basketball being played. Nearly all games were played and those forfeited were forfeited be cause one or both of the teams showed up late. Athletic officers should call their players attention to the starting time for intramural games, which is 5:10. In the case of football games, each team must have at least seven players on hand and ready to play at 5:10. Intramural competition in foot ball will be over, except for the play off, by Thanksgiving. Basket ball play will be over about a week after Thanksgiving with the ex ception of the playoff. As soon as these are gotten out of the way, competition in new sports will be begun. In the meantime there will be an intramural cross country track meet November 21-22, the week-end before Thanksgiving. Results in the games played this week were as follows: Football— 0 Co. 12, Band 6; N Co. 7; B Co. 6; C Co. 6; A Co. 0; and 4th Co. 27; G Co. 0. Basketball—K Co. 17; H Co. 12; 5th Co. 25; Band 12; E Co. 10; O Co. 6; 2nd Hq. Co. 18; C. Co. 16; and 4th Hq. Co. 12; 3 Hq. Co. 11. old Alma Mater because he, and that means me, took the Aggies by two T. D.’s last Thursday. Since then Pete Stout has returned to the N-Tac line-up and my predic tion should be revised accordingly, but there’s a feeling of high ten sion in the air so I’m afraid that my guess will either have to stand as it is or be buried. The Aggies by two T. D.’s. (At least we can dream) See you at the game! NEED Books? Outlines? Drawing Instruments? The Co-op has ’em and can save you money. Radio and Bicycle Repair THE STUDENT CO-OP One Block East of North Gate Frogs and Fish Lou would like to see you at practice at Kyle Field every afternoon this week—and let’s clean up on NTAC Saturday. Let the team know you’re behind them at practice as well as at the game. BE A REAL TWELFTH MAN LOUPOT'S TRADING POST “Trade With Lou — He’s Right With You” Find Your Class Section at Kyle Field Today Sections 130,131,132 Used! Freshmen Sit In Rows 1-16, Sophomores Use Rows 17-22, Juniors, Rows 23-27, Seniors and Aggie-exes, Rows 28-39. CADETS BLAST TCU RUN NING PLAY—This shot from last week’s game reveals why the Frogs couldn’t get anywhere. TCU back has just attempted to run the left side of the Aggie line and is being pulled down by Bob Gary, defensive line backer. Bob Butchofsky and Marion Set- tegast may be seen coming to as sist the tackle. At right the AG GIES AND FROGS SCRAMBLE for a fumbled pigskin. One of many fumbles in last week’s game; the TCU back was hit hard at the center of the line and fumbled. The Aggies re covered. PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UP for NTAC against the Texas Aggies at Kyle Field next Saturday afternoon will be chosen from this galaxy of former Southwest Conference and other Texas college grid stars. The players and their former college from left to right, first row are: Harold Crossen, 220 pound end, Texas Tech; Burnie Smith, 220 pound tackle, SMU; James Reed, 195 pound guard, Texas Tech; Jim Sid Wright, 205 pound center, SMU; Doyle Caraway, 200 pound guard from Texas Tech; John Steele, 215 pound tackle, TCU; Easter Parham, 200 pound end, TWC. Standing, Pete Blanda, 190 pound fullback, Texas Tech; Don Ezell, 185 pound halfback, TCU; J. J. Gibson, 180 pound halfback, TCU; Bib John Bond, 215 pound fullback, TCU; J. P. Stout, 200 pound quarterback, TCU; Howard “Red” Maley, 185 pound quarterback, SMU; Ben “Peck” McMinn, 180 pound halfback, SMU. COACH HOMER NORTON—The genial mentor of the amazing young Texas Aggies, who, at the present time, are the only unde feated and untied team in the Southwest Conference. Coach Norton came to A. & M. from Centenary College where he coached the famed Gentlemen. He has made an enviable record with the Cadets and is looking forward to Thanksgiving Day at Kyle Field when he hopes to avenge the defeat of the Aggies last year in Austin. GEORGE McALLISTER GEORGE T. (MAC) McALLIS TER comes from Eden with three years of high school experience. His running shows resemblence of Kimbrough’s style. He is 185 pounds, six feet one inch back at the age of 17. His number is 20. Courses in war economics, eco nomic geography, transportation, income tax procedure, general ac counting and international econom ic policies are but a few of the studies to be presented this fall by the University of Kentucky college of Commerce, which have a direct bearing on the war effort. Football Figurin'— By R. L. Weatherly Last week we met the Aggie team. This week we have facts about the team as a whole. In the past few years the Ag gies have had a much heavier, old er and experienced team than that of this year’s team. But lacking bulk, age and experience the Ag gie team of ’43, has made quite a record for itself. In four games they have won four games. They massacred the Bryan Field team DICK OVERLY Coming from Longview, CHAR LES R. (DICK) OVERLY brings 3 yars of high school experience. He is 18, 170 pounds, and stands 6 feet tall. His No. is 68 and he plays guard. Pete Stout Will Be Back In NTAC Line-up Saturday Thirty Six Ags to Come To Aggieland For Tilt On Kyle Field Today ARLINGTON, Oct. 22—A squad of 36 North Texas Aggies will get to College Station, if the train’s on time, Saturday afternoon at 12:15 p. m. for the game at Kyle Field with the Texas Aggies at 2:30. The NTAC squad won’t be at full strength, but they’ll be in bet ter shape than the coaches thought at the beginning of the week. Most encouraging to NTAC hopes, what ever they may be worth, is that Pete Stout, NTAC’s great 200- pound tailback, only released from an Austin hospital Wednesday, will be able to play some of the game. Stuot’s head injury, a blow received in the NTAC-Southwest- ern game last week, has proved to be inconsequential and Aggie fans will get to look at the boy Coach “Dutch” Meyer of TCU pronounced his most promising frosh back in a decade. When Pete played for the TCU Frogs last season, several sport writers tabbed him as a po tential all-American. Starting line-up against the Ag gies will average about 200 pounds to the man. The players and their former schools and weights will probably be as follows: Easy Par ham, T. W. C., 200 pounds, left end; John Steele, T. C. U., 215 pounds, left tackle; Keith Curry, T. C. U., 210 pounds, left guard; Jim Wright, S. M. U., 205 pounds, cen ter; James Reed, Texas Tech, 195 pounds, right guard; Burnie Smith, S. M. U., 220 pounds, right tackle; Herold Crossen, Texas Tech, 200 pounds, right end; Howard Maley, S. M. U., 185 pounds, quarterback; James Batchelor, Texas University, 200 pounds, right halfback; Peck McMinn, S. M. U., 180 pounds, left halfback; and John Bond, T. C. U., 215 pounds, fullback. NTAC will depend on a mixed running and passing attack for its offense rather than a constant aerial bombardment as has been its custom. Maley and Batchelor will do the jassing and kicking. Bond and Mc Minn are expected to do most of the running. The Ags, since their defeat by Southwestern last week, are under dogs, but they hope to give the rampaging Texas Aggies more than a mere workout. Most sports editors throughout the state pre dict that the Texas Aggies will beat their little brothers by at least two touchdowns. If they do, they’ll be beating the marines since nearly all NTAC players are marines stationed here by the Na vy V-12 program. At the beginning of the season the entire college decided to “adopt” a football team and after a care ful scrutiny of the country’s grid teams, they decided to focus their attention on Michigan. by a score of 48-6. The Aggies held Texas Tech scoreless for four quarters to win 13-0. They tangled with the L. S. U. Tigers and came out on top with 28 points to their opponents 13. Last week they proved their strength by whipping TCU 13-0. The average age of the football teams is seventeen. The oldest men at nineteen are: Bob Butchof sky, Adolph Eberle, Marion Flan agan, Otto Granzin, Thomas Lea gue and Bing Turner. The young sters of the squad are 16 and in clude Bobby McCurry, James Ez ell, Charles Shira and Joseph Sac ra. Five feet, eleven inches is about the average height of the team. The giants of the team at six feet and three inches are Billy Bunt ing, Charles Bruno, Jess Moore, Charles Shira and Charles Wright. The “shorty” of the squad in Thomas Murnana at the height of five feet and six inches. The average weight of the Ag gie squad is about 179 pounds. The average weight of the first string is 172 pounds. This is light comparable to other teams of the Southwest Conference. The experience of the Aggie team averages about two years of high school experience. This is odd because of the ruling before the war for playing, as a man had to be a sophomore or better to play for the varsity team. Now of this Week’s Predictions We find ourselves in much dif- diculty in trying to pick the out come of the Aggie-NTAC game. The Aggies have won every game they have played up to date. Yet the NTAC team is a strong team composed of many Southwest Con ference stars of last year. It is true that NTAC lost two games to Southwestern, but Southwestem is one of the strongest teams in the south, so this game seems to be a toss-up and a flip of the coin would be gambling. Therefore, we pick the Aggies by a touchdown— 7-0 is the score of the NTAC game with the Aggies on top. The S. M. U. Mustangs tangle with the Tulane Green Waves this week. The Mustangs proved noth ing by beating the Rice Owls last week by a score of 12-0. This year Rice is weaker than tea in Japan. To prove their strength the Green Waves rolled up a score of 32-0 against Rice. Since Tulane enter tains SMU in New Orleans, we pick Tulane by a score of 20-7. Rice invades Austin to get whip ped this week. The Texas team has more than proved their strength in holding the Southwest ern team to 13 points while they were able to chalk up 7. Rice has lost every game this season and this is no time to start winning. We pick Texas 26 and Rice 0. Arkansas goes to Mississippi to play NATTC this week. The trip will be too much for the Razor- backs so expect Arkansas to fall to NATTC at the score of 7-0. TCU will play Oklahoma A.&M. this week. This game is another hard one to pick. The TCU Horned Frogs have lost and won a game. The Aggies from Oklahoma are strong this year so we pick them 13-0. Now for the Stars of the TCU- Aggie game Hallmark stood out on ground and in the air for the Aggies. His passing to Butchofsky and Flana gan respectively made the two touchdowns. Flanagan lived up to his scat- back ability by catching a pass from Hallmark and racing through the TCU team for a touchdown. Butchofsky came up with a nice catch to score the first touchdown for the Aggies. He did yeoman work as a blocker, too. Turner turned in his usually good play at fullback by punting superbly. His kickoff thrills the crowd also. Herb Turley and Goble Bryant stood out in the Aggie line both on defense and offense. TCU’s mainstays were Charley Flowers and Jim Lucas. Flowers twinkled in the line while Lucas carried the blunt of the offense for TCU. All in all both teams played good ball and the best team came out on top. DR. N. B. McNUTT DENTIST Office in Parker Building Over Canady’s Pharmacy Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair Phone 4-4114

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 23, 1943, Image 3

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