THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1943
THE BATTALION
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Varsity Basketball Squad To Hold Meeting On Friday
By Harold Borofsky
Battalion Sports Editor
Mustangs Work On Pass Defense, Will Try to
Halt Aggie Aerial Attack in Saturday’s Tilt
S. M. U. head coach Jimmy Stew
art is currently having more trou
ble that he can handle, according
to dispatches from Dallas. Besides
the loss of Ed Cloud, ace center
of the Mustangs, the ponies face
the prospect of starting without
Olin Gibbons, a boy who has shown
plenty of stuff in the backfield
and who was hurt in the final min
utes of the Texas game last week.
Meanwhile, concentrating on the
men he does have to work with,
the S. M. U. mentor is trying to
perfect a system of pass defense
that he hopes will throttle the
vaunted passing attack of the Ag
gies. The Mustangs, who are badly
outclassed by the Longhorn run
ning attack, do not believe that
the Cadets will present as hard
an attack on the ground as they
will in the air. The Pony coach
stated that he hoped to stop the
bullet passing of Hallmark and
Beesley, the Aggie aces, and that
if he could succeed the Ponies
would be an even match for the
Age on the running plays.
Meanwhile, here at College Sta
tion, Coach Homer Norton is plan
ning to show the Mustangs what
it feels to have a bit in their
teeth, for the Aggies are going to
be all out in their attempt to tame
the Broncs. Good news to all is
the return of George McAllister
to the Ag lineup. McAllister suf
fered an injured knee and then a
badly bruised back, but will be in
top condition for Saturday’s fray.
Should the Cadet passing game
fail, the Ag coaches are not wor
ried. Besides the first string backs,
Flanagan, Beesley, Halim ark,
Deere, Burditt, and Turner the se
cond string boys can display plenty
of speed and maneuverability. Cal
lender, in the short seconds he has
gotten to play, has shown great
promise.
The Cadets have been taking it
fairly easy this week, running over
the Pony plays and perfecting our
own defense. By now we have al
most ironed out any hindrance to
smooth play and Saturday’s game
should see some nice football play
ing on all sides.
Longhorns Take Thirteen Spot in Nation,
Aggies Sixteen, Notre Dame Still Leads
In National football circles this
week Notre Dame still reigns
supreme. Army, tied by Penn last
week, dropped to third place with
Purdue taking over second hon
ors. The Texas Longhorns took the
number thirteen spot and the Ag
gies are rated sixteen in the na
tion.
Back to the Southwest, other
games this weekend will see Rice
meet Arkansas at Houston in what
should be a close and thrill-packed
melee. The Owls will be slight un
derdogs by virtue of their 58-0 loss
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to the Longhorns, while the Pork
ers lost only by 34-0
Texas will be idle this week but
head coach D. X. Bible will take
no time out. The Longhorns will
face the T. C. U. Frogs next week
and Bible is frank in saying that
he is woried about the game. The
Longhorns haven’t won from the
Frogs in the last two years,
though they have been favorites
each time.
Odds and ends: The S. M. U.
squad boasts only 40 men for a
total. So far this year the Ponies
have won only one game, taking
Rice 12-0. They have lost to Tulsa,
NT AC (20-6), Tulane, and Texas
(20-0). Last year, when the Ags
played the Mustangs at Dallas, the
score was 27-20 with the Cadets
on top.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
DON’T SOFTEN UP WHEN
THE GOING GETS HARD!
On October 25 Oregon State col
lege celebrated its seventy-fifth
anniversary.
Head Coach Manning Smith
Issues Call for All Players
Meeting to be Held in Gym Friday At 6:00
Names to be Taken; Cagers Asked to Report
The first meeting of this year’s basketball squad will
be held this Friday at 6:00 p.m. in the gym, it was today
announced by Manning Smith, head basketball coach. The
meeting will be for the purpose of getting the names of all
interested boys and organizing the*
team for practice. The boys who
come out will practice under a
schedule until after Thanksgiving,
when Coach Smith can devote his
entire time to the basketball squad.
“What we want to do,” said
Coach Smith, “is to get the boys
down there, get their questions
answered, and get them to practi
cing.” “The Aggie cage team has
always been one of the most co
lorful in the nation and we are go
ing to go right ahead as if we
were in normal times. We will play
the regular conference schedule and
will play as many Army teams as
possible, for that will give us valu
able practice.’’
Qualifications for basketball are
the same as for football. Of course
none of the Army boys are eligible,
but any regular student who is
passing at least eleven hours may
come out for the team.
In- Manning Smith, the Cadets
have an able coach as well as a
regular fellow. “Smitty”, as he is
better known, came to the Aggie
coaching staff in 1934 with Coach
Homer Norton who had coached
him to All-America mention at
Centennary College as a quarter
back and scat backfield man. His
first duties were assistant back-
field coach and backfield demon
strator. In 1937 “Smitty” became
co-coach of freshman baseball and
in 1938 he took over the varsity
tennis team.
Later the same year he had the
freshman basketball added to his
jobs, so he dropped the freshman
baseball work. By 1941, however
he was co-coach of all freshman
sports except track.
Last year was Manning’s first
year as varsity backfield coach and
Jjead basketball coach, and he made
an enviable record at both these
positions, at which he succeeded
Marty Karow, now a naval offi
cer. Last years’ team of cagers, in
cluding Cokinos, Dawson, Huff
man, Peden, and a score of others,
was fast and colorful, leaving this
year’s boys a mark to shoot at, so
if you want to go out for the team,
don’t hesitate. Let’s start right
now to win the Southwest confer
ence basketball race in ’43.
MONTE MONCRIEF, ace Aggie tackle who has proven to be one of
the best at his spot though a freshmen at A. & M. Monte hails
from Dallas, wears number 74, and tips the scale at 195 pounds.
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B Team Plays Allen
Academy Friday
The Aggie B team, coached by
Lil Dimmitt, will play Allen Acad
emy Friday at 3:00 p.m. on Kyle
Field. The Cadets are favored, but
the Allen boys are expected to give
the Ags some stiff competition. Al
len lost to Heame Interment in a
hard fought game 7-0 and the Ag
gies licked Hearne by a score of
18-0. The game will be especially
interesting in view of the fact
that it will offer a preview on some
of the B team boys who are really
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November 4, 1943:
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due to go places on the varsity
later on. All those who have Friday
afternoon off will see a real game
of football when these two teams
tangle.
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Capital University's library in
Columbus, Ohio, recently received
a portrait carving in oak of the
head and shoulders of Martin Lu
ther, made in Switzerland 88 years
ago.
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation
of Battle Creek, Mich., has recently
granted $4,000 to Butler University
for loans and scholarship to train
medical technologists.
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