THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1943
THE BATTALION
PAGE 3
By Harold Borofsky
Battalion Sports Editor
Aggie Team Goes to Houston This Week for
Rice Game; Neely Promises Tough Battle
With high hopes of taking the}
Texas Longhorns for a long ride
two weeks hence the Aggies will
go to Houston this week to face
the ever-improving Rice Owls.
Jess Neeley has promised that he
will show the Aggies a good game
Saturday and he may be really
thinking of turning the tide on the
Cadets.
Meanwhile Coach Homer Norton
has the Ags still working hard on
their mistakes, attempting to iron
out all errors. Most of the passes
that failed to click against the
Ponies have been thoroughly gone
over and corrected, and the same
mistake should not occur again.
As far as comparative scores
are concerned, the Ags should have
no trouble taking the decision over
the Owls. Texas took them 58-0,
but they have improved a great
deal since the first few weeks of
the season, and that may mean
trouble for the Cadets.
There has been lots of talk of
Bowl bids but as yet there is no
thing official. It is accepted that
the winner of the conference will
get the Cotton Bowl bid, but just
how the Orange and Sugar bowls
will go is questionable. Both of
these bowls have declared that they
want an all-collegiate team. If
this is so the Aggies are almost
certain to get a bid to one bowl
or the other, for they are easily
the most powerful non-serviceman
eleven in this region.
Top game of these week will be
the Notre Dame-Northwestern
tilt. The Irish are favored to hold
their place, but Northwestern will
be in top shape for the tilt and
may upset the Irish lads, though
that’s what they said about Army
last week.
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NATION’S EYES ON
POST-WAR WORLD
“It is a truism to state that
every thoughtful man and woman
in the United States today is giv
ing serious consideration to the
structure of the post-war world .
. . It has been estimated that there
are some 137 organizations and
societies, to say nothing of indi
viduals, which are busily engaged
in drawing up blueprints of the
world as it should be reconstitu
ted when the guns have been si
lenced. This is as it should be,
for every man of good-will is
agreed that it will take the clever
est thinking of the best brains of
our time to attain a stable equili
brium following history’s most
disastrous conflict.”. 1
—NAZIS’—
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The result was the creation of a
particularly well-balanced culture
during the Bronze Age, roughly
from 1800-800 B. C.
“Through isolation, the culture
stagnated and did not keep pace
with that of Western or Middle
Europe. Only with the beginning
of the Christian era was contact
with other peoples resumed on a
scale strong enough to stimulate
a new cultural growth.
“Culture is a syncretism which
will be crippled if kept too long in
isolation,” he concluded, “and this
is demonstrated in the story of the
Scandinavian culture, which de
stroys another Nazi myth—that of
the cultural supremacy of the ‘pure
race!”
Westminster college alumni in
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Team Has Had Colorful
Record;Many Trophies Won
Future Doubtful Unless More Men Begin
Firing Consistently, Says Williams
Last Tuesday evening the rifle team held a meeting to
determine the future of the organization. The team was dis
banded during the summer because of lack of practice time,
but the team coach Captain C. E. Williams, thinks that there
Football Figurin’..
By R. L. Weatherly
Rice and Texas Tech upset our
football cart last week by coming
through with some unexpected
wins. Rice walloped Arkansas, 20-
7, while Texas Tech was busy de
feating TCU, 40-20.
At the first of the season we
rode Rice to the limit. But we rea
lize now that we understimated
Rice’s strength. By defeating Tex
as Tech and smashing Arkansas,
Rice has won our respect.
This week will find A. & M.
invading Houston to play Rice.
A. & M. will be out to keep their
record as being the only undefeat
ed team in the Southwest Confer
ence. Rice will come out on the field
to try to mar the marvelous rec
ord of the Aggies. Then too, both
teams will be out to play off the
0-0 deadlock they played last
year.
For years these two teams have
been deadly rivals. This year will
be no exception for the two
teams.
The Aggie’s mighty pass offense
will be pitted against the Owl’s
somewhat improved ground game.
Bucky Sheffield and Joe Kucera
look good as ball toters. But it is
our guess that they will not be
enough to penetrate the strong
Aggie line. If it does not rain, the
air will be full of Aggie passes. If
it does rain, the Aggies will ex
hibit some of their fine ground
play. Their ground game has not
been seen much this season be
cause they are too busy pitching
pases.
The game is to be played in
Houston, but we respect Turner’s
punting, Hallmark’s passing, Flan
agan’s running, Butchofsky’s block
ing, and the Aggie line’s stout de
fensive game. We say Aggies 34,
Rice 0.
To predict the outcome of the
Texas-TCU game will be only a
breeze. For the last two years TCU
has dirtied the Texas team’s fine
record. In 1941 the TCU team
walked off the field the victor by
a score of 14-7. In 1942 TCU won
by 14-0. In 1941 the defeat was
the only defeat the Texas Long
horns suffered. .
The Longhorns have looked
mighty good this season, while TCU
looks like they cannot beat a rug.
It is our guess that TCU will
not echo their victories of the past
two seasons. We expect Texas to
win by a 40-0 score.
SMU and Arkansas will meet
in San Antonio this week. Neither
of the two teams have looked
strong this year. The Razorbacks,
like the Aggies, are using only the
students that go to their Univer
sity. SMU is using Naval trainees.
The game is not so easy to pick.
SMU has a much better offense,
but Arkansas has a good defense.
By comparative scores the teams
are about equal. SMU defeated
Rice, and Rice defeated Arkansas.
Arkansas held the Aggies to a
closer score than SMU could man
age. SMU went down 22-0, and
Arkansas was defeated 13-0. But
we do not go by comparative scores
in the Southwest Conference. We
pick SMU 13, Arkansas 7.
Intramurals
♦•are enough boys who are willing
to take the practice time and be
come good shots, so he has order
ed the reorganization of the team.
At the Tuesday night meeting
the progress of the team in the
past few weeks was reviewed and
it was found that out of over a
hundred who signed up when the
first call was issued only a few
have been firing consistently. How
ever, there was a great deal of
spirit shown at the meeting so it
was decided that the team should
continue for a while longer to see
how matters come out.
In the past the Aggie rifle team
has been one of the most out
standing' teams in the nation. The
trophy case in the academic build
ing is studded with Hearst trophies
and other cups that the past teams
have won. Captain Williams and
Sergeant Coyne both emphasized
the fact that the ability to shoot
well may mean any individual’s life
today. Cadets are also reminded
that they mey earn a minor sport
“T” by doing well on the rifle team.
If the team can be successfully
organized it will soon develop into
one Aggieland will be proud to
own. It is the duty of the corps to
keep the team going. Anyone is
eligible to compete for the team,
though previous experience helps
a great deal, and those interested
are invited to come to the rifle
range and get further details. The
regular metings of the rifle team
will begin next Wednesday night.
to 0; B Co. walloped D Co. 48 to
O.
O Co. won two basketball games
in as many days—beating 2nd HQC
17 to 12 and L Co. 13 to 6. The
only other game ended in a victory
for 4th HQC. They defeated 5th
Co. 18 to 14.
Following are the various league
standings:
FOOTBALL
1st HQC
League A
Won
3
Lost
1
2nd Co. ..
2
1
3rd Co.
2
1
4th HQC
2
1
3rd HQC
1
1
2nd HQC—out because of ex
cessive forfeits.
League B
Won Lost
4th Co 4 0
M Co 2 0
C Co 2 1
A Co 2 2
I Co 1 3
G Co.—out because of excessive
forfeits.
League C
Won
Lost
K Co. ..
2
0
B Co. ..
3
1
D Co
2
2
N Co. ..
1
1
F Co. ..
0
1....
5th Co. .
0
3
League D
Won
Lost
1st Co. .
3
0
L Co. ...
2
1
O Co. ..
2
1
H Co. ..
1
2
E Co. ..
0
3
Band ....
0
3
BASKETBALL
League A
Won Lost
4th HQC 4 0
4th Co 2 0
5th Co 2 2
2nd Co 1 1
Band 1 2
3rd HQC—out because of exces
sive forfeits.
By Max Mohnke
League B
Won Lost
Seven teams have been eliminat
ed from both the basketball and
the football leagues to date because
of an excessive number of for
feits. It takes two forfeits to elim
inate any team, and the majority
of the seven teams which are elim
inated forfeited their second game
the latter part of last week and
the early part of this week.
The football results of the past
five days were unusual in that
every game ended shutout for the
losing team. L Co. downed E Co.
12 to 0; 1st Co. topped O Co. 14 to
0; 1st HQC eased by 2nd Co. 6
to 0; 4th Co. continued their win
ning streak by beating A Co. 7
C Co
2
1
2nd HQC
2
2
O Co
2
2
E Co
1
1
L Co
1
1
M Co
1
2
League C
Won
Lost
1st Co. ...
1
0
3rd Co. ..
1
0
I Co
A 2
1
H Co
1
1
1st HQC
1
1
....K Co.—out because of execessive
forfeits.
League D
Won
Lost
N Co
4
0
B Co
3
0
—Photograph by Claude Stone
FLANAGAN SKIRTS PONY END
Here’s action from the Aggie-Mus
tang clash. Marion Flanagan, ace
Cadet back has gone around the
Pony right end on a reverse. He
picked up eight yards on the play.
—MAD-CAPS—
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dence in himself. Confidence from
the inside. Confidence that makes
him ready to meet the enemy, and
if necessary to close with him. No
thing in the world can be accom
plished without instruction and
confidence.—All Marines believe in
this and have profited by its
truth.
“All Marines received, from
those who preceded us in the
corps, the eternal spirit which has
animated our corps from genera
tion to generation and has been a
distinguishing mark of the Ma
rines in every age. So long as that
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gency in the future as they have
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the nation will regard us as worthy
successors to the long line of illus
trious men who have served as
“Soldiers of the Sea” since the
founding of the United States Ma
rine Corps.”
Sgt. L. McCusker, USMC.
f co 3 r~
ACo.—out because of evcessive
forfeits.
D Co.—out because of excessive
forfeits.
G Co.—out because of excessive
forfeits.
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