THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1943
THE BATTALION
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By Harold Borofaky
Battalion Sport* Editor
1943 All-Conference Team
Picked; Aggies, Steers Lead
Here it is, the All-Southwestren Conference team as
picked by your sweating scribe. It was no bed of roses to
filter out the good and bad points of all the boys who showed
up well this season and there is no doubt that there are some
who should have been on the list were left off. At any rate,
here it is:
Position
Name
School
Left End
Parker, Joe
Texas
Left Tackle
Bryant, Goble
A. & M.
Left Guard
Tassos, Damon
A. & M.
Center
Marshall, Keifer
Texas
Right Guard
Turley, Herb
A. & M.
Right Tackle
Flowers, Clyde
T. C. U.
Right End
Settegast, Marion
A. & M.
Back
Ellsworth, Ralph
Texas
Back
Magliolo, Joe
Texas
Back
Flanagan, Marion
A. & M.
Back
Lucas; Jim
T. C. U.
Second Team
Third
Team
LE
McCall
Texas
LE
Harville Texas
LT
Gres
Texas
LT
Plyler
Texas
LG
Butler
Texas
LG
Shaw •
S. M. U.
C
Wright, R.
A. & M.
C
Pense
Arkansas
RG
Simons
Texas
RG
Neville
A. & M.
RT
Moncrief
A. & M.
RT
Malmberg Rice
RE
Baldwin
Arkansas
RE
Coleman Texas
B
Butchofsky
A. & M.
B
Turner
A. & M.
B
Hallmark
A. & M.
B
Burditt
A. & M. '
B
Park
Texas
B
Sheffield Rice
B
Calahan
Texas
B
Beasley
A. & M.
We
expect plenty oi
disagree-
is without a doubt the fastest back
ment with these choices and would
really be surprised if there were
none. Here’s the way things stack
ed up for the first team choice. At
one end Joe Parker, the lad who
was really going places for the
Longhorns before he was sent to
medical school, rates an easy
berth. Aggie end Marion Sette-
gast, because of his excellent de
fensive as well as offensive show
ing, rates the edge at the other
end slot.
Rating a sure spot at tackle was
the Frog Captain, Clyde Flowers.
His play was outstanding all sea
son long, and he is good enough
to break up the Aggies’ brilliant
tackle combination of Bryant and
Moncrief. We’ll put Goble on the
first team with apologies to Monte.
The Aggies take over the guard
posts, but with plenty of tough
competition right behind them.
However, we like the Tassos-Tur-
ley combination and there are no
others so outstanding as to make
us break it up.
At center the Longhorn Navy
boy, Keifer Marshall, gets the
nod, but with Dick Wright’s breath
hot on his neck. The Texas pivot
man has had just a bit more ex
perience than Wright, but this is
still a hard one to pick. Wright has
shown plenty of zip every second
he has played and plugged up
holes in the Aggie line skillfully.
Now for the backfield—and what
a headache it is to pick it! There
were so many bright stars in the
backfield sky that one could hard
ly pick out the most outstanding
ones. Ralph Ellsworth first gets
the nod. The way this lad shed
tacklers was a sight to see and he
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in the section. We took him main
ly for his running ability when
teamed up with Joe Magliolo,
blocking back. Magliolo was given
some tough competition by Bob
Butchofosky who also can snag
passes, but again it is a story
of the Longhorn’s experience. For
the parsing duties we take the T.
C. U. ace Jim Lucas, who is not a
bad ball carrier either. Lucas man
aged to shade out Hallmark because
of his trait of being able to keep
cool in the pinches. It was Lucas
who caught the Longhorns nap
ping and plunked over a single
touchdown before the Texas power
house began rolling. Marion Flan
agan gets the other backfield
nomination for his pass-snagging
ability as well as his running. It
was hard to leave out other ver
satile Aggies, such as Red Burditt
and Don Deere. Burditt especially
looked good in the Turkey Day
tilt. But as we said before, no one
is perfect; we hope you agree.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“TEAMWORK” IS THE MAGIC
WORD THAT CAN SPELL SUC
CESS WHEN FAILURE IS IN
EVITABLE.
—DISTRACTIONS—
(Continued From Page 2)
leading stars, all of whom are of
the weaker sex, playing the parts
of a group of nurses stationed on
Corregidor in its last days this is
one of the best war stories to come
out of the movie capital. Heading
the cast are Paulette Goddard,
Varonica Lake, and Claudette Col
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life of a nurse in the war zone,
the suffering, thrills, and activi
ties. The heroic deeds of the gal
lant nurse corps who stayed on
the island fortress until they were
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oA Resolution
WHEREAS, the members of the Dallas A. and M. Club are filled with an in
ordinate pride in our Texas Aggie football team following the superb game it play
ed Thanksgiving; and
WHEREAS, the magnificant fight which for a time had the enemy groggy
and which continued without the slightest let-up until the final gun, is conclusive
proof that the squad, although freshmen, is already fully imbued with the incom
parable spirit of the Aggie fraternity; and
WHEREAS, to have taken players who not only had had no college experience
but few of whom until this season had even known each other, and to have mold
ed them into a unit which merited and W3n national acclaim, is a tribute to the
highest order to the coaching ability and leadership of Head Coach Norton and
Coaches James, Dimmitt, and Smith; and
WHEREAS, it is our confident feeling that the boys on the team went to
Texas A. and M. principally because of their patriotic desire to fit themselves to
be good soldiers and in time to join the ranks of the Kimbroughs, the Todds, and
the thousands of other Aggies in the armed forces who thereby are putting the
others of us in their eternal debt; therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the members of this club in regular meeting assembled ex
press to the members of the squad and to its coaches our feeling of unstinted pride
and satisfaction in them as individuals and as Aggies, our admiration for the
heads up and fighting brand of football displayed all season and especially on
Thanksgiving, and our confidence that the colors of Aggieland will fly triumphant
over the Orange Bowl New Year’s Day. Be it further
RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of
this club, that copies be sent to the Texas Aggie and the Battalion, and that a
copy be sent to Coach Homer Norton with the request that he read it to the other
coaches and to the squad.
Passed by unanimous and enthusiastic
vote, Nov. 26, 1943; Dallas, Texas
DALLAS A. & M. CLUB
By
F. H. Cunningham, President
A. N. Saxon, Secretary
Nofre Dome First In
Notion For '43 By AP
Nine Bowl Teams From South; A&M vs.
LSU In Orange Bowl; TU Faces Randolph
The best football team of the year, according to the
Associated Press poll, was Notre Dame. Eighty-six sports
experts voted this Irish team the number one team of the
nation, also ranked first in eight previous polls, with the
Iowa Pre-Flight School running a-f
close second. The other 45 experts
were divided in opinion among
eight other teams. Notre Dame
has lost heavily in the pool since
it received every first place vote
three weeks ago. Of the first ten
teams only Purdue is undefeated.
Washington, unbeaten in four
games, is the highest ranking team
which will play in one of the six
bowls. It’s opponent in the Rose
Bowl, USC, is ranked in the twen
ty-ninth place. The Rose Bowl will
not hold the nation-wide interest
as it has in previous years, since
two Pacific coast teams are match
ed for the New Year’s Day con
test.
Georgia Tech, voted thirteenth,
meets Tulsa, which rates fifteenth,
in the Sugar Bowl at New Or
leans. This game will attract much
attention, as it brings together two
teams from different sections of
the country.
Even though the Southwest Con
ference failed to have a represen
tative in th£ first ten, nine of the
twelve bowl teams came from Tex
as and the four adjoining states.
Texas A. & M. will replay LSU
in the Orange Bowl, having beat
en this team by a score of 28-13
earlier this season. These teams
were ranked twenty-fifith and
twenty-seventh, respectively. Once
defeated Texas University faces
once defeated Randolph Field in
the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. TU
rated the fourteenth spot in the
poll, while Randolph Field was
twenty-first. In the Sun Bowl, New
Mexico, voted thirty-second, faces
Southwestren of Texas, which
was rated to the twenty-third posi
tion.
In Houston the first Oil Bowl
game brings together two foot
ball teams, unheard of before this
season, in a duel which should
prove as interesting as any
of the games on New Year’s Day.
These two teams, SLI and Arkan
sas A. & M., have met before in
Memphis and played a 20-20 tie.
although Arkansas A. & M. is the
only unranked team in the Asso
ciated Press poll of the twelve
teams, it is capable of giving SLI,
twenty-second, a good fight.
Consolidated Tigers Must Face
Heavier Team In Championship
Battle As Did Broncos, Texas Aggies
Weight will favor the invader
once again when Marble Falls high
school’s football team, champions
of District 20-B, comes to Bryan
for a bi-district championship
game with the A. & M. Consoli
dated high school Tigers Friday
night on Bronco Field at 8 p.m.
It will be the third champion
ship game to be played here in
three weeks and the Tigers, like
the Bryan Broncos and the Texas
Aggies before them, will find
themselves facing opponents who
will cary the weight advantage.
Marble Falls’ starting lineup
will average 154 pounds, about
ten pounds more than the team
average of Consolidated.
Most of the Marble Falls weight
is to be found in the line where
two husky tackles and two fair
sized ends hold forth. George
Wagenfuhr, at 180, is the heaviest
man on the team, but his mate at
the other tackle position, Malcolm
Fluitt, is a close second with a
175-pound weight. James Mezger
and Donald Crawford at the end
posts each weighs 165 pounds.
Everett Hays at left guard,
weighing 135, is the lightest man
in the line and one of three light
est men on the team. Billy Ray
Mauldin at right guard and Clay
ton Nolen at center will weigh 155
pounds apiece.
The backfield has only one
heavy back, a 160 pounder by the
not unusual name of Bill Smith,
who plays the fullback spot. Car-
roll Klepas is a 140-pound block
ing back while John Taylor at
wing back and Clarence Phinney
at tailback are 135 pounders.
Along with the starters, Marble
Falls will bring 15 reserves.
Vital Road Link
Is Turned Down
By Regional WPB
The project for 1.9 miles of
highway, connecting the farm to
market road built from Highway
21 to Snook with Jones bridge, has
been turned down by the regional
office of the War Production
Board, according to information
received by George M. Garrett,
division highway engineer.
This project, estimated to cost
$16,000, would make it possible
for Burleson county farmers living
in the Jones bridge area to get to
Bryan by the Airport road and
make it unnecesary to take the
read leading to Highway 21 west
of the Brazos and then travel ap
proximately 12 miles more to get
to Bryan, and further to get to
College Station.
The project, approved by Feder
al and state highway* engineers.
and strongly supported by author
ities at College and by farmers
and landowners in the area for
whom the short stretch would save
time, tires and gasoline, was re
garded as an important link in the
highway improvements that have
been made in the past year to serve
that area.
Whether the project will be re
submitted to the WPB has not yet
been determined.
Williamson Task
Is Explained By
Director Of OPA
Formal announcement was made
Monday morning at Washington,
D. C. by Chester Bowles, admin
istrator of the Office of Price
Administration, of the appoint
ment of H. H. Williamson as his
agricultural relations advisor. In
making this announcement, Ad
ministrator Bowles said:
“Effective at once, I am estab
lishing in the Office of Price Ad
ministration the position of agri
culture relations advisor to the
administrator, and I have appoint
ed Mr. H. H. Williamson of Bryan,
Texas, to fill this position.”
“For some months I have been
concerned over what seems to me
to be a sincere lack of understand
ing on the part of many of our
farmers on the problems and ne
cessity for wartime price controls.
“At the same time I have been
conscious of the fact that there
have been several instances of
OPA regulations which have been
improperly keyed to practical farm
problems.
“For both of these reasons it
has seemed to me essential that
the viewpoint of our 12,000,000
farmers and the viewpoint of the
Office of Price Administration
should be brought much closer to
gether.
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December 2, 1943:
10:00—Musical Rerrefll*
10:80—News
10:45—Morning Reveries
11:00—Moments of Devoties
11:15—Lean Back and List—
11:80—Listen Ladies
11:45—Music
12:15—News
12:80—Farm Fair
12:45—Music
1:15—Between tha T hiss
1:80—Music
2:00—Treasury Transeripttsx
2:15—News
2:30—Music
2:45—Woman’s Program
3:00—Swing Music
4:15—Sports News
4:30—O.P A.
4:46—Music
5:00—Brazos Valley
5:15—Music
6:30—The Little Show
5:45—News
Hockey Game Correctly Foretells
A. & M. and Texas Longhorns Score
With a score of 4 to 2, the an
nual TSCW score-foretelling ver
sion of the Texas A&M-Texas Un
iversity football game gave a suc
cessful prophecy.
The hockey game was played
yesterday at 3:30 p. m. on the
hockey field, and the team repre
senting the “teasippers” upset the
Aggieland representatives with a
winning score coincidental to the
27-13 upset of the Turkey Day
classic at Kyle Field.
Miss Catherine Butinck, in
structor of sociology, was score-
keeper; Yvonne Harrison, ex-stu
dent teaching in Seymour, was
time-keeper; Miss Virginia Bour-
quardez, assistant professor of
health and physical education, Ag-
ne Talley, and Betty Johnson
were referees.
Visitors at the game included
Pres. L. H. Hubbard, parents, and
other guests.
Following the game the teams
went to the Cabin-in-the-Woods
where they were served refresh
ments and led in a sing song. A
varsity team was chosen, consist
ing of Mary Ella Montague, Velma
Bartlett, Jean Edmiston, Maurine
Hearn, Eris Doyle, Billie Clayburn,
Jack Worthington, Hattie Mae
Wood, Mary Louise Savage, Mar
tha Heifrin, Pat Twiss, and Judy
Roark.—The Lasso.
—AGGIES—
(Continued From Page 1)
Bill Boyd, Marshall Robnet, Ernie
Pannell, and Martin Ruby. James,
a hard taskmaster, merely fulfilled
his task of molding healthy minds
and bodies.
We asked Montgomery about
the lofty spirit and tradition at
Texas A. & M. as portrayed in the
movie, “We’ve Never Been Licked.’’
“While I’ll admit each school has
its share,” said The General, “I’m
more than proud of the Aggies’
standard. Whether it was in mid
night football rallies on Fridays
preceding home games, the military
discipline of the first two years,
the Aggie War Hymn as synchron
ized by the cadet corps of 8,000, or
that cheerio environment in the
mess hall—it all added up to “Bet
ter Men—Better Soldiers.”
There are many Texas A. & M.
products within the Camp Davis
confines today. Montgomery knows
they are well-fitted for the impor
tant job ahead. They’ve been school
ed that way. The Cadet Corpus at
Texas A. & M. was always regard
ed as the twelfth man on the foot
ball team. It never let the team
down—win or lose. And fellows
like “Cowboy” Vannoy and Jim
“The General” Montgomery will
not let this man’s Army down ei-
hert- Except that in the latter in
stance both will be on the winning
side. Of that there is no doubt.
P. S.—Montgomery is running
into difficulty these days. Yes, it’s
Betty again. Jim’s younger brother
is half-way through high school
and is already set on Texas A. &
M. Betty says it’s bad enough
having a boy friend from Texas
A. & M. but when his brother has
similar designs—. But Betty still
writes those sweet letters. And
make believe Jim doesn’t like that.
Dinner Given Staff
Of All-Service Show
Members of the cast and techni
cal staff on the Sunday All-Service
Show over WTAW were honored
by a dinner Tuesday evening at
the Aggieland Inn, the guests of
the Student Activities office of
the college.
Those present at the meeting
were Tom Journeay, Dick Bolin,
Harry Dillingham, Harold Reifer,
Oscar Weigand, John Holman, M.
G. Smith, Billy Woolrich, Dick
Gottlieb from the ASTP and the
Aggie corps; Ted Hills of the radio
station and representatives of the
Student Activities office.
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