TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16, 1945
THE BATTALION
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Cadets Drop 2 More Games; Play Baylor In Waco Tonight
Frogs and Ponies Take Two Rough
And Tumble Games In Local Gym
It was the same old story Fri
day and Saturday nights in De-
Ware Field House as the Aggies
were handed their second and third
conference setbacks. At times it
was difficult to tell whether it was
a basketball or football game which
was being played as 69 personal
fouls were committed during the
two games.
Coach Manning Smith’s Aggies
came close to pulling the TCU
game out of the fire and winning
their first conference game in two
years, but they did not have that
last minute spurt and the Frogs
came out on top, 30-27. Trailing
11 to 16 at the half, the Aggies
fought back in the second period
and took the lead, only to lose it
again. The Cadets were never more
than one point out in front of the
Purple crew, and were trailing by
one point when the Frogs scored
a field goal in the closing seconds
to ice the game away.
Hub Ellis of the Aggies and
Schmidt and Pasco of the Frogs
were tied for high point honors,
each scoring seven points during
the game.
Saturday night, SMU’s towering
Mustangs completely outclassed
the Cadets as they handed them a
50-20 swamping. The Ponies took
the lead in the opening minutes of
play and were never headed.
Holding a 27-13 lead at the half
time intermission, the Mustangs
came back to pour it on until their
regulars gave way to the second
string late in the contest. Kelley
Avery was high point man for the
Mustangs with 14 points, followed
by Embrey with 12 and Teal with
11. Milton Chemo of the Aggies
gathered seven points during the
evening to lead his team’s scoring.
Tuesday night the youthful Ag
gies will journey to Waco to meet
the equally youthful and inexperi
enced Baylor Bears. This game will
likely decide the team which is to
rest in the cellar, and it also of
fers the Cadets their best chance
to win a basketball game. The
Bears have been defeated in every
game they have played to date,
and the Arkansas Razorbacks
ICTORY
BUY
scored some 180 points in their
two games played two weeks ago.
Box scores of the two games:
A. & M.
Fg
Pf
Pf
Tp
Cherno, f
....2
1
3
5
Collins, f
....0
0
0
0
Blackstone, f
....0
0
1
0
Abrams, f
....0
1
2
1
Farrell, f
....0
0
0
0
Fincannon, f
....0
0
0
0
Ellis, c
...2
3
4
7
Weinbaum, g
....2
0
2
4
McCormick, g
....0
6
3
6
Cashion, g
....0
0
0
0
Howell, g
....1
2
3
4
Totals
....7
13
18
27
T. C. U.
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
Pearson, f
....1
0
5
2
Gibson, f
...2
0
1
4
Hensley, f
....1
1
0
3
Davis, f
....0
0
0
0
Rothbart, f
....1
0
1
2
Schmidt, c
...3
1
4
7
Cox, c
....0
0
1
0
Mohnke, g
....1
0
1
2
Sauer, g
....1
1
2
3
Overbeek, g
....0
0
2
0
Totals
..12
6
20
30
Halftime score:
T. C. U.
16,
A.
& M. 11.
Free throws missed: Cherno 2,
Ellis 3, Blackstone 2, Howell 3,
Pearson 2, Gibson 6, Schmidt 2,
Mohnke 1, Pasco 3, Rothbart, Sauer
2.
Officials: Ab
Boggess.
Curtis
and
Dusty
A. & M.
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
Cherno, f
3
1
2
7
Howell, f
0
0
1
0
Parmer, f
1
3
5
5
Abrams, f
1
0
1
2
Ellis, c
0
1
5
1
Weinbaum, g ...
1
2
2
4
McCormick, g ...
0
0
3
0
Cashion, g
2
1
0
5
Collins, g
0
0
0
0
Fincannon, c ...
1
0
0
2
Totals
9
8
19
28
S. M. U.
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
Avery, f
6
2
0
14
Haden, f
2
5
3
9
Roberson, f
1
1
0
3
Smith, f
0
0
0
0
Teal, c
4
3
2
11
Turner, c
0
0
2
0
Rollings, g
0
1
3
1
Embrey, g
4
4
1
12
Folsom, g
0
0
0
0
Prendergast, g
0
0
1
0
Totals
17
16
12
50
Halftime score: S. M. U.
2,
A.
& M. 13.
Free throws missed: Howell, Par
mer 3, Abrams 2, Haden 2, Em
brey, Folsom, Prendergast.
Officials: Ab Curtis and Dusty
Boggess.
Norton Gets New
Five-Year Contract
Texas A. & M. College’s Board
of Directors voted Saturday to
offer Head Coach Homer H. Nor
ton a five-year contract as head
football coach and director of
athletics.
The athletic council and Pres
ident Gilchrist had recommended
the action, taken in the meeting
Saturday. The contract term would
begin September 1, and Norton’s
salary would be the same as he
now receives.
Gilchrist, Prof. C. W. Craw
ford, chairman of the athletic
council, and Norton will work out
the contract’s details and it will be
submitted to the board for final
consideration at a later date.
Aggie-Ex Major In
Air Corps Completes
35th Combat Mission
15TH AAF IN ITALY—Major
Harrison G. Word, 28, 500 East
First St., Alice, Texas, commanding
officer of a B-24 Liberator squad
ron in the 15th AAF, recently flew
his 35th combat mission.
He is a member of a veteran
combat group, commanded by Col.
Philip R. Hawes, Pearl River, N. Y.,
that has flown more than 140 Com
bat missions and has been twice
cited by the War Department for
outstanding performance against
the enemy.
Major Word was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross recent
ly for his part in a mission over
the railroad yards at Bezieres,
France. Flying as command pilot
in one of the longest missions yet
undertaken by his group, he led a
perfect bombing run that destroyed
an important unit in the Nazi sup
ply chain.
“Enroute to the target,” reads
the citation he received on this oc
casion, “fierce opposition from flak
threatened to disrupt his forma
tion and destroy the effectiveness
of the attack. Displaying gallant
courage, brilliant leadership, and
superior flying skill, he executed
swift and expert maneuvers which
brought his formation through the
flak regions without loss of a
single ship.”
But it is not the flak over Be
zieres that Major Word remembers
best. It was his 15th mission which
took him to the oil refinery at
Giurgiu, Romania, that he considers
his toughest.
“We were attacked by a swarm
of fighter planes on that one,” he
recalls, “and just as we began the
bomb run, two of our turboes gave
out on us. One engine was shot
up badly and gasoline was spray-
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The Story of a Great Aggie
When the War Department an
nounced last month that Joe Routt
had been killed in action, A. & M.
lost one of its greatest athletes.
Another announcement, released
at about the same time, revealed
that Lt. John D. Scoggin was
missing in action.
Few Aggies in school now re
member John Scoggin, and many
of the uneclassmen have never
heard of him, but old “Scogg” was
just about the best baseball player
the Aggies ever turned out.
Scoggin was captain of the
championship team of 1942, and
hit somewhere over .500 for the
season. When he came up to bat
the opposing fielders just backed
up to the fence and prayed he
didn’t hit one solid. But big John’s
greatest feat came when the Ag
gies were playing Texas u. for the
championship in Austin. It was in
the second game of that series that
Scogg became a legend of the Ag
gies.
With the Aggies leading 4-3, the
Longhorns filled the bases in the
last of the eighth with one man
out. At this point Scogg exchanged
his catcher’s mitt for a pitcher’s
glove and went to the mound. The
first ball he pitched was hit into
a double play, retiring the side.
In the ninth inning he faced three
men, and all three struck out. This
was the first and only time John
ever pitched for the Aggies, but
when the occasion arose, he had
what it takes to win.
College Professors
Speak At Texas Agr.
Association Meeting
W. L. Stangel, head of the Ani
mal Husbandry Department of
Texas Technological College at
Lubbock, presided at the meeting
of the Texas Agricultural Work
ers’ Association held in Dallas on
January 11 and 12. Many of the
speakers and chairmen were from
A. & M. College, Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station, and the
Extension Service at College Sta
tion.
C. A. Heaton, Emergency Horti
cultural Assistant, Extension
Service, College Station, was
chairman of the Horticultural Sec
tion. Heaton spoke on “Future
Trends in Vegetable Gardening.”
S. L. Frost, chief, Division of
Information and Publications, Tex
as Forest Service, spoke on “New
Horizons for Forestry.”
The chairman of Plant Industry
Section was Dr. Ide P. Trotter,
Director, Extension Service. The
co-chairman was Dr. E. B. Rey
nolds, Chief, Division of Agronomy,
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station. “Practical Systems for
Planting and Using Legumes” was
the subject of H. E. Rea, Agrono
mist, Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
Of interest in the Home Section
was the speech on “Dietary Prac
tices of Texans” presented by Dr.
Jessie Whitacre, Chief, Division of
Rural Research, Texas Agricultur
al Experiment Station.
Dr. J. C. Miller, acting head of
the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment here, was acting chairman
of the A. H. Section. D. H. Reid,
head of the college Poultry Hus-
bandy Department, presented
“Looking Ahead in the Poulti’y
Business.” Also speaking at the'
Prof. Reid, Poultry
Dept., Returns From
National Feed Meet
Professor D. H. Reid, Head of
the Poultry Department, has just
returned from the National Feed
Industry Council in Chicago where
he met with Heads of Animal and
Poultry Husbandry Departments
from twenty-two land grand col
leges throughout the United States.
The main topic for discussion was
available feeds and their needs and
supplies for livestock and poultry
in 1945.
The representatives were sep
arated into several livestock and
poultry groups to analyze feed re
quirements of various types of
livestock and poultry in relation
to feed supplies, animal numbers
and expected rates of feeding for
1945.
Professor Reid asserted that a
printed report will come out about
February 15th from the National
Feed Industry Council, Washing,
ton, D. C., and that there is suf
ficient feed for all livestock. He
said that conditions this year were
much more favorable than last
year.
The stand of commercially val
uable sawtimber in East Texas is
estimated to be about 28,000,000,000
board feet by the International
1-4” Rule.
meeting from A. & M. was James
A. Gray, who discussed “The Fu
ture of Texas Wool and Mohair.”
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Moncrief and Yates On Frog Dream Team
Two Texas A. & M. gridders
were honored recently by being
placed on the all-opponent team
selected by the Texas Christian
University football team. The Ag
gies so honored were Monte Mon
crief, tackle who was named as
captain of the dream team, and
ing from it.
“We were prepared to bail out
that time, but we managed to
choke off the gas supply before fire
broke out, and we got her back
safely. That’s more than we can
say for a couple of ME109’s and
one ME190 that tried to stop us.
Our gunners just knocked them
right out of the sky.’
Word entered the AAF April
24, 1941, and received his second
lieutenant-’s commission and his
pilot’s wings at Stockton Field,
Calif., December 12, 1941. He re
ceived advanced flying training at
airports in California and was
promoted to first lieutenant in Sep
tember, 1942. He served a year as
squadron engineering officer at
Hammer Field, Calif., with the
rank of captain. He arrived in this
theater in March and was promoted
to major in June.
Major Word wears the American
Theater Medal, the European-Afri-
can-Middle East Theater Ribbon,
and the Air Medal with three
bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, “for
meritorious achievement in aerial
flight.”
Prior to joining the AAF, Word
was employed by the Gulf Oil
Corp., in Alice, Texas, and owned
and managed the Word Tire Store.
He was graduated from William
Adams high school in 1934, and re
ceived a bachelor of science degree
from Texas A. & M. College in
1940.
His wife, Mrs. Catherine D.
Word, and one-year-old daughter,
Catherine Lucille, are living at 1151
Josephine Drive, in Alice. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mac Word,
are living at the East First St.,
address. Two brothers, McGehee
and William, are serving with the
8th Air Force in England and the
Ferry Command in South Africa,
respectively.
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Paul Yates who was named as
fullback.
The team selected by the Frogs
consists of these men:
Ends—Dub Wooten, Oklahoma
U. and Neill Armstrong, Oklahoma
A. & M.
Tackles—Moncrief and Ralph
Foster, Oklahoma A. & M.
Guards—H. J. Nichols of Rice
and Harold Fischer of Texas.
Center—Jack Sachse of Texas u.
Backs—Bob Fenimore and Nate
Watson of Oklahoma A. & M., Der-
ald Lebow of Oklahoma U. and
Yates.
The Oklahoma Aggies were rep
resented by four men, two each
were named from the Aggies, Tex
as u., and Oklahoma u., while Rice
had one man on the team.
Rambling...
Two more basketball games
have been added to the schedule
of the Aggies. The Cadets will
meet the McCloskey General Hos
pital five at DeWare Field House
January 26, and a return game
will be played in Temple February
2. This brings to 24 the total of
cage games scheduled for this year
. . . At the present time it looks
as if the Aggies will lose most of
their gridders to Uncle Sam be
fore next fall rolls around . . . Re
liable sources say that Marion
Flanagan, star quarterback of the
1943 “Whiz Kids,” is to be dis
charged from the Service soon and
will be back in an Aggie uniform
next fall . . . That should take care
of at least one backfield position.
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September and if there are text-book changes by that
time, we have to dispose of our stock to national
second book stores.
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