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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 15, 1945 THE BATTALION Paere 3 BALLENTINE BEATS MUSTANGS 3 - 0 Coming so close to the door of defeat that even the-f wind moaned, the Aggies sneaked by the SMU Mustangs last Saturday 3 to 0 in what was their poorest game of the season. Only the smiles of Lady Luck linked with the kick ing of Bob Goode and John Ballentine stood in the Ponies way. For it was John Ballentine who won the game for the Aggies. He went into the game on the first play of the sec ond quarter and kicked the field goal that meant the game. Bob Goode had just run 51 yards to put the ball on the SMU 17 when Ballentine went in. Under instructions from the bench, he called for the field goal try, and then proceeded to kick it 35 yards at an angle against the north wind. His kick went true, and the Aggies crawled into the lead that stuck for the rest of the game. The Aggies were halted from the very start, and only few times did they have the chance to run a series of downs. The kicking of Red Maley and Doak Walker kept the Cadets on the defense most of the time, and well in their own end of the field the rest. Only once did the Aggies cross the SMU 25 yard line, and that came in the closing minutes of the first period. After the ball had changed hands a number of times between the two thirty yard lines, SMU had the ball on their own 49. On the first play from scrimmage, Wilson fumbled a pass thrown him by Walker, and Preston Smith re covered for the Aggies on the A&M 32. Daniels handed of to Goode, and the big Aggie halfback went 51 yards to the SMU 17 yard stripe on the only long run of the afternoon. Smith tried the line three times for 2 yards, and it was fourth and 8 from the 15. John Ballentine came into the game for Smith, and the Aggies formed for a field goal. The ball was resting on the 15, which meant that the kick had to travel from the 25, or 35 yards altogether. The ball was snapped, and Ballentine’s kick went squarely through the middle of the uprights for the 3 points that got bigger and bigger as the game went on. SMU’s only serious threat came late in jthe third quarter when they brought the ball to the Aggie 14 yard line before losing it on downs, but they were constantly in possession of the ball in the danger zone between the Aggie 30 and 15. Outstanding for the Aggies all afternoon was end Bill Geer. He played his best defensive game of the season, and was a thorn in the side of the Ponies on every play that he was in the game. For the Mustangs, Doak Walker was the lad that no one could handle. Wal ker’s passing and running were superb, and his kicking was excel lent. RICE GAME TIME Starting time for the Texas A. & M.-Rice game in Houston has been moved up from 3:00, the time shown on tickets, to 2:30 p. m. By Frank Cawthon A. & M. 13—RICE 7 The Owls will be plenty good, but the Aggies should be better. The margin for Ole Army might be two touchdowns, but I’ll play it safe for one. After a bad show ing against SMU, the Aggies will show the Houston boys their real power with Smith and Goode play ing at the same time. TEXAS 20—T. C. U. 6 The Longhorns should at last come to life and play a good brand of ball against the Frogs. TCU’s Joslin will see that the Layne to Bechtol combination is hard to stop and it will roll on to the Turkey Day skirmish. All-Confer ence Ralph Ellsworth is ready to play, after an illness, and will carry much of the burden. New Plan Gives Better Selection For All-American For the first time in the history of football, the outstanding play ers of small schools will have equal opportunity with those of the larger universities, according to Coach Homer H. Norton of Texas A. & M. • Norton is one of 350 members of the American Football Coaches Association who are helping to select an All-America team under the sponsorship of the Association. 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Clyde Cecil is program chairman. one expert or a handful of top- ranking coaches, the new All- America will embody the opinions of all of the 350 members of the Association. This places the selec tion on a nationwide basis and gives the outstanding performers of both small and large teams a chance at national honors. Each week the coaches file a report on any player or players who look like All-America mate rial. These reports will be tabu lated and forwarded to all coaches for their information in watching remaining games. At the end of November, the coaches will fill out their individual votes for the All-America selection. Under this system, there is little chance of a good man escaping notice. Ireland has the most intensive cultivation of potatoes of any country in the world. Most of its people subsist largely on the crop. S. M. U. 23—Arkansas 0 The powerful, but almost win less Mustangs, will deal the Hogs a terrific beating Saturday, with Walker running and passing to his pair of fine ends, Wilson and Clark. It will be a field day for the Ponies, who have beaten Rice 21-18 and lost to A. & M. and Texas by 3-0 and 12-7 scores repectively. TULSA 13—BAYLOR 7 The Bears have a fine ball club and should deal the Tulsans plenty of misery before the afternoon is over. They lost a bang-up football game to Texas last week and will be laying for the Oilers who lost to powerful Oklahoma A. & M. last week 12-6 after pushing them all over the field. The Bears will be hard to beat, but Tulsa will do it. Engineers Meeting Thursday 7:30 P. M. Engineers of Area 14 composed of the following counties: Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milan, Robertson, Walker and Washington will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 P. M. in the Civil Engineering lecture room, Novem ber 22 for the purpose of forming a permanent chapter of the Texas Society for Professional Engineers. All engineers and other interested people are invited to attend. The following program has been plan ned: Welcome—President Gibb Gil christ. Proposal and acceptance of con stitution and by-laws for the local chapter. Election of officers for 1946. A POINT WORTH REMEMBERING By trading with the Campus Cleaners you are spending your money where it will help Aggies the most. Owned and operated by the Former Students Association, Campus Cleaners’ profits are used for the betterment of your school and the perpetuation of those good old Aggie traditions. CAMPUS CLEANERS “Stay Well Dressed” M CALL FOR AND DELIVER YOUR CAR! 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He ran with the backfield consisting of Babe Hallmark, Bing Turner, and Red Burditt, and Marion Flanagan in 1943, and with Bobby Goff, Jim Parmer, Mann Scott, and Jim Cashion in 1944. Butch is noted throughout the conerence as being one of the best blocking backs to have played in the southwest, and at the same time, he was a consistent ground gainer. His services will indeed be missed in the coming two champ determining contests. A&M emerged this week from the wild and wooly conference race as just about the best defensive team in the conference. Some of the statistics for the Aggies read like this: First downs by opponents, 54, for the least in the league; net yards gained by the opposition by passing, 296, for the least in the conference; forward passes com pleted against them, 35, for the least number; yards gained by the opposition by rushing, 919, for the second least in the conference; and a total of 1215 yards gained against for the second least. Kick er Bob Goode is fourth in the con ference with a 37.3 yard average on 68 kicks. The team punting aver age is 36.8 for the second highest in the conference. In the ground gained column, Preston Smith is still in the top slot with 548 yards gained on 119 carries. Goode is in third place with 515 yards on 94 carries. Goode and Smith are also first and second, respectively, in the conference in played only two or three minutes downs for 60 points, and Smith retained his 55 points on 9 touch downs and 1 extra point. Other figures list Daniel as the fourth top passer with 25 complet- tions for 57 passes thrown for 254 yards, and Higgins as the seventh pass receiver with 8 completions for 128 yards. Smith has returned 15 punts for 175 yards to give him an 11.6 yard per return average and fifth place in the conference. Player-of-the-week honors this week go to the man who won the SMU game with a swift kick, none PENNY’S SERENADE By W. L. Penberthy Not long ago one of our South west Conference Referees told me an amusing incident that happened in a high school game in which he officiated. On the opening kick-osf^f the ball was kick ed on the fly in to the end zone of the receiving team where it was caught by one of the players. Aft er catching the ball the lad, who was not very large, looked out play and saw the players of the other team charg ing down on him so he just stood still and made no attempt to touch the ball to the ground for a touch- back or to run it out. The referee sensed the indecision on the part of the lad and asked, “Son, what do you want to do?” In a quaver ing voice the youngster answered, “I don’t know, but I don’t want to run.” I am sure that many of us have been in a very similar posi tion—we knew what we should do, but we hesitated because we are a little afraid. Penberthy on the field of STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair PHONE 4-4114 Fear is a very natural thing, and I never saw a person who was without a fear of some kind. The fears of other folks often seem very ridiculous to us, but I am sure our fears seem equally so to them. The individuals who appear to be immune to fear are often the ones who are afraid of the least harmful things. In my opinion, to be afraid is not a sign of weakness or Coward ice, and we should not be criticized or condemned. But when we give in to our fear of something to the extent that we let it dominate us then it is another thing. We all ad mire courage and there are several kinds, but the kind that gives me a thrill is that which is evidenced when an individual takes control of himself and does not let fear keep him from performing a cer tain task. In our program we have many students who have a real and un derstandable fear of the water, but I want to say to their everlast ing credit that almost without ex ception these fine boys have had the courage necessary to conquer this fear and have gone on and learned to swim. other than John Ballentine. He played only two or three minutes in the game, but in that time, he kicked a field goal and SMU out of the conference picture. Hats off to John Ballentine. This corner of tne column could not be complete without saying something about the ball game played by end Bill Geer. Bill was picked this week by the Associated Press as the outstanding end in the southwest, and it was an honor that was certainly due him. He was the strongest defensive man on the field last Satui’day, and figured in nearly every tackle around his end of the line. To Bill goes the most honorable of honorable men tions. Captain Kermxt K. Beahan, Hous ton, Texas, dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Aggie-Ex Sees Same Play He Used On SMU Exactly 25 Years Ago History repeats itself! Sitting in the stands Saturday at the SMU game was Colonel Richard H. Har rison. He probably shook his head in amazement, because just twen ty-five years ago to the day, Tex as A. & M. had defeated the Ponies 3-0 and the man who kicked that ball neatly between the goal posts was none other than himself. Col. Harrison is now in Me Clos- key General Hospital at Temple, and came down with the Aggie dele gation from the hospital for the game. Col. Harrison graduated from A. &M. in the class of 1920. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH College Station, Texas The pastor will continue a series of sermons Sunday morning on the general subject— GOD’S REMEDY FOR SIN Nov. 18 a.m.—Why God’s Remedy ?LOVE Nov. 18 p.m.—God’s Remedy for Sin Explained Nov. 25 a.m.—God’s Remedy for Sin Considered Nov. 25 p.m.—What Think Ye of the Remedy? Dec. 2 a.m.—God’s Remedy for Sin Rejected Dec. 2 p.m.—God’s Remedy for Sin Satisfies Dec. 7 a.m.—God’s Remedy for Sin Neglected Dec. 7 p.m.—The Last Call to Accept God’s Remedy You are Invited to Hear These Discussions MEET THE GANG--- AT GEORGE’S For the pause that refreshes between those gruelling classes, drop by and let us fix you up with a little pick-me-up. y Our modem, sanitary fountain, our jukebox with the latest recordings, and our deluxe sandwich board are at your service. GEORGE’S CONFECTIONERY Beat Rice, Aggies WE’LL BE WITH YOU IN SPIRIT SATURDAY The Exchange Store SERVING TEXAS AGGIES >*3*+ ■***<■ ■■>**<■