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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1945)
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, 1945 THE BATTALION Page 3 I N T R A M U R A L S By H. A. Pate Thie weekend is to be the most important weekend in intramural sports program during this se mester. On Saturday, the Cross- Country Track meet and the Corps Basketball Championship game will be played, then, on Sunday, the linal game of the football sea son will be played, to decide the Championship in football. A Battery, the winner of the Loop A Basketball race will tackle A Company and the winner of that tussle will play B Company for the Basketball Championship of the Corps Saturday night at 7:00. A Battery, E Company, and A Company are slated to play off a tie for the League A title, and the winner of those contests will vie with F Company and B Company for the Corps Championship in Touch Football on Kyle Field, at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 16. B Company holds the distinction of being the only outfit on the campus to hold championships in sports. A Company is close behind with a title in Football, and a tie with A attery and E Company for the Loop A Football title. Basketball—League A H Co. over A attery 23-22. D Battery over Artillery Band 11-8. F Artillery Band over G Com pany 15-11. G Company over Artillery Band 26-20. .League B C Battery over Inf. Band 38-9. League C D Co. over F Co. 14-12. B Co. over B Troop 23-3. B Co. over B Battery 25-11. Football—League A A Battery over A Company 33-7. A Company over Inf. Band 32-0. A Battery over Inf. Band 20-6. E Company over H Company 12- 0. D Troop over Inf. Band 7-6. League B Art, Band over B Battery 12-0. D Battery over B Troop 7-6. B Battery over D Eatery 12-0. League C F Company over A Troop 27-0. C Battery over C Troop 14-13. Garden Club Plans Motion Picture for December Meeting The December meeting of the A. & M. Garden Club will be held on Friday evening at 7:30 p. m. in the lecture room of the Petro leum Building. The program committee will pre sent slides illustrating the flowers of Puerto Rico and a moving picture showing the 52nd annual Tourna ment of Rose at Pasadena, Califor nia. This will be an open meeting, and the public is cordially invited to attend. By Ed Brandt Battalion Sports Editor HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR Bringing the first half semester intramural sports to a climax, this week end the college champion in three major intramural athletics will be determined. The calendar of events will be the nearest thing to a three-ring sports circus that can be held, as the interest and eagerness of the entire corps is at a maximum. The week end promises to be one of the most entertaining and thrill- packed in quite some time. All men, whether they are in the finals or not, are urged to stay on the cam pus and make this the best home week end ever, and are all invited and asked to go down and watch the team of their choice in ac tion. Lets get the spirit up, Army; let your buddies in other outfits if they are finalists know that you are yelMng for them, and give them some real support! TMAM TO BE HONORED Tonight in Sbisa Hall, the 1945 Fightag Aggie football team will he honored by the Brazos County exes at their annual Christmas par%. During the events of the evening, the highlight of course being the fotball banquet, Morris Frank of the Houston Post will be the speaker, and Herman Engel and 10ss Gloria Jerome, a magi cian from Dallas, will provide a part of the entertainment. Miss Jerome, by the way, is so good, that it' is reported that Lil Dim- mitt is trying to get her to work as his assistant next fall. WHY BE BITTER? . . . In defense of George White and Jinx Tucker—in the Dec. 5 issue of The Daily Texan Paul Tracy, Texan Sports writer, bitterly de nounced White and Tucker for their statements that S. M. U. is the best team in the conference to day, and that T. u. chose a third- rate team, Missouri, to play in the Cotton Bowl. Why be so bitter, Tracy? Everyone agrees that SMU has the best team in the Confer ence today. As for the statement that T. u. chose a weak opponent, look at your own George Raborn’s rating of the nation’s football teams. It’s in the same issue. Tracy listed seven teams that Tu could have had as opponents. Raborn, Texan Sports Analyst, rated them as follows: LSU, 11; Tennessee, 20; Tulsa, 25; Mississippi State, 29; Missouri, 31; Holy Cross,' 34; Vir ginia, unlisted. That alone shows Missouri up as one of the weaker teams Tu had to choose from, not to mention that in the thirty teams Raborn listed as stronger than Missouri the boys in orange and white could have had their choice of over half of them. If the Tu team wants to assure itself of a victory New Year’s Day that is their privilege—but if someone chooses'to point out the obvious fact, Tracy, why be bitter? Aggie Gagers Meet Bergstrom Friday Nite Cadets Beat Camp Bowie and S. LI. In Pre-Conference Warm-up Games By Charles Osenbaugh Continuing a thrill-packed pre-conference warm-up sched ule, the Texas Aggie basketball quintet will meet the strong Bergstrom Field team here tomorrow night at DeWare Field House. The air base team has showed plenty of strength in beating Loyola and Love Field in two games each, and the game is expected to be the Aggies’ hardest so far. As the Battalion went to press, results were not available from the L.S.U. game played at Baton Rouge last night. Cadets Beat S. L. I. The Aggie cagers won their sec ond game of the season at Lafa yette, La., Tuesday night, defeat ing the Southwest Louisiana Instir tute team, 40-32. The teams played a defensive first half that ended with the Ag gies leading, 14-9. After the rest they came back and took to free shooting from a fast breaking of fense. Jamie Dawson got the range and rang up 18 points to take high scoring honors. “Peck” Vass, freshman star, looped in 7, and Jim Kirkland and Bill Yeoman each got four. Bill Underwood counted three while Homer Adams and Hugh Weber scored two each. For the Louisiana team Chap man led with 9 followed by Young with 8. The Aggie team looked better than fair and showed plenty of hustle in all phases of the game. Vass continued his ball hawk ing tactics shown in his first com petition here last Saturday. Aggies Trounce Bowie The Aggies got off to a big start Saturday night as they trounced Camp Bowie 51-17 in a fast moving game marred by num erous fouls. The Bowie team had previously been considered one of the stronger service teams. FIRST ‘ QUARTER A. & M. was the first to score as Kirk Kirkland made use of a gratis toss after 57 seconds of play. A few seconds later, however, La- pinski of the visitors scored two points to jump to a one-point lead they held until Jamie (Little Dawg) Dawson found the range. From this point on it was strictly the Aggies’ ball game. Kirkland worked him self free on the right sideline and from there fired a beautiful one- handed shot that was right in the middle. Yo-Yo Yeoman, the new comer to the starting lineup, made a free throw to end the first quar ter scoring for A. & M. Heninger worked in a crip for Camp Bowie as the quarter ended with the Ag gies showing a 6-4 advantage. SECOND QUARTER Kirkland again opened the scoring as he came in for a fast crip shot. Oberlander of Bowie made a free one only to watch Lit tle Dawg Dawson tip in four points for the Aggies. Homer Adams and Peck Vass, two dis charged service men now attending school here, got together and put on a beautiful display of passing as they sank a basket apiece. Camp Bowie scored twice now, Gusic and Oberlander doing the honors, the latter making a fine shot. Yeoman and Oscar White took advantage of free ones, and Danny Foldberg made a nice bank shot from far out to make a 20-9 half-time score. THIRD QUARTER It took only 25 seconds for Ho mer Adams to start off the scoring again with a bucket. Soon after Bowie’s Heninger made a free one as did Proost. Dawson and Kirk land scored a basket each before Mulholland of Bowie was given a free shot. Mac McCormick got his first one of the evening as Dawson chalked up another goal. Adams took over for a minute, scoring two fast running crips, one after a stolen ball and the other after a fipe pass from Vass. Dawson then had a minute of his own, scoring two free shots and a good shot from the middle. Vass ended the quarter with another good shot from the left sidelines. FOURTH QUARTER Vass opened the fourth quarter with a similar shot and two sub stitutes, Dan Mace and Billy Town send, stood out as smooth ball handlers, each making an excel lent shot. Townsend then worked the ball down to Oscar White who sank a close one. White made another crip to end the Aggie’s scoring for the night. Jacobity and Heninger closed the game with a basket apiece, giving A. & M. a 51-17 lead at the end. Kirkland, Yeoman, Dawson, Adams and McCormick were the Aggie starting lineup; while the losers first offered Jacobity, Ober lander, Gusic, Lupinski, and Henin ger. Others who saw action for the Aggies were Vass, Foldberg, Townsend, Goad, Weber, White, Underwood and Mace. Dawson scored sixteen to lead the scorers as Adams, Kirkland, and Vass had eight, seven, and six respectively. Vass played one of the best games of the evening and was supported by fine playing from Adams, Yeo man, McCormick, Foldberg, Daw son, Kirkland, White, Townsend and Mace. The game was wild with twenty- six fouls being called, twelve on the Aggies. The Aggies made more of the opportunity though by making a big percent of their free throws. IlHE MOST HONORED WATCH ON THE CAMPUS •. •. . v. : ■■■ ■ WINNER OF 10 WORLD’S FAIR GRAND PRIZES, 28 GOLD MEDALS AND MORE HONORS FOR ACCURACY THAN ANY OTHER TIMEPIECE T TERE, at last, is an All-American Ail football team selected by the men best qualified to judge—the football coaches of the nation. It’s the first time in the history of college football that any publication has been privileged to announcqt selec tion from the top authorities in the game. 350 COACHES TO VOTE These are the men who have set the college football stage—discovered, trained and turned out the players. To gether, they have witnessed all of the good football in the entire season. NEW METHOD OF JUDGING During each week of the football season. coaches watched with trained eyes every man who looked like All-American material. Week after week, these re ports were filed with the Association, tabulated, and returned to the coaches for a careful study and a final, end-of- season vote. The men who made this final All- American team are the real "Who’s Who” among the nation’s players, as selected by the "Who’s Who” among the men best qualified to judge. Don’t miss the American Football Coaches Association 1945 All- American Team in the December 29th issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Again the Post pioneers in a sports venture of interest to millions of fans. To keep up with all that’s new in the nation’s favorite sports—be sure to read the Post every week. DECEMBER 29 , 1945 IQ?