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Thursday Morning, April 18, 1946
The Battalion
Norton Says First String Gridders
Will Get Rest Periods This Fall
With 1946 Spring- football train
ing at Texas A. & M. College a
thing of the past, Head Coach
Homer Norton and his staff sat
down to figure out what they can
expect to have as material next
September.
They wound up the 30-day train
ing period and found approximately
80 candidates on hand, but they
also found that a total of 22 out
of the 50 or so on the A Squad
are subject to decisions of their lo
cal draft boards before the next
football season opens. Several of
these are counted upon as members
of the first team of that squad and
potential starters for the 1946 Ag
gie grid team.
Coach Norton and his staff were
well pleased with the work accom
plished in the few hours they had
to work with the gigantic squad.
“Right now the team is better
fixed for reserve material then
since 1941. On the face of that it
looks like all jobs are filled but
that is not so. Anyone, high school
graduate or letterman, will have an
equal chance to make the team next
Fall.
Asked about the formations to
be used next Fall, Norton explained
that he “intends to use the T
formation plus.” Asked to explain
that “plus”, he said that while the
T would be the basic formation he
and the staff have worked out
several other plays which will call
for a different formation when
they are used. Asked if he intended
to go back to his double-wing and
box formation of pre-war days, he
answered that such plays could be
included in that “plus” but right
now they are not planning such a
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homecoming, and twelve have as
sured college authorities they will
be on hand. They are: Brigadier
1 O. B. Abbott, George H.
‘ Knickerbocker, Nat
. vTfine, John L. Pierce, John A.
Warden, Jerome J. Waters, and
Major Generals Andrew D. Bruce,
Howard C. Davidson, O. P. Wey-
land, and Robert B. Williams.
Degrees will be conferred on
those who cannot attend as soon
as they return to the A. & M.
campus.
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tions for this week. Regular
tri-weekly schedule will be re
sumed next week.
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move. He added that with 1941 and
1942 backs in the game he would
“not be too surprised if they come
out of a huddle some time and line
up in almost anything."
At the close of training, Norton’s
first Texas Aggie team lined up
as follows: LE-Clarence (Cotton)
Howell, Nacogdoches, 1944 letter-
man; LT-Leonard Dickey, Alto,
1941-45 letterman; LG-Odel Staut-
zenberger, San Antonio, NTAC let
terman 1942; C-Herbert Ellis, Kil
gore, letterman 1944-45; RG-Jim
Winkler, Temple, letterman 1945;
RT-Monte Moncrief, Dallas, letter-
man, 1943-44-45; RE-Walter Hig
gins, Galveston, letterman 1944-
45; QB-James (Babe) Hallmark,
Kilgore, letterman 1943; LHB-Rob
Goode, Bastrop, letterman 1945;
RHB-Julian Pressly, Fort Worth,
Allen Academy letterman 1941;
FB-Willie Zapalac, Bellville, Let
terman 1941-42. Of those, Howell,
Ellis, Winkler, Moncrief, Higgins
and Goode have not been in the
armed services as yet.
Second team lineup included: LE-
Charles Yeargain or Dan Fold-
berg, Dallas; LT-Bob Tulis, Fort
Worth; LG-Bill Hart, Beaumont;
C-Bill Yeoman, Glendale, Ariz.;
RG-Johnnie Davis, Vernon; RT-
Bill Juett, Amarillo; RE-Dick
Avery, Dallas; QB-Earl Beesley,
Dallas; LHB-Preston Smith, Bry
an; RHB-Ed Dusek or Tom Pickett,
Temple; FB-Dennis Andricks,
Houston. Of those Yeargain, Fold-
berg, Yeoman, Juett and Smith
could be lost to the services before
Fall.
Asked about who might be ex
pected back from the service, Nor
ton said he had heard from Burl
Baty, Paris; George Wilde, Gra
ham; Marion Flanagan, Sweetwa
ter; Don Luethy, Monahans; and
Barney Welch, Stephenville. All
except Luethy, a tackle, are letter-
man backs of better than ordinary
calibre. (Welch is the only Aggie
ever to carry the ball across the
goal line in Austin against the
Longhorns on Memorial Field and
he did that in 1942.)
Norton said his A squad teams
were about of equal ability and
proved his point by recalling that
in the only game scrimmage held
the second and fourth teams had
defeated the first and third, 14-13.
' The Aggie mentor would not
point out any player as a “find”
of the training season but when
new men like Stautzenberger and
Pressly move in over lettermen
then he must have found some
thing. Both are good players and
should see a lot of service next
Fall,” was Norton’s only comment
on them.
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On Kyle Field
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By Marion “Dookie” Pugh
Battalion Sports Editor
PORTRAIT OF A FOOTBALL
To homecoming Texas Aggies
athletes of bygone years and to
the mighty Twelfth Man which ac
companies them back to Aggieland
for the 1946 Muster, Kyle Field
extends a hearty “WELCOME
BACK”.
For our contribution to the spirit
of this special edition of The Batta
lion and the 1946 Muster, we can
offer no more fitting tribute than
the story of a football which was
passed on to us back in March 1
of this year.
Last March, Bill Duncan, who
played end on that ’39 team, and
is at present head coach at Belton
High School, was visiting the cam
pus. Bill and I were watching the
spring drills on Kyle field, and nat
urally the conversation drifted
around to that 1939 ball club. We
were discussing the different men
who played, where they were, what
they were doing, etc.
Bill said, “I have a story that
would interest you for it made me
stop and think, and wonder about
many things.” His story went
something like this: “You remem-
(See KYLE FIELD, Page 5)
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