TUESDAY, EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1946
THE BATTALIGN
Page 3
Aggie-Longhorn Classic Tops For This Week
FOLLOWING SPORTS . . .
ON KYLE FIELD
U. Y. JOHNSTON 1
Turkey Day Classic Tops In SWC
The Aggies will close another
football season this week in Aus
tin when they meet Dana X. Bible’s
aggregation of stars. This year
has been full of ups and downs for
the Aggies, but the season could
be made a very successful one by
handing the Steers their third de
feat of the year. This is Bible’s
last year at the University and
Coach Norton is very anxious to
get a little revenge for a few of
the upsets Bible has handed the
Nortonmen in the past. This
game has no bearing on the Con
ference standings, which is very
unusual, but the interest is just
as high as if the championship
hinged on this one game, and if
you don’t believe me price a ticket
to this one.
Coach Norton said last week,
after the fifth-columnist issued
that “official statement” that the
coach would not be with us next
year, “I am still working for A&M
College, and we are going out
Thanksgiving day and try our
best to beat Hell out of Texas.”
This will be the hardest fought
battle of the year, and the Long
horns may be kinda sore after the
drubbing the Frogs handed them,
and they may try to get wild, but
the Farmers are noted for their
“bull throwing” ability.
SWC Race Draws To Hectic Close
The game with the Steers is
the only Conference affair Thurs
day, but the Razorbacks have an
engagement with the Golden Hur
ricane, and Rice meets Baylor next
Saturday to wind up the South
west Conference football year. The
Rice-Baylor clash is the only one
that can have any bearing on the
Conference standing, and all it
can do is throw Rice into a tie with
Arkansas for the lead. S.M.U.
and T.C.U. also tangle in Dallas.
From here it looks like the Ra
zorbacks are due for a fall, and
the strong University of Tulsa
eleven is the team capable of giv
ing it to them. S.M.U. should beat
T.C.U. Rice shouldn’t have too
much trouble with the Bears, but
the Steers are going to get more
than their share of trouble when
they meet the Aggies. Tulsa should
knock off the Hogs by at least
one touchdown, Rice will take the
Bears by two or three touchdowns,
and the Aggie-Longhorn tilt will
be a wild scoring affair with the
winner coming out on top probably
with only a two or three point mar
gin or possibly by a touchdown
lead, and you can take your pick
as to which team this will be.
Rifle Team Fires
In Preliminaries
Twenty men on the A. & M. Rifle
team have fired their preliminary
rounds and about 20 more have
yet to fire, Master Sergeant Tru
man Allen has announced.
Any man who wants to try out
for the rifle team must report to
Major J. M. Cook or Sergeant
Allen prior to the November 27.
Membership is open only to mem
bers of the Cadet Corps. The ar
mory indoor range will be open
daily from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. and
from 6:20 p m. to 8:00 p. m.
DIRT FROM THE
FORTY ACRES
“Anybody can make noise.
A.&M. followers stomp and
screech and wave their hands
like every Saturday was Y-J
Day. For what purpose we
wouldn’t know. But we have
never denied the Ags could
“really yell”. Now if they only
had a football team ....
“And' the Farmers have for
gotten what it’s like to beat the
Longhorns.”
Baty vs Layne
Buryi Baty, the sophomore flash, meets Bobby Layne for the
first time in the Turkey Day classic, and the accuracy of either
may well decide the outcome of this game. Baty was late in
starting due to an early season injury, but his record is comparable
to Layne’s for the number of games in which he has appeared.
INTRAMURALS
By
Cliff Ackerman
The final game in the campus
Freshmen flag football leagues
was played last week between a
strong “E” Field team that over
powered a spirited “C” Field team
25 to 0. For the winners Forrest,
captain of the team, scored 3
touchdowns and one extra point.
The other touchdown was made by
Bennson. Excellent blocking in the
line accounted for the tallies as
“E” Field scored all points on
ground plays. Bennson did the
tossing just enough to keep “C”
Field worried. For the losers
Thomas, Buchek, and Torrence
played heads up ball, but was only
able to move inside the “E” Field
20 yard line once.
The College Freshman Champion
Flag Football team will be deci
ded sometime after Thanksgiving
when “E” Field, the Campus Cham-
ship team, will meet the champion
ship team from the Annex.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. Explain the overtime period
in Intramural basketball.
A. Overtime periods shall be
played by the “sudden death’ me
thod. A two minute rest shall be
allowed. Then the three minute
overtime shall be played. The
first team scoring two points shall
win the game and the overtime
play will stop. If at the end of
the period only one team has
scored on point, it shall win the
game.
MILITARY LEAGUES
Team
League “A”
Won Lost
Pet.
“G” Inf. ...
3
0
1.000
“A” Ord.
2
0
1.000
“A” F. A.
1
1
.500
“A” Inf. ...
1
1
.500
“C” Cav.
1
2
.333
“A” Cav.
0
4
.000
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Shorthorns
Trample Aggie
Bees by 21-7
The Texas University Short
horns handed the Aggie Bees their
second and worst defeat of the
season at Alamo Stadium in S a n
Antonio last Saturday afternoon,
the final score reading Shorthorns
21, Aggie Bees 7.
Sparked by the highly accurate
passing of Paul Campbell and the
smashing drives of Randall Clay
of the Tees took the lead early in
the first half with three first
downs in a row. Garrett Guly,
Aggie center, interupted their
drive when he recovered a fumble
on the A&M 20.
Ed Sturken took over and made
a first down in two drives. The
Ags then lost the ball on downs
and Campbell connected with a
pass to Pyle on the Aggie 16. Pyle
then received a second pass and
went over for the first score. Clay
converted giving the Shorthorns a
7-0 lead.
A series of runs featuring Bur-
ditt, Dew and Beesley resulted in
three first downs for the Bees but
the Tees took over on a fumble.
Later the Tees intercepted a pass
and Pyle ran the ball back to the
Aggie 16. Clay then arrived the
pigskin over for touchdown num
ber two. The kick was good.
Sturken picked up 13 yards and
a first down and followed with an
end run that was good for another
first. Burditt made the first
threat when he almost broke loose
on the Texas 35 but was stopped
just short of a first down.
Powers paved the way for the
Aggies only scoring play when he
recovered a fumble on the Texas
41 in the second half. Beesley
connected with a pass to Burditt
that netted 39 yards and a touch
down. Mabe converted and the
Ags trailed by 7 points.
The next scoring threat by the
Tees was interupted by Guly when
he recovered a fumble on the Ag
gie one yard line. Beesley punted
out but Campbell’s passes to Clay
and Pyle netted 27 yards and a
TD.
Burditt took the kick on the Ag
10 and ran back to the Texas 48.
Mabe connected with several pas
ses that left the ball on the Short
horn 18 at the closing gun.
League “B”
Team
Won Lost
Pet.
“E” Inf
- T ~ 4
0
1.000
“A” Coast
0
1.000
“D” F. A
3
2
.600
“B” F. A
2
2
.500
“B” Inf
2
3
.400
“A” Eng
1
4
.200
“B” Cav
0
4
.000
League “C’
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
“A” C. W. S. ..
3
0
1.000
“C” Inf
1
0
1.000
“D” Cav
1
1
.500
F. A. Band
0
1
.000
“B” Eng
0
1
.000
“E” F. A
0
1
.000
“A” Sig
0
1
.000
League “D’
Team
Won Lost
Pet.
“A” Q. M. C. ..
1
0
1.000
“F” Inf
1
0
1.000
“F” F. A
1
0
1.000
“C” F. A
0
1
.000
“C” Eng
0
2
.000
“D” Inf
0
0
.000
Inf. Band
0
0
.000
VETERAN LEAGUES
League “A’
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
Bizzell
2
0
1.000
Law
1
0
1.000
Dorm No. 16.
1
0
1.000
Dorm No. 9....
1
0
1.000
Mitchell
0
1
.000
Dorm No. 15..
0
1
.000
Dorm No. 5
0
1
.000
Dorm No. 7...
0
2
.000
Turkey Day Clash Is 53rd
Renewal of Annual Game
Aggies Will Be After First Win
In Turkey Day Affair Since ’39
Thursday afternoon at two p.m. the Aggies tangle with the “na
tional champions” over in Austin for the 53rd time in the history of
the two schools. The Farmers haven’t come out victorious in the an
nual Thanksgiving engagement in six years, and they will enter this
game as the slight underdogs. The season records of the two teams
in conference play is approximately the same. Both teams were beaten
by the feathered flock, and Texas dropped its clash with the Frogs, and
the Aggies were also downed by Hogs. In conference play the Steers
have rung up a total of 84 points"
to their opponents 42 while the
Farmers have amassed a some
what smaller total of 55 to their
opponents 34. This shows that the
Farmer defense has been slightly
better than that of the Steers, but
Layne and company havfe had
somewhat the better of it on of
fense.
Aggies Basketball
Squad Opens Here
With North Texas
The only real comparison that
can be made between the two
teams is in the defeats handed
each of them by the Rice Owls.
Rice handed the Steers their first
defeat of the season when they
downed the Rose Bowl bound “na
tional champs” by an 18-13 score.
While on the following Saturday
the feathered flock trompled the
Nortonmen by a 27-10 score. This
would indicate that the Steers
were the stronger of the two
teams, but past performance and
past scores never mean a thing
when the two teams tangle on
Turkey Day.
Other games in the Conference
this coming week are the Arkan-
sas-Tulsa tilt; the SMU-T. C. U.
clash, and the Rice-Baylor tussel.
Two of these three games are un
important to the Conference stan
dings, but the Rice Owls must win
to become Co-Champs.
Although the Arkansas-Tulsa
battle will have no official bearing
on any conference *it will be watch
ed with plenty of interest by the
football fans of the Southwest as
it could either lend or take away
color from the New Year’s Day
game in Dallas. Should the Razor-
backs take this one it would add a
little color to the Hog team and
possibly create more interest in
the Cotton Bowl game, but if they
lose this one the officials of the
Cotton Bowl Association will do
some moaning and crying on their
own. S.M.U. and T.C.U. always
put on a good show—this year’s
game promises to be no exception.
The 1946 basketball season gets
underway here at College Station
on the night of Dec. 4 when the
Aggies take on the.NTSC quin
tet. After this game the basket
ball fans here at college will have
a long dry spell, as the team takes
a prolonged tour of the country,
and does not return to College
Station until a month later. At
that time the Aggies will meet
Sam Houston State College round-
ballers on January 4.
During the tour of the country
the Aggie quintet will play Sien
na College in Troy, New York;
Moorehead Teachers College in
Louisville, Ky.; Bradley Tech at
Peoria, 111.; St. Louis Univ. at
Lexington, Ky.; and then to T<vc-
as to play in the Houston Invita
tion tournament at Houston on
Dec. 20 and 21. After this tour
nament is completed they take on
the LSU squad at Houston, and
then return here for an engage
ment with the Sam Houston State
College aggregation.
The official Conference sched
ule opens then with the Aggies
taking on the Texas Christian
Horned Frogs in the opening en
gagement at Fort Worth. Dur
ing the Conference the games will
be run on the home-and-home bas
is just as in the past, and the
Aggies will meet all of the con
ference teams except Arkansas
once at home.
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