TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1946
THE BATTALION
Page 3
U. V. JOHNSTON
SWC Dream Team
Picked By The
School Papers
With the close of the football
season and everyone picking: All-
Conference teams, the Sports Ed
itors of the college newspapers in
the conference tried their hands
at it too. Ballots were sent to
all seven of the school papers in
the conference and were returned
by all but Rice and SMU. The
poll was conducted by the AR-
Tu Picked for Basketball Champ
The Southwest Conference Bas
ketball race seems to be just about
as murky as the football race was
in early September. At present,
though, all of the coaches in this
part of the country are pointing
their fingers at Texas. Baylor,
the defending champs, seem to
have very little at present, al
though they may show up with
what it takes by the time the sea
son gets well underway.
Arkansas has a good chance
of being a dark horse in this
race just as they were in the
football mix-up, but no one
knows, as their publicity de
partment is not as active as
some of the other’s in this part
of the country. They usually
have a very tall squad, averag
ing about six-four, and this is
one of the big factors on the
hardwood floor.
First Cage Scholarship for A. & M.
The Aggies still seem to be
about a year or so off of a good
basketball squad, as this is the
first year that scholarships have
been given for the roundballers,
and there were very few takers
this year. They will have a hard
fighting little squad, but in this
league it takes TALL men and
a lot of them.
Texas University at present
has the rosiest outlook of any of
the SWC quintets, as they have
the height, speed, and a good
fast team; this is just what the
doctor ordered. The teahounds
have already knocked off the
North Texas Eagles twice, and
the Eagles handed the Aggies a
good licking; so at the first
glance it does not look good for
the Farmers.
Nevertheless, Always a Good Game
Coach Marty Karow said, “Tex
as will be the number one team to
beat, and Rice will run them a
close second.” He also stated that
the Farmers had more in the way
of basketball material than they
have had at any previous time,
but he hastened to add that the
other schools had the same pros
pects.
This trip the Aggies are on
now will give them some good
experience, and they should be
a greatly improved team when
they return to Texas to start out
the SWC race. If this is the
case, they will still give the oth
er schools trouble. The basket
ball race is just like the football
race in this league. There is
never a conference champ until
the last gun has sounded, and
you can bet that win or lose
you will always see a good game
when two o f the conference
teams tangle.
BARBEQUE FRIDAY FOR KIRKBRIDE TO ADDRESS
DILBERTS AND SPOILERS CHEM ENGINEERING GROUP
KANSAS TRAVELER with all
other editors aiding by sending in
their final selections.
The selections are as follows:
Numbers in parenthesis denoted
first place votes.
LE—Wendell Williams, (Rice) (4)
LT—Chuck Lively, (Arkansas) (3)
LG—Spot Collins, (Texas) (4)
G—(Tie)—Billy R. Thomas (Ark
ansas) (2)
C—Dick Harris, (Texas) (2)
RG—Weldon Humble, (Rice) (5)
RT—Monte Moncrief, (A&M) (4)
RE—Hubert Bechtol (Texas) (3)
QB—Virgil Eikenberg, (Rice) (4)
LH—Bobby Layne, (Texas) (5)
RH—(Tie)—Clyde Scott, (Arkan
sas) (2)
RH—Aubrey Fowler, (Arkansas)
(2)
FB—Carl Russ, (Rice) (3)
There were two ties in the poll
and this necessitated naming thir
teen men to the team.
The co-champs from Arkansas
dominated the team with four men,
and the co-champions from down
Houston way ran a close second
with three. Texas and A&M were
the only other schools to place men
in the spotlight and Texas had one
unanimous choice in Bobby Layne,
and Monte Moncrief of Aggieland
had only one dissenting vote.
The men to get first place votes
other than those who made the
team were: Backs, Ken Holland,
Arkansas; Joe Magliolo and Jim
Canady of Texas; and Huey Keen
ey of Rice. Ends, Alton Baldwin,
Arkansas; and Gene Wilson, SMU;
Tackles, Charles Malmberg of Rice
and Weldon Edwards of TCU, while
Odell Stautzenberger received one
vote for guard and Billy Hale of
TCU got one for the center posi
tion.
The Dilberts and Spoilers will
hold a barbeque Friday, December
13. The party will be strictly a
stag affair and anyone desiring
transportation meet in front of
the “Y” at 7:00 p. m. All ex Na
vy, land, Marine Corps pilots, and
aircrewmen are cordially invited
to attend.
A student was refused admission
to Western Michigan College be
cause all classroom seats were
occupied. His determination caused
the ban to be lifted—he now car
ries his own folding chair.
Professor C. G. Kirkbride, a
member of the Chemical Engin
eering Department, will address
the Student Chapter of the Amer
ican Society of Chemical Engin
eers at their meeting next Wed
nesday evening, December 11. It
will be held at 7:15 p. m. in the
Petroleum Engineering lecture
room.
Professor Kirkbride will show
movies in connection with his
speech on the atomic bomb tests
at Bikini Atoll, to which he was
an observer. All interested per
sons are urged to attend.
Houston Aggies
Meet Thursday
Aggies from Houston are asked
to attend the next meeting of the
Houston Club, Thursday evening at
7:30 in room 129, Academic build
ing.
Plans for the club’s Christmas
dance will be discussed as will the
picture for the Longhorn. Fresh
men and sophomores will be ex
cused for C.Q. to attend the meet
ing. All Aggies from Houston are
urged to be present.
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she has a purpose, and has served it well.
Largely because of her, a new fleet of ocean-going
passenger ships will have superstructures built of
aluminum. It reduces weight at the most important
place—“topside”.
This is a dream come true for Alcoa engineers.
Eleven years ago they built this odd-shaped aluminum
test hull and anchored it in Chesapeake Bay. Together
with marine engineers and naval architects, they
watched to see the effect salt watpr had on aluminum;
whether it would prove seaworthy. And it did!
But there were other problems — for instance,
stresses topside, set up by the weaving and pounding
that a ship takes at sea. By building and testing a
model, Alcoa engineers found that the use of alumi
num in the superstructure greatly reduced the stresses.
They likewise conferred on plans and recommended
materials.
So the ships were built. They are in the water now
being outfitted for their maiden voyages to China
— thanks to Cinderella and the “imagineers” who
dreamed of aluminum ships and then engineered them
into the water.
Doesn’t a company that pufsues an ideat^with such
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NOW HOW DID
THAT HAPPEN
INTRAMURALS
Cliff Ackerman
The “E” Field freshman flag
football team was out scored 13
to 0 by the Annex championship
team “H” Field. Although “E”
Field lost to a strong “H” Field
team, “EE” Field is the College
Freshman Flag Football Cham
pion and received the 80 • points
towards the Freshman Intramural
Flag.
The Annex team was carried to
its victory by the outstanding of
fensive playing of Lewis, Jones,
and Zamora.
BASKETBALL
The playoff games to decide the
college championship team will be
gin with quarter-final games Wed
nesday night December 11th at
7 o’clock in the big gym. The first
game will be between Dorm No. 3
and Puryear of the Veteran
leagues. The second game will be
at 7:45 between “A” Inf. and “A”
Coast. The next game will be at
8:30 between “E” Field and “A”
QMC or “G” Inf. the winner of
league “B” of the Military leagues.
CROSS COUNTRY
The Upperclass and Freshmen
cross country meet will take place
Saturday, December 14, at 2:30.
All entries are due in Wednesday
December 11th, by 6 o’clock.
VOLLEYBALL
In the freshman Intramural
sports volleyball is stepping out
at a fast pace. There are unbeat
en teams in all the leagues, but
the runner-ups are closing in to
make the top teams fight for there
lead. The standings through De-
cember 6th are
LEA
ias follows:
iUE “A”
- ~
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
“A” CWS
4
0
1.000
“A” Inf
2
1
.666
“A” QMC
3
.2
.600
“G” Inf
2
2
.500
“B” Eng
1
4
.200
“A” Signal
0
3
.000
LEAGUE “B”
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
“A” Field
4
0
1.000
“A” Cav
4
1
.800
“F” Field
2
2
.500
“D” Cav
1
3
.250
“A” Coast
1
3
.250
F. A. Band
0
0
.000
“A” Ord
0
3
.000
LEAGUE
‘C”
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
“B” Field
4
0
1.000
“E” Inf
5
1
.833
“F” Inf
2
3
.400
“A” Eng
2
3
.400
“B” Inf
1
3
.250
—“D” Field ...
1
3
.250
“B” Cav
0
5
.000
LEAGUE ‘
< D ”
Team
Won
Lost
Pet.
“C” Inf
1
0
1.000
“C” Eng
1
1
.500
“C” Cav
1
1
.500
“D” Inf
0
0
.000
“C” Field
0
0
.000
“E” Field
0
0
.000
Inf. Band
0
1
.000
Schoolboy Football
Playoff Continues
The Texas Interscholastic
League schoolboy football race
moves into its quarter-final round
this weekend with four important
clashes deciding what teams will
meet in next week’s semi-final
rounds.
Odessa’s Steers, rolling through
West Texas like a cyclone, play to
Wichita Fall’s upset loaded Co
yotes in the headline attraction of
the week. The Coyotes, who
knocked off favored Amarillo, 13-
7 last week, are definite under
dogs to the Odessa crew, which
hasn’t come close to losing a game
all year.
The other northern bracket
gam meatches Highland Park’s
Scotties, champions of District 8
against Ft. Worth’s North’Side in
a game at S.M.U.’s Ownby Sta
dium in Dallas.
In the south, Thomas Jeffer
son’s unbeaten powerhouse, con
queror of Austin, erstwhile No. 1
team of the state, entertains La
mar (Houston) in a game in San
Antonio that is expected to at
tract the largest crowd of the day
—25,000.
The fourth game brings togeth
er Waco’s Tigers, which topped
Mineral Wells, 21-0, last week, and
the Lufkin Panthers, who smashed
Tyler, 33-7.
Lufkin, which was disqualified
from post-season competition af
ter winning the District 11 title
but was reinstated on the eve of
the game with Tyler, will rule a
slight favorite over the Tigers,
long-time Central Texas schoolboy
power.
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Aggie Basketball Squad
Starts Eastern Journey
The Aggie basketball squad left
College Station for an extended
tour last Saturday afternoon and
they will not return for approxi
mately two weeks. While on this
trip the Farmers will meet several
of the top notch basketball teams
in the country, the first of which
will be Siena College of Troy, New
York, Monday night. Immediately
after this game they will again
hit the road and journey down to
Louisville, Kentucky for a one
night stand with Moorehead Teach
ers and then over to Paducah,
Kentucky, where they will meet
the Murray Teachers College quin
tet. After this game they will
again journey north to take on the
Bradley Tech five in Peoria, Illi
nois, and then to St. Louis, Mis
souri, where they meet the Univer
sity of St. Louis team. All of
these games will lead up to the
climax of the trip when they take
a trip back south to Kentucky a-
gain. There they will meet the
number one basketball team of the
nation: Kentucky. The total trip
will cover four states, and the Ag
gies will play a total of six games
in six nights and will have to do
quite a bit of traveling besides.
This trip is to be one of the
longest ever taken by an Aggie
basketball squad, and it will in
clude games with the top basket
ball teams in the country.
The starting lineups for the first
game are:
Sienna Texas A&M
Vic Mastriani....F Sam Jenkins
D. Torncello F..Raymond Klutz
Don Russ C....Homer Adams
Don Binetti G....William Batey
Ed Lange G....C. Kamperman
Norton to Coach Westerners In
East-West Football Classic Jan. 1
Homer Norton, head coach and
athletic director at Texas A&M
College, will leave here Wednes
day night, December 11. headed
for San Francisco, Calif., where
he will be head coach of the West
Team in the annual Shrine East-
West football game in Kezar Sta
dium on New Years Day.
This will be the second year that
Norton has been head coach and
the third year he has been on the
staff of the West team, which has
been undefeated in that time.
He announced that seven South
west Conference seniors have been
invited to pla yin the game for the
West and that that number repre
sents a considerable portion of the
25-man squ^d he will have.
Those invited include: Gene
Wilson, end; and Jim Sid Wright,
guard, SMU; Spot Collins, guard;
Hub Bechtol, end; and Walter
Heap, back, Texas University; and
Willie Zapalac, back; and Monte
Moncrief, tackle, Texas A&M.
Zapalac played in the game of
Jan. 1, 1943; Moncrief on Jan. 1,
1945; and Wilson last New Years
Day. Last year Norton also had
Bob Goode and Leonard Dickey,
Texas A&M; and Doak Walker,
S M U, with Wilson but Dickey
could not go this year; Walker is
in the army and ineligible to go
had he been here; and Goode, being
a sophomore, also is ineligible to
play. During the war years any
player could be invited but now
the game is back to the basis of
“Seniors Only”.
Hickman Clarifies
Parking Lot Issue
For the benefit of those students
who have found “no parking” no
tices on their automobile wind
shields, Fred Hickman, Chief of
College Securities, has published
the following list of parking lots
on the campus.
Day students will find two park
ing lots on the campus: one is be
hind the Petroleum Building, and
the other is south of the main drill
Field and west of Guion Hall.
For Aggies living in. Dormitor
ies 1, 3, and 5, the packing lot east
of Dorm 5 will be used, and any
overflow will be parked behind
Dorm 11. Dorm 7, 9, 11 will park
behind Dorm 11. All even-num
bered dorms will use the parking
lot behind Dormitory 12.
• Bizzell students will use the
same parking lot as day students,
south of the main Drill Field and
west of Guion Hall. Students liv
ing in Leggett, Mitchell, Law, and
Puryear will park behind Law
Hall in the recently finished lot.
Dormitories 14 and 17 will use
the space behind Dorm 17; and
Dorms 15 and 16 will park in the
AAA lot. Milner Hall can use
the space behind the dorm and
beside Sbisa Dining Hall.
Married students have private
parking lots behind their respec
tive dormitories.
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