THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Saturday, April 26, 1947
:Page Three
| FROM THIS ANGLE
by LARRY GOODWYN
T Formation Bows Out at Aggieland
That little instrument of tor
ture—the football—is beginning to
fill the air around Kyle Field more
and more often lately as Coach
Homer Norton herds his crew of
gridiron hopefuls through their
spring training paces.
Things are still far too uncer
tain to make any point-blank pre
dictions concerning next fall, but
more and more facts are coming
out of the daily drills.
The shift to the double-wing, the
same formation that carried the
Maroon banner to a National
Championship in 1939, ends the
reign of the “T” formation which
has held sway since 1942. A.&M.
was the first school in the confer
ence to shift to the “T” when the
formation swept the nation on the
strength of Clark Shaghnessey’s
success with it at Stanford.
The “T” has had its ups and
down during its short tenure at
A. & M. It was definitely up in
’43 when Norton whipped a beard
less bunch of 17 year olds into one
of the most colorful teams the
Southwest Conference has ever
seen.
So now, after both success and
failure, the “T” is bowing out at
Aggieland. The degree of success
that the double-wing has next year
will depend a lot on the ability o\
Norton to uncover a smooth-work
ing backfield combination that can
utilize the advantages in power
and passing offered by the double
wing. In practice, the first team
backfield has looked fairly good in
running plays off the new forma
tion.
Cashion (of ’44 fame) and Batey
have been sharing the quarterback
slot with Ed Dusek holding down
at fullback. A flock of wingbacks
are in action, the group including
such notables of past Aggie fame
as Barney Welch, Pee Wee Smith,
Bobby Dew, Frank Torno, and
Bobby Goff.
The line at present has five of
its seven starters back from last
year. Cotton Howell and Country
Higgins are handling the ends, Jim
Winkler and Sacre are slated for
the tackles, Odell Stautzenberger
and Tulis are booked for the guards
with Gary operating at center.
There’s plenty of beef, ability
and experience in that group; if
the right combination can be
found, the Aggies might give the
more publicized members of the
Southwest Conference a little more
than they bargained for.
At least we can say that the pros
pects for next fall are anything
but pitch black as has been the
feeling current this spring.
Mile Relay Team After New Laurels
The A. & M. mile relay team,-*
which annexed the Kansas Relays
mile crown last week, goes after
another hunk of big-time glory
this week when it competes in the
Drake Relays. The Aggie quar
tet, which ran a miserably slow
3.27 mile on a sloppy track at Kan
sas, has still to prove its worth to
the Middlewesterners. Given a
dry track and stiff competition
(they should have plenty of the
latter anyhow), there is little
doubt that they will.
Also going along on the trip be
sides Harden, Halbrook,Bilderbeck
and Napier are sprinter and broad-
jumper Webb Jay, high jumper
Art Haws and weight man George
Kadera. The rest of the squad
will take a week off from inter
collegiate competition.
Veterans Administration pro
cessed over 800,000 applications
for all types of benefits during
February.
Supplement Needed
For School Change
Veteran students who plan to
change schools either during the
summer or fall term but failed to
include such information in the
forms filled out in Sbisa Hall
April 21-25 may fill out applica
tions for a Supplemental Certifi
cate of Eligibility from May 5-9,
W .H. Bailey, training officers of
the Veterans Administration, an
nounced Friday.
Applications are available in the
Guidance Center, Ramp “B”, Hart
Hall, or the Veterans Advisors Of
fice, 104 Goodwin Hall.
Veteran students who are not
attending summer school but are
returning to A & M for the fall
term, do not need a Supplemental
Certificate of Eligibility to reenter,
Bailey said.
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Summer Centers of Mexico & Guatemala
ATTENTION! A. & M. STUDENTS
COMBINE VACATION WITH STUDY & TRAVEL
Mexico City, June 3—July 9
Guatemala City, July 21— Aug. 20
For students of all levels and departments
Spanish not required or essential
Low-cost, all-expense arrangements
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Six hour selective credits.
Unique supervised groups travel and study
Numerous visits and side trips
Write for BULLETIN:
Dr. Joseph S. Werlin, Director
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Houston. Phone: C. 4-1681.
Ambidextrous Hurler
ROY GIBBENS, two-fisted Aggie mound artist, has the ability
to put the pill over the plate with either arm with equal skill and
is credited with one of the most top-heavy A&M victories in years,
the 25-1 decision over Rice on March 28. In that game, Gibbens
pulled a muscle in his shoulder and is out of play temporarily.
INTRAMURALS
By
Cliff Ackerman
Handball and Horseshoes in Finals
For College Championship
Dorm 17 took a fast victory
from Mitchell Hall to win the Vet
erans handball tournament. The
winner of the Corps tournament
was C Infantry who overpowered a
strong G Infantry team. The
College . championship will be de
cided April 29 when the two win
ning teams meet.
The Dorm 17 team will consist
of Walker, Aycock, Tubb, Carring
ton, Cavitt, and Zummo. The win
ning corpsteam will be made up
of Kauskopf, Splitgerber, MacCan-
nell, Ecklund, Kunkel, and Grana.
Horseshoes
Over in the horseshoe pits Dorm
17 took another victory over their
veteran rivals. In the corps it was
A Infantry who withstood the com
petition to come out at the big end
of their tournament.
In the finals for the College
championship Dorm 17 and A In
fantry will ‘toss it out’.
Officials for The Track and
Field Meet are:
Honorary Referee—Dean T. D.
Brooks.
Starter—W. G. “Breezy” Breaz-
High School Stars
Get Sport Awards
At Kiwanis Dinner
The second annual Kiwanis all
sports banquet and party honoring
the athletes of the A&M Consoli
dated High School was held last
Wednesday evening at Sbisa Hall.
Sweaters were presented to twen
ty-two football lettermen and four
cheer-leaders. Ten basketball let
termen received gold basketballs.
Van Adamson received a sweater
in swimming.
Special awards were presented
to the co-captains and most valu
able players in football and bas
ketball. Receiving the co-captain
awards in football were Antone
Dobrovolny and Johnny Lancaster,
the latter also receiving the most
valuable player award. In basekt-
ball, the co-captain awards went
to Johnny Lancaster and Norman
Anderson, Jr. The most valuable
player award in this sport also
went to one of the co-captains,
Norman Anderson, Jr.
Chairman of the program was
Manning Smith and the address
was delivered by Morris Frank of
the Houston Post. The banquet
was followed by a dance.
Finish Judges—W. R. Blackwell,
Bob Hall, Bill Myer, Rusty
Anderson, Bill Powers, Web
ster Stone and Byrd.
Head Finish Judge — Jennings
,Anderson and Cliff Acker
man.
Recorders—Les Palmer and Tom
Crouch.
Clerks of Course—Bud Denton
and Harry U. Uthoff.
Judges of High Jump—Don Car-
Judges of Shot Put — Frank
Young, Dewey Shilling, Wood
Garney.
Judges of the Pole Vault—Jim
Taylor, W. A. Wilson, Don
Frye, Leroy Bodeman.
Judges of the Broad Jump—Ver
non Hill and Tommie Bene
field.
Expediters—Jack England, Bob
Street, and Gene Nelson.
’Mural Baseball
Backstops Finished
By Jack Gray
Softball “pigtails” have found
it hard to land a job lately as a
result of the newly erected back
stops. Nearly all of A. & M.’s
softball diamonds are now equip
ped with the long needed mesh.
The backstops are one phase of
the Intramural Departments’ ef
forts to improve intramural facil
ities. They were installed at a
cost of $5,000. ($250 each).
Designed for rough play, the
backstops promise to offer service
to ball players for years to come.
They will be available for “scrub”
and practice as well as all regular
ly scheduled league games.
Favorable results have already
been noted both on and off the
field. Score cards now show up
to two more innings of play in the
ten minutes of each game was
allotted time. Heretofore at least
spent retreiving wild pitches and
pass balls.
Also installed with the backstops
were twenty sets of cement bases
which will compete with the mesh
es in longlivity of service.
Thirteen of the backstops have
been erected on the campus and
three at the Bryan Field Annex.
The backstops are located on the
Infantry drill field behind Duncan
Hall, on the main drill field, and
immediately west of Law and Pur-
year Dorms.
A&M Fencers Hosts
In Quadrangular
Meet Today
The Texas A. & M. fencing team
plays host to teams from Texas
University, Baylor, and Galveston
this afternoon in a Southwestern
Division Meet of the Amateur Fen
cing League of America.
Currently leading this division
is Texas Tech, holding victories
over the Aggies and Galveston and
forfeits over Texas and Baylor.
The Tech toilers have been success
ful in all three events, saber, foil,
and epee.
The Galveston Fencing club, a
group of amateurs, has been ac
tive in the sport for a number of
years but the clubs of Baylor, Tex
as, and A. & M. have been unor
ganized since the beginning of the
war.
Tied for second place in the lea
gue is Texas and Baylor in the
foil and epee with the Steers hold
ing third in the saber.
Another of the Recreational
Clubs, the tennis club, will hold
a tourney here on Tuesday, April
29 with the Sam Houston State
College team.
BOXING RESULTS
Class B
Order of
Org. Part.
Total
Finish
Pts.
Pts
1
F. Fid. Arty.
50
80
2
A. Cavalry
50
50
3
A. Fid. Arty.
40
47%
3
A. CWS
50
57%
4
E. Infantry
40
45
4
A. Signal
50
55
5
D. Infantry
50
51%
5
G. Infantry
40
41%
5
B. Air Corps
50
51%
6
C. Infantry
30
30
7
A. Infantry
50
50
7
B. Fid. Arty.
50
50
7
D. Fid. Arty
30
30
7
F.A. Band
50
50
8
B. Infantry
50
50
8
F. Infantry
20
20
8
C. Fid. Arty
30
30
8
B. Engineers
50
50
9
B. Cavalry
20
20
9
C. Engineers
50
50
9
A. Ordnance
20
20
9
Inf. Band
30
30
E. Fid. Arty.
50
50
C. Cavalry
20
20
D. Cavalry
10
10
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office for the practice of
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Street, Bryan.
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Population Research
Conference to Be
Conducted May 1-2
The A. & M. Department of Ag
ricultural Economics and Sociology
and the Department of Sociology of
the University of Texas will joint
ly sponsor the Texas Conference
on Population Research, to be held
on the campus May 1-2, it has been
announced by Dr. R. D. Lewis,
director of the Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
A preliminary step in a study of
Texas population problems will be
the goal of the conference. This
conference will bring together
some of the nation’s recognized
authorities on the subject, as well
as a number of industrial leaders
of the state.
Among the topics to be consid
ered at the conference are the out
look for natural population in-
creas in Texas, the significance of
rural-urban migration, and the us
es that industry makes of know
ledge about the population in plan
ning expansion of business.
National Service Life Insurance
provides a type of policy to fit
almost every insurance need, Vet
erans Administration said.
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Name
School
Pos
G
AB
R
H
TB
B.A.
Jackson
— Texas
3B
6
27
8
14
16
.518
Moon —
A & M
RF
5
20
4
9
13
.450
Harrelson — T C U
CF
6
27
4
12
13
.444
Lignon -
- S M U
C
4
17
4
7
8
.411
Willingham — A & M....
CF
7
25
7
10
18
.400
Devereaux — Baylor
RF
6
23
6
9
13
.391
Harris -
— Baylor
SS
6
23
8
9
10
.391
Busby —
— T C U
IB
5
23
7
9
14
.391
Vass —
A & M
LF
8
36
9
14
17
.388
Berry —
S M U
2B
5
16
4
6
7
.374
LEADING PITCHERS
Name
School G CC IP
R
H
BB
SO
W
L
PCT
Layne —
Texas 4 2 34%
20
25
19
25
3
0
1.000
Jacobs —
- A & M....4 1 17%
8
11
12
20
2
0
1.000
Shearin
— Baylor....2 0 16
10
24
12
9
2
0
1.000
Turner -
- A & M....1 0 5
1
3
3
3
1
0
1.000
Jarl —
Baylor 3
12
4
10 '
10
10
1
0
1.000
Wall —
Texas 1
%
0
0
0
0
1
0
1.000
Rowe —
Baylor 4 2 25%
27
24
14
20
2
1
.666
Baseball Statistics Show
Aggies Near Top in SWC
LEADING HITTERS
Bombers Win
Home Opener
Following an unsuccessful warm
up season, the Bryan Bombers
Thursday night edged out the vis
iting Lufkin Foresters by the score
of 3-1.
Playing on the newly erected
Bomber Field, which was put up
at a cost of $45,000, the Bombers
swung into the Lone Star circuit
with a maximum of fan-fare before
an estimated 2000 spectators.
Gene Bauer went all the way for
the hosts while Les Brussard was
credited with the Lufkin loss, giv
ing up in the seventh to Hutto.
Albritton, the first man up in
the Bryan half of the first, took
a base on balls. Mamula singled
to place the runner on second and
Kaluger got a hit to bring in the
first run of the game.
Two more Bomber runs came in
in the fourth following hits by
Phillips and McVey. Christy got
on by an error followed by a hit
by Phillips and later another by
McVey.
Bauer was credited with three
strike-outs and Brussard and Hut
to none.
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Bryan 100 200 OOx—3 5 2
$25 Million Bond
Issue Authorized
In Yet Land Bill
The Vet Land Bill passed the
State House of Representatives
Monday by a vote of 124 to 9. The
bill would actuate the constitution
al amendment adopted last year
authorizing the issuance of $25,-
000,000 in state bonds for purchase
of land for resale to veterans low
interest on long terms.
The House amendment reduces
the estimate of 10,000 farms and
ranches to 8,000 by increasing the
maximum cost of each from $5,000
to $7,500.
A floor fight over the resale
of the land after the purchase
brought the adoption of an amend
ment to prohibit the resale until
after the veteran had owned the
land three years.
Veterans who qualify for eli
gibility to purchase are those over
18 years of age who have served at
least ninety days between Sept.
16, 1940 and Dec. 31, 1946, and
were honorably discharged. Land
will be sold for 10 per ce*^t down
with forty years for payment of
the balance. The interest rate is
4 per cent.
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