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Aggies Drop Oklahoma Tilt 26-14 After Early Lead
— T *“ ;; tSboiUH* Kdd Kiin". Short Pasurn Bring
Steers Swamp Strong Tarheel Eleven 34-0 Vi ^ ^ ^ ^
After the Ball is Over • • • •
PRESS PASS m SPORTS
By Aady BUtuU
*d over the gn*«i hi
U move it •
Ur. The attempt %
auteuaful, hecauM after
air paaaM ever the new
the gravel starU gratting i
itaeif and pretty *eeo we ha
ririag; thja doat, unforti
doe sn’t come back down w
surted from, and aoon the gimrel
if all Worn away, ae well at the
Ur, and we’re hack where we atart-
ed from.
(fcice a ball game is played and | from gumming op
the score i$ lifted in the rviordjtn aome apoU, a t
haokf, Aggies are prone to call K
Matory and look forward wjQv re-
njwed vigor to the negt cor test.
That’s good psychology; la .acuta
of all the cracker bmrel gatner-
i«g|, barroom arguments, and Ml
aaasions with their and**, ifa, add
bat's the moving finger has writ.
Ifa uae trying to erase it. ^
But for the sake of this article,
fat's Uke a little postmortem on
Saturday’s game. It wae,hbt at
; Owens Stadium; the bteexe (hat
prevailed at practice aession drop-
oad completely at the kick off,
leaving the fans baking in the 90
degree heat and the players sitt
er! ng around in their own sauce
on the field. Substitution were
K ralent, men couldn’t last very
| in the sweltering weather,
la the second half, this he-
C * evident as the Mg Aggie
men stayed longer on the
heach while the second and third
team spelled them on the field.
The tackle* werea't charging aa
fast, the secondary was alewer
•t 1U feet, the ends weren't
I - Mating their paasea M hen the
turn toUl was added up. the hoys
the preae bos attributed the
sfeat ta lack of reaenea.
there was another reason
earn »
KllM
defeal
But
the reported and «porim*mere
'lidn’t figure on, My self admks-
alan from membara of the
» m. 'lulfa h fewboys were
■h eolda
^gte
_ edlda The common, everyday
variety nf cold, that tkJ« up your
nose, or make It run, mlats your
< )r< •, and shortens your breath.
Ivat a good thing for a football
taom to have where it egpecU ta
play top notch ball.
iPWell, It'a a sure thing that the
hoara didn't leave their pullman car
wmdowa open on the way to Okla
homa. In other worda, they caught
their colds right here on the cam-
pos, where everybody el»c h»» been
catching his recently. And the
eBte.
'Maybe you've noticed, that re-
cggitly Military Walk and its ad
jacent streets have been subjected
to an amount of construction
(that's what h aays here in small
flhe print; as far as this -article
it qpneerned, it’s indiHInguishabl.-
from destruction). This construc
tion consists of laying a layer of
> In the meantime, the dust stir
red up by the cam, track*. m«-
toracootera, etc, ha» drifted
about a bit ioetiag far a place
to settle dowa. Hart Halkd)ow»-
Mm the Agd* athlete* ir sito-
atad ia aa ideal apet far all this
doat te gather, the hoys raa’t*
Wet their doom aad holt the win
dow* now-a-days, ae they Just
have to take it . .. aaaelly right
up the ease. Result; pert of them
retch colds, become shortw laded,
Ime hell games.
Now who is to blame for this
sorry st#t« of affairs- We could
teV a guess sad aay that some
one or some person*, a rank or so
below tiod himself gave the order
to start this construction (hot we
wouldn't dare eay that th* paard
of Diiwlort Is rooaonalM* tar the
Aggioi tawing a tall game. Por
that we would be llae<l np against
the of Boa* Hall •niiiKt at
dawn, our fc>4y durnpod into the
Rrasoe liver wRhout heitaflt of
HUver Tape). The Administration
had nothlnfyto do with this we are
certain; the Administration, aa you
\kmm astqr, • oa Oioah wdHtU
Heat Han Marked
Effect on ViHitors
By PAUL MARTIN
* Texas University moved up aru
other notch this week by deetaioe*
) l^dnshbing the vtaktag North
jCaroliaa Tarheels *4-0. This, tied
the defeat of L8U by
(who was beaten by tR#
rieels last week) and Rice’s tie
A the Southern Cal Trojans and
V week’s defeat of the Owb by
1 Tigers Should mean a revision
the estimates of Texas as a na
tional power
fckhgh Carl Snavely ad-
after lie game that the
Ataeifc were JuflB
«•
roaches
psaahtg arm of Bobby Layne ae*
counted for the victory. ■■■■
Layne set up the first Longhora
tally with a 44-yard pass to lef*
ha'fback Byron Gillory who wsmt
acioss standing up. This climaxed
s W-yard sustained drive in which
fullback ToA Landry had piek»4
op IS and pr
LSlTu Talented Touchdown Tower
were Ju*t too fast, as had
Tagas Tech and Oregon
tea previously. That, and tRo
arm ' “
en yard gains.
Early in the second quarter, the
Steen again hit pay dirt when siftaj
stltule fallback Raymond Jones
passed to substitute right end Pap
py Blount who went high in the
air to snare the ball and then fell,
across the goal line.
Landry slashed IS yards to aet
up tRu ne*t counter and after Gil*
tafy, pulling the old statue of lt»
eijty around loft end to thr thro*
drove the remainder to give th*
host* a *0-0 load at the naif.
Early in the second half, Landry
runs anil Uyne-Ui Gil lory paaers
tool the I/»nfhoms t» the Tarh*e|
one whqN tfi* vis!
on itawna.
Texas' fourth TD was Initiated
! v Jones who mtereeptari a North
I'srollna pass behind his own goal
line and ran It bark to the 14.
Randall Clay carried the mail
on the final tally with the Texas
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By Lorry Ooodwya
A hard-fighting Aggie football team went down before
1 Oklahc
Oklahoma
ta teams and Oklahoma heat Saturday aa lack of
•trength showed to be the chief wenkne** in the
»M-14 kM| at the hands of the Big Red squad from
TEXAS-BOHN YrMwetau Abraham TUiie, Jr„ bettor known
Ilf bear Ihr Tiger offeneit* hwrdeu fer the
live year. Uni year the big uwerterhank mow
• In 4* artrmpta fer Ml yards aad II teurhdowaa.
aa Y
fearth m
ptrted 4*
Mr ata« l
mistake. You can't blame the sta- pprond team using straight power
donts for catrhing cold; they did I plays,
not have a damn thing to do with
It. Well then, who’s to blame.
Scanning the list of college of
ficials, we fuid that Mr, T} R
Spence Is the official In charge of
college construetioa
ia the man who waned the
order that caused the team td catch
cold. Obviously hia order had a
direct bearing on Saturday a gome..
iEu.™ you In Football Ranks
wiU be burned ia effigyl at the I
w, if n
North Carolina was given a
alight edge in this fray as many
predicted the newly-initiated T
formation wouldn’t dick under
ymesaara.
Favorites Tumble
Thanksgiving bonfire, if npt
er. Why must you be blamed?
A* we said, last week's game
By AUSTIN BKALMEAR
Sideline Sideli^litt
tar, the slippery, black kind that j is history. Now Mr. Spence, all we
amdla like a refinery, on the \ ask you to do is wet down Military
street; immediately over this is Walk, ao- ths team can dear its
r id a layer of fine gravel. Thi*,' heads and stand on even chance
suppose, is to keep the tar; with LSU next week. ,
-If I
don't bring hasno Dantyno drawing Gum,
thoy attack!" j
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forget tho Doatyoo Chowiae Gum! I Seat
hlswo tho littlo thovora, thaagh. Pw as kooa as
.thoy aro oa that rofroshiog, taag-Usti«g •woee.
Aad Dantyno bolpa hoop thoir tooth whits, too.
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NEW YORK. Oct 6 (AP)-One
of these days the folks who have
been too busy following the World
Sefiea to police college football are
going to find that the grid season
already ia well under way and that
the action to date has resulted in
such impressions ns these;
1. Notre Dome, Michigan, Texas
and Georgia Tech look like the
teams most likely to battle it out
for the mythical national crown.
2. The title chase in the Pacific
Coast Conference threatens to be
the dixsiest of them all.
3. Army refuses to roll over and
pby dead, even though Glenn Da
vis and Doc Blanchard are no long
er on the premises.
Netre Dame, the nation’s No
team in 1944, arrived on the scene
Saturday and, although somewhat
tardy, picked right up where it left
off last year by crushing Pitts-
burith, 40-6.
Michigan, which entertains Pitt
Saturday, lambasted Stanford, 49-
R whiU Georgia Tech blanked
lane, 20-0, and Texas troanced
North Caralaa. 34-0. ruining the
Tar Heel*' bid for an all-victorious
si ason with one of the outatand
ing performance of the day.
Meanwhile, Washington State
dumped Idaho, 7-0, and Oregon
State stopped Washington, 14-7,
in » couple of surprisee on the Pa
cific coast while UCLA bowed to
Northwestern *7-M, Nevada upset
Oregon, 1S-4, and Haathera Cali
fornia was held ta a tie by lire.
U.
Army, unbeaten aince 194S,
waltiad merrily along with a 47-0
breete through Colorado, indicat
ing that the Cadets aren't going
to be pushed around this year de4
spite personnel losses!
Army's true strength will be
tested Saturday when the Cadeta
risk their 80-game undefeated rec
ord against Illinois, 3&-12 con
qm ror of lowa, at New York In
the East’s foremost attraction.
Oklahoma, 24-14 conqueror of
Teaes AIM. and Texas collide la
their annual game at Dallas aad
Arkaoaas will W. at Baylor te
the Southwest confereace. -
Duke, 19-7 winner over Ten-
^' i , plays Navy at Baltimore I
while Columbia, which stopped Na
vy, 18-4, entertains Yale, 14-0 win-!
ner over Cornell, in on Ivy League I
contest.
Notre Dame this week invades
Purdue, surprise 24-20 winner over
Ohio State, while Ohio State en
tertains Southern California and
Wisconsin plays host to California.
Andy Matala
In spile of defeat the Aggies
looked good. At least Curt Uowdy
of station KOMA in Oklahoma
City thought ae. Curt is a six foot
tad, young In radio but he has a
big league l<roadea*tm« style that
marks him aa a person U> go places
via the ether waves^ta handled
the Aggie-Sooner game over 200
•tationa of CBS Saturday.
Curt used to play basketball for
Wyoming University, mode All
American too. He liked sports so
well, he stuck rteht with them,
over tne airianet. Ur even handles
his own game of basketball better
than football.
Gowdy had high praise for big
Stan Hollmig, whose kicking,
though * Uttle oft, and passing,
chat was deadly in the first half,
had a partisan Oklahoma crowi
their feet moat of the game
Gowdy's Job over the air Saturday,
was to sell Southwest football, the
razxle-dexile, wide open, anything
goes kind, to the rest of U\e coun
try. In that respect, Hollmig’s
passing came through with flying
colors, coast to coast.
Odell Suutzenberger wan Gow
dy'* praise as an All American
passe* or a quick kirk. They didn't
heed hia warning la the first Half
and big Stan caught them napping
with a spiral one time and threw
plenty of paoaee that ate ap yard
age and set up a touchdown. Watt
instructed his halfback, George
Brewer,
By CUPP ACKERMAN
The first of the Intaamaral open
tournament* will ' gat underway
this week with handbell. Entries
are due by Wednesday, October K
All studenU tele res ted in eaMrtnf
should see their Athletic Offteet
or Team Manager or come ta the
Intramural office and fill out aa
entry blank.
Chlckea Rerbecee Tonight
AH Athletic Officers, Teem Men-
ti amrnm Teatwwswmsiwml u *v*4
■gwVy anvrwTnurni mmi
Officials are reminded of the Mg
feed tonight at the Grave at •:!&.
Hah League Meets Tuesday
Clubs interested in entering this
new Intramural league shouidhave
a representative present at a m^-t
ing to be held Tuaoday at [l te
Room 301, Goodwin Hail.
Thursday Results
Tranter
Btxsell won from Law Hall. 2 to
0 te tw6 closely contacted matches.
Coleman and Overton, Swenson
and Hudgins made ap the wianlag
team as they won their matches
rack 84 from the teems of Bynea
and Collins, Batten and Mouger. !
With the score ttad at 1 ait in
matches Cole and Cox came
thrsnth with an 1-4 win over
Ham bright and Guthrie to give A
Air Force n I to 1 victory over
K Fluid.
■aahathslli
A Ate Force edged cut a l paint
vtataiy from A tnfaairy 80 to If.
Tkt scorn ah if ted bask and forth
with Usman of A Infantry being
high point man hHtlng the backet
for 18 tallies. Per Ura winner*
Hcett scored 7 points while Hooten
followed with L
Dorm 7 swamped Hart Hall to
the tuns of 40 to 88 in one of the
highest scoring games on record
in Intramural basketball Futr and
Libby ran up 29 points for the win-
nors scoring 18 and 14 points re-
speetivey. Quiery was high point
runner's 36-
rty-two thousand people, one
of the teraratftavwds aver So see
a game tfW state of Oklahoma
sat in oa the battle, which was
all.AMMO te the Ant half and
all O.U.’a te the last taro periods.
U was- jnst a ease of getting
there “fasteat"—but not havtag
the “mosteet” that's essential to I
winning football games. Continu-1
ally throwing fresh manpower in
to the game, the
the Aggies’ early lead and won
going away. At the end, the Ag
gies we** an exhausted and thor
Wallace converted and k vraa 14-
18.
Ia the test two minutes of the
period, the Aggies chugged 64
yards te five plays with the half*
time gun halting the effort on the
O.U. five yard line.
Early in the third period*, the
t tnlets made their final bid of
the afternoon, driving 42 yards ta
I the Sooner 12 before a fumble
overcame them From that point on,
it was all 0.tJ. The first team
sagged under the 90 degree heat
and the reserves Ja>t couldn’t cope
from the
-w a far cry'
Ju ..^ ..„.j with O.U.’a speed and the very
“jrrrfis «■«■»<■
touchdowns and was on its way to
42 yards for
i lowing an in-
jr Aggie aerial,
t promised
three yard
a Mitch*
to always kick out of
bounds ta the Aggiea. After seeing man for the’ losers with 18 potnta
the Aggias against Texas Tech. Taking an early lead Dorm 16
Walt knew the abilities of either stayed out ia front to beat Dorm
Barney Welch or Bob Goode.
Mustangs ShelWk
Missouri 35 to 19
9 29 te II. Pet Perkins with 8
points and hts teammutc rogcll
with 4 helped the winners to their
victory. MachemeR score 4 points
for the losers to aet the para for
his team.
FIN FEATHER CLUB
Fin Feather Road
Ph. 2-1673
prospect in the line. That Mg
Sooner line usually got pretty well
fouled up trying to go through,
over, under or around Stauz. Bob
Gary certainly gave him plenty of
becking up, and Barney Welch,
who played juat about the entire
game, got in more than his share
of touchdown saving tackles.
But the Sooners had two lads
who were practically their whole
team. Tuck Mitchell, their QB, and
who the Aggies were told to watch,
is about the only guy who can
walti through a football defense.
Mitchell aeems to play with bollet
slippers on; he's not fast, relies
i on atopa and starts to weave hia
I way through unbalanced tackier*.
Several time* he ran Into his own
Interference te be stopped. The
Sooner'* big John Ranees was their
defensive maiaatay. He raught on
to the Aggie passing attack In the
second half and intercepted two
pasam and recovered a fumble
that-turned the breaks to the loon-
«a and helpod them to win.
Walt Hargtaheimcr, asaistant
coach for Oklahoma, had high ra-
r for the Aggies. Walt ia an
Minnesota hand who really
knows footbaO. During the game
he manned th# field phones. When
Stan Hollmig came in he would
warn his backfield to watch for
Doak Walker took the spotlight
again aa SMU ran rough-shod over
df- Missouri in Dallas Saturday night
on to the tune of 35-19.
Walker put the visitors back in
their own territory with a 40-yard
quick kick after the Missourians
marched to the Pony 36. In a quick
return, the Mustangs took their
ball on their own 38 end marched
downficld with it to the Missouri
two. Walker took it across and
then made the conversion.
Missouri quickly tied it up after
Frit* recovered a fumble on the
Quirk
SMU 20. Entsminger and
drove aeroas on five plays.
Following, Walker took s hand-
off on the Methodist 24-yard line
and ran 74 yards for pay dirt. This
completed the first nalf.H
In the third quarter, the Ponies
took the ball on kick-off and
marched to their third TD. A
series of short plunges carried
the visitors to the SMU 10 from
where a pass from Quirk to Hulse
resulted in a tally.
Array Stages 47-0 •
Win Over Colorado
WEST POINT, N. Yn Oct.-4—
(AP)—Coach Earl Bloik and hU
Array football team staged an ex
periment Saturday at the ex
pense of a big but lumbering Uni
versity of Colorado squad, Enter
taining a crowd of 21,000 by roll-
ing up a 47-0 score.
Btaik used 46 players, including
18 backs. Moat of thsai, gained
ground through and over the bulky
Colorado line, which was able to
stop the Cadets only once.
Owls Tie Trojans
7-7 in California
Georgia in 35-19
CpHet Over Tigers
ATHENS, GA., Oct 4—(AP)—
Georgia tied a knot in the tail of
the mighty Tigers from Louisiana
State here Saturday and then
kicked them all over Sanford Field
for a surpriae 85-19 victory—the
Aral in eight attempts—biforv
40,000 fana.
Coach Jeaa Neely’s Bice Owls
ended their fray with the South
ern California trojans with a 7*7
tie after holding a lead until the
closing minutes of the game.
Deapita last week's defeat by
LSU, the Owls entered the tilt
■light favoritas. The end of the
Ant half found both teems sco
lea* but the Owb came back after
the intermission to walk the kick
off 74 yard* for a tally. The tro
jan touchdown climaxed an 81
yard match.
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a third when hatted by the clock. 1
The Sooner* font railed the bell
throughout moot of tne game, aad
therein probably lien the chief rea
son for the Agiges’ cyesing out on
the short end if the'score. Okla
homa had possession; of the ball
on .to oat of the 163’plays of the
game with the Aggies in
sion Ip only 48 plays, 12 of which
were punts or kickoffs
|S Tha Oklahomans Started out
is they were going to take thd
Aggie* apart The second time
they got their hands on the ball,
tjht'boonegfi UghBaltad 49 yards
for s touchdown, Bob Goad taking
a flat paaa (a play which fooled
thr Aggies at crucial point all
day) and stepping 18 yards for the
score The play covered 19 yards
with Jack Mitchell, who was the
best bath on ths field, on the
throwing end of R.
Dart Wallace, who beat AAM
with a last inlnuie field goal In'
’44, mlsaad the point and Oklahoma 1
held • 44 i*ad with eight and a
halfjnlmitea gotw In ths opening
Alt tha Aggies test little lime
la getting back te tha ball game.
Turn plays following ths Oklahoma
klrknof, Stan Hollmig played for
the breaks and quick •kicked to the
O.U, 81. And the bmk came. One
play later, Geoffl Tlioina* lum-
log Roll Good fell on the boll
on the 38 and the Aggies wore off.
Jim Caehion passed to Bafney
Welch fer four, sent Ed Dusek
through ths middle for throe more
and then hit end Norton H
in the dear down the middle,
an 18 yard heave for a first
on the O.U. 10. Goode swept jo the
;wo, getting help from Ralph, Dan
iel, who threw one of the most
vicious Meeks thb writer hai ever
seen. On the next play, Duseq pow
ered across. John Ballentine trot
ted on and booted the point, send
ing the Aggies in front, 7-b.
Following th.i kickoff, O.U. got
off a poor punt, carrying only to
the Sooner 29, and the Aggies were
on their way again. FoMwing a
backfield in motion penalty, Welch
crashed through to the 23 and
Goode circled end to the 16 for
first down. Then Holmig calm
heaved a long pass to Cotton How
ell deep m the end aone tor the
tally. Ballentine’s point made
14-6 and things looked rosy for the
Farmers.
But the Sooner’s vaunted offense
was still to be heard from. Mid
day through the second period, the
Oklahomans struck like lightning,
moving 67 yards in two brilliant
play*. From the Sooner 48, Thom
as cut through end and danced
through, the whole Aggie team be
fore being downed frota behind aft
er a 24 yard jaunt. Then, Darrell
Royal worked the Aal pa**, this
time to Mitchell, and the fleet
quarterback scampered all the way.
npletely.
lifferent
Oklahoma went 42
their third score fol
tereeption of a stray
Thome* hitting the promised tend
oa a buck from the three yard line.
In the fourth, a Mitchell to
Brewer jlst pan carried 24 yardi
for the fame’s Anal score, climax
ing a 48 yard drive. In the waiunj;
moments of the game, A A MV
highly-regarded passing game,
which had bulteeyed on tta first
fir* attempts, failed com]
They Just played two d
games. AAM rightfully won the
first one 14-18 but was pushed
around in ths second one, 18-0.
Stars of the first half war* nu-
mtrous: Cashion, Dusek, Goode,
Overly, Howell. Thera were no
stars in the second half, Just a tir
ed bunch of Aggies who had too
mush to handle.
AAM O.U.
Net yards gained rushing 111' 857
First downy 8 II
Forward paste* atlptod if 1 9
[ Forward passes emptied
Yards forward passing
Forwards Intercepted by
Yd* gnd run-bark tntplna
Punting average
Total yda all kirk* retd
Opponent fumble* reevd
Yards lost by penalttsa
I
0 87
I It
0 I
1 40.9
I Mi
8 I
0 76
Okta.
Tyree
Paine
Burris
...... Ra;*aca
..... Andros'
Walker
Goad
Mitchell
Sarratt
Thomas
Kreick
7 0 0-14
7 4 7-26
AAM
Howell .H.
Basra Lf*.*....
Btautabrfar ...Lf
4ary —«... C
Overly R.G
Winkler -M,
Biggins RE
Daw Q.B.
Welch LH
Goode —,L.H«-...
Dusek R3
Texas A. A M....-..7
Oklahoma 6
Texas AAM scoring: Touch
downs, Dusek and Howell; points
after touchdown, Ballentine 2 (for
Cashion).
Oklahoma scoring: Touchdowns
Good, Mitchell, Thomas and Brvw-
tr (for Sarratt); points after
touchdown, Wallace 2 (for Thom
as).
Substitutions: Texas AAM:
Ends, Wright, Prokop, Pollock,
Whitaker; tackles, Greiner, Sacra,
Settegaat, Routt; guards, Greiner,
Dupree, Turfy; center, Ellis; becks,
fashion, Hollmig, Diuiiel, Hall
mark, Ballentine, Burditt, Airier-
son, Smith, Yates, Bety.
Oklahoma: Ends, Ownes, Heape;
tackles, Morris, Bodenhaiher;
guards, Trotter, West, Husak.-Mc-
Nabb; center, Tillman, Dowell;
backs, Parker, Wallace, Royal,
Brewer, Mauley, Jones, Davis,
U. 8. JTROOP8 LEAVE ITALY
ROME, Oct. 6 —(AP)—Ameri
can occupation troops will, begin
pulling out of Italy today, U. S.
Mediterranean Theater Headquart
ers announced at Leg bora Tho
last troops, except for small liqui
dating units, will sail Dec. 1
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