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Rote, Walker Guide Mustangs Over Webfoots In Cotton Bowl Boston Braves win N.L. pennamt By SACK SPOEDE Everyone interested in foot ball knows that SMU smashed the Oregon Webfoots in the annual Cotton Bowl grid fra cas, 21-13. Just for the record however, Battalion Sports wants to give a short recap of the game. Coach Matty Bell’s Mustangs maintained a clear superiority throughout the battle, allowing the Oregonians to score only in the latter stages of the game against second and third team Mustangs. Doak Walker smashed over in the first quarter to put the Dallas team ahead, and they never lost the lead for the remainder of the game. The Webfoots had possession of the ball only one time in the first quarter, when they had the stiff east wind to their back. The visiting team did, however, hold the ball the majority of the time the second quarter. With 5 minutes and 15 seconds gone in the third quarter, Sopho more Kyle Rote iced the game for the Methodists with a 35 yard TD dash over right tackle. Walker ad ded the extra point for the second time dui'ing the game. Gene “Chicken” Roberts made the third Mustang score after the Visitors had scored 6 points. KICKING IT AROUND BY ART HOWARD Sports Writers Recorded Excellent Welcome at Cotton Bowl Festivities There was only one dissappoint- ing part of the Cotton Bowl festi vities in Dallas last Saturday, and that was the absence of an eleva tor to the press box. Believe me, that was all. Most of the fans, especially the press, had a fine weekend. The ex- travangaza that was staged at the halftime of the Southwest Classic was re ally something. All of the cheesecake i n the Dallas area was on hand as the letters 0. U., and SMU, were spelled out on the field. Even the steady flow of fried chicken, HOWARD cokes and hot dogs couldn’t keep the attention of the sport scribes. A breakfast for the Texas Sports Writers Association was held in the Baker Hotel Saturday morn ing. It was supposed to start at 8 a. m., but that was too early for this writer on January 1st. All of the business had been transacted by the time I drug in at 10. I must have looked good, because Bub King, sports publicity director for A&M, went around offering money to anybody who would take me out into the fresh air. I asked Harold Ratliff if the award of “Southwesterner of the Year” to Gil Johnson would hurt Walker’s chance for the Sullivan Trophy. Ratliff said no, that Johnson was given this award on the basis of his performance in spite of a physical handicap, in addition to being one of the most valuable players on the SWC championship team. It was too bad that I arrived late, for there was almost a troop of A&M men there. Dub King, H. B. McElroy, Clarence Weikel, Glen Williams, and Batt sports staffers Sack Spoede, Bill Potts, and Andy Matula were on hand. Had we got ten together in a caucus, we might have elected our own president. As it was, a dark horse named George White sneaked in. Still minus breakfast, I looked around for food. There was none in sight, but one of the above group led me into the inner sanctuary there was plenty of refreshments, courtesy of the Cotton Bowl. ★ On an end run, Walker bent the first down marker in a “U”, and got up rather slowly, and limped a little. Some writer said that he was injured, but Morris Frank, the effervescent wit,, said, “No, if he had, Matty Bell would have committed suicide.” The Oregon team scored again later in the fourth quarter. Kyle Rote, the former Thomas Jefferson of San Antonio star, gave notice that he must be given attention as a future All-American candidate in this game. Rote has picked such extra monickers as Killer Kyle, King Kyle, and “The San Antonio Express’ due to his performances on' the grid this sea son. He improved as the season pro gressed after being held in several games during the middle of the season. Against the Aggies Rote was checked throughout the game. Doak Walker, the leading light on college football at present, di rected the Mustang attack as it Kern Tips Will Speak at Aggie Grid Banquet Tickets are now on sale for what promises to be the largest football banquet ever given by the Brazos County A&M Club. The huge affair, honoring Texas A&M’s 1948 varsity football and cross country teams and dates of the athletes, will be held in Sbisa Hall the night of Friday, January 14th. Kern Tips, Houston* sports an nouncer who has become known in the Southwest through his broad casts of Southwest Conference foot ball games, will be the principal speaker at the banquet. Tickets may be obtained at the W.S.D. Clothiers in Bryan, at Ag- gieland Inn and at Lipscomb’s Pharmacy, College Station. Tickets also may be purchased from Hollo way Hughes, Johnny Longley, Spike White, GeYrge McCullough, J. E. Roberts, Col. Bill Becker, Wayne Stark, Gordon McCutcheon, Browning Dewey, ' Dick Hervey, Breezy Breazele, Lucian Morgan, Bill Carmichael and P. L. (Pinky) Downs, Jr. Sid Loveless is chairman of the ticket committee and E. E. Mc- Quillen is chairman of the pro gram committee. Lucian Morgan heads the general arrangements committee. Loveless reminded sports fans in Bryan and students as well as em ployees of the college that the deadline for purchasing tickets is January 12. probed the Webfoot defense for a weakness. Walker also aver aged around five yards a carry in the ball lugging department. The best kick of the season in the southwest was a quick kick off the toe of the Doaker that traveled 80 yards and rolled out of bounds on the one foot line in answer to the prayers of a Mustang Cheer leader on the sidelines. Pass defense, the weakness the Aggie coaches discovered in the Mustang defense, was also spot ted by Jim Aiken, head coach at Oregon U. Several passes were dropped by the Oregon receivers in the beginning phases of the game. Kilgore Junior College’s Ranger- ettes presented the 69,000 fans with the best halftime show seen by this observer this season. They were, to put it mildly, terrific. Bowl Scores COTTON BOWL SMU 21, Oregon 13. ORANGE BOWL Texas 41, Georgia 28. DIXIE BOWL Baylor 20, Wake Forest 7. SUGAR BOWL Oklahoma 14, North Carolina 6. ROSE BOWL Northwestern 20, Southern Cali fornia 14. GATOR BOWL Clemson 24, Missouri 23. SUN BOWL West Virginia 21. Tex. Mines 12. DELTA BOWL William and Mary 20, Oklahoma A&M 0. EAST-WEST East 14, West 12. HARBOR BOWL Villanova 27, Nevada 7. SALAD BOWL Drake 14, Arizona 13. RAISIN BOWL Occidental 21, Colorado A&M 20. VULCAN BOWL Kentucky State 23, Carolina A- &T 13. PRAIRIE VIEW BOWL Wilberforce 6, Prairie View 0. LILLY BOWL United States Navy All-Stars 25, Kindley Flyers 6. Sul Ross 21, Murray State 21. PINEAPPLE BOWL Oregon State 47, University of Hawaii 27. CIGAR BOWL Missouri Valley 13, St. Thomas 13, tie. 4 CLEVELAND! Indians uun . ........ „ take A.uf ( flag after playoff wmi RED SOX AND BEAT BRAVES IN SERIES ’ P &&Hery of new /7id/Ld^grj~~l^T^u. ib0025^ H'y WE SAID IT AND WE'RE GLAD/ - the AGINATION'S r ' /->} sports ^ WRITERS REJD ROLFE EDDIE SAWYER ^ ^ . 'Reds Tigers CASEY STENGEL Vanlcs ■ J I • ^ LEO BURT, , JACK , ©NSLOW( White Sox, m Av' ' 'W AP Ncwslealutti t. Alvin/ DARK. Tloo/oe of the ycen Cagers Return From Winless Road Trip Battalion PORT MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1949 Page 3 a giant on the farm Products of the laboratory are saving time, toil, money for the American farmer Through chemistry, farmers are gain ing control over many of nature’s un certainties. Costly losses of crops and livestock are being curtailed or pre vented. Efficiency is increasing. 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Address: 2518 Nemours Building, Wilmington 98, Del. Tulane Line Coach Joins Aggie Staff J. T. King has been added to the A&M varsity football coaching staff, Athletic Director Bill Carmichael announc ed today. King, line coach at Tulane University the past three seasons, has resigned his post there and will report for duty here tomorrow. He has been designated as Aggie end coach. King played high school football at John Reagan in Houston and later was a standout guard at the University of Texas. After graduation from Texas, he coached at Kenedy (Texas) high school, later moving to Enid, Okla homa, as head coach of the high school team. King pro duced several state championship teams at Enid. When Henry Franka moved from Tulsa to Tulane three years ago, he took along King as one of his assistants. Harry Stiteler, head Aggie mentor, believes King will prove a valuable addition to the Aggie coaching staff which has been short one man since Thurman (Tugboat) Jones resigned last June to enter business. “We are very fortunate to land a man with King’s experience. He fits right in with our plans,” said Stiteler. King is married and has sons four and eight years of age. Farmers Win Mile Relay At New Orleans The nationally famous Ag gie Mile Relay team came through again at the Sugar Bowl Sports Carnival during the holidays and successfully defended its famous record as the outstanding mile relay team in the nation when it de feated teams from Oklahoma A&M and North Carolina U. Donald Mitchell of Deer Park, C. S. Ludwig of Dallas, Erwin Bil- derback of Dallas and Roy Hol brook of Baytown were the track- sters that competed on Track Coach Frank Anderson’s team. They won the race with a time of 3:21.4. Oklahoma A&M was second and North Carolina was third. The four men that competed for A&M had previously nosed out oth er good runners of the Aggie track squad who tried for positions on the team. In the same race last year at the Sports Carnival in the Crescent City, the Aggie relay team was edged out by Oklahoma A&M after the baton was dropped by an Aggie runner. The Aggies still managed to finish second, even with that handicap on them. The four men that ran for A&M at the Sugar Bowl this year are not the only Aggie athletes capa ble of performing on the team. Coach Anderson has others that will provide plenty of strength for the team in the confei’ence track meet and other events. Stiteler to Leave For Coaches Meet Head Coach Harry Stiteler and Bill Carmichael, athletic director, will leave Tuesday for San Fran cisco to attend the National Colle giate Athletic Association conven tion and the National Football Coaches Convention. Dub King, in charge of sports publicity, also is making the trip and will participate in a meeting of the American Association of College Public Relations Directors, to be held in conjunction with the coaches’ conference. King will leave Tuesday. Scamardo Reports For Active Duty Pete L. Scamardo, a 1948 grad uate of A&M, has reported for a three-year tour of active duty, ac cording to Colonel Oscar B. Abbott senior army instructor for the Or ganized Reserves in Texas. He is stationed with the Second “Hell on Wheels” Armored Divi sion at Camp Hood, Texas. Both Clemson and Missouri, 1949 Gator Bowl opponents, are called the Tigers. Spraying orchards controls infestations of in sects or plant diseases ... or holds fruit on the trees until it is fully ready for picking! R EG-U.S.PAT.OFf. BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING . . . 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As in foot ball, the Tigers were supposed to be their weakest in several years. After holding a lead in the ini tial period, the Farmers slowed Col. Alanis Gets Army Discharge Lt. Col. Dan C. Alanis of Waxa- hachie, A&M graduate and form er football coach at Northside high school in Fort Worth, was dis charged from the army on Decem ber 31, according to Col. Albert A. Horner, head of the Texas Mili tary District. Col. Alanis, who for the past two years has been in the training sec tion of the office of the senior in structor in Austin, has moved to Ferris, Texas, to become a car salesman with the McKeever Chev rolet Company in that city. Texas Teams Show Up Well In Post Season Bowl Tilts DALLAS, Jan. 3 (A 5 )—Texas col lege teams reaped a rich harvest not only in money but victories in bowl games over the nation. Bragging a little, suh, they won seven, lost and tied two in the bowl battles in which they met out side teams. In three other games the cast was all Texas while in still another among the eight bowl games played within the state the contestants were from other areas. All in all 15 bowl games were put on either in Texas or had Texas teams playing in them. eThey exetended from Dec. 10 to Jan. 1. Southern Methodist won the big one, beating Oregon 21-13 in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, with each team getting over $108,000. The only losses for Texas teams in bowl games was Texas Mines’ 21-12 licking from West Virginia in the Sun Bowl at El Paso and Prairie View’s 6-0 loss to Wilberforce of Ohio in the Prairie View Negro Bowl at Houston. The brightest win was Texas’ 41-28 decision over Georgia in the Orange Bowl. It was a “grudge” affair. Texas went to Miami de termined to lick Georgia after be ing termed a “third rate team.” Coach Blair Cherry called the turn on that one several weeks before the game. Baylor whammed Wake Forest 20-7 in the Dixie Bowl at Birming ham for another top Southwest Conference triumph. Hardin-Simmons had the biggest bowling schedule and the Cowboys did mighty well at it. They won two and tied one in three engage ments. They tied College of the Pacific 35-35 in the Grape Bowl at Lodi, Calif., beat Ouachita 40- 12 in the Shrine Bowl at Little Rock and blasted Wichita 49-12 in the Camellia Bowl at LaFayette, La. George Washington University’s basketball squad plays 23 games this season. down as the Tigers’ offensive be gan to click. Seton Hall outdistanced the Ag gie visitors in South Orange, New Jersey last Friday night by run ning up six straight points to break a 16-16 deadlock, and then coasting to a 69-55 win. The bright spot of this game was the scoring of Aggie Jim Kirkland, who tallied 22 points, followed by Turnbow with 17. Kirkland led the squad in scor ing in almost every game on the two tours. He made 17 points against Southwestern Oklahoma, and 15 against LSU. ■ Siena College also dropped A&M by a 43 to 36 count, and Akron University also dropped the Aggies. This was almost a carbon copy of last year’s road tour when A&M lost three games up north and edged LSU. However, the added experience of this trip is expected to improve Coach Marty Karow’s charges. With most of the pre-season firing over, Southern Methodist appears to have won the title of “The Most Improved Tfiaia”- the SWC. But Baylor appears have a strong claim to the title slot, having beaten Texas by a considerable margin over the holidays. Poorly TCU will open the season against SMU tomorrow night, and Baylor clashes with Arkansas in Waco Wednesday. A&M will open its season against TCU in Fort Worth Fri day night, and trade shots with SMU the following night. FORMER STUDENT ASSIGNED TO OHIO ELECTRONICS LAB Lt. Thomas A. 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