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.
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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
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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
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three-year tour of active duty, ac
cording to Colonel Oscar B. Abbott
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He is stationed with the Second
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K A&M’s basketball squad will return to their home
grounds this afternoon after having taken two winless road
tours during the holidays. The first was a southern jaunt
into the cajun country where they fell before the guns
of LSU and Tulane, and then they garnered two victories
over the teachers from Southwest-f-
Oklahoma College by 50 to 30 and
49 to 35 at College Station.
Tulane handed the Aggies their
worst defeat of the season, with a
stinging 51 to 28 margin in New
Orleans. The Green Wave has been
considered one of the best quin
tets in the south, having downed
Texas and Rice. However, power
ful Kentucky humbled Tulane 47
to 19 later in the holidays.
The worst disappointment for
Cadet rooters was the 58 to 55
loss to lowly LSU. 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.
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