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Lagging ’Mural Playoffs In
Race With End of Semester
“A” Company Quartermaster Finally
Defeated in Intramural Competition
Platoon System
Booed at Times
During 1948
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 _(£>)—Col
lege football had another good year
at the gate and some of the fans
had a lot of fun booing the “two
platoon system.”
Army’s Cadets received a ter
rific razzing during their 43-0 rout
of Stanford. All Coach Earl Blaik
of Army did was play the game
according to the rules when he
shifted offensive and defensive
units.
The rules sped up the game
under the unlimited substitution
setup employed during 1948 but
in some games, like the Army-
Stanford fray, it made for one
sided football, especially when
the underdog was shy of enough
talent to use 11 players on de
fense and another 11 on offense.
Michigan had the best, team in
the land, according to the consen
sus of opinion. The success of the
unbeaten Wolverines was a trib
ute to Bennie Oosterbaan who
succeeded Fritz Crisler as coach.
Notre Dame, California, North
Carolina and Army also ranked
with the top. Notre Dame, how
ever, had its winning streak stop
ped by an underdog Southern Cali
fornia team, the Trojans gaining
a surprisihg 14-14 deadlock.
Like Michigan, California fin
ished unbeaten and untied and
met Northwestern in the Rose
Bowl. Army came up to its final
game with a perfect record but
Navy, beaten by every rival on its
tough schedule, tied injury-riddled
Army 21-21 before 102,500 Phila
delphia fans.
North Carolina, with Charlie
(Choo Choo) Justice leading
the way, beat everybody but
William and Mary. The Indians
figured to be outclassed by the
Tarheels yet the rivals played
a 7-7 tie.
Another major upset was sup
plied by Pitt, the Panthers hand
ing Penn State its only loss of the
season, 7-0.
Doak Walker, 'selected unani
mously to The Associated Press
All-America teami won the Heis-
man Memorial Trdphy with Justice
second and Chuck Bednarik, Penn’s
versatile center, third.
By FRANK SIMMEN, JR.
Playoffs in Intramural tennis, football, basketball, and
volleyball are now in progress and the winners will be de
cided around the 17 or 18 of this month. “A” QMC, the out
fit that fielded an unbeatable combination in every sport
they participated in since the beginning of school last Sep
tember, until recently when they* —; , 1
were defeated in tennis by A In- hi h ie quarterfinals A Field and
fantry, are leading in team points.
They won 20 straight games be
fore being defeated.
Barney Welch, Director of In
tramural Sports, said that the
finals in all sports will be decided
as soon as possible with playoffs
ending somewhere around Jan. 17.
Intramural tennis is the only sport
now near the final stage.
The hotly contested intramural
football race is down to the quar
terfinals with the fighting Quar
termaster corp leading the way.
The QMC boys won the pigskin
title last year, and are out to
grab the championship again.
The quarterfinals see the winner
of the A QMG-C Infantry tilt play
the winner of a game between A
Cavalry and E Infantry. D Air
force plays the winner of A Inf.
and Senior Co. Senior Company
and A Inf. both ended up the sea
son with one loss and will meet in
a game to decide the league champ.
The winner of this game will meet
B Field Artillery in another quar
terfinal game.
Basketball is also at a quarter
final stage with such teams as A
QMC, E Inf., A Field Artillery, A
Inf., ASA, and A Vet ready to
start play competing for the title.
A Inf., E Inf and B Athletics, A
QMC and A Vet. meet in games
played tonight and yesterday. The
winner of the A Inf. vs. A Field
Artillery game will meet the ASA
boys who drew a tye for the first
round of play.
Volley ball, another hotly con
tested race, also swings into the
final two weeks of play. In a
game yesterday A Transporta
tion met ASA. Today A Chem.
Warfare meets the QM team
and the winner of that tilt plays
C Infantry.
A Inf. and the Senior outfit
again tied in volleyball and wall
have a playoff today. The winner
of that game will meet the winner
of A Transportation and ASA.
Tennis is the only intramural
sport that is almost ready for
final play. A Comp, and A Inf.
meet in a fray and C Inf. meets
D Vet in the other game. The
winners of these games will
meet in a final game to decide
the championship.
A big intramural program is
planned for next semester. A com
plete list includes handball, horse
bably tennis.
Fish Cagers Meet Wharton jC;
Official Schedule Completed
By FRANK SIMMEN, JR.
The A&M Freshman basketball squad will play their
third tilt of a twelve game schedule this Saturday night when
they meet the Wharton Junior College cagers in Wharton.
A twelve game freshman slate has at last been completed
with all games except one offi-*
dally scheduled. The Fish will
meet Wharton Junior College this
Saturday and also Feb. 10 in Col
lege Station on the same date that
the varsity plays TCU.
The Tyler Junior College cag
ers are set for a tilt with the
young Aggies on Feb. 9, but an
other game is on tab; as yet
nothing is official as to the other
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game.
The Fish to date have played
and won two games. NoV. 17 found
the Allen Academy boys going-
down before the Freshman squad
by a score of 56 to 46. Two weeks
later the Aggies overpowered the
Sam Houston B squadders in a
game in College Station.
Ten games remain on the slate
at the present time. Two games
with Tyler, Texas freshman, Rice
freshman, Baylor freshman, and
the two clashes on tab with Whar
ton Junior College.
Coach Wilkins says his squad
is in pretty fair shape with the
exception of George Skipper, tall
center from Houston who is out
with a broken leg. His leg will
be out of the cast in another
month but he will be a lost to
the squad for the remainder of
the season.
Another Houston eager, Bob
Church, who was suffering from
an attack of the flu just before
the holidays, has fully recuperated
and §hould be in top form for the
battle with Wharton this Satur
day night.
The schedule for Texas Aggie
Freeshman Basketball Squad:
Jan. 8—Wharton Junior College,
there.
Jan. 13—Rice Freshmen, there.
Jan. 21—Baylor Freshmen, here.
Feb. 5—Texas Freshman, here.
Feb. 9—Tyler Junior College,
here.
Feb. 10—Wharton Junior College
here.
Feb. 16—Texas University, Aus
tin.
Feb .26—Baylor Freshmen, Waco
March 4—Rice Freshmen, here.
Texas Mines Coach
Meets Live Wires
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 5 <7P)—
A football coach was knocked un
conscious yesterday when he tan
gled with something a bit more
violent than an opposing football
team.
Rosas Moore, freshman coach
of the Texas College of Mines,
touched some high voltage wires
while removing Sun Bowl pen
nants from a steel light stan
dard at Kidd Field.
Moore fell 30 feet from the stan
dard but apparently was not seri
ously hurt. He regained conscious
ness shortly after the fall but was
unable to explain what happened.
The pennants adorned the big
light standards for the New
Year’s day Sun Bowl game be
tween the College of Mines and
West Virginia.
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Frogs Upset Mustangs
58-52 In League Play
Arkansas Plays
laylor in Game
At Fayettville
TCU Overtakes Ponies in Last
Three Minutes of Game for Win
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The man with the flashy tie is J. T. KING, the new Aggie end
coach. He is coming here from Tulane University, where he served
as line coach.
New Aggie Mentor Developed
Goff, Dohhyn In High School
By ART HOWARD
A&M will have a valuable addition to its coaching staff
for spring training when J. T. King, ex-iine coach at Tulane,
starts working on the Aggie ends. King was signed up over
the holidays, spent a few days here, and returned to Louisi
ana to make moving arrangements for his family.
King will be a boon to the sports
Grid Yankees Sign
Landry to Contract
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 —hP)— The
New York Yankees of the All-
America football conference have
signed three new college players.
They are fullback Tom Landry
of Texas, halfback Jerry Williams
of Washington State and Guard
Ken Sinofsky of Nevada.
The Yankees beat out the Na
tional League Giants for the ser
vices of Landry, who. scored the
second touchdown for T e x a s
against Georgia in the Orange
Bowl Saturday.
writers, for he likes to “shoot the
bull” about football. He is not a
complete stranger on the campus,
for two of the Aggie backs were
his pupils in high school.
He coached Bobby Goff in
Kenedy, Texas, in 1939, and Jim
Dobbyn in Enid, Oklahoma 3
years ago.
He first became acquainted with
Stiteler and Bill Dubose when his
Kenedy team played nearby Corpus
Christi several years back. From
there Kipg went to Enid where he
produced several top high school
squads. Henry Frnka drafted him
when he went to Tulane three
years ago from Tulsa University.
King probably should have
come to A&M sooner so that he
could have brought some of his
high school athletes with him.
When he saw the Sugar Bowl
game between Oklahoma U. and
North Carolina last Saturday,
four of his former proteges were
on the starting OU roster.
Commenting on that game, King
said that it was a lot duller than
had been expected, and was not
the type of clash you expected
when you shelled out $4.80. He
added that Jack Mitchell ran with
the ball 12 straight times at the
start of the game, probably be
cause he was afraid of someone
else fumbling.
Something of a football player
himself, King played at John Re
gan in Houston, and later was a
guard at Texas University.
King will fill the gap in the
coaching staff which Thurman
(Tugboat) Jones vacated last
summer. His hands will be full
during spring practice with one
of the largest groups of ends at
A&M in several years.
In addition to quite a few re
turning lettermen, he will have the
Recreation Council
V-Ball Managers .
Meet Thursday
There will be a meeting of all
prospective managers of volley
ball teams in the Recreation Coun
cil League at the office of Stu
dent Activities at 5:00 p.m. Thui’S-
day. Teams from the Military De
partment, Agronomy Department,
Biology Department, Goodwin Hall,
Physical Education Department
and the North Gate have already
entered the play which will start
the latter part of January. The
sport is open to all College Sta
tion residents. Games will be play
ed in the Consolidated School gym
nasium every Monday night. Per
sons or departments interested in
playing or in entering a team may
contact “Spike” White at the of
fice of Student Activities. Play
will be between teams represent
ing Campus buildings, departments,
business firms, or areas.
job of developing several outstand
ing freshmen ends, and at least
one of the ineligible squad.
Wheri he starts back from Louis
iana with his family King will have
his two sons, four and eight years
old, in tow. Harry Stiteler and
Bones Irvin also have sons in the
same age bracket, and if the
coaches do as well as expected at
A&M, their sons may be playing
together at Consolidated.
The Arkansas Razorbacks will
entertain the Baylor Bears in Fay
etteville tonight in the second
Southwest Conference basketball
game to be played this week.
The win and loss record of both
teams has been none too impres
sive so far this season. The Bears
have won five games and lost six
while the Hogs have taken only
three of nine games played.
Baylor has already stamped
itself as the team to beat in the
Southwest Conference by trounc
ing Texas 49-36 in the Okla
homa City All College tourna
ment last week. The Longhorns
are expected to give the Baylor
team the most trouble in this
season’s basketball race.
Tonight against Arkansas the
Bears will be favored to success
fully open the defense of the con
ference basketball crown they won
last year. Despite the loss of their
star performer, Jackie Robinson,
who was forced to give up basket
ball at the beginning of the season
because of a calcium growth on
his knee, the Bruins should not en
counter too much trouble from the
Hogs.
Returning from last year’s
Baylor team are guards Bill
Johnson and Charles Devereaux,
forward James Owens, and cen
ter Don Heathington. Owens and
Johnson led the Bears in scor
ing last season.
Last year Arkansas, with George
Kok and A1 Williams, gave Baylor
a lot of trouble but this season
both tree-top cagers are gone. Tak
ing over Kok’s center spot is 6’7”
Bob Ambler. Ambler is currently
leading the Razorbacks in scoring
and is rapidly rounding out into a
fine player.
THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE
Wednesday—Arkansas vs Bay
lor at Fayetteville; Friday—Texas
vs Southern Methodist at Dallas,
Texas A&M vs Texas Christian at
Fort Worth; Saturday—Texas A&
M vs Southern Methodist at Dallas
Rice vs Baylor at Waco, Texas
Christian vs Texas at Fort Worth,
Arkansas vs Phillips Oilers at Lit
tle Rock.
By The Associated Press
Texas Christian rose up and
walloped Southern Methodist 58-52
last night in the Southwest Confer
ence basketball inaugural.
The surprise victory, TCU’s
first over the Mustangs in years,
was not an easy one.
Playing their first conference
game under Coach Buster Bran
non, TCU’s Horned Frogs manag
ed only to stay in the game in the
first half. With two minutes to
play SMU’s forward Jack Brown
cracked three field goals to put
SMU ahead 33-25 at the half.
With 29-year-old center Julius
Dolnics leading the way, the Frogs
rallied in the second half. After
tying the score at 42-42 and 48-48
they went ahead 51-50 with three
minutes to go. They never lost the
lead.
Dolnics led TCU scoring with
21 points. SMU was paced by
Brown with 17 and forward Bob
Prewitt with 16.
To rub it in, TCU’s freshmen
made it a clean sweep for the pur
ple by drubbing the previously-un-
beaten SMU Colts easily 58-39.
Tonight Baylor takes on Arkan
sas at Fayetteville in the only con
ference game.
TRINITY BEATS CORPUS
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 5 WP>—
Speedy reserves sparked a second-
half spurt which gave Trinity Uni
versity a 53-41 victory last night
over Corpus Christi Tarpons in
Trinity’s basketball opener.
Pete Murphy led the winners
with 15 points. Bill Clark’s 17 was
high for the Tarpons.
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 5 (#)—
Texas College of Mines eked out
a 44-43 victory over West Texas
State last night by stalling away
the last four minutes and snuffing
out a last-second scoring effort.
Ventura Irrobali scored 15
points to pace the Miners, who led
25-19 at the half. Bill Kitchens,
who split West Texas scoring hon
ors with John Braden at eight
each, sparked the West Texas'
rally.
Battalion
PORT
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1949
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Kern Tips To Speak
At F ootball Banquet
Sports enthusiasts who attend the Brazos County’s an
nual football banuet in Sbisa Hall on Jan. 14th will be privi
leged to hear a man with one of the more illustrious sports
and business careers in the Southwest.
He is Kern Tips of Houston.-*
Col. Frank Anderson (left), Aggie head track coach, and his
assistant Ray Putnam hold a conference around the latest track
trophy to come to Aggieland. The gold cup was won by the Aggie
mile relay team when they captured first place in the Sugar Bowl
meet December 30.
Harrison Dillard
Makes Comeback
As Athlete of Year
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (£>)—Har
rison Dillard, the nation’s premier
hurler and one of the world’s fast
est humans, was named today as
the athlete who made the out
standing comeback of 1948.
The Baldwin Wallace track man
was cited for his remarkable 100-
meter victory in the Olympics fol
lowing his failure to qualify for
hurdles in the Olympic tryouts.
Dillard’s feats earned him 14
first place votes, six seconds and
three thirds from the 96 partici
pating sports writers in the year-
end Associated Press poll for a
first place total of 57 votes.
Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinal
outfielder, was runner-up to Dil
lard with 46 points. For boosting
his batting average from .312 to a
league-leading .376, and pacing the
loop in runs batted in, runs scor
ed, hits, doubles, triples, total
bases and slugging average, Mu
sial received 11 first place nomina
tions, six seconds and one third.
Tony Zalej who regained his
world’s middleweight title by-
turning the tables on Rocky Gra-
ziano (he later lost the crown
to Marcel Cerdan), took third
place with 34 points.
Tips will be principal speaker at
the banquet honoring the Texas
Aggie 1948 varsity football and
cross country teams.
Tips is many things to many
people. To the rabid Southwest
football fan, he’s the best darn
ed sports announcer in the coun
try, bar none, and they can’t see
why he hasn’t been national net
work all these years, but are
glad he stays in Texas.
To the old timers around The
Houston Chronicle, he’s one of the
best sports editors they ever had,
nutty enough to throw a good job
overboard and take a trip across
the briny deep for a leisurely tour
of Europe, then versatile enough
to come back a year later and land
a top job in that upstart radio in
dustry.
To the N.B.C. vice president in
charge of station relations, he
was one of the most efficient
station managers in the 151 sta
tions allied in the National
Broadcasting Company network,
a real executive that J'lBC hated
to lose from the family. To Ro-
tariansj he is an illustrous past
president of the Houston Rotary
Club, now an honorary member
by virtue of past service.
Kern Tips is that rare individ
ual, a native Houstonian, bom on
August 23, 1904. He was active in
YMCA work as a youngster, and
was a member of the Houston Y’s
basketball team in the early 20s.
In high school days, he worked as
a cub reporter on the old Houston
Post, covering the police beat. He
was graduated from old Central
High school in 1922, then attend
ed Texas A&M College for a year,
the Rice Institute for another
three years. He went from school
in 1926 to the sports staff of the
Houston Chronicle, and later took
over as sports editor.
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Kern Tips got a taste of radio
in 1926 with a 15-minute sports
program on one of Houston’s early
radio stations, and in 1930, soon
after the opening of Station KTRH
inaugurated a nightly newscast,
known as “The Star Reporter.”
This continued - through 1933. Byk
that time, he had decided to cast,
his lot with the radio industry, but
took a European tour first, in 1934.
Upon his return to America,
Kern Tips worked briefly with
the St. Louis Cardinal organiza
tion assisting them in setting up
a publicity-public relations de
partment. While there, he re
ceived an offer to join the staff
of Station KPRC in Houston,
and became manager of that sta
tion in April, 1935.
In the fall of 1935, as a result
of his sports and radio background
Kern Tips was asked to become a
Humble Sportscaster, a post he has
held with distinction ever since.
Texans in the service in the far
isles of the Pacific, on the white
cliffs of Dover, and in the CBI
theater, all heard an old friend’s
voice when the Armed Forces Ra
dio Service piped the Texas U-Tex-
as Aggie Thanksgiving classic
overseas for several years.
During the war period, Kern
Tips was active in this organiza
tion of the Houston-Harris Coun
ty Office of Civilian Defense,
and became director in mid-1943.
He has been active in civic af
fairs on committees too numer
ous to list, and served as chair
man of the Council of Social
Agencies for a year.
Kern Tips left radio January 1,
1947 to enter the broader field of
general advertising, becoming a
senior partner, executive vice pres
ident, and director of the Houston
advertising agency of Fran^e-Wil-
kinson-Schiwetz & Tips, Inc.
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