Rice Drops Aggies In Exciting Match
Fish Rack Up Win Over Bolts
Jewell McDowell Leads Fish
To Fourth Straight Win 56 ■ 45
* By FRANK SIMMEN, JR.
In a complete reversal of form, the fighting Texas Aggie
Fish cage team showed they had the stuff in defeating the
Rice Institute boys in a game played in Houston last night
by a score of 56 to 45.
Jewell McDowell led the Fish team to its fourth straight
victory of the season, but this time*
he had a little help from his fresh- work, but was able to slip only
man buddies. Davis, who turned in
a fine defensive game for the Fish,
showed the fans that he was in the
fight.
He was in the game all the way
and when he fouled out late in the
lastlast quarter you could tell that
the Fish missed that tall frame
finder the backboards.
“Ears” McDowell played one
of the finest floor games this
writer has yet to witness on a
basketball court. The young
Amarillo eager trickled, dribbl
ed and faked himself into the
limelight last night, leading his
team defensively and racking up
a total of 18 points.
When it comes to scoring we
can’t leave out Ralph Grawunder
and Sonny McCurry of Rice who
together scored 40 of their team’s
total of 45 points. McCurry, a
youth from Wharton, helped his
team out under the hoop, but when
Davis was in there to give him
some trouble, he slackened down.
* It took the Freshman only 15
seconds to put their first score
across. It came when McDowell
stole the ball and dribbled in for
a crib shot. Fifteen seconds later
“Overworker” Houser took a pass
from Mac to score again. Another
15 seconds found Farmer making
another long shot for a third mark
er. This put the Agiges ahead and
their lead never was threatened
the remainder of the game.
Just after the midway mark
Davis stole the ball and raced
down court putting the ball, his
hand, arm and half his shoul
der into the rim of the basket.
It could easily be seen that he
hit his stride the second half,
but he fouled out before he could
build up his point total.
- Bentley did some fine defensive
four points through the loop. Bob
Church, who was playing before
the home town folks for the first
time, also looked good the short
time he was in the game.
The only thing that really hurt
the young Farmers was their de
fensive setup. Time and again
an Owl eager would break
through and make a score that
could have been prevented if the
defense had been a little tighter.
Eddie Houser, who, after serv
ing three meals in the mess hall
yesterday, also showed the Hous
ton boys he was out to win. He
made three field goals and two
free shots for a total of 10 points
to place second in the Aggie scor
ing race.
Bobby Farmer, the long shot
specialist, couldn’t seem to make
his long shots click last night,
but he really showed his de
fensive ability in batting down
Owl scoring attempts.
Morris Frank, Sports Editor of
the Houston Post, when he saw
“The Jewell” play remarked, “That
kid’s another Eddie Wopecke.” Ed
die is an ex-All American from
Yale. A man in the press box was
heard to say, “It’s a good thing
that boy is not playing for the
varsity now—he would have faked
Bill Tom right out of his gym
shorts.” But, of course, DeWitt
didn’t do bad when it came to
handling the tall Rice eager last
night.
Pictured above is Buddy Davis, the Fish eager who turned in
a fine performance in last night’s game against the Owlets. Da
vis, who is fi’8” tall, played fine defensive ball and controlled
both backboards while in the game.
Corps Football Flag Taken
By “A” QMC in Tight Play
Oliver to Loyola?
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13 (A 5 ) Senior Company and “A” Quartermaster clashed in one
Jordan Olivar, a resourceful young) whale of a football game Thursday afternoon before the
coach who led Villanova into bowl
games the past two seasons, today
considered an offer to become head
coach at Loyola University of Los
Angeles.
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Quartermaster took the game and the Corps football crown.
Both teams, winners of their leagues and up through
the semi-finals, were keyed up and4—; 7
anxious. Play was not rough but w ith a drop kick,
it was plenty rugged. Both teams
suffered injuries during the tilt.
In the scoring end, the results
was tied, 7 to 7. But the QMC
team won on penetrations; they
had three 40 yard and two 20
yard thrusts to Senior Company’s
single 40 and 20 yard penetra
tions.
The hard hitting “A” Company
tallied first in hopes of sewing the
game up early. Taking a handoff
from Bill Thomas, Sammy Thomp
son galloped around end for a
touchdown, going 16 yards to score.
Bob Schubert came in with a rare
specialty to convert the extra point
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For a long while it appeared
that the Sdniors would be shut out.
In fact it looked that way until
the game’s last play when Guinn
Fergus pitched a pay dirt pass to
Jim Desmuke. Not relying on lick
ing, the Seniors made their extra
point with another Fergus pass, this
one taken beautifully by Dutch
Hartman to make the extra point.
But for the penetrations, the score
would have been tied.
In an only Volleyball game
Thursday, “A” Infantry quickly
pounced on. “A” Transport : to
take the win in straight games
15 to 13 and 15 to 6. This will
bring “A” Infantry against “A”
QMC (for about the third time
in the playoffs) next Tuesday,
January 18 when Corps Volley
ball champs will be decided.
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Battalion
PORT
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1949
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Aggie Mile Relay Team Flies
To Truman’s Inauguration
The Texas A&M mile relay team
left College Station yesterday for
Washington D. C. where they will
take part in a track meet to be
held at Washington University.
Accompanied by track coach Frank
Anderson, the team boarded a
train for Dallas in the morning
and then continued the trip to the
capital city on an American Air
lines plane.
The relay team was invited to
take part in the meet by the
Washington Evening Star. The
mile relay race is to be a, part of
Inauguration Week ceremonies
for President Truman.
This will be the second meet
that the mile relay team has taken
part in this season. At the recent
Sugar Bowl track carnival the
Aggies defeated teams from Okla
homa A&M and the University of
North Carolina. The time for that
race was 3:21.4, however, the track
at the Crescent City was wet and
Former Editor Of
4 Batt’ Joins AP
Cal Brumley, former editor of
The Battalion and reporter for the
Amarillo Globe-News, has joined
the editorial staff of the Dallas bu
reau of the Associated Press.
Brumley was editor of The Batt
in the summer and fall of 1944
and went to work for the Amarillo
paper after graduating from A&M
in February of 1945. He majored
in agricultural economics.
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FORT WORTH, Jan. 14 —Six
teen years ago—on Feb. 3 and 4,
1933, to be exact—the TCU Horn
ed Frogs last beat Arkansas’ bas
ketball Razorbacks in Fort Worth.
The Frogs took both games—29 to
19 and 30 to 26. Captain of that
1933 team was a senior named
Byron (Buster) Brannon.
Monday night, a Frog quintet
coached by that same “Buster”
Brannon will try to do what no
TCU basketball team has been able
to do during the 15 seasons of
Brannon’s absence—beat Arkansas
in Fort Worth.
Now in his first year as the
Frogs’ basketball coach, Brannon
has already given new hope to
Frog cage fans disspirited after
several dismal seasons.
In winning one-third of their
12 non-conference games this
year, the Frogs by mid-season
had won as many games as the
1947 and 1948 teams won during
both entire seasons combined.
From that point, they went on to
upset SMU, 58 to 52 in the sea
son’s opening Southwest Confer
ence game.
Arkansas has generally been
rated along with SMU, just behind
Texas and Baylor, the conference
favorites, and Frog fans are hop
ing for another upset like the
Frogs scored against the Mus
tangs.
slow and the Cadet team hopes to
better their recent New Orleans
tims on a dry track at Washington.
In tomorrow’s meet the Farm
ers will run against teams from
Pemv State, Villanova, and Seton
Hall.
Coach Anderson plans to use the
same starting team that won the
Sugar Bowl meet. This quartet will
be composed of Don Mitchell of
Deer Park, Ervin Bilderback of
Dallas, Ray Holbrook of Baytown
and Connally Ludwick of Dallas.
Mayfield Elected
Fowl Club Prexy
Bob Mayfield was elected presi
dent and Bill Doran was elected
vice-president of the A&M Poultry
Science Club for the current se
mester.
Delvin Barret was elected secre
tary-treasurer, Grady Scroggins
was named reporter and John Lew
is will represent the club on the
Agriculture Council. Ed Parnell
was elected to be the club’s advisor
replacing Lee James, who is re
entering the armed services.
A baby chick show will be spon
sored by the club for Ag-Engineer-
ing Day May 7, club members have
decided.
Senior Ag Meeting
Set for January 18
The meeting of graduating agri
cultural seniors announced for Jan
uary 17 has been changed to Jan
uary 18, according to Dean C. N.
Shepardson of the School of Agri
culture.
The group will meet at 4 p.m. in
the Agricultural Engineering Lec
ture Room.
Professor V. M. Faires, who has
charge of post graduation studies,
will discuss the opportunities of
this program with graduating sen
iors.
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Grid Game To
Be Less Rough,
More Exciting
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Jan. 14
(Ah—There won’t be much differ
ence in the matter of wholesale
substitutions running on and off
college football fields next fall, but
the game will be a little more ex
citing and a little less rough.
Such were the deductions today
as members of the intercollegiate
rules committee headed homeward
after another tussle to improve the
grid regulation book.
Th6 highly controversial free
substitution rule rated top atten
tion. Admittedly, according to Wil
liam J. Bingham, of Harvard, chair
man, this provoked hot debate in
closed door sessions during the
snowbound four-day session. But
coaches accusal of push-button op
erations were curtailed in one re
spect and given free rein in anoth
er.
Here are the new statues on
the subject:
/ Coaches will not be permitted to
send one player at a time into the
game while the clock is running—
a practice that brought on the push
button term. That’s out.
They will be able, when the
ball changes hands, to send in as
many players as desired on either
team. But subs must be in and
ready to play while the clock is
running and before the custom
ary 25-second period elapses
from the time the referee placed
the ball in position.
Those are new edicts. They can
still send in as many players—
platoons included—while the clock
is stopped. They can still replace
DeWitt, Schrickel
Lead Cadet Rally
By ART HOWARD
A&M lost a thrilling game to Rice in Houston last night.
Although an early slump put Coach Karow’s squad in
a hole, John DeWitt helped them climb out of it and go ahead
twice before the scoreboard gave them a 54-53 loss at the
final gun.
This game will probably be the most exciting contest of
the year in the Southwest Conference. With only 40 seconds
to go, Gene Schrickel took a downcourt pass from Sydon
Hrachovy to sink an easy lay-in+-
shot for the final score of the
night. But the 2,000 fans never
sat down in those final seconds,
with that lone point separating
the two squads.
Striving desperately for a win,
the Farmers opened up their
fast-breaking game t o full
throttle, and Rice followed suit.
Tension mounted as possession
of the ball changed ends of the
court several times as the clock
ran itself out, and two tie-ups
at midcourt ended the game.
The almost-winning A&M rally
started in the last two minutes of
the second quarter and continued
up until the end of the game. Rice
took advantage of several Cadet
misplays, and the hot shooting of
Switzer and McDermott to run up
a 30 to 29 lead. DeWitt and Mar
tin both sunk charity shots, and
Martin, Jenkins and Baty made a
field goal apiece to come within
four points of the hosts at half
time. From then on there was never
more than four points separating
one injured man and at such junc
tures they can field as many fresh
players as fancy dictates.
Encouragement to offense is
contained in these rules:
A player can elect to run back
a punt from scrimmage if the ball
is caught in the end zone. This
used to be an automatic touchback
and the ball was placed in play on
the 20-yard line.
If a punt receiver gets nailed
in the end zone, back of the goal
line, it still goes as a touchback
and the ball goes to the 20-yard
line. If he is tackled on the one
yard line, that’s where it goes into
play.
Passing behind the goal line
was encouraged. A new rule says
if a legal forward pass is incom
plete in the offensive team’s end
zone, it is to be ruled an incom-
pleted pass instead of a safety,
as the old college rule stipulated.
An intercepted pass, in or out of
the end zone, or a recovered fum
ble, in or out, naturally goes for
a touchdown for the opposing team.
Curbing the tendencies of a play
er to toss the ball ahead a few
yards and out of bounds when he
fumbles, the committee ruled the
ball must be placed back in play
at the point where the man fum
bled instead of where the ball went
out of bounds, as heretofore. If the
ball goes out of bounds behind
where he fumbles, however, play
begins back there—where the ball
went out of bounds.
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the two squads.
Bill Turnbow put the Aggies
ahead for the first time with a
sensational shot. His approach
to the basket was blocked by Big
Tom, so he jumped, made a com
plete turn in the air and sank
the ball on his way down.
But the Owls surged back into
the lead on two long shots by for
ward Bob Foley and a tip-in by
McDermott. Kirkland, Turnbow,
and DeWitt hit their marks to tie
the score, but Turnbow fouled out
with nine minutes to go. DeWitt
followed soon after.
With much of their height gone,
the Aggies still managed to match
the Birds point for point by play
ing a fast break, close man-for-
man defense. Gene Schrickel made
most of the points for A&M’s bid
in the last few minutes, but con
stant fouling and bad passes kept
them at bay.
DeWitt clearly outshaded Tom
both under and away from the
board. He kept the tall Rice cen
ter from making his tip-in shots,
while making 15 points himself
to lead A&M in scoring. His
backboard play kept A&M in the
game.
The officiating also came in for
some harsh words, with several
questionable decisions in the vital
closing seconds.
Sam Jenkins and Jim Kirkland
were the only Aggies who failed to
hit their quota ,of. shots for the
night. But Avhat hurt A&M more
than anything was the poor chari
ty throw average.
But it was encouraging to see
the Aggies come up from behind
on a sustained drive to almost
topple the Owls away from, home.
Marvin Martin was the most
improved man on the squad last
night. Although not potent at the
hoop, Martin was a vital factor
in holding down the Rice height
after the Aggies had lost most of
their height through fouls.
BOGUS BILLS IN US
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 14 —UP)—
The Secret Service says a “very
dangerous and deceptive” bogus
$10 bill is being passed in San
Antonio.
Charles A. Ellis, agent in charge
of the U. S. Secret Service office
here, said three of the bills were
discovered here yesterday. They
have been generally passed in San
Antonio since last weekend, he
added.
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