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[uscles
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” Campbell of Arkansas for the top spot as the lead
carrier in the Southwest Conference.! Smith, w!hi
an average of 4i6 yards per cary, trailed Campbell by
only 39 yards. Campbell has
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Lsry of A&M kicked twelve times
ii the TCU game for an average
of 38 yards. This bettered his aver
age) in the LSU game, ahd it also
increased his puntiiig average for
the year to 36,9 yardsi Lary has
punted 42 times for a total of 1551
yards. - h . M
Adrian Burk of Baylor, who
tinted four times against Texas
was the leading punter of
week with an average of 49.5
yard's. Doak Walker of SMU took
the lead in the punting division this
week, as he kicked twice for an
average 42,2 yards, which raised
his average of 38.6 yards for the
Jfear.
Charley Royalty grabbed the
■ninth slot on the leading punt
return list as he averaged 12.6
yardsi in three runbacks.i Dan Wilde
of TCU led the list with ah aver
age 9f 23.3 yardfe. Wjilde has an
gain of 384 iyards.
k.2 yaf,
ds for the eni-
average 1 of
tire season.
Don Nicholas hjel<J the spine spot
this week as he did last (week to
continue to be one i of thb leading
passers in the conference.!Nicholas
has completed twenlty out of forty
passes Joi* a total: of 230 ya|
Lindy Berry of the Frogs has 9
pleted 62 of 114; passes for a net
total of 825 yards, j Paul Camlpbell
of Texas trails .Berry by! only
68 yards.
Smith dro jped fj^om third ?lace
g department to | sixth
failejd Ifo score in) last
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ggie Wil
ped ipto third place, as
he scored seventeen points agjainst
the Mustangs las|t ^eek in the Cot
ton Bowl.j Randall Clay of Tertas
continues to be high; poi^it man ! witli
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Two of the seven Southwest
Conference football teams are
ranked by Paul Williamson in
his weekly ratings, as being in
the top ten in the nation. The
two teams are Texas and Baylor|
with the rest of the SW conference
teams following slowly down the
La Motte,
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NEW YORK, Oct. 19—(A**—Tr iditional rath
er than: intersectional clashes have
as the; football season reaches
mark] Saturday.
Although Notre Dame is idle while awaiting
its game with Navy- on Oct. 29 much of th* in
teresting action appears to center in the Midwest
where four Big 9 games are on tap.
Featujre clash finds the heavy Minnesota
line going against the crack Michigan eleven at
Ann Arbojr, Mich. We'H string along wifh the
champion Wolverines.
Other midwest conference games find North
western ajt Iowa, Wisconsin at Ohio State and
We’ll take Northwestern.
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Tlowers.
The Highland Park native took
,he victor’s fcpot in the opinion of
nembers of The Battalion sports
staff for his play irt the TCU
;ilt. Although the Aggie line still
ailk to livt! up to expectations—or
lopes, perhaps—a fewc,individual
jdrformers usually loiok capable
mough against the Cadet oppos-
ti6n. v . ! N
' Possibly 'the top play t of the 1
^ame from the viewpoint! of Ag
supporters was Flower’s intercep-
;ion of a Horned Frog pass near
,he end of the first half] “Half
jack” Flowers fook the pigskin
jn th^ run and'^rtornied up field
io within the ! ChrTstian8’j25-yard
ine. •{
However, his feat was nullified as
the Maroons failed to get a single
jlay smarted from Scrimmage be-
'ore the gun sounded to end the,
'irst half.. The roar of approval
hat had followed Jim as he moved
upheld with the burglarized pass
was a tribute to his head’s up play
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Monday Battalion Vevealed, th<i
mer Scottid played a whale i
game on defense sfthere goesi that
swimming stuff popping up again).
The particular action shown was a
tackle by Big Jim which delayed]
Frog fallback Moirtori’s scoring of m LJ
the ..initial touchdown.
FWVs selection was not based T he quarte
on thesh twp; play|, m case anyone thgt m (kfm
v« incr in to meet I
might Ifie wondering, hut rather
the fact that he Consistently play
ed the best defenpive ball for tn<
impotent jChdets.'] As .in the past^
guards Qarl M(u[b^fg and Ma:
Greiner Were among, the stronge
contender^ |fbr linerpan.
The Dallasite's athletic prowes
ia not limited to jttje fall footbal
wai-s and for'thit |reason he wjil
continue to.be heardjkrom after the)
moleskins arc packed away for the
year. Primarily as qn aqualtc abe
but also as a potentially valuable
shot putter, Flowers will remain
in the spotlight op/the Aggie ath
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JEAST
Army tq rout Columbia.
Navy to surprise Penn.
ViRanova to crush Duquesne.
MIDWEST
Purdue over Illinois.
Missoari easy over Iowa State.
Michigan to edge Minnesota.
Oklahoma to crush (Nebraska.
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Illinois at Purdue.
Ohio State and Purdue.
The east has at least five interesting clash
es, two being played upstate New York, two in
New England and one in Philadelphia. Colum
bia goes to West Point to get a sample of the
rugged Army eleven, Princeton’s Tiger figures
to get it’s tail twisted in the Cornell game at
Ithaca, Dartmouth meets Harvard at Cambridge,
Mass., Holy Cross travels to the Yale Bowl at
New Haven, Conn., and Navy takes on (Penn in
Franklin Field.
The south is studded with many traditional
clashes with Duke, Georgia Tech, Tulane and
Wake" Forest expected to be among the] victors.
Selections by sections follow: .. .
SOUTH
SMU easy over Kentucky.
North Carolina to halt LSU.
Mississippi over TCU.
Vanderbilt to crush Arkansas.
SOUTHWEST
Baylor j to »»ip Texas Angies.
Texas fo efush Rice.
Texas Tech to beat Arizona.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
Colorado U. to beat Utah State.
Denver to nip Brigham Young.
FAR WEST
California to trim Washington.
Southern Cal to halt Oregon.
UCLA to trim Washington State.
line.
A&M although dropping its game
to TCU, mbved up. from the sixty- i 0 gy*de
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sports editor
Another part of the
of color movies at last
I-Toxas game in Austin.
To round out the program, priz
es will bo awarded to 11 winners
in last week's contest.
La Motte, promoted to the sports
editor’s position on The Post at
the beginning of the Fall, has been
a member of The Post news staff
Since 1941. (He was assistant city
editor at thef time of hi« promotion
He eras sports editor of The
Daily Texan in 193B-40 and was a
member of the sportg; and; ifWV-
staff of the Austin Tribune for
.more than a year before going to
Houston. T
He has a brother, Dr. Charles
pLa Motte. professor in the. bio-
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eighth spot to the Sixty-second pbs- 1
itibn. TGU grabbed number 44, a
.five point advantage over last
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TUj although dropping from the
sixth to the seventh spot still leads
the conference in ratings with Bay-;
lor right behind in eight place.
Baylor, which smothered Texas
Tech, still I'emains the only un
defeated team in the Southwest
conference* The Bears have beaten
South Carolina, Mississippi State
and Arkansas to go into the num
ber one spot dicing withj Rice as
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Winners
to receive prixes. Ilf any
are absent, their prixes will be
awarded to the persons who turned
in the next best guesses.
This week’s winners are: Mrs
A. J. Otte,, Bob 5368, College
Station; C. R. Pannil, Box 1152,
College Statiion; Warrant 0. Al-
brech, Box 2727, College Station;
Mrs. F. E. Allison, Box 2767, Col
lege Station; Curtis Hayes, Jr.,
Apt. C-21-X, College View; Mrs.
Split TSpreads the Defense;
The Quarterback Is ’Slider’
BY JIM BECKNER
(Editor’s note: This is second of
a story series on football’s T for
mation. The regular T was cover
ed In the first story.)
Neiw York, Oct. 19 , A > *—The
“Split Tt qffensive formation is
the newest and, because of the great
success of sqme of the teams using
it, the fastest growing of the
Basic T variations.
It was-devised by Don Faurot
of Missouri and adopted by Bud
Wilkinson of Oklahoma, whose
teajms have been very powerful
with it.
There; are two basic differences
between! thq split and regular T.
First, the Hjnenjien are spaced far
ther apart. There is a foot be
tween guards and tackles and the
ends are another yard out). “The
fundamental purpose of the split
is to spread the defense,” says
Wilkinson. “If the defending line-
ipeh refuse] to spread to meet the
split we hive an angle to block
them iriside] and run around them.”
Secojid iimportant difference is
that the quarterback is a slider
rather ;than a “spinner.” Ijn the re
gular T, the quarterback takes the
ball under the ‘center and performs
most o|f hi$ maneuvers from that
spot. Hi foe split T, the quarter
back ‘'slides” along the line of
scrimmage to a spot behind his
tackle and does the handing off
from there
ditional backers-up. The obvious
result of this is that the second-
undermanned against pass
es. .Wilkinson maintains that
ary )s
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long as ; less than nine men ere:
employed in stopping his runniing!
attack, it will go. “When the op
posing team employs a seven inan
line with two line backers, or a 1 Six-
three we can resort to the rapid
fire hashes possible with any T for-i
matibn.” The splitting of the line
also inakes if easier to run in qeep
enem|y territory.
Wilkinson considers one of the
strongest assets of his offertses
the (fact that his blockers heed
not tnqVe the defenders, as in the
tjghtjijr T„ but merely must keep
them] where ] they are. “The holes
are there because your alignment
madt them. “That’s how you vget
yardage)”
Next: Winged T.
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split Tl thajh- from the regular set-
rback, wheh he finds
sive end is!not com-'
ing in to meet him, can sl|p through
the hole ajid rujn. If the!; end does
charge, the quarterback can pitch
out to a traijlirjg back. ;
The fact that so many of the
plays are optiojnal after the ball
ie snapped caused an odd situation
at Oklahoma last year. Thle Sooners
piled up gn amazing amount of
yardage:] oh the ground in 1948,
and also set] a collegiate record for
fumbles.
Passing, of bourse, is not ne
glected 4n the Split T. The split
spreads 1 thje defensive line, which
means it njust be supported by ad-
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Director [G. (?. Gibson i
Texiis Extension Service leq
Wediiesjday for Kansas j City, Mi
ourij to] attend the annual meeting
of the Assjociation of 'Land-Grant
Colleges arid Universities
Just prior to the association
meeting, he will attend a meeting
where present day reclamatio|i pro
blems will j be discussed. The ex
tension ; directors from the South
ern states' will hold a meeting
sometime during the week to dis
cuss mutual problems* Gibson will
represent the Texas Extension Ser
vice atj these meetings. ; .
He iq "expected to retbn
campusl on October 28.
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Note the wide spacing of the
lipe. In Ibis split’ T play the
quarterback takes the ball from
center and slides along the line
to the “point of deception” be
hind the tackle. Here he fakes
a handoff to the right halfback
and continues on. If opposing
end comes to meet him he pitch
es out to fullback or left half;
if end hangs back he runs
through hole.
far ae conference standings stand Grhdy Elms, 218 Lubbock, Col-
at the present. ipg e Station;; Dorothy Keeling, Box
, • 0#U i24th 4358, Coital Station; William G.
The Owls, although losing one Adkins. Box 4471, College Station;
game to LSU in Baton Rouge are M r8 . w. S. Von Heeder, Box $686,
ranked in the twenty-fourth-spot. £ (
Rice ran t|p the largest score in
the history of the Cotton Bowl
this weekend when they soundly
trounced the- Mustangs of SMU
by a score of 41 to 2i7.
This was the first conference
loss for th^ Mustangs since 1946
when Arkansas outscored them in
Fayetteville. Thef are now only
three ] jumps from Rice in the
table.
Notre Dame emerges as the na
tions number one team aftfer
swamping Tuljane who was ranked
fourth last week. The Irish came
up from the number'ten slot, and
Kentucky, who was first last week
dropped to fifth position. -
Army holds dovyn tljie number twp
spot in Williamsoh’s ratings. The
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Football Starts;
Quartermaster
Strong Again
The Air Force showed its
fangs on the Intramural bas
ketball courts Monday with
two of its teams romping over
hapless opponents. Jerry Mar
tinets led A Flight to a 16-3 vic
tory over A Signal Company, while
E Flight was running over A Vets
22-3.
One other Flight won by close
margin over B Vets 7-5. Although
little scoring was done, jKinsey
Hallmark for G Flight and Johan
sen for the Vets showed nice ball
handling and the ability to score
as they paced their respective
trains.
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A TC was downed by B Comp
osite 18-8 with the help of stellar
play by Gerald Davis and Ken
neth Baker. The once victorious B
Quartermaster five won again by
downing D Flight but lacked the
class and spark shown in their pre
vious game.
] Charlia Pealor led a strong E
Field team to a hard 13-8 win
(See FOOTBALL, Page 6)
Cadets were in the second spot last
week and kept it by virtue of a
54 to 14 victory over hapless Har
vard. j -j : | I [ ' ;
Oklahoma 4th
Oklahoma, ranked in the num
ber th*ee spot last week is now
in IJuiith place. The Sooners
starved off a late Kansas attack
and went on to win and hold down
the favorite spot: In the Bib Seven
race.
Probably the biggest upset of TCU’S
the nation took place in Evanston
Illinois where Northwestern bare
ly outscored a favored Michigan
team to win by .foie! point. Michi
gan, at present : maintains the
eighteenth spot with Northwestern
ranked ih fourteenth place.
Minnesota, for mauling mighty
Ohio State 27 to 0, moved from
| number seven to number three spot;,
| in the rating.
North Carolina and Pittsburg
J rounded out the jtop ten with both
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ents.
Illinois, by virtue of a 27i-20 loss
to Missoqri moved up in the na
tional ratings along with Missouri
who jumped to thq thirty-first spot.
Williamson’s rajtings were a lit
tle more accurate this week, de
spite the predicted victory of Tu
lane over Notre Daihe. The system
now maintains ah qverage of 80*9
with a weekly average of 84,0.
The ten top teams in order in
clude: '
1, Notre DarttC .J r . 99.9 /i
2i Army 99.3,
3, Minnesota!].... 99.0
4« Oklahoma j 98.4 i
W Kentucky ! - 97.8]
6, California 97.1 Z
lollege Station; James H. Carrell,
(Box 1168, College Station; and J.;
College. j tii8t0r,r ! DePt - A&M possible to
The guessing contest' continues!
this week with the sponsors again
offering 11 free prizes for thr
best guesses on the; outcome o r
games in which Southwest Confer-;
ence teams play next Saturday.
The sponsors who donate the pri-j
xes arc: 'Ri;j mlj
Travis Bl. Bryan of (the Firs
National Bank, J. C. Hbtard of
Hotard’s Cafeteria, C. E- Cries
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Thursday tjight.
The Aggjie Fish opened With ar
impressive 28-13 dedsipnl! over
Weatherford Junior College, win
ning this-game more deciaively thgii
the 15-point margin would, indiegte i
But the next week, the {UffopMU'
farmers were stricken with ‘‘gonl-
line-itis" as they bowed to Bay
lor’s' Cubsi, 13-0. In
■; V/Uosi, 13-0. In thjs gaiqe
the Aggie Fish dropped one touch
down pass land bogged down insido
the Cubs’ ! five-yard line thnen
times. , ■; f !| ■ hj
The Cubs lost to TCU’s Wo;
7, which would make the Wogs: 41
three touchdown favorite hqrf
Thursday ‘ night. Malvin Fowler,
versatile back from Van, ip th<
key man ! in , the Wog’s attaok
Some TCU observers rate thin
team the Frogs’ best freshmfo
group in many years.
Coaches Marion Pugh and Mil
ton Routt; of the ; Aggie Fifoi pro
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8] Baylor
9* North Carolina
10f Pittsburghj
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bably will start the (following com i
bination: Roy Bush of Childresk
and Dick (Self of San Antor* 1 “ k
ends, Jack Little of! Corpus
and Alvin Langford of Fort
Poly, at iackles, William Robbl
of Breckeinridge at; offensive; cent
ter and Kenneth Reese of Orange
at linebacker, Ray Graves, Wallet
Hill, Connie Magourtk and Raymond
Haas in tjhe backfield.
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Southwest ConfeVMice teams ; play
thia; weekend and should be put on
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