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'■ i ' ■ I ' , 1.1 Li Battal OP OR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20,1049 SWC Eleven ■ > t . • i ; • ' ' | v’ 1 For Top 10 \mW New York, Oct. 20 <iS\—Rice* Texas and Baylor moved Tuesday into the ninth, tenth and eleventh nationwide rankings of major foot ball teams. SMU, beaten by Rice, plunged from tenth ter'sjjpinteenth. TCU picked up three ^ointai Rice had 166, Texas 136, Baylor 120 i and SMU 42. ; ■ i | Rice, beaten by LSU, plays Tex- PALACE Bryan 2-8879 Today thru Sat. AND THIS IS HOW ema/OMr y as this only to team wRI first-place picks. Baylor leek end. T^xas has Ijost "Wahoma, fyiiith-rank ng 1,171 points iany six erched in the number 11 ting an undefea ion, meets the fcllir- times defcated Texas Aggie Kyle Fiejd. the Bears have (ut- pointed South Carolina, Mississippi State, Arkansas, and .Texas T&ch this sedsbn. was plerched high itouui uiorsiMKiuiAiiiiffr Friday PMaiew —41:00 P M. msmwmmBam [ tlHIHMSUI m« MJT Sat. Preview JOHN^UNO * OtANAILYNN atop the Jisti’with 1,746 points the basis«of 146 first-place picks by the nation’s sport writers the Associated Press weekly poll. Notre Uame sits it out this week. Other ratjmbcrs of the first ten face muscular foes who shculd give the ^araikings another vigor ous shuffle. Sports Writers and broadcasters participating in the Associated Press’ week!poll were so im-i pressed by this show of might that they gave the Irish a walloping vote. Gophers Hurdle Sooners If j. . I I L/. I 1 ■ L K j Notre I|ame received 146 of 179 first-placdj votes and a 200-point lead over A ,im yi which hungl or to second place, with Minnesota! hurd ling Oklahoma to take third. Finishing out the top fen, in order, ar<i: Oklahoma, California, North Carolina, Kentucky, Cornell, Rice and jjTexas. Three tiewcomers are Cornell, Rice and Texas. They ; shoved, out Michigan,! the mythical national champion^ Tulane and Southern Methodist! the most distijnguislhed upset victims. ' Michigap, beaten by Northwest ern for itii second defeat in| a tow, dropped Ho twelfth. Tulane 'fell from fouith to twentieth. SMU subdued h ! y Rice, plummeted from tenth to Seventeenth. i Notre Fjame is idle Saturday,! en joying au open date. before I its Oct 29 engagement with Navj| at Baltimom The South Benders’ main Challengers fob national ijon- ors will j|all be bujsyU-Mirinespta, Kentuckyl Tdxas anjd Rice perhaps busier thin the rest Rpce, Texas Clash ! Rice, N®. 9, and Texas, No. | 10, clash at Austin in the only gahij® jnvovling j two members of |tne top ten. ^lirmesota, No. 3, plays Michigan,ij and Kentucky, NoJ i7, meets SMU, on the rebound. Army figures to have little, trouble wfth Columbia. Oklahojma, No. 4, goeh against Nebiagka. v a li ifornia, Nh. 5, plays a Washington team that! has i° st three in a dpw.| North Cai*olina, No. 6, mpets Louisiana j State. Cornell, No. 8, opposes P inceton. Notre Dame polled 1,746 votes (See SWC, Page 4) f,!. . ■ ■ ’TFT pn f Injufy T riddenFishFape TCU Wogs at 7:30 on K Non-CorpsTilts Feature Murals Noh-militUry athletics continued Tuesday with three tennis games and four basketball matches. Last night’s Quarterback Club audience saw this actjion in the color film of the 1948 A&M-TU “Halfback’ ers (74) is shown running back an Intercepted pass against the Steers as defensive half Dick Cal endar (82) attempts to a Bovine end from halting Flower’s progress Lineman of the Week honors for his iierformaace against the FpIpU I.. «ft........ * ■ I : ' e- JKf ‘ Froggies, is shown in the Inset. Check List... ffiioo/Ags, Dallas Stars Top Ballots \ By CHUCK CABANISS AH-Conference nominees have increased at a rapid rate after last Saturday’s games. Although only jthree Aggies were nominated he Battalion, in contrast the ing Rice-SMU fray produced al of 17 players who were giv en the nod by either Howard Mar tin df The Rice Thresher or Ben Peeler of The SMU Campus. Maroon players named in, the fifth week polling were halfback Bobby Goff, center Jim Flowers, and^ named for the TCU clash guard Carl Molberg. Goff carried the \ heavy load on the ground as Ihftl. Frfiggtes managed to slow do\&n “Rapid Robert" Smith, the Agjgie fullback who had sparked the local attack in previous games. Flowers for the second Straight wejt turned in the top defensive performance in, the Farmjer line and Molberg, half of the (“watch charm” gugrd combination for the Cadets, also looked capable in his slot. Owls Dominate Lists Ben Peeler of the SMU school paper was as impressed by the Rice eleven as was the Must^ig team. He named ten of the Feath ered Flock on his weekly ballot. Included were halfbacks Van Bal lard and Gordon Wyatt, fullback Bob Lantrip, quarterback Tobin Rote, three centers, Gerald Weath- erley, Joe Wat,son, and Lee Stone- striBet, guards S. J. Roberts and Cat! Schwarz, and end Pames Wfl- liams. From his won eleven Peeler lis ted* Doak Walker, quarterback; Fred Benners, quarterback; and John Champion, halfback. Martin of the Thresher included PQhies Walker and Champion, but dropped Benners in favor of guard Jadk Hallidav, on his ballot. Owls (See CHECK LIST, Page 4) Flowers, who won FIow- nst the prevent , j . t f ■ i n i ;i Fish-Shorthorn Plans Given By Shriner Group 1 L : ; I L | j T PlRns for the annuial A&M-Tex- s freshman game are being dev- loped at the present, according o Q. W. Schessclnjan, head of |he geography department. Schlefe- lelmkn is a member of the Brazos Valley Shrine Club which is joint sponsor of the( classic with the Ben Hur Temple of 1 Austin. Schiesselman explained the gen-, eral set-up of the program behind the annual affair in a telephone conversation yesterday. The! tjwo Shriner organizations undertook the project of sponsoring the game in 1947, the first year that fresh man teams competed after the war. Proceeds from the affair are all placed in a fund to build a crip pled children’s hospital in Austin, the A&M professor added- Al though theehospital has not been built yet, the organization of the project is actove, he said. Club Sponsors Clinic i ; At the prfesent tinftie the Brazos Valley group sponsors a local clin ic each spring, Schiesselman stat- edc and those children who can be aided medically, but need fin ancial assistance, are cared for . by the club. In 1949 the clinic check ed 177 children and 11 were sent to various hospitals, he reported. Of these 11, 5 went to Austin where they were treated free of charge at facilities maintained by the Shriners in the wing of che present hospital, the geography head explained. Schiesselman add ed that the building fund derived from the proceeds df thd A&M- Texas tilt will be used to construct a new hospital to replace the inad equate facilities in the hospital wing now used. Last year some $8,000 was real ized from the Shorthorn invasion of Kyle . Field. On the tennis courts, Dotjn 16 blanked a slow team from Mitchell 3-0 with J. A. Thompson and Jack Dempsey outstanding in the con tests. The other two tennis games were forfiets. TCW took an easy hardcourt win over Law, 16-18, despite the outstanding play of big Leland Tate who scored six of the Law points. Sonny Pigoff of the winners| was high point man of the match 'with eight points. The first half was very close, but during the third quarter TCW iced the game with three quick goals. Sam Liberto led an outnamed Dorm 15 team in a losing effort against Dorm 14 as the 14’ers took the decision, 24-12. Keptra and Meadows led the victors and tied for high point honors. In the opening day of club competition, the two} high scoring games between Entomology and Rio Grande and between Hillel and Fish and Game were the outstand ing matches of the day. Rio Grande, led by tricky Jack England, downed the Entomology five, 23-17. England shared high point honors with Vitek of the los ers; with each had seven points. Fish and Game outplayed the Hillel club and defeated them, 19-12. Outstanding player of the the Fish and Game team. BY FRED BUXTON i • 1 When the Aggie Fish tangle with the TCU Wog* at 7:30 tonight on Kyle Field, the clash will have the appearance of an assault! by a wheelchair brigade so far ns the Fish are concerned. As a result of the game with the Baylor freshmen plus some hard scrimmage this week, the Fish team is injury ridden to an alarming degree. A number ‘of the key players on Coach Pugh’s team are sidelined, and several may see no more action the remainder of the season. Ray Graves again is a doubtful player, as is Bob Dixon, tackle. Marshall Rush, starting guard, re ceived a head injury in the Baylor tilt and may be out for the! re mainder of the season. Harvey Smith, another tackle out with a leg injury is lost for the season. Ken Reese, defensive standout, will also be missing. On the brighter side of the pic ture is the smoothness that the backs have been showing ih. late practice sessions against the var sity reserves. With some of the bugs worked out of their attack and some early : season wlldpess overcome, the Fish can field a ))(>• nt team. TvJj Tl’i! A great deal of work has been done to improve the Inefficient of fensive blocking sefen laistT wi’ck; and this alone, if corrected]'ahkmld mean several touchdowns to j the Fish. Some shifting has been (one in the backfield : to ! increase Ms overall power. A surprise moVe, and ofte Ahati should please the fans is theiihift of Harrow Hooper, quarter!) ick, to the rlghthalf slot. Hooper is fast and is an Excellent pa ser.; This move may give the Fish a; ter rifle offensive advantage; with two top-notch cadet passers in at; the sam^ time, the defense may ; not be able to defend against (swieps and at the same; time caver all the downficld men irt evept ^hat Hooper should stop and pass. As a rehult of the move, the starting backfield; should read as follows; Carl Miengdr, quarter, Darrow Hooper, right. half, 5. lay Haas, left half; and Walt ilijl, full. If Hill is used to any great ex tent dn defense, as he was in! the Baylor game, Herb McJunkin ; ivlH see a lot of action as offer) live Starter nt; one an| post will apid Tom tnfe startini Jack Littli mpn the Robbins wil larlle Saxe will ] bost. Authe op 1 : Roy Btish. Dick right will proba guards. Two at«' and Al Langfo rkle posts, jmd i Cooper be tpe offensive starl ing denter, TCU Injj: defeating the Wrong Baylor fraahman sounded a warn ing to all ffre schools in the Ticsh- rhan leagul. It is understood that thf Wogs! have an excellent line arid are d ep in reserves at end and tackle Though RCmch, tM enough to exposed to; tegy, and j ; will be surprising in deed if the] many vari thSir re, w g form) Itions. he We; night coached by j V Walter TCU frosh are close “the Dutchman” to be some of his wiley strS' do not mix cor ons of the spread with ar single gnd ] dpublt her man promises tha, 11 be cool and that then ain, This timely predit [ two good freshmmi will be no tibji, plus teams shodld be enough incentivi to; lure a large and enthusiastic crowd to ti b contest. “Fine - Great - Super’’ That’s the Service — at —: • M| . ■■ CAMPUS CLEANERS (Over The Exchange Store) ^1 MUST” h ' : I !•' : for the j a : ^ 1 BIG GAME Football & Chrysanthemums go ogeth^r and we’ve those 4g lush vibrant Munis that make the ideal Football Corsage you’ll want your gal to wear. eland FI Shop (Next to Campus) ower r '' !