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I ? •• : i . .i: WEDNESDA t- a t Y, octo: j r ' ; ! ^ y 1949 PagftjS rU ■*1 Smilb Keg^ Top f"#CJA« eading Riitsher BY FRANK Nj MANITZA8 Avor»glnsr 5.0 irrlM in the iobert Smith, Af r-7 ] 13 ' i I'l. _ f.O ynr<i» for eleven enrrie* in the Boylor-A&M gm liobert Smith, Agitfie fullback, gained the top xpdt an the leadi|ng ball carrier in the Southwent < iforence. j| , Smith ban curried the bull 80 timen for a net jruin! of 410 yardn. Last week# perfbrmance ruined rapid Robert’s average to 4.8 yards. Leon Muscles (Campbell of Ar kansas» is in sedond place with a net gain 'of 384 yards for 44 carries. Sonny Whyatt of Rice, Randall Clay of ftjexas, John Mor ton of TCU and Bryan Townsend of Texas follow in that order. the 1 punting department, Yale Laryj is_ still in fifth dace. Ife kicked ten times for 394 "“is in lajst*'week’s game. Lary punted 52 tidies this season for 1,946 yards.jj] . Kyle Rote of SMU grabbed the top spot as the leading punter in the conference. Kote kicked six times against Kentucky and aver aged 49.6 yds. Rote replaces teatn- mate Doak Walker, who has been sidelined with flijj. Dan Wilde ; of 'TCU', Doak Walker, and Jimmy Hickey of TCU bail Rote. Don Nicholas, Aggie quarter back-dropped from sixth place to seventh in the pasting department, although he continued to hold a .500 completed a|verage for 230 yards. ! Lindy Berry of TCU continued to be the leading passer in the con ference. Berry hais completed 75; j-of 142 attempted passes for 1,032 yards and eight touchdowns, Paul Campbell of Texa^ Adrian Burk of Baylor, and; Tobiii Rote of Rice ie- ina n* ip the same spot that they held last week. . . *( John Clhjistenspb of A&M, who has not played sir|(|c the LSU-AAM jrame,’remains in jthe seventh slot of the leading punt returners in the conference. Christenson Has five run backs fcjr a 13.2 yaijds average. C rcm.,.^ w .. , . . , , returners with an 11.6 yard aver age. Wilde led the co ifM'opce us pipit returner with a ! 4.2 yards aver age In five returns, Rex Proo|«r]of Klee, returning spven - punts lor 142 yards, is in ijocond place, | TCU's Morris Bailey out>playjed Ben I'rm’tor of Teias as he caught five nusses last uieck for a-total of 127 yards. Procter now trajjlls r • J !J : 24 insHCls for 260 pardf. Boat trail in fourtH plpfe aifter a poor ihow* ing in TCU's game with Old Mins' last week.’ ]-.. • ■I , Krogj^io Williams of Sice forgeil ‘ ” scerer this ; a lending eck by adding five pjoinfia tk) hi: lore from! the TU-Rici game las ‘s ! fai uheUd in the top spot ‘ J to Williams’ 37. Logud of Afkafi' sus trails 1 Williams bjy only oit I>oint. Bailey by 39 yams. Two of |ht» pusses caught last week hy Bailey were for touchdowns. J. I). Ison “of Ireorge Boal of TO jp pass receiving. Baylor replmied J for third place pass receiving, itson has caught -...-s - • • • the Subject “One Baptism” AP Poll Ranks Rice, Baylor In ation’s Top 10 New York, Oct. 26—AP— Idle Notre Dame still rules the roost as the nation s number one football team according to 84 per cent of the voters in the fourth weekly Associated Press poll] Despite an open date in the I: ish schedule, 120 of the 5 143 s tortp writers and broadcasters p irtiCipating in the balloting put hotre Dame on top for the third s right week. A'week ago they re ceived 146 of 179. Army, on a 63-6 romp <]ver Co lumbia, strengthened its ruhner- uj position. The Cadets drew 12 f rstplace votes and .ia flotjk of seconds and thirds for a point total of 1,218 ^scompared to Notre Dame'S leading 1,387. Oklahoma, another qf the Sevien majjor unbeaten, untiqd club? in the top 10, moved up a pig to third on a 48-0 rout of Nebraska. T^n experts who apparently noted that the Sooners yielded oply a mt gain exf foikr yn| Alaska’s ground attack IfjrKt. They piljed up if ofly 75 behind] Army! j The other Aifst-piace to Michigan State wJ j_3i] ill LINEMAN OF THE WEEK m siits : • l- r in 12th posHioi Rice ranks fiftli tohth. The wave iffoct mi the tiimblcd frbln 4r dropping of upsets v ranking s td Nef rated 'them 143 pi'ints, ballot [went eh tin^hed and Baylor I .| | pud a tilling Minnjpsot* third to icvcntH aft- fropi th > unbraten MAX GREINER M ix Gireiner has been chosen out- stan iing iiinesman of the week for the second time this season by the Batt Sports Staff. Coach Harry Stiteler employed a tv o-platoon system in the Bay- Dick Club Thurs Freem w •Ki *will back Club f, lor game with the exception of Greiner, whp turned in an iron man’s feat here, Saturday. “Ma pressi -Mi | < l ;‘- A < Trine Thursday Night — "ONE BODY”. .iv' ' . • Friday Night 11 *' “ONE HOPE” m la Each Service 7:15 p.m. A&M Church <jtf Christ tanka on u 14-7 )omk to Mirhigan. North CarolinaVfind arthatk, to .ouiiiana State, 13 tjoi 7^ tinmpiMl he Tar HfatU from »(lxlH fo llaih. Umtucky,; tripped by Southern iethodlxt, 120 to 7, fell from s«lv. (nth to 14tH. Pittsburgh's surpiis- ing loss tir Indiana, 4$ to 1,4, drop ped the Panthers right nut (if the i unkings. Nobody vot'd f^rj Pitt 'vhich whs Idth a week ago. j .California picked up tort on its 21-7 win] ngton ami took fourti 919 points. After Ngtye Dame, Army, pklii- homa Jandif California there ’ is a Wide ghp tjp'fifth-place Rice, 17-15 conqucii-or of Texas. Rjice ha* 468 pdintaJI -' j, : Micnjigao regained prestige by its vijjtoryi P over Minnesota.; The Wolvejjines fell out of the top 10 for the firbt) tinjie in several years lasti week ' sixth p added] jsUp- 9vei‘ Wash- placej lw|th Blames Loss To U on Wet Field CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. Oct. 26 (.flPi ^Coach Carl Snavely of North Carolina ihas declined to comment on reports that his Tar Heels were beaten by Louisiana S tate on a m iddy football field W'he i it had not rainejd in Baton Rouge in two dayh. j Hjwevqr. Sports Editor Billy Carmichael III, of the Daily Tar Hee , U, |N. C.‘ student newspaper, said the Condition of the field ivas such; that the visitor^ were forced to use mud cleats during the game which they lost to L. s. U. Sat urday, 13-7. j ’ ’ |Cttnni(]hael said the turf 1 in T[geV Stadium was watered dawn Frtdhy evening after the Tnr ^eela mrt thnnigh a practice on it; At that time It was in\ a dry, fast' condition;. : I He Hftld till' field WM Wet down again Saturday morning and a third time Saturday afternoon vyitH a fire hone 'turned on It for thrrt' hours. L. S U officials, ac cording to Carmichael, freely ad* ii|ltted Hie fact, but declared that llj was a mistake. They explained, he Mid, that the second and third \yiiterlngjs were done by workers who did not reallm* the field had already been wet down. L, S. U. Head Coach Gaynell Tlmiley had remarked during the past week that his Tigers "won two gamins on- a soggy field. The mud floekn't seem to hurt us." "But maybe," Tinsley added, "it will Slow down (Charlie) Justice’s sweeping runs and his passes to Art Weiner. Let it rain." uling Max’’ was equally im4 re on offensive and defen sive play. He was the chief fac tor ill stopping Baylor’s offen- sixe thrusts before they Could get I under way. And, as a result, A&M trailed the Bears by only one yard in the yards gained rushing de4 pgrtment. Waco, Oct, 26 (Spl.)— Coach Bob Woodruffs unde feated and untied Baylor Bears will face their most cri tical test of the season Sat urday when they face the TCU Frogs before a homecoming crowd of an estimated; 20,000 faiiM in Waco. I ; The Bruins who are one of the Nine undefeated teams in the country, cuinu hut of the 4 A&M game of last week in good physical condition and -arc expected to be in top form for the tilt. The game marks the second Homecoming in a row which Bay lor Has | entered undefeated. Lust year they barely edged A&M 20- 14 before the alumni. Baylor will |)it it’s great All- Amel'ican passer Adrian Burk against TCU’? Lindy Berry, Burk has completed 38 passes out of 89 thrown for aj net gain of 677 yards and eight touchdowns. The other half of the famed combina tion, end J. D.' Ikon of the Bruins has snagged 24 out of 27 thrown to him in Baylor’s five games for a net gain of 260 yards and three touchdowns. Two of his miss es were against the Aggies last week in the m|ud. A heavy rain which fell in Waco Monday prevented the Bears from having an outside practice ses sion, but Coach Bob Woodruff took the Bruins into the Rena Marrs Mcl>an gymnasium for their work out. | •■■H M To Talk t XU*'. 'Hr ' *T?V 1 ' ' j man, sporU editor of The Houston Chron cle, tured speaker Thursday night at the Quarter- — 'go£1 eetiing at'7:30 in the Assembly Hall, ne of best known sports sc ribes in the has been with The Chronicle over 15 years, and in that has established a name for him-f— 1 ‘ : self in the sports world.. At the meeting Thursday night]’ he will give his views on football and the Southwest Conference grid race at the present time. Also scheduled to be presented on the prog!am are the color mov ies of last Saturday's clash bej Greijner almost matched his perj formance of |the Oklahoma game, and itj is remarkable how he was able tp maneuver over the slip4 pety j;urf as easily as he did. He (has been fn the Aggie fold fof qfaite some time, as compared to sodie of his teammates. Greiner is nojv a junior, and if he keeps up tne good work, remarkable thing? can be expected of him ini ’50, tihe year in which the Au- aL.~ 1.^11 ; As honored guests for the i Homecoming tilt will be the Bay-* lor baseball team of 1923 and the faatball team of 1922 and 1924, the last teams, which won a title in those sports fojr tlhe Bears. Ken Shobe Injured In Tyler JC Game tween the Aggies and the Baylor Bears. ' T . Another regular feature will be the awardirg of prises to last week’* wimuTs In tne Quarterback Club guessing contest. Prizes are awarded to the next best guessers in the contest. The 11 winners last week wore: Ralph W. Jones, Box 1532, Col lege Sutiorj; T. C. Hall, 609 W. 26th Street, Bryan; Mrs. James A. Short, Fisc* 1 Dept, A&M; John C. Keeling, BtX 4358, College Sta tion; jMrsJ,. E. Hoban, Box 1111, College Stn.ion; Robert L. Jones, Box 2209, Cbllege Station; Doro thy Keeling^ Box 4358 College Sta tion;; (Louis i D. Puckett, Box 701, Colleife Station; Trav Another Aggie Fish fqbtbiidll player of ’48 Ha* suffered a,n in- i jury playing for Tyler Junior Col- Greijier, u 190-pound gqftrd froni lege. This tiiHe the injured athr l«l.t e Ik back Kenneth Shobe. Shobe gies should “ket the hall foiling!’ Houston, is currently tied with Jim Flowers fo|r lineman of thq Navy and Baylor made the grade in ( 10th place on its 21-0 shutout .of the Texas Aggies. y ju j . .j j, . j, . i Michigan. Penn and Baylor are ; but now they re baxrk in the latest, additions to the top i.-iv ® es P‘^ two defeats, jo w .|th North Carolina, Kentucky Mi< nigan yqis is ahcful of Mmne- and Texas dropping to the second sot* irt the rankings. | i jq The second 10—11, Southern Methodislt; 12, Michigan State; 13, North Carolina; 14. Kentucky; 15, Southern California^16. Missouri; 17, Louisiana State; 18 Ohio State; 19, Texa?; 20 UCLA. dbrriell, still among the nation’s ibeaten after squeaking Prgiceton, 14-12. on two poin moyed nintl squeaking past m tjwo points af- touchdqwn, held eighth. Penn ip five positions from; 14th cjnj its 28-7] yjetory oyer y' : . ' ' 1 iii K 1 ALTER RALEIGH | jP* j e favorite pipe tobacco of Texas Aggies N i Vi “Sooner or later — , ; Your favorite tobacco’ There is. a I i hy SIR WALTER RALEIGH all other pipe tobaccos on the campus — It‘s mild, mellow flavor : ■.[ supplies bought at yo a. ' ■ it can’t be \ J * ; I 'll ^ALTER O beat. RALEIG 3 may be STUDENT otb \ er tobacco counters l!-; k .l-B l ' week honors. Flowers wins picked for the his performances in thiii LSU liml TCU game*. Carl Mol- berg, n guard who shales duties with Greimnf op offenae, is thp itenmitmig lauroj, holdcrl Molher:j; Whs : (lie choice after the Texaw Teen ijramo. So, for this Week, we dip ouf darble* to Max Glen (ireln)’i' LlnoV man o|f the Week, j i J , /I Li- 1 - '' . j LooMijig for a baby sitter 7 HAT- TALION elassified ads will find one fbr you quickly, further, call 4-5324. Look is out with a fracture of his right leg Incurred in the San Angelo game last weekend. Three weeks ago back Homer Dear was sidelined by Injurlea, too. Prior tojils injury, Dear, the Fort Worth all-slater who looked so good for the Fish against Tex as, was pacing the scoring of the Rom! Capital ..oUWan, The two hocks together with fullback Hernle Lemmons and pos sibly still otW* former Cadet freshman performers are members of the powerful Apache squad. The Bast; Texans artj undefeated and are favored to drop defending champion Kllgorif JC In a tilt this woekiond. ; * S % H Gift Stationery You'll Want to Keep! The add test of t gift—do you want It for youtselft You will want to keep My one of our Montag’s open- ! ..j \ j ♦ -'j stock "pttterns" in fine ststioncry. The pride that goes with giving the hnest U yours when you give Monug’s Fuhionable Writing Papers. Jt Isjbe '•tandard of quality, yet eoett^M more. The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” MqJn Campus i L‘ I; 11 ing Texas Aggies” STORES— A.&M. Annex l '.v. ■ . : i i .•] 1 '■ ■ ! i ■ ; • I is M. McKen- zie, Box 3,03, College Station; Ralph L. Terry, Box 4815, Cdllege Station;] W. C. Davis| Bryan T&xM.j The guessing contest goei again this igeek with the fcllowJ ing sponsors again offorinj: 11 free prizes': Travis B. Bryan o The First 1 National Bank, J. C. Ib>- turd of Hotard’s Cafeteria, C. E. Greisser of Groissor Electric On., J. J. Peters Mu«ic jCo., Joe I'milk of Lack!* Auto Supply, CUriie Feneri of Triangle Drlvi niyersity, ! Entrants oUriiament ParkeriAstln Hnidware Uo., Uexa I). Clnthiers, Ajexandev-Bea suranee Co., Charlie Caile o Bryan Mqtbr Co., Hnd Tim B Ion.' i ; ■ • I —| j , Persons wishing to enter tin test this week shoald clip th try blank from .the Quartei Club page in Thursday's Bat or obtain one frdm one o sponsors listed «H 0Ve an( l on the games iu vfhich Soul Conference footbnll; teams pin (See QB CLUB, Page 4 Hn.! iv.;s. In- (he iHnl- *r ebn? « en- back alion He tubas west rlhis 5 i ' •!! ; •!” , 1 i)I . 1 'hf*! 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