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~T- Cadet Distance R NTex Eagles Thu ciOftR-fminlrv hovinoM hit** : <' . 'H •!| b K r f A^M.’s crow-country harriers monopolized the top places in tfae dual meet Thursday with North Texas to win 16-to-44. Two Ag gies, Jim McMahon and Julian Her ring, took first place in a dead- heat finish on the College Station course. The winning time for the 2.6-mile race iwas 13:26. Soipe twenty-five yar the pace-setting pair ufere three more Cadets: John Germany, How ard Jones, ahd Alexander Ortiz. The three runnels crossed the fin ish line abrealst 'and were clocked Ut 13:47. 1 Following the first five Aggies in were three NTSC Eagles, Don Edwards, James: Young, and Ben Sparks. The North Texas trio took sixth, seventh, - and eighth place, respectively. HoweVer, Sparks had to turn on the steam ip the last few yards to repulse the challenge of Maroon runners Calvin Hubert and Bob Allen who were threatening to pass Texas Writers List Schoolboy Elevens in Poll Texate sportswriters again gave Lubbock the top spot in The Dallas Morning News weekly schoolboy football poll. Henderson dropped all the way tb nineteenth place. Marshall’s 2i-to-14 victory over Henderson, .previously unbeaten and untied, netted fifth place for the Mavericks, who were rated twelfth a week ago. In the only other change, High land Park swapped places with Grand Prairie. The Scots were rat ed seventh this week with Grand Prairie eighth. Grand Prairie was seventh and Highland Park eighth Hubert took ninth and At- |in« ft' “ order: Low score wins. g, or len tenth in the race. 1 | For Thursday’s meet A&M’s to- The last of the five Eagle run- tal was found by adding 1, 2. 3, 4, • ' 1 ^ The North I / ■ n •; IIP n Wf?. Maroon Eleven Faces Stron Vi~\A T Field Tomorrow I ! - ' h . twelfth placef Gross-count ■J. T IS scored by add- laces each team _ ing together the plac yards behind wins. Only the first five jnen to finish count jawards the team tq- tal, but seven men can be entered by each team. The Idst tWo can have a “negative” effect | on the scoring by forcing the opponent’s runners further down the finish*- , T: r, 1 . ;l pi Smith, | Rote J Met Beforip j In ‘46\ Game BY CHL’CK CABANI1SS I - j I' ■ j A play that still brings a sparkle into the eyes of many sports en thusiasts could possibly be reenact ed Saturday on Kyle Field.: The College Station dash between A&M and ISMU brings together once again the two protagonists of this welltremembered grid dra- ma. The two men involved wbre Kyle Rote and Bob Smith and the play occurred during the 1946 meeting of Thomas Jefferson of San An tonio and Lamar of Houston. Rote at that time was pacing the Jefferson Mustangs while Smith was the powerful halfback ace of the Redskins. The game in which the two met was an all-important tilt in the ’46 state playoffs—a game which would send one eleven into the semi-finals to face Luf kin’s Panthers and eliminate the other fromj further chanipioiiilhip contention.-j j •. j M Smith, top ground gainer for the j. Bayou City titlists as well as lead- 1 ing scorer in the city race with explained, the two Cadets who fin ished ninth and tenth forced NTSC’s last two runners into the eleventH and twelfth places and in creased; the Aggie margin of vic tory. . A&M’s so far sum of 6, 7, 8, dels will meet the defending score:. 44). As: pion SMU Mustangs tomorrow afternoon at two on Kyle Field before a crowd in excess of, 30,000. In addition to the Aggie student body and a small, but vocal group from Southern Methodist, large numbers iccessful Ca- fans will file into the concrete Ponies have not had the ad ending cham- horseshoe for the Southwest Con ference tilt Many of these non- eollegiate spectators will be at tracted by the last appearance in this area of Doak Walker, Pony All-Amqrican. The tilt this weekend marks the me this season that the »1 Texas grid Blocking I I - not had the advantage of playing on their “home turf.” Aggies are hoping that the Cadets themselves may be able to make use of this home field advantage. Nevertheless, the Dallas aggrega- 1 ’ ff' -i ■ ill omes C Tilt aggrega tion has been established as a three to four-touchdown favorite. It is intereating to note that the Do’s & Don’t’s DO—Keep hands tight against chest (right) DON’T—Have clinched hands away from chest (below) DO—Keep hands clinched for block (left) DON’T—Have hands open for “block’ (below) a week ago} The, two teams meet, 60 Uned-up to boot t h e at Grand Prairie Friday with the j, ame opening kickoff. Rote, hail- winner blmpst certain to'take the District 8-AA championship. Ballots aite tabulated on a 10-9- 8-7-6-5-4-3-~2-l bhsrs (each writer votes for tep team*). the top ten and their point to tals, with first-place votes in pa renthesis: 1.1 Lubbock (14) -^2. Port A thur (4) ,3. Wichita Falls (2) 4L Corsicana j 5. Marshall 6. .Baytown 7. Highland Park ..1...192 i J...180 U. 161 112 . ... 76 . 69 67 ed as one <>f Texas’ all-time great running backs and noted also as the passer" and punter for the Alamo City champs, moved into position to receive the ball for the Ponies. Through Observers’ Eyes What followed can best be de scribed by some of the sports writers who were present at the game. " . I'd like to mention that ; probably the greatest treat I’ve I {ever had in covering spoijts was! *•siRrth“J T? ’• I Jefferson in the quarterfinal game 10. Aus in rp- |0 f the state high school AA play- The secoiul ten: 11—Brocken-1 iff) » j erry Ribpick of The Hous- ridge; 12—;ie between Odessa and ton Chronicle writes. ^ San Antonio Tech; 14—Thomas j was the first play of the Jefferson ( San Antonio); 16—San | Rale took a kickoff on his Jacipto (F ouston); 16—Texarka- own tQ ( swpng up the field to the :ia; 17—John Reagan (Houston); | w bere he was nipt head-on by lo; 19 Henderson; 20 s m jth. The collision between the two was heard from one end of the 18—Amaril —Gainesville. Other t*fam.s Austin (El Arlington Pampa. receiving votes: Paso), Sunset (Dallas), Heights (Fort Worth), FOR MUSIC THAT CAN’T BE BEAT . . . Bhy that ‘‘AGGIE WAR HYMN” Itjpj really a treat! We all know that it’s the i ; best in the land . . v I So bijy ’em now while Lou has them on hand I.OI POT S With Lou — He’s i right with you” CLASS 32 field to the other. “The ball went one way. Rote the other, and Smith the other. La mar recoveifed the fumble but could n’t go and the final Windup favor- i ed Jefferson. But that tackle -that } started the game was still the top j thrill of the day,” Ribpick says. I .. J. ★ “The one plaiy that sticks out in i ray mind .j. . happened oh the kick- j off. Lamar’s Smith kicked off, then Went downfield to tackile the re Cadets have success against years past Only meis, 27-point within a prayer of league titliata. Only a L off return by Walker and plays engineered by the same **: i ' * ■■r field ace broke a 14-14 dead!* and brought SMU a m ’ The Mustangs ha' recovered from a ? 2 Rice' three weeks iagq and since beaten previously uhdef< ed Kentucky, 20-7. and strong Tex as, 7-6. After the Steer clash! a MU needed win. ^ 1 feTA S8fu, y DallM Atr 1 ^ -r he s reviously undefeftr aB out ts gave the North Texas eleven ninth spot in the nationwide ranking. \ Ags Enjoy Success JSince tl)e rivalry between the schools began, A&M hak won 1$ games fvith the Methodistjs tak ing a and three ending in tiijs. The Aggies, are the only SWC ber to hold an edge over the eleven in an all-time seriea -^*n6 small feat in itself. The invading Mustangs feature an outstanding backfield in Walk- e», Kyle Rote, Dick McKissack, : apd Johnny Champion, Frank Forest, 13-7, and Latest AssoctW i ■-[ I Roundin ’ It Up Predicts Sports Editors Bill Potts and ghuck Cabaniss. in an attempt to remove their predictions from the doubting eyes of the reading pub lic, are publishing their predic tions for Saturday^ game in this small, obscure spot oh .the page. Forecasts are Texas 14, Baylor 7: Rice 28, Arkansas 6, and SMU 14, A&M 6. “Hope not top; many’ Aggies read these authoritative analysis of a trio:of unusupl sit uations involving confusing cop-, ditions, or something," the spprta editors mumbled as they the predictions tp the ter. . | . T ! I-I both the i tipns in complicated plays that have earned backfield coach Rusty Ri|s- : sell a wipe reputation for nis de- • captive and most successful at- : ‘Offensive ends Zohn Milam and ; Raleigh Blakely, six-footers who • weigh 190 and 196 respectively, are ; the chief Pony snarers. HoWeve lob Folsom, 186 pounds, G’D’, who 1 .lays defense with Carl Wallace, : 180-pound six-footer, sees uri much I offensive action as Milam. |.p wM > n • k, 1 r ' ( Tackles Won’t Play Both o^ the first string Rod-and- ; Blue tackles will miss the coming : tilt. Bobl y Vann, 210-pounder,' is J out for t ic remainder of tne sea son whil! 216-pound Bobby Cqi|» lier won'; see action until pbssil’ bly the Arkansas clash next week. : Replacing the two first string ers will probably be reserves John Cheney, 20f>-pound, 6’ 1” tackle who lettered in ’43, and Fred Gopd- W.pt last year’s starting center ' j'(See| MAROON, Page 6) By F’R.VNK SIM MEN, JR. 'jing Razarbacks on illegal blocking, pose i of the blocker is to completely Nearly three miles of Southwest Conference gridiron turf have been stepped off by referees for viola tions of the 1949 NCAA football rule book. Not that all of this illegal play is due to blocking, but experts attribute at least 70% to it. This season in particular, there seems to be more protesting than ever before from college football coaches throughout the nation con cerning the opposition’s illegal, playing and the officials' poor of ficiating. It seemed to come to a and defensive play. Nothing ever put bis opponent out of the play. came of the charges although many state papers gave it first rate ad vertisement. - More Outbreaks The second such, outbreak, al though not due to players’ illegal actions, came Oct. 22, when SMU played Kentucky in Dallas. Coach Paul Bryant of Kentucky hopped on the / officials after his team had lost to the Mustangs. Also, Coach Johnny Vaught of Mississippi ut- tered criticisms when his team took a licking from Dutch Meyer’s. fsra ™.wa, ! Houston Press reports. kanSas in Fayetteville in the first the coun- East in particular, verbal j The T formation, an the other hand, is built around speed and deception, as well as power. The T calls for an unsustained, screen block, which in most cases, is dealt to the upper part of the body. Trouble With Blocks At this point the trouble starts. It is difficult for the player throwing the block to keep in con tact with the opposing player for as long a time as is needed, there fore there is a tendency for the blocker to block more w;ith the arms than with the shoulders. The hands are required to be CORSAGES ... Made in our distinctive, beautjiful style . . . Sure to plejase her, . Thpse lush, vibrant Mums . . . Ideal for , the game;. AGGIELAND Flower Shop Next to Campus Theater ‘When he (Smith) hit him you j Southwest Conference game of the: lashings: on the part of the coach-! kept pressed against the blocker’s never thotught; Kyle would get up. year, j , ^ ! es have : been even more prevalent-J body and at no time are they He did. But it was about eight, Dutch Meyer, famed Horned Frog' question is asked—why? allowed tube in any other position yards back from wlhorc he (had j coach, maintained that his players, In ankweiing the above question: during the actual’ blockings In. (Set SMITH, Page 6) were roughed and beaten by charg-, wc havij; to consider many things, j other words, the hands, whether in | | “ j First of all, the football world, a secured or loose position, are to suffered from a complete turnover'll kept against the body before, of tactics when th^ T formation .during, and after the actual Con- replaced the single arid double tact. wing as the major gridiron forma- Q ne 0 f the most common faults t'' 00, _ . ii! 0 ^ players is the incorrect posi- T Blocking Different tion of the elbows during or after The regular T formation, as well the block is nearly completed. It’s as the (split T. has brought about j very easy for a blocker to swing increasqd fast blocking ancj screen- his elbows around and into the ing. ! ; opposing player's face. In the single and double wing for- Elbow Trouble, Too mationsj the blocker docs not have' The same situation pertains to to hit as fast and the main puc-1 the elbows as pertains to tho hands. 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