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ol boys participate.
Recently, the Interscholastic
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Interchola^tic
a brick wal) in
in which high
ruk'H b« made that no high schools
coueh can uHsiHt in putting on Much
eoutuMt, the high Hchool facilities
not be uned foi'vMUch purpoMCM and
tlmt the eblleges doclare any boy
iueligiblo for college athleticM who
engugoM in unsanctioned all-star
contestM. j
The only (ianctloned all-star high
school football ganje apparently
would would be the one put on at
the Texas coaching school jeach
League advocated that
won 40-0 by Lamar. Back herp an
effort was made to get the
plete lineups of the game on
wire for usc ih Texas newspa
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for;
' year. It is argued that this game
is for demonstration purposes.
- What the league is hitting at
mostly ia Mose Simms’ national
high school all-star game which
saw its inception at Corpus Christi
in August. The League objects to
anything in which it pees a purpose
of commercializing on a high
s, school athlete’s fame.'
Aill three of the league’s pro
posals to curb these contests are;,
faulty: In the first place, high
school coaches are not used in
such an all-star game as Simms is
promoting. Big name college coach
es ("are sought. In the isecond place
high school facilities are not nec
essary. College or municipal stadi
ums can and probably will be used
_ In order to handle the crowd. In the
third ,place the colleges a^e not
games for high school boys* Boys
good enough to be invited to play
in such games are to good for the
college to turn down because they
played in them. • , i
J The colleges commercialize in
, football, too, you know.
Let us analyze the all-star foot
ball game put on at the Texas
cpaching school. The reason the
league approves it is because the
Texas High School Coaches Asso
ciation says it’s to demonstrate the
theories, of the big name college
coaches who'lecture at the, coach
ing school apd tutor the all-star
squads on the side. But the Texas
High Schojdl Coaches Association
charge* admission for its gam® and
the proceeds are used to operate
the school and carry out other pro
jects of tho association. The coach
es a rod ft' bmtints* and they bonefijt
Just like any promoter who mtghtf
put oh on all-star game. Tho enacM
lug school help* expand their busU
1I0HH.
The Interscholastic Laaguiv can
not control' the boys’ participation
in an all-star game because only
the boys who have finished their
high school eligibility aro used.
Only the colleges could stop the
all-star games. .
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Stan Lambert, coach of Lamar
College, had some- funny stories
to tell when he took His team to
Mexico City recently to play the
national University of Mexico.
He was fully prepared for the
altitude change. He took along awo
drums of oxygen. 5 “Every time a
boy ran at least 30 yards we’d bring
him but and feed him oxygen,"
Lambert said.
.Lambert also found that the third
period of the game went 43 min
utest and the last period 57 min
utes. He said he was informed the
periods were dragged out in hopes
the,Mexican team could score. “If
I’d known that I’d just given them
the ball and got it ’over with,”
Lambert mused. ,
There were some other unusual
incidents surrounding this game,
Names of all boys who played
Lamar were sent on the wir
Mexico City explained tha
couldn’t give anything on the
lean team except the starting line
up. It seems Mexico City newspap
ers don’t use lineups on football
games, the coach of the team cjidn’b
know who-all played and the {lum
bers on the players’ jerseys (idn’t
jibe with J the program. Good ! rea
sons indle^d ddn’t you think ?
Herring and Jim McMahon, left,: finished
In n dead heat to help the Agile (Tons
team defeat the North Texan State ug-
n 15-44 in a meet held over twA&M
Thursday afternoon. Their time wae
18:25 for the 2.6 mllea. Watching the finish
arc, from left to right, the North Texae coach,
George Had era, Aggie track and field star, and
Woodson Garaey, the team p
son Garney,
manager.
’MURAL
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owl | Bids, Championships
On Line In Big 7 and Big 9
Military intramural basketball
continued Wednesday with A Flight
decisively downing C Cavalry and
Field Artillery. D Field wm a
hard match from B Cavalry.
was the big gpn in
in by scoring tpn of
8 poihts whil
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Spec Fails
A Flight’s w
the team's
lan Arronson was second with
four. The cajvalry,_five fought to
the last, but never seemed tO| have
the organization and scoring! abil
ity of the trijeky A Flight team.
The substituteless senior lagged
the rather slow A-Field five ^t the
half but caught fire in the second
half to walk away with the game
1G-6 with Copeland as high point
man. Five df the victor’s points
were made on free shots in the sec
ond half, i [
D Field led B Cavalry a,t the
half but soon lost the edge whh the
shooting Irish, Edwards, and Gray
to be downed 11-6. Neither team
could Heom to find the basket but
both played a hard and clean
game on the floor.
Tennis
On the tanjnis court*, C Injfantijy
downed. R (junrtormastor-2-. with
the outstanding play of Nanec arid
Thomas. Sherman Hink and Gale
Brunei re tt played to win the Ion-
jprM' only set.
i The potent ami well supported
truly Security net team made a
lean sweep of I) Vets 3-(|, Out-
tunding forithc winners weifc Billy
Jneil Honking, Hub “Hands’’ Hur
on, and Bill" Boddeker. ! , -j
In a very close match l) Infan
try won over E Flight. Substitute
Tommy Butler proved to be the
answer in teaming with Houser
to^ win E Flight’s only set. The
8t v f>re 8-6, 6-8. and 8-6.
A Engineers,! led by a tough
team of Pcgues and Lceman de
feated A Ordinance 2-1. Outstand
ing for the losers were Ken Colley
and Bob Gile{t.
Horseshoes
On the horseshoe courts, B En
gineers made a clean sweep of ;G.
Flight while the B TC team was
downing B Infantry 2-1. j t
B Field defeated B Coast 3-0
with the sharp tossing of Gill and
Hogan.
A Cavalry swppt E Infantry 3-0
and B Flight won from B Athletics
2-1 in the other games.
On the flag football fields, A
(See ’MURALS, Page 4)
ew York, Noy. 7 —The
,les for conference champion-
sbfy and glory and the bowl booty
goes with it in most cases
res the college football spot-
this week with the, parade
of the all-conquering powers.
Knockout affairs are scheduled
the Big Ninie, Big Seven and
Ivy League. Other conference races
arei nearing the point of decision.
The Big Nine, has three impor
tant tilts, Illinois at Ohio State,
Iowa at Wisconsin, and Indiana
at {Michigan.
klahoma visits Missouri for the
dedider in the Big Seven and Cor
nell journeys to Dartmouth in the
Ivy loop’s main contest. But more
of the conferences races later.
Baylor Dropped
Football’s big four—Notre Dame,
Arpiy, Oklahoma and California—
continued their winning ways along
with five other all-winning teams,
Cornell, Virginia, Boston U., Wy
oming and College of the Pa
cific. Fordham and Baylor were
beiten for the first time yesterday.
Aijmy knocked Off Fordham, 35 to
0 ind Texas ruined the Bears, 20
tofo.
Virginia’s 26-tol4 upset of Penn-
sy vaniu wa« the 'main surprise of
tht* day which featured many other
upneta. It w-as the Cavaliers’ first
Ir umph over tihe Quakers in iani
anrilmt rivalry. " ,)i «
The big four all kept flourishing
streaks alive. Notre Dame, the na
tion's No. 2 team, downed tenth-
ru n kin j? Michigan State, 34 to 21.
Quarterback Bob Williams ran for
one touchdown and passed for two
others to pace the Irish {through
their 34th straight unbeaten game.
jTwo iatu touchdowns enabled the
formidable. Spartans to score more
jpeints on Notie Dame than any
other team sineje Purdue lost, 27 to
28, in the opener last year.
, Army, No- 2 extended its chain
of undefeated contests to eighteen
by flattening Fordham in a sav
agely-fought affair marked by fre-
qpest penalties. Arnie Galiffa
threw four touchdown passes
the cadets. ! * ’
Of Wins
Oklahoma, No. 3, ran up a big
lead over Kansas State and then
called off the dogs. The Sooners
wion, 39 to 0, for their seventeenth
consecutive triumph.
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California, No. 4, thumped Wash
ington State, 33 to 14, for its
twenty-second straight triumph in
regular seasoh play. The Bears
drew closer to! another Rose Bowl
invitation.
Cornell, No. 8, dumped Syracuse,
33 to 7, Boston U. downed Temple
28 to 7, and Wyoming massacred
Colorado State j 103 to 0. College of
Pacific, the other major all-winner,
didn’t play.
Oklahoma, Boston U., Cornell
and Wyoming will have to go all
out StRurday to stay in the perfect
class.
Oklahoma plays Missouri and
Cornell jousts with Dartmouth as
mentioned before. Boston U. enter
tains a fine Maryland team, beaten
only by Michigan State, 14 to 7,
and Wyoming travels to Texas to
fa&e ihe Bqylor Bears, still licking
the Wounds inflicted by Texas.
Irish-NC
Notre Dame returns to New York
and the Yankee Stadium for the
first time in two years against
North Carolina, which just
squeezed by William and Mary,
20 to 14. Army goes to Philadel
phia ito meet Penn, California
meets Oregon and Collegfe of Pa
cific takes on Utah. Virginia has
an open date to get ready for
Tulane Nov. 19.
Of the other members of the
first ten, Michigan, No. 5, whip
pet Purdue, 20 to 12, Rice, No. 8
blanked Arkansas, 14 to 0, and
Southern Methodist, No.r’9, was
tied, 27 to 27, by lowly Texas
A&M in a real eye,-browilifter.
Other upsets of the day!included:
Stanford !34, Southern California
13; Ngvy tying Tulane, 21 to 21;
Florida 28, Georgia 7; Georgia
Tech jjQ, Tennessee 13; Wake For
est 27 Duke 7; Wisconsin 14,
>hlorthSwestcrn 6; Boston College 40,
Glemstm 27; and .Washington 28,
Oregon 27.
Conference* Races
Here's the way the major con
ference races shape up:
Ivy League—-.Cornell 4-0, Penn
3-0 and Dartmouth 3-1. Dart
mouth scuttled Columbia 35-11,
indicating the Indians will be tough
to beat at Hanover.
Southern Conference—North Car
olina and Maryland 4-0 each; Duke,
Wake Forest and Virginia Military,
3-1 each. Both leaders in non-title
games Saturday. Duke vs. George
Washington, Wake Forest- at
Nortlf Carolina State aiul Virginia
Military at Citadel.
Southeastern Conference— Tu
lane 4 - 0, Kentucky, 3-0, Georgia
Tech 4-1, Vanderbilt 4-2. Tulane
plays Vanderbilt, Kentucky meets
Florida and Tech tackles Alabama.
Southwest Conference—Rice 3-0,
Bailor 3-1, SMU 1-1-1, aiid Texas
_ 2-2. Rice vs. Texas A&M; Arkan-
"sas yb. SMU and TCU vs. Texas in
league games.
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Big Tdn—^Ohio State and Mich
igan 3-1 each; Illinois 3-1-1, Wis
consin 2-1-1, and Iowa and Minne
sota, 3-2| each! League games are
Michigan, Iowa at Wisconsin. Min
nesota, 55-7 winners over Iowa,
meets Pittsburgh outside the
league. !
Big Seven—Oklahoma 4-0, Mis
souri 3-0. They meet Saturday.
Missouri barely got by Colorado,
20 to 13, Saturday.
Missouri Valley — Detroit 2-0
Wichita 2-0-1, and Drake 2-1. De
troit meets St. Lquis and Wichita
opposes Drake in only two league
games. !
Skyline Six—Wyoming 4-0, Col
orado A&M 3-1, Denveif 2-1. Wyom
ing, already assured of tie for
title, looks like a shoo-in. Wyom
ing plays Baylor in non-title scrap.
Pacific Coast Conference—Cali
fornia 5-0, UCLA 4-1, Stanford 3-1
and Southern California should
breeze In. Schedule matches Ore-
gon-Callfornia, Washington-UCLA,
Idaho-Stanford, Southern Califor
nia rests for engagement with'
Notre Dame Nov. 19.
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igers Lose
A&M Consolidated
High School Tigers dropped
their last chance at the 27-B
district grid crown Friday
night when they were edged
7*13 j>y Calvert’i Trojan# in Cal*
vert. Thin ia the second time in
nine year* that the Tigers nave
finished out of first place in dis
trict competition.
Until Friday night, tho Tiger’s
record was marred only by a. 7-7
tie with {the Navasota Rattlers, u
class A team.
Tiger* Set Pace
The Tigers set the - pace
penetrating Inside the Trojan 20,
and each time but once the hosta
turned back the threat handily.
Quarterback Jake Magee pull
ed an excellent passing attack
out of the bag, and attack the Ti
gers have used sparingly all year
with the thought in mind of us
ing it on the Trojans. Ends
Dick Ijowcll and Billy Richards
and Bocks Roland Jones and Bob
by Williams were to be on the re
ceiving end, and only Dowell had
been catching many aerials.
Even the runner-up slot should
not /be considered bad for the
Bengals. At the beginning of the
year only five lettermen returned
to the fold, and only two of
these saw consistent service last
year. Not; ope of the backs re
turning had played on last.year’s
starting eleven.
Only 18 boys reported out for
practice at the beginning of the
year, not even enough to stage an
intra-squad scrimmage. Of the 22
men on the team, eight are seniors,
seven are juniors, and eight are
sophomores. Of the ll starters,
four are seniors, four are juniors,
and three are sophomores.
Last Gam®
Boys who played their last game
with the Tigers are Quarterback
Jake Magee, Center Bill Cboner,
Tackle Eddie Guthrie and End Dick
Dowell. Dowell will Ire a four-
year letterman, and the last of sev
en at Consolidated. A junior high
school now has been. added, and
freshman will play with junior,'
high team from now on.
A paradox
in the No. 61 spot that
tangs of SMU, who vei
firsters”, actually
vious one. Doak,
time famed gridiron p
tor Paul S. Williamson,
rated as seventh instead
njer eighth place among the top
ten of the nation's grid teams. | T
85% Correct ! • •; ^
Williamson boasts, -with a little
exaggeration, I think, that he baD
ted about 85 per, cent correct, on
last week’* predictions’V=^nd. he
goes oven farther m
rationalizing and say#, “although
surprisingly tied by
Southern Methodist mdved up
seventh place, in order
consistently over the teams
Mustangs have beaten.”
Why, do a group of Aggies
played so hard to como up
behind three (3) time* an*
moral victory over’the hig
ed Mustangs have to be hi
a higher rating
by a supposedly authoritative rat
ing by being placed again in the
lower sixty-first spot among the
teums across the continent 1
It
t doesn’t make sense to the ra
tional thinkers, who heretofore,
lead Williamson’s'.ratings so re
ligiously, to see #hc Aggies climb
little by littlje while losing consis
tently, and when* they suddenly
come roaring hack like a “kjnight on
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their pre-
g to the one*
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and California continue to hold
their own a* the No. 1-2-3-4 teams
nation. These same teams did
idergo a change of any sort
paiison of team
Irish are re- ‘
at perfect team j
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up to take over the
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place lasK^weok,
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spot, us Baylor lost to Togas and
St t|ie same time lost the foothold
that they had as a fifth place
team. Baylor is; now rate<L a* the
twehtlctjh. team in a rating of 90.
| Virginia Qver Penn
i enn Hpue, oo-H, and Dt Qke into
the {first ten at sixth place with a
rating af l>4.(). j9MU is mentioned
before as holder of seventh place
and theV are followed by Michigan
U. iMichigan dropped a point by
not; boating Purdue more than 20.
Following ovien closer
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Michigan is Texas Uhive
the ninth team with
unt
08.9. Santa Cl
to the ranks of the' 11 first
all :thcy did was tie Stanford, 7-7,
1 it m. . • a p < «*-* III, Ip
behind
r,lly “?
rating
nbwcomcr
ten and
to believe that only by losing again
and again, can they be deemed a
stronger, more potential teamJ
Notre Dame,’ Army, Oklahoma,
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500Girl’s Teams Expected To
Play in ’49 State League
BY WILBUR MARTIN
■ Associated Press HUM
An estimated 500 teams are expected to compete for the
High School Girlfl 1 BaHkotball League of TcxaH Championship
thik year. That would be the biggest field seeking a single
title in all of Texas’ vast sports setup.
Li. C. McKamie, school superintendent at Gatesville and
state director of the girls’ league,* "" * • " '
think8 there will be 500 teams en
tered In the 1949-50 race by the
Nov. 1 deadline.
Last year, 65 schools applied
after t he deadline for filing en
tries and had to be turned down.
Big Growth
Browns Pace
AAC; Eagles,
Ra* Top NFL
New York, Nov. 8 -i^-—The
Philadelphia Eagles overpowered
the Los Angeles Rams in a ’’pre
view" of the National ; Football
League’s champitfnship ‘ playoff
Sunday wljile the Cleveland
Browns seized the undisputed lead
in the AH-America,. Conference.
In a day of important) decision
for both of the big pro circuits,
Greasy Nqale’s Eagles, defending
NFL titlists-won the featbre battle
by mauling the hitherti; unbeaten
Rams, 38-14, before 88,200 at Phil
adelphia.
The game matched the pace
setters and title favorites of the
Eastern and Western Divliions apd
left the Eagles and Rams \vith
similar records—«lx victorias and
one defeat.
Yank Deadlock Broken i
Meanwhile, over In the rival
(See BROWNS, Pago 4) ;
;iara is a
of the 5 fir
-.• * .w.vjj v..,« tie Sta.M|w.»,
while Stanford is a 34-13 winner ol
a k’et’k: ago aver Southern Call
foritia,
1x:u has fallen to a spot three
poilits below its; thirty-eighth place
of. lastj Saturday’S. Arkaqsaa; by
virtue of their old win .over the
Hoirned Frogs, are listed in the No.
27 : place above TCU.
the games coming up nqxt
agenda, Witliapison
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Saturday s uremia, niuio^naun
picks (Baylor to beat undefeated
and untied Wyoming. He goes far
ther to say that it will be by three
orlfodr TD’s. Texas playing again
Sn Memorial Stadium, should be on
easy Whined over Lindy Berry and
TCU. ! ■ . ( '
SMU, playing an Oven better
brand of ball than the : conference
champai displayed on Kyie Field,!
should take the Hogs of Arkansas
without any apparent trouble.
: : (; Rice Over A&M
Last, but by far not the least,
Williamson says that the Aggies
are onily a-ione-week team apd are
expectied t<> be'the victims !of many
pqint$; when l\\$y play tlqo Sdtur-
Irhej top ten and their earned
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50,000 Fans to Miss
Annual Cottonbowl
DALLAS, Nov. 5 '/Pi—Tickets
available to the public for the Cot
ton Bowl game Jan. 2 have been
oversubscribed by better than
50,000..'
P. €. Cobb, ticket manager, said
today s that the public sale that
closed last midnight brought 24,000
applications each probably seeking
the pmhnum °f four tickets allow
ed per customer. There arc some
24,900; tickets available for the
publici
A drawing will be held Thursday
to determine the order in which
applications will be filled.
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Sociologists Speaks
To McLennan Bureau
Dan Russell, professor of soc
iology, will be featured speaker
at the. annual meeting of the Mc
Lennan County Farm Bureau to
night at 7:30 at the South Junior
High School.
Russell will speak on "What We
May Expect Through A Farm Or*
graniaation.” '
Gjirls’ basketball has grown tre
mendously since the league was
organized in 1939. It’s gotten so
big, that the state tournament
this year will be shifted from
Hilisbdro. The gym in the cradle'
of girls’ basketball in Texas just
isn't big enough to accommodate
-the; crowds.
Dallas, Fort Worth or Waco
stand a good chance to be the site
of the) 1950 tournament.
If y|ou live in a big city, chan
ces are you don't have a gilds, bas
ketball team in the league. But
the little towns over the state take
to the; sport in a big way.
Texas and Iowa girls’ champions
have been meeting in a series the
last cOuple of years, and this year
thg Iowa titlist will come to Texas
to meet the Lone Star State win
ner.
Exciting Sport
If you think girls’ basketball is
a dullish sport, think again.
Seagoville won the state cham
pionship last year in a “suddep
death” overtime period when a
little substitute, Patsy ^Anderson,
scored a field goal that meat East
Chambers, 26-24.
Most of the team that won the
title for Seagoville will be back
thi» year. Another strong entry
is Bypum, Hill County.
The rule for Girl*’ basketball in
Texas are made by the schools and
an advisory board enforces them.
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Right They Were
In a pre-game interview with two
time aR-American Doak Warlker
Friday night i;i Bryan, the Dallas
star said, concerpiug the Aggie
contest the next day “it’ll be a
tough one; it always is.”
Kyle Rote, Walker’s LaSalle Ho
tel, roommate for the one-night
stay in Bryan, summed it up more
accurately when he said “They are
due to (hit their stride and it will
probably be tomorrow."'
Both boys, following Matty Bells,
pessimistic viewpoint before cru
cial games, didn’t know how right
they really were!
The National Basketball. Associ
ation will have eight playing
cqaches this year among its 17
teams.
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