The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 17, 1949, Image 3

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Spencer Ranks as Sta
In Maroon Offensive
; By DEAN REED ' '
- One : of the stalwarts of this
year’s Aggie line is tackle Mickey
Spencer; +
Mickey, who hails from Pasa
dena, has been the starting left
tackle on offense this season. The
husky 21-year-old junior insists he
ha^ trouble keeping his weight
down to a trim 205 pounds, but
seems to do it by working out con
sistently throughout the year.
The position of tackle was new
in college play to Mickey, but not
so in high school. During his first
two years in A&M he' played guard.
_ While in Pasadena ; High School,
however, he played both tackle and
guard, shifting from one to the
^ other depending on which team
possessed the ball. . f j
Named All-State
Starting football at an early age,
Mickey became captain of the Pasa
dena Junior High team and went
on to become the only sophomore
starting on the high school varsity,
' He advanced through his next two
years in high school to become co-
f captain of the team and an all*
state selection for the 1946 season.
One of the highlights of his high
^ school career was his final season.
That year Pasadena had justJ>een
elevated to Class AA football and
was placed in what is known ds
one of the roughest districts in
v , -Texas. The district, then 14-AA,
hud such strong teams as Port
Arthur, Baytown, Galveston,
Orange, Beaumont, and 'j South
Park ns contenders. ;
Although ft was their initial
year, the Pasadena tcam-r-lod by
Mickey—tore its way through-all
opponents to capture the clistrict
erown and advance to the bi-dis
trict game. There, however, it
lost to Lamar of Houston, reputed
to be one of the state’s strongest
teams that year. ' A&M’s star full-
bark, Bob Smith, was the power
runner on the victorious Lamar
(eleven. ‘ A
' Tale I nfolded
Another highlight of that final
R'-
on him, Mickey received another El
honor, thin time a local one. The
citizens of his hometown metropo
lis, led by the mayor and other of
ficials, proclaimed a n official
“Mickey Spencer” day.
The band played,i the stands
were crowded, and Mickey, as
usual, was blushing. To this day,
there hangs in the halls of Pasa
dena High a “Mickey Spencer
Plaque,” presented each year to the
outstanding male graduate. The
gctual plaque remains on exhibi
tion at the school, however. '■
An,honor student in high school, 1
Here.
South with such
as Kyle Rote of
Glass of Rice apj
tip. f
! Another Must
Champion, was
me
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played for the
famed names
U and vemon
ing in the line-
mg, little John
therei, Cham
pion and Spetnce^ had met before,
s of the line, in the
tetween Pasadena
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bn opposing sides of the line, in the
bi-distrlct fray l
and L^mar. ;
Oil Bo»l Play
r From El Paso, he journeyed to
Wichita Falls to participate in the
Oil Bowl game b tween the Texas-
Oklahoma all-stai s. Here again he
played with and against many of
today’s Southwes; Conference play
ers.
Several of to lay’s Aggies, in
cluding Charlie Loyalty, Carl Mol-
berg, and Dorbar dt Barton, played
in either or both; »f the latter frays.
Majoring in m< chanical engineer
ing, Mickey has managed to main
tain a good grde point average
and expects to giaduate in June ’51.
He didn’t play quite enough last
season to letter, but was valuable
as a squadman. This year, how
ever, Mickey is a dead cinch to
get that jheket f nd join the T As
sociation.
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Rough Men
Collins, he! said,
next week, M
^ommentinij
of the opposing
Asked Vvhich
linemen gave hijn the most trouble
thip year, Micke r qamed two, West
of Oklahoma an ) Collins of L.S.U.
•MICKEY SPENCER
Mickey was president-of his jun4
iqr and senior classes and president
qf the Student Council. . Vj
r All-Star Games
Three post-season games kept
Mickey busy before he came
through the East Gate in the fall
<|f ’47. First was the annual Tex-
as-Louisiana Gulf Coast all-star
was the worst
nn the TU game
lekey says that we
haire a very goo i chance of beating
high school year was an event i game' in December of ’46. That
which Mickey has tried to keep se
cret during his college years. It
was discovered, though, and is told
withx simulated pride by his room
mate, Tuck Chapin.
The tale goes thus: Just after
Aas the gameiin which, only a year
before, talented Bobby Lantrip—
now of Rice—had displayed his
^vares.
I Next on the agenda was the
jtati's North-South all-star affair
anted load colu
As for 1950-
year,’’ Mickey
ccrely hopes it
it will be his ia
maroon and w
the
the Longhorns. Ho doesn’t hesitate
to add, hqwev
however, that the Steers
are one of the best teams in the
conference, dessite their overbal-
nn.
“It should be THE
•xclaimed. He sin-
vill, we know, since
(t year to wear the
itc of Aggieland.
test Back
Just as a prrtfhg question, we
rendered this qjjery: “Who, in your
best back in the
We thought he
opinion, is the
conference?”
his all-state honors were bestowed hat the annual coaching school in
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cqught us off guard with his reply.
“We are playing WITH the best
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just who could he
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AP Poll Top 10 Rushing Lead;
Passerslisted
New York, Nov. 17—URi-Two
Southwest Conference elevens held
spots in the top ten teams Sn the
Associated Press’ weekly Toll of
national football squads. Rice, vic
tor over A&M by a 13-to-O score,
was ranked sixth. ! ;
SMU’s defending conference
champions fought their way back
into the top-rated teams and claim
ed tenth place. SMU smothered the
Arkansas Razorbacks, 34-to-6, l^st
Saturday.
Notre Dame. Oklahoma, Califor
nia and Army continue to be the
only “regulars” in college foot
ball’s first ten.
The seventh weekly Associated
Press poll shows that this fear
some foursome is at the top again
—the only teams that havB ranked
every week of the season.
For the first time in weeks,
though, there’s a chance even in
their order with Oklahoma and
California moving ahead of Army,
which lost the grip it has held on,
second place since Oct. 10.
The Black Knights Of the Hud
son lost favor in their narrow es
cape at Philadelphia last Saturday
when they squeezed past Penn, 14
to 13. They fell to fourth.
Notre Dame’s Irish, who haven’t
been threatened in first place since
the second week, solidified their po
sition by subduing North Carolina
with h strong last-half suprt, 42
tO 8. 1 ] ■ .[ ! J;
Frank Leahy’s marvels received
140 first-place ballots from the 162
sports writers and broadcasters
who participated. They rolled up
1,592 points.
Bowl-bpund Oklahoma, 27-to-7
winner over Missouri, gained fif
teen first-place votes to finish sec
ond with 1,298 points. Third-place
California got five of the other
No. 1 designations with Army and
Virginia receiving one each.
Michigan, the 1948 national
champion, clung to fifth place, be
ing followed in order, by Rice, Ohio
State, Minnesota, Virginia and
Southern Methodist.
Ohio State and Southern Meth
odist are newcomers tb the first
ten this week, replacing Cornell,
which had its perfect record spoiled
by Dartmouth, 16 to 7, and Michi
gan State, which bowed to Oregon
State, 20 to 25.
The total vote with points fig
ured on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 ba
sis (first-place votes ih parenthe
sis) : !
1. Notre Dame (140t) 1,592
2. Oklahoma (16) 1,298
3. California (5) 1,252
4. Army (1) „..!l,130
5. Michigan !.J 768
6. Rice 566
q. Ohio State 466
8. Minnesota j ! 428
9. Virginia J 276
10. Southern Methodist 276
The Second Ten.—11. Kentucky,
150; 12. Stanford, 105; 13. Louisi
ana State, 87; 14. Dartmouth, 75;
15. Baylor, 64; 16. Maryland, 52;
17. Cornell 49; 18. Michigan State,
46; 19. and 20. Tulanc and Santa
Clara, each 44.
Others Receiving Votes.—Col
lege of Pacific. 38; North Carolina,
31; Pennsylvania, 24; Wisconsin,
23; Villanova, 8; UCLA and Texas,
each 7; Princeton and Duke, each
4; Alabama and Tennessee, each
3; Texas Christian and Boston U.
each 2; Wake Forest, Missouri,
Illinois and Xavier, each 1.
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Stiteler Talk Feature
At Final Quarterbac
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Stiteler
ocl ,in» ! eung .<
HS'terback
the As
The
features
address the final
The&Battalion’a Quar
to tonight at 7:80 in
iy Hall,
ideating tonight, which
Stiteler’s talk, is the'la#
and the prospects
eleven in 1950.
Bruisin’ Bob Smith held firmly
to his number one spot among the
Southwest Conference ball carriers,
but two Rice backs continue to
present a threat to his rushing
leadership.
Bruisin’ Bog currently has gained
671 yards on 133 carries with
Wyatt runner-up with 536 on 100
tries and Lantrip third with a
record of 517 yards on 108 at
tempts.
Two Passers Ranked
Don Nichols holds ninth place
among league tossers with 268
yards to his credit He has com
pleted 24 of 49 throws, so he prac
tically boasts of an even .500#
completion average.
Right behind the senior quarter
back is tetammarte Dick Gardemal.
The soph; hurler was forced from
Saturday’s tilt when jarred up
by the Ricemen, but still shows
262 yards gained via the air lanes.
The Port Arthur mart-under his
connected on 25 of 50 areials for
a .500% fecord on completions.
Paul Campbell of Texas tops
the loop in yardage with 1233 on
81 completions in 165 tosses. The
Steer pitcher has only a single
game left, however, And his two
closest competitors, each of whom
has two more games, could easily
surpass him in the next two weeks.
TCU’s Berry is second with 1133
yard* on 83 connection* in 174 tries
and Baylor’s Burk is third with
1078 on 90 completions from 153
tosses.
\ I^gry Improves Mark
Punting specialist Yale Lary
averaged! 41.6 on half a dozen boots
against Rice to improve his average
for the season. The Fort Worth
punter has averaged 37.9 yards
per kick for 69 tries.
Lary’s average places him fifth!
in the loop, ahead of the punters
from four of the other SWC j
schools. His number jof kicks far j
exceeds the number tried by any
of the other conference kickers. ]
Leading the punters is Mustang
Kyle Rote with 43.4-yard average
on 15 punts. His teammate, Doak
Walker, is runner-up with a 41.3
average on 19 boots. 5 |
Smith Fifth .Scorer
The Aggies’ Smith also is rank
ed high among the league scorers,
his 42 points hold fifth place be
hind Randall Clay, Texas, with 64;
Doak Walker with 62; Froggie
Williams, Rice, with 56; and Kyle
Rote with 44.
A&M co-captain Wray Whit- ’
taker is ranked sixth in the con- '
ference on the basis of yardage |
gained on pass receptions. Whit J
taker has picked up 239 yards 6n i
24 catches. First place is held by .
Procter of Texas (642 on 39 re
ceptions ), second spot goes to i
Bailey of TCU (444 on 31 comple-;
tions), and the third slot shows
Ison of Baylor (372 on 34 catches). |
No Cadet punt returner has hand
led as many as eight chances, so
none are ranked in the top ten
men in this department. Dillon
of Tcxai is first with an average |
of 19.5 |i[ards on 10 returns, Proc
ter of Rice has averaged 17.9 yards
in 11 chances for second, and Berry
of TCU is ranked third with a 16.8
average for 16 returns.
of the current football season. Ad
mission ia free to all persons in
the Bryan-College Station area.
Stiteler’s talk tonight will be on
the Aggies’ chances against the
Texas Longhorns when the two
Ag Walter Polo
Team Meets TtJ
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A&M’s aquatic Jockeys, known
in some circles as the water polo
team, are in Austin this evening
for a contest with the Univer
sity Aquatic Club. The Uni
versity team is composed of
both undergraduate and grad
uate students at Texas.
Game time is 7 p. m. at the
UT natatorium with Fleming,
Karow, Adamson, McKinzie,
Comstock, Ellis, and Sargent
slated to open for the Cadets.
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“Highlights” Shown
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Another special feature on to
night’s program will be the
ing of a technicolor movie,
lights of the 1948 Southwest Cort-
ference Football Race.” This fil
is narrated by “The Old Scotcl
man, ,K Gordon McLendon.
Prizes will also be awarded tb-
pight to the winner* of last week!*
Quarterback Club football scone
guessing contest. - 1 !
An average of well over 300 per
sons have entered the Club gues^-
i ing contest each week this fall to
! iry and pick the winners of each
game in which Southwest Con-
I ference football teams participated.
Prize Sponsors
J To the 11 persons each we^k
who came the closest to guessiqg
the game winners and scores, the
following sponsors have each givin
ft free prize: II •
Mr. J. C. HotanK of Hotard’a,
Cafeteria; H. J. Peters Music Co.;
Charlie Ferreri of The Trian
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sion
rtj.: t if j! i
othiers; First National Bairir,*
rftvis B. Bryan. The Parker- As-
tijn f Hardware Co. Bryan Motor
Co., Mrs. Charlie Cpde; Alexander-
Beal Insurance Af
Battalion. J
The winners of (ast week'* con
st will bie the- last one* selected
-fftR |in the contest.
ong the pri*
given
. lies' to be _
•to the 11 winners itonight arc two
tickets tp the Aggie-Longhorn
e heVe Thanksgiving Day.
Must Be JPresent
► [ winner* listed ; below
are inot' present at topight’s
meeting, Jheir priies will be given
%
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to the second best
week’s contest.
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guessers in last
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’he winners ar
Ralph J. Terry, box 4815, (fcollege
Station; Kdgar D. McMurray, Box
i407, College; Erpestlea Williams,
Station; Mrs.
5407,
Box 1851, Collet
Robert L. Jones,I
lego Staton; A.
ner 29; Percy C.
College Station;!
Box
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Drive Inn; Mr. C. E. Grcisser
Greisser’s Electric Co.; Joe Faulk
of Lacks Auto Supply; W. (3. D.
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Station; Janelle
4; Mrs. Clyde F.
College Station;
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