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* Aggit png^ snatching co-captain
Wray Whittaker will be playing his
last game fir a Maroon and White
team when the whistle blows Thurs
day afternoon beginnig the oldest
gridiron rivalry in the state of
tfexas: 4rr
A Houstonion, Whittaker star
red for Jeff Davis High School
from ’42 through the ’44 season.
The hefty end, upon graduation
from high schoaj served 19 months
in Uncle Sam’s Navy where he
"saw action in the South Pacific as
d naval gunner. “Saw plenty of
dive bombers v and Jap suicide
planes when we came-into Okinawa,
but I never got hurt,” remarks
Whittaker. '■ 1 •
His naval experiences as gunner
on the merchant ship took him to
most every major Jandbase in the
United States and in the Pacific
during the; thick 6f the fighting.
He’ai Married Now
The powerful gridster heard wed
ding bells just before he went
overseas ini the Hummer of '44
and is now^ happiljTmarried, ^No
kids as jiet", he says, but there’s
one on the way.” • " j''
Whittaker is now one of the very
Tew griddeiw at Aggieland who had
1iin playing career cut in half by
serving under two different head
ebaehos. He lettered two year*
under Iltimgr Norton when he came
hack from the N#vy and is in the
_l| proroa* of gaining his second one
from HUtofar
The H>fi pmindyr was selected
nlhdistricl his last, two seasons in
high school coniiH'tition, and
placed on IhhiJiU-Hnilhenii t#»m
while a senhus Be has come pcelty
dose' to making an aiUcontWenre
learn, hut hovUr seems to rjultc
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aln along with Hobby Goff by ids
teammates hwlu spring and has
played some Outstanding ball for
the Aggies ttda fall. He has proven
great help to the youngsters com
ing np from lust years freshman,
team.
Thrilling Play r
Prohnhly the:most thrilling play
that. Whittaker h HR participated In
came in (ho '48 opener against
Villanpva in Philaddphiu.’ he
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scampered half the length of the
field with an intercepted pass to
score a [well needed TD.
Whitthker, who is majoring in
business, would like to take a
try .at pro ball. “Haven’t any one
team in] particular I would like to
play. with,” Whittaker says. “It
depends
offer.”
on who gives me the best
Although jaw and 1 head injuries
kept him out of a lot of action
last season the husky Aggie is in
great shape now and expects to be
in extra good condition for the
crucial Teasipper contest. *
uifwauBuc About TU
r When asked about the TU game,
Whittaker replied, “With all the
hustle the team’s been showing I
know we’ll give ’em a real fight;
I honestly, think that we can take
’em if wtj i play heads-up ball.”
‘T’ve got just one more things to
say” Whittaker said, without be
ing askedj to comment and with a
sorrowful : look |n' his eye. “It’s
sure been] a pleasure playing with
wit
A&M and I don’t think I’ll ever
forget thb wonderful support and
backing the Twelfth Man has given
us during these last lean years.
1909Grid Teani
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By CHUCK CABANISS
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“I didn’t come here to lose.”
Those words of “Uncle Charley”
Moran embodied the famed sports
man’s creed—and his actions fit
his words to the “T”.
The first truly successful Aggie
coach, Moran produced in 1909 a
Cadet powerhouse that was the
scourge of the Southwest. •
Tomorrow, as the present day
Aggies square off for the fifty-
sixth clash In the Southwest’s
classic, eleven members of the ’t>9
learn will hu honor guests for the
‘game,
Those members of the ourfy day
Cadet "Wonder Team" who wlIHre
present for the contest Thursday
and a dinner honoring them Wed
nesdny night are Louie Hamilton,
llnffalo, N, Y„ captainn Victor
KcMey, Hollywood, <'allf:i Mlkii'
llnlentl, ARus, Okla.i Dan Huge),
Kl Paso; Roger Hooker, Franklin;
George Humes, Fort Htoel^on; C.
B. (Doggie) Want, Honummit; T.
B. Thompson, Scott, Bluff, Nebras
ka; W. A. McDonald and William
Carlin, Houston, and C a e s u r
T Dutch) Hohn, Independence, Tex
as.
Two Wins
These men iuhI their teammates
have seen their feat of completing
a rugged schedule undefeated du-
\yas “nothing” that could correct
the situation except a change in
coaches. So u change there was. v
Out went Merriam, in came Me
nder the influence of "Un|cle
rley” the
Ran.
Uni
Charity” the athletes responded
quickly and the “slaughter" began.
The Haskell Indians were beaten,
15-0. A rugged Baylor crew threat
ened the Cadet record in a tilt at
Warp, but the Farmers erme
through with o^t) to fl victory,
j Texas Dropped
Ntivtmiber 8 wa$ Ihe day of the
first: '09 game with "Varsity" as
Texas was referred to in those dhys
■ ami bpfnre one of Houston’s
largest crowds, in a di'eneliing
downimiir, llw Aggies walked ever
thr Austlnltek, 88*0,
lf(dy Trinity College, the text
yicljm, kumijrihwl, 47 lo 0. Mon*
IcsIkleniJe was encountered from
(he next foe,| Oklahoma, but ejven
not
it ud
plicated by later Maroon teams— i ^ ,<im
f,ut one accomplishment of the ’09-1 £ * ^
the HoOfter Kjiate eleven could
withstand th«j Maroon assault
fell, 5i an 14.|
The hardest game of the sen
for the Ag machine was the finale
f—an Apstin clash with the Vonjlty
The firrf half ended in a 0-0
hut fivo minutes after the second
half began, things started to pop.-
Kelley Scores
After] A&M received the kiccoff
the Ca-
recoV:red
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loven the finest
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Altluiugh H Air Fore* didn't place its sign among the* top three
winners In this week's football sign eon test, this picture, which
:| wits turned into The !lnt(nliou before the wlnuing sign was chos
en, was too good to pasi up. A picture of the winning sign, R
Field AH tilery, will he published next week.
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Smith Keeps Conference Ground
Gaining Leadership While Idle
on-regs Recall
ast While On
Bonfire Guard
BrCHARLES KIRKHAM
War-time service experiences,
days down here before the war, and
childhood reminiscences occupied
pome 400 non-military students for
and hour and a half last evening
as they guarded the bonfire while
corpsmen enjoyed their annual
Thanksgiving supper* undisturbed.
Comments about the fires ranged
from Tom*Harris’ (Puryear), “Re
minds me of hog killin’ time back
in Mississippi”, to R. A. Miller's
(Dorm 16), “This shows that
there’s cooperation in the student
body.” Bill Thornton, non-military
yell leader, observed, “To my know
ledge this is the first time in the
history Of the school that non-
regs have guarded the bonfire by
themselves.”
Defense Line Vulnerable
“The only way for T. U. to
break down this line of defense is
to bring over a bunch of women,”
J. H. Hale (Dorm 17) said as he
surveyed the twenty-odd fires on
the drill field that had clusters of
men around them. Next to him B.
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] A&M’s cross-coun
Southwest uonl
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score for the
ers tallied 46,
ishing SMU Poi
j Julian Herring,
has been the most
roon performer thli
tured the confere
crown by nudging Longhorn Tom
Rogers to gain first place.
Herring’s winning time over the
2.6-mile course was a sizzling
Rogers wag only a hi
bp hind at 11:53.2, TU track
11:63.1.
behind i
Clyde lattlefield paitf that the
lie rwui-
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lonce but twice in the same season! ? v.hoc. Kelley, who slipped out of
I Seven times in 1909 the Farmers th « «^Ping hands of two Urn
| mauled opposing teams, and not ] t ?4! ers oss the ^ oal
■ ,> lonce did the powerful College com- i 1,nK rl l' r
fbinatron feel the sting of defeat.' Scorct A&M 6, Texas 0.
i In the second game of the season Oh, for the good ole’ days!
'TCU tied the Cadets 0-0, but after With the end of the campaign
that temporary setback, A&M Ward and 'Shippe, ends; Hooker
thundered through six straight and Barnes, tackles; Hohn and
victories. i Brown, guards (tied with two rex-
1, M. ] The Aggies opened the season’as. guards); Thompson, center;
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Julian Herring, junior distance
. runner cn the A&M Cro.ss Coun
try team, copped first place in
the Southwest, Conference meet
in Austin yesterday with a
11:63.1 time fur the 2.6 mile
" course. His time was 20 seconds
"better than the best previous
time fur the course. ;
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underthe tutelage of “Coach Mer- Kelley, quarterback, and. Hanqlton
and Balenti, halfbacks, were nam
ed to the All-Southwestern eleven.
the
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1910 Longhorn—seems he must not
have had a first na t me) and pro-
ceded to drub Austin College, 17-0.
TCU Ties Cadets
The tie with TCU followed. Ac
cording to the. reports of one stu-
AU Hail, the Champions of
Southwest.”
Beat TU
;e National Hqckey League si
IIY FRANK N. MAN IT)/. AM
Bob Mmlth, Yule Lary, Don
Nlcholap, Dick Gardenia!, and
Wray Whittakei' continue o plnee
high on the Southwest Conference
statistica list although the Aggiop
were idle in football participation
last wedk. 7°
One man who refused his name
suggested, “If this school were
co-ed, we would have somebody to
share this fire with." Another
wanted “T, U. women down hero
selling coffee.” ; ~
Willie Martin (Day Student)’
struck W, J, Kmhnff (Law) over
the head with a stick, and remark
ed, “I'm sorry, I thought you wdre
from T, U," Both "if these men
graduated from Waller High
School, '
To Dlek Bngdkhl (Dunn 17) this
year's honflre wgan't as hlg as the
mm he worked o|i In. '411, hut “This
one Is Just us good," ho added.
Kenneth j(ltt#r (Walton) was
reminded of his Infantry days,
. . „ , ikl4U , | , |“One lime we wore In Wie forest In
yards amMmeUmcJdjjqh Alsace (France) In reserve and
., ". >tt u j i i, during the day We'd heal our f ra-
8 » Jth l‘» *¥ K™"" 1 ; lions on fires like this. Mnow was
giirnliig (tepartment are Hnnny on lh „ bu( Ht ht We
Wyatt of Rice Institute, Gcno Mai*- r0 ,,| ( | n *t have f n.* *’
l>f ^At 7:80 corpimen moved back In-
SMU. and Bobby Lantrlp of R ce to the bonfire area to reassumo
InBtitute. Wyatt Is trailing Smith their guard. Remarked one non-
by M yards. , military student us he left the
Doak Walker of the SMU Mup- dri |, nMi itV ^t^,. thc
ends lower than the best previous
time over the course.
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was a scant
the Longhorn runner and
tance separating the two
less at the finish, j ji j.
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Behind the leaders were
Brown of Arkansas, third; Jim Mc
Mahon of A&M, fourth; James
West of Arkansas, fifth; John Gar-
many of A&M, sixth; Lowell Hawk-
inson of Texas, seventh; Thomas
J. Matusek (Walton) mused, "They J^onnen ^T&S,* l S|nfl|lhSj :
don’t guard atomic secrets this Howard Jones of A&M, tenth.
* 00 ^’ - Officials who suparv
meet reported that the fi
25 runners who started
was the largest group thal
ever been entered for the compe
tition. The rac* was run fver a
course laid out mi Austin iRreflta]|
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Bob Smith continues to lead
the line smashers with a $.4^yard tangs leads the scorers in the cor)- c ' 0 J.p S ’^uard the fire cause if the
scored 20 points last weekend couldfftoU wht) 'wal SoT 1 ™*'’
average for 133 carries. .Srjiith has
toted the ball for 691 ya]rds and
has lost only 20. Smith is] also a ; against the Baylor Beari. Follovl'-1
ito|>-ten scorer in thi) conference 1 ing Walker is Randall Clay of TeX-1
with a total of 42 poiatS (seven ; as, who led the conference from the
touchdowns), j, , j 'start of the season until Uftt week.
Yale Lary remains in fifth place] , Froggie Williams of Rice, Instil- !
after a week of rest from his kick- tute, Rote and Burkhalter, also of j
ing skill. Lary has punted 69 times: Rice, follow Clay in that respec-1
for 2,618 yards and a 37.9 yard' tive order. Burkhalter has 43 ]
average. points to Smith’s 42.
Don Nicholas, Aggie quarter-! Rot( , and Walker continue to'
back, who played a terrific game j lead the conference in punts, Rote,
against the Oklahoma Sooners, is ; has k i t . ked 15 t i mes for an aver _ j
the ninth man on the leading passer j a{fC 0 f 4; k 4 vardi ^ and G51 total 1
'list. Nicholas has tossed the pig- i vards . Dan Wilde and Jim Hickey !
skin 49 times, completing 24 of' o{ Tcu fo i low Walker, ihile Lary |
them for, a total of 268 yards. ] 0 f .\&M trails Hicjkey by two foot 1
Gardemal Follows Nicholas 'in average kicks.
Dick; Gardemal, who handled the . Adrian Burk of the Baylor Bears
offense minded Aggies against the! jumped back to lead the passejrs
SMU Mustangs a few weeks ago,' of the conference; This was dde
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