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-'v "j IK-- - I l j(. ■■ ■ ? I 1 ! ' ; r 1 Fullback Hob Smith yoes backward over the center of the Longhorn line to score the Aggies’ first TD In the first quarter of the annual classic played Thursday on Kyle Field. -H' Aggie Cagers Leave For NY; Play LIU in ‘Garden’ Dec. 1 'rtf. . Batin NOV. 29, 1949 Page t Frogs Surprise Mustangs, Take 21-13 Victory Fort Worth, Nov. 29 lAP) —Little Lindy Berry, the rock of Texas Christian, said his valedictory to college football Saturday by passing and run ning his team to a 21-13 victory over Southern Methodist. Berry scored one touchdown and passed for two more, as the Horned Frogs! licked the| Methodists for tl^e fiirst time in seven years. The; Christian quarterback threw The Aggie basketball team left Bobby Farmer and Jack Miller, at ten this morning for its longest DeWitt Top Scorer trip of the, 1949-50 cage season. DeWitt was the Aggies’ highest scorer last season with 248 pojjntsJ Davis was top point-getter for the freshman team with 162 points in Thursday 1 night theJlf games. McDowell became eligi- 1 - hie for the varsity Igst midterm and came on fast as a scorer, ball- hawk and all-around team man in the late stages. | UL Thirteen players, Coach Marty Karow and trainer Bill Dayton boarded the Southern Pacific’s Hustler for Dallas and New York City, where on Cadet cagers open their 19 segson against Long Island versity. ' J Before returning home on Dele. 8, the Aggies also will engage Niji- gra University in Buffalo, N. St. Louis University in St. Lodis and Oklahoma A&M in Stillwatpr, Okla. Workout In Dallas Before boarding a New Yohk- bound ' train tonight, the Agjjie cage sqpad will g<T through a short workout in Dallas. After arriving In New York Thursday mornihg, the Aggies_plan a short “shooting” session at Madi son Square Garden, scene of their Thursday night game witK Clair Bee’s LIU Blackbirds. In recent practice sessiorjs, the Aggiek’ fiysit team has be$n com posed of Sophomores Jewell Mc Dowell and Walt (Buddy) Davis, the six-foot, eight-inch center; juniors John DeWitt and Wally MoqiI, and senior Bill Turnbow. J’irst-lino replacements include Kenneth Sutton, Marvjn Martin, Glenn Williams and Eddie Houser. Others making the eastern - trip are Miko Garcia, Raymond Walker, — ' ?• f • "'U , i , Miners Meet Here^ December 8 and 9 Student representatives from the i 'University of Texas, Texas Tech nological College and A$Mi will compete in the presentation, of tcch- j-nical papers at a joint meieting'of i the Texas Sections of the Amefi- can Institute of Mining, and Metal lurgical .Engineers, to be held on the campus December 8 and" 9. ■ J. E. Warren, president, Carl l B. King Drilling Co., Midland, iwill deliver the principal ’address !at the banquet, December 8. Lead- jing oil men from Oklahoma and ! Texas will attend. He arid DeWitt are rated the Aggies’ best bets for mythical team honors this season. KarOw said this morning just before he stepped aboard the train, “We’re going to see on this trip just how we’ve advanced, com pared to some of the top teams in ^‘th Walker 'kicking the natron. We also hope to get j point valuable experience that will' as- Texas christian tied it up in the 27 passes and completed 17 for 250 y^rds. He also netted 31 yards carrying the ball. The game’s top runnefr was Kyle Rote,’of Southern Methodist, who rolled up 702 yards in 13 carries. All-America Doak Walker of SMU sat out most, of the last half as the result of ji leg injury. It was after his departure from the game .that the Horned Frogs swept to th|c victory that gave Texas Chris ;ian a tie for third place with Texas in the Southwest Conference standings. Frogs Top Statistics Texas Christian excelled both in the score and statistics, rolling up 351 yards rushing and passing to 312 for Southern Methodist and making 16 first downs to 13. Southern Methodist scored first on a |37-yard run by big Kyle Rote the extra sist us on dbwn the line in the conference race.” A Well-Oiled Highway ,I. ■. ■ j. Haml)urg-t-*A > >—A Danish truck [driver lost his cognac laden trailer on the highway near here. He only noticed his loss when he tried to ipark. j •' • j'~ Irish Still In Number One Spot In Williamson Ratings BY FRANK SIMMEN, JR. Notre Dame refused to relin quish its number one spot in Paul B. Williamson’s weekly football ratings as it mauled Southern California 32 to 0, Oklahoma, Cal ifornia, Army and Rice follow iii that order behind the “Fighting Irish”, r . ; £ : I Nb changes came in the first five teams for the third straight week although thei second five jumped around quite a bit with three teams falling out of the first ten. [ . ' M | Baylor dropped from sixth to seventh and idle Michjgan moved up to sixth. ,LSU’s surprising up set of Tulane moved the Bayou boys into the ninth position. Minnesota Eighth Minnesota, on the strength of Tulane’s setback, moved from ninth to eighth. Idle Santaj Clara stuck to its number ten spot. The system enjoyed its best Thanksgiving week since 1946, picking 86% plus of the games played from Turkey Day through Saturday, November 26. There were eight major upsets on the system’s record which is compara tively jlight for predicting Thanks giving week grudge games, The system’s top pick was North Carolina to beat Virginia. Other goodiohes were Colorado A&M ovdr Colorado, and Rice oyer Baylor. SMU, last week’s (number twelve man f dropped to the second period on the passing of Berry. From the Texas Christian 14, Berry threw to George Boal, who tore his way to the Southern Methodist: 29. A pass from Berry to Jifnmy Hickey made the touch down. Homer Ludiker converted. Razzle-Dazzle Gains Tulane jumped into the number! I'l'® Horned Frogs took the lead twelve spot just in back of Ohio [ ear !y ' n the fourth period after Shankle Bloxom recovered Rote’s fumbjie on the TCU 49. A pass from State, California’s Rose Bowl op* ponent. ! TU, rated last week in the four*, Bcir y to Boal - who lateraled to teenth spot, dropped to the nations Morris Bailey, who in turn lateraled twentieth team despite a victory 11° Archer, carried 20 yards over the Aggies. A&M held down!spark thc drive - Berry raced the sixty-fourth spot, a two place I over ; from the S MU five-yard line drop from last weelf. 1 fo r tfje score. Ludiker again con- The other Southwest Conference i verted, team in the lineup was fortyfj Smpfhern Methodist roared back third ranking Arkansas. The Ra* 1 for % yards and a touchdown, the zorbacks greatly outpointed Tulsa, score coming on 37-yard pass from As far as intersejctional record^ Fred j Benners to H. N. Russell, who : . : ‘‘ t . • ! ■ "A •. AggiesDro In Penalt 1 BY B. F. ROLAND A massive line, coupled with hard charging backs and excellent passing, gave the Texas Longhorns a 42-14 victory over the A&M Cadets here last Thursday after-, noon in the two teams’ annual Thanksgiving Day tussle. The game was marred by num erous penalties and rule infrac tions and at one point nearly reach ed the fighting stage, this was one of the stormiest battles seen in the Southwest Conference in some years. The Aggie team was nearly in effectual against the stronger more experienced Longhorns. In the second half, the Farmers’ play looked as if this, ware totally so. At the end of the first half of play, the situation appeared to be quite favorable to A&M. The score was 14-21 in Texaq’ favor, but the Aggie team was all fired up because of a slugging incident which had happened just two min utes before the half-time whistle. Ray Stone, Texas end, had knocked fullback Bob Smith cold and tern pers of both school’s players and student bodies had risen to the boiling point. Texas Comes Back However, when the teams faced again after the halftime inter mission, the Texas team rose to heights previously unattained this season and scored 28 points while holding the Aggies to only two first downs. This defeat suffered by the 1949 Aggie eleven was the worst dealt the Cadets by a Texas team since 1901 when the Longhorns won 38- 0. . It appeared that the Steer elev en was keyed up to the bursting point for the contest—possibly be cause of last fall’s unexpected dead lock of the Bovines by the Cadets, possibly because of the previously poor record of the Longhorns this fall. r First Half Even Up A few times in the initial stages of the contest the Maroon players turned in some top flight play. One such occasion was Glenn Lippman’s 54-yard quick-kick. The punting oL •A-f 1 Yale Lary wa,s also tops during the clash; he avteraged 46 yards’ per boot. During thel first Cadet scoring drive Bob Sjnith turned in some yoemanlike dpty on ground smash* es while the Gardemal to Copeland aerial combine came up with more needed yardage to aid the attack. The second Maroon score was the result of sipiila'r play ,by the Farmers with Bobby Goff doing the honors on the ground and the Nicholas to ! Whittaker passing team contributing valuable help. ped By Ste idden Gri ■V i D! T-'.' Buddy Shaeffer booted his successful point ,after following the final A&M tally.; Second Half Bright Spot*: Top action by Maroon pi aye in the second half was McDonald's sparkling f iS | ; ,; . v from the A&M 23 was Steer end Ben Procter by mcuon- ald on about the Maroon four and Farmer safety skittered : his way to Jhe Texas 40 before * Man’’ Tdwnsend caught him d ; The Port Arthur defensive! back had slowed down to pick up his blockers when the Odessa power house nabbed him. j John L. Christ his second fumble second half to help, the one oflthe tensen j recovered e of the day in the played in the second ha an errant Bovine Dorbandt B Max Greiner, (See de- scor- , who / claimed ! I | go it looks like the Pacific Coasd; has it over other parts of the country.; The Californian’)* won 34 of their 52 inteijsectiopal con tests. The Southeast ranked next with 46 victories against eight ties and 35 ^lefeats, J ’ j . The line showing of the coast is probably attributed to the vic tories pjvcr teams Jin the Rockies. It’s surprising thppgh, that the Mid-West, including Notre Dame, ranked third. This is due primarily to outclassed tea ns like Indiana and Purdue. The Southwest, including tear of Oklahoma, rank her fourth spot w r and fodr ties in 97] contests for a .552 1 percentage, j / The East rank xT behind the Southwf^t with X / 543 percentage sixteen Jv posi tion through its unexpected loss to victory-bent Texas Cl ristian. North Carolina follow ?d the thirteeuth-ranking-Cowtowr ers tb land in the fourteenth spot just in front of UCLA and SMU. Chqo Choo and his teammates w II meet power-laden Rice Ja nuary 3 in the Cotton Bowl. : ’ t 1 — 4.;. • A ,i : raced 20 more for the counter. Rote missed the extra point. The Frogs added another toui down late in the final period orTan 80-yard march. The scorp/ came on a 2l-yard pass frbnyBerry to Archer. Porker^ Defeat sa in Finale Fayetteville, Ark., Nov. 29 lAh— Settling down after a shaky start, the Arkansas Razorbacks wore down a smaller University of Tulsa eleven, 40 to 7, here Saturday. 7 A crowd of 12,000—the smallest followed by Soiith Atlantic” MisS-' to see Arkansas play in several puri Valley, and filially the Rocky years—saw the underdog Hutricane Mountain conference. co Top l|en top ten teams with pros pective percentages are as follows: Notre Dame 99.6 Fo Oklahoma California Army i....! Rice i Michigan U. Raylor U. .. Minnesota . L?U 98.6 98.4 98.2 95.1 94.1 94.0 93.8 93.8 Santa Clara 93.6 Translucent Panels New Quonset Eight lighting panels for use in the new Quonset building at Sub station number one, Beeville, have been taken to the Texas Agriciil- tural Experiment Station. , Lighting panels will be' used In connection with the project on grair storage. “T icse panels are a new, low- cost window and skylight mater ial fir buildings covered with cqr- rugalted metal or corrugated ais- bestisj’ Dr. R. D. Lewis, station director, says. “The panels are translucent and take the place tpej regular roofing Or siding of sheets The Corr ul' Contribution was made by the nx Corporation of Houston, score first, cling to a 7-7 half-time deadlock and then wilt/ under a five-touchdown onslaught by the Southwest Conference^team in the last two periods. ' ( - Geno Mazzahti, Arkansas’ big fullback and top ground gainer, led the touchdown parade with two. He replaced the injured Leon “Muscles” Campbell. Tulsa moved 78 yards on three plays to start th,e scoring midway of the first quarter. A spectacular 50-yard pass and run play, Pete Annel to Fred Smith, produced the score. After having one drive stopped at the Tulsa 12 and another at the one, Arkansas finally got its of fense rolling in the second period. Fullback Louis Schaiifele drove for the touchdown from inches out and Duvall Thornton kicked the first of four extra points to knot the count at the intermission. Little Don Logue made his first appearance at quarterback for Ar kansas early in the third quarter and quRddy guided the Razorbacks to a. safe lead. / The score came on runs of four yards by Alvin Duke, 13 and 50 yards by Mazanti, an 18-yard Logue-to-J D. Smith pass, and a 13-yard juant by sub fullback Joe Baldridge. Pass interceptions set up two of the tallies. . MUR NEWS BY^BOB ALLEN TheAntiamural Club of ’49 was organized recently at a barbecue banquet and the officers were elected. ; / > Chosen to succeed Bill Thornton as president was Bob Speer, sen ior in A Infantry who hails from Harlingen. Elected to the post of vice-presi dent, secretary, and .treasurer) was Bob Skidmore, B Infantry sepior from Palis. / ★ \ This is the third qf a series of reports hf season standings of all the intramural sports. The tennis compotttion is begin ning to shape up and point out the strongest teams. Two of the leagues have been completed with two of the strongest corps title contend ers on top. A Infantry, last year’s champ ions, took their league with little effort, but are in for quite a bit of trouble in the play-offs. The strongest team to date, the ASA, took the league title with no real trouble. The second place team from ’48; C Infantry, is on top of its league with one more game 1 yet to go. It appears an almost cer tain cinch to repeat its record at least to the play-offs. SEASONS STANDINGS Owls Whip Bears 21-7, Take Sou th west ConferenceCrown / , ‘ I ' L j I | li j"* ri'’ ' j j;! ! jj .. • • '• V "ii j it » I I; ■ p! Houston, Nov. 29 Rice’s Sophomore Billy purkhalter, a the ball jumped mit of bounds on s!?' Texas halfback/Bubba Shands (11) is shown making a five yard pickup in the annual Turkey , Day classic between A&M and Texas last Thurs day. Seconds later, Shands fumbled and the Aggies/recovered to end a Texas drive. Aggies coming in for the tackle are guajrd Car! Mol- berg (67), linebacker Jim Fowler tackle Sam center Dick; blocked Fowler. (90) ,i and (75), behind Shands. f Steer an (54) has. jjist TENNIS, Military Leauge A League D A QMC ...3-1 A CA......3-0 D INF ...3-2 A CWS....2-0 SR CO . .3-1 K AF 2-0 A CAV... ...1-3 D AF 1-0 A FA., ...0-2 A AF......1-3 E AF... .0-2 B TC 014 League E League B B ENG 2-1 A ASA ...5-0 B CAV....2-2 B ATH. ...2-1 League F B AF... ...2-1 A SIG’. 3-0 C FA. .. .2-1, F FA 3-0 B CA 2-2 D VET.. ...1-3 E INF. .0-4 B INF 1-3 <? League G League C B QMC..L.3-0 A ENG ...4-0 C INF....3-0 A COMP. 4-1 A VET....2-2 C AF... ...2-2 A TC 1-3 B VET. ...1-1 G AF. v .:.0-4 C CAV. ...1-2 League H A ORD ...1-2 E VET 2-0 A ORD ...0-5 H AF 1-2 B FA—2-3 B COMP ...0-3 Owls used a powerful ground attack and a break Saturday to defeat Baylor, 21 to 7, and take the South west Conference championship and become host to Nor(h Carolina in the Cotton Bowl. A standing room crowd of 31,000 saw the Owls stop the effective ness of the strong Baylor passing attack, overcome a touchdown defi cit, and move to their first undis puted title since 1937. Immediately after the game, Dan Rogers, head of the Cotton Bowl, announced in Forti Worth that North Carolina had accepted an invitation to meet the Southwest champions January 2 in Dallas. Baylor had entered today's tilt a game behind the Owls and need ed a victory to cinch a tie in final standings and the automatic bid us the Cotton BdvyM’l a *«ic host. The victory gave Rice its first undefeated conference campaign record in history, an early season 13-7 losls to Louisiana State, being the only blemish on the Owls’ re gular season record. North Caro lina has lost to Louisiana State, Tennessee and Notre Dame. Owls Grounded Rice all but tossed its good pass ing game aside while coming back strong on the grpund for tiVo sec ond period touchdowns that over came a 7-0 lead taken by Baylor the first time it received the ball. Adrain Burk had tossed perfect ly for five passes totaling 39 yards as the Bears sped 64 yards in 12 plays for their brief lead. Butk tossed 4 yards to End J\ D. Ison for the score. Only one pass was used hs Rice struck quickly in the second period for touchdown drives of 55 and 81 yards. It was Gordon (Sonny) Wyatt, 165-pound junior halfback from Austin who sparked both drives, although the scores were rtiade by halfback, and Senior Fullback Bob- (he Baylor 36. *' by Lantrip. Burkhalter Tallies Burkhalter slipped through left tackle from the Hj'for his tally, while Lantrip rammed at the stohe spot from the four for his. A blocked punt set up Rice’s final score in the third period. Re serve Guard Delwqod Lee broke throi^h to block Burk’s kick and made the Baylor ipnversion. / li A penalty offset a couple of ground gains, and Jforced quarter back Tobin B°te to take to the air. Two tosses to' James (Frog- gie) Wil)iams, the' greet Rice left end, were good for ;12 andj 21 yards and the score. j Williams also kicked the three Did 4 j' Rice extra points, Henry Dickerson -H- V TENNIS, Non-Military 7-0 Puryear....6-1 w 7-1 ’ Pep Up Your Pipe With HEINE’S BLEND . . * . The Smoking Tobacco with a B.F.A.* Degree! * Better Feminine Appeal! ■ rr IS'FVR STOR FUR STORAGE HATTERS rGncan iaaimi 4 §1 College Station Representative — Loupot’s Trading Post ■ IL- i M I - HeiNE’SBLQNO ( Ukj uni! PIPE TOBACCO •■I./ k . ^ % nuwi sJwui) ftnour! Nil Nil l -J ■ T 111 ri. : r X* This ii a psytholofty Play* uith mental blacks. 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