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Smith Drops To 3rd
Place In Rushing
BY FRANK MANITZAS
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A&M’s Bruisin’ Bob Smith has dropped into third place
in the race for the Southwest Conference title as the leading
ground gainer. Smith has lugged the leather 714 yards in
145 carries, an average of 4.8 yards per try. His failure to re
tain the lead spot ampng the SWC rushers after dominatinj
'fit all season is partly attribute
to his inability to play the re
mainder of the second, the third,
and part of the fourth quarters in
last keek's Thanksgivipg Day Clasf
sic between A&M and Texas, j
Smith is in seventh place as *
leading scorer in the conference
with 48 points—one point behind
sixth place Billy Burkhalter of
Rice.
Lary Third
Yale Lary of A&M boosted his
college punting record to a 40
yard average fot* 71 boots. Lary,
who occupied the fifth spot in thp
pupters division most of season,
juidped into third place colse be
hind the duo from SMU—Kyle Rote
and Doak Walker. ' v
Don Nicholas continues in ninth
place as a leading passer, having
completed 28 passes for a net
gain of 311 yards.
Dick Gardemal remains close be
hind Nicholas with a net gain of
287 yards for 29 completions.
Geno Mazzartti of the Arkansas
Razorbacksds the leading ball car
rier in the conference. Mazzanti
lugged the pigskin ^123 times for
a net gain of 743’ yards. Sonny
Wyatt of the Rice Owls is trailing
Mazzanti by only 39 yards for 137
carries.
Lindy Berry of the TCU Horned
Frogs, upsetters of the SMU Mus
tangs last week, regained his title
as the leading passer in the con
ference with a cdmpleteion aver
age of 49 per cent. Berry has com
pleted 106 passes for 1,445 yards
and 11 touchdowns. He passed for
250 yards against the Mustangs
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Attendance Up
Over *48 Race
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An all-time attendance re-
i cord for Southwest Confer
ence Football was set this
» year. \ I .
[ For 39 home games, 1,268,-
029 fans turned out, bettering last
! year by more than 170,000. Last
. year 34 games drew 1,094,865. The
average in 1948 was 32,202 per
game; this: year it was 32,510.
Southern: Methodist was respon-
~ sible for it. The ^Methodists drew
484.000 for eight! games compared
to ;255,931 for five last year.
—A&M Improves , _
Texas Christian aAd Texas A&M
were the only other schools to
show increaws.
The total (games in parenthe
ses ): \
Texas Christian: 1948, 94,000 (4);
1949, 116,500 (5); 1949'avg., 23,-
300.
Baylor: 1948, 61,490 (4); 1949,
* 53,116 (4) 1949 avg., 13,279
Texas A&M: 1948 62,000 (3);
1949 143,000 (5); 1949 avg., 28,-
600. '
. Southern Methodist: 1948, 256,-
931 (5) 1949 484,000 (8) 1949 avg.,
60,500. *
Arkansas: 1943, 131,000 (6);
1949, 115,000 (6) 1949 avg 19,-
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Texas: 1948 330,000 (6);-1949,
203.000 (6); 1949 avg,, 40,600.
Ricfe: 1948, 159,694 (5);„ 1949
162,913 (6); 1949 avg., 25,486.
Sports Editor’s Note: Although
Mho AP emphasizes the SMU atten-
[ dance as being the outstanding fac
tor in the increased SWC utten-
;dance, the honor of making the
best shmvklff'for the season prob-
*r#bly IjidungH to A&M; .
SMU Had Attractions
(SMU, boasting the defending
ebumpious, featuring an AlLAmer-
. lean back, and winning five of its
home tilts, averaged 00,500 spec
tators Iron a metropolitan area
of some 500,000 population. Texas,
disappointing to its rabid "with-
you-whiic-ydu-win" (ans, lost some
14,500 paid admissions from ; the
1948 average for home games. The
Steers drew an average of 40,600
/•‘.in '49 from a raetropalitan area
with a 125,000 pouplation.
(A&M ranked third in the con
ference on the basis of average
f • attendance per game, 28)600, de
spite dropping eight of ten con-
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Notre Dame Voted
Top Team In Fin a
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New. York, | No\
lighting Irish of Notre Dame today
-eign as college football champ-
ons of 1949. IT
Notre Dame dijew 172 of 248
jfirst place vottep and a bulging tot
al of 2,402 points in the ninth
and final Associated Press poll
o|f football writers and sports-
casters across the| nation.
Although Notre Dame, unbeaten
over a 37-game stretch, still has to
play Southern Methodist Saturday,
most of the other high point teams
last week, completing 17 of 27 have finished their schedules.
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Oklahoma, 41-0 winner over the
Oklahoma Aggies
ond place ffom icle California de
spite! strong j jfirst place support
the Golden
Pacific Coast,
passes.
Adrian Burk of the Baylor
Bears is the second man on the
list, having completed 110 passes
for ,1,428 yards. Paul Campbell
of the Texas Steers is in third place
with a gain of 1,372 yards on 91
tosses,
SMU Punters Lead I Sooner s piled ui
Kyle Rote and Doak Walker of U,018 to 1,900. JP
SMU continue their duet ns t{jc the bbais pfj
lending punters in the conference.
Rote has punted 17 times for u
43.4 yurd average, Walker hjas
booted 23 times for' a 41.7 yard
average. : j ;
Ben Procter, Texas whigman, is
the pass reeelver of the season.
recaptured sec-
Bears from the
lahoma had 18
He Inis caught 13 pusses for 724
yards and six touchdowns.
Second team Alt-America J. D.
Ison of Baylor has caught 42 pass-
es for 457 yards and six touch
downs. Snake. Bailey of TCU leads]
Ison with 502 yards for 37 passes
caught.
Walker contihuCs to score ^nd
lead the conference with 83 points.
Runner-up to Walker is Randall
Clay of Texas with 76 points.
tests this fall and nine of ten last some 30,000. The | remaining Cbn-
. year. Even champion Rice, drawing
support of fans in a 700,000 metro-
* politan area, failed to equal the
showing of the , Cadets.
(The Maroons played four of
their “home” tilts at Kyle Field-
in the center oti a pouplation of
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test of the Aggie^ was in San
tonio, but it failed to draw as many
as the College Station clashes.
(Whoever said something about
“hope springs eternal in the hu
man breast” must have had Aggies
in mind!)
first* to 40 for California but the
a point edge of
)inUi are figured
0 for first, niro
for Xecond so o(i down to one fop
tenth. A
Army's flashy 30-0 rout of Na
vy failed to| boost the Cadet's
fourth-place standing. They polled'
12 Grata amt l.xjlH ppolnts.
The other [[first went to Col
lege of Pacific) wfdch hud four, and
Vlllanova, No. 1 on twoJ>»llots.
Rice From 7th to 5th
Behind the "Big Four” of Notre
Dame, Oklahoma, California and
Army, in thkit order, came Rice,
moving from seventh to fifth on
its 21-7 triumph over Baylor. That
Win guaranteed Rice the South-
West Confercjice crown and the
job of Cottofi Bowl host.
Ohio (Statq, Michigan and Min
nesota, all of whom ended their
regular seasons a week ago, ran
sixth, seventh aftd enghth, in that
order. Ohio State California’s Rose
Bowl opponent, and Michigan each
dropped a peg in the final ratings
but Minnesota v as a firm eighth.
State (Np. 6) are the Rose Bovl
teams. R|ice (No. 5) plays thricn-
beaten North Carolina in the Co ;-
ton Bowl at Dallas.
Notre flame polished off South
ern California, 32-0 at South Berd
Saturday in its last home game
to solidify its position. It was the
fourth Notre Dame second.
The Top Ten
The total filial vote with points
figured bn a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2|-l
basis (first place votes in pare
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1. Notre Dame (172). 2,402
2. Oklahoma (18) 2,018
ountry’s
AP Poll
3. California (40) ,1,900
I! 4. Anny (12) 1,828
5. Rice I...,-. 1,062
i Ohio $tate j 998
7. Michigan i 848
8. Minnesota ! 522
'9. Louisiana State 516
10. College of Pacific (4) 248
The second ten—11, Kentucky
222; 12. Cornell 188; 13. Vlllanova
(2) 148; 14. Maryland 134; 15.
Santa Clara 128; 16. North Caro
lina 106; J 1*7. Tennessee 82; 18.
Princeton 46; 19. Michigan State
&0; 20. Missouri and Baylor, each
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taking ninth pla
ihg 516-point vo -e.
Baylor, Tulane Drop Out
College of Pacific, with one
game to play; finished 10th with the
help of an 8d fc 0 romp over Califor
nia Poly. Both :Saylor and Tulane
dropped out of the top ten.
Five of the first 10 teams have
Jam 2 boW’l dates. It will be No.
2 vs. No. 9 when Oklahoma and
LS(J collide ip New Orleans’ Sugar
Bowl. California (No. 3) and Ohio
SCHEDULES FOR FRIDAY
BASKETBALL, Military _
Team vs Team Court
A CWS E AF 1
FOOTBALL, Military
Team vs [Team Court
A COMP I AF 1
B FA B COMP 21
A FA A ORD 3!
FA E VET 4
ATH C AF 5
TENNIS, Military
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Julian Herring, cinderalla c
der-man from Abilene, has bejen
selected las Star of the Week i
his performance on the ( Agi
eross-coiintry team in the conf
cnee crdHs-eoUntry meet; held
Ausljiii lluft Tuesday.
Herriiijg is the first Aggie ath
lete to bo selected by Thje Battal
ion Spoils Staff an Star of
Week tliis season. Beginning w
this week, the sports staff will
lect one nian each week from anjj of
the vhi]1()Uk major or minor sport
teams. These selections will con
tlnuo until the conclusion of spring
sports in 1950.
Herring was selected because
captured individual honors in
Southwest Conference imeet
edging! Texas’ sophomore harHer
star Tom Rogers by a tenth of a
second to win the 2.6 mile run.
With 30 yards yet to go, Heniog
was trailing Rogers by ten yards.
Any trackman will tell you tjhat
in the 2.6 mile nm it is nearly
impossible to! overcome a 10-yard
lead ■vk'ith Such a short distance
to go. ; j i
Btft Herring put on a tremenc ous
last-minute kick to edge Rogers by
one-tenth of Sj second. Texas Track
Coach* Clyde Littlefield reported
a 9.24: as Herring passed the two-
mile mark, leading Rogers by two
yards. The Conference record for
the two-mile )-ace on a cinder track
is 9:3Gj. j
Herring’s first place enabled the
A&M harriers to take their sec
ond consecutive SWC title. He
bested the previous all-time low
of Jerry Thompson, Texas runner,
by „20! seconds, j
Herring is spoken of as a
deralla man because he had to o
come jgreat odds in order to
his piresent rank on the ctfoss
country team.
In the First place, Herring wasn’t
4:30 i even Catalogued as a rdnner vhen
i he enrolled as a regular freshman
Time ‘ n at the Annex in
He had gained no recognition
' ' cause he had never run.
Herring was noted for his mus
ical tialent, and his chief occ
tion gt the time was playing in
the Aggie Band. Who could
turevUt that time, a thin
poptuier emerging as one of A^M’s
top long-distance sprinters?
Dunne freshman week at
Annex Cnl. Frank Anderson, A.&M
Track eoncji, announced that (hero
wore a few ,vacancies in Hart
for those who would like to gr] ou *'
for track, Hotting was one
small
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Schoolboy Race
Hits FuU Stride
This Weekend
By Associated Press
Texas schoolboy football’s
championship playoff hits
full stride this week when city
conference and Class AA dis
trict winners open bids for
state titles.
Sixteen survivors of first-round
games in Class A square off ill
the second week of their five-week
elimination to pick a successor to
State Champion Monahans.
In the city conference, Sunset of
Dallas and Paschal of Fort Worth
meet Friday night at Fort Worth.
Thomas Jefferson of San Antonio
and San Jacinto of Houston play
Saturday at San Antonio.
Class AA
Class AA first-round playoff
games match:
Pampa vs. Wichita Falls at Pam-
pa Friday (day).
Lubbock vs. Austin of El Paso
at El Paso Saturday (day).
Abilene vs. Breckenridge at‘Abi
lene Saturday (day).
Paris vs. Highland Park at Paris
Friday (^lay). '
Marshall vs. Conroe at Conroe
Friday (day).
Port Arthur vs. Galveston at Port
Arthur Saturday (day).
Corsicana vs. Austin at Austin
Friday (day).
Alice vs. Harlingen at Alice Fri
day (night).
Class A
Class A second-round games; ••
I Lefors vs. Littlefield at Amarillo
Friday (day).
Wink vs. Ballinger at undecided
site.
Bowie vs. Garland at Garland
Friday (night).
Mineola vs. Atlanta at Long
view Thursday (night).
Grand Saline vs.. Mexia at Corsi
cana Friday (night).
Rosebud vs. New Braunfels at
Temple Friday (night).
French (Beaumont) vs. El Campo
at El Campo Friday (night).
Mission vs. Uvalde at Mission
Friday (night).
There are just four undefeated
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A&M’s basketball team
mofrpw morning by train
Madison Square Garden’s
"shooting” session. Tomorrow i
out on the same court to meet one
Hhe
yes In
ontest
in New York City
immediately go
court for a sh
Aggie squad will
the top cage teams
Tying’ Island
players,
Koraw, and trainer 1
here yesterday morning
basketball team's longest*
Coach
Bill Dayton
on
trip
Before returning here on Decem
ber 8, the Aggies will play Ntag-
ra Un verslty In Buffalo, N.
pJ'pLouis Universitj
and Oklahoma Ai
es will play Ni»g-
n Buffalo, N. Y.,
rsity in St. Loiiii. 1
t&M in Stillwater,
Ken Sutton, six-foot, seven-i
eager from Goose Creek, will be
one of the first line replacements
when the Aggies meet the Long
Island University Blackbirds 'in
Madison Square Garden tompr-
rqw night. A center, this will (be
be Sutton’s first year of varsity
cage competition jfor A&M.
Starters
The expected starting lineup for
tomorrow night’s season opener
for the Cadets will probaMy be
sophomores Jewell McDowell and
Buddy Davis, juniors John Dewitt
and Wally Moon and senior .10111
Turnbow. .'pj
Outstanding replacements for the
starting five tomorrow night
against the Blackbirds will be
Kenneth Sutton, Marvin Martin,
Glenn, Williams, and Eddie Houser.
Others on the Aggie squad making
thje trip are Mike Garcia, Raymond
"Woody” Walker, Bobby Farmer,
add Jack Miller.
After the game with Liy to
morrow night, the squad will work
New York City Friday and
tor Buffalo on Saturday
K-
Buffalo Saturday Night
Saturday night the Aggies play
Buffalo, then lay over -
when they will
The squad will arrive there Mon
day and go through a light work-;
out in preparation for its game
.With St. Louis U. on Tuesday night.
Immediately after the St. Louis
game, the team will leave for Still
water, Okla., where It will meet
the .Cowboys from A&M.
The Aggies’ first home game will
be December J2 when they meet
Abilene Christian College on the- ;
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More Shiners Ahead
JULIAN HERRING
Herring would have beeh^f’just
another stjjdent.” '
Anderson logically sums up the
case of Jjuiian Herring (5-feet,
eleven inchjes in height) with these
words, “Just shows what running
will do to pmke a runner”.
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group that Anderson hauled
to (ho cumpua. If it hat
Andirxon’g fonudght,
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Gun Shy Ducks Wise,
Safe on Quiet Water
New York, Nov. 21 (A’i—The
ducks apparently are getting wise
to the ways of the big city.
So wise, in fact, that the sports
men don’t like it.
With the duck-hunting season
opening today, the experts have
noted that thp big migratory
flocks an* using waters within
New York City limits for resting
places.
It’s against the law tb fire a
gun withiji city limits.
’MURAL
NE WS
By HOB ALLEN
Football continue* to Nhapc up
and shjiw the prospective wlnnoro
fur tills year. A Quartermaster
appears to he at leant one of the
strongest tvamn again by remaining
undefeated despite stiff competi
tion. The perpetually strong A
Infantry has a good team atul in
still undefeated in League play.
Also, several teams showing up es
pecially well this season are the
tricky sophomorish A ASA, the
experienced eleven for the Senior
Company, and one of last year’s
powerhouses, C.Infantry.
Monday, the ASA eleven con
tinued to show its power by down
ing a very strong team from II
Flight by penerations in a slow de
fensive game with neither team
willing to yield a defeat. The H
Flight team made their score on a
beautiful 50 yard sprint, but failed
to convert the extra point. A -series
of long well aimed passes gave the
ASA their TD, but they also failed
to convert. The penetration com
parison was quite revealing with
the ASA making three forty-yard
penetrations and one twenty-yard,
while H Flight made one forty-yard
and one twenty-yard.
A second exciting game bn the
football fields was A Infantry-A
Composite. The Infantry contin
ued to show its power by taking
the decision 7-0, oh a two yard
plunge.
Remaining games of the day wtere
A Vet-D Field with the Vets tak
ing the recision 12-7, while F
Flight downed C Coast 13-2, and
B Cavalry downed A Flight 7-0.
Tyler Host Team In
Little Rose Bowl
Tyler, Tex., Nay. 29 UP>—Tyler
Junior College will be the ihost
team in the Texas Rose Bowl here
Dec. 10. j] * ■
The once-beaten Apaches accept
ed the invitation yesterday. ! : [
Several outstanding junior col- the shiner in a football game with
leges are being considered for the neighboring kids. Her prise— a
viiiting team, f ( 1 football. • ^
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test, M ‘
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with (f black eye. She’d pick*
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