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. 1i r t ' 'ni^r It 'Up % By CHUCK CABANISS ie in Jacksonville, Fla., fina - ly brought the 1949 (and ’50T gridiron season to a close. Th|e 22-13 win of the “Rebels” over the “Yankees" turned out tp Saturday’s Senior Bowl be something akin to the Dec. 3 SMU-Notre Dame clash. r Just as the Mustang-Irish tilt finally brought Kyle Rotje publicity on a national scale after he had been playing in th|e shadow^ of highly publicized Doak Walker—so Saturdajl’js tilt added to the stature of Travis Tidwell, fl The talented Tidwell, however, won’t reap the rewards of his fine play when all-star selections are made next fall, as he has completed his football eligibility at Auburn. Rote, bn the Other hand, can expect to fall heir to some of the fin est pre-season copy that the nation’s sports writers can pound out on their typewriters before the Karo Kid begins playing his final year as a Pony this fall. .Lack of pre-season publicity may have been what kept the former Birmingham, Ala., prep star off of the ’49 all- everything teams. National propaganda prior to the cam-j paign and during the early season contests was devoted largely to Eddie Price of Tulane and Charlie Hunsinger cf Florida as far as Southeastern Conference backs were con cerned; Both Price and Hunsinger failed to take advantage of this “head start” when playing against key opponents and consequently lost out in the final rankings. Tidwell, on tie basis of his ’49 play, was named the most valuable player in the SEC, yet the only All-American team he was named to was Williamson’s. Tossin’ Travis Started Fast ‘ ~ ' / • i Tidwell’s performances this year sports pages that when both he and aren’t actually as surprising as Hairy Gilmer, the great Alabama they might seem Jon H.he surface, tosser, were attending the sanie The Tiger quarterback as a fresh- high school, that Tidwell—not All- man in 1940 led the entire iiftion American Gilmer—had ; been the * ’ *" ... Yione first team tailback; seems Harry 1 1 -L -C rrs •„ ' 1 A.1 in tod offense—topping dthei' than UT’s Bobby Layne. That was the fall when had to sub for Travis at the time. However, some time in the service mat, was me mil wnen toe 8eparated hiph and co nege Steers temporarily unseated Army for Ti £ welli and me anwh le a jump-passer for the Crims )n be upset by Rice. Notre Dame, of j 1 - - ^ e * Williamson explained his choi spot nationally, a‘bed by Navy s f the Auburnite is his system’s sensational 18-21 battle with Army. .. most valuable player of t f, e 8e fWell, great things were predict- son” (for the whole nation—t ed of young Tidwell at the time. SEC award was a coaches’ selec- But that old injury jinx that pla- tion) by describing Timvell as gues so many? 1 prospective stars truly inspiring player. The pro spoiled his next two seasons when nosticator said that the Alabama he was bothered by a broken ankle, Poly eleven was not plated to wi n and by the fall of ’49 the sports a single game, yet it won two apd writers had forgotten him. tied three more in ten claspes In ’46 it was announced in the largely'because of Tidwell. , Tigers Thumped Some Powers Victims of--|the Plains Tigers way of comparison, Le Baron of were Mississippi State jand^Ala- the “Yankees” had wori the most bama; the tied teams jfere Flor- valuable award for the East-Westj ida, Georgia, and Clemson. Even Shrine Classic im Sanf Francisco Tulane and Georgia Tech,, win- last Saturday. In Jacksonville; the ners over Auburn, were battled Auburn back passed apd ran, as down to the wire for close losses. well as quarterbacked for his team; Acting as quarterback Saturday except for the presence of na- for the “Rebels” (athletes from the tional punting record-holder Jus- Southeastern and Southern Con- tice, he probably would have punt- ference), Price, Hunsinger, and ed, too. Herb Rich of Vanderbilt, who * Of course, brilliant as Tidwell played with him. ' -'y was, he didn’t completely spoil the Not even the opposing “Yankees” day for the other, more highly (players from the rest of the publicized players. “Rebel” end country, including the SWC) could Art Weiner njade up some for liis produce as fine a performer, des- rather disappointing Cotton Bowl pite the-' talent present in the performance, as did Justice, -.form of Doak Walker, Lynn Chand- Walker had one sizzling 50-yard nois of Michigan State, JEddie Le- punt return that set up a sco|re, Baron of College ; of I the Pacific, Chandnois and Borneman were ;f- and Paul Campbell an^ Ray Borne- fective,-and : the aerial cbmbinati man of Texas. of Catnpbell, to Oklahoma’s Jim Tidwell also was the outstanding Owens rivaled the Tidvrell-Weiner player in the Blue-Gray classic in duo for brilliance. Line; play Montgomery, Ala., last week; by terrific, too. , 'Clippings from the Sports Fronts : 1 • U; ‘ J.-;.. ustang Tilt Tip-off “Buddy” Davis, 6’ 8” Cadet center, outjumps SMU center “Cotton” Mitchell at the beginning of last Wednesday’s 53- 48 loss to the Mustangs. Ag guard Jewell McDowell (10) is ready tdj take the tip as Ponies Jack Brown, right; Fred Freeman (42), "Titer, and “Whitey” Holms move into action. Long John DeWitt be seen behind SMU ace Brown. it -V- Battalion PORT MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1950 Page 3 ’Mural Basketball Closes This Week r i 4 Gayther Nowell, pro at the Bryan 19.’il when they trounced Iona, golf links and Aggie coach, has 29-0. The Spartans shoijld be full- j requested.'that ail persons desir- fledged members of that circuit by ingTto go out for the ’50 Cadet ’52 since only schedule^difficiiltjies “ tigolf team contact him at once at are keeping them out of the Mid- ' his' office at the Bryan municipal western conference’s ; ehampion- course. ship battles right now. 1 ^ w A&M may have received ari’as- A&M met the Ijmsing team once ■ sist from “influenza” . . . Arkun- beftirc, in 19:14, losing^] l.‘{-26, to sus basketball dbach Presley As- thenMichiganites. i kew has entered a hospital suffer- Speaking of football reminds us ing from an attack of the flu. He 0 f the many former Aggie folot- probaUy won t be able to accom- bailers now making good in minor pany jthe Porkers to Texas for circuits . . . Wendell Swann, fish games with Rice and the Aggies elw i ! f r o„, J e ff Davis in '47, vas (next Thursday, Jan. 12, for the named to Williamshn’s Jr. College College Station tilt). All-America (he’s playing for Pan- Ah announcement that the Ca- ola.JC); among Williamson’s hhn- dets will meet Michigan State in orable mention JC players. were a grid, contest in 1962 means''that tackle “Tiny” Hardin and quar- the Maroons will meet a Big Ten terback Lecnler of Wharton (both eleven for the first time since ’47 fish at A&M) ■ 1 * -r--——4— i BOWL IJ; m RELAX! ... at otul' modem alleys, ' just opened for the new season. Our bowling i ' ■ ' i r ; , , r l ■' equipment is the finest and most complete in this area. You will bowl your best here! Bryan Bowling Center mmmmm \ V|| r: ‘ j isl By FRANK N. MANITZAS Basketball semi-final brackets were completed when E Air Force defeated A Quartermaster 19-,12 in DeWare Field House, Friday night. In the basketball-semi-final matches tp be played this week E Air Force is pitted against H Air jForce and D Infantry meets A Cavalry. In the basketball game .between E ipr Force and A QMC, Jack Shugart of the Air Force and V. R. porter of the Quartermaster team tiedj for high honors with six points each. Bob Dehonev of E Flight and C. T. Neal of A QMC werp two of the outstanding play ers jin the; game. Intramural football reached the| quarterfinal stage after two iied| hot. apd blue games last week. H Air Force routed the cloak and dagber mpn af ASA by three pen etrations, although the score does not jdescribe the brand of ball dis played byj each of the teams. In oth^r game of the week, A Coast Artillery jumped G Air Force out of the playoffs by two penetrations althjough leach teams scored. Hill Stars Jphn “Podnuh” Hill of H Air- Foi|:e was the main gun of the airmen. Hill passed, ran, and kick ed the ball all over the field. He set: up oijie very probable touch down with a long pass to A1 Sex- ton( who ivus downed on the ASA four yard line. ASA’s defense was perfect atj they held the powerful flyers for four dbwns and took pos- sesiion of the pigskin on their own onel foot line. In the closing plays of the giifee, Carl Scudder, ASA back, put | on quite an aerial show us the A^A; team tried in vain to geti back pi the ball game. Jimmy Farrell of A Coast inter cepted an air force pass and ran it fori more than fifty yards down the; sideline to' score. The point after touchdown play by the Coast- men was stalled with stellar play from G; Flight’s line. Nick Holland scored for the flyboys on a pass from Kinsey Hallmark, who threw the ball on a neat Statue of Lib erty play. Point after touchdown attempt failed, and the Coastmen went on to win the game by two penetrations. ; | a ; Playoffs Begin Quarterfinal playoffs in flag fodjtball will begin today ‘with E Infantry battling it out with the Senior Company, A Quartermaster meeting B Engineers,; A Infantry tangling with H Air Force, and A Coast Artillery taking to the grid iron . against B Infantry. Horseshoe play continued inspite of the cold weather. C Infantry scored a win over A Vet and A Signal "Corps repeated this act with a Win over B Composite. Both games were forfeits. A QMC took a forfeit-win over A Air Force,. Chem Warfare pitched a win over drowned the flaming 1 torch of A Ordnance. There have been 540 games play ed this school year in basketball, tennis, football, horseshoes, and ^landball intramural events. In all of these events there have been 7,311 participants. A&B’s intra mural program is the largest one of its kind. Baylor Tosses TU In Cellar, 49-43 Waco, i'ex., Jan. 9—•A’)—The Baylor Bears got back on the win ning trail here Saturday defeating the Texas; Longhorns, 49-43, in the Southwest Conference opener for th^ Brjiins before 3,200 parti san fans. | The lead in the closely fought game changed hands 12 times; with Baylor takjng a final lead with 4 minutes to go in rthe game, on Odell Preston’s goal. Preston add ed another free throw and with two minutes to go the Bears start ed freezing the ball. Then taking advantage of Texas personal fouls, the Bruins; went, on to win their sixth gumd in thirteen starts. Don Heathington paced the Bruins with 17 points, before go ing out with five personal fouls with seven minutes to go. Veteran Tom Hamilton paced the Steers with 13 points. Michigan State'Meets Aggies There in ’52 College $tatioii, Tex., Jan. 9—<A*» —A&M will play Michigan State in football at East Lansing, Mich., Oct. 11, (952, Athletic • Director Barlow Irvin announced today. A return game between the "two schools in |Dallas, Houston or Col lege Station may be arranged for 1953 or 1954, Irvin said.’ Rebels Defeat Y SWC Cuts Off P 2|-13; Monks Wins AFLA Crown In Houston By JOHN WHITMORE ? Gerald Monks, member of the Aggie fencing team, took top place honors at the AFLA Novice Foil competition meet held Saturday in Houston, f This win; came as a climax of Monk’s wiqning 14 bouts with no losses. The final point bout was fought with Malcomb Call, Rice fencer. Monk in a spectacular fleches attack stryck Call with such force that blade of Monks’ foil was bent doubly. The blade re bounded and flew approximately 30 feet over the heads of the spectators. This fleches attack is one in which the offensive man lunges, Five Opponents Of Ags Listed Top Hoopsters BASED ON AP REPORTS St. John’s of Brooklyn, a small school with a murderous schedule, was ranked the ; top college team of the nation ih the Associated Press’ first basketball poll of the campaign. The Brooklynites down ed NCAA champion Kentucky ayd National Invitation Tourney king pin San Francisco en route to its sweep of its firpt 12 games;. The Redmen (yes, Indians in Brooklyn!) were toppled from the unbeaten list last Tuesday by CCNY, 54-52, bijit still nosed out Kentucky Wildcats for the poll leadership. In all, 32 trains received at least 16 points in the voting, de monstrating the] spread of high caliber teams thj-ough most of the country. I Kentucky Still Wins Kentucky, a young, rebuilt team, rallied after its 69-58 beating by St. John’s and topped DePaul, Purdue, VillanoVa, Bradley, and Arkansas. The Wildcats won the recent Sugar Bowl tournament. Some idea of the prowess of the teams that A&M has, played can be gained by observing that five of the eight teams that have downed the Aggies are^among the 32 top quintets in the ^Sll. LIU is ranked fourth, St. Louis eleventh, and in the group from spot 20 through '32, Oklahoma A&M, Niagara, and Arizona are listed. Only SMU, Stanford, and Cali fornia among victors over A&M are not included on the poll. Poll Results The to;) teams (first-place bal lots in parenthesis, and records in cluding Tuesday night’s games); Team— R< 1— St. John’s (00) 1! 2— Kentucky (!11) j... ' 3— Bradley (2) J ‘ Long Is. U; (18) .11 5— Indiana (12) 6— Holy Cross (8) 7— N. 0. State| (4) 8— Duquesne 1 T/M Pts. 696 630 485 470 418 315 232 141 140 102 9—UCLA 10— .-Minnesota |(1) Tlhe second ten: 11— St. Louis I. 6-1 99 12— Missouri 8-1 94 13— Villanova J 7-2 88 14— CCNY (1) 8-2 88 in—Wisconsin 8-2 88 1«—Illinois 7-3 M 17— Oklahoma B-2 18— LaSalle I ;... 6-2 64 19— Bowling Gifeen 10-4 51 20— Kansas Stafe ......4 . . 9-3/ 46 Others with 16 or more points included; Washington (lOi-l), 42; Cincinnati (6-0), 41; Siena (13-0), 39; Oklahoma City U. (11-2), 39! Western Kentucky ((L3), 33; San Francisco (5-4), 31; Oklahoma A&M (7-2), 28; Tulane (9-2). 20; New York U. (1) (6-4), 17; Ni agara (8-1), 16; Syracuse (7-i), 16; Arizona (8-1), 16. STANDARD RECORD SALE While 480 Records Last | I BUY ONE AT 69c ^ You get two more FREE! Shaffer’s Book Store if STORAGE HATTERS Wim ,. „ College Station Representative — Loupot’g Trading Post ’"/—T -F- I' ■■ ■I I-;. -| combining the lunge with a run into his opponent. Out of the 14 fleches Monks attempted, 12 were completed. The only other serious threat to the first place slot was Stewart Hadden, Corpus Navy Station,! who lost after a close 6-4 bout. Hadden was the captain of the Yale fencing team before he 1 became a naval of ficer at Corpus. Jennes Beaten by Gollob Out of the eight men who went down from A&M. five made the semi-finals. E. T. Jenness, who has been on the A&M teamj W only four months, was beaten by. Craus Gollob, 6-1. Gollob was the winner of the Houston Prep meet held three weeks ago. Gollob beat Jenness with a series of fast parry-ripostessi, Jenness fought a defensive bout. Carroll Bell from A&M missed the minals by one touch. He lost to Frank Lever, the fifth pflace winner of last year’s meet. Lever is the captain of the Rice team. Bell was in very good form, us ing many good, clean ripostes and single disengages. Wilson, Owen Win Other Aggies who went to the semi-finals were Curtis Wilson and B. L. Owen. Twenty r nine men participated in the meet. Stewart Hadden came in the second place slot after Monks edged him out. Horace Flatt, Rice blademan, came in third in the meet. A brief run down of the finals’ statistics was: Monks, 5-0; Had den, 4-1; Flatt, 3-2; Lever, also of Rice, 2-3, and Marvjn Mercado of the University of Houston’s team came in last with 1-4. fi The meet was held [ under I the auspices of the Amateur Fenting League of America in the Rice In stitute Gym. Part of the A&M team is,scheduled to enter a novice sibre and open foil meet which will be held in Galveston next Sat urday. Snow Trucks’ Radios Washington—— ^he Capital Transit Co. has installed radios in 16 of its snow fighting trucks— but not to amuse the drivers: ! The radios will be shortwave sets by which the company will direct the; trucks here and there to dump sand. liK? art to a 22-to413 vjc- i Yankees in the Senior er of to th< 1 was even bet- rback, le in arterl »luab 13."* Rebel Al tory over Bowl gar Charlie Ju line and Doal Methodist lived notices, but l?id ter. The little Auburn qua who was named most val Southeastern Conference, got the same honor in this classy field of All-America and all-conference players from evevy section of the nation. I ! , IM ■ : Tidwell tossed nineteen times to connect on thirteen for an amazing gain of 246 yards. End Art Weiner of North Carolina, teamed With Tidwell to make a great combina tion. He fielded eight of those throws for 189yaids||j; 4 ij, Campbell Pa The losing Yank; Great| ■ also had Campbell threw twenity-seven times,* hit on eighteen foe 147 yards. bnly 20.000 fan* turned out to see th«i All-Stars star. Bui they got a real show tout of the fifty players. Besides the;aerial fireworks was a „ demtonstratiton of toiigh) [ defensive f line play by both walls.!!/ ; P Tackle Wade W’alker of Okla- ^ homa and Center Clayton Tpnne- maker of ; minnesato, both All- America, led a Yankee iine that held the Rebels to forty-six yards by rushing! The Yanks coplijl run for only pixthy-threto agbinst a Rebel linje; that wai) tough from end to end; Offense Topped Defense The pass defense looked mighty weak in comparison. But it wasn’t that nearly so much tos the ac curacy with which Tidwell, Camp bell and Eddie LeBaron.of College of the Pacific could dmp that ball in the rigiht spot. Key kicli returns by Justice and Doak Walker added to the thrills. Walker started the Yiifiks off to their Hist score with a ‘ rtinhttck for fifty-seven yards. Justice opened the way to two Rebel touchdowns. He Went 26 to began the first drive and 29 to start the last. ![ Tidwell threw to Herb Rich, Van derbilt bajek, for a 55-yard play that scored the first Rebel 6-point er. On fpprth down hes set one in the arms I,of John O'Quinu, Wake Foreest qpd, for 13 yards and the second. Price Scorey TD Another Tidwell to Rich toss cov in the Eddie ored it 9red most of 33 yards touchdown march, j Tulgne ' fullback, scor th a 1-foot smackover. Dick Sheffield, Tulane, bobted o extra points and the R<bels r pa(r when Jim orest, blocked one 4f LeBa t on’s kicks. Before the Rebels got started, the ankees had their scoring fling* aking it from D. Walker’s 57- ard runhack, they moved 32 y irds- i a "hurry. Lynn Chandnois, M chi. m State, rammed over from the « n f to h j a ! Off Darrel Royal mf Oklahoma, (vhc [ layed only defense because of a 1 i leg, started I the Yankees off 76:yard scoring march with ss interception—the only one < dwells arm. Lebaron threw to wens on a 46-yard scoring pass. ,; Walker kicked one extra point. . Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 9—'.'P'— Seven players Who participated; in ; Saturday’s Senibr Bowl game were . dropped from the athletic schpljar- Shpi rolls of their colleges, it was disclosed here. I | Billy Pearre, general manager of the, Senior Bowl, said three pchools of the!.Southwest 'Cpn-i jference announced they wcjuld cut off funds (of the players .■ause they got cash awards Btor playing in thp post-season game ere.'' ' ’ ' 1 ; The players jncluded: Rgy Bort man and Paul! CampbeH of Texas University; Dick McKissick, Jgck Haliiday and Doak _Wnlker[Jof «I i The 20 wirjning iNorth-South jboiit each ns their shafe of the louthern Methodist; Theron Rob- jerts of Arkaiisas; and J, B. Ison pf Baylor. Winnerk Received $475 players fn (he ;h got $475 r -s their share of the gate 're ceipts and the 24 losers each was awarded $343. Pearre said none re fused the money. . 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