Steinke Hired,
Promoted For
Athletic Director Barlow Irvin
announced today that AftM’e vat-
Hity football coaching staff la
"aot” for I960 with the addition
of Gilbert Steinke as a backfield
coach and promotion Of William
(Dog) Dawson to an end tutor.
Steinke reported for work Tues
day.
He in a former little all-Ameri
can back at Texas A&I. Steinke
played professional football three
seasons with the Philadelphia
Eagles and led the National
League in punt returns in 1946.
Later he was backfield coach
at Trinity University in San An
tonio and freshman football Coach
‘Sinful Seven’
May Not Play
NCAA Teams
Chicago, Jan. 18—OP)—The Na-
—-• ! tional Intercollegiate Athletic Con-
' 4 ference set about proving today
that it has teeth in its bite after
all. TI snapped back again at six
violators of its sanity code—-Vir
ginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Mil-
t tary Institute, Maryland, Boston
College and Villanova.
They are barred from schedules
and NCAA, sponsored meets under
the organization’s constitution. It
, is as simple as that. At least,
that is what the new NCAA presi
dent, Hugh C. Willett, of Southern
California and secretary-treasurer,
K. L. (Tug) Wilson, Big Ten com
mission, think. -u
It is all' a matter of reminding
NCAA members that they (brush
v up on: the constitution and abide
by What it says in black and white
—the "conditions and obligations
of membership” clause. This re
quires that members schedule in
tercollegiate -contests "only with
institutions which conduct their
athletic programs in conformity
with the principles set forth in ar-
iticle Three (The Sanity Code).”
lid. After a stormy New York con-
. ] vention, last week, many observers
I wandered where the NCAA’s teeth
' were. Seven schools were branded
4 as'code violators, a charge which
they admitted. When it came
down to voting about their expul
sion, they survived by a mairgin
•' • of 25 ballots. i
" » The seventh School, The Citadel,
resigned from the NCAA. |The
at Oklahoma A&M| last fall. '
Stsinke is married apd has foi
year old twin sobs
year-old daughter.
Steinke Tutors Pish
Next fall Steinke and aj' yet to
be named mentor will handle the
freshman squad. Head football
coach Harry Stiteler said
new backfield tutor will serve i:
a “specialist" capacity, helpin
Todd with the varsity backs, too,
Irvin said that- Steinke wil
help with the freshman basketbai
and baseball program during those
sports’ seasons.
| The new coach said whefn inter,
viewed yesterday. “I’m pleased to
come to A*M and work with such
coaches as Harry and Bones. I(
is indeed a privilege."
, Dawson Scouted ia *49
Dawson served as a scout in ad
dition to working with <thb Aggi<
fish and ineligible squads in 1949
Under the new setup, lie become;
a member of the varsity Staff.
Stiteler said that in spring drill:
he and Dawson will work with th«
ends, backfield poach Dick Tod<i
and Steinke with the backs, ant
line coach Bill DuBose and the
yet to be named freshman line
coach with the tackles, guards and
centers.
Dawson played on the outstand
ing football teams that represented
A&M just before the war and' wap
an all-conference eager as a cen
ter for the Cadets. ! i
Dawson
Varsity
t£P&4e re ® ed '
declaring that
if strikes at reCruit-
uhworkable and imprac-
Willett ajnd Wilson believe that
although the so-called rebel schools
retained membership, the vote cer
tainly cannot be construed as giv
ing them a clean bill of health.
Safety Course
Starts in Sbisa
i v ■ : * 1 ‘- ■ I.
J. C. Stennet, chairman of
ASSE Committee on cooper
ation with Egineering Col
leges, got the three day safety
short course underway at 10
this morning with a talk: on a de
scription of the course, its needs,
and objectives.
Three more talks were heard dur
ing the morning, one of which was
“Cooperation with ASSE” by a
A. D. Cadell, executive secretary
of the American Society (of Safe
ty Engineers of Chicago.
Talks were heard ih the after
noon session by various members
of the course on; Instructional
Materials Required,. Staff Require
ments, Facilities Required, and a
Discussion of Admihistratjive Prob
lems. , j
Tomorrow the course goes into
its second day with announcements
and into introductions; by the
course director, followed hy a talk.
Introduction to Course hy W. N.
Cox Jr., Head of the Safety De
partment' of the Georgia Institute
Technology.
The course closes- at 4 :30 p. m.
Friday after a discussion headed
by Stennet. "r • . I
Jan. 18 MPl—Holy
• - - John’s
Cross Monday replaced St. Johr
of [Brooklyn as the nation’s No.
college basketball team in tl
iwceklv Associated Press poll.
red-hot Chusaders of Wor-
t Mass., one of the country’s
•major unbeated teams, nosed
t. John’s 1,037 to,982 points,
ranked fifth in last week’s
Crusaders made it thirteen
ht triumphs last Saturda;
srtaight triumphs last Saturday
night by trouncing Georgetown, 77
to j61. The previous night George-
r «■>..«. .i, a terrific
ten finally
-to-66 vic-
gave St.j Johri’s
ire! before the Red Men
out a squeaky 67-to-
toify.l
Red Men Fall .
The Red men (14-1), who fell off
the top perch for the first time
this \ season. Swung thirty-five
firist place votes to capture the
rutmer-up spot from Long Island
University. The, Blackbirds (12-1)
attracted twenty-seven first place
nominations to finish with • 871
point and retain their hold on third
place.
Bradley of Peoria, 111., boosted it
self two notches into fourth place
by picking up la pair of Victories
over i the week. I
Kejntucky. upset by Tennessee
Saturday, dropped from second to
fifth!: place.
The Pittsburgh Dukes, undefeat
ed ini twelve starts, whipped strong
Cincinnati and Loyola of Chicago
to climb two 'notches into sixth
place.
Top Teams Ranked
The top teams (first-place bal
lots in parenthesis, pnd records in
cluding Saturday night’s games
with ; first place worth 10 points,
seconid place: 9 points and so on
doWn the linier!
TtiPm— ! ■ j Rec.
li Holy Cross! (47) 13-0
2 St. John’s ! (35) 14-1
31 Long Island (27) ... 12-1
4. Bradley (3) 1... 14-2
5i Kentucky (3) U 9-2
6. Duquesne (4) ...! 12-0
7. OCNY .....J U. 9-2
Pts.
1,037
992
871
709
623
610
373
237
204
177
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Indiana (3)
UCLA (3) ..
10. LaSalle (1) J 0-2
~ Second Ten
11. Ohio State i..„ 8-2
12. N. C. Statie j 11-3
13. Kansas State (2) - .10-3
14. Western Ky 9-4
15. Tulane 11-2
16. Minnesota j.,. 9-2
17. Tennessee 7-5
18. Villanova 10-2
19. Louisville ! 14-2
, 20. Cincinnati ! 7-1
Others With; 10 or more
i included: USd (10-S) 35, Arizona
(11.1) 32. Wisconsin (9-3) 31,
I Wyoming (1544) 24 Siena (15-1)
i 23! Oklahoma. City 12-2) 21, Ok-
| lahoma (6-4) feO. W ashington (13
2) 20. Colorado (8-3) 17, Canisius
(9-3) 16, and :Bowli;ig Green (11
6) 16.
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rMIllP.MOR
Fish and Game Club
Will Have Pics Made
Members of the F
Clubj will have a
made for the
day, January 18 at
the East side of the
tiqn Building, accord
Swank, club Sponsor
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points
Improving his
Walter “Buddy
ter from Nederla
sen by
as the Star of
performance! in
Davis guardet
during; most of
the veteran Steer
ing a single gqa‘
the Aggie soph
Him.
Sparkling Jew
flashy all-conference contender, al
play steadily
DSvis 6’ 8” cen-
nd, has been cho-
The Battalion sports staff
t he Week for his
tjhe Texas contest.
Tom Hamilton
tlhe fray and kept
center from scor-
during the time
so Won the plaud
servers for his
standing play.
basketball at Nederland High
School and made all-district the
last- three seasons. As a senior hie
collected 648 points for the Bull
dogs and later played in thb ’48
All-Star game at the Texas coach
es annual schooh
Somewhat unbsual is the fact
that Davis’ father has never
„ — . rhissed a varsity game in which
was assigned to Budd” competed i that was played
in Texas. And both his father arid
McDowell, mother are frequent visitors to
Aggieland to watch him perform
for the Cadets bn the maplewood
court. • C4 ■; -
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Face Ags
Bryan-College
‘Sports’ Named
Leauge Entry
The Bryan-College Station
Sports are the newest mem
bers of the East Texas Base
ball League, according to re
ports received last night.
Replacing the defunct iBryun
Bombers, the Sports are owned,
by a group of men—names undis
closed—who form the Bry«n-Col-
lege Station Sportsman’s Club.
This group recently posted $1,700
as a player’s salary guarantee,
heading the team into a fourth
season for local professional base
ball.
Arrangements for use 8f Bomber
Field have not been disclosed, but
are expected to be released soon.
Franchise for the new local club
was approved at a meeting yester
day of the East Texas league at
the Randolph Hotel in Henderson.
Last year’s season found the
Bombers in the cellar at the close
of play. Their total attendance
figure for the year was also dis
appointing.
A&M’s baseball team defeated
the Bombers, 8-3, in a game here
last spring. Later the Bryan team
avenged th? loss with a 10-4 win
on Bomber Field.
Battalion
SPORTS
WED.,
•IAN. 18. 1950
ts of the local ob-
conjtinually out-
Particularty first
ish and Game
group picture
Aggieland Wednes-
5:30 p. m., on
Administra-
ing to Wendell
of the club.
Swank also statec that
_.ig wits scheduled for 5 p. m. the
sanie day in the Wildlife Manage-
students plan-
annual North
Conference in
meiit Lab for ’ those
ning to attend the
American Wildlife
San Francisco durinj; March. Wild-
lifef management ju
and; graduate studen
iiiors, seniors,
:s interested in
attending the conference are urged
to be present
Swank added.
class jwas Little Mac’s play against
Arkansas. He scored 17 points and
handcuffed Pork er standout Ger
ald Hudspeth, holding him to six.
Improvement Shows
Big Buddy cujt the meshes for
16 points in the Steer clash in
Austin, and by his “hitting spree”
gave evidence of living up to some
of his potential ties as an offen
sive ace. The Nederland athlete
led the Cadet al tack, topping Mc
Dowell’s runner-up total by three
field goals.
Last year Dt vis sparked the
Fish cagers with his 13-plus point
average per tilt. He tallied 162
markers during his first year at
A&M as the freshmen won eight]
of their 12 games.
Not: just one-sport man. Buddy
is a top flight high jumper. He
wop points for the Fish in several
meets last spring. Head varsity
track coach “Col. Andy” Anderson
is: expecting the youthful giant to
improve oh his best ’49 jump—
at the 6’ 4” mark—during the com
ing cinder season.
Majoring iii AH
Davis is majoring In animal hus
bandry and is slated to graduate in
1952. The twenty-year-old eager’s
older brother, A. J., was attending
A&M last year and playing on the
ineligible football squad but has
since transferred back to Lamar
Junior College in Beaumont.
Buddy lettered fbur years in
NK HOLIDAY
The banks of Bryan and College Station
will be closed Thursday, January 19, 1950
in observance of Robert E. Lee’s birthday,
a legal holiday.
FljRST
CITY
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’MURAL
NR WS
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
C Infantry gathered in the In
tramural tennis championship (with
a 2-1: win over A Infantry. | This
was the seventh straight win for
C Infantry this season. Forming
the winning team were Frank
Thomas, Roy Nance, Bob Grimes,
Bob Nailer, Bob Grimes, and Jim
Steen.
In the other intramural pvent
yesterday, E Field Artillery drop
ped B Engineers, 2-1, to reach
the final round of the horseshoe
play-offs. E field will meet the
winner of thej A Infantry and B
Veteran match for the champion
ship. W. E. Goodwin, Willie £lipp,
Tigted Matushj Bill Dickens, BUI
Walker, and Gene Colville com
posed the E Field Artillery team.
A Quartermaster and A In
fantry will play Friday lot the
flag football championship of the
military class.
With the playoffs in all. of this
I semester’s sports almost complet-
I ed, interest is turning to wrestling
| which will offer the next intra-
! mural competition. ^ed the name: vest
Last year’s champions included ^ Hard . tn ‘* un , iw TT*”
Bobby Carlson of C Infantry, who » tiU operatfa j f oM:
won his third consecutive 139-
pound title; K,en Rogers of C Cav
alry, who annexed hid second
straight 179-pound diadem and Don
Kutch of C Field Artillery, who
chalked up a second consecutive
119-pound championship!
Other titlists included Otto Yel-
ton in the 149-pound division and
Bob Schubert of QMC in the 159-
pound bracket. Bill Lee of CWS
took the 169-pound division with an
upset win over Jake Lessner of
A Infantry and Bill Hays of A
Field Artillery downed Bob Bland
of B Air Force for 1 the 'Heavy
weight crown.
, A&M’h
team will try ito improve
record tonight when the
ing Rice Owls make a ter
field Mouse.
five m the
cage-curtalir at 6. playing: the
Bluebells. The Sllrned have beaten
Wharton Junior College, n team
that the A&M first-year men lost
to in their firat outing.
Currently tied foi* place
with Texas, the Aggies will have
a good chance tonight to pu|l back
into the thiqk of the raep. The
Owls have one victory to their
credit against three losses.
The game is uniqub In that the
conference’s leading dffensive unit,
Rice, will be bitteef against the top
defensive quintet. Also, the tilt
will feature the league'!) leading
point-makers — Jesyel McDowell
and Joe McDermott,; crubc or the
feathered attack. ] 1
High Average
Rice, despite its ! poor record,
enters the game with a 62 point
average per game. Thje Cadets have
held the opposition : to only 46.4
per contest, ij j ,|j J
Before the fight ; for the con
ference crown got underway, the
two Macs—iMcDowdll and Mc
Dermott—held the j number one
and two slots in scoring.
During the first two weeks, Mc
Dermott set the pace.. McDowell
took the reigns two’: weeks before
conference | competition started,
and, many sports-faijs believe that
the two court-masters will regain
the top two[ positions sooh, with
DeWare Field House the launch
ing spot tonight.
Hogan in Playoff
With Sneac Today
By BOB mVf.R!«;
Los Angeles, Jan. 18 •b’P' Lit
tle Ben Hogan, Mr. Comeback
himself,'gets!.a chance fop revenge
today from Bam'Snead.: ;
Top two names ii| th?; realm of
professional golf, they are booked
to tee off ih an 11-hole duel to
break their tie registered Jaiit week
in the $15.0<)0 Los j Angeles Open.
The scene: | the Riviera Country
Club; with its 7,020 yards of par
35-36—71 chpllengei l !
It was a belated play-off, post
poned when rain washed put the
original struggle last .Wednesday.
Today's winner Collects $2,600,
the loser $1,900, and both! split ev
enly 50 per cent ojf tjie i gate re
ceipts.
But much more than the $700
difference iini prize! money; Is at
stake. • I ' 1
Last Week’s finish is well record
ed In the minds .of golf fans: now —
how Hogan, in his first tournament
since a car-bus crash nearly killed
him 11 months agtj, had tpc title
won, and hoW Snead, heeding, two
pars and two birdies in the final
four holes tojtie Hogan, got! them.
Midwestern New Name
Wichita Falls, TeX., Jam 18 -(.'Pi
Midwestern Upivermty is | the new
name of a Texas School.; Hardin
College's board of
Warren Switzer
Rice Captain
Battleship Missouri
Goes Aground in Mud
Washington r .Jan. 18 lAb—-lihe
Navy said the battleship Missouri
went agroqnd oh a mud flat known
a? Thimble Shtjmls in Hampton
Roads today.
The battleship was headed hut
to sea on a routine run to Guan
tanamo, Cuba.
Twelve tugs failed in an attempt
to pull the Missouri free. The
Navy said Captain W. D. Brown
expects to wait until this after
noon’s high tipe before making
another attempt to get off.
The Navy skid no cause had
been determine^.
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AA Schools Begin Golf
Austin, Tex., Jan. 18 — (Ah—
Texas Class A A high schools will
begin golf competition this year.
The Big City Conference inaugura
ted links competition last year.
Cager Tickets
Change Price
A new
to basket
announced
partment. , r
Beginning w|th
Rice contest,
will be $1
| De -
I Ith tonight’s
est. tickets for adults
.90; for students (kin
dergarten : through’ [college)
50e, and for “T” Card holders,
basketball
I that: there
the var-
ere is a
br r e n k !r g OUt
filled gym
the placers.
17f.
Marty
coach, has
be no sm,
slty games. He
possibility tof fi:
and also a sm<
definitely^ bindei
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Trade With LOU — He’s Right Wfth Y<
package*, has piled
goals and 14 free-shots for
of 66 points in SWC play.
For the entire season,
leader from Lufkin has i
shots from the field and
tosses for a grand total Of 244
talliaa. t ? He haa averaged better
than 16 points per game.
McDermott Ihingerotts
Because of hi* active rebound
work and “hocus-pocu*" hook
shots, McDermott possesses all-
around court flnessse. He's the
player to Watch In the Owl 'attack,
and the Aggie player who Will
watch him in an attempt t,<> choke-
his scoring will be either John De-
Witt or Buddy Davis, who turned
in a top-notch defensive job
against Tom Hamilton In Satur
day's TU game.
McDowell Has bucketed 244
points in entire season play to
loom high in the scoring column.
He has made 83 field gohls and
50 charity shots to average better
than 13 markers a game.
Rice’s starting alignmeht will
probably consist of Warm Switz
er anti Jim Gerhardt at the forward
positions, J. D. White and' Charlie
Tlghe at the guard slots, : rid .Mc
Dermott at center.
Switzer, captain of the team and ,
three-year letterman, tear is with
McDermott, to work Rice’s one-two I
punch.. Switzer has a nHty way
of - fcking his guard out if posi
tion and dribbling in for lay-ups.
The 6’2” Houstonian is dlsp fair
oh set-shots. Switzer has [swished
the. nets for 44 points during this
flag race, an. average of lA points 1
per tussle.
Number three Owl
to watch is guard J.
ti’ 2” transfer student fro
White has also meshed* 1
a game.
Two Year Fasting
r . . T
The Aggies have not; beaten
Rice since 1947 when thc^ troun
ced the Owls, 52-39, at College Sta-
tihn. During the same season, the
flock won a 53-48 game in iHoustnn
although the Cadets led, $0-24, at
half time.. .*
A&M finished fifth, one notch
ahead of Rice at the close of the,
’17-46 campaign. This was the
last time the Aggies finished ahead
of the. Owls.
In 1948, Rice won 52-48 and 49-
47. In 1947, the two teams' aplit
tlieir gpmw. - ! ■
Fabulous Marine,
‘Shotgun’ Crojwe,
Plays Self in Film
!
One of the most fabulpus per-
sonalittes in all Marine cirps his
tory, Lt. Col. Jarmps Crbitve, was
persuaded to portray himself In
Republic’s tremendous saga of the
Marine Corps, “Sands iof l Iwo
Jima,” which is so big it will be
prevued twice, Thursday it 11:00
p.m. and Friday at 11:00 p.m. at
the Campus Theatre.
Crowe, whose deeds and whose
personality are now part iof Mar
ine .heritage, appears in a [scene in
the film by special permission of
the Marine Corps.
Crowe was one of the battalion
commanders in- the invasion iof
Tarawa^ He was famous for bis
personal eccentricities. He always
carried :a shotgun instead of the
ordinory issue carbine, which habit
won him the soubriquet “shotgun”
Crowe. ! | |Vf
Spiked Moustache X s
He effected |a spiked arid waxed
"Kaiser Wllhelfn” moustache
which was his pride and Joy dur
ing the war but which he since
has shaved to conform w 1th pres-
erit day hirsute fashions. For the
film though, he was Urg >d by as
sociate producer Edmund Grainger
to have the moustache duplicated.
His only dissatisfaction
Ute false moustache
long or as spiked as hie
was that
w4s not os
real one
had bejen. Director Allan Dwan
feared 'that It would see m burles
qued if It appeared on the screen
as ferociously is it hat)! been In
real life.
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