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Ag Eleven Favored 'OverNevada, 34-13 By FRANK N. MANITZAS Battalion Sports Editor Tomorrow will be “kick-off day for the Southwest Con ference as six of the seven teams will begin their 1950 foot ball season with intersectional tilts. Only Rice remains dor mant, waiting for the stadium dedication opener against Santa Clara. The other six teams will be playing teams from different parts of the nations and four different conferences. We will string along with our pre-season predictions that all of the conference teams will win tomorrow. A&M should win easily, although the Nevada eleven which is weak in reserves, boasts a heavy line. Averaging at 234 pounds per man, the Wolf pack line should be extra rough for the Cadets. The backfield will also be unusually heavy with the quarterback, Pat Brady, weighing 195 •pounds and the fullback, Doug Brooks, 209 pounds. Bruisin’ Bob Smith, Glenn Lippman, Billy Tidwell, and Dick Gardemal seem to be the logical contenders as starters tomorrow night, and we look for Gallopin’ Glenn to go all the way on a punt or kickoff return. On the line, the Aggies won’t be to soft with big Russ Hudeck, 240; Jimmy Flowers, 225; Sam Moses, 200; Andy .Hillhouse 230; et al, opening up the holes and stopping the opposing runners. Adding it up, we come out with a score of 34-13, the Cadets winning their first opener since 1947. t TCU By Force Of Habit, 20-0 Mr. Power & Mr. Speed MANITZAS In 1942, the TCU Frogs met Kansas University on the grid iron, and defeated the Jayhawks, 41-7. Since then, the Kansans have scored only 18 points against the Horned Frogs in the six other games between the two teams. , Scores from ’44 to ’49 were mostly in favor of the Christians although in ’46 and ’47, 0-0 ties occurred each year. Other scores were 7-0, 18-0, 14-13, and last year 28-0. w The Frogs will be depending greatly on the new formation de signed by Dutch Meyer. Using a two team system which will be lacking the passing and running of Jjindy Berry plus the bigger line men that the Frogs had last year, Coach Meyer will attempt to stop the Hawks attack with a line aver aging at 190 pounds. Team average weights show that the Frogs starting eleven will tip the scales at 187 while the Kansas will weigh 204 pounds. For those who base their pre dictions on last year’s results here are the statistics of the ’49 game with TCU’s result given first: first downs, 20-8; net yards rushed, 218-114; passes attempted, 29-19; passes completed, 14-14; net yards passing, 184-90; and punt runbacks, 46-24. We give the nod to TCU, 20-0, although Kansas could use their line and overall weight to great advantage and upset the Frogs. Cadet Eleven On Way By Plane Rv RnnRi) rncr c''T"T , r. ■ By ROGER COSLETT Aggie 1950 football hopes took wings this morning as 37 eager, victory starved Maroon and White gridsters winged toward Sacra mento, Calif., on the wings of a DC 4 from Easterwood Field, for their season opener with Nevada’s Wolf pack. The Cadets are favored to win their first opener since 1947 when they sank the Southwestern Pi rates 48-0. Three-deep in every position the Aggies will enter the fray minus the services of Half-back John Christensen, End Walter Hill and Guard Dick Frey. All three men are out because of practice in juries, but Trainer Bill Dayton hopes to have them ready to go in time for the game with Texas Tech. Entering the conflict at least a two touchdown favorite, the Ag gies will afford the opportunity to experiment and come up with the quarterback that may add the final seasoning to their attack. Bruisin’ Bob Gallopin’ Glenn Smith and Lippman will start tomorrow night when the Aggies tangle with the Nevada Wolfpack at Sacramento. At the present time, both men are in excellent condition and should do well in the Cadets’ opener. Mustangs To Win In Rough Game, 26-14 Watch the Cotton Bowl rumble Saturday when the Georgia Tech •and SMU quartets start hustling the pigskin across the field. In the Southwest, the Mustangs back- field is practically a legend, es pecially with Killer Kyle Rote sparking the attack, but down in Dixie, the razzle-dazzle backs from Tech are just as good and maybe better. Tech’s problem—no forward wall ;. . . well, that’s what they’re . screaming, jand it seems To be the big difference in the two teams. SMU is boasting one of its best lines in the past few years al though the ends are weak. But with H. N. Russell, Jr. call- fug the plays, Rote, Johnny Champion, and Pat Knight, round ing out the backfield, the Ponies should hold their own. The boys from Dixie who constitute the backfield are Halfbacks Buster Humphreys, Red Patton, Bob Mc Coy, and Joe Cobb (take your choice, they’re all seniors and fast); Fullback Bobby North, “the best off-tackle runner in Dixie”, and Quarterback Darrel Crawford. Unless (the publicity directors were babying up their teams, SMU should shoo, right across the field for a winning count of 26-14. One things, we know, will be right, the Mustangs will recognize a new star this weekend in Bill For rester (6’ 3”. 215 pounds), who plays in the fullback slot. Overated Deepest Sympathy Given To Moanin ’ Grid Coaches Longhorns To Stampede Over Tech, 54-0 It’s only fair to give the Long horns such a big margin over the Red Raiders, for last season the TU eleven won handily, 43-0, and Bow they got that team. The pre vious two years the Steers blanked Texas Tech, 33-0, twice. And again tradition steps into the picture. Texas has won 54, tied two, and lost one in 57 previous in- ) ugurals, and have never been beaten by the Raiders. Texas’ line will really be the big thing although Byron Townsend, Who will be playing in the full back position, won’t stop for any one, and he should have a field day. Ends Tom Stolhandske and Paul Williams, Guards Bud Mc- Madin and Joe Arnold, Tackles Gene Vykukal and Ken Jackson, and Co-Captain Dick Rowan, cen ter, will be the mainstays on the line for Texas. Up at Lubbock, the tears are dropping thick and wet, for this year, the Raiders are rated sec ond in the Border Conference and will have to come along fast to de feat any of the four SWC teams they have scheduled. Main reason for tears: only two returnees from last season’s start ing offensive team, and no letter- man quarterback to handle the man-under chores. Ranked fifth in the nation by the Associated Press, Texas should have little trouble in reaching reaching their heights and going all the way to trounce Texas Tech, 54-0. 1 Bears To Claw Wyoming Cowboys, 24-7 This is one of those . . . well, State 103-0. can’t exactly say it, but last year With new Coach George Sauer • the Bruins handed Wyoming their at the helm, the Bruins will be only loss of the season to a tune facing Wyoming without a strong of 32-7. But gone are Adrian Burk, backfield, although the line may J. D. Ison and others who could be better than pre-season show- make Baylor one of the top teams ings, and the ends—Harold Riley in the conference instead of the and Stan Williams—will be the • “cellar-dweller” they are predicted sparks on the forward wall who to be this year. It’s rough down may show the way. there, we know. Although the game is away from Last year the Cowboys won six home, and Wyoming won last week straight games without a TD be- over Montana State, 61-13, we pick ing scored against them, and they Baylor with a 17 point margin, also defeated a team, Colorado 24-7. Arkansas To Rout Oklahoma Aggies, 21-6 No individual stars, but what to run wild with their new style seems to be a better than usual of attack and pro type defense, to line plus the expert coaching of defeat Oklahoma A&M, 21-6. Otis Douglas that has had every- •one talking about them, the Razor- T: n Wp r<l (^olnprl backs seem to be a sure cinch to iJdllltlCI, .LiOSC defeat the Oklahoma Aggies. In Texas Cup Matches Top Porker passer in ’49 was Don Logue, who completed 31 for Dallas, Sept. 22—(A*)—The ama- *374 yards and six TDs, not count- teurs lost a man and the profes- ing the six he scored himself. He sionals picked up one yesterday should make the split-T click, but as the Texas cup matches ap- if he fails Jim Rinehart may move proached. to the spot. Rinehart was Arkan- Ji mmy McGonagill of Shreve- sas’ leading punt returner last port withdrew from the amateur season as well as a pretty fair squad. He will be replaced by Ed , quarterback. _ Hopkins of Austin. About the line: it will weigh in Harry Todd of Dallas was added the 200 bracket and will have t 0 the professional squad, hustlers like Bob Griffin at cen- Billy Maxwell of Odessa may ’ter and veteran Tackles George no t play with the amateurs. He Eckert and Travis Simpson, to an- has undergone his induction phy- chor it and give the other mem- sical for the army and captain bers the necessary go. Jack Munger of the amateur team At the present time the series said he did not know whether record gives the Aggies a 9-8 ad- Maxwell would have timfc to come vantage, and the last time the two here and play. « teams met, a 21-21 tie occurred. The matches will be held Satur- We’ll stick with the Razorbacks day and Sunday. By WHITNEY MARTIN New York, Sept. 22—(A 5 )—We have only the deepest sympathy for the coaches who declare their teams were overrated in the As sociated Press pre-season football poll. After all, you hardly could ex pect Frank Leahy to say: “Sure we’re No. 1 who is going to beat us?” Some team might come along and beat his team, then where would he be? Still at Notre Dame, undoubtedly, but he’d have a lot of explaining to do. It’s only natural, of course. A coach who picks his team to splat ter the opposition and then sees it splattered itself had better have a timetable handy. A fight manager before a bout can say. “We’ll knock the bum stiff.” A baseball manager isn’t criticized when he declares his team will win the pennant in a breeze. A pro football coach is ex pected to predict a victory for his Missions 10 Oilers 7 San Antonio, Tex., Sept.—(A > )— The San Antonio Missions out lasted the Tulsa Oilers for a 10-7 victory here last night to take a 2-1 lead in the finals of the Texas League playoffs. Home runs by Charley Grant, Rocky Ippolito, Danny Baich and Frank Saucier featured the 11-hit Mission attack. squad. But expecting a college football coach to flex his muscles that way would be the same as expecting a railroad to advertise that its trains never were on time. It just isn’t done. There are logical reasons why a college football coach must take this defeatest attitude. First, he’s not playing the game himself. He’s in charge of a bunch of kids whose performance often is unpredictable, and he’s putting them on the spot if he says they will win a certain game. Predicts Banner Season Too, supposing a coach predicts a banner season for his team, and it doesn’t turn out quite that way. His critics will charge that he didn’t get the most out of his men, in that he said himself they would do better than they did. Theoretically, at least, he’s not playing up to the gate. He doesn’t have to paint brilliant word pic tures of how good his team is to lure the fans. They’ll come any way. They have come to expect this defeatist attitude on the part of a coach, and take it with a grain of salt. They pudge a team on WilmantoShow Bowling Skill In MSC Tonight Joe Wilman of Chicago, who was chosen “Bowler of the Year” in 1946 will unfold his repertoir of bowling gen ius in an exhibition for A&M Bowling fans tonight at 7:30 and tomorrow at 2:30 and 7:30. Wilman holds three world’s rec ords in the hardwood sport, and is one of two bowlers to ever have bowled over 2,000 in an American Bowling Congress Tour ney. As an added attraction on Sat urday, there will be a singles ex hibition between the top lady bowl ers of Houston and San Antonio, Miss Robbie Lyons and Mrs. Grace Baskin, respectively. Also on Saturday, the Findley Realty Company team of Hous ton and the Straus Frank Company of San Antonio will exhibit their skill in match play. Berry A. Risinger Jr. of the 1 Houston men’s team is a former Aggie (1939-1941), and is one of the outstanding bowlers of the South. Last spring he accomplish ed a “Grand Slam” in bowling when he captured the Singles and All Events Championships in the Houston City Tournament. Members of the Houston team are Risinger, T. O. Watkins, Pres ident of the Houston Bowling As sociation and the only bowler in Houston to roll an 800 series in league play, Billy Joe Welu, who copped third place in the Second Annual Charley Earhart Memorial Classic in which bowlers from all over the nation participated, L. D. “Dusty” Rhodes and Doon Ellis, who reached the semi-finals in the National Matched Games Champ ionship last year in Chicago. Making up the San Antonio group are Allan Mitchell, the South’s outstanding southpaw bowler, Leonard Mangold, Bill Johnson, winner of the Main Cen ter Bowlers Day doubles, Norman Reininger and Chuck Greenlee, w ...! Manager of the Main Bowling Cen- what it has done and on what they j ter, San Antonio City champion expect it to do, not on what a and San Antonio match game coach says. doubles champion. Competing for the man-under berth will be last years starter Dick Gardemal, squadman Delmer Sikes, and two promising sophs— Ray Groves and Darrow Hooper. Gardemal will probably get the starting nod over the less exper ienced men. Lippman to Start Glenn Lippman, swivel hipped break-a-way runner for the Cadets, will alternate with Char les Royalty at the left halfback spot. Billy Tidwell, right halfback, will probably start on defense for the Cadets, and Bruisin’ Bob Smith is an almost certain starter at the fullback spot. The Aggie forward wall will be strengthened by the addition of Andy Hillhouse, veteran Aggie end who has returned for another sea son with the Cadets before ac cepting a pro contract. Max Griencr, Jimmy Flowers and Carl Molberg will probably be other line starters, but with the wealth of line material on hand, it is hard to predict who the other linemen may be. It is quite possible that some of last years linemen may be squeezed out of a starting berth by sophomores. Lacks Reserves Nevada, coached by Joe Sheeket- ski, a former Notre Dame star, was edged last weekend by Utah State, 7-6, while using only 16 to 20 players. This lack of reserve strength will most likely prove to be the deciding factor in Saturday night’s game. Unless the Cadet passing de fense has improved since last year they may well expect trouble from the accurate arm of Pat Brady, cool headed, southpaw slinger and quarterback for the Nevada T at tack. On the receiving end of Brady’s passes will probably be Wally Graf. Graf used his talents in the fullback slot last season, but is now using his 195 pounds as left- end. Howard Hartsfield, 235- pound war veteran, looms at the other flanking position. Lawrence Hariston, a 270 pound negro tackle, gives the Nevada line strength at one of the tackle slots, and as Nevada’s chief double-duty man, playing both of fense and defense, seems to be well groomed for possible All-Ameri can honors. Bob Martin will hold down the other tackle slot. At the guard positions, said to be the weakest spot in the Nevada forward wall, will be Don Morettini and 215 pound Gordon Surby. Center Position Strong Another strong point in the Wolfpack line is the cented posi tion which is capably manned by 235 pound Carmel Carusa. Fast backs form the nucleus for the Nevada attack. Brady, the 6’ 3” 190 pound quarterback, handles punting as well as passing duties. Howard Barber and Andy Kal- manir, two speedsters alternate at the left halfback position while Lee Schroder, fastest man on the squad, leads the competition for the right half post. A 205 pound fullback, Doug Brooks from Minnesota, may steal the spotlight from the Cadet’s Bob Smith in the inside-running league. Nevada had a five-five record last year but gained national rec ognition among the smalled col leges the year previous because of the powerful passing arm of Stan Heath, one of the games’ great est passers. 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