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l Five SWC Elevens Predicted To Win By FRANK MANITZAS Battalion Sports Editor < Five of the seven Southwest Conference Conference foot ball teams are picked to win in tomorrow’s grid events with one of the contests being called by many, the game of the day. We mean, of course, the predicted battle between the SMU Mustangs and the Ohio State Buckeyes. Although led by future All- American Kyle Rote, the Ponies are under dogs in the coming fray, but may pull an upset. Rice is the only other team in the SWC who will be in for a rough time, when they tangle with the rough Santa Clara Broncs from California. Last week, Santa Clara played the California Bears a better game than anyone thought possible. The Broncs are starting the season with an entirely new team plus a new coach. On the home front, the Aggies look good, and are fa vored tomorrow night over their opponents from Lubbock who almost threw a monkey wrench into the TU victory machine last Saturday. Baylor, who plays the University of Houston, and Ar kansas seem to have the easy teams tomorrow, although Head Coach Harry Stiteler tells us that the Razorback’s op ponent, North Texas, has a mighty fine team. Last week they lost to mighty Kentucky, 0-25. TCU is favored over Porker upsetter Oklahoma A&M, and Texas has the nod over Purdue, although the third rated team in the Big Ten could pull one of the upsets of the year. So tomorrow, it could be five wins and two losses for the SWC with maybe two upsets marring or helping the score, one way or the other. A&M to Gutnish Tech, 27-7 MANITZAS Twenty points difference is quite *a bit when one thinks of last weeks fray between the Red Raid ers and the Longhorns, but we be lieve that the Aggies’ scoring ma chine has just begun to wind up, and it still has a long way before it is unwound. ■ Tech is a new ball club in the sense that only two returning let- termen hold posts on the line al though it pushed TU all over the field. The Cadets’ line is, in our opin ion, just as good and probably better and if the forward wall can open up the holes tomorrow night as they did against Nevada, the Farmers’ quartet will have a field day. Bill Tidwell, Gallopin’ Glenn Lippman, Brusin’ Bob Smith, and Delmar Sikes will start behind the forward wall and we expect Brusin’ Bob to have as good a day, if not better, as he did last year against the Raiders. Both Lippman and Tidwell will probably get off for their regular long jaunts, and Sikes should be just as good if not better in the man-under slot. Texas to Edge Purdue, 14-13 Texas to edge Purdue, 14-13, or vice-versa, we can’t quite make up our mind but we’ll stick with the Southwest Conference to be victor ious in its first game against an eleven from the Big Ten. LAST DAY ’Nuffs beep said, about TU, but here is a little on the Boilermakers. For the past three years, they have held Notre Dame to fairly close scores. In ’47 it was 7-20, in ’48 it was . . . well . . . one of those games, 27-28, and last year, the Irish again won, 35-12. The man who will probably star for the Purdue gridsters will be John Richard Kerestes, who as full back last year blasted the Irish for the majority of the 280 yards that the Boilermakers gained on the ground. He averaged 4.33 yards for each of his 146 trips last season. At left half will be Mike Mac- cioli, who’ll make the Orange and White fans shiver with his open- field running, but since this is the first meeting between the two elev ens, and the first between the con ferences, no one really knows. 2 col 10—SMU Power Not (See MANITZAS, Page 6) l IRVING ALLEH-FMNCHOT TONE F!'° v “* .-co\ Production , utito ^ <l!0 Surnnj ^ WALLACC PATRICIA ROC and BEUTA f'Om th« Novel "A Battle of Nerve!" 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QB Club Meeting-Success ‘Aggies Looking Better 9 By HAROLD GANN In its first 1950 meeting The Battalion Quarterback Club entertained by Abb„,Curt|is, assist ant to the secretary '"of the South west Conference, Head Coach Har ry Stitelr, and movies of the Ne vada game last night in the As sembly Hall. Curtis, a veteran athletic offi cial who now supervises SWC of ficiating, briefed the large turnout with rule modifications for the 1950 football season. The armchair quarterbacks were highly pleased over movies of the Cadets’ opener. Stiteler, who de scribed the present Aggie line as “prqbably the most aggressive we have had in some time,” narrated the film. “It’s more of a pleasure to stand up here this year than last year,” Stiteler confidently remarked as he took the speaker’s stand. “The Nevada game brought out two convincing factors,” he said. “First, it proved that we could come from behind. Second, it prov ed that our line can hold. Nevada was inside our four-yard line twice and failed to score.” A&M made lots of mistakes, Stiteler pointed out. But it didn’t make any that could not be correct ed. “Our pass defense was a bit leaky. But any team that throws 48 passes, as Nevada did, is bound to find weaknesses in the defense. “Our pass defense was too loose on the short passes, and most of the Nevada passes were completed in the flats for little or no yard age.” From the Nevada game, how'ever, no sound conclusions can be drawn on whether or not A&M’s pass defense, a weakness plaguing PALACE Bryan 2’$$19 TODAY & SATURDAY i4 In a Lonely Place” the team for quite some time, has improved. Nevada has ope of .the ipatioiv'p best passers? ih Pat Brady! 1 iBrady is compared with All-America Stan Heath, who starred as a passer for the Wolfpack two years ago. Always stressing the pass as its chief offensive weapon, Nevada can be considered as a good A&M ex periment, if for no other reason than to test the Aggie pass de-1 Home Stretch In Sight As Pace Setters Falter TONIGHT PREVUE 11 P.M. GAY. ROLLICKING, SPICY COMEDY! Josefte Day • Simone Signoret SAT. NIGHT PREVUE 11 P.M. THRK ... By FRED WALKER They’re still pounding for the wire in World Series Derby trials. The pace-setters are faltering, and the stretch-runners are making their bid for what looks like a nose-in for the favorites. The favorites, Red Sox, Yankee, Indian and Tiger, got away well, and Tiger took an early lead which he held almost to the three quarter pole. It was then that a 99 to 1 shot, Brownie, came up through the pack long enough to knock Tiger and an on-rushing Indian off stride. Indian never recovered. Tiger dropped a nose behind Yankee, and Red Sox followed at his withers. Red Sox, the Boston-American Stables entry, odds on favorites at the starting gate, stumbled at the Club House turn and limped (down the home stretch—lame. A mighty stretch-runner of races past, Red Sox looker tired and weak. Senator, another 99 to 1 shot, had given him that fatal bump at the top of the stretch, and it was too late to recover. Driving For Wire They’re driving for the wire now, and Yankee, ridden by Jockey Casey Stengel, looks like the win ner by a head. But don’t be too sure about these things, Jockey Red R o 1 f e, atop Detroit’s juvenile Tiger, is still hanging on and a furlong can be awfully long. From here the great stakes win ner Yankee looks like the winner. One more length and the New York thoroughbred is in. (Tip: Tig er and Red Sox will place and show, respectively.) As usual the field was lai’ge, and a second heat had to be run, Just as exciting and hotly competed as the first, this trial had its sur prises. A 20 to 1 colt, Philly, from Ben Carpenter’s Philadelphia-Na tional stable, accepted the offered reins from Jockey Eddie Sawyer and took the lead at the head of the back stretch, from where he set the pace throughout. Philly II is the grandson of the hard luck Philly I who won the trial in 1915 only to be defeated in the finale of the $900,000 added. Favorites Challenging The favorites—Dodger, Cardinal, and Brave—have all challenged the leader, and it was a bitterly fought race down the back stretch. BobP r Y Tajioi — Lana Turner “JOHNNY EAGER” Tigers Seeking 1st Win T onight Against Walle r By CHUCK NEIGHBORS “We’ve got a pretty good chance of winning.” That’s the way that Coach Othel Chafin feels about tonight’s game between the A&M Consolidated Tigers and Waller, the first Dis trict B opponent for the local ele ven this season. Using a modified T and being outweighed on the line and in the backfield by five pounds, Waller will enter the contest a two touch down underdog. However, Waller has seven starters from their dis trict championship team of last year and should be ^ good match for the Tigers, who Without the use of their top back Bobby Wil liams will be playing their first game away from home. Three buses have been charter ed by the A&M Consolidated High School to make today’s football trip to Waller, Principal L. E. Boze announced early today. The football team and the band will have separate buses. The third bus will carry the remaining stu dents and friends of the school. The buses will leave at five and a charge of sixty ceqts will be made for the round trip, Boze add ed. So far this season, the Consol idated gridsters havp yet to win a game. They battled the Madi- sonville Mustangs to a scoreless tie in the opening game of the season, and last weekend, the Tig ers lost to a strong Navasota elev en, 0-7. Williams, Consolidated’s top back and one of the best in District 32B, wasn’t as hot on his offense against the Rattlers last week although his defensive play was better than par. A net gain of 53 yards in 17 carries gave the 140 pound scat- back a 3.1 average per carry. Williams also threw five passes, completed three and had one in tercepted. Together, the three pass es gave the Tigers only 22 yards, but Navasota had a tight defense. Punting Average In the punting department, the all-around backfielder punted nine times for an average of 33.2 yards per boot, although one of the kicks was blocked. But Williams wasn’t the whole show for the Tigers. The returning seven lettermen from last season district team, the Consolidated forward wall like the majority of the lines in modern day football, always go by un noticed, but without this group of players the Tigers wmuld not be such a strong favorite to win their district. Among the stalwarts for the line include Jack Burchard, 165 pound guard who has been favoring a hurt ankle since the beginning of the season, will be ready to go at full force tonight. Rodger Big Help Linebacker Royce Rodgers has also been a big help pn defense as has Billy Richards, who was one of the standouts last week against the Rattlers. Eddie Guthrie, 195 pound defensive tackle, helps an chor the Maroons line. Newcomer, as of last week, Paul Harris, 170 pounder also a tackle, seems to have come into his own after hav ing played most of the game last Friday. Pinky Cooner, starting center for Consolidated last week, will be replaced by Chester Smith tonight. Starting Line-up Offense Defense LE Roland Jones Roland Jones LT Burchard Jack Burchard LG Tom Wade Royce Rodgers C Chester Smith Melvin Free RG Royce Rodgers Don Royder RT Eddie Guthrie Eddie Guthrie RE Jimmy Richards B. Richards QB Geopge Johnston D. Bonnen HB Jerry Leighton J. Leighton HB Beauchamp L.Beauchamp FB Gayle Klipple G. Klipple fense. “Thank goodness Tech isn’t go- mg to be as strong in passing as Nevada,” the 41-year-old coach re marked. Tech Team Strong “Tech has come up ^yith a finp ball club,” Stiteler continued. “They’re on fire because of the Texas game. The Texas team has (See RAIDER, Page 6) f *>!? »v 9. ft « $ ** f *.j • a .js. W. E. Simpson Co. Around the far turn, Philly pushed well to the front as Dodger, Brave, and the dark horse, Giant alternatively forged ahead in the fight for place and show. The co favorite, Cardinal, had a poor jock ey and slipped back into the bunch. Heading for home Philly still holds a good lead, but Dodger started making his bid and is closing ground very rapidly. Brave and Giant are still fighting for show r . Furlongs To Go Coming down to the wire with less than a furlong 4 to go, Philly still leads by three lengths, and al though tired and waxed pi re serve strength, still retains enough of her early lead to win. Dodger is a cinch for place, and Giant should take show money. The big show cpmes next week though— The §1,000,000 Added World Series Derby of 1950—and from this hapdicappers view, it should be Philly by a nose. A weeks rest is enough for any thorough bred. CONSULTING ENGINEERS Milam Bldg. San Antonio, Texas Willard E. Simpson M. S. Gerhardt Willard E. Simpson, Jr. CAFETERIA • NATIONALLY KNOWN • SAN ANTONIO • FORT WORTH • AUSTIN SERVING ONLY THE FINEST FOODS FROM THE WORLD’S BEST MARKETS Welcome Aggies and Friends To the South’s Finest Eating Place While in San Antonio, Make The MILAM Your Headquarters for Food at Its Best