MANITZAS Results ofA&M-OU Game—Uncertain By Frank Manitzas Battalion Sports Editor The team which stands 15th among the nation’s major colleges in rushing offense with an average of 299 yards for two games will meet the fifth ranking team in the country tomorrow on Owens Field at Norman, Okla. This promises to be one of the biggest and best games across the nation as the Ag gies enter the fray with all of their support ers yelling “victory,” and Coach Bud Wil kinson of OU retreating, yelling back at the crowd, that they’re right. Just what seems to be the trouble, no one knows. A&M with its strongest team in the past three years meets the Sooners who claim to have the weakest since the same time. The trouble is that although the two teams have already played this season, both are doing the unexpected. Favored A&M defeated the Nevada Wolfpack by ten points more than the experts called for, and racked the Texas Tech Raiders to a better tune than expected. Oklahoma, on the other hand, met and defeated Boston College last week, finishing ahead 28-0 for their 23rd straight victory in a row. The score was right, but OU didn’t go out to make it, or it seems that way, and, as we said before, no one knows. And, since no one knows, we will let everyone know the final score, concerning the Cadet encounter. The past two predictions on Maroon and White games were hit right on the head ,as we called the difference in points almost exactly both times. • % * ns* As it looks from here: the winner tomorrow must score four TDs, and be on the move all the time—“best defense is a good offense;” the majority of the game will be played on the ground, although we expect the Cadets to take to the air more than the Sooners; it will be an upset. A&M 28, Okla homa 21. Bruisin’ Bob Smith will have it rough but should work fine, although our speed in Gallopin’ Glenn Lippman and Travelin’ Billy Tidwell, plus the added drive which was dis covered in the shape of Buddy Shaeffer during the Tech game, will be the Cadets’ big points in the win. Just to show, we’re not one-sided, we consulted some one on the outcome of the game. Dr. C. C. French, Dean of the College, picks the score in the same proportion that we do, but with the teams switched. His reason: “I’m no author ity, but the showing that Oklahoma has made for the past two years can not be denied, nor can their running strength be overlooked, but I hope I’m wrong”. Arkansas Machine to Beat TCU, 21-13 Ag Harriers Hope For Win Over OU, Undefeated Season Aggie Harriers I mmh ®p; am Sm Marshall Rush As one of A&M’s younger and rougher guards takes to the air, he gives out with the cry which has been traversing across the campus during the week—“Beat OU”. When Rush’s six-foot, 210 pound frame hits the turf, the noise can be heard for miles around, and the Sooners will probably have their chance to hear it tomorrow. By RAY HOLBROOK Beginning what it hopes will be an all victorious season, the re shaped Aggie cross country team left today for Norman, Okla., to tackle the OU Sooners in the first meet of the year for both teams. So close was the early compe tition in the picking of the five man team which will compete against OU, that only two of the five returning lettermen were able to make the grade. The five let termen around whom the team was supposedly to be built include SWC Champion Julian Herring, John Garmany, Jim McMahon, Howard Jones, and Ales Ortiz. However, two soph sensations, Marshall Lazarine and Charles Hudgins, and a relatively unknown junior squadman, Charlie Gabriel, replaced three of the regulars leav ing only Garmany and McMahon. Biggest Surprise Probably the biggest surprise of the team pre-season workouts is Lazarine, who beat all comers for the No. 1 spot on the team in the tryouts last Tuesday. Garmany and McMahon followed in that order, being the only lettermen to make the team. Hudgins and Gabriel were fourth and fifth, respectively. Almost as surprising as Laza- rine’s first was Herring’s failure to get in the top five. He finished sixth some distance behind Gab riel; however, Coaches Prank An derson and Ray Putman aren’t too Ponys Look Dull On Pass Defense Dallas, Oct. 6—(A?)—Vulnerable spots cropped up in Southern Methodist’s defense against Miss ouri passes in yesterday’s football workout. With Sam Stollenwerck and Gene Gillis pitching for the simulated Missouri Tiger offense, the SMU Mustangs looked anything but sharp. The Mustangs meet the Tigers in Columbia, Mo., Satur day. concerned since Herring is some what of the slow starter and has been working out only two weeks. The majority of the team has been working out since early Septem ber. Herring Will Ready The coaches don’t expect Herr ing to round into shape until the end of the month, and by the mid dle of November, he should be ready to defend his SWC champion ship. Oklahoma will field a team made up chiefly of sophomores though returning junior letterman Jim Wilkinson will lead the Sooners. Support for Wilkinson and his roughest competition on the home field include Bruce Drummond, George McCormick, Kenneth Coop er, and Bert Vargas. Drummond was the Big Seven freshman cross country champion covering the two-miles in 9^49.7. McCormick and Cooker were eight and tenth, respectively, and the former was also Texas Class AA half mile state champ in ’49. On the basis of information re ceived to date, A&M’s quintet should come out on top in this first meet of the year. OU’s sophs will lack the depth and experience of the Aggies, who, although they have two sophs and a junior squadsman, will be as strong as presumably thought since the three newcomers had to beat out proven, experienced lettermen to make the team. Beat 0 U Photo by Battalion Chief Photographer Sam Monnary Members of the A&M Cross Country ssuad making the OU trip are front row, John Garmony and Jim McMahon; second row, Charles Gabriel, Marshall Lazarine, and Charles Hudgins. Battalion SPORTS Page 4 FRL, OCT. 6, 1950 Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment DYERS-FURSTO&AGE HATTERS /•JHak. 21584 m Loupot’s Trading Post—Agents SWC eyes will be focused to morrow on the first and only con ference game of the day, when the Arkansas Razorbacks tangle with the TCU Horned Frogs at Fort Worth. Each team will be employ ing new offenses, the Porkers us ing the only split-T employed in the league. Coach Dutch Meyer with his snazzy T-wing, or what ever he calls it, may reach the usual per fection attained by the TCU men tor which would give the Frogs the necessary power to win. From the Ozarks, Coach Otis Douglas has yet to get his team reved up, and once it gets going— lookout. Douglas has had a little tough luck in getting his pro ideas buried deep enough into college football but he should succeed in the next few weeks and produce a team for the upper portion of the conference ratings. Dog Dawson, end coach of the Aggies, feels the same way as we do, so we’ll let him tell you the score, “Arkansas 21, Texas Christ ian 13”. Mississippi State Over Baylor, 14-6 Mississippi State will have a rough time getting started but once they do, it should be rather smooth sailing over the Baylor Bears. State was supposed to be a weak team but after a startling 7-0 up set win over Tennessee, we wonder. The Bears have already shown that they don’t have near the cal iber of last year’s team, although the addition of Buddy Parker, the Bruins should improve. Passing will hurt the Bruins. We believe that they will prob ably score once because of .the number of passes which they toss, and we also believe, and it is very likely, that the Staters will inter cept a pass as they did against Tennessee and score. Baylor alumnus at A&M, Grady Elms, assistant director of student activities, goes along with us the same way and according to his “thorough and fool proof system,” he helps us in picking the Maroons to down the Green and Gold, 14-6. Mustangs to Ride Tigers, 34-7 Last week when we started pre- iictions about the school on the hill, we ran into a little trouble. We were the only persons in this ■egion predicting that Ohio State vould win, and until Fred Benners was let out of his cage with his perpetual throwing arm, and reli able Rusty Russell, who was calling all the plays and catching the ma jority of the passes, was allowed to outmaneuver the Buckeyes, we seemed to have it. We came up with one prediction, which was right. “Killer Kyle Rote will not be the star for the Ponies, win or lose” . . . that was one of our predic tions last week. This week: if Rote doesn’t go, neither will the Mustangs, So watch Killer and unless the “Varsity” is overconfident, and the Missouri eleven extra keyed up, SMU should win, 34-7. BANKING SERVICE COLLEGE STATION’S OWN College Station State Bank North Gate Central Texas Hardware Co. Bryan, Texas • HARDWARE • CHINAWARE • CRYSTAL • GIFTS LSD Over Rice, 21-13 Why oh why, we’ll never know. Last week, we had a tip about San ta Clara. Since the Broncs had played California such a good jame, Rice was supposed to have jeen a pushover for the team from ;he coast. We had the score ap proximately right, but the teams in die wrong positions. Should the Owls play as well as they did against Santa Clara, we’ll be wrong an