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Floyd Opens ’SO-’Sl Cage Drills As 24 Report; First Game Dec. 1 , By GLENN WILLIAMS Mid-October is here and for bas ketball players throughout the Southwest Conference that means only one thing—the official begin ning of fall practice. The 1950-51 addition of the Tex as Aggies held their first work out yesterday afternoon in De- Ware Field House with some 24 candidates reporting to John Floyd, the Cadets’ new fulltime cage coach who was hired last summer after the resignation of Marty Karow. Floyd and his charges expect to be very busy during the next 45 days before they open the sea son Dec. 1 against North Texas State in Denton which will dedi cate the Eagles’ spacious new field a house. . ® Early season drills will consist of the basic fundamentals—passing, shooting, dribbling' and etc., accord ing to the youthful Aggie mentor, and defensive and offensive organ ization will follow. Floyd expects it to be January «or February before his hoopsters will have satisfactorily perfected their team offense and defense, both of which will be somewhat similar to the style of play which ‘"Floyd learned under masterful “Hank” Iba at Oklahoma A&M. The Cadet coach does not plan to play “ball controll” as it is oft en mistakenly thought of by most basketball fans. He admitted that “when we have the opportunity to run, we’ll run but when we don’t we’ll slow down and use a delib erate and organized offense.” ’* A&M’s offense for the coming campaign Will be a revolving type wherein the customary breakdown of positions into forwards, guards and centers are eliminated and numbers are substituted with a player likely to' be in a different position each time the quintet sets up its offense. Returnees from last year’s Ma roon and White cage squad remem- j.ber the small taste of Oklahoma A&M-styled defense they received early last December. The Sooner Aggie didn’t allow the Cadets to "Score a field goal during the in itial 13 minutes of their battle in Stillwater, Okla., which the host five won handily 55-34, Five Lettermep Return Included in the two dozen hard wood hopefuls who participated in yesterday’s opening session were five returning lettermen, four squadmen and nine sophomores up from the 1949-50 freshman squad. The letter-winners back are Jew ell McDowell, an all-conference se-1 hard-driving lection last year who averaged 14 | Spring. junior from Big | Opportunity ! Unlimited... For men of high caliber and university training, Douglas offers limitless opportunity. Today, as for the past thirty years, our future depends on men who can continue to help pioneer in the field of aeronautics. University and college gradu ates have made important con tributions to our progress, and have found Douglas a good place to work. As we push forward the development of aircraft, guided missiles, and special classified projects for the Government, we shall always be interested in men trained as aeronautical, mechani cal, electrical and civil engineers... physicists... and mathematicians. DOUGLAS AIRCKAFr COMPANY, INC. SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA points per game and hails from Amarillo; John DeWitt, two-year letterman from Waco; Walter “Buddy” Davis, 6’ 8” pivotman from Nederland who was a regular as a sophomore last season; Mar vin Martin, two-time letterman from Houston; and Eddie Houser, 1950-51 Varsity Cage Schedule The complete varsity schedule: Dec. 1—North Texas State at Den ton. Dec. 2—Oklahoma City University at Oklahoma Sity. Dec. 5—Siena at Albany, N. Y. Dec. 7—Canisius at Buffalo, N. Y. Dec. 9—Duquesne at Pittsburgh, Pa. Dec. 14—San Marcos Teacher^ at College Station. Dec. 15—San Marcos Teachers at College Station. Dec. 18—Sam Houston at College Station. Dec. 19—University of Houston at Houston. Dec. 22—Sam Houston State at Huntsville. Dec. 29—Trinity University at San Antonio. Jan. 4—Rice Institute at College Station. Jan. 9—Baylor University at Waco. Jan. 13—TCU at College Station. Jan. 16—SMU at Dallas. Jan. 31—Texas University at Col lege Station. Feb. 3—Arkansas University at College Station. Feb. 6—TCU at Fort Worth. Feb. 9—Baylor University at Col lege Station. Feb. 12—Arkansas University at Fayetteville, Ark. Feb. 17—University of Houston at ■ College Station. Feb. 20—SMU at College Station. Feb. 24—Rice Institute at Houston. Feb. 27—Texas University at Aus tin. Returning squadmen are Bobby Farmer, Amarillo; Raymond Walk er, Woodhouse; Glenn Williams, Amarillo; and Ed Sandlin, Nevada. Leroy Miksch, Waelder; Don Garrett, Fort Worth; Don Heft, Palacios; Richard Bess, Beaumont; Bill Carpenter, Deer Park; Jerry Chapman, Waco; Max Montegut, Texas City; Wally Bleyl, Houston and Dale Foshee, Houston, are the sophomores up from last year’s potent first-year squad. Tennis to Basketball Other candidates include Fred Sommers, freshman numeral win ner in 1947-48, from Houston; Eu gene Letsos, Galveston all-around athlete who was the No. 1 Aggie freshman tennis player last spring ball; and two transfers who are in eligible. Jack Straus of Austin and Don Bihford of Wellington, Kans., are the two hoopsters in the latter category. Straus came to A&M from TCU last January so he will become eligible for varsity compe tition at the end of this semester. Binford, who played under Floyd in high school, played freshman ball at Wichita University last year and thus will not be eligible here until the 1951-52 season. The North Texas battle on Dec. 1 will launch the Aggies’ annual road trip which also will include games in Oklahoma City, Albany and Buffalo, N. Y. and Pittsburgh, Pa. Only four of the Cadets’ 12 non-conference tilts will be played in DeWare Field House, the first of which will come Dec. 14 against but did not participate in basket- San Marcos Teachers. Army, SMU, OU Lead in AP Poll The first 10 gridiron machines have been listed by the Associated Press poll of national sports writ ers and sportscasters, and Army, for the second consecutive week, grabs the No. 1 spot, but they are being hard pushed by second place Oklahoma and the No. 3 team Southern Methodist. The first 10 are 1) Army, 2) Oklahoma, 3) SMU, 4) Kentucky, 5) California, 6) Stanford, 7) Tex as, 8) Maryland, 9) Ohio State and 10) Washington (Coast). Aggies Dominate SWC Statistics 1 By Ralph E. Gorman, Jr. Through both individual and combined efforts the Ag gies retain a clear majority of first places this week among the rated statistical totals and averages in the Southwest Conference. Bruisin’ Bob Smith continues to lead in total yards gained rushing as well as total points scored, while team mate Glenn Lippman holds on to the No. 1 spot among the punt returners. The combined Aggie team smashes on in'* first place in the net gain rushing column with a total of 1,136 yards, as compared with their nearest rival TCU with 887. ‘Bruisin’ Bob has proven his reliability as a ball carrier and continues to do so in each game. He has lugged the pigskin 76 times to be the most worked ball carrier in the Conference and shows an individual net gain of 447 yardg. Nine of the 76 times that Bob has started from scrimmage he has hit paydirt for a total of 54 points—24 points ahead of SMU’s Kyle Rote. . ' , _ Lippman was not giveji a chance to run back a VMl punt last week and so peiiajris Ms lead on his 21.2 yard aver age of the week before. Rote places second to Smith among the ten leading ball carriers in SWC play with a net total of 316 yards and an average per carry of 6.7. The Longhorn orkhouse, Byron Townsend, has rolled up 293 yards against teams like Purdue and Oklahoma to run a close third in this division. Ar kansas’ Ray Parks has come into the limelight as quickly as has his teammates new split-T attack and shows a net gain of 288 yards for 44 carries and an average of 6.5 to rank im mediately ahead of Smith in the average column. Following Parks is fleet Glenn;“ 7 : — Lippman, one-half of a pair of counting for six points. Rice’ Ver- nolan hifi ( lass ’48 Salesman LATE MODEL USED CARS THAT YOU CAN DE PEND UPON FOR THE BEST IN SERVICE AT THE LEAST POSSIBLE COST . . . 1950 FORD Custom Deluxe 4- door Sedan, Radio, Heater, Plastic Seat Covers, White Wall Tires, Like new — $1985 1949 FORD Custom Deluxe 2- door Sedan, Radio, Heater, Clean— $1495 1949 CHEVROLET Special De luxe Club Coupe Convertible, Radio, Heater, White Wall Tires, Lots of extras — $1595 194!) HUDSON Club Coupe, Ea- dio, Heater, Plastic Seat Cov ers. 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Following Smith’s lead of 54 points in the scoring division is SMU’s Rote who has crossed the double stripe five times for a total of 30 points, just one touchdowp and six points ahead of Rice’ Billy Burkhalter and Arkansas’ William Jurney. Both of these men are tied for third place with four TD’s apiece. Hillhouse, Hooper—18 Points Two Aggies are among the eight SWC scoring stars who are tied for fourth place in the points scored column. Andy Hillhouse has snagged seven aerials during the season’s play and three have car ried on into paydirt for a total or 18 points. Sophomore quarter back Darrow Hooper has gained prominence in the scoring section with a clear head, keen eye, and an educated toe. In 24 attempted con versions, Hooper has sent the pig skin thorough the uprights 18 times for his fourth place lead. Closing out the scoring section are Rice’ Glauser, TCU’s John Mor ton, Arkansas’ Parks, Texas’ Town send, and SMU teammates “Rus ty” Russell and Val Joe Walker. In the punt returning division and head of the list is Glenn Lipp man and Rice’ Rex Proctor holds the No. 2 spot behind him. Follow ing in the order named are Ar kansas’ Dean Pryor, Texas’ Bobby Dillon, SMU’s Bill Richards, TCU’s Dan Wilde, Arkansas’ Johnny Cole, and Baylor’s James Mott. Lary, No. 4 Punter Yale Lary maintained a 38.3 yard punting average in last Saturday’s contest despite being forced to punt out of bounds on several oc casions. His overall punting aver age is now 37.7 yards to rank as the No. 4 punter in the SWC. Fred Benners has tossed 67 of {he 138 SMU aerials and completed 39 for a total of 554 yards gained through the air to lead the con ference in passing. Sikes Among Top Passers A&M’s Delmar Sikes places seventh among the leading passers with a completion record of 17 in 43 attempts and two of these ac- non Glass follows Benners in the No. 2, slot and completing the list are Texas’ Ben Tompkins, TCU’s Bartosh, Baylor’s Isbell, SMU’s Rote, Sikes, and Arkansas’ team mates Jim Rinehart and Don Logue. The Aggies’ Andy Hillhouse has caught seven passes off the arms of his teammates for 120 yards and 18 points to rank ninth among the pass receiving stars. Leading this division are four Mustangs in the persons of Russell, Ben White, John Champion, and Jimmy Hawn. ’Mural News By JOE BLANCHETTE With big Gerald Davis, 6’ 5” center, controlling the backboards and tossing in the winning point the cagers of “A” Transportation edged past the hasketballers of “A” Ordnance 21-20. With only 50 seconds remaining jn the contest, that had been nip and tuck all the way, Davis was fouled by the over anxious pien from the Ordnance. The pivotman missed the first shot but sent the second through the middle of the net for the point which broke the 20-20 deadlock. The final 40 seconds of the melee found the losers firing desperately from all corners of the court and missing two gift fosses when Bill Hegmann was fouled. Tom Colley was high point man of the game with nine points and his brother Ken Colley runnerup with eight. John Wakefield led the Transporters with seven counters. “Doc” Darilek was outstanding on the defense. “C” Seniors led by Dick Vehon romped over “B” Composite in a complete rout, 22-6. Vehon hooked in eight points fop the winners, while “Boone” Gower pushed in five of the Composite’s six points. “Hub” Horton and John Hill dropped in all of “B” Seniors’ points as the senior company stopped “A” Composite 16-9. Hor ton tallied 12 points for the win ners and Hill counted the other four. Henry Josey was high point man for the losers with seven tal lies. Jim Froelich was the whole show for the “A” Cavalry as the “Jocks” stopped “A” Engineers 8-4 in a very slow moving contest. Froelich dumped in six points for the win ners. In another thriller, Wayne Top- perwine of “A” Quartermaster rung the hoop with a long shot in the fading seconds of the game with “L” Air Force to give the supplymen a 17-15 victory. Jewell Raymond of the squadron was high point man for the contest with seven points. Kiebler led the Quar termasters with five points. “H” Air Force led by Sexton who dumped in 10 points stopped “B” Air Force 23-17 in a fast game. Paine dqdvthe “B" Squadron with eight points. ‘ “P”Air Force dropped ASA 24- 14. It was the security men’s sec ond consecutive defeat. Riley drop ped eight points through the net for high point honors, while Bert Gorrod led ASA with four counters. Dick Brown and Ed Moses led “A” Infantry to a 25-8 win over “C” Cavalry. Bobby Bell and Bud Williams led the Cavalrymen with three points each. TENNIS Robert Lqng ^and Ray Reeisby won the opening match fpr j‘A” Vets as “B” FA defeated the vete rans 2-1. Jack Wilder, Lewis Mes- sersmith, Joe Lively, and Joe Mat tel won the matches for the artil lerymen. “I” Air Force took tjiree straight sets from “B” Engineers to turn in a convincing net win. The scores were &3, 5-3, and 5-0. “D” Vets stopped the “B” Trans porters in tjiree straight sets. But ler and Stotts stopped Beck and Kabanek, 6-2. Fjeld, PaVenport, Jones and Schrank won their their matches 6-0 and 7-1. TOWN HALL TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE IN STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE — Mail Orders Filled — YOU WILL SEE AND HEAR . . . •LEONARD WARREN Metropolitan Opera Baritone, on October 19. •JEAN DICKENSON “The Nightingale of the Airways”, on November 8. •OSCAR LEVANT Concert Pianist, Radio and Film Star on February 1. • SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY with Max Reiter conducting, on March 5. • ANDRES SEGOVIA World’s Greatest Guitarist, on March 28. PRICES Student and Student Wife— General Admission . $3.50 Reserved Seat Tickets $5.50 Non-Student— General Admission < . $5.50 Reserved Seat Tickets $7.50 Tickets for individual performances will not be sold. Poliwogs Play Host To Fish Wednesday Night in Cowtown By FRED WALKER When asked if he thought the Fish would take the Wogs in Wed nesday night’s freshman grid class ic, Coach Perron Shoemaker as sumed a blase attitude and confi dentially mumbled, “I doubt it.” The rest of Shoemaker’s remarks were also alarmingly to the point. He thinks that the outcome of this encounter will be based upon the deciding factor in the Cub-Fish affair—line play. The Fish tried hard enough, but they just ran up against a better ball club (Line, that is.) and were punished for their troubles. “Baylor isn’t 33 points better, though,” he went on to say, “We were unfortunate to have four boys put out in a few minutes, and we just didn’t recover. We made a few costly mistakes that set up three of their touchdowns. The score should have been about 13 to 0.” “Fish Line Slow, Wogs. Fast” Shoemaker concluded by saying that “Our line is fcqo slow, and the Wog line is pretty fast.” The Fish front a .5Q0 average by stumbling over Allen Academy 33-20 and retreating before the Cubs 33-0. The latter contest turn ed out to be a wild and wooly battle with three Aggies three Cubs ex cused from further duty before games-ond. CaVileer Out The only Fish to miss the Fort Worth tilt will be Johnny Cavileer who suffered a back injury and facial laceration at Waco. The rest of the squad is intact and the pro bable starting line will be Petty and Price at end, Burtchall and Cotter at tackle, Gibbens ai/d Capt as guards and Billings over the hall. In the backfield will be Salyer, Gibson, Criswell, and Battalion SPORTS TUBS., OCT. 17, 1950 Page 3 St ..■i • - ma r, L Mayeaux. Press releases from TCU bemoan the idea that this year’s Wog team could not possibly duplicate the feat accomplished by the 1949 fpeshpiifm outfit—fopr wins out of five games—but other sources say that when they tied Arlington State College 6-6, the Wogs showed fine hacks in Danny Powell, the Archer City triple threater, Ray McKown of Dumas, Dan Hallmark of Ballinger, Sammy Morrow of Paris and Glen Jones from Paschal (Fort Worth). The line, which is reputed to out- average the varsity at 193 pounds, produced good blocking and excep tional speed. TCU’s “yoqngsters” had their noses pressed to the grindstone by Coach Walter Roach wjio insists that their offense failed to click against Arlington. He wants them to “be ready” for A&M. It should be a good game be tween the two clubs as both have been working to improve offem, sive play. 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