Stalwarts Of The Aggie Forward Wall
Graves is the best touchdown
passer in the SWC, having com
pleted three passes in three at
tempts for 66 yards and a TD.
The first play he called in col
lege football scored.
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MAX GREINER
Taking to the air is the Aggies only three-year letterman Greiner,
who last week captained the Cadet eleven in the VMI fray. Greiner
is one of the Farmer’s top offensive and defensive guards, and last
year was one fo the few that turned in 60 minutes of playing time
during the final games.
After 50 Years yls Manager .
Connie Mack Leaves A’s
By GRLO ROBERTSON
Philadelphia, Oct. 19——Con
nie Mack, baseball’s “grand old
man,” resigned yesterday after 50
years as manager of the Philadel
phia athletics.
Into his shoes stepped Jimmy
Dykes, 54, star third baseman of
the Athletics when Connie Mack’s
team dominated the baseball pic
ture two decades ako.
Art Ehlers, 52, director of the
American League Club’s farm sys
tem, became general manager.
Although the lanky 87-year-old
leader of the Athletics had been
under fire as having outlived his
usefulness, his resignation came as
a surprise.
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“I am retiring frofti the active
management of the baseball club
but will remain as a director,”
Mack told a news conference.
Actually, he’ll retain the office
of president with his oldest son,
Roy, vice president, and another
son, Earle, secretary-treasurer.
Roy and Earle own all of the
stock except that of their father.
They purchased the stock from
Connie Mack, Jr., a half-brother,
and the Shibe interests last month
after a long, bitter argument with
in the organization.
Mack became manager of the
Athletics when the American
League was organized in 1901. A
major league catcher in the early
days of the sport, Mack directed
the Athletics to nine American
League pennants and five world
championships.
But since the Athletics lost to
the St. Louis Cardinals in the
1931 series, they have failed to
come through. They finished second
the following year and since then
have wound up in the first divi-
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sibn only twice, in 1933 and 1948.
Surprise to Dykes
To Dykes the appointment
manager came as a surprise.
“Until yesterday I did not have
the least idea where I would be in
baseball next year,” he said, add
ing:
“I am flabbergasted about my
appointment. Stepping into the
shoes of a man who has run the
club for 50 years is a job that is
tqo big for me, too big for any
man.
“I am not afraid of being a man
ager. I have been through all that
before but I am afraid in follow
ing in the footsteps of Mr. Mack
and carrying out his ideas.”
Dykes, manager of the Chicago
White Sox from 1934 to 1946, suc
ceeded Earle Mack as assistant
manager during the past season.
At the same time, Mickey Coch
rane, former A’s star catcher, was
made general manager, Cochrane,
however, resigned.
Asked when his father decided
to leave the dUgout, Roy replied:
“That was several weeks ago.
Since then Earle and I have been
trying to find a manager that
Would be able to follow in Dad’s
footsteps. Yesterday, we decided
that Dykes was pur man.”
DWAYNE TUCKER
Tucker and Chapin are senior letlermen on the Cadet eleven, both
playing on the Aggies’ strong line. A tackle from Waco, Tucker is
one of the largest men on the team, weighing over 200 pounds and
towers six feet in height. Chapin wears a lOYz size shoe which
added to his 6' 3" frame should give anyone a good enough picture
of another of the Aggies top tackles.
Holditch is a senior letterman
tackle on the Aggie squad and
one of the biggest hustlers on the
team, weighing in at 205 pounds.
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Better Team, This Year
Stiteler
And He
Said So:
Was Right
By WILBUR MARTIN
Associated Press Staff
Harry Stiteler said last year-
just after Texas A&M had tied
Southern Methodist University, 27-
27, in a stunning achievement—
that this year the Aggies would
be a better football team.
The first four games of 1950
proved this a true statement. The
Aggies won just three of these,
but the loss—that 28-34 affair to
Oklahoma—actually proved it more
than the victories over Nevada,
Texas Tech, and Virginia Military
Institute.
Stiteler stood on the steps of
his home and told a group of
sports writers why he thought the
Aggies would be better, First, he
said, his sophomores of 1949 would
be juniors in 1950. You could tell
he thought the experience they
would have would make the differ-
ce.
Big Difference
It has made a difference. But
just as big a difference is the
quality of play Stiteler has been
getting from his line. Even Aggie
partisans will admit that the line
has performed far above expecta
tions.
Another problem that A&M
seems to have solved is that of
quarterback. Delmar Sikes, Dick
G'ardemal, Darrow Hooper and Ray
Graves show promise of improving
as they go along. And they haven’t
done badly from the start.
Another reason, of course, is
Bruisin’ Bob Smith. The Aggies’
fullback is one of the best in the
Conference. The best, some will
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Sanity Code Again-Maybe
By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
New York, Oct. 19—(A’)—The
whole noisy and often bitter fuss
over the NCAA sanity code may be
touched off again by Prexy Col
gate W. Darden’s report to the
U. of Virginia board of visitors.
.... Dr. Darden was to present
essentially the same report he gave
to the NCAA last winter . . . .like
the prexy, we can’t understand
why $1,040 “aid” is too much for
a studious football player while a
non-athletic young chemist can
collect $2,500 . . . but we can peir-
ceive a few faults in Darden’s
viewpoint even while we admire
him for standing up for his prin
ciples ... we think the charges
about the agencies awarding schol
arships contain a touch of double-
talk ... as we see it, when you
start relaxing the rules, it gives
the cheaters more;room to operate
before you can catch them ... so
why give a thief a running start ?
Slight Surprise
Southern California’s football
ers had the ball on California’s
one-yard line last Saturday and
the quarterback called for, a line
1 smash by fullback Frank Pucci
... but somehow he cohfused the
count and pulled the ball back in
stead of handing it off ... Pucci,
a Canton, Ohio, Californian,
smashed through . . . later he re
ported in Jimmy Durante style:
“Wuz I astounded to find myself in
the end zone—and no ball.”
Pigskin Pickins
Yale Vs. Cornell
Far above Cayuga’s water
Yale will lose, just as they
oughtef.
Purdue vs Iowa
Taint no Holcombe;
Purdue will soak ’em.
Texas vs. Arkansas
Texas will chase ’em.
Right out of the park,
For there isn’t a Noah
To ran this ark.
Alabama vs. Tennessee
Alabama will learn, most pain-
fulee.
They don’t play tennis at Tenn
essee.
Notre Dame vs. Indiana
The fighting Irish will hardly
feel
A kick from D’Achilles heel.
End of the Line
Bill Sharman, the baseball play
ing bonus baby just called up by
the Dodgers, hit .288 at Pheblo
but was doing a lot better before
he busted a hand . . . Missouri
and Arkansas talent scouts are
trailing Jack Fox, a 185-pound
fullback at Monett, Mo., high . . .
soon as word got around that Notre
Dame was vulnerable, ticket sales
for last week’s game at Tulane
took a big jhmp.
The National Baseball Congress
reports it will have some 300 jun
ior chamber of commerce organiza
tions sponsoring district and state
non-professional baseball tourna
ments next slimmer . . . J'erry
(Bull) Finish, sports writer for the
Lexington, Ky., Leader, graduated
Summa Cum Laude from the U. of
Kentucky last spring and has writ
ten a play which will be produced
by Guignol, the campus theatrical
organization . . . single wing or T,
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