• Worry? Borddom
• Lead to Predicting
By FRED WALKER
Why do sports writers attempt to forecast the outcomes
1| of ensuing sports events? For the most part it is a com-
1 bination of frustration, the seeking of notoriety, boredom
and the lack of copy.
But here is a novel excuse. We strain
over statistics, beat out our brains over com
parative scores and then wait for a hunch
to arrive.
After the games are played, and the
bad guesses_ start falling in, we can sit back
and laugh at how much we don’t know about
football, thereby proving to all the world
that only the eleven men on the field, and
the head man on the sideline really know
what is going on.
Since this is our first throw at prog
nostication, we doubt that any great number
1 of faux pas will instigate a burning in effigy.
•
All right, let’s start with the East:
The big gairto of the day will be Army versus Pennsylvania.
If you look at the Cadets carefully, the effect will be
terrifying. From end to end they have depth, speed and
powder. Elmer Stout and Dan Foldbcrg already are being
. considered for All-American candidacy.
Against Columbia, the most Gil Stephenson could gain
was tw r o yards after trying for a quarter, but in came
substitutes A1 Pollard and Herb Polluck, and the game
, w as in the bag. On the other hand Penn has one of the
most versatile triple-threnters seen this year—Francis
(Reds) Bagnell.
Earlier in the sfeason he set an all-time Collegiate record
by amassing 490 yards in one game. The Penn line is fast
and tough, but they lack one big thing that Army doesn’t—
depth. It should be a good ball game for three quarters,
but in the end Army should come through on their reverses.
Make it Army by about two TD’s.
J Upset Special .. . Columbia over Cornell
Walker
Here’s an Upset Special for you
I —Columbia to beat Cornell. The
1; Big Red have lost a little each
1- week, and this Saturday doesn’t
i look like a recovery. Don’t kid
„ yourself, the Lions. and Lou Little
f! are tough.
Elsewhere in the East: Holy
| Cross to take Harvard; Yale to
beat Dartmouth (But don’t be sur-
prised if they are up-set); Prince-
| ton over Colgate about 21 points;
Rutgers on Brown by 13; Penn
State, tired of tying, to take Bos-
| ton College’s measure; William &
* Mary to squeak past Boston Uni
versity; Lehigh to flatten Muhlen-
* berg; Pitt over West Virginia; and
Syracuse past Lafayette.
There are seme corkers lined up
in the South, but most eyes will
be turned towards two cities, Lex
ington, Kentucky, where the unde
feated Wildcats take on the once
beaten, but highly-regarded Hur-
xlcanes from Florida, and Tuscaloo
sa, Alabama, to watch the Crim
son Tide try to stop undefeated
but thrice-tied Georgia.
Kentucky has been favored by
as many as 14 points as the gam
blers take into consideration their
seven wins without a defeat. Flo
rida has lost only to Georgia Tech
(16-14) who preyigusly bad been
beaten by the'Wildcast 28-14.
The odds, statistics and every
thing else say “No!”, but here goes
a hunch on those scrapping boys
of Bob Woodruff. Fr the upset of
the week try Florida over Ken
tucky.
Aggie Water Polo
Team Edges TU
In Final Seconds
By CHUCK NEIGHBORS
Coach Art Adamson’s water polo
players came through with a 3-2
victory over the Texas University
team last night in the natatorium.
Starring for the Aggie swimmers
were Gil McKenzie, with two
scores to his credit, and Ralph
Ellis, who tallied the remaining
marker.
The Aggie goalie, Tommy Com
stock played a great game in the
nets saving a large number of
shots with his nimble fingers.
The game seemed to have settled
down to a stalemate after the
first quarter ended with the Ag
gies out front by a one point mar-
Bayl or Cubs Down
TCU fogs, 23-0
Fort Hood, Tex., Nov. 3—fAb—
Baylor’s freshman football team
smashed Texas Christian Univer
sity, 23-0, last night turning the
game into a one-sided affair with
pass interceptions in the fourth
quarter.
Jerry Goody plunged over the
goal for a Baylor touchdown in the
second quarter, then Charles Rad
ford grabbed one of Danny Powell’s
passes and ran 35 yards for an
other cub score in the fourth. A
few minutes later, James Duncan
snared a Powell pass and ran to
the TCU 12-yard line. Mickey Sul
livan smashed over for a touchdown
four plays later.
The Cubs blocked a TCU punt
later in the period for a safety.
Bobby Benge kicked three extra
points.
Beat Arkansas
gin, 2-1. The score remained 2-1
until the last period, when Prior
of TU tied the score by flinging in
a hard shot past Aggie goalie
Comstock.
With thirty seconds left in the
game, Gil McKenzie flashed down
the pool and slammed a score home
to put the Aggies out in front 3-2.
Aggie B Wins, 6-1
The Aggie B team, composed of
freshmen and ineligibles, flashed
to a 6-1 win over the TU Aquatic
Club in the preliminary tilt.
John Parnell stood out for the
B team scoring four of the six
goals. Ledford was the other scor
er with two goals.
John Singleton, the B goalie was
instrumental in the low score made
by the TU club by his sometimes
miraculous saves.
Beat Arkansas
TU-SMU Tilt Eyed
By Bowl Groups
Austin, Tex., Nov. 3.—(A 1 )—Rep
resentatives of the Sugar and
Orange Bowls will be eyeing the
Texas-Southern Methodist football
game here Saturday.
Presumably they will be most in
terested in the lower. The win
ner likely will win the Southwest
Conference championship and thus
will be host team in the Cotton
Bowl game. (Editor’s note: We
question the latter).
Beat Arkansas
Longhorns Hold Review
Austin, Tex., Nov. 3.—<A > )—The
Texas Longhorns held a “day of
review” yesterday afternoon, con
centrating on timing and smooth
ing out offensive plays to be used
against Southern Methodist Uni
versity.
SWC Predictions
& 8 ^i.?.!".: going to get mighty tired of los
ing silly ole football games because
Both times a guy named Doak of single points, so if the Steers
Walker was the big pain in the win, it might be a stampede,
neck, but now that he’s gone, one In a high scoring game, we’ll
might wonder if that is OK. give the Longhorns the edge most
We think it is, and we also be- people are giving the Mustangs,
lieve that one of these days TU is 28-20.
TCU to Regain Prestige, Beat Baylor, 24-11
Georgia with
So far the odds makers have
been dumping the points on Geor
gia and calling Alabama the favor
ite. The Bulldogs haven’t lost a
K * game, but ties to St. Mary’s, North
Karolina and LSU, coupled with
ihe fact that Crimson Tide losses
to Southern juggernauts Vander-
t tilt and Tennessee by only live
points, gives Alabama the nod by
six to ten points.
But, we go along with a Georgia
team that has proved it can play
i;| ; football. It looks like most peo-
» pie have forgotten that the Bull
dogs trimmed mighty Maryland
■ 27 to 7.
For the rest of the South: Ciem-
K: * son to pour it on Duquesne; Duke
and Georgia Tech to tie; LSU to
take Mississippi U.; Maryland over
George Washington about 12; Mi
ami folding Georgetown; Mississip-
Midwest
Heres’ hoping the rest of the
Mid-West battles fall this way:
Detroit to beat Villanova; Drake
3-0-3, To Win
pi State over Auburn; North Car
olina State over Richmond about
21; NORTH CAROLINA U. TO
UPSET TENNESSEE; Vanderbilt
smothering Chattanooga; VMI,
Virginia and Washington & Lee
to have easy times with Davidson,
Citadel and VPI.
The main attraction in the Mid-
West will be the Michigan-Illinois
tussle. Last week Michigan was
tied by a poor Minnesota team
while Illinois was mutilating In
diana, but the Gophers, no matter
what kind of team they have, al
ways manage to scare the Wolv
erines.
This week, the mini’s star half
back, Johnny Karras will be play
ing with a weak ankle, while flashy
Chuck Ortmann is sound again.
We’ll put our money on Ortmann
and call it Michigan.
Battles
to take Bi'adley; Iowa State’s Bill
Weeks to pass Kansas State into
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But by the Frogs, they look too weak.
Although Larry Isbell seems to After their game with the Ag-
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it is still too early to tell. a crushing second half attack
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Rice’s Power to Rout Tech, 42-14
Glauser and Glass—what a combination,
• They’ll beat Tech all over ’tarnation.
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Arkansas Anticipating V ictory
By RALPH GORMAN
Coach Otis Douglas will send
his Arkansas Razorbacks onto Kyle
Field tomorrow night anticipating
a triumph over Aggie Coach Harry
Stiteler’s eager Cadets.
The Hogs
from Fayette
ville will fly to
Aggieland to
morrow morn
ing and stand
to be in top
shape for the
24th meeting of
the two teams.
Four years have
elapsed since
the Farmers
scored a victory
over the Razor-
backs, it occur
ring in the 1945
season when a Homer Norton-led
aggregation downed the Arkansas
hosts on Razorback field, 34 to 0.
In the 23 meetings of the two
elevens, Arkansas claims the edge
with 11 victories to 10 for the
Cadets while two ended in dead
locks.
Have 26 Returnees
There arc 26 lettermen adorn
ing the Hog lineup and this gives
them the much needed depth in
each position. In the game with
Bobby Dixon
Dixon is noe of the sophomore
linesmen that Coach Harry Stite-
ler will have to call on quite a
bit next season. Already playing
a good share this year, he is
one of the bigger sophs at 6’ 2”
and 220 pounds.
Vanderbilt a Saturday ago, Doug
las used 31 men from the bench
in holding the No. 2 team in the
Southeastern Conference to a one
point victory.
Leaving the ranks of the pro
footballers this year, Douglas is
a new mentor at Hogland and
along with his newness he intro
duced new thinking and new for
mations. The split T was Douglas’
baby, and he knew that his new
students would not accustom them
selves to it overnight.
Not obstinate in his coaching, the
former Philadelphia Eagle coach,
abandoned the split T completely
last week and continued in favor
of the Widely spread single wing-
back offense.
It was from this field formation
that the Hogs scored their two 1
counters against the Vandy eleven.
SPORTS
Rote - Townsend
Renew Grid Duel
Austin, Nov. 2—(SP*—Two strap
ping 190-pounders, Kyle Rote and
Byron Townsend, will play the rub
ber game Saturday in a duel for
football honors dating back to 1946.
Now carrying the ball for SMU
and Texas, Rote and Townsend will
meet on the field where they first
competed against each other in the
state schoolboy championship fin
ale.
Townsend was the big gun that
December day, leading Odessa to a
21-14 victory over Rote and his
Thomas Jefferson teammates from
San Antonio. He galloped 124 yards
on 27 carries, scored one touch
down and passed for another.
Even in defeat, Rote loked good.
Held to 17 yards running on 11 of-
fortSj .h 0 ran f° r cme touchdown,
pakshcl' f° r th^$tbe% - and- ••ka’ctowk
’both extra points.
The two Bid not meet on the
gridiron again until last year.
They tinned in similar running
performances, neither one specta
cular, but Rote increased his scor
ing margin over Townsend. He
caught two passes for 33 yards
and one went for SMU’s lone touch
down. That gave Doak Walker a
chance to kick the extra point that
beat Texas, 7-6.
There are many tricks hidden in
the sleeves of this SWC neophyte,
and he has his hoys in midseason
experience now.
Therefore, Kyle Field denizens
on the evening of Nov. 4th should
not be surprised if the Porkers
suddenly exhibit a high calibre of
gridiron talent. In short, they may
explode/
Fumbles and outright miscues
have been the cause of the Ar
kansas defeats in three of their six
starts in 1950. Douglas commented
after the Vanderbilt loss that “our
boys find a new way to give a
touchdown away every week.” But
they are expected to grow into
form one of the days and on that
Saturday will be a formidable
threat to any team.
Douglas will probably be minus
the services of Porker Halfback
Ray Parks, a lad who turned in
several sparkling gridiron per
formances before he was injured
a few weeks ago.
In the Hog baekfield will be
featured the quarterbacking of
Jim Rinehart and the line smash
ing ability of Jack Bailey and
Lewis Carpenter.
i
Rinehart ranks as the No. 5
passer among the SWC stars and
is expected to maintain his .419
pass completion percentage.
Porker Fullback Louis Schaufle
is second to Baylor’s Larry Isbell
in the punting division, kicking 10
times against Vandy for a better
than 40 yard average.
Little Sammy Euro is expected
to be ready to carry on in his half
back slot and will probably share
duty with Larry Hogue, a con
verted quarterback. Balancing the
wingback positions will be Buddy
Rogers, who has a four yard aver
age gain for 70 carries to rank
tenth in the conference.
Bill Journey and Jack Richards
will work at the end posts, Journey
being the No. 5 pass receiver in
SWC play.
Performing tackle scores for the
Hogs will be Dave Hanner and
Fred Williams, while Buddy Brown
and Charles Milam will be busy at
the guard posts.
Bob Griffin will he on hand to
use his 235 pounds at the center
of the line and is a large plug
in the linebacking duties.
Beat Arkansas
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