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Sooners Take First In Williamson Poll By FRED WALKER Sports News Editor The Prince Regent that never got to be King was booted rather unceremoniously from his throne last week-end, but Prime Minister Paul R. Williamson tucked the little fellow under his arm, wiped his nose, said “Don’t cry Sonny,” and then booted him out of the throne room when he was lucky to grab fifth place in the waiting line. Who are they wait ing to see ? Why, the Sooner that waited til later. Yep, there were some harsh lessons learned all the way around last Saturday and that goes for Arkansas. The next time they don’t count their Aggies until they’re dead, for A&M took a ten-step jump from 37th to 27th in the Williamson Ratings. Mr. Williamson rates the top 10 teams in the nation this way: 1) Oklahoma, 2) Army, 3) Texas, 4) Kentucky 5) SMU, 6) Ohio State, 7) California, 8) Princeton, 9) Tennessee and 10) Wisconsin. Fish Eleven Seeks Victory Tonight Over Mice Slimes Walker Now let’s finish it down to where the Aggies stand: 11) Miami, Fla., 12) Pennsylvania, 13) Clemson, 14) Illinois, 15) Wyoming, 16) Vanderbilt, 17) Wake Forest, 18) Alabama, 19) Washington, 20) Iowa, 21) Virginia, 22) Maryland, 23) Georgia, 24) Michigan State, 25) Michigan, 26) UCLA and 27) TEXAS A&M. This should give everyone a good idea of the kind of competition the Aggies have in front of them. The rest of the SWC teams are strung out this way: Rice is 29th; Baylor is, 32nd; at 42nd is TCU and wayj down in the 64th spot is Arkansas. Of course it shouldn’t be expected that the Ponies would drop out of the* first ten but even before this story has gone to press, the howls of disagreement can be heard. “How come the first place?” How Come Sooners First? Sooners are in 'mm Says Williamson, “Thanks to Texas—which it beat the third week of the season by one point —-the University of Oklahoma moved into the lead of the William son Big Ten this week.” ippi, Dayton, Cincinnati, Villanova, Georgia Tech and Florida? There isn’t a strong contender on the list. “What happened to Ohio State who had been running second?” someone asks. Mr. Williamson doesn’t have any thing to say about this one, but it looks as if he figures that since What do we think about it? Well, SMU whipped them the first game we guess that Mr. Williamson fig- of the season, Ohio State should ures that Army’s schedule this year really be chastized. Of course this —Colgate, Penn State, Michigan, doesn’t explain why undefeated Harvard, Columbia and Pennsylva- California, who has faced and beat- nai—just doesn’t warrant first en two of the country’s theretofore place. Maybe, but how does he ex- powerhouse, Penn and Washington, plain Kentucky’s—LSU, Mississ- can’t budge an inch out of 7th. Now here’s our biggest • gripe. The wonderful Georgia Bulldogs, who Have lost one,? tied three, and won two, still manage to stay ahead of the Aggies. Iowa, the same team that was so mercilessly massacred 62 points by Ohio State and clubbed around by Indiana and Wisconsin moved up two more places this week to settle id the 20th spot. What was so un usual was the fact that Michigan actually dropped after being taken 7-0 by Illinois. G When it comes to prognosticating though, you have to hand it to Pro fessor Williamson. For the sea sonal guessings, through November 5th, the System has an average of 81.3 for all games. This includes about 70 major games a week, plus a weekly average of 280 small college, Jaycee and service teams. son System.” Last week PBW called such forecasted close ones as Illinois ov er Michigan, Duke past Georgia Tech, Nebraska beating Missouri, California over Washington and Alabama over Georgia. The System missbtf shldh 'gdindS' as Minnesota'over Iowa, SMU over Any prognosticator that can get Texas and Arkansas past A&M, i 8 - n n qvotqo-o ev&rxr wpplr hv this can’t be considered a but djs- thoosing only the major games, can grace as Williamson wasn’t alone be called reliable or good. ' in these. But a score-guesser like William- For the forecasting of 64 major non, who can consistently hit that college games, the man from New magical 80.0 mark after choosing Orleans came up with his best week from 350 games would have to of the season, as from those 64 be classified phenomenal. We might only seven turned out to be bad not like some of his ratings, but we choices. Keep pickin’ the Aggies, take our hats off to “The William- lad. Predictions for Coming Saturday Now quoting the Williamson pre dictions for next weekend we find that the System casts a shaky vote for Wake Forest over Duke; it takes Colorado over Missouri; Army should beat New Mexico by a minimum of seven»TD’s. self” repeat itself, but as to the SMU by 6, we think that the Ag gies can outscore those thorough Ponies and bring back their hides to College Station. P. S. Says Williamson, “This late in the season, the ratings Columbia looks like a winner over ought to be a good gauge as to Dartmouth; Illinois should beat who will win most of this week’s Iowa; Michigan should take Indi- football games. But there is a ana; ditto Tulane over Navy; Mary- strange phenomenon the William- land over North Carolina; Ohio son System has noticed for the last State over Wisconsin; Vanderbilt pg years: The phenomenon is that over LSU and Purdue over North- there is a big upsetting week late western (yes, that’s right). in the season, when form and past In our conference he sees Texas records don’t mean a thing, over Baylor, if history doesn’t re- could be like that this week.” peat itself in an upset (remember Beat SMU- 1941); Rice over Arkansas; AND SMU OVER TEXAS A&M BY ABOUT 6 POINTS. We would like to see William son’s “if history doesn’t repeat it- A&M’s freshman team will be gunning to get back in the win col umn tonight when it clashes with the Rice Slimes on Kyle Field at 7:30. Fish Coach Perron Shoemaker announced early today that four men were injured and may not play tonight. End Eric Miller has an injured arm, Guard John Neal may be also sidelined, another end Burt Koegl seems to have a bad knee, and Full back Pete Mayeaux has a hurt ankle. Good news from the coaches, however, was that the teams spirit improved over that of other games and although the Fish are under dogs in the fray, they are looking for a win. More and better team play also seems to be a favorable indication towards a victory for the Fish. Last year, the Aggies downed the Owlets, 20-0. First Real Chance It will be the Aggies first real chance to show what they really have. In the two previous games against the Baylor Cubs and the TCU Polywogs, the freshmen made many mistakes and had tough luck. Battalion SPORTS TUES., NOV. 7, 1950 Page 3 ’Mural News Aggies Nipped By Razorbacks In Harrier Bid University of Arkansas nip ped the defending SWC cross country champion Texas Ag gies to the tune of 28-27,■ last Saturday afternoon in a dual meet on the Aggie course. Arkansas’ James Brown, last spring’s conference. 2-mile champ, led all the way to beat Aggies Julian Herring and John Garmany by 20 and 10 yards. Brown’s time was a respectable 12:20 for the 2.6 mile jaunt. Fourth place was taken by Janies Wesb'.of Arkansas while A&M’s Charlie Gabriel put on a last min ute burst to edge Razorback Bill Cairns for the 5th spot. Finishing out the 10 runners were Oliver Gatchell (Ark.), Char les Hudgins (A&M), Temple Brown (Ark.), and Marshall Lazarine (A&M). The biggest disappointment to Coaches Frank Anderson and Ray Putnum was the fact that Alex Or tiz and Jim McMahon took 7th and 8th for the Aggies but were not counted. Only five men could com prise the team and Hudgins and Lazarine were chosen to complete the five instead of Ortiz and Mc Mahon. Ordinarily the team is com posed of seven men, with the first five across the wire to be scored, but since Arkansas brought but five men, Col. Andy had to desig nate the five to run for A&M. How ever, no one can be blamed since Hudgins and Lazarine had been running much better than Ortiz and McMahon in earlier meets. At the mile mark the Aggies trailed badly behind four Arkansas boys as Brown was turning in a 4:40. After two miles, Brown had shaken all pursuers except Herring and Garmany who were 20 or 30 yards in 2nd and 3rd. Brown’s 2- mile time was 9:35, slightly above the SWC 2-mile record. HAVING SHIRT TROUBLE?... Keep yourself happy and your shirts, too. Eliminate that tired, worn-out look. Call us for regular atten tion to apparel and linens. Campus Cleaners ‘Over The Exchange sStors’ Intramural play continued Mon day with football, basketball, and tennis teams seeing action. All the games played were in the mili tary leagues. In the best cage tilt of the after noon, A Air Force flew past A Field Artillery, 18-14. The score at halftime of the fiercely fought con test was 9-9. Bob Dobbins of the airmen was high point man of the contest with seven tallies. Martin of the Field Artillery was the leading counter for the losers with five. Jack Thornton led the scoring (See ’MURAL, Page 4) -Beat SMU- ID As Security For Mural Gear ID cards must be left as se curity for all Intramural equip ment that is checked out, Bar ney Welch, Director of Intra murals, announced today. This procedure has been ne cessitated by the rise in un returned equipment. LEGAL HOLIDAY Tuesday, November 7, 1950, Election Day, a legal holiday will be observed by the undersigned and they will not be open for business on that day. FIRST NATIONAL BANK CITY NATIONAL BANK FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST CO. COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK BRYAN BUILDING AND LOAN ASS’N In their first start of the sea son, the Cadets thumped the Al len Academy Ramblers, 33-20, but since that time have failed to score. Baylor also downed the Fish, by a score of 33-0. But errors and bad breaks hurt the Cadets consider ably. Two fumble were also pain ful. Against the Polywogs the Fish lost the ball eight times on fumbles, three times on pass interceptions, once on a blocked kick, and then penalties at bad times also hurt. TCU came out on top of the tilt, 60-0, but in statistics, the both teams were evenly matched with the Aggies holding the edge on the ground. The reason for the lead in ground gaining is mainly because of Fullback Mayeaux, who not only leads the rushers but also the scorers with 21 markers, Halfbacks Don Criswell Buck Gibson, Jimmy Russell, and Johnny Cavileer. No Fish Leader At the time the only thing wrong with the freshman eleven seems to be that they haven’t, yet found a leader and haven’t yet been able to go all the way. Although the Owlets are feeling pretty good with a 20-16 victory over the TU Frosh last week under their belts, they too have scored but 33 points. Two backs in the Rice lineup seem to be the big guns. They are Kosse Johnson and Bill Gaskamp. Johnson plays both offense and defense while Gaskamp seems to be an “all the way” scatback. Johnson scored the deciding and final touchdown for the Slimes in the Texas fray, crashing 11 yards for the score. Gaskamp also scored against the Shorthorns—the run covering 65 yards. The two above mentioned play ers seem to be the ones with which the Cadet line will have to deal. 1. Army (88) Freshman football standings: 2. Ohio State (94) Team W L TPts.Op. 3. Oklahoma (48) Baylor 4-0 O' 95 0 ,4.. Kentucky (35) SMU ... 2 ■ 0 0 :95 .0 4: Kentucky (35) . TCU 1 1 1 66 29 5. Texas (11) Arkansas . 3 1 0 70 36 6. California (14) A&M... ..... 1 2 0 33 113 7. Southern Methodist (2) Rice 1 2 0 33 64 8. Princeton (4) Texas 9 3 0 16 45 9. Miami (8) -Beat SMU- 10. Illinois Dean Pryor (44) has been partially stopped by an unidentified Aggie while Bruisin’ Bob Smith (36) comes up fast to hit him, while Yale Lary (28), Max Greiner (60), and Andy Hilhouse 1 (89, behind Smith) come up fast. The Cadets won the game, 42-13, the largest score run up against the Porkers since the start of the series in 1903. Cadets Tie for 23rd In AP Football Polling A&M is on its way back up the Associated Press football rating poll as the Cadets jumppd to; 23rd with their 42-13 victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks. Southern Methodist replaced the team that defeated them this past weekend, Texas, in the No. 7 spot, while the Longhorns moved up only two places after defeating the lead er in the poll for two straight weeks. Army, Ohio State, and Okla homa took over the top three rungs of the ladder. Each of the teams with the exception of the Buckeyes are undefeated, SMU downed the Ohioans in the early part of the season. Rice was the only other team from the SWC to receive any votes as they finished with a total of 3. Points 2,451 2,402 2,389 1,920; 1,9201 1,911 1,031 1,488 627 602 570 Second Ten ,11. Tennessee 289 12. Michigan State 208 13. Clemson (7) 175 14. Wyoming (2) 105 15. Wisconsin 61; 16. Nebraska 43 17. Washington 31 18. Maryland 28 19. UCLA 22 20. Kansas 22 21. Lehigh, 22 Others: Loyola of Los Angeles 16, South Carolina (1) 13 and Wake Forest 13; Pennsylvania and Texas A&M, each 10; Duke 9, Virginia 8, New Hampshire and Washington and Lee, each 7, Florida, and Notre Dame, each 6, Franklin and Marsh all 5, Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) Rice, Alabama, Michigan, each 3, 1 Xavier (Ohio), Carnegie Tech, 1 Idaho and Vanderbilt, each 2; Stan ford and Marquette, each 1.—Based on AP Reports. Beat SMU Spring Is Sprung and Fall Is Falling and . . . Now Is the Time to Get Those Winter Uniforms Ready Let us whip those winter uniforms into new life. Now, you can, get it done with the best of workman ship at the Aggie Cleaners. Bring ’em down today and let us prove our worth. Nothing is nicer than a sharp looking uniform. AGGIE CLEANERS Phone 4-4554 A&M 1st in Total Offense; Bruisin ’ Bob Tops Rushers It will be power against passing here Saturday when SMU tries to rekindle its victory fires agajnst Texas A&M. The statistics prove it. Released today, the conference facts and figures show that: SMU has the conference’s top passer in Fred Benners but A&M has the top total offense as a team. A&M has the conference’s lead ing ground gainer in Bob Smith; leading punt returner in Yale Lary; and top scorer in Smith. There are a few more incidental figures, but it all boils down to this: A&M has probably the great est number, of consistent, hard driving runners in the conference; SMU the deadliest passing attack in the circuit. Benners tossed 39 passes in, his team’s 23-20 licking by Texas last week. That gave him 69 comple tions on 123 attempts for 9l4 yards and eight touchdowns. Smith All-Around Leader Smith scored one touchdown to boost his scoring to 72 points, gained 133 yai’ds on 16 carries for a total of 827 yards on 122 carries or an average of 6.7 yards eyery time he hit the line. Lary has brought back seven punts for 130 yards. He’s also third in punting with 38 kicks, (See SMU - A&M, Page 4) Where The College Crowd Meets For FOOD and FUN Delicious barbecue and charcoal broiled steaks HEAR THE HOTTEST PIANO PLAYER IN DALLAS CAIN’S HITCHIY POST 2504 W. Davis (near Hampton $37.50 Universal FOOD MIXER & JUICER EVERY adult visiting our store between Nov. 7 and Dec. 15 will be given a chance on this Labor Saving Device. NOTHING To Buy , . . To Guess Come in today! See our complete line of nationally advertised appliances. USE OUR LAY AWAY PLAN ALUMINUM LINES ELECTRIC CLOCKS SUNBEAM SHAVEMASTERS TOASTERS COFFEE MAKERS MIXERS W AFFLE IRONS LAMPS C. E. GRIESSER ELECTRIC CO. 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