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Oklahoma Takes 1st Place In AP Polling Leading Punt Returner Oklahoma, Arrrjy, and Kentucky took over the first three places in the Associated Press Football Rat ing Poll over the past weekend of play. A&M, who ranked 12th last week, fell out of the top twenty, but Texas kept its fifth place spot while SMU dropped from 14th to 15th place. Powerful Oklahoma, unbeaten in 29 straight games, ran away from the other contenders with a total of 2,964 points, 526 better than runnerup Army. More than half of the football writers and sportscasters ranked Oklahoma in the No. 1 spot after its 41-7 romp over Missouri. The Sooners were second last week. Army lost first place support as it shaded Stanford 7-0, in a mud battle but the Cadets picked up enough points to advance a notch from last week’s position. Only 36 put Army first compared to 72 a week ago. Kentucky Draws Attention Kentucky drew attention with its 83-0 rout of North Dakota, moving from fifth to a strong third place with 55 firsts. There were no changes in the top 10 membership. Four teams held the same positions. The big gest shuffle was Ohio State’s drop from first to eighth. After the first three came Cali fornia, Texas, Illinois and Prince ton. Ohio State was followed by Southwest Conference Rumblings With the Southwest Conference football season coming to a close, bowl bids and All-America honors, as well as the All-Conference awards, are being considered . . . Texas U is the only team that has a definite bowl bid, since they are the undisputed champs of the league and will play in the Cotton Bowl Jan. 1st. against either Ten nessee or Kentucky . . . At A&M Coach Harry Stiteler gave the Cadets a two-day rest to recover from their Saturday loss to Rice 21-13 . . .It will be back to work Wednesday for the Aggies as they will start preparing for their final scheduled game of the season on Turkey Day (Nov. 30th) against the Longhorns . . . the Aggies came out in good shape from their weekend loss with no serious injuries reported . . . Southern Methodist University’s varsity football team took it easy in practice, but the reserves got a good workout, yesterday. . . “About all the varsity did was run around the field,” Coach H. N. (Rusty) Russell commented after the practice . . . Russell said tackle Bobby Collier may miss action in the Baylor game Saturday because of a back injury. Otherwise the squad came out of last week’s 14-7 victory over (See ARKANSAS, Page 4) Tennessee and Michigan State in that order. Only Michigan State has completed its schedule. OU Has 8-0 Oklahoma (8-0) has two more games to play. After its test with 16th ranked Nebraska Saturday, the Sooners wind up with Oklaho ma A&M. Army (8-0) plays Navy Dec. 2 in its last game. Kentucky (10-0) tangles with ninth-ranked Tennessee (8-1) in Saturday’s most important game. It will be Kentucky’s finale but Tennessee also must play Vander bilt Dec. 2. Tennessee polished off Mississippi 35-0 last Saturday to hold its ninth ranking. San Francisco threw quite a scare into Califomia (9-0) before the California Bears finally won it, 13-7. Stanford is the only bar rier in California’s path to the Rose Bowl. TU To Play 2 More Texas (7-1), a 21-7 winner over Texas Christian, has two to play —Nov. 30 and Louisiana State Dec. 9. But they have already clinched the Southwest Conference crown and a Cotton Bowl appear ance. Illinois’ upset of Ohio State, 14-7, brought its season record to 7-1. Wisconsin was the only team to defeat Illinois, 7-6, in early season. Northwestern is the final opponent on the Illini schedule. Unbeaten Princeton nailed down its fourth straight big three title by whipping Yale, 47-12. They finish their season with Dartmouth Saturday. Ohio State 6-2) needs a win over Michigan Saturday to be sure of the Western Conference champ ionship. Michigan State ended its sea son, bowling over Pittsburgh 19-0. —Based on AP Reports. Beat TU In Williamson Poll * llllili x ■■11 ' S T; IMS ■.'xi:;: Yale Lary This stocky Cowtowner has returned nine punts this season for 209 yards and an average of 23.2 yards per return, Yale, a junior, ranks third in SWC punting with a 39.4 yard average and is tied for fifth place among the leading scorers with 36 points for the six times that he entered paydirt. A&M Drops to 30th; TU 3rd The Fightin’ Texas Aggies suf fered their worst set-back in the Williamson Ratings since October 31 as they fell from sixth to 30th following the shocking upset by Rice. Three weeks ago A&M had plum meted from eighth to 39th after they, had been upset by Baylor, but since that time they had climbed steadily upwards to notch their last-week’s sixth spot. The eleven whom the Aggies al most beat—Oklahoma U niversity-— not only extended its unbeaten, un tied string to 29, but aljnost ran away from other competitors as they grabbed the cherished No. 1 place. The Sooners recorded a 99.7 rating while second-place Kentucky managed only 99.2. Five-tenths of a point is quite a bit in William son’s computations. The nation’s top ten Williamson teams are: 1) Oklahoma, 2) Ken tucky, 3) Texas, 4) Army, 5) Cali fornia, 6) Princeton, 7) Illinois, 8) SMU, 9) Ohio State and 10) Ten- Meeting the gang to discuss a quiz —or just killing time between classes — the Student Lounge of Acquinas Hall at Providence Col lege is one of the favorite places for a rendezvous. At the Student Lounge, as in college campus haunts everywhere, a frosty bottle of Coca-Cola is always on hand for the pause that refreshes—Coke belongs. Ask for it either way... both trade-marks mean the same thing. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY the BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. @ 1950, The Cecs-Cala Compcr/ nessee. Filling out the second ten are: 11) Pennsylvania, 12) Alabama, 13) Clemson, 14) Wyoming, 15) Michigan State, 16) Michigan U., 17) Rice, 18) Wisconsin, 19) Bay lor and 20) Wake Forest. Illinois was the only newcomer to the big ten this week, while A&M was the only drop. The most radical change, however, was the slipping from first to fourth of the Black Knights of the Hudson. A narrow squeak of only a seven point margin over' the twice-beat en, once-tied Stanfords Indians’is attributed to Army’s four-notch fall. Unbeaten and untied, the Golden Bears from California failed to move from the No. 5 post, while once-beaten Texas managed to move up one place by taking TCU 21-7. Only five of the first ten ’Mural News By JOE BLANCHETTE Intramural Co-Editor Amid a chilling Monday after, noon intramurals rolled into its eighth week of play. Forfeits were prevalent throughout the day. • Basketball Co. 10 and Co. 9 met in a grudge battle at 5 p. m. but the anticipated close game did not ensue as Co. 10 routed their opponents, 16-6. Brigham of Co. 10 was the high point man of the afternoon with six counters. Co. 10 led at halftime 8-4. Roy tallied six points to pace Sqdn. 12 to an easy 20-7 victory over Co. 8. Co. 7 waltzed to a 29-9 win over Co. ll’s “transfer fish.” Lockshin was the big gun in the Co. 7 attack with nine points. His teammate. Petty was close behind as he loop ed the hoop with eight digits. CWS stormed to a 20-8 win over B Composite as Pipes led the win ners, scoring 10 points. Jones was second in the scoring column with eight. • Football On the final play of the game, Schmidt of D AF crossed the pay stripe to place his team in a tie with E FA and on the next play crossed the treasured stripe again, to hand the airmen a 13-7 win over the artillerymen. In one of the closest matched games of the afternoon in which both teams netted the same number of penetrations, B FA stopped L AF 6-0. E AF dropped B CAC 6-0; A Inf. dropped B Seniors 20-6. • Tennis On the tennis courts, ASA stop ped the netters of D Inf. 2-0. Bill Bristow, Bill Boddeker, “Bo” Hos kins, and Grady Satterwhitg chalk ed up the necessary wins. Frank Johnson, “Willy” Willy, James Wilson, and Charles Bruclr- millei led A QMC over A Ord. 2-0. A Signal stopped F AF, 2-0 and 11 AF rolled past D AF, 2-0. • Horseshoes The horseshoemen of ASA drop ped B AF, 2-0, 2-1, and 2-0. In other horseshoe matches, C AF de- weated B Composite and A CAC edged A AF. Beat TU teams are able to boast unbeaten, untied records — Oklahoma, Ken tucky, A r m y, California and Princeton. Texas, Illinois and Ten nessee have been beaten once while Ohio State and SMU have suffered two setbacks each. A&M Foes Rated Opponents of the Aggies are scattered considerably throughout the Ratings. Conquerors of the Ma roon and White—Oklahoma, Rice and Baylor are rated first, 17th and 19th in that, order. SMU, TCU, Arkansas, Texas Tech, VMI and Nevada—the fallen foes of A&M— are ranked eighth, 43rd, 63rd, 79th, 103i’d and 275th consecutively. Ten tative bowl opponent, Maryland, is currently rated 27th. Last week, Williamson stated: “Readers wil note that the Sys tem ranks according to what is, not what ought to be. That is, it ranks teams in the most consistent man ner according to the actual results of the season, by the old ‘who beat who’ argument.” The System fell below the 80. plus - mark last week for the first time in many weeks, but William son took it very philosophically, saying: “The week of upsets, which the Williamson System has been ob serving every year for 18 years, cropped up for 1950 last week. It was the first time in many years that the System had suffered so many upsets against its pre-game ratings in both upper and minor circles. Out of 69 major games re ported, 15 were upsets against the ratings for a percentage of 78.3. Overall, the picture was worse. Out of a total of 288 games report ed, there were 56 upsets and four ties for which there was no ex planation, for a general percentage of 77.4.” Among the upsets to which Wil liamson refers was Rice over A&M, Illinois over Ohio State, Harvard over Brown, Idaho over Boston University, Navy over Columbia and Minnesota over Purdue. Williamson Predictions fii’st and For the games of the Thanksgiving—November 23- the lololwing Friday and Saturday Williamson says these are good choices: “Take Columbia over Brown; Wy oming without much trouble over Denver; Memphis State, which nearly upset Vanderbilt, over Loui siana Tech. Saturday will bring up some Smith Paces Ags In SWC Statistics By RALPH E. GORMAN, JR. Maybe they aren’t in the running for the conference title today, but they are still in line for a bowl bid on Jan. 1 and are a mighty impressive team. That’s Harry Stiteler’s Aggies we’re talking about! They’ve come a long way through the dry years of the past decade. A&M’s grid iron eleven has done better than was anti cipated in pre-season propaganda. In nine games the Cadets have better ed the “fifty-iifty in 1950” that former stu dents were looking for and still a game re mains to be played. Sure the Cadets haven’t won all of their games, but if one will stop and think, A&M is a member of the South west Conference . . . the most unpredictable Gorman of them all . . . and if the Maroon and White doesn’t don a jersey another time this season, they’ve played their hearts out and have shown that they can come back. Against rugged opposition the Aggies have run up a rushing total of 2,567 yards to lead their nearest opponent, Arkansas, by over 900 yards. Combine this with the 894 yards that the Stitelermen have garnered through the etheral region, and A&M ranks as the top offensive team in the SWC. Smith “Possibility” Now “Reality” Over a quarter of a million fans fullback in the conference over the have witnessed the amazing run- weekend. nlng game of Bruisin’ Bob Smith, Bruisin’Bob leads the SWC stars who, you might remember, was bill- in three divisions—total individual ed as a “possibility” for the 1950 offense, ground gaining, and scor- grid campaign, but half the sport’s ing. He leads the first two with world will agree today that this the same statistics, as he is the 189 pound fullback from Houston only one of the top five offensive is a REALITY. stars who performs strictly in the Chances of this former all-state of 1,225 yards has ^•uM-i S<? ^ 00 ^ aC C r (; mainui 8 a P os ' been amassed by the rambling sibility were erased near the strut H ous t 0 m an in 178 plays to show an of the season, as Bruisin’ Bob has „ Q i.h 0 Yw tw led the SWC ball-carriers and scorers throughout the season. Two weeks ago the Cadet All- American candidate took over the lead of the individual offensive leaders and remained there this week. Even when a strong Owl for ward wall stood up against him grand total, as well as the per carry average, exceed all other totals and averages of the leading stars in SWC play. In nine games Bob has scored 84 points in the 14 times that he crossed the double stripe. Satur day’s game with Rice was the only will all their power, he still gained game of the nine in which he failed 101 yards, more than any other to score, Yale Lary is the only other Cadet holding first place —punt returning. Nine times the ball has come falling off the booming feet of the opponents, and the stocky. Cowtowner has returned the pigskin back up the field 209 yards' for an average of 23.2 yards per return. Following up in the leading ball Lippman, the men who balance the carrier’s division in second, third, halfback position in the Cadet’s fourth, and fifth places are Texas’ starting offense, are in the No. (j Byron Townsend, SMU’s Kyle Rote, and No. 7 spots in ball toting. Tid- Rice’s George Glauser, and Bay- well has an average of 6.6 yards lor’s James Jeffrey. per carry and a net gain of 462 yards, while Lippman has netted A&M’s Bill Tidwell and Glenn 453 yards and an average, of 5,2. Gardemal Leading Cadet Passer Dandy Dick Gardemal, Cadet yards and 54 points on nine scor- man-under, ranks eighth among the ing plays. leading passers having completed i s b e ll holds the record in scor- 26 of the 49 aerials attempted for j n g plays on passes with 12 touch- a completion percentage of .531 and down tosses among the 71 passes a net gain of 400 yards. Six of that he has completed in his 147 the 49 tosses from the arm, of the Aggies diminuitive quarterback have carried into paydirt and only four have fallen into the hands of the opposition. SMU’s Fred Benners and Bay lor’s Larry Isbell are the top men attempts. In the punting division Isbell leads the league with a 41.1 yards per boot average on his 47 kicks. Arkansas’ Louis Schaufcle is second to Isbell with an even 40 yard average. A&M’s Lary is the No. 3 in the passing game with Benners among the punters with a 39.4 out in front carrying a completion yard average for his 50 times to percentage of .578 for his 154 at- punt, having punted five times tempts. Benners’ aerials have net- against Rice for an average of ted the Musangs a total of 1,164 42.4. Hillhouse Top Scoring End' Baylor’s Harold Riley is the top man in the pass catching game with 29 times that he has been on the receiving end of the pass play for a total of 45,8 yards and three TD’s. 1950 grid season to score 226 of the 304 points the Aggies have rolled up so far. While SMU’s Rote, Texas’ Town send, and Arkansas’ Buddy Parker take care of the second, third, and A&M’s candidate for top honors fourth places; A&M’s Hillhouse, at the end post, Andy Hillhouse, is Lary, and Tidwell are tied with fifth among the pass catching Rice’s Glauser for fifth with six stars, having caught 18 in nine TD’s and 36 points apiece. Finish- games for a total gain of 351 yards, ing up the scoring column is Ag- while six have carried on into the gie quarterback-end Darrow Hoop- promised land for 36 points, mak- er, who has booted the pigskin ing him the highest scoring end in the conference. Ranking in the top nine scorers of the conference are four other Cadets who have teamed with Smith in the nine games of the tough ones. Of these take Yale beating Harvard; Duke to beat North Carolina; Penn State over Pittsburg; and North Carolina State should beat William & Mary. But the game of the week, as far as bowl bids are concerned, prob ably will be Tennessee versus Ken tucky at Knoxville. Kentucky should win, and probbaly get an invitation to one of the big bowls.” —Beat TU— LEGAL HOLIDAY Thursday, November 23, 1950 being a Legal Holiday, in observance of Thanksgiving Day, the undersigned will observe that date as a Legal Holiday and not be open for bus iness. First National Bank City National Bank First State Bank and Trust Co- College Station State Bank Bryan Building and Loan Ass’il through the uprights a total of 34 times this season for 34 points. Beat TU IN THE WINTER BIRDS GO SOUTH ... But AGGIES Go to The Campus Cleaners for fine service to their clothes WHY DON’T YOU?? CAMPUS CLEANERS "Over The Exchange Store” Meet TU Frosh Nov. 23 On Kyle Field The Aggie Fish eleven and the Texas Uhiversity Shorthorns will clash Thursday afternoon at 2:30 on Kyle Field for the fourth an nual Ben Hur Shrine Benefit game. A&M’s Fish grabbed the lead in the Shrine Benefit series last year when they shut out the Frosh, 14-(). The previous year the Fish defeated the Texans, 13-0. This year it will undoubtedly be a different story as both teams are expected to score, although neith er has a ci-editable record. T h e Aggies have wmn one while los ing three and the Shorthorns are in a, similar position. Record Attendance Last year’s game in Austin at tracted- 16,000 fans — a record- breaker for a fresKman game in the Southwest. ’The previous high was 12,000 set in 1948 Avlien the Aggie and Texas freshman elev ens clashed on Kyle Field. The Aggie Fish record is: Aggie Fish 33, Allen Academy 20; Baylor Cubs 39, Aggie Fish Maroon & White... . . . Sports Chatter Jimt as Aggies are today pre paring for the annual Turkey Day tilt with TU, so were the Aggies of 1906. The following article appeared in the Battalion of 1906: “Mr. R. J. Potts has suggested that the boys who attend the T. U. game at Austin wear red, arm bands on which will be the white “T”. He thinks these bands will be more effective than will be a few ribbons and one or two pen nants here and there. They should be a good advertise ment for the school, and should show A&M’s rooters wherever one of them appears. We are glad that the students are so quick to adopt this suggestion, as evidenced by the orders for the armlets. We hope to see every A&M man in Austin, Thanksgiving Day, wearing the red and w'hite and carrying a pennant.” The T. U. boys were a bit lucky back in 1906, They outscored the Farmers 0-24. 0; T.C.U. Wogs 60, Aggie Fish 0; and Rice Owlets 52, Aggie Fish 7. The Shorthorns’ record: Baylor Cubs 12, Shorthorns 0; Rice Ovflets 20, Shorthorns 16; Colts 13, Shorthorns 0; and Short horns 26, TCU Wogs 13. To End Season The Texas Thanksgiving D a y game will end the season for both teams. A special train will carry Aus tin fans to the game. It will leave Austin at 8:30 a.m. the morning of the contest and return immediately after the game. Round trip tick ets cost $3.28 with a special price of $1.64 for kids under 12. Game tickets sell for $1.50 each. Beat TU Battalion SPORTS TUBS., NOV. 21, 1950 Page 3 US THE GRILL lor Real Taste TREATS * Home Made Chili . ’iv; •' ':U-.'/r•'f y • * Delicious Malts • Bar-B-Q Sandwiches • Friendly Service B&B GRILL NORTH GATE QUEEN Today SONGMDANCEPM MAGREATBlG-WONDERFUL SHOW! Paramount presents ■red /seQ Color. 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