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.
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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.
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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.
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IN THE WINTER
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But AGGIES Go to
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Cleaners
for fine service
to their clothes
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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.
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Battalion
SPORTS
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