Sports Banquet
Set for Ian. 6th
A&M’s 1950 lettermen in
winter sports—football and
cross country—will be feted
at the Annual Winter Sports
Banquet Jan. 6 in Sbisa Hall.
Sponsored jointly by the Brazos
County A&M Club and the Athletic
Department, the banquet is open to
the public.
All lettermen and their dates
will be honored at the annual ban
quet, Allen Madeley, general
chairman in charge of arrange
ments announced today.
Assisting Madeley in arrange
ments are C. G. “Spike” White,
program chairman; John B. Long-
ley, finance and ticket chairman;
W. S. McCulley, banquet and deco
rations chairman; Kenneth Bond,
publicity chairman; Athletic Di
rector Barlow “Bones” Irvin, and
the Brazos County A&M Club
President, W. N. “Flop” Colson.
Tickets for the annual affair
may be obtained from-any mem
ber of the Brazos County Club
and at the Memorial Student Cen
ter, Madeley concluded.
Battalion
SPORTS
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Ag Coach Reviews
Eastern Cage Tour
By RALPH GORMAN
Sports News Editor
“The boys were tired—dog-tired in the stretches, while
we were up East, because we traveled a long way with very
little time for rest,” John Floyd, Aggie cage mentor told ;
the Battalion upon his return from the re
cent basketball tour through the Atlantic
Coastal states.
When the Duqesne game was mentioned
(the Dukes downed the Aggies 73-36), the
new A&M basketball tutor commented,
“Sure,we were spotted in the Duquesne
game ... we were especially tired towards
the last of our tour.”
Duquesne was rated among the strong
er teams in the nation in pre-season propa
ganda and since their encounter with A&M,
they have turned back mighty Syracuse—
the No. 7 team among the major college
quintets.
All the Aggie cage bouts have been on the opposition’s
court, and Cadet partisans have been wondering just what
type ball the boys have been playing.
Floyd had a pleasing answer for that, too, saying “I
am satisfied with the boys brand ofl ball in their first five
contests, and my sophomores are playing the best game on
the court.” _
“These sophomores,” Floyd explained, “are using their
heads, where the older boys don’t stop and think. Bill) Car
penter and Don Heft are great. Don’t worry about us,
though, because we’re ironing out the wrinkles, and we’ll be
a lot better team with a few more games under our belt.”
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Floyd also reports that all-conference guard Jewell Mc-
dowell is hampered considerably with a bad back. He is think
ing of keeping McDowell out of the lineup until the Amarillo,
sharpshooter feels better.
“JeweLs a breat little basketballer, Floyd remarked about
the conference’s No. 5 scorer for 1949, “but it’s not fair to
him or the team to ask him to play, when it really agitates
his back more each time.”
Gorman
There has been some concern
regarding the scoring merits of
lasfcyear’s stars—McDowell, Buddy
Davis, and John DeWitt.
Again the Aggie cage boss gets
saying, “There won’t be a consis
tent high scorer in the Cadet
games this season, so partisan
fans shouldn’t get alarmed when
their favorite player doesn’t get
the prize for the best answer in high point honors in each game.”
Floyd—Neophyte to Ramble-Scramble SWC
Followers of SWC basketball
will recall that Floyd is a neophyte
to our ramble-scramble conference,
and when he arrived on the scene
this season, he brought with him a
new style of play which is his var
iation of the type used by the
famed Hank Iba of Oklahoma
A&M.
A&M’s cage mentor warned that
the switch in method of play would
probably mean that the Farmers
will lose numerous early season
games, but in the latter stages of
the campaign, the Cadets will be
hard to beat.
His teachings differ from pre
vious cage coach Marty Karow’s
wide-open style, and he employs
the tactics where the team con
trolling the ball shoots only the
“sure things.” Most of these are
close-in goals. Floyd’s pupils keep
the ball moving and the team
moves with machine-like precision
until a defensive flaw is spotted
and then . . . swish, two points.
Score on Miscues
This will mean that there won’t
be a lot of strategical maneuvers
that will depend on one person,
who would therefore be the top
scorer. But the Scoring player will
be the man in the best position to
sink the “sure thing” at the time
that the defensive miscue becomes
apparent.
With five pre-season games gone
and six more to go, the Cadets are
pitted against Southwest Texas
State of San Marcos tomorrow and
Friday nights.
Until the Baylor Bears turned
-them, back last night 61 to 57, the
Bobcats of SWT had perpetrated
devastating wins over three op
ponents, as they averaged 75
points per contest.
Even now, with three wins and
one defeat, the Bobcats have an
average of 73 points per game, and
a team with that much offensive
scoring power should pose a real
threat to Floyd-led quintet Thurs
day night.
Floyd Not Optimistic
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In view of the fact that the
Bobcats downed the TU cagers
twice in practice tilts, plus their
three-one pre-season record, Floyd
is not optimistic about his team’s
chances.
“It won’t be easy to win even
one of the games with the Bobcats
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this week, much less both. But I’ll
be satisfied with one win,” the
Aggie mentor concluded.
Starting for the Cadets tomorrow
night against SWT, Floyd will call
upon the services of DeWitt and
Marvin Martin at the forward
posts. At 6’5” and 6’ 3”, respec
tively, these cagers have two var
sity ietters to their credit and
piesent formidable opposition for
the Bobcats.
Handling the guard chores will
be McDowell and a newedmer to
the varsity, Don Heft. An inch tall
er than the 5’ ’JVz” McDowell,
Heft won a freshman numeral last
year and played good ball all sea
son.
Making the initial jump in the
center ring will be 6’ 5” Davis.
“Davis lacks the needed mature
experience, and will be better when
he shapes up later in the season.”
The tallest man on the Aggie five
has turned in high point perform
ances in three of the first five
contests.
As a warmup to. the varsity
classic tomorrow night in DeWare
Field House, the Fish quintet, also
coached by the former Hank Iba
student, will vie with Lon Morris
Junior College.
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En garde! That’s the way it goes, and the Aggie
fencing team seems lo have (he right idea on
scheduling matches. During the past weekend^
the Cadets went to Denton and had it out with
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TSCW team
In Final Williamson Poll . . .
Oklahoma, TU Top Rankings
By JOE HOLLIS
Paul B. Williamson, the man up
on whom Aggie partisan fans re
lied on through the current season
to see their team to the top, has
announced his final ratings on the
834 college and service teams
across the nation.
It might be well to mention here
that the “eminent gridiron nostra-
damus from New Orleans” has con
sidered each and every game
throhghout the 1950 campaign and
his final ratings are established
in such a manner that they “are
as impartially consistent as possi
ble so that each team is ranked
above the teams it has defeated
and below those teams to which it
has lost.”
.We realize that it would be al
most impossible to rate the teams
in this manner 100 percent consist
ent, and we can accept a slight de
viation from this method.
Williamson Picks First Ten
But, our forseer of all grid con
tests has missed the boat consid
erably and should be floundering
about aimlessly in the briny deep
Bears Edge SWT
For 4th Straight
Waco, Tex., Dec. 13—GP>—Bay
lor’s basketball team stopped the
Southwest Texas State Bobcats,
61-57 last night, holding the lead
for all but the first 25 seconds.
The unbeaten Bears racked up
their fourth straight victory with
out their scoring leader Ralph
Johnson. He had an ankle injury.
Bob Beatty of the Bobcats scor
ing honors with 21 points. Johnny
Starkey got 19 and Norman Mul
lins 18 for the Bears. Baylor led
at the half 29-22.
Beat SWT
at this moment.
We agree with his rating chart
concerning his first ten teams,
which are 1) Oklahoma, 2) Texas,
3) Princeton, 4) Tennessee, 5)
California, 6) Kentucky, 7) Mich
igan State, 8) Army, 9) Clemson,
10) Miami, Fla.
All the names of the major col
leges in the above paragraph will
ring a bell for anyone who has
followed.1950 football only slightly
and Williamson may rest without
fear for his selections of the first
ten.
What Happened??
But what about this. H6 has
ranked Baylor 62 places ahead of
Arkansas, who defeated them by
three touchdowns. We will admit
that Arkansas did not have such
a grand and glorious Season, but
should Baylor be this far ahead
of them.
Also, Williamson ranks SMU 14
places ahead of A&M and 34 places
ahead of TCU, both of whom, de
feated tem.
He continues in error and ranks
Rice 21 places ahead of TCU,
even after the Owls were defeated
by the Horned Frogs, 26-14.
Now, as we said before, we know
no one can be perfect, but should
a team be ranked 62 teams behind
someone they have beaten? We say
no.
William ranks Baylor 13th, SMU
19th, Rice 32nd, A&M 33rd, TCU
53rd, and Arkansas 75th. Georgia,
who the Aggies defeated 40-20 in
the Presidential Cup Bowl last
Saturday, is ranked No. 37.
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Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 13—UP)
—Indiana University’s hustling
Hoosiers set a home floor scoring
record last night in defeating TCU
87-68 after a tight first half.
TCU led through most of the
first half and was down only 40-
36 at the intermission. Then it
lost five men on personal fouls
early in the second half, including
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The score was tied seven times
in the first half. The Texans
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until they picked up their heavy
load of personals.
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Dallas, Dec. 13 —(AP) —
Doak Walker, the fabulous
SMU All-America who made
good in pro football with a
bang, was home yesterday
saying it’s rougher in that league,
but it was easier on him than the
college game.
Walker, who led the National
Football League in scoring with
128 points while playing with De
troit, went to the SMU Athletic
Department and dormitory the
first crack out of the box.
I’m trying to get back into
SMU,” he grinned, “but they say
my grades aren’t good enough and
besides I couldn’t make the team.”
Walker wanted it known that
he didn’t think making the pro
league was easier than playing-
college football but that it was
easier on him because he wasn’t
under as much pressure as at
Southern Methodist where he was
quarterback, punter, passer, block
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work.
“Bobby Layne called the sig
nals,” he said. “That relieved me
of a big worry that I had at South
ern Methodist. Then, too, I was
used mostly as a decoy—going in
motion a lot.”
“They hit harder and tackle
harder in pro football,” he ob
served, “but there isn’t any of
that slugging, kneeing and dirty
stuff like you’ll find so often in
college—at least, there wasn’t any
in the games I played.”
He said he had been quite for
tunate along the injury line, being
out only one game and that be
cause of an ankle hurt.
“Twenty-two games are a lot of
football, though,” he commented.
“That’s two seasons in one. I was
a little weary along toward the
end. But pro football is a great
game.”
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