Why He’s All-Conference
A&M, Rice Open SWC Campaign Tonight
A&M’s All-Conference guard Jewell McDowell dribbles past an
unidentified Southwest Texas eager to score. McDowell will be
one of the top men who Coach John Floyd will be using tonight
to curb the Rice Owls and start the conference season off with a
,DuBose To Work
^For Texas—Maybe
By RALPH E. GORMAN
A&M’s Cadet quintetjnaugurates
the 1951 Southwest Conference
j basketball campaign tonight at 8
! o’clock when they vie with the
Rice Owl cagers in the DeWare
i Field House.
1 Preceding the varsity encounter,
S the Aggie Fish and the Rice Owlets
| will meet at 6 p.m. in a curtain
raiser.
Added Confidence
With the added confidence of
three wins in four starts during
the holiday season, the Aggie cag
ers should show greater prowess
on the hard-court than ever be
fore.
Showing a win-loss record of five
and six for the 11 starts so far
this season, Cadet Coach John
Floyd says that “the boys feel
good about tonight’s game and we
know pretty well the type ball
that Rice is playing. The boys are
not cocky, though. They just like
what they’re doing and they’re
coming along well.”
Holiday Practices Helped
The former Hank Iba pupil at
tributes the improved game of the
Aggie five to the practice sessions
held during the holidays.
“We could spend all of our time
and thoughts on basketball while
the boys had a vacation from their
books,” Floyd said, “and that seems
to be just what they needed—some
days we had as many as three
practice drills and had plenty of
time to iron out the wrinkles.”
In the last four cage bouts pre
ceding the conference opener to
night, A&M’s varsity basketballers
downed Sam Houston State, 40-36
and 45-40, and Trinity, 60-40, while
losing to the University of Hous
ton 45-52.
Aggies “Sparkled”
According to Floyd, the turning
point came in the Dec. 22 meeting
with Sam Houston in which the
Aggie cagers “sparkled.”
“The boys led them (Sam Hous
ton) 16 to 20 points all through
the game until the last ten min
utes,” Floyd said, “then I started
substituting. They (A&M) really
played good ball.”
The Aggie coach was even more
satisfied with the showing in the
Trinity game where “the boys
played their best ball by far.”
Scoring Balanced
“The winning team is the team
that makes the fewest mistakes,”
Floyd continued,” and that’s just
what we did. The scoring was well
balanced, too, as Davis, McDowell,
DeWitt, and Martin all counted for
more than ten points apiece.”
In anticipation of emerging from
the conference cellar, Coach Dan
Suman’s Rice Owls have displayed
an improved brand of ball over
last' season as they won five of
hardt, and J. D. White, the Owls
have a calmly confident attitude
that they have as good a chance
as the next team to take it all
in what should be the most topsy
turvy cage race in some years.
Highlight of pre-conference play
of the Owls has been the high
scoring of McDei’mott and the
team’s phenomenal abiilty at the
free throw line. McDermott has a
neat 18 point average to rank as
a serious contender for SWC top
individual honors and the team as a
whole, hit 72 percent of their
charity shots.
Manpower Problem
Manpower seems to be an acute
problem with the Rice cagers, as it
was for the grid team. Coach
ten encounters in preparation for Suman has only seven players that
the conference season. | could really be rated in the top
Paced by the high scoring three- j bracket, and excessive fouls will
some of Joe McDermott, Jim Ger-1 hurt the Owls cause.
Coach Floyd will call up on the
services of 6’8” Buddy Davis for
the Maroon and White pivot man,
while Leroy Miksch (6’4”) and
Marvin Martin (6’3”) will handle
the forward posts. Don Heft, at
SHOVs”, and Jewell McDowell, at
5’9y 2 ” will get the starting nod for
the guard chores.
The Aggie cage mentor concluded
to say that “the boys will put on a
good exhibition of basketball to
night and will be playing with all
they have to win.”
Owlsi Not As Tall
Coach Suman will not field a
man nearly so tall as A&M’s Davis,
as McDermott and Ralph Grawun-
der are the tallest starters at
6’4”. McDermptt will be at the
center position, while Grawunder
will work with either Leonard
Childs (5T0”) or Charley Tighe
(5’9”) at the guard posts.
At forward, fans will see White
(6’2”) and Gerhardt (6’3”), who
are the remaining two-thirds of
the high scoring threesome. Soph
omore Maurice Teague now stands
as the squad’s principal “general '
utility” substitute.
Owlets Taller Than Fish
In the warmup game at 6 p.m.,
Roy Martin (6’7”) will work at the
center position, while James Addi- !
son and James Callemore, who
stand 6’4” and 6’3”, respectively,
are slated to handle forward du
ties. Ronald Dwyer (6’3”) and Bill
Williams (5’9”) will get the nod
for the guard posts.
For the Owlets will be Eugene
Schwinger (e’SMi”) at the center
post, James Bavers (6’0”) and Al-
fred Johec (6T”) at guards, while
Buzz Fuller (6’5”)' and Tom Cul-
linan (6’5”) will handle the for
ward posts.
’Y A&M’s Line Coach, Bill DuBose
fv.is headed for a job as end coach
j|«it the University of Texas, the
II Associated Press and the Dallas
I! News Bureau of Austin reported
■ late last night.
A&M officials could not be
I ’reached for a report. Athletic
■ Director Barlow Irvin is out of
I town, and DuBose could not be
I reached at his home for a definite
■ report by press time.
The News said that along with
i DuBose, another coach would be
1 added to the University’s football
1 staff. He is G. C. (Ox) Emerson
I who was head coach at Delmar of
i Corpus Christi during the past
K year. Both of the “probable” new
i coaches for the Orange and White
I played with TU’s New Head Coach
I Ed Price on the 1930 Championship
1 Texas eleven.
To Join King
DuBose is supposed to join J. T.
I King as end coach. King left A&M
| last year to join the Longhorn
I Staff, and he too is a former Texas
gf • football star.
DuBose played for three years on
-‘the TU varsity as a lineman.
|! After graduation in 1932 he became
J|‘ freshman line coach at the univer-
■ sity and in 1935 and 36 he served
‘f ^as head coach at Hondo High
School. After serving a year as
:! line tutor at Nacogdoches he met
) A&M’s Head Coach Harry Stite-
ler for the first time as he became
line coach at Corpus Christi under
Stiteler.
Becomes Head Coach
That year Corpus won the state
title and in 1942 DuBose became
head coach as Stiteler . moved to
Waco. Corpus Christi under the
direction of DuBose lost in the dis
trict playoffs, the following year to
Austin, who went on to win ' the
state title.
When Stiteler moved to Rice in
the fall of 1946, DuBose took over
as head coach at Waco, and di
rected the team to the quarterfinals
of the state playoffs. The follow
ing year, he coached the Tigers to
a second place in district, and when
Stiteler gained his present post at
A&M, DuBose was immediately
named line coach.
In the period from 1935 to 1947,
DuBose was on the winning side
107 times and on the losing side
only 33 times.
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Fromme Leads TCU
Dallas, Jan. 4—IIP)—TCU whip
ped SMU 57-46 last night' in the
opening Southwest Conference bas
ketball game for both teams.
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•with the brilliant floor work of
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minutes. They led 26-17 at the
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in the last seven minutes when
Fromme, towering George McLeod
and Teddy Reynolds were waved
out on fouls. They trailed 48-36.
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stalling game the rest of the way
and the over-anxious Mustangs
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