Lessons Learned
On Football Field
Help Later—Hines
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Sports Editor
“Discipline, loyalty, stick-to-it-ism, and victory are the
important things which you learn on a football field which
prepare you for your future days,” Rev. John H. Hines
said to A&M’s football players, the cross
country team and guests Saturday night in
Sbisa during the Annual Winter Sports ban-1
quet.
“What you do on a football field,” the
Bishop-Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese
of Texas, continued, “is more important to
my son’s will as to what he wants to be then
some of the things that I myself may tell
him. He looks for someone like you who can
lead him to fame immortality similar to that
which you have gained on the gridiron. From
Manitzas Y 011 he will find the leadership and the path
to follow. Show him the right way.”
Rev. Hines commended the Aggie spirit saying that it
was “a quality of immortality.”—And on athletic achievement,
the closing point of his speech, he added, “the essence of
athletic achievement is as you will it.”
We believe that Rev. Hines was one of the best speakers
we have ever heard and the best which the banquet has pro
vided for many a year.
His speech could be repeated to all Exes, and even
the coaches themselves can take to heart the phrase “the
actions performed by you are under constant surveillance of
my son and others like him. Show him the right way.”
Awards Produce Pleasant Feelings
The presentation of the awards at the banquet produced a pleas
ant feeling among the football team members present and others who
Were in similar positions 11 years ago when A&M was the top team
in the nation.
Along with the giving of the “T”, bars, sweaters, and blankets,
another present was given to the lettemen and a new award was
named.
The gifts to the lettermen included a spur clip which was pre
sented by Chase Holland, Sr., owner of The House of Holland, a jewel
ry company in San Angelo.
He. himself is not an A&M graduate, but Mr. Holland did remem
ber that although this team was not No. 1 in the nation as in 1940
when he presented the Sugar Bowl champs with spur clips, he was
glad to present the Presidential Cup Champions with a similar gift.
The spur clip was filled with a golden resemblance of the cup
and the word “Aggies” written across it in silver.
We take our hats off to Mr. Holland for not forgetting.
Dallas Club Starts New Award
From Dallas, another award was started.
Along with the regular Lipscomb-Colson Awards for the co-
captains and the most valuable player and the Bert Plaff award for
the best blocker, the former which has been presented for the past 20
years, the Dallas A&M Former Students are providing an award for
each graduating footballer from Dallas.
The award is a gold medal which bears the individual’s name and
the inscription which in part states “for outstanding athletic achieve
ment.”
Perhaps in the coming years similar awards will grow to give not
only the football players but other Aggies competing in intercolleg
iate sports added recognition for work well done.
Ted Mohie Cage Award Started
In basketball, a step is being made in that direction with the
presentation of the Ted Mohie award to the outstanding basketball
player.
The award is being offered by Ted Mohie of Houston, class of
1921.
These awards aid the spirit of the individual players on the
learns and provide greater goals for the participants, and, in the long
run, greater athletic teams will be the results.
. SPORTalk From Here and There . . .
Action in 1st SWC Victory
A&M, Baylor 'Gagers
Clash Tuesday at Waco
Jewell McDowell (10) grabs a rebound and sinks
same during the Aggies 51-39 shellacking of the
Rice Owls last Thursday night. McDowell leads
the Cadet scorers with 150 points.
Photo by Battalion Chle£ Photographer Sam Moiinary
Buddy Davis (16) and John DeWitt (11) of the
Aggies seem to have everything pretty well under
control on this rebound which occurred during
the Rice-A&M game. Davis is second to Mc
Dowell among the Aggie scorers, having tallied
147 points.
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Sports Editor
A&M’s rapidly improving bas
ketball team will meet Baylor, the
defending co-champion of the
Southwest Conference, tomorrow
night in Waco. /
The Cadets hold the conference
lead over the Bears, having won
their opening game over the Rice
Owls, 51-39, while the Bruins have
been beaten twice, 59-58 by Texas
and 66-37 by Southern Methodist.
Against the Longhorns, the
Green and Gold lost a heartbreak-
er as the game went into two over
times before the Steers were able
to sink the winning, marginal field
goal.
When the Aggies top scorer,
Jewell McDowell takes to the hard-
Season Standings
W L Pet. Pts Op.
Navasota Wins
5th Annual
Kiwanis Meet
woods, it may prove to be a scoring
dual between him and B a y 1 o r’s
Ralph Johnson, who leads All-Con
ference McDowell by one point in
scoring, 151-150.
May Be 4th Straight
Should the Farmers win this
game it will be their fourth straight
victory, and their seventh of the
season.
Coach John Floyd had the team
in top shape for the Owls, having-
worked the cagers during the
Christmas holidays. The Cadet
quintet received only a three day
Christmas vacation, but it seems
that the hard work exerted by
both the coach and the players
will pay off in the long run.
Although Floyd doesn’t think
that the Aggies are yet “out of
the woods,” he believes that no
team will ever again beat the Ma-
roon and White with a score sim-
Bradley Leads Unbeaten
Quintets With 14 Wins
An unlucky number of 13 teams
remain among the undefeated bas
ketball quintets in the nation . . .
the unbeaten list includes Bradley,
Oklahoma A&M, Wyoming, Mur
ray (Ky) State, Duquesne, Long
Island Univer. Hamline, Wash
ington, Columbia, Princeton, St.
BonaVenture, Washington and Jef
ferson, and Providence . . . Brad
ley holds the longest list of wins
—14 . . .
Babe Didrikson Zaharias^ the
greatest female athlete of the first
half of the 20th century, has been
named female-athlete-of-the-year .
. . Babe polled 315 votes ... in
second place was glamorous Gussie
“Lace Panties” Moran, the tennis
star, with 126 votes . . . two votes
below Gussy Was Marlene arid Alice
Ag Fencers Win
4 of 6 Places
Fencers from A&M, Rice,
and Galveston engaged in a
novice sabre and epee meet
here Saturday in the Memor
ial Student Center, and the
Cadets finished first taking 4 of 6
matches.
The epee competition ended in a
tie between A&M’s John Gottlob
Rice’s Horace 'Platt. The tie was
broken’ with Flatt finally edging
Gottlob, 3-2.
Dick Jones, a former Aggie,
placed third while Mally Slathers
and Aden Magee, both of A&M,
also gave good accounts of them
selves with the latter reaching the
finals.
Sabre was won by G'oueher of
Rice with Ted Fields of the Ma
roon and White taking second.
There was also a tie for third
among Magee and Aggie Joe
Mayes and Jones, with Mayes plac
ing thU'd, having the least number
of hits against him. Magee was
fourth.
Fields showed lots of promise
while fencing for the first time
iu competition and won seven bouts
while losing-only two. Mayes, Ma
gee, and Jones each won live and
lost three.
Bauer, tho golfing sisters who vis
ited A&M in early December dur
ing the opening of the golf course.
Babe, by the way, won the $3,000
Ponte Vedra Club Open, being held
at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla . . . in
second place was Marlene . . .
The NCAA will hold its big
meeting in Dallas next week . . .
the big hub-bub which is being
stai-ted, as it always is, includes
mainly the sanity code . . . the
Southwest Conference wants the
NCAA to let the different confer
ences settle out the problem con
cerning an athletes tuition et al in
its own area . . . the trouble seems
to be that although convertibles are
okay in California, the sportsters
in Michigan prefer cars with tops
. . .they may have a point . . . the
NCAA itself, however, is not exact
ly on the square ... so says Mack
Green, director of athletics at Wil-
berforce State College—an all-Neg
ro school ... he claims the NCAA
is discriminating against him and
othci-s like him by holding the
meeting in Dallas where Negroes
cannot be lodged with whites by
Texas laws , . . Greene continued,
“some of the Negro members have
been told they will have to ride
the freight elevator to get to the
NCAA, meeting's” ... it seems as
if the NCAA should take care of
its meetings before it starts wor
rying about the sanity code, which
may soon be called the insanity
code. . . Bye now.
■ Beat Baylor——
By CHUCK NEIGHBORS
The fifth annual College
Station Kiwanis Club Invita
tional Basketball Tournament
ended Saturday evening at the
A&M Consolidated High
School gymnasium with Navasota
winning its second tournament in
four years.
Teams. invited to participate in
the tournament were from the
East-Central Texas region and in
cluded Navasota, winner of the
tourney; Woodville, the number
two team; Rockdale, third place
winner; Hempstead, the consola
tion prize winner; besides these
four teams, Waller, Cypress-Fair-
banks, Somerville and A&M Con
solidated also participated.
Picked by the coaches of the
respective teams, the All-Tourna
ment Team included: Robert Mc-
Minn of Somerville, Rocky Tyler
of Cypress-Fairbanks, John Rei-
mer of Navasota, Bobby Williams
of Consolidated, and Hugh Pitts of
Wptodyille. „. ,
Cypreas-EauLanks, who didn’t
do much in the way of winning in
this contest, had the highest scor
ing player in Rocky Tyler. Tyler
scored 21 points against Woodville
and 28 in the Consolidated game.
Cypress-Fairbanks was the de
fending champion but was de
feated in the three games in
which they played.
In the play-offs, Navasota beat
Woodville to come in first. Wood
ville, by dint of their loss to
Navasota was second; and Rock
dale beat Somerville to take third
place. Hempstead slaughtered a
tired Consolidated team 35-19 for
the consolation prize.
One game was played by each
team on Friday night with the re
mainder of the games played off
Saturday.
The College Station Kiwanis Club
Invitational Tournament was be-
bun in 1946, to further good rela
tions between Class B teams in
this, region.
Eight SWC Football Stars
Lose Further Eligibility
Eight members of the Southwest Conference lost their
eligibility to compete further in conference athletics after
playing in the Senior Bowl tilt Saturday. The South finally
won the game, 19-18, although the North squad which was
composed cf stars from the Southwest and other surround
ing regions, outplayed the winners considerably.
Kyle Rote of Southern Methodist had a good and bad
day as he starred with his running, yet failed to kick any of
three chances for points after touchdowns. He did however,
score once for the Rebels;
Vanderbilt’s Rangy End Bucky Curtis was the stand
out in the game as he led the winners to gain a 20 per cent
greater portion of the gate receipts. In leading the victors,
Curtis, caught two touchdown passes, and set up the score
With another long Aerial.
Members of the conference school to lose their eligibility
by participation in the game include Rote of SMU, John
Champion of Southern Methodist, Ray Cook of Baylor, Ben
Proctor and Kenneth Jackson of .Texas, Brown of Arkansas,
Buddy Rogers of Arkansas, and Frank Boydstun of Baylor.
ilar to that registered by Duquesne,
73-36, at the earlier part of the
season.
The conference, as usual, is
moving along in a topsy-turvy man
ner.
The favorite, Arkansas, was
(See ARKANSAS, Page 4)
Team
T C U 8 4 .667 700 607
SMU 8 5 .615 736 675
A&M 6 6 .500 560 597
Texas 4 7 .462 661 662'
Arkansas 5 7 .417 530 547
Rice 5 7 .417 750 739
Baylor 5 8 .385 686 683
Last Week’s Results
Rice 58, Georgia Tech 51.
Texas, 59, Baylor 58
TCU 57, SMU 46
A&M 51, Rice 39
SMU 66, Baylor 37
TCU 42, Arkansas 31
Texas 56, Rice 54
Leading Scorers (Season)
Player FG FT TP
McDermott, Rice, c ....72 41 185
Dowies, TU, g 62 44 168
McCleod, TCU, c 60 46 166
Brown, SMU, f 57 45 159
Gerhardt, Rice, f 57 41 155
Johnson, Baylor, g ....61 29 151
McDowell, A&M, g ....61 28 150
Walt Davis, A&M, c 60 27 147
Mullins, Rice, g 50 38 138
J. D. White, Rice, g 50 36 136
Box Score For A&M
McDowell, g
Davis, c
Martin, f
DeWiltt, f
Miksch, f
Heft, g
Farmer, f
Walker, g
Cax’penter, g
Williams, f-c
Garret, f
Sandlin, g
LAST TIMES TODAY
“SIERRA”
Tuesday & Wednesday
Top Gager to Gain Mohie Award
A Ted Mohie award has been
established at A&M for an out
standing basketball player, D. W.
'Williams, .chairman of the A&M
Athletic Council, has announced.
The award in 1951 will be a gift
certificate which may be used for
the purchase of a watch, gun,
camera or article of the recipient’s
choice costing approximately $50,
The player will be picked upon
his value in winning basketball
teams as an individual and team
defensive player. Character, spirit,
hustle, leadership, scholarship and
cooperation with other team mem
bers and with the coaching staff
61
60
28
31
150
60
59
27
55
147
24
29
19
36
67
21
22
14
25
56
22
23
12
28
56
13
13
6
17
32
9
16
10
27
28
3
6
3
16
9
0
3
2
10
2
1
2
1
9
3
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Totals 212 234 122 255 550
This Week’s Schedule
Monday—SMU vs Arkansas at
Dallas.
Tuesday—Rice vs TCU at Fort
Worth; A&M vs. Baylor at Waco,
Friday—SMU vs Texas at Aus
tin.
Saturday—Rice vs Arkansas at
Little Rock; A&M vs TCU at Col
lege Station.
J! Queen
will also largely determine the
winner. j
The. award is being offered by
Ted Mohie of Houston, class of
1921 and a certified public ac
countant. Mohie also gives an
award to an outstanding account
ant student and another to a non
accountant business major.
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GG Boxers Meet
Tonight al 7:15
The Golden Gloves boxers of
this area will have a meeting
tonight at 7:30 in Room 301 of
Goodwin Hall, Harold Williams,
coach of the College Station
area team announced early to
day.
Two divisions, novice and
open, will make up the tourna
ment. Awards will be given to
the winner of each division with
the open champion being award
ed an expense paid trip to Fort
Worth for the finals.
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