The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 13, 1951, Image 4

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 13, 1951, Image 4

Newspaper Page TextPage i THE BATTALION Tuesday, February 13,1951 Smith, Bates Are Texas ’Future Pros By FRED WALKER Although basketball is the predominant sport at present, old King Football still manages to poke his skinned nose into the news. This time it concerns drafted football players. Before anyone panics over the word “draft”, we had better explain that this one is not military. Two weeks ago the 12 Na tional Football League clubs drafted 362 college grid stars for the next two years. (It has always been their practice to draft juniors also.) Texas colleges were well rep resented, but most interesting here is the inclusion of two Aggies—Bob Smith and Bob Bates. Bates was taken by the Washington Red skins of the Eastern Division. George Mar shall, club owner, has always been partial to Texas football products and Bates won’t be among strangers. Bob Goode, a former A&M great, is holding down the Redskin fullback slot while newly acquired backfield coach Dick Todd is both a former Aggie football star and backfield coach. And don’t forget “Slingin’ Sammy” Baugh, one of the greatest passers ever to walk onto a gridiron and the backbone of Marshall’s meal- ticket for many years—somewhere around 12 in fact. When the Baltimore Colts dissolved this year, Adrian Burk, Baylor’s passer of ’49, was yeax-s the Packers have finished quickly snatched by the fabulous near the bottom of the ladder. On Marshall Back him up with th th h d th Browng have Baugh, Harry Gilmer and Leon ’ . . , , Heath in the backfield and TCU’s been, and still are, labeled as the Red Marable, Rice’s Paul Giroski team to beat.” They dominated and Bates up front, and one just the All-America Conference in its might conceive a new football era brief span of four campaigns when at Washington. Walker ’Mural Grid Champions Take a look at ’em, these are the boys' of “A” Quartermaster who topped all comers in the In tramural Football league to emerge the 1950 champions. From left to right in the first row are David “Bud” Yeager, Charles Bruchmiller, Frank Trahan, Ray Gill, and June Clark. The same order in the back row reads John Schafer, Harvey Helms, Jimmy Wilson, Dwight King, and Wayne Topperwien. , , (T> • • , r> u a'a 4. year they scuttled the Los Angeles Although ‘ Bruism Bob d d not fa fo / the World - s titie . officially state that he will join pro ranks, he was among the first Smith will be traveling in high chosen. The National Conference style with Cleveland for his team- Green Bay Packers picked him up mates are among the professional but later traded him to the Cleve- football elite. When you circulate land Browns of the American Con- w jth such stars as Otto Graham, ference. Marion Motley, Mac Speedie, Lou This seems to be a good break Groza, Jim Martin and Ken Car- for Smith if he should play pro penter, you don’t have to worry ball, because for the last several about lack of support. it was a separate league, and this i Doesn’t Toss ’Em Often, But v thpv spnrr pn t.hp Antrp ps ^ It is a good bet that “Bruisin’ Bob” will be moved to a half back slot by Head Coach Paul Brown—that is if Brown doesn’t accept the $65,000 offered him by Ohio State officials. T h e Browns are said to already have the best fullback in the league in Motley, a 240-pounder who Here is a list of Texas and Southwest Conference football players and the professional clubs to whom they will go. CHICAGO BEARS—Brad Row land, back, McMurry; Charles Wright, back, West Texas State; Buddy Rogers, back, Arkansas: CHICAGO CARDINALS — Bill Cross, back, West Texas State: CLEVELAND BROWNS — BOB SMITH, TEXAS A&M; Ray Stone, end, Texas (Whatta’ combination); Fred Williams, tackle, Arkansas: DETROIT LIONS — Bruce Wom ack, tackle, West Texas State: GREEN BAY PACKERS — Bill Ayre, back, Abilene Christian: LOS ANGELES RAMS—Bud McFaddin, guard, Texas; Harold Riley, end, Baylor; Earl Johnson, back, Texas Tech: NEW YORK GIANTS — Kyle Rote, back, SMU; Fred Ben ners, back SMU; Gene Vykukal, tackle, Texas; Quincy Armstrong, center North Texas; Hal Quinn, tackle, SMU. NEW YORK GIANTS — Ken Jackson, tackle, Texas; Dick Row an, end, Texas; Jerrell Price, tack-, le, Texas Tech: PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Frank Boydston, back, Baylor; Jack Richards, end, Ar kansas; Louis Schaufele, back, Ar kansas; Neal Franklin, tackle, SMU; Bob Winship, tackle, Rice; Marvin Stendel, end, Arkansas; John “Model T” Ford, quarterback, Hardin - Simmons; PITTSBURG STEELERS — Floyd Sampson, back, McMurry: WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Paul Giroski, tackle, Rice; Adrian Burk, back, Baylor; BOB BATES, CENTER, TEXAS A&M; William Brown, guard, Ar kansas; Clarence Marable, tackle, TCU; Cecil Martin, back, North Texas: SAN FRANCISCO 49ers— None listed. runs like The Sunbeam. Smith is fast and powerful and this is just what the pros are looking for in a halfback. Just one thing to remember though, Smith still has another year at A&M. Its too bad that the Aggies can’t keep him and turn Cleveland into a farm club. Lookin’ Around Abe Sapersteinx, owner of the Harlem Globetrotters, admits that his team is by no means the best basketball team in the world, and that they win because the playing rules aren’t what they ought to be. He ought to know, since his team—over 23 years — has won 3421 games and lost only 245 for an average of .933 .... There is an athlete at TCU who just made an A in Chemistry and an F in physi cal education. . . . Jewell McDowell served notice to all last Friday night that he is still one of the best basketball players in college cir cles. . . . A telegraph pool of Border conference faculty representa tives was being taken tonight by Dr. J. William Davis of Texas Tech, Conference President, to see of schools want to authorize freshman participation in athlet ics this spring. . . . A&M should be the first defensive team in the nation now since Oklahoma A&M each had more than 45 points scored on them last week. Tobin Rote, now with the Green Bay Packers, is helping Jess Neely teach his Rice Owls how to handle the ball during their spring train ing workouts. ... Ed Price will spring a mixture of “T” and “Split- T” formations on the Southwest Conference next fall. . . . The Mis souri Valley Conference is practic ally in the lap of the Oklahoma Aggies as St. Louis beat Brad ley 69-72 last weekend. . . . A1 Borsch fired a 60, 11-under-par at San Antonio to break a PGA rec ord. . . . Arnold Galiffa set a rec ord for hand gernade tossing by flipping one 75 yards down a north Korean’s throat. Looking at the SWC Season Standings Team W L Pet Pts Op TCU 14 6 .700 1138 962 SMU 12 8 .600 1125 1031 A&M 11 9 .550 877 910 Texas 10 10 .500 993 967 Arkansas . .... 9 10 .474 864 894 Rice 7 12 .368 1166 1202 Baylor 7 14 .333 1098 1138 Conference Standings Team W L Pet Pts Op TCU .. 6 2 .750 404 344 Texas .. 6 2 .750 400 368 A&M .. 6 3 .667 368 352 Arkansas . .. 4 4 .500 465 369 SMU .. 4 4 .500 437 396 Baylor .. 7 7 .222 463 528 Rice .. 1 7 .125 440 520 McDowell, A&M, g 92 43 227 White, Rice, f 77 65 218 Fromme, TCU, g.... 87 43 217 Leading Scorers (Conference) Player fg ft tp Johnson, Baylor, c. 56 25 137 Scaling, Texas, g... 39 37 115 Davis, A&M, c .... 38 36 112 Brown, SMU, f .... 36 33 105 McDermott, Rice, c. .... 38 27 103 McDowell, A&M, g .... 39 17 95 Fromme, TCU, g... .... 37 18 92 Dowies, Texas, f .... 34 23 91 Freeman, SMU, g... .... 32 26 90 Hester, Arkansas, c.... 29 23 81 Leading Scorers (Season) McDermott, Rice, C....105 63 273 Player fg ft tp McLeod, TCU, c.... 102 69 273 Johnson, Baylor, c 112 47 271 Brown, SMU, c. 93 70 256 Davis, A&M, c 95 58 248 Dowies, Texas, f..... 91 62 244 Gerhardt, Rice, f 89 59 237 R. C. “Beau” Bell, new baseball coach at Texas A&M, was captain of the Aggies’ first championship team in the sport back in the tkir- Meeting Planned For Handballers There will be an important meeting of all interested Hand ball players Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 5:00 p. m. in the Physical Education Department office. Mr. Herman Segrist, sponsor of the Handball Team, would like to meet all players in order to get the team organized for com petition, r Walker Is Ags Surest Shot By JOHN DEWITT The smallest member of A&M’s basketball team is five foot-eight inch Ray “Woody” Walker, but his size is no indication of his bas ketball ability. What Woody lacks in height, he makes up for in natural ability and just plain old basketball savvy. Woody calls Palestine his home, but he attended high school in Woodhouse, Texas, where he let tered four years in basketball and set an unbroken individual scor ing record for one game with 39 points. Still single, Ray is majoring in physical education at A&M in or der to learn coaching, his chosen profession. Coach John Floyd says that Woody is the best shot on the Ag gie squad. He fits nicely in the Aggie’s new system too since the screens usually leave him in posi tion for a shot around the bucket, a tally he seldom misses. The rapid improvement which Ray has shown in the last few weeks earned him McReynolds proudly consumes his runnerup prize of a dozen flapjacks which he won with a total of 219 points in Saturday’s bowling contest sponsored by the MSC Bowling Lanes. The con test is too be a weekly affair and was originated by Chris Gent, assistant director of the MSC. J. Paul Shcedy* Switched to Wildrool Oeam-Oil Because He Flunked The Finger-Nail Test POOR Paul was having a fowl time because his down was up. All the chicks made wise quacks about his upswept hairdo until his shellmate suggested he duck over to the drugstore. “Waddle I do?” he asked. “Get Wildroot Cream-Oil!” the druggist answered. “Non-alcoholic. Made with soothing lanolin. Grooms your hair neatly and naturally without that plastered- down look. Removes ugly ducklings — I mean ugly dandruff! Helps pass the fingernail test!” Now he’s engaged—he’s lovely —-he uses ponds-—to swim in! (Isn’t he decoy one?) So water you waiting for ? Get a tube or bottle of Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic at any drug or toilet goods counter today. Ask your barber for professional applications- And tell all your webfooted friends it’s eggzactly what the ducktor ordered! 1 * of 327 Burroughs Dr., Snyder, N. Y. ^TSFiidroot Company, Inc, Buffalo 11, N. Y. '•an a starting berth in the last five games. His outstanding ball control and his ability at dodging the man guarding him put Woody in a class by himself on the Aggie team. Walker doesn’t shoot often, but when he does the ball usually ends up cutting the cords for cadet scores. With 20 points so far this season, Woody has shown that although he doesn’t ring up many points himself, he is a great factor in the total scoring of the Aggies with many assists to his credit. At present Woody is a little worried about the draft for he has one more year of eligibility. As one of the boys Coach Floyd is count ing highly on for next season, he’ll be playing his share of ball in the rest of the Aggie’s games Novice Fencers'! Show Well In Prep Foil Meet First year men on the Ag gie fencing team gave a good account of themselves in a prep foil and epee meet held in Houston Saturday, taking four out of six places. In the foil competition Tom Mun- nerlyn of A&M was first, with C. K. Campbell of Rice second and Willie Matthijetz of the Ag gies third. Munnerlyn was unbeat en in nine bouts. Epee ended in a tie between Chuck Massey of A&M and Jerry Lubin of Galveston, with Lubin winning a fence-off. There was also a tie for third place between Wally Schlater and Bob Jones, both of the Cadets, with Schlather taking third with a fewer number of hits against him. A bit of extra curricular in terest was provided by Goucher of Rice who received a deep gash in his arm while fencing Massey. Claude Holmes and Teddy Fields from A&M also gave good accounts of themselves, though failing to place. Looking like an Africa) whatsit, clown, But Mathews, tumbling in structor goes throifgl one of the many antic that caused him aftt Harold Turner (left) t b e called profession a timber by an apprecla tive audience. The tear performed betwee; halves of the A & M Baylor game. A&M Riflemen In Small-Bore Meet Feb. 28 Ten members of the Aggie rifle team will leave on Feb ruary 28th, to participate in the Southwestern Invitational Small-Bore Rifle Matches, to be held in El Paso, March 1-2. 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