Page 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
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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,
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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
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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.
Those going to the meet are:
R. G. Darrell, J. G. Rowe, L. O.
Hill, W. M. Rainwater, B. H. Van-
zura, D. C. Unrue, O. C. Schlinke,
H. J. Mangum, B. J. Holland, L. A.
Wolfskill, and M/Sgt. W. R. Reese,
coach of the sharpshooters.
Firing on the W. Randolph
Hearst Trophy and on the 14th
Air Force and 4th Army Trophies
have been completed. However, the
results of these matches will not
be known until March 1st.
A&M was first in both the
Hearst Trophy match and in the
14th Air Force and 4th Army com
petition. The victory in the Hearst
Trophy meet was about five years.
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