Tuesday, April 24, 1951
THE BATTALION
Page 3
George Gets Post;
Butt-Council Make
Mutual Agreement
By FRED WALKER
Battalion Sports Editor
Last night, between the hours of seven and nine, A&M’s
Athletic Council answered what has become the big money
question. A new candidate for Head Football Coach was
unanimously approved by the group.
Following quickly on the heels of an
“open” session in which three Battalion
members, led by Managing Editor Dean
Reed, had listed recommendations to the
Council, Ray George, A&M’s line coach since
January 27th, was recommended to the top
position, approved by A&M President M. T.
Harrington and officially acclaimed head
coach.
It was truly a complete evening for
this writer and his associates, Co-Editor
Clayton Selph and Reed. At the request of
Council Chairman D. W. Williams, Reed ap-
Fred Walker peared before the Council to “list any griev
ances” that he or The Battalion might have regarding the
whys and wherefores of the Athletic Council.
Reed delivered a prepared statement to the groups in
which he, speaking for the Battalion, recommended several
points that might be clarified by the Council, points which
he repeatedly stated were to be, from The Battalion’s point
of view, “a great aid to both groups.” Said Reed:
“We would like anything I say to be taken as sugges
tions for an improvement in relations, rather than ‘com
plaints.’ Our main purpose is not to chastize the Athletic
Council nor any of the members, but to air the feelings
which we believe must be known in order to improve these
relations.”
The rift between the Athletic Council and The Battalion
had started several weeks when alleged unimpeachable re
ports which claimed the inside story on the A&M coaching
situation, began appearing in the state papers. Many of the
stories were from the usual “reliable sources”, but others
had quoted Williams as the source of information.
Several attacks then appeared in The Battalion against
the Athletic Council. These were -made by The Battalion
Sports Editor and by Reed. Both parties felt that the A&M
public demanded the news first hand, and, as Reed told the
Council;
“We feel an obligation to our readers—the students, the
faculty and the staff of the college, to the local residents and
to the large number of ex-student subscribers, to report the
news as we see it.
Reed, speaking for The Battalion, voiced an opinion that
.only closer cooperation between The Battalion and the Ath
letic Council would create the desired effects.
•
The Five major points were then stated by Reed:
• The Battalion would like to have at least an equal
break with other newspapers on major sports stories and
announcements which come from the Athletic Council.
• The Athletic Council should release ALL but ONLY
the information they can, in order to let the reader know
what progress is being made.
■ • Thla Battalion is not interested • in names or any in-
. formation that might hurt or add to the embarrasment of
any man under consideration; only information that can
satisfy the readership and yet not hurt any individual or
the ends of the Athletic Council is wanted.
• The Battalion would like to recommend releases be ready
on the adjournment of every meeting, but still, only re
leases that can give the public an idea of what is going on
without causing embarrasment to any man or the Council.
• The Battalion greatly appreciates being asked to ap
pear so that it might present its side of the story, hear
that of the Athletic Council, and work out a mutual and
harmonious agreement between the two groups.
•
Concluding the statement, Reed said:
“We do not believe you can keep information on Council
activities from leaking out to the state papers . . . We do,
however, recommend that The Battalion be given an equal
crack, or perhaps, from time to time, even first releases on
a major story involving decisions of the Athletic Council.
Taking all into consideration, the student body of A&M,
whose major means of information is The Battalion, is the
primary group concerned if our sports program is to be
truly inter-collegiate.”
The statement was, on the whole, well received, and your
Sports Editor feels any differences which might have arisen
between The Battalion and the Athletic Council have been
mended.
The Council nodded quite favorably toward letting all
information be released through the Department of Informa
tion and the A&M Sports Publicity Director, Kenneth Bond.
All Council information, it was promised, would be relayed
with haste from Council to Bond to Batt.
With better relations and understandings built, as they
were felt to be by The Battalion representatives, The Battal
ion departed to allow the Council to attempt to select a head
coach. Shortly afterwards a release, dealing with George’s
recommendation by the Council and the subsequent approval
by the President, was personally presented by Bond.
We feel that the Athletic Council will deal fairly with
the Battalion—and vice versa. We also feel that Ray George
will get as much support from all groups as we would extend
to him.
George’s record starts in 1938 when he was chosen All-
Pacific Coast Conference at the University of Southern
California. It was that year that his team ripped the fa
vored Duke Blue Devils in the Rose Bowl. It was in that
same year that George was chosen Outstanding Athlete
at USC.
In ’39 and ’40 George played professional football with
both the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles. He took
his first coaching assignment in 1941 and led the Porterville
High School team of California to an unbeaten season.
During the war years George managed to get in some
football with the talent-laden Iowa and St. Marys Preflights
and some tough fighting in the Saipan and Guam campaigns
as a Naval Officer.
Nineteen forty-eight found George back at USC, this
time as a line coach. It was in 1948 that he gained acclaim
as his tough line played a big role in holding mighty Notre
Dame to a tie.
We would like to congratulate George for being award
ed the top grid post here, and we would like to congratulate
the Athletic Council and President Harrington respectively
recommending and approving the choice.
A&M has a head football coach now and we feel that all
Aggies and Aggie supporters will be happy to have a man
who we feel will lead A&M’s football team to its greatest
season since the days of Jarrm’ John Kimbrough.
‘A’ Inf--Horseshoe Champs
A Infantry
. . . emerged victor in the Intramural Upper-
class Horseshoe Playoff. Bottom row, left to
right, Ted Stephens, Jim Phillips, Ed Harris,
and Victor Chandler. Top row; Don Stigall, Ells
worth Clinger, and Ted Caughran.
Trade Block
Rumored For
Walt Droppo
Boston, April 23—MP)—If big
Walt Dropo, Red Sox first base-
man currently warming the bench,
is to be traded, officials of the
Boston club say they know nothing
about it.
Similar denials came from
spokesmen for the Detroit Tigers
and Philadelphia Athletics report
edly concerned in the three club
deal.
The report had Dropo going to
Philadelphia, Ferris Fain, A’s first
sacker, going to Detroit and one of
the Tiger’s three regular outfield
ers coming to Boston.
Intramural Track Meet
To Be May 16, 17, 18
By JOE BLANCHETTE
Battalion Sports Staff
The Intramural Track meet is
tentatively set for May 16, 17, and
18 according to Barney Welch,
Intramural Director.
The meet includes field events,
distance runs, and relay events.
Corps Standings
A Infantry paces the standings
of all corps participants in point
totals achieved through the var
ious sports concluded thus far in
the Intramural program. The In
fantry unit has amassed 561 2/3
points.
Major League
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis at Detroit
St. Louis 100 100 000—4 8 0
Detroit 001 030 003—7 8 0
Johnson, Fannin (6) and Moss;
Trout, Herbert (6) and Ginsberg.
HR — Ginsberg, Mullins, Wertz.
WP—Herbert. LP—Fannin.
Philadelphia at New York
Philadelphia....200 000 002—4 6 0
New York 020 002 lOx—5 13 0
Brissie, Wynn (6) and Tipton;
Raschi and Berra. HR—Dimmer.
WP—Raschi. LP—Brissie.
Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston at Brooklyn
Boston ....001 000 000 000 000 0—
17 1
Brooklyn..000 010 000 000 000 1—
2 101 1
Spahn and Cooper; Hatten, Pa-
lica (12), King (13) and Campa-
nella. HR—Hodges. WP—King.
LP—Spahn.
Pittsburg at Chicago
Pittsburg 100 000 000—1 8 0
Chicago 000 010 001—2 5 0
Queen and McCullough; Hiller
and Walker. HR—Serena. WP—
Hiller. LP—Queen.
Cincinnati at St. Louis
Cincinnati 010 000 000—1 8 0
St. Louis 000 011 OOx—2 9 2
Raffensberger, Wehmeier (8)
and Scheffing; Brecheen and Rice.
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New York at Philadelphia
New York 021 010 000—4 6 2
Philadelphia....020 201 21x—8 14 0
Hearn, Gettel (7) and Westrum;
Thompson and Wilber. HR—Lohr-
ke, Thompson. WP—Thompson.
LP—Hearn.
Major League Standings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W L Pet
Brooklyn 5
Chicago 4
Pittsburgh 3
Boston 4
Philadelphia .... 2
St. Louis 1
New York 2
-Cincinnati 1
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Washington .... 4
Chicago 4
New York 4
Boston 3
Detroit 2
Philadelphia .... 1
St. Louis 1
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C Infantry is second, 530; E
Infantry, third, 517%; ASA,
fourth, 500; B Engineers; fifth,
490; A QMC, sixth; 454%; and B
QMC, seventh.
D Infantry wins, 8-3
D Infantry continued in its win
ning ways as the infantrymen stop
ped B AF, 8-3.
D Infantry tallied all their runs
in the first inning on two hits and
two errors. The first two air
force hitters were out—one on a
ground out and the other on a
pop fly. Tucker, th,e second sacker,
lashed a deep single to the out
field.
Adams followed with another
single sending Tucker to third.
Johnson, the airmen catcher was
safe on an error which enabled
both Tucker and Adams to score.
Johnson scored on a two base error
which allowed Rosenthal to be safe
at second.
The Infantrymen were held
scoreless in the first inning but
squeezed two runs in the second
frame. The wildness of the airmen
hurler was responsible for the
runs.
In the third the infantry scored
their six runs on five free passes
and four hits.
H AF Victorious
H AF gained a 5-0 lead over D
Vets and held on through a rocky
last inning to win a close one from
the Vets, 5-4.
C Composite stopped C Armored,
8-1 and A Ordnance and K AF bat
tled to a 5-5 deadlock.
I Aggie Net Team
To Meet Strong
Sooner Squad
The University of Oklaho
ma sends their all-powerful,
record-setting tennis team
here today to play the Aggie
netters on the varsity clay
courts in a non-conference clash.
The Sooners are warming up for
their campaign to add to their
record of 13 out of 19 Big Seven
Conference championships. They
are the strong favorites to take
this match as well as continue this
year in their winning fashion and
take their conference.
OU’s No. 1 man, Charles Cun
ningham, dumped Texas No. 1
Julian Oates in their singles match
yesterday at Austin. Despite Cun
ningham’s win of 6-2, 6-4, the
Texas team went on to take the
match 5-2. The other winner for
OU was Glen Land, who overran
Bernard Gerhardt of the Steers,
6-8, 6-4, 6-4.
DeBerry Meets Cunningham
Aggie Ray DeBerry meets Cun
ningham today in what should be
a very close match. This duo has
met twice before and each man
has walked off the court with a
victory.
Cunningham beat DeBerry last
year in a match between OU and
A&M, but last summer it was the
other way around as DeBerry
dumped Cunningham in the Ama
rillo Tri-State Tournament.
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Land vs. Letsos
In the No. 2 singles, Eugene
Letsos plays the second top for
OU, Glen Land. “Although Land
beat Gerhardt and Gerhardt beat
me, I still feel that I have more
than a good chance to defeat
Land,” said Letsos. He will have
the advantage of playing on his
home court and this should prove to
be a close match.
Swimming Team ’51
Seen In Retrospect
By ED HOLDER
Battalion Sports Staff
“We really had an awfully good
team this year, but the circum
stances were against us,” said Art
Adamson, coach of the A&M Swim
ming Team since 1927.
Adamson, who teaches swimming
for the Physical Education De
partment, began his swimming
career at the age of 14 when he
swam away with all the honors in
a meet at Saskatchawan, Canada.
He not only took the boys divi
sion but also entered the men’s
division and won everything but
the pool.
From Canada he journied to New
Zealand where he went to school
for several years. Here he copped
the 100 yd. national champion
ship for two years. In another
year in which he resided theife he
set a national record in the 100
meters event.
Adamson then came to the U. S.
in 1927. He joined the San Francis-
New Coach Talks
On WTAW Today
Ray George, newly appointed
Head Football Coach, will be
interviewed by Battalion Sports
Editor Fred Walker this after
noon at 5:15 over Station WT
AW.
Walker, who has just started
a sportscast, “Lookin’ At It
From the Sports Desk”, heard
Monday through Thursday at
5:15, will question George abopt
his athletic background, what he
thinks of A&M and its athletics
and any plans or thoughts that
the new head coach might have
for the future.
co Olympic Club and began to
make a reputation as one of the
top swimmers in the country. The
team on which he swam was the
national champion in the 400 yd.
freestyle relay. Adamson also play
ed on the water polo team for the
Olympic Club.
At Least 2nd
In the time he has coached at
A&M, his teams have failed but
once to place either first or sec
ond in the SWC. This one time was
in 1950 when SMU won over the
Aggies when the A&M relay team
was disqualified.
Adamson’s record as a water polo
coach is very commendable. Since
1934, the A&M water polo team has
been defeated only four times.
The pre-conference relays held
in Houston at Rice University net
ted the Aggie swimmers their first
win this year, as they overran TU
2-1. This was the first taste of
competition for the 1951 team.
In the first meet with Baylor,
Feb. 3, the tankers came in on
the top-side of nine events. The big
guns in the meet were Tommy
Comstock, Bill Sargeant and Van
Adamson.
55-20
Comstock took the 200 yd.
breaststroke and Sargeant copped
the 200 yd. back-stroke. Adamson,
James Baker, Don Blundell, and
Jim Flowers ran away with the
440 yd. free style relay. The final
score just for the record was a
55-20 win for the Aggies.
The Aggies again brought home
a victory against Northwestern
Louisiana Feb. 10 in the Natator-
ium. Don Blundell and Dan Lockey
set pool and college records in
the contest to help bring their
teammates through to a 42-33 win
Blundell set a new college and
pool record with his time of 2:36.8
in the 200 meter back-stroke. Then
Lockey came in with a similar
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