Thursday, April 26, 1951
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Does A&M Have A
6 B’ Team Coach?
What’s His Name?
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By FRED WALKER
Battalion Sports Editor
Fred Walker
- Yes, by golly! Contrary to Battalion reports, A&M does
have a “B” team coach—and a fine one at that.
Tuesday, The Battalion ran a story on the
appointment of Ray George as head coach.
In that story was a “boxed” insertion that,
in one portion, read:
“George, Backfield Coach Gil Stienke
and Freshman Coach Klepto Holmes are the
only members of the football coaching staff
now.”
A sad looking figure strode into the
Coaches’ office yesterday, turned to his asso
ciates, and made this statement:
“Fellas, all I want is a vote of confi
dence.”
Well, that was Dalton Faircloth who,
though it might come as a surprise, has been the Aggie “B”
team football coach for almost a year. Add to that the fact
that he did some valuable scouting for his boss, and it might
make a person figure that something ought to be said.
Back On the Payroll
Now that we got him on the payroll, let’s look at his record—a
beauty.
Dalton went to Bolton High of Alexandria where he earned nine
letters in football, basketball and baseball. He was graduated in 1929.
(Whattaya mean over 40’s an old man ?)
He went to Louisiana College and managed to bring home
three frosh numerals in football, basketball and baseball. Fair-
cloth also bagged 12 varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball
and track. He was All-LIAA in both football and basketball in
1931.
Faircloth’s first coaching position was at Louisiana College where
his Freshman football team won LIAA frosh football titles in both
19,33 and 1934.
New Albany, Mississippi was the next stop for Faircloth. Here
he coached the local high school to the Northeast Miss. Class A title
in 1941.
After serving 52 months, from 1942 to 1946, in the Army Air
Forces as a physical training director, he was placed on the active duty
list as a Captain.
Faircloth went back to coaching in ’46 when he took over the
chores at De Quincy (La.) High School from 1946 to ’50. He took
hie eleven to the state semi-finals in 1948 and to the State Class A
finals in 1949. It was this year that he was selected “High School
Coach of the Year.”
Going back a few years to ’29 and ’36, we find that the versatile
mentor played semi-pro baseball in Louisiana. Oh, yes, he played a year
of professional basketball in 1938.
Everything Happens to Him
There is Dalton Faircloth in a nutshell, so the next time any one
asks you if A&M has a “B” team coach, tell ’em “You’r dumed tootin’
we do—one of the best.”
Heck, everything happens to Faircloth. We ran into him one night
and said “Hello, Mr. Stienke.” Even since then, Faircloth and Stienke
have been arguing to see which of them will throw us off the water
tower. ■ I
— i fir
Looking Back With New Coach
r
“What football game did you get the biggest kick out of, Coach,”
we asked Ray George?
“Well, there was that one when we beat Duke in the Rose Bowl in
1938,” answered George. “It wasn’t just the game, it was the thrill
of being able to play in the Rose Bowl. There’s nothing like it.”
“But talk about rough,” he continued, “one of the best and
roughest was when we (he was playing for the Detroit Lions) up
set the Chicago Bears in 1940. They had three men playing across
the line from me that were big all right. I never saw a back all
- afternoon, just a big wall of flesh.”
*We could see the coach’s point when he explained that they weighed
265, 260 and 240 respectively.
George had a few chuckles when we asked him if he ever played
against Don Hutson, the all-time great end.
“I believe we held Hutson to the lowest number of yards gained
during his career,” he said. “The end playing next to me was Monk
Moscrip, a two-year’s All-American. When Hutson went out, Moscrip
would drive him in, and when he tried to sneak through tackle, I drove
him further in.
George really chuckled then. “Hutson did everything that af
ternoon. He even tried to sneak around to the opposite' side.”
That was something to chuckle about. When you have stopped
just about the greatest, if not the greatest, pass catcher of all time,
then you can boast.
•
A late night wire brought in the news that John DeWitt, star Ag-
jie forward, has been drafted by the Tri-Cities professional basketball
team. We have not been able to contact DeWitt yet to ask him if he is
tonsidering taking the offer.
Twelve Man Track
Squad To Drake
Major League.
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' NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at Philadelphia
N*w York 000 000 100—1 8 0
Philadelphia ...100 100 OOx—2 5 0
Jansen, Jones (7) Gettel (8) and
Westrum; Heintzelman and Lopata.
WP — Heintzelman (1-1). LP —
Jansen (1-2).
Pittsburg at St. Louis
Pittsburg 000 000 000—0 2 1
St. Louis 020 001 Olx—4 6 1
Chambers, Muir (8) and Fitz
gerald; Poholsky and Rice. HR—
Slaughter - . WP—Poholsky (1-1).
LP—Chambers (1-2).
Boston at Brooklyn
Boston 012 001 002—6 11 2
Brooklyn 200 002 010—5 11 1
Bickford, Donnelly (9), Nichols
(9) and Cooper; Newcombe, King
(4) and Campanella. HR—Cooper,
Hodges, Jethroe. WP—Bickford
(2-1). LP—King (1-1).
Chicago at Cincinnati
Chicago 000 210 000—3 8 0
Cincinnati 000 020 02x—4 9 1
Minner an4 Walker; Fox, Byerly
(6), Blackwell (8) and Scheffing.
HR—Smalley, Ryan, Adcock, Klus-
zewski. WP—Blackwell (1-2). LP
—Minner (1-1).
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia at New York
Philadelphia ....000 000 000—0 4 0
New York 010 210 OOx—4 7 2
Kellner and Tipton; Shea and
Berra. WP—Shea (1-0). LP—
Kellner (1-1).
St. Louist at Chicago—1st game
St. Louis 201 100 200—6 8 1
Chicago 202 200 20x—8 11 1
Widmar, Pillette (3), Kennedy
(8) and Lollar; Gumpert, Little
field (5), Dorish (8) and Niarhos.
HR—Delsing, Zarilla, Robinson,
Wood. WP—Littlefield (1-1). LP
-^Pillette (1-1).
2nd game
St. Louis 000 040 003—7 9 0
Chicago 000 001 300—4 9 0
Starr, Garver (7) and Moss, Lol
lar; Dobson, Rotblatt (8), Dorish
(9) and Masi. HR—Coleman. WP
— Garver (2-1). LP — Rotblatt.
(1-1).
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W
L
Pet
GB
St. Louis
. 4
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Brooklyn
.. 5
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Boston
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Chicago
.. 4
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.571
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Pittsburgh ....
.. 4
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Cincinnati
.. 2
6
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New York
.. 2
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
W
L
Pet
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Cleveland
.. 6
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Washington .
.. 5
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New York
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Chicago
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Boston
.. 3
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Detroit
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Philadelphia
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6
Floyd Is Speaker
At Sports Banquet
John Floyd, head basketball
coach of A&M, will be the guest
speaker at the sixth annual Sports
Banquet of Consolidated High
School sponsored by the Kiwanis
Club.
The banquet will honor the let-
termen in football, basketball, base
ball, track, swimming, and tennis.
By RAY HOLBROOK
Battalion Sports Staff
Heading for the Drake Re
lays in Des Moines, Iowa, are
twelve Texas Aggie track and
field stars, who will be shoot
ing for possibly six firsts in
the nation’s largest relay car
nival.
Leading entries for A&M
are two once-beaten relay
teams and an undefeated
weight man. The Aggies weight
star is sophomore Darrow Hooper
who has beaten all comers in the
shot and discus for the seventh
consecutive week.
Hooper is A&M’s undefeated
trackman. His latest exploits
were at the Kansas Relays where
he won the shot, with a 51’ 8 1 /8”
toss, and the discus with a 145’
5%” heave.
Competition at Drake will be
much keener this week but the
220-pound Hooper will be favored
to win and perhaps exceed his
best mark of 53’ 1” executed at
the Texas Relays. This mark is
the second best in the nation.
Third best in the nation is
Hooper’s discus toss of 157’.
Beaten only at the Kansas Re
lays, and then on a disastrous
baton shuffle, the Cadet mile re
lay of Bemie Place, Bob Mays,
Fuston McCarty and Don Mitchell
is gunning for the biggest race of
them all.
Rough Going
Aggie teams have always had
rough sledding at Drake. The 1947
mile relay took second to Ohio
State, while the undefeated Nation
al Champion 1948 quartet copped
the only Cadet win ever registered
in a relay event at Des Moines.
That ’48 team could have easily
broken the record of 3:14.1 had
not the anchor man run a 51.0 on
his leg. The time for the race was
3:15.2.
Champ
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Paul Leming
. . . will be defending champion
in the low hurdles at the Drake
Relays. Leming, who is the on
ly man from last year’s team
returning to Des Moines, will al
so be seeking to take the highs,
his favorite race.
Handballers
Smother Rice
Eight-to-One
By FRED WALKER
Battalion Sporfts Editor
The Aggie Handball team met
the Rice Owls here yesterday in
a return match and plastered the
Feathered Flock, 8-1.
The only hooting done was by
A&M as every match but one was
brought home with ease.
A&M’s No. 1 player, Jewell Mc
Dowell, downed his blinking oppon
ent Sam Davis with apparent ease
-21-4 and 21-5.
Jack Balderas, No. 2 Farmer, left
his tractor treads on Owl Ray
Winters, 21-9, 21-10.
Another fly-by-night, Paul Don-
ahoe, got his fuselage ripped apart
when Dick Gardemal hit him dead
center, 21-3 and 21-5.
The ambush kept going though
as Jack Wood tweaked George Don
aldson’s beak 21-9 and 21-18 and
Fred Sommers playfully bludgeon
ed George Pappas, 21-2, 21-5.
Hub Norton had to get a few
tail feathers of his own, so he ran
a harvester over Jim Christopher,
21-9, 21-5.
Still feeling the need of practice,
McDowell and Balderas, the No. 1
doubles team, hopped all over
Rice’s front line duo, Sam Davis
and Paul Donahoe, 21-to-8 and 21-
to-0.
Gardemal and John Centilli like
wise demolished Pappas and Don
aldson with an edge of 21-5, 21-2.
A&M’s only loss occurred after
three “gurls” had simpered over
to watch the fun. So distracted
were Sommers and Wood, that
Winters and Christopher, finding
nothing out of place, beat the Ag
gies while their backs were turned,
21-18, 15-21 and 21-12.
(This distraction had gone for
a drink during the second match.)
So far this year the team has
gone undefeated. This includes
skinning the Longhorns once and
the Owls twice.
The erratic ’49 mile relay failed
to gain the finals due to a baton
being dropped, so it is apparent
that this year’s team will be out
to win the Drake title and better
the best time of 3:16 which
is now tops in the nation.
Record Breaker?
A&M’s sprint foursome of Place,
Billy Bless, Bobby Ragsdale and
Bill Stalter will be seeking to re
deem themselves in the big meet
after their only defeat at the Texas
Relays. At Rice last week they
tied the nation’s best time in this
event, 42 seconds flat, also held by
Oklahoma.
The sprinters are determined to
beat OU and better the 42.0 to
firmly establish themselves as the
No. 1 440 relay in the country.
With no unfortunate accident and
a good day, their chances are very
good.
Bless, Ragsdale and Stalter will
also run the 880 relay with James
Baker in the No. 1 spot.
Over The Top
Another good Farmer bet for a
Drake first is Buddy Davis, the
6’ 8” high jumper who cleared
6’ 9” at the Texas Relays to set a
new record and establish himself
as the favorite at Drake.
With very little of the incon
sistency common to high jumpers,
Davis is a safe bet! to clear 6’ 6”
in nearly evei'y meet. The record
he will be shooting for at Drake
is 6’ 8”, set by Aggie Pete Wat
kins in 1943.
Paul Leming, SWC high hurdle
champ, is the defending champion
in the low hurdles at Drake and
is the only Aggie returning to Des
Moines from last year’s squad.
Leming, who ran third in the
highs in that 1950 meet, is a great
man on the low hurdles, but he
will primarily be seeking to set
a new record on the highs, his fav
orite event. Leming holds a 14.4
time in the high hurdles this year.
One Plus Two . . .
Bless and Ragsdale will also en
ter the low hurdle event and all
three should be in the thick of the
race.
Ag captain and the Southwest’s
outstanding pole vaulter, Jack
Simpson will be trying to regain
the luck he lost at Kansas last
week.
With Don Cooper of Nebraska
and Don Laz of Illinois (both con
querors of 15 feet last week) pre
sent at Drake, Simpson will have
tough competition, but on a good
hot day he will be up there with
them, or at least, over 14 feet.
Steee-rike
*
Bob Tankersley
. . . will be Aggie’s starting
pitcher in one of the games
against TCU in Fort Worth this
weekend. Tankersley has. a
SWC record of one-and-one. His
win was a four-hitter against
SMU while the loss came in a
relief role at TU.
Ag Softball
Team to Play
TU Tonight
The Aggie Softball team will
meet the Texas Longhorn soft-
ballers tonight in Austin.
“Approximately 30 boys will
make up the squad,” said Intra
mural Director Bamey Welch, “and
there is very little difference in
the ability of each.
That team will play tonight but
an entirely new line-up will be
used in the next game.
Members of the Club are Don
Joseph, catcher; Buron Beard and
Lou Wood, pitchers; Jim Tunnell,
1st; Jewell McDowell, 2nd; Ver
non Bippert, 3rd; Jack Tanner,
short; James Starling, William,
Hovel and Sonney Harris, outfield-
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“Serving Texas Aggies”
Baseball Team To Meet
TCU In 2-Game Series
By JOE BLANCHETTE
Battalion Sports Staff
The Aggie baseball team takes
the diamond tomorrow afternoon
against the TCU Horned Frogs in
Fort Worth in a game which
Fish Trip High
School Swim
Team 46 to 30
The Aggie Frosh emerged
the victor from a swim
ming meet staged yesterday
against a combined team of
Bryan High School and A&M
Consolidated tankers.
Boyett of the high schoolers took
honors in the 50-yd. freestyle event,
and one of his teammates, Week,
hit the finishing mark first in the
100-yd. breaststroke.
Two Aggie upperclassmen sub
stituted on the Frosh diving team
to overrun the high school spring-
board men. Skeet Cameron, sopho
more, won first with 152 points,
Gilbert was second with 147 tal
lies, Myers third with 121.8 and
Hoskins the other Aggie substi
tute was fourth with a total of
106.7.
Summary
200-yd. freestyle: Klipple, Skel
ton, Cuenod, and Barlow. Time
2:16.3; 100-yd backstroke: May
nard, Rubin, Barlow, 1:08.6; 100-yd.
freestyle: Burditt, Weick, Carter,
Cleland, 1:02.5; 100-yd. individual
medley: Klipple, Wallin, Johnson,
Penberthy, 1:22.7; 180 medley re
lay: Rubin, Black, Burditt, 1:51;
160-yd. freestyle relay: Carter,
Cuenod, Skelton, Maynard, 1:25.0.
should prove to be a close con
test between two evenly matched
clubs.
Coach Beau Bell of the Aggies
will have his two top hurlers, Pat
Hubert and Bob Tankersley, ready
to oppose the weak-hitting Frogs.
Norris (Knobby) Graves, ace of
the TCU hurling staff, fresh from
a 1-0, six hit win over SMU, and
Mike Salim, the Froggie righthand
er that was given credit for the
first TCU win over A&M, will at
tempt to silence the bats of the
Aggies.
In the first contest between TCU
and the Ags, the Frogs tallied
three unearned runs off Sid Good-
loe to squeak by with a 5-4 de
cision.
Ag Golf Team
Will Meet
St. Edwards
The Aggie golf team will meet
St. Edwards University of Aus
tin tomorrow afternoon at 1 p. m.
on the Bryan Country Club greens.
A formerly scheduled game was
postponed by TCU and left this
date open for a fill-in.
In an' early season game, the
Ags blanked St. Edwards 5-0.
Johnnie Barrett and Bob Dahoney
of the Aggies were pitted against
Jim Allbright and George Salhab
to take the No. 1 doubles, 6 to 5.
Bill Baker and Otto Guerrei'o
composed the second team for the
Cadets to score a 5 to 4 win over
John Skard and Loren Milnarist
of St. Edwards.
In the only single match, A&M’s
J. C. Fletcher turned back Bill
Leahy of St. Edwards 7 to 5.
The Aggie linksmen will meet
SMU April 27 at College Station
in their next conference game.
Salim pitched the first seven
innings for the Fort Worth club but
was relieved by Graves in the final
inning as the A&M nine rallied for
three runs.
If Graves, who pitched the SMU
win Tuesday, starts tomorrow af
ternoon, Coach Bell will counter
with Hubert. If Mike Salim starts
the Aggie pitcher will be Bob
Tankersley.
The Aggie baseballers now stand
fourth in the conference with
three wins and three losses. The
TCU crew is fifth in conference
play with two wins and four set
backs.
A&M’s line-up will be the same
as in previous games. Guy Wallace,
team captain, will open at short
stop and lead off the batting order.
Joe Ecrette will start at second
base and Yale Lary will hold down
the initial sack.
Hamilton Calls . . .
Yogi Candelari will play the hot
comer. A1 Ogletree will catch for
Hubert and Wilbur Hamilton will
backstop for Tankersley.
The Aggie outfield will consist
of Shug McPherson, Hollis Baker,
and John DeWitt.
Harvey King will operate at
third base for the Frogs and lead
off the TCU batting array. John
ny Ethridge will start at second
base with Don Carroll completing
the keystone combination at short
stop.
Bill Elliot will hold down the
first base position and Bill Looney
will start behind the plate.
In the outfield the Frogs will
have three veterans, Melzer Rose,
Wade Stepp and Bill Bames.
In the first contest between the
clubs, Guy Wallace was the big
gun for the Aggies as he con
nected for two doubles, drove in
two runs and scored two tallies.
Wade Stepp paced the Frogs’ hit
ting attack with two singles and
batted in two runs.
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