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Thursday, August 9, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Anderson On the Gridiron Smell of Football Gives Rise For Pre-Season Dope By ANDY ANDERSON Battalion Sports Editor Just got out of a movie that was about a football player and it got me to thinking that the football season is just around the corner. All of the professional teams have begun training and it’s just a matter of 22 days before the football squads of the Southwest Conference report to their respective coaches- for formal training and instruction for the coming season. All the newspapers have been devoting most of their space to the baseball race which is getting hotter than a depot stove in the American League, what with the Indians | taking over first place yesterday while the Dodgers maintain their supremacy in the National Loop but they are slowly beginning to give the gridiron sport a little coverage. In. “keeping up with the Joneses” a little football on the local angle is called for, Jkhough the Aggie grid coaches have very little to say on the ^subject. Football drills for the SWC have their formal opening on Sept. 1 and all schools are expecting large turnouts. We haven’t been able to get advance information on all the con ference schools but through the publicity departments of some of the schools, we have obtained their brochures which give highlights of what is expected of their team and their star players. First in order should come A&M. Kenneth Bond has done a wonderful job on the brochure he has sent to various sportswriters and other publicity departments for the other schools around the country. One of the most complete compilations of figures ever published on an Aggie team, the brochure gives details about all the coaches, Athletic Director “Bones” Irvin and especially about next year’s co captains,, Hugh Meyer and All-America candidate Bob Smith. A complete page is devoted to the 1950 statistics of the fullback who set a new record for rushing in the SWC last year and a double page spread is devoted to offensive statistics for the 1950 team. Six- ty-one team members, their numbers, position and other pertinent data is listed on the center-page spread. * Another page is devoted to the cumulative record of the A&M.' backfield for the 1949 and 1950 seasons while several of the pages are devoted to such items as conference statistics, last years order of fin ish and individual leaders in different departments. Probably of most interest to all readers is the section on Aggie prospects for 1951 and with that we will try to give a picture of what is contained therein as based on the concensus of the coaches and the publicity director. A&M Will Use T, Semi-Spread Formations As usual, A&M will employ the Jaro Netardus, five sophomores standard T formation which per- and one junior squadman will make mits either halfback to go in mo- good aerial targets for the passers. iion or to position himself at a -f wing. Head Coach Ray George plans to utilize a semi-spread with ends Wide for some running and passing. Because of the lack of depth in the line, a semi-platoon system will be employed, which will require most of the starting offensive line to play quite a bit of defense. It is expected that Meyer and tackle y Jack Little will be used as 60-min ute men. The outlook for the backfield is great with Smith, Lipmann, Tid well and Gardemal probably com prising the starting foursome with ^ a bevy of replacements available > for both offense and defehse. The defensive backfield of Yale Lary, Charley McDonald and Aug- ie Saxe all have another year of experience which will aid them no End. A&M is going to pass more than it did last year —that’s certain. The coaches are going to insist lhat the quarterbacks call for more heaves to loosen up the defense for the deadly running game. All the 1950 quarterbacks are back and one new one has been ad ded—Roy Dollar, 6-2, 190-pound transfer from Del Mar Junior Col lege. A tall, rangy lad, Dollar will probably do quite a bit of passing. Six lettermen ends will be on hand to catch the passes chunked ^Ujiy the Aggie quarterbacks. Char- ^Ke Hodge, starting end all the past ^season will be at one terminal post and probably Walter Hill at the . other end slot. Darrow Hooper, 1 Clinton Gwin, Jerry Crossman and Pirates, Tribe Win Battles In Softball Loop The seventh straight win was racked up by the Pirates yesterday afternoon as they trimmed the Giants 11-8 in a College Station Summer Soft- ball League game. Homer Adams was the Pirates winning hurler while Sarg White was charged with the defeat. Seymour was the winning pitch er for the Indians in the other game played yesterday, as they squeezed out a 5-3 triumph over the Tigers in the tilt played at College Park diamond. The stnadings at this time find, the Pirates leading the loop with seven wins and no losses and the Indians holding down the second place post with a 3-4 record. The Tigers with a 2-4 mark are in third and the Giants with a 1-5 record are the cellar-dwellers. The Pirates have already clinch ed their second pennant as none of the other teams can possibly catch them, even if they drop their re maining two contests. Netiers Cop 2 Tourney Wins The College Station Tennis team traveled to Navasota last night to compete in the opening x-ounds of the Navasota Invitational Ten nis Tournament being held this week through Sunday, winning two matches while losing one. Lt. Col. E. F. Sauer of the A&M military department and Tom Ter rell met Richard Spence and Henry Small of Huntsville, who attend SHSC with Sauer and Terrell tak ing the match 6-1, 6-1. Anderson, Jackson Lose In another pairing, Freddie An derson and Bobby Jackson lost to Lew Watts and Sonny Ayres, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6. Both Ayres and Watts are from Navasota. Ayres lettered on the Texas University freshman tennis team this past Spring. Anderson came hack in a singles match against J. C. Swanson and trimmed him 6-0, 7-5. Bill Blakely and Dickie Dowell, son of Aggie tennis coach, W. M. Dowell, play Glenn Roy Hausmann West Point Mentor Calls Press Meeting New York, Aug. 9.—(A?)—Earl stars spent a six-week, expense- (Red) Blaik, who lifted Army foot ball to a plane unparalleled in its history, has called a press con ference amid rumors he will resign as head football coach at West Point. The exponent of the two platoon system, silent up to now on resig nation reports, said he would out line his position at 10 a.m. this moraing. Squad Shattered His once -potent squad prepoiT- edly is shattered by the exam- cribbing scandal at the Military Academy where 90 cadets, includ ing the bulk of the football team, face dismissal. His son, Bob, is the team’s star quarterback but it’s not known whether he’s involved. Then today came new charges of “high pressure recruiting tactics” and reports men are appointed to the Academy for football talent alone. The Chicago Tribune said a Flint, Mich., high school player, Duncan MacDonald, related in an interview that he and 22 other prep grid Baseball Gets Publicity Corporations Cry For By WHITNEY MARTIN AP Sports Staff New York, Aug. 9—(A 5 )—The photographers were hustling about begging for “just one more shot” and reporters were hovering about waiting to pounce on the major league club owners when the photographers got through. “Imagine,” one of the reporters commented, “what some big cor poration would give to get this publicity when it elected a presi dent or a chairman of the board.” Club Owners Meet The club owners were meeting to consider the list of candidates for baseball commissioner - . And admitting that major league baseball is big business the free publicity it was getting was rather amazing, at that. Sometimes we think the impor tance of the commissioner’s job has been built up out of all proportion, and some of the men mentioned in connection with the job lead to the belief that the club owners con sider it second in importance only to that of presisdent of the United States. It wouldn’t have surprised us at all if the president’s name Lary to Carry Load Lary will again be called on to carry the load in the punting de partment with capable assistance from either Lippman or Dollar if the need arises. Lary has never had a punt blocked and that is quite an amazing feat since ■ he punted 71 times during 1949 and 63 times last Fall, averaging close to 40 yards per try. Dollar aver aged nearly 40 yards last season at Del Mar.' Lippman will probably be used for quick-kicking purpos es. Hooper has the extra-point and kickoff job wrapped up but Hodge and Hill are behind the big junior if he should be injured. Hooper left little to be desired last Fall, as he made. 38 out of 51 attempts at the two-yard line and booted several kickoffs out of the'pl&yihg field, his longest being a near-100 yard boot. Lary’s name crops ifp again in the safety position where he has been tagged as the number one man. He was one of the 'top men in the nation on punt returns last year. McDonald will move back from his position as left defensive halfback to a double safety on punts. Lippman will probably re lieve either of the men in the spot. Great things are expected of men like Jack Little at tackle, and Jim Fowler and Alvin Langford at de fensive positions. Co-Captain Mey- (See FOOTBALL, Page 4) C, D, Co.’s, Dorm 15 Win Mural Games Co. D shot B Sqdn. down last night in a freshman volleyball game 2-0. The Doggies from D beat the Wild Blue Yonder Men 15-10 and 15-13. C Co. made it & clean sweep for the ground lovers by outscoring A Airmen 2-0. The Mudslingers sight ed the fledgling Flash Gordon’s and sank same 15-5 and 15-13. Dorm 15 out waltzed ,Tesas.la$t night in a civilian softball game 14-6. Eight runs were garnered by the Dorm 15 men in the first and af ter that they puttered for the last six innings. Texas managed to pick up three mns in their portion of the first but after that the game went like a couple of retired boxers sparring. Bruce Miller, 15 pitcher, gave the Rockcrushers 12 hits and walked four while the Rockcrush ers pitcher gave up 16 hits and 10 walks. Dorm 15 committed only 1 error against Texas’ 5. Everybody hit but ho one could score for the Rockcrushers. Dorm 15 picked up one run in both the second and third and then two more jn the fifth and seventh. Texas’ extra runs came in the fourth and fifth. One of the runs was in the fourth and two canie in the fifth. had been mentioned with the idea he might resign that post to take qver as head of basesball. Not that the baseball commis sioner’s job isn’t a big job, calling for a strong, efficient man. But we do think that in considering the possibility of generals resigning their admittedly major posts to make such decisions as whether Joe Blow, an 18-year-old kid fresh from the farm, belongs to Kewanee or Kalamazoo is taking a lot for granted. The importance attached to the commissioner’s job seems incon gruous, as the popularity of the game isn’t dependent on who holds that high post. All the fans ask is a good, hon estly-played game. The caliber of the game depends upon the men who play it. paid vacation at West Point this summer. The paper quoted MacDonald as saying the players had informal talks with Blaik and received of fers of easy appointments to the academy with special help in pass ing entrance examinations. Blaik Denies Report This was denied immediately by Blaik who said MacDonald had ip- formed his office that remarks made by him were “garbled” and gave “an entirely erroneous im pression.” At Flint, the boy said the interview was a “misrepresent ation of facts.” Blaik acknowedeged that West Point annually recruits some of its players, adding: “It is necessary for them to take a short cram course prior to the date of ex aminations.” He said some of the boys cop- tacted him and in other cases he contacted the boys. He declared the procedure was “correct and proper.” Coach Defends Practice Blaik conceded West Point re cruited five to 11 high school foot ball players a year and defended the practice as “perfectly proper.” He defined the recruiting as in viting the athletes to the academy for a “cram course” to help them pass entrance examination — with their expenses during the course paid by “interested civilian alumni.” “If we did not do that, we would be unable to have any atheltes in West Point able to play a normal schedule,” Blaik said. Fifteen of the 45 players on last year’s football squad entered the academy with this help, he said. The coach said 24 athletic pros pects invited to the academy this year studied for several weeks from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. but only seven succeeded in passing the stiff exams and only five finally en tered the academy. “The whole procedure was per- pectly proper and correct and not contrary to the rules of the asso ciations to which we belong” Blaik said. Air Base May Field Best Grid Team in Coming Year By Associated Press You may see your greastest football this season on some Army post or air base gridiron. The two big clubs of service football in Texas this season ap pear to be Carswell Air Force Base of Fort Worth and Brooke Army Medical Center of Fort Sam Hous ton. The Brooke team is really loaded and it may be the strong est service team since Randolph Field’s super-teams in 1943, 1944, and 1945. Lt. Col. John Krmaer already has his gridders working out and it must feally be a pleasure for the Colonel to took over the lads. He’s got Randall Clay of the University of Texas and New York Giants, Joe- Ethridge, Southern Methodist and Green Bay Packers, Harold Riley, Rice, Carl Depasqua, Pitts- burgh- Oilers, and Billy Kim brough, Baylor, to name a few. Carswell Air Base Base has its share of headliners, too, and one of the brightest is giant Bud McFadin, Texas’ All-Ameri- .can guard last year. Carswell and Brooke medical play in Fort Worth Oct. 28 and that game should be worth travel ing a long way to see. Randolph Air Force Base has Prompt Radio Service —Call— Sosolik’s Radio Service 712 S. Main St Pit 2-1941 Bryan a football team, too, and it’s supposed to be a good one. But the Ramblers can never hope to have a squad as great as the one of 1944, when former first string professional players were lucky to make the squad. The trophy the Amarillo Globe News will give to the sports cham pion of District 1-AAAA will pro bably never rest more than a sin gle season at any one school. This hewly created district is probably the toughest in the Interscholatic League setup. Qampu TODAY thru SATURDAY FIRST RUN —Features Start led - 3:48 - 5:52 - 7:56 - 10:00 the GUY WHOCA BACK Paul JIuuIa DOUGLAS-DARNELL M NEWS — CARTOON. and Billy Schneider of Navasota at 7 this evening with the winner meeting two other Navasotans, Jack Williams and M. 0. Parker. The doubles entry of Thompson and Bill Yardley, both A&M stu dents from Bryan, will meet John W. Phillips and J. Phillip Gibbs of Huntsville, winners over Clyde Prestwood and Halon C. Hall of Nabasota in a match played last night. While several of the members of the team take part in the Nav asota tourney, the other rqembers of the squad who will go to the Junior Olympics in Houston Mon day keep in training on the courts behind Kyle Field. Bubba Engelbrecht will be en tered in the boys singles for con testants 13 and under while Don Avera and Frank Benavidez will enter the boys doubles. In the girls 13-and-under divi sion, Jo Ann Nolan is the only entrant for singles. Anderson and Jackson, who are getting their training in the Nav asota meet, will also play at Hous- (See TENNIS, Page 4) SPORTalk... From an article in the San An gelo Standard-Times, we found out that A&M’s R. G. DeBerry Jr. is doin OK with his tennis this Sum mer. R. G. recently won the men’s singles championship in the Stand ard-Times all West Texas invita tion tennis tournament and teamed with Dick Smith of Kerrville to take the men’s double champion ship. DeBerry defeated Jake Boyles of Lamesa in the singles by racking him in three straight sets, 6-4, 6-4 and 12-10. In the doubles, he and Smith de feated Broyles and Emil Beck of Odessa, 3-6, 9-7 and 6-4. A Tuesday night victory : by the Plymouth’s Oilers of Sinton, enab led that team to win the state semi-pro base crown and entitled them to represent the state at the national tournament which begins Aug. 17. Several Aggies are playing for the Oilers, more especially, Pat Hubert, who was selected for Ajl- America honors in June and Dewey Jacob, former Aggie hurler of recent years. On the Brooke Medic nine, the team the Oilers whipped in a best- four-out-of-seven series, Russell Mays, third baseman on the 1950 Aggie nine held down that same position for the Army team. A big writeup in yesterday’s Houston Post included several baseball names all Aggies are ac quainted with. Among the pic tures included in the layout, wms Wally Moon, remembered for his lusty hitting on the 1950 baseball team and more recently as playing for the Bryan Sports; Bill Mun- nerlyn, regular Aggie first sacker on the District 6 champs this past Spring; and, former Aggie base ball coach, Marty Karow. Nor are these all the Aggies on the Redbird team. Bob Tapkers- ley has notched five of the 23 wins the Columbus nine has registered. Joe Ecrette just recently returned from Summer camp, joined the club last week. Martin Hamilton is doing part part of the catching and Henry “Yogi” Candelari, next season’s Aggie baseball captain, plays both infield and outfield for the team. Karow, who is now baseball coach at Ohio State University, will be remembered as having been coach of both baseball and basket ball at A&M for several years, prior to his return to his Alma Mater last Spring. PALACE Bryan Z-SW TODAY thru SATURDAY SEALED CARGO’ SATURDAY PREVIEW 11 P.M. 1HIODOM DRJIStKS ^Prince who was a THIEF colon By TrcwiV/coaoz: fi UNIVERSAL- INTERNATIONAL PICTURE QUEEN NOW SHOWING “AMERICAN GUERRILLA” SUNDAY thru TUESDAY The fourth team of the College Station Summer Softball League, the Giants were caught at an idle moment before a recent game. - The Giants currently sport a 1-5 record for the second half of league play. The regular starting nine is, back row, left to right, Dickie Dowell, Sarg. White, M. L. Farrar and Ray Jarvi. Front row, Bill Campbell,, Bob Chenowith, Co-Manager Les Richardson, Ed Andrew and C. D. Bourke. 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