Tuesday, October 2,1951
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Hodge Named As Top
Offensive Lineman
? For the second straight week, Charlie
fiodge has been named the “Outstanding
Offensive Lineman of the Week” by the
Battalion Sports Staff.
Not only did Hodge play a great game
Offensively, but also carried a load on the
ICadets’ defensive game against the Texas
Tech Raiders. He was credited with eight
tackles by the statistics department of the
Battalion.
He also caught two passes, for a total
[of 15 yards. One was for a touchdown. This
'(brings his total scoring for the season to 12
f points.
Charlie, as his teammates call him,
latched on to six tosses off the arms of Ray
Graves and Dick Gardemal during the Uclan
game. One of the grabs was the winning
touchdown in the Cadets 21-14 victory.
In all, he accounted for 69 yards on the
■ six catches. Besides playing a whale of an
Qffensive game, this curly-haired lad also
did quite a job in the defensive wall.
It was while he lived in Somerville that
“Boots” Simmons, an All-Conference end at
A&M, interested Charles in football and the
college. He used to slip Charles into the
games on Kyle Field in 1939-40, during the
great football days of John Kimbrough when
A&M had two of their better teams.
Soon afterward, the Hodge family moved
back to Dallas and Charles went out for foot
ball while in Greiner Junior High.
Greiner didn’t have a team so
Hodge and his buddies used to go
to the Sunset High School football
til he made the freshman foot
ball squad the following fall.
During this fall of 1948, Charlie
practices and scrimmage against stated and played almost every
the “big boys.”
Herman Cowley who is now as
sistant coach at SMU was the
guiding hand at Sunset at that
time and it was under Cowley
that Hodge said he learned most
of his football.
minute of every game. Even so,
his scholarship was withdrawn and
again, he had to prove he was good
enough to have one.
During the fall of 1949, he won
his scholarship back but had to sit
on the bench because A&M had a
When he entered high school at J na T ed , Wk T , Whittaker
Sunset, the team was coached by ^ ad a read ^ nailed down the
Byron Rhome. Charlie didn’t get «ght end position. It wasn’t until
to play too much football that year fepcas game, when Whittaker
because they had a boy by the fas injured early that Charles got
name of Dan Foldberg who held P la / ver y maeh - He played the
down the end position. When Dan } ast ^ ree Quarters of the game and
graduated, Charles became the ^. as Hm starting right end
starting end and played that posi- smce then.
tion his final two years in high
school.
Football wasn’t the only interest
Charlie had either. He was a ten-
pis star of note. During his soph-
#more year at Sunset, he advanced
?o the finals in the regional meet,
OTily to meet Dick Osborne wdio is
Sow at TCU and who, at that time,
was ranked fifth, nationally in
junior boys tqnnis.
Osborne won the match but
Charlie got the enjoyment of play-
Charlie has played under four
different end coaches since he
first entered A&M. As a fresh
man, he played under Tugboat
Jones. As a sophomore, he was
tutored by J. T. King, whom
Charlie gives credit for his pass-
snatching ability. In 1950 Dog
Dawson was the Aggies end
coach and Charlie said Dog gave
him the confidence he has when
he goes out for an aerial.
Ironically enough, the present
ing one of the top-ranking tennis end coach is the brother of the man
stars of the country.
When he graduated from Sun
set in January of 1948, Charlie
entered A&M on his own. He
wasn’t offered a scholarship un-
who kept Charlie on the bench as a
sophomore at Sunset—Hank Fold
berg, another Dallas product.
When football season is over,
Charlie turns to golf for his extra
Charlie Hodge
curricular activities. He usually
shoots in the low 80’s and this
past spring, carried Miller Barber,
who is scheduled to be the number
one man of the Aggies golf team
next year, to a full 18 holes in an
intramural match before Barber
dropped him 1-up.
His pretty, black-haired wife,
Jewell, whom he married on
Christmas Eve of last year, said
it is a problem feeding him. He
wants to eat nothing but mashed
potatoes and meat.
Jewell, who is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Burson of
4030 Dempster, Dallas, said she
had quite a time getting Charlie
to pop the question. They went to
gether all through high school and
it was only one week short of six
years of “going steady” before
she finally “got her man.”
Charlie wants very much to
coach when he graduates with
his degree in Physical Education
in June but fears that Uncle
Sam will get the-first-look at
him. He will be a second lieu
tenant in the Air Force upon
completion of his work at that
time.
Charles is next to the youngest
of four boys and one girl born to
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hodge of
3854 Mt. Washington, Dallas. He
was born in the community of
Cleveland, Ark. on May 6, 1929.
—Beat DU-
Ill NL, AL Leagues
Musial, Fain Top Hitters
New York, Oct. Al
though the official averages have
pot been released, Stan Musial, 30-
year-old St. Louis Cardinal slug
ger, has won his fifth National
League batting crown.
Musial finished the regular sea
son Sunday with a .355 average.
The playoff games between the
Brooklyn Dodgers and the New
York Giants count in the averages,
but no one can catch Stan. Jackie
Robinson of the Dodgers is closest
in third place with a .335 mark
after Sunday’s game. But he can’t
pack up 20 points. Richie Ashburn
of the Philidelphia Phillies is sec
ond with .344.
Only two other players, Hall of
Famers Honus Wagner and Rogers
Hornsby, have won more National
League batting titles than Musial.
Wagner won eight crowns and
Hornsby seven.
Rounding out the top ten as of
* Sunday are Roy Campanella,
Brooklyn, .327, Monte Irvin, New
York, .313, Johnny Wyrostek,
Cincinnati, .311, Ralph Kiner,
Pittsburgh, .309, A1 Dark, New
York, .306, Carl Furillo, Brook
lyn, .301 and Johnny Metkovich,
Pittsburgh, .294.
Musial appeared in 152 games,
and went to bat 578 times. The
Card mauler pounded out 205 hits
Aeronautical Club
Elects Officers
The student chapter of the In
stitute of Aeronautical Sciences
held their first meeting of the
school year last Wednesday night
in the Memorial Student Center.
Newly elected officers are Chair
man, Jack E. Cayot; Secretary,
Arthur P. Goldberg; and Treasurer,
James B. Kyser.
TODAY & WEDNESDAY
“Mr. Universe’'
including 30 home runs, 12 triples
and 30 doubles. He scored 124 runs
and batted in 108.
Kiner finished the season Sun
day leading in runs scored and
home runs. Kiner nosed out Musial,
125-124 in runs scored and had 42
homers to his credit to 39 for Gil
Hodges of Brooklyn.
Chicago, Oct. 1—(A*)—Ferris
Fain, PMladelphia’s first sack-
er, today was unofficially crown
ed as the Athletics’ first Ameri-
ican League batting champion
in 18 years with a .344 average.
First A’s star to win the title
since Jimmy Foxx did in 1933,
with .356, 29-year-old Fain fin
ished 18 points ahead of Chicago’s
versatile Minnie Minoso, Cuban
Negro rookie-of-the-year candidate,
who had .326. Last year’s champ
ion, Billy Goodman of Boston with
.354, failed to finish in the top
ten this year.
Other leaders in unofficial sta
tistics computed through Sunday’s
TODAY & WEDNESDAY
First Run—Starts
2:00—4:00—6:00—8:00—10:00
Also
SANDY SADDLER
vs.
WILLIE PEP
FIGHT
NEWS—CARTOON
closing day included: George Kell,
Detroit’s 1949 champion with .3429,
who finished with .319 this time;
Boston’s Ted Williams, a four-time
champion, .318; Nelson Fox, Chi
cago, .313; Johnny Pesky, Boston,
.310; Gil McDougald, New York,
.308; Bob Avila, Cleveland, .305;
Gil Coan, Washington, .303; and
Elmer Valo, Philadelphia,, .302.
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No. Player
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Koin Gunn 18
Edgar Hennig 17
Sam Howard 17
Elwood Kettler 19
Charles Killough 18
Charles Levermann.. 19
Joel Smith 18
Left Halfback
27 James Self 19
Fullback
Right Halfback
44 Bernie Cook 18
33 Juan Coronado 18
42 Ken Langford 18
48 Glenn Pruitt 18
45 Robert Saunders 18
46 Bob Stout 18
Center
Guard
68 Henry Arnett
71 George Arnold
61 Ray Barrett
64 George Bryant
69 Louis DeHaes
65 Billy Roberts
66 Lodie Stapelton
67 Marvin Tate
60 Sidney Theriot
62 Lawrence Winkler ...
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Tackle
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79
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Ronald Charluleau...
Howard Childers
John Hensley
Lonnie Martin
Richard Phillips
Lyman Preston
Henry Temple
Art Yon Milden
Donald Willey
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63W Rodney Anderlitch.
83 David Buchanan
86 Henry Clark
— Dickie Dowell
84 Asa Goodgame
81 Paul Kennon
87 Donald Morgan ........
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24W Jerry Owens
— Edwin Patton
— Henry Pearson
88 Rollins Rubsamen ...
80 Joe Schero
85 Bennie Sinclair
58 David Webb
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As Head Coach
Wilkinson
Starting 5th
Year At OU
Saturday when the Oklahoma
Sooners romped past the William
and Mary Indians 49-7, Coach Bud
Wilkinson started what may be
his fifth successful year as head
football coach. All four of the pre
vious years have been with Okla
homa as is this one.
It was in 1937 that Charles
(Bud) Wilkinson won the Big Ten
medal given annually by the Uni
versity of Minnesota to the senior
most outstanding in scholarship
and athletics—an award which the
college said “shows future promise
as a citizen.”
At OU, Bud has done just that
as his Sooner teams have won 39,
lost four and tied one for a .906
per cent winning record. This is
undoubtedly the nation’s top record
by a coach still active.
Last year, Wilkinson was voted
Coach of the Year by the Asso
ciated Press Poll, after his 1950
Oklahoma team, reflecting a
great job of coaching on his part
and his staffs, won the national
collegiate championship on both
AP and the United Press polls.
This was done with the aid of
Leon Heath, All-American who had
paced the Sooner’s attack which
was minus the starters from the
previous year.
In 1949 his OU team was rated
No. 1 by the Williamson rating
System and No. 2 by the Associat
ed Press, and Bud was voted Coach
of the Year by the National Foot
ball Coaches Association.
During 1947, his team tied Kan
sas for the Big Six Conference
championship, his 1948 and 1949
teams won both Sugar Bowl and
Big Seven titles. His 1950 team
also won the Big Seven title.
Bud’s Oklahoma teams won 31
consecutive football games, a
new national record for modern
times, before losing 7-13 to Ken
tucky in the 1951 Sugar Bowl
New Year’s Day extravaganza.
They have won 37 of their last
39 games.
The National Junior Chamber of
Commerce voted him in 1949 as
one of, the ten outstanding young
men of America.
While attending Minnesota in
1934 and 1935, Bud played guard
and the following year switched
to blocking back and called sig
nals for Coach Bernie Bierman’s
Bud Wilkinson . . . Sooner’s Coach
Golden Gophers, who in Bud’s soph
and senior years won the national
title.
As a graduate in 1937, he
quarterbacked the College All-
Stars to their first victory of all
times at Soldier’s Field over the
“pro” champions who were the
Green Bay Packers that year.
He enlisted during World War
II and served as a hanger deck
officer on the aircraft carrier En
terprise and seeing action in the
engagements of I wo Jima, Tokyo,
Kiushi, and Okinawa.
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Bud has been around winning
teams too long, so don’t expect
him to quit now. Anyway, that’s
the feeling of his backers.
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