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Wednesday, October 17, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 5 Injured Saxe Out Of Aggie’s SWC Opener Aggie Coaching Staff : By ED HOLDER Battalion Sports Writer One of the three chief pass-de fense specialists of the Aggies will be absent from the lineup Satur day afternoon. Augie Saxe, who fractured his left forearm Saturday night in the Trinity game, will not add his know-how to the smooth working combination of Saxe-Charlie Mc- Donald-Yale Lary which has shown so well against opponents for two seasons. Coach Ray George has been searching for two days in an ef fort to find a replacement to fill Saxve’s shoes in the defensive right halfback slot. Several possibilities have dis played promise during the Mon day and Tuesday afternoon work outs, but as yet, there has been no definite appointment for the as signment. Magourik and Lippman Connie Magourik a,nd Glenn Lippman have both tried their skill at filling in the gap. Back- field Coach Gill Steinke and the injured Saxe both worked with prospects in an effort to develop the coordination that the previous trio showed. With the exception of Saxe, it appears that the starting lineup will consist of the regular letter- men. The power-clad backfield of the Aggies will once again be at its best for the conference opener. Smith Ready Bob Smith, A&M’s All-Ameri can, is still nursing an injury re ceived in the Oklahoma University game, but the bruise is only slight and he will be ready for the SWC opener. Dick Gardemal and Ray Graves are scheduled to do the quarter- backing for the Cadets. These two have shown they can not only handle the ball in tight places for handoffs, but can take to the air and hit their receivers with long- flung passes. Raymond Haas High point scorer for the Aggies Saturday night against the Ti gers, Haas racked up 12 points for the Cadets. Running the right halfback spot will be Glenn Lippman, top ball carrier of the SWC. Lippman will be trying to retain and better his average of 6.2 yards-per-carry. Tidwell Back In Billy Tidwell will be back in the lineup after a two weeks re covery session from a cut foot. Tidwell has proved himself again and again as one of the top half backs in the conference, and the TCU Frogs will find that he is more than enough to round out the Cadet backfield. Over the ball will be All-Amer ican candidate Hugh Meyer. He is a senior from Gainesville and co captain the 1951 Cadet eleven. At the left guard slot will be Elo Nohavitza, 192 pound senior from El Campo, while playing right guard will be W. T. Rush, 195 pounder from Lampasas. Left tackle will be big Sam Moses from Lockhart. Moses often sees double duty and can be relied on to put in a top performance at blocking. Powerhouse Jack Little Jack Little, a modest 220 pound powerhouse from Corpus Christi, will both open holes and fill them as he puts in his full-time game at right tackle. Catching passes at right end will be Charlie Hodge, stalwart for the offensive eleven, and part time defensive power. Playing the other end vacated in the first tilt of the year by Walter Hill will probably be Eric Miller. Miller’s record stands to rea son that the Frogs will have a major worry in keeping their eye on the constant threat of this man’s touchdown-making abilities. Sports Thrill of A Lifetime SM/7 Game Top Sport Thrill In Meyer ? s Football Life By HUGH MEYER As Told To HUGH PHILIPPUS “The most thrilling incident of my sports career was our, Aggies, defeat of Georgia last year in the Presidential Cup! But the single jnstartce did not come in this game, for it was the final touchdown against Southern Methodist last year in the Cotton Bowl. SMU had just gone ahead 20-9, and three were about four minutes remaining in the game. We all knew the chips were down and we had to move. Sikes came in as quarterback. Smith started through the left side of the line and a couple of times it' looked as if he were- tackled. I remember seeing Bob heading for the goal line which was Y5 Hugh Meyer Coach Price Gives TU Light Workout Coach Ed Price yesterday put his University of Texas Longhorns through a light workout and then left by plane to attend the Doug las, Ariz., funeral of Gilbert Daw son, Sr., father of Longhorn half back, Gib. Dawson died of a heart attack in Dallas Saturday. Trainer Frank Medina said to day the Texas players were in the best condition he had ever seen them following an Oklahoma game, annually one of the toughest for Texas. HEY, NON-REGS! Here is the picture schedule for all you non-military students for The Aggieland, your yearbook: Oct. 3- 6—All students whose names begin with A-C ” 8-10—All students whose names begin with D-F ” 11-13—All students whose names begin with G-K ” 15-17—All students whose names begin with L-M ” 18-20—All students whose names begin with N-Q ” 22-24—All students whose names begin with R-U ” 25-27—All students whose names begin with V-Z (Wear'Coat, Tie, White Shirt) Make-ups will be made October 29, 30 and 31. All pictures will be taken at the ... AGGIELAND STUDIO NORTH GATE yards away. It also looked as if Bob was trapped in the secondary, but he broke away. This was my happiest instance and will always be remem bered. It was close to being the most happiest moment of my life:' These few seconds passed 1 arid things happened so fast that it is really hard to remember every thing, but it was all real excit ing.” Hugh is from Gaines ville, Texas, and is one of the co-captains of the team this year. Meyer wasn’t too out standing in high school, and consequently did not secure any honors, such as All-District or All-State. This is Hugh’s fifth year here at Aggieland, and this year’s letter will be his third. He had only played center in about two or three games before coming to A&M, and in fact he in tended to go out for the backfield here. Last year for the Ca dets, Hugh played de fensive . linebacker and thus spent most of his time on the defensive platoon. But this year it’s a different story, for the Aggie co-cap tain is one of the few “60-minute men” in to day’s collegiate football. + When asked if in the SMU in stance he had a certain act that was rememberable, he said, “Well only that when Bob came by me, he got into what looked like cer tain trouble, and he turned to me and started to lateral the ball to me. I’m sure glad he didn’t, for I was slightly ahead of him and it would have been in a forward motion, and we wouldn’t have had that all important touchdown.’ Beat TCU Fish Play As Undefeated And Untied Based On AP Reports Of the four SWC freshmen teams that already have played games, A&M is the only undefeated, untied eleven. The Fish last week whipped Bay lor 40-20 and have a record of two wins against no defeat for the season. Thursday night on Kyle Field the freshmen will play the TCU Wogs. Texas and Southern Methodist swing into the SWC freshmen foot ball season this week. In then- first games Texas meets Baylor at Waco and SMU takes on Rice at Dallas Friday night. Team W L Pts Op Pet. A & M .. 2 0 68 33 1.000 Baylor 1 1 61 40 .500 Rice 1 1 34 59 .500 TCU 0 1 13 21 .000 ' Texas 0 0 0 0 .000 SMU 0 0 0 0 .000 Three S WC Elevens Boast High Record Faircloth Steinke Foldberg Geo -ge Holmes McMurtry Dayton A&M Coaches Main Reason For Undefeated Cadet Team By GUS BECKER Battalion Sports Writer There are three teams in the Southwest Conference which have high-powered offenses, averaging over 300 yards per game. A&M has rolled up the most points with 108 in four games and tops the field in offense with 1507 yards—1039 on the ground. That’s an average of 377 yards per game. Arkansas is second with 1243 yards and third is Southern Methodist with 1206. ! Nobody has averaged 300 yards ' against Baylor who has the tight est defense in the conference hav ing allowed only 191 yards per con test. Second is Arkansas with 208 and Southern Methodist third with 225. Lippman Leads Conference Glenn Lippman, United Press back of the week last week, is the leading ball carrier in the South west Conference. He has carried the pigskin 41 times for a net gain of 254 yards. This is an average of 6.2 yards per carry. Bob Smith, who has played in ■illy three games this season is still among the conference leadei-s carrying the ball 38 times for 153 yards and an average of 4 yards per try. Also among the leaders in the passing department are Ray Graves and Dick Gardemal. Graves has thrown 39 passes, completed 18 and had one intercepted. Graves has thrown three touchdown passes for a net gain of 247 yards. This is a .461 percentage and an aver age of 13.7 yards per pass. Best Yard Average Gardemal has heaved the ball 25 times, completing 12 for 213 yards and has also had an aerial This week A&M will travel to Fort Worth with a perfect record against non-conference foes. The brains and “football know-how” be hind the Aggie grid machine is the coaching staff. Head Football Coach Ray George has started his first year of coach ing in the Southwest Conferennce and his first season as top man for the Aggies. Standing 6’ tall and! tipping the scales at 263, the 35-year-old men tor is not only the youngest head coach in the league but probably the biggest. His ready wit and pleasing per sonality have established George’s popularity in this area. High School in California where George graduated from Loyola he lettered four years as a tackle, three years on the track team, and three years as a baseball catcher. At the University of California he lettered three years as a tackle and was, named All-Pacific Coast in 1938. He was USC’s outstanding athlete that year. George entered the Navy in 1942 as an ensign and was released in 1945 as a Lt. Commander. Later George returned to USC as member of its coaching staff. He was chief assistant to head coach Jeff Cravath for two years. Joining just before last year’s spring drill, George became the Cadet line coach. He was named head coach in April, succeeding Harry Stiteler. Paul McMurtry Paul McMurtry, as a player for Ray George for thi’ee years, knows exactly what George wants done with the Aggie line this years. McMurtry, another coach who tips the scales above 220, was graduated from Southern Califor nia in February, 1950, after letter ing three years as guard. The 31-year-old Navy veteran was team captain last season and blocked the punt which gave Southern Cal a 9-6 victory over Notre Dame. He was named to the All Pacific Coast team also. McMurtry went from Rio Hondo High School directly into the Navy and was in service for eight years. He then enrolled in Long Beach, California ■ and entered USC the next season. Gilbert Steinke Gilbert Steinke moved up this season from assistant to backfield coach for the Aggies. Steinke is one of the two coaches on that staff that went through the 1950 squad with A&M and his knowledge of the Aggies and op ponents has been of great value to the new head coach George. A former little All-American halfback at Texas A&I, Steinke played pro football with the Phil adelphia Eagles, leading the Na tional League in punt returns in 1946. Steinke first went to Oklahoma as freshman football mentor. Last season he divided his time be tween scouting duties and tutoring the Cadet backfield. A quick-thinker and a good sta- tegist, this young mentor so far this year has gotten the maximum out of his talented crew of backs. Dalton Faircloth Dalton Faircloth stepped up this fall from B team coach to assist ant backfield coach, with the quar terbacks as his main worry. Faircloth, a soft-spoken Louisi- anan, brings an outstanding coach ing record at A&M. He graduated from Louisiana College with 12 varsity letters in football, basket ball, and track. He was All Conference in both football and basketball and track. He was All Conference in both football and basketball in 1931. During the next 13 years he coach ed freshman teams at Louisiana College to titles in 1933 and ’34, the New Albany (Miss.) High School team to a Class A title in 1941 and served 52 months in the Air Force as an officer. After that he coached DeQuinsey (La.) High School team to the semi-finals in 1948 and finals in 1949. He was named “Coach of the Year” in Louisiana in 1949. Henry Foldberg “Hank” Foldberg has brought back to A&M all of the experience gained as an All American end at West Point and as a coach for three years. He began his college career at end and tackle for A&M in 1941- 42. After serving for a year in the Infantry, Foldberg entered the US Military Academy, where the tall Texan won All American foot ball honors in 1945 and ’46. Leaving the ’Point, Hank play ed with the Brooklyn Dodger foot ball team in 1948 and the Chicago Hornets in 1949. He was end coach for the University of Miami dur ing spring practices in 1948 and for Baylor during spring drills in 1949. Last year he coached for the Purdue Boilermakers. James Holmes “Klepto” Holmes has returned to A&M, his second time, and this time he is serving as freshman coach. Head coach at Arlington State College for the past 15 years and athletic director for 11, Klepto played tackle for the Aggie Fish and was then switched to half back for the 1926 season. He was guard in 1927, gaining all SWC recognition his last year. His Arlington teams won champ ionship in 1935, 1936, 1938, 1942 and 1943, and were second in the old Texas Junior College Confer ence in 1940 and 1941. A very easy man to become ac quainted with, Holmes has been a great help in securing athletes for A&M. William Dayton Bill has been kept busy “keep ing them x-eady to play” since he was named , trainer at A&M in August, 1949. Outsiders who have followed his work over the years rate Dayton as one of the top trainers in the country. He does not approve of “weeping towel” tactics used but prefers to consider the athletes ready to go than “on the injury list.” intercepted. Gardemal has thrown three scoring passes and has an average of 17.8 yards per pass for a completion percentage of .480. Graves and Lippman are also near the top in individual total offense. Lippman has 254 yards on the ground and Graves has 51 yards rushing and 247 in the air for a total of 259 yards. Yale Lary leads the punt re turners with 9 returas for 170 yards for an average of 18.8. In punting Lary has an average of 37.9, kicking 17 times for 645 yards. Hooper Has 11 Out of 13 In the place kicking department Darrow Hooper is second having made 11 points out of 13 attempts. Although he has missed two games this season, Billy Tidwell is still among the leading pass receivers having caught six for 110 yards and an 18.3 average gain per pass. Lippman is second in the jxoint scoring department with 18 and Charles Hodge is among the lead ers with 13 points scored. SWC Football Standings LEAGUE Team W L Pet Pf Op TCU ...1 0 1.000 17 7 Baylor ....1 0 1.000 9 7 Rice ....0 0 .000 0 0 Texas ....0 0 .000 0 0 SMU ....0 0 .000 0 0 Texas A&M ...0 0 .000 0 0 Arkansas .... .....0 2 .000 14 26 ALL GAMES Team w L Pet Pf Op TCU ....2 2 .500 77 74 Baylor ....3 0 1.000 55 21 Rice ....1 2 .333 41 41 Texas ....4 0 1.000 75 33 SMU ....2 2 .500 68 48 Texas A&M ...4 0 1.000 108 42 Arkansas .... ....2 2 .500 86 46 Company 10 Wins In ’Mural Cage Battle By JOE BLANCHETTE Battalion Intramural Writer Company 10 edged past Company 8 in a free-scoring contest, 29-26. Alexis of Company 8 and Chamb- lin of Company 10 paced the scor ers of the game with 10 tallies. Company 14 moved past Com pany 15, 9-7. Smith of Company 15 led the scorers with five counters. Company 14 led at halftime, 4-2. Mitchell Tops Bizzell Mitchell topped Bizzell in a non military football game, 6-0. The Bizzell squad was completely out played by a hard-fighting Mitchell team. Mitchell led in' penetrations. Law and Puryear struggled to a 0-0 deadlock in an evenly match ed ’contest. Both teams offered a strong pass defense and a big fast line. Bill Davis of the Pur year squad got off the longest run of the afternoon, 25 yards, before he was blocked out of bounds. Company 2 edged past Company 1 on the tennis courts, 2-1. Fish and Blackburn took the first set for Company 1 by defeating Ca- ruthers and Davis, 7-1. McMillan and Davis salvaged the second set for Company 2 by winning, 5-3. Drennan and Lloyd copped the deciding set from Anderson and Caffey, 6-2. Company 7 topped the netters of Company, 2-1. The scores of the (See COMPANY 12, Page 6) at 15^ MAPLE PAIL MILD ... 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