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T T Tuesday, November 6, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Ag Fish, Owlets Battle Friday A&M’s freshman eleven will be out to continue its winning' ways Friday in Houston when it meets the Eice Owlets in the fourth contest of the year. The Fish have already set one of the best records ever attained by a first year Aggie grid team. They opened the season with a convincing 28-13 win over Blinn Junior College, then tromped over the Baylor Cubs, 40-20, and edged the Texas Christian Wogs, 27-26. Offensively, the Fish have rolled up an average of 318 yards in their three games while holding the opposition to 249 yards. Of the Cadets 954 yards total, 738 were gained on the ground. In first downs, the Cadets lead with 37 to 28, and have completed 11 of 34 attempted passes, two for touchdowns, with only two being intercepted. On Pass Defense On. pass defense, the Fish in tercepted four of their foes aerials and allowed only 17 completions of 46 attempts. Leading the Fish against the Owlets will be the Aggies top scorers, Fullbacks Ed Kachtik and Virgil Patton and Halfback James Self. . Kachtik has scored 24 markers for the Fish while both Patton arid Self have two touchdowns each. Kachtik and Patton also lead in yardage gained. The Fish’s lead ing scorer has carried the pigskin 15 times to roll up a total of 184 yards; Patton has carried 25 times for 152. Another fulback, Gerald San dusky is third for the Aggies in rushing with 113 yards in 23 car ries; Self has carried 11 times for 11 yards; Fullback Bill McGowan, 12 for 54 yards; Quarterback Ed Henning, 14 for 46; Left Half Joe Boring, 6 for 21. In the ’ passing department, Quarterbacks Ed Hennig and Joel Smith have attempted the most aerials, but Sam Howard completed two of three passes for 99 yards to lead the Cadets’ aerial offense. One of the tosses was for a TD. Hennig has completed 4 to 12 for 61 yards and a score; Smith connected with 3 of 16 attempts for 30 yards. A&M’s top pass receiver is Ben ny Sinclair, end, who caught 6 passes for 172 yards and six points. Other pass receivers include Full back Bill McGowan, one for 12; and End Rod Anderlitch, also one for 12 yards. Aggie Punters Six freshmen have worked with the Aggies punting department, al though only Gerald Sandusky and Vorgil Patton have seen heavy duty. Sandusky has punted four times for 147 yards, and average of 36.8; and Patton hag booted the pigskin five times for 166 yards and an average of 33.2. Other punters and their averages for number of punts include, Ed Hennig, two for 38; Bernie Cook, one for 36; Joel Smith, one for 30; Joe Boring, two for 24. Ken Langford leads the Aggie punt returners with a 35 yard aver age for one return, while Warren Anderson trails close behind with a 34.2 average for six returns. James Self has- also returned a punt, good for 14 yards. In kickoff returns, Anderson is again among the leaders, having taken back two of the foes kick offs for 44 yards; Patton has re turned two for 46.; Richard Vick, one for 27; Bernie Cook one for 22. TCU Fumbles Benners ? Passing Threatens Ag Win Fred Benners, ace aerialist of the Mustangs, has shown some of the finest passing ever seen in the SWC during his years at SMU. He is among the top passers in the conference and is virtually the only kick the ponies have to offer. Kick Proves Deadly But this kick has proven deadly in games they have played this year, such as the fight they put up against Texas, only to bow 20- 13. The game wasn’t decided though until the final gun was sounded Texas Christian back Bobby Jack Floyd (32) fumbles the ball when tackled by Baylor players in first quarter of game played at Waco, Tex. The ball was recovered by Baylor back J. Reid, not shown. Baylor players are center C. 0. Brocato (54) and end Red Donaldson (83). No. 87 is TCU end George Wilson. TCU won 20-7 to take the top spot in the Southwest Conference. Lippman Leads Ags To Top Recognition Little Glenn Lippman, powerful and speedy Aggie halfback, has replaced Bob Smith of the 1950 eleven and brought the Cadets to rest on the top rung of the SWC rushing ladder, and brought to the Aggies the honor of rating as top offensive team in the confer ence. He has netted 521 yards on 77 carries not only to help the Ag gies in'tHeir; surg;e but to place him* as top ground gainer in the SWC. The team offense for the Cadets is 368.7 yards per game Avhile Baylor is next with an average of 322.7 and TCU is third with 302.7 yards per game. Isbell tops the passers with 65 lOmpletions out of 141 throws for 1181 yards while Benners is sec ond with 71 connections on 140 at tempts for 807 yards. Walker of SMU Val Joe Walker of Southern MethodistTeads the punt returners. He has taken three kicks back 106 yards for an average of 35.3. Yale Lary of A&M is second with 16 for 297—an average'of 18.6. John ny Cole of Arkansas is third with 10 for 171, an overage of 17.1. Topping the pass-receiver is Stan Williams of Baylor with 23 catch es for 444 yards. Bill Howton of Rice is second with 16 for 440 and Bill Jurney of Arkansas is third with 16 for 259. Lamar McHan of Arkansas and Ray McKown of Texas Christian are the men of the moment. McHan, the big blond quarter back, is closely pursuing two vete rans while McKown has taken over the lead in one division and threat ens another. McKown, the rugged Horned Frog tailback, is the punting lead er with an average of 39.8 yards on 17 kicks. A sophomore, Jerry Norton of Southern Methodist, is second with 39.7 on 18 boots. Lar ry Isbell, Baylor senior, is third with 38.6 on 39 kicks. Isbell In Offense Isbell tops in total offense but his margin isn’t large over McHan. Isbell has gained 955 yards on 167 plays, McHan 881 on 171. Fred Benners of Southern Methodist is third with 790 yards on 160 plays although he has a minus 17 yards rushing. Defensively, Texas leads with 213.7 yards per game. Arkansas is second with 217.7 and Baylor is third with 239.7. A&M leads in team rushing with 241.4 and Baylor in passing with 162.7. Arkansas has been most effec tive against rushing, allowing only 130 yards per game. A&M and Texas have the best defensive rec ord against passing, each holding the opposition to 81.3 yards per contest. Beat SMU J. Paul Sheedy* Switched to Wildroot Cream-Oil Because He Flunked The Finger-Nail Test B Coast Enters Cage Finals With 10-5 Win Over C Inf Texas Grows As Favored B CAC became the winner of League A yesterday and entered the basketball finals by defeating C Infantry, 10-5. Craig Weisenger and B. A. Kal mans led' the artillerymen at the hoop with four counters each. The losers were paced by Sam Jeffers and Tom Delaney with a field goal each. The artillerymen led at halftime, 9-2. Jim Dishman played an out standing game for B Athletics as the athletes chalked up a 13-3 victory over A Armor. Dishman paced the scoring column with three markers. B Armor Wins The Engineers missed a golden opportunity at the close of their contest with B Armor to knot the count and the constructionists of A Company fell before the cagers of B Armor, 18-16. With only two seconds remaining in the game the losers had two free Fowler, Ballard Placed On A&M Injured List Based On AP Reports Two players were missing from the lineup today as the Aggies drilled lightly. Linebacker James Fowler has a shoulder injury and Bill Ballard, defensive right half, was in a hospital with a kidney injury. Trainer Bill Dayton doesn’t ex pect either to be ready for the, SMU game Saturday. He said W. T. Rush, offensive right guard, is still on the doubt ful list with a bruised hip. Rush resumed workouts today after be ing out since the Baylor game. Texas Texas’ Fullback Byron Town send may miss both the Baylor and Texas Christian games, Train er Frank Medina of the Longhorns said today. Townsend re-injtffed his left leg on the kickoff against Southern Methodist at Dallas ■ Saturday. Linebacker Don Menasco, who was sidelined for the SMU game is ex pected to be ready for Baylor. Rice Rice Institute’s first-stringers took it easy, as usual, today be fore starting rough preparation for Arkansas’ close-up and heavy defense tomorrow. TODAY LAST DAY FIRST RUN —Feautres Start— 1:35 - 3:16 - 4:57 - 6:3£ 8:19 - 10:00 Bill Howton, the Rice All-Amer ican end candidate who suffered a slightly dislocated shoulder in Pitt game, is expected to be ready to play against Hogs. SMU SMU’s football forces attended a short meeting today, viewed films of Saturday’s game with the Uni versity of Texas and then were dismissed. ■ Coach H. N. Rusty Russell said that Pat Knight, who suffered a jawbone injury in Saturday’s game, definitely is out for the season. Baylor Baylor’s football team heard Scout Bill Henderson give a report on the University of Texas team today and then took the afternoon off. Bob Knowles and Ronnie Black were shaken up in the TCU game Jerry Goody and Bob Reid receiv ed minor injuries. Coach George Sauer said he hoped all four would be ready by Saturday. Arkansas A freezing rain kept the Uni versity of Arkansas football team indoors today. The Razorbacks, who will play Rice at Houston next Saturday night, took exercises and saw a movie of last year’s game with the Owls. The only Razorback injured in Saturday’s 33-21 victory over Tex as A&M was guard Fred Williams, who suffered a bruised chest. Trainer Bill Ferrell said Williams will be ready to play against Rice, as will linebackers Jim Smith and Floyd Sagely, who missed the A&M tilt. 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A Ordnance Victorious, 11-2 A Signal fell before the on slaught of the ordnancemen of A Company as they never seemed to get their offense rolling and the Ordnance quintet stacked up 11 tallies to win. Andy Anderson paced the scoring column with six points. Cage League Winners The finals of the Intramural Basketball race will be unreeled later this year with 10 teams, the winners of their respective leagues, participating. The teams 1 competing in the fin als are B CAC, C AF, A Infan try, B Athletics, K AF, C Compos ite, F AF, A Chemical, and A Sen iors. All of the teams except A Sen iors have not been beaten in league play this year. The seniors have a 2-1 record. Their only loss was a forfeit. Football A Infantry continued their bid for a return of the Intramural flag this year as they opened their football play with a crushing 18-2 win over hapless I AF. The infantrymen minus many of their finalist stars of last year showed a powerful offense and were never in serio«s trouble. E Infantry stopped D AF on the windy football fields, 9-0. The airmen never threatened the infan trymen as they never drove inside the 40. A AF Wins A AF won on penetrations from G AF. The two clubs battled to a 6-6 deadlock but the airmen won on penetrations 4-2. B TC won over B AF, 2-0. D Infantry made it a complete sweep for the infantry on the Intramural football fields yester day by stopping H AF, 12-6. The airmen got inside the infan try 40 only once during the aftei’- noon and then ’tallied. Tennis On the net couifs M AF scored a complete three set sweep from C Armor. The scores were 8-6, 8-5, and a forfeit. Company 7 stopped Company 10 in two consecutive sets, 8-3 and 8-3 C AF stopped L AF, 8-2 and 8-1. F AF swept three games from the airmen of C AF, 8-2, 8-5, 8-2. Intramural Schedule Clubs staif their basketball sche dule on Nov. 20 and football on Dec. 4. Non-militaly basketball be gins play on Nov. 13 along with freshman football. Upperclass horseshoes begin play on Dec. 12 with freshman horse shoes opening on Dec. 6. Beat SMU Brazoria Club Elects Munson As President The Brazoria County Club elect ed officers last week to serve for the current school year. The new officers are as follows: Thurmon Munson, president; Bob- bby Andrus, vice-president; Tom mie Tigner, secretary; Freddie Backstock, treasurer; and Gene Morris, reporter. SWC Eleven Dallas, Nov. 6—CP)—The opin ion grows that Texas has the best chance to win the Southwest Con ference football championship. The Longhorns boast the best record of any team in the league— that is, for the season. In confer ence play, Texas is second with a 2-1 record and Texas Christian is undefeated. But Texas has Baylor and Texas Christian, its major obstacles, at home. A&M is played away but the Aggies are fading badly. Texas Christian scouts who saw Texas in its 20-13 victory over Southern Methodist last week said they didn’t think TCU could beat the Longhorns. “Texas will keep the ball too much and five-yard you to death,” observed Scout Wal ter Roach. And Texas is the top defensive team of the conference, allowing only 213.7 yards per game. Ed Price, the Texas coach with the dry wit said with few words, looks at it quite differently. Price is a fellow who remembers things. “Before the season started, Rice, Arkansas and Southern Methodist were given the last three paces in the standings,” he pointed out. “Baylor, A&M, Texas and Texas Christian were ranked in that or der at the top. OK, we have Baylor, A&M, Texas Christian to play. So, don’t we face the toughest part of the schedule? He reminded that Arkansas beat Texas and that Texas was able to win over Southern Methodist and Rice by only one touchdown. Baylor comes up at Austin Sat urday. Then there’s Texas Christ ian. And TCU is taking this week off just to get ready for Texas. Price said dryly that he really sympathized with Dutch Meyer, the Texas Christian coach. “He only has three great quarterbacks,” said Meyer. “He has the best back in the conference in Gil Bartosh. But Marvin Fowler beats him out. Fowler is hurt and Ray McKown becomes a. great quarterback. I can sympathize with Mr. Meyer in his great problem.” The conference race continues its screwy way. Figure this out: Texas Tech of the Border Conference beats Texas Christian 33-19, Bay lor beats Texas Tech 40-20, Texas Christian beats Baylor 20-7. DID YOU SEE THE WONDERFUL SELECTION OF *B00KS* The Exchange Store HAS ON SALE? During this game he tossed 21 passes in the 16 minutes he played; and completed 15 of these to es-'. tablish himself as one of the great est junior passing artists in the na tion. Three of these were intercepted,, but overshadowing that fact was a. touchdown pass he threw. He received state-wide recogni tion for the 211 yards he racked up against the Aggies, and confirmed statements as to his great possib ilities during 1951. Benners has been riding the crest recently in leading all SWC pass ers in their total yards gained in the air. However, he underwent one of his worst days Saturday against a powerful Longhorn eleven, whose defensive pattern proved a tough hurdle for him to clear. When he leads the Ponies against A&M Saturday on Kyle Field, he will be competing against another of the conference’s top passers, quarterback Ray Graves of the Cadets. Benners Threatens Benners is the chief factor which threatens another defeat for the cellar holding Aggies, and without him, SMU would apparently be, helpless before the leading offen sive team in the Conference. Fred Benners and the score recorded, because the pin-point firing of Benners’ right arm is a threat for any team throughout the contest. 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