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Wednesday, November 7, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Lack Of Depth Still Main Defense Task By BOB SELLECK Battalion Sports News Editor Last week-end for the third straight time the Aggies were bothered with theiy same old problem—lack of depth in the line. The Cadet forward line is one of the toughest in the Conference but it is too much to ask from a team that has been playing 45 to 55 minutes straight football to compete against opponents who have had frequent rests or just have entered a game for the first time in the final quarters. With the possible exception of SMU, all other Southwest schools are two, and sometimes three deep in every line position. A&M knew this problem existed from the start of the season and they developed a semi-platoon system that has been effec tive, but couldn’t continue to work against the double-platoon machine of other schools. SMU Brother Act Selleck A good example of this is tlie playing of Jack Little, the Cadet’s 220 pound tackle. Little (only in name) played almost the whole game against Arkansas. He was nothing short of sensational both on offense and defense. Recently, he was chosen to be on Weekly Gridiron Record’s Mid-Season All-American Team, which is published by Amer ica’s foremost sport’s analysts. Two other “bright spots” in the Aggie wall were Alvin Langford and Dick Frey. Langford, 222 pound guard and Frey, 212 pound tackle, were especially outstanding on defense against Arkansas. These two big linemen combined efforts to get the biggest percentage of Aggie tackles. Key Men Injured The man who substituted for the top man now needs a substitute. This may be a little confusing but is a problem that exists in the A&M camp. Bill Ballard, who took over Augie Saxe’s defensive position after Saxe was sidelined with a fractured arm, is still in the hospital with kidney trouble. Buddy Shaeffer ranks as a top replacement in his spot. James Fowler, defensive linebacker, will probably not see action against SMU because of a slow-healing shoulder in jury. Possible replacement here is Marshall Rush, who could vacate his original spot to W. T. Rush, who has been both ered with a bruised hip but will probably be ready this week. Lippman Leads SWC Gallopin’ Glenn Lippman is still rolling along as the top ball carrier in the SWC. Glenn has carried the ball 77 times for 521 yards. This gives Lippman a very impressive 6.8 yards average per try. In addition to his running he has also scored five touchdowns. Yale Lary, Aggie specialist, has returned 16 points for 297 yards and a 18.6 average. He ranks second only to Val Joe Walker, SMU. However, AValker has returned only three punts. Wanted Athletes—Got Fired According to an AP report, a Saturday Evening Post article on Navy football said yesterday that former Middie Coach George Sauer was fired at the end of the 1949 season, not because he had a losing team, but because he couldn’t reconcile himself to the Navy way of doing things. TODAY thru SATURDAY FIRST RUN —Feature Starts— 1:28 - 3:11 - 4:54 - 6:37 8:20 - 10:03 , EDGAR BUCHANAN • VICTOR 10RY A Universal-International Picture NEWS — CARTOON LAST TIMES TODAY ^Cornin’ Round The Mountain” THURS. & FRIDAY STEWART GRANGER WALTER DAVID ROBERT PIDGEON-NIVEN-NEWTON These two sets of brothers figure strongly in Southern Metho dist University football team. Herschel Forester (67) is a guard and his brother Bill (38) is a back. The Stollcnwercks—Sam (14) and Henry (33) are backs. A&M Holds Edge Over SMU in Series By BENNY HOLUB Battalion News Writer When Bob Smith went through the entire SMU team last year in the final minutes dT play, there was many a stunned, but happy Aggie in the stands. A&M had done the impossible, It was a long three-year dream come true. For three years, the Ponies had dominated the Cadets by close margins of victory. These years they had All-American Doak Walker and Kyle Rote. . The Aggies,.tet to the champ ionship SMU team in 1947 by a 13-0 count and lost a thrilling 20- 14 game in 1948. In 1949, a new name came to be at Texas A&M. The name of Bob Smith! Playing at home, A&M fought the highly- favored Mustang “eleven” to a 27- 27 deadlock in one of the year’s biggest upsets. Smith scored three touchdowns and was the Aggie sparkplug dur ing the entire'* contest. The Mus tangs won’t soon forget Bob Smith. They would have remembered him enough from the ’49 game, but the ’50 contest gave them even more of a reason. The Aggies had outplayed SMU pretty well during the first half, but late in the fourth quarter, sparked by Rote, the Ponies came back to take a 20-19 lead. For the SMU fans, this was all of it! They had won a thriller with a last minute rally. But A&M wasn’t through, yet! With less than two minutes re maining, Delmar Sikes handed off to Smith who promptly rambled 72 yards through the entire Mus tang team. “Bruisin’ Bob” had come through again with the chips down. The Aggies won 25-20 on Smith’s run. Last year’s victory was the 17th for A&M in the 33-game series with the Ponies. SMU has won 12, while there have been 4 ties. In the first A&M-Pony clash back in 1916, A&M walloped the Mustangs 62-0. This is the largest victory, ever obtained- by the Ag gies. SMU has never scored more than 28 points against the Cadets, and they did this in- 1934 with a sound 28-0 win. If this Saturday’s game is any thing like the A&M-SMU games of the past few years, it promises to be a I’eal thriller. The Mus- angs don’t have Rote, but they do have Fred Benners to pit against the Cadets. Basketball Finals Scheduled Tonight By JOE BLANCHETTE Battalion Intramural Writer The Intramural cage finals get under way tonight at 10 p. m. in DeWare Field House. The second game of the finals will begin at 10:45 p. m. In the first game the cagers of A Seniors will attempt to stop the Don't Read This Ad If You Have No Guests Coming to the A&M - SMU Game BUT... If You Do Have Guests Coming This Weekend, The MSC Buffet Luncheon will take care of your Food Problem . . . SATURDAY NOON There will be NO waiting, NO long lines, NO disappointment. PROMPT SERVICE ASSURED Guarantee your guests a delicious meal by reserving plates for them. Serving hours II a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday TICKETS ON SALE AT MSC MAIN DESK—$1.50 PER PERSON SMU Mustangs’ Grid Offense Rides On Benners Passing Arm By ED HOLDER Battalion Sports Staff The right arm of Fred Benners will be the deciding factor in an attempt by SMU to sink the Ag gies deep into the cellar of the SWC race. Last year Benners cocked that deadly, arm 192 times, and 109 of these dealt misery for the Mus tang’s opponents. He has done even better this year, and' entering the game with an astonishing record, he stands as the decision of another loss or a win for the Cadets. Returning with Benners against the Maroon and White Saturday will be 21 lettermen from the 1950 Mustang squad. But the SMU elev en is still moaning their loss of Kyle Rote, one of their all-time greats of football. Ben White, who saw 274 minutes of play in 1950, will be back at his end spot to snatch down the ever- threatening passes of Benners. Plenty of Ends Also back at the end position will be Bob Hooks, Dave Powell, Jimmy Hawn, and Bill Rippey. Each of these men is a potential receiver of Benners’ passes, and these are also the ones who make SMU a continual threat in any game until the final gun is sound ed. Returning tackles are Harry Dean, Buford Partee, and Wayne Ligon. Guards from last year’s squad are Herschel Forester, Ralph Hen drickson, Hal Quinn, and Ike Robb. Only one center (this is enough) is back from the 1950 squad, and he is Dick Hightower. Experienced Backfield The backfield of the Ponies seems to have the most experience, with nine of the returning 22 backs on hand. Val Joe Walker and H. N. Rus sell are the big guns in the veteran backfield along with Bill Forester, Pat Knight, Benton Musslewhite, Gene Roberts, and I. D. Russell. Henry Stollenwerck is another of the experienced backs who have aided Benners in riding the crest of recognition and record-setting. Dick Hightower will form the middle of the Mustang attack and make his appearance on the defen sive eleven as well. This 21 year old senior put in 358 minutes of play in last year’s games and is one of the top prospects in the Sports Thrill of a Lifetime Moses Remembers ’49 V illanova Game By SAM MOSES As Told To PEPE’ LeBLANC “I guess my greatest thrill was when we played Villanova in 1949. “It got me by surprise when I found out I was to start. “I was only a sophomore then. “It was just a thrill to play on a varsity team and, to start was even a greater thrill. “I was on defense that year. In fact, I played in only three of fensive plays that year. “I played right across from All- America Sanduski, a tackle. high flying quintet from A In fantry. In the second contest B Athletics wil match shots with F AF. Tomorrow night the games will begin at 8 p. m. instead of 10 p. m. as originally scheduled. In the first game K AF opposes C AF and in the finale at 8:45 A Chem ical battles C Composite. D Infantry Wins, 15-13 D Infantry stopped the quintet from I AF yesterday by the close margin of 15-13. Pepper Vineyard of the losers was the high point man of the contest with eight counters. Leonard Birdwell paced the winners with six tallies. The infantrymen led at halftime, 10-6. Company 7 recorded a 24-12 win over Company 8. Hayes of Com pany 7 and Bailes of Company 8 racked up eight points each. C Company 2 won a nip and tuck affair from Company 3, 19-17. Daniels of Company 2 was the high pointer with six digits, all scored in the final half. Company 13 continued their drive for the crown of the fresh man cagers by topping Company 12, 22-14. Graham of the winners was the high scorer with* 11 coun ters. Sam Moses “This was the first college var sity game for nine players who play for A&M now in ’51. “I guess 1 was one of the lucky ones. Moses commented on Pasqueral- la, who was an All-America full back. “Everytime he (Pasquerella) ran the ball, he made 15 yards. “They (Villanova) pulled a de layed fullback buck and I slipped by All-America Sanduski and made the tackle. “It was my first tackle in col lege football. “What a feeling! “After that tackle, I thought that we were going to ‘eat’ them up— until they gave him (Pasquerella) the ball again. “The next time he got the ball, he actually ‘flew’. “We lost that game, 0-35, or something like that. “In that game, there were nine sophomores that started. The other two players were juniors. “Mickey Spencer was one of the juniors. He was offensive tackle. “We all felt pretty low in the locker room after* the game. “We hadn’t figured on losing to them that bad. “Mistakes, made by us had giv en them touchdowns. “Not anyone said a word in the locker room. “You know how it is when you lose a game. Everybody was that way. “Harry (Stiteler) 'was pretty well proud of us. We were mainly all sophomores in our first varsity game. “That year Villanova was rank ed high in the nation. They end ed up pretty good that year. “Although we lost the game, it just made me feel good to play college football. And I got this chance to play at A&M.” Frederick (Sam) Moses, is one of A&M’s starting offensive tack les. He Aveighs 220 pounds; is a six feet and three inches tall senior and is of the voting age—21. Against UCLA this year, Moses performed in his best style. He was constantly that unwanted fifth man in the Bears’ backfield. In fact, he often terminated plays while they were in their in fancy stage of becoming a play. He is speedy. In 1950, he was a part of the “moving wall” for Bob Smith in the SMU game, in which Smith set up his single-game rushing record. Moses is majoring in business, and is a two-year letterman. SWC for All-American recognition. He stands 6’ 1” and weighs in at 215 pounds. Co-captain Herschel Forester will play on one side of Hightow er at guard with his 220-pound six-foot frame. Forester made the Players’ All-Conference team last year, which is an honor for any grider. Ike Robb, 206 pounds and only 5 ft. 10 inches tall, will fill in at the other, guard slot. Robb’s spec ialty is downfield blocking, which makes him a standout in most games. Starting tackles will be Harry Dean, 185 pounds and a six foot tall junior, and Buford Partee, 205 pounds and 6 ft. 1 inch. One of the better ends in the history of the conference will be on Kyle Field Saturday to catch Benners’ aerials. This is Ben White, veteran 205 pound senior from San Antonio. In last year’s games, White caught four touchdown passes and led the team with yards gained in passes caught with a total of 468 yards to his credit. At the other end spot will be Jimmy Ha,wn, 185 pound junior from. Athens. Hawn used his 6 ft. 2 inch frame last year to snatch down several crucial passes. Two of these he ran over for touchdowns, and when the final records were computed at the end of the year, he showed up well with 13 passes caught for 229 yards. At fullback for the Ponies will be experienced Pat Knight, who led last year’s team in minutes play ed. He filled in at right halfback on the defense and was one of the few 60 minute men of the 1950 eleven. He paved the way with his block ing last year for his teammates, and although he seldom carried the ball, he could be depended on for yardage needed for a first down. A 200 pound senior from San Antonio, his driving power is fast becoming well known, and could give the weakened Aggies defense a rough time. Knight averaged 4.5 yards per carry last season, and rolled up 108 yards on four passes he caught. His longest gain was 72 yards against Texas University., Musslewhite Threat Benton Musslewhite has been seeing a lot of action for the Mus tangs in their backfield. He - is only a junior, and is handicapped by his size. He tips the scales at 170 and stands 5 ft. 11 inches. He ranked just behind Kyle Rote and Johnny Champion last year in yards gained rushing, and was third on the team with yards gained on passes caught. Val Joe Walker, 175 pounds and 6 ft. 2 inches tall, is playing his last season of football for the Mustangs. He has seen most of his action on defense in the past, but can be called upon at any time to fill in at halfback of the of fensive team. OSE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADS TO BUY, SELL, BENT OK TRADE. Rates .... 3c a word per insertion with a 25c minimum. Space rate in classified section .... 60c per column-inch. Send all classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE. All ads must be received in Student Activities office by 10 a.m. on the day before publication. • FOR SALE • PINK, green shirts, 15%-33. Pink, green trousers, 32, 34-33. Blouses, short coat. A-9-C College View. FOR SALE: 1930 Model A Ford 2-door sedan. §99.50. Mack H. Goode, A&M Press. 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