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
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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
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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.
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