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* V Wednesday, November 21, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 5 Quinn Sparks Longhorn Fish A&M, Texas Shorthorn Tilt Promises Fans Close Battle By BOB SELLECK Sports News Editor The Cadet Fish and the Short horns of Texas will meet in Austin Saturday both teams carrying al most identical records in the sta tistical department. The Aggie Fish have a slight ad vantage in the running department due to the services of an ample supply of halfbacks and fullbacks. All previous contests between these two clubs have always proved to be full of spectacular play and all indications point to a repeat performance. A big factor in favor of the TU fish is the comparison of the re sults of both elevens against the TCU Wogs. The Shorthorns whipped the Wogs 34-14 while the Fish Cadets eeked out a 27-26 win. Billy Quinn, the 180-pound work horse from San Antonio on the Texas Shorthorn football team, will probably be the back the Aggie Fish will be watching in their Shrine Benefit game with the Tex as freshmen Saturday in Memorial Stadium. Quinn, a former Thomas Jeffer son high school star, is the leading ground gainer on both teams. Statistics show that in four games he has chalked up 378 yards rushing in 56 attempts and is far in the leading offensive punch. Top Aggie Gainers The Aggies Fish’ two best ground-gainers, Edward Kachtik of Kio Hondo and James Self, the all-stater from Wichita Falls, have rushing records of 183 and 171 yards respectively in four games. Kachtik, however, leads Quinn in points scored. He has tallied four times for the Aggie Fish, compared with three for Quinn. The longest run of the season for any member of either team was a 68-yard dash by Quinn. Records Even The offensive-defensive records of the two teams in their four games are about even. Texas Fish I ~ ' ' Simick TU Fish Sports Thrill Of A Lifetime Langford Thinks ’50 Mustang Game .Best By ALVIN LANGFORD As Told To PEPE’ LeBLANC “We were ahead 12-7. There was little time left to' play in the first half.- “SMU had the ball on our 20. Benners and Rote on passes and runs got the ball down to about the 6 yard line. “Kyle Rote took the snap from center and headed around to the right. He was going and.going. He looked like he was impossible to stop once he had started. “But Charlie (McDonald) stop ped him cold on the one-yard line. “I felt relieved after that tack le. We really needed that tackle. We went on to hold them and keep SMU from scoring in the first half of that ’50 game. When asked to comment on the spirit of the players as a whole. Langford replied, “We were all fired up for SMU and everybody seemed to be working good to gether that day. “I played on both defense and offense at tackle, alternating with Sam (Moses). “Glenn (Lippman) was about the noisiest person of the bunch. He was yelling and ‘cutting up’ and congratulating everybody. “This victory gave us a lot of determination to go against Rice, which was our next opponent. “We worked hard and long at workouts before the Rice garpe and we all were looking forward to playing in the Cotton Bowl. Leonard (Alvin) Langford is the fastest tackle on the A&M squad and undoubtedly is one of the fastest in the Southwest Confer ence. He runs the 100 yard dash in 10.4 seconds. Honorable mention by the UP All-American staff was awarded .to this 6’ 1”, 224 pound junior. During his sophomore year, Langford played regular defensive tackle and this year he has been a consistant defensive starter. This aggressive one-year letter- man is married and is majoring in business. have gained 1,219 yards rushing and passing compared to the Ca det Fish average of 1,105 yards. Defensively, the Shorthorns have allowed 1,088 yards rushing and passing by their four opponents, while the Aggie Fish have per mitted 1,010 yards. In passing, the Aggie Fish have completed 14 of 44. Three of them were for touchdowns. Total Aggie Fish yardage gained by passing has been 290. The Short horns have completed 13 of 50 for 215 yards. One went for a touch down. There have been two standouts in (See RECORD, Page 4) Top Cadets Against Rice B Eng Triumph In Rifle Match To Win Trophy As the result of a shoulder- to-shoulder annual rifle match fired Nov. 13 with “A” Com pany Engineers, “B” Com pany Engineers will receive a trophy presented by the San An tonio Post of the Society of Am erican Military Engineers. ,“B” (Engineers posted a total of 1502 points of a possible 2000 points to “A” Engineers 1482 points. Individual high scorer was Ca det F. M. Rozelle with a score of 346. Cadet R. P. Allen also fired 346, but Cadet Rozelle was high scorer from the standing position. Preliminary firing was held Nov. I, when team members of each company were picked. The six members with the high est scores from both teams will become the S. A. M. E. team which represents A&M against other teams. The six high scorers were: F. M. Rozelle, 346; R. P. Allen, 346; C. R. Morrison, 335; A. P. Wil liams, 329; L. 0. Mueller, 311; E. R. Dawson, 299. “A” Company Name Total F. M. Rozelle &46 R, P. Allen 346 L. O. Mueller 311 C. J. Tracy 262 J. L. Tracy 237 Total 1502 “B” Company Name Total C. R. Morrison 335 A. P. Williams ...329 E. R. Dawson 299 B. P. Pantuso 261 R. A. Holmes 258 Total 1482 The trophy will be presented to the Cadet Company Commander of “B” Company, the winning team, on Thursday Nov. 22, 1951. Charlie Hodge End Bob Smith back Bodge? Smith Alaimed Aggie Offensive Players Of Week CHS Prepares For Bi-District Contest A&M Consolidated High School football team by virtue of their trouncing of Lexington, 51-13, last week are preparing to battle Bre- mond in a Bi-District encounter Thursday. The championship contest will be held in Hearne and kick-off time has been set for 8 o’clock that night on the first Thanksgiving holiday. In addition to last week’s con test, the CHS Tigers have rolled up a very impressive record for the season, despite an unusual slow start. The Tigers hold wins over Som erville, Waller, Magnolia, Lexing ton, and a tie with Hempstead was won on first downs. Lightnin’ Jerry Leighton, sensa tional scatback for CHS added 24 more points to his already amazing total to jump his scoring leader ship to 144 points. Leighton missed one game this year and that against Navasota, a non-conference game. He was sidelined with a charley horsei but showed it didn’t take much to put him back on his feet. Offensive Tigers include Jim Richard and Bobby Jackson is ends; Dan Williams and Thomas Wade holding the tackle slots; Don Royter and Jimmy Bond the num ber one guards; with Pinky Coon- er holding the center position. Backfield shows quarterback An derson, fullback Klipple, Halfbacks Arnold and Leighton completing the first string. By HUGH PHILIPPUS Battalion Sports Writer The offensive stars of the Ag gie-Rice game last Saturday in Houston was chosen by The Bat talion as Charlie Hodge and Bob Smith. This was the second time Hodge was chosen for this honor, as he was picked after the UCLA game for the same reason—his pass catching. This glue-fingered boy from Dallas was the only Aggie to cross the Owls goal strip Sat urday and he did it twice. His first score came on a six yard pass from Gardemal, and the second on a 24 yard pitch from Ray Graves. Charlie made a beautiful catch of the pass from Gardemal, as he had to dive for the ball while be- "ing hounded by defensive men. Winning Touchdown Many will remember it was Hodge who caught the winning touchdown pass in the game with UCLA, and was commented on by many California sports scribes. Charlie has caught 17 passes for a total ground coverage of 183 yards. By .catching those two TD passes last Saturday, he brought his total of Touchdown Passes to 4. Also an addition to Hodge’s scoring column is the extra point he kicked in the game with Trin ity. This was his first try at this duty. After Charlie snags a pass he knows how to get his 192 pound 6’ 1” frame to moving down the field toward the opponent’s goal stripe. Last year Charlie caught 10 passes for 109 yards and two touchdowns. With a pass snatching receiver Blaine Paces Aggies In SWC Harrier Meet Alvin Langford Guard “I bet Sam and I ran three miles in that game going back and forth from the bench to the field and then back to the sidelines. “We went on to win that game, I think it was 25-20. “This win sure made me feel good because we had really want ed to win against SMU. SMU was a strong team last year. “In the locker room, there was nothing but confusion. Everybody went crazy. The coaches were shak ing hands with us and patting us on our backs. i*: Lucky Star Nite ~k “SEALED CARGO” James Blaine paced the A&M cross-country team to a second place finish in the Southwest Con ference cross-country meet held at Fayetteville, Arkansas, Nov. 19. Blaine finished the 2.3 mile course first with a, time of 12:27.5. The Razorbacks compiled a win ning low score of 31 points. A&M was second with 34, the University of Texas a weak third with 73, and SMU last with 83. The con ference’s other member schools, Baylor, TCU, and Rice, did not compete. Others in the first ten finishers were: James Yarbrough, Arkan sas, second; C. Hudgens, A&M, third; Temple Brown, Arkansas, fourth; L. Lowe, SMU, fifth; Rick But... THERE’S AN "A” IN YOUR FUTURE if you prepare now with the COLLEGE 0UTUI1E SERIES The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” Heber, ArkamC.s, sixth; James Bean, Arkansas, seventh; C. A. Randall, Texas, eighth; D. Deroven, A&M, ninth; and C. Gabriel, A&M, tenth. Blaine’s first place ribbon was added to one first, one second, and one third that he racked up in previous meets. In a triangular meet with Ar kansas and University of Texas held Nov. 3, Blaine placed first to give the Cadets a tie with Arkansas. 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