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Tuesday, November 27, 1951
THE BATTALION
Page 5
SWC Statistics
Lippman Number One SWC
Ball Carrier, Higgs Second
one of the Best | Longfaor ns Ha ve to Win
i o Get Orange Bowl .Bid
Although in last place in SWC
standings, A&M is still the offense
leader, having racked up a total
of 3025 yards rushing and passing.
Close behind is the Larry Is
bell sparked Baylor team with a
total of 3022 yards, with confer
ence leading TCU third with 2657
yards and Texas fourth with 2521
yards.
On pass defense the Aggies are
in first place, allowing opponents
only 82.6 yards through the air
per game.
The Longhorns hold down the
second position giving up 92.0
yards through the air and Baylor
third allowing foes 97 yards per
contest.
Lippman Still Leads
Glenn Lippman Cadet halfback
is still the leading SWC ball car
rier with 628 yards on 99 tries
for a,n average of 6.4 yards per
carry.
Teddy Kiggs of Rice is very near
Lippman with 623 yards on 113
carries and an average per carry
of 5.5 yards.
Among the leaders is Bruisin’
Bob Smith, A&M fullback, with
446 yards an 95 carries and 4.4
yards per carry.
For the Steers, Gilbert Dawson
has third position with 513 yards
on 79 carries for the best average,
two tenths better than Lippman’s,
6.5 yards per carry.
Texas Fullback, Richard Ochoa,
has run with the pigskin 99 times
for 483 yards and an average of
4A yards.
Don Barton, Orange and White
back, is also up with' the leaders
with 450 yards on 116 tries for
3.9 average gain.
Graves and Gardemal
J Isbell and Benners are the con
ference’s leading aerial artists, but
Ray Graves and Dick Gardemal of
the Aggies are near the top.
Graves has thrown the hoghide
98 times and completed 45 for 621
yards and an average of 13.8 yards
per pass. Only six of Graves’ pass
es have been intercepted and sev
en of them have gone for TD’s,
giving him a completion percent
age of .459.
Gardemal has the best average
per pass in the SWC with 18.0
yards per pass. Out of 49 aerials
thrown, Gardemal has completed
22 for 395 yards, had only four in
tercepted, five went for touchdowns
for completion average of .448.
Individual offense leaders have
Isbell, McHan, and Benners in the
top three positions respectively
with Graves close behind with 682
yards running and passing for a
Wrestlers
Elect Lay
The 1951 A&M Wrestling Team
recently elected officers for the
coming year.
Bill Lay, a junior from Pasa
dena, Texas, was elected president.
Brad Bradford of Devine was voted
Vice President.
Secretary-Treasurer is Joe Slack
from Tomball, and Bob Poteet of
Farwell was elected reporter.
Coach of the team is Mr. Jim
Griffith, who has 10 new members
on the squad bringing this years’
total to 25.
5.2 average per try.
Lippman has no passing yard
age, but is right behind Graves in
total offense with his 623 yards
rushing.
SMU back, Jerry Norton is the
top punter in the SWC with an
average of 41.2 yards per kick.
Lary Averages 37.7
Yale Lary, Cadet’s number one
kicker is fourth with a 37.7 aver
age per boot.
Larry is also the second leading
punt returner in the SWC with a
17.8 yards per return average, be
hind Val Joe Walker of SMU who
has a 24.8 yards per return aver
age.
Walker has only returned six
boots while Lary has returned 20,
racking up 356 yards to gain the
most yards in the conference on re
turns.
Hooper Tied
Darrow Hooper is tied for the
lead in the place kicking depart
ment of the SWC, with 22 points
out of a possible 25.
C. O. Brocato, of Baylor has 22
points but three of these points
came by the way of a field goal,
and has kicked only 19 out of 27
attempts.
Aggie back, Billy Tidwell, is
among the leading pass receivers
in the SWC with 13 passes for 256
yards and two touchdowns for an
average of 19.7 yards per pass.
Lippman is also the Aggies lead
ing scorer and in a five way tie
for sixth place in the conference
with 30 points.
Harley Sewell
TU Guard
Sewell Rated Best
Of Texas Guards
In this day of concentrated rc-
cruitiing, Texas University points
pridefully to the fact that one of
Sports Thrill of a Lifetime
Ags Scrimmage
Freshman Team
In Gym Tonight
The 1951 Edition of A&M’s
basketball team will be on
view for the first time this
year when the varsity team
scrimmages the freshman
squad in DeWare Field House at
8 p. m. tonight.
This will be a warmup game in
preparation for the varsity’s first
official game of the season Dec.
3 against North Texas State Col
lege. The freshman will tangle
with Victoria Junior College in a
preliminary prior to the main
event.
The Aggie Varsity squad will be
appropriately dressed in their new
uniforms while the Fish have in
herited last year’s varsity outfits.
Workouts began for both squads
Oct. 15 under the guidance of
Coach John Floyd. The man who
ilirected the Cadets to a share of
the 'conference crown last year
will give his cagers their first
test under fire.
No admission will be charged
for the games.
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’51 Oklahoma Game Is
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By GLENN LIPPMAN
As Told To
PEPE’ LcBLANC
“We were on the Oklahoma 25
yard line.
“It was early in the second quar
ter and this year’s Oklahoma game
was scoreless.
“We were in the huddle. I can’t
remember who was the quarter
back at the time but Billy Tidwell
had a hunch for a good play.
“We listened to Billy call the
play. He said that he had great
idea. In his plan I was to carry
the ball.
“The ball was snapped. Tidwell
got the ball and handed it off to
me.
“I started out wide around my
right end. There were three block
ers ahead of me. As well as I
can remember it was W. T. Rush,
Elo (Nohavitza) and Hugh (Mey
er), doing the blocking.
“This hunch play of Tidwell’s
must have caught O. U. off guard
because I went all the way.
“This was the first time that I
had scored a touchdown on Kyle
Field.
“This first touchdown is truly
my greatest thrill in football.
“Last year in the games played
on Kyle Field, it seemed as if
everytime we got near the goal
line, I was replaced.
“I remember in the Arkansas
game last year, played here on
Kyle Field, that Yale Lary scored
three times.
“Tidwell and I alternated at the
left half position in that Arkan
sas game. I never did score from
the position, but he did.
“I also got a great thrill when
I scored our second and final
touchdown in this years’ 14-7 win
over O. U.
The two scores that I had made
in this game were the only scores
that I had made at Kyle Field.
“The funny thing about it all
was that I scored both times when
we were against the wind.
“I can really remember the wind.
I think that it helped us beat O. U.
“Whenever O. U. got the ball
with the strong wind to their backs,
they would punt on third down just
to try to get extra yardage or
some break on the exchange of
kicks.
“We fooled them. Whenever we
got the ball, we kept it.
“We had possession of the ball
all during the fourth quarter. At
Lippman
All-SWC
this time when we were going so
good and working like a team,
again, the wind was against us.
“We had been near the goal
several times and couldn’t score.
Of course, at these times the wind
was with us.
When this scribe asked Lippman
as to how he and the team felt
prior to the game, he commen d,
“I felt good before the game and
I had a hunch that we were going
to win this one.
“I know the team felt fine. We
knew that this OU team was
really the test for us.
“This game gave us some’kind
of indication as to what kind of
team that we had. We all knew that
Oklahoma had a great team.
Lippman responded about what
happened after the final gun blast.
“The Corps was in an uproar and
it looked like a bedlam broke loose
in the stands.
“The first person that I saw was
Jim Weatherall of the O. U.
team. He was a friend of mine.
We had played against each other
in the North-South High School
All-Star game.
“Some freshman earned me off
the field. I don’t remember the
freshman saying anything but I
know that he was happy. I felt
great.
“We (the team) .all went to the
lecture room. Coach George con
gratulated us. It sure made us feel
good.
“In fact, Coach George always
comes around and congratulates us,
no matter how we had played or
what we had done in the game.”
Glenn Lippman is a 5’ 8”, 170
pound halfback who is the current
leader in total offense in the SWC.
Earlier this season, this 21-year- i
old senior was picked by the UP
as the “Player of the Week” for
his outstanding performance in the
Oklahoma game.
Everyone was surprised in this
O. U. tilt when Lippman’s name
was announced to start at the full
back slot. This' El Campo product
also played defensive guard in the
’50 SMU tilt.
In high school at El Campo,
Lippman received such high honors
as All District and All-America.
He ig majoring in mechanical en
gineering and has a straight “A”
average.
its greatest players cost only one
penny post card.
That was the investment made
by Texas in its efforts to re
cruit Harley Sewell, termed by
Line Coach J. T. King “the best
defensive lineman I’ve seen in the
Southwest.” Now in his junior sea
son with the Longhorns, the 220-
pound Sewell from St. Jo, Texas
is the team’s nearest approach to
a 60-minute man.
Impressed with Sewell’s appear
ance, Blair Cherry, then the TU
head coach, dropped a post card
to the youngster early that sum
mer and offered him a scholarship.
Sewell becamci a regular on the
defensive platoon as a sophomore,
and has been that middle man of
Texas’ five-man line ever since.
Sewell Quick
“Sewell is so quick and strong
he can react and get back into
play after being partially blocked,”
Head Coach Price points out.
“Harley never has had a bad
day,” says King, “and what’s more
he has never had a bad practice.
He is the most consistent lineman
I have ever seen. In addition to his
physical qualifications he has the
desire to play good football.
Sewell did not play a single of
fensive down as a sophomore, but
he won All-American Bud McFad-
in’s position on the offensive pla
toon this year without much com
petition.
He plays virtually full time on
defense, about half time on de
fense and is a member of the kick
off, punting and extra-point pla
toons.
Sixth Sense
King credits Sewell with having
a sixth sense so far as defensive
play is concerned. “He is lot like
KiK Aldrich (TCU’s All-Americaan
center in ’38) and other great line
backers; he has a nose for that
pighide.”
Sewell plays what King describes
“the most difficult positions in de
fensive football,” that middle man
in the five-man line, where rival
blockers constantly are trying to
double-team him.
If Sewell continues to stand out
as he has in the past games for
the Longhorns, he could easily
make things rough for the Cadet
ball carriers. He is the center of
a good forward wall that will have
By GUS BECKER
Battalion Sports Writer
The Texas University Longhorns
playing under a new coach and us
ing a new formation will probably
get a bid to the Orange Bowl if
they can get past the Aggies
Thursday afternoon.
For the first time the Steers
are using the new split T-formation
and it has been very successful,
grinding out 2521 yards in nine
games.
One of the strong points of the
TU team is the effective defense
which has stopped teams such as
Kentucky. (Cotton Bowl partici
pant), Purdue, Oklahoma, Rice,
TCU and SMU.
All-American Bud McFadin, All-
SWC Ken Jackson, Ben Proctor,
and Dick Rowan are missing from
the Longhorn line-up but it hasn’t
hurt the effectiveness of the Steer
forward wall.
Page-Jones
Dan Page and T. Jones alter
nate at the quarterback slot for
the Texas squad. Although Ben
Tompkins is missed, these two lads
have done a very good job of call
ing plays.
Byron Townsend has failed to
live up to pre-season expectations
and a junior, Dick Ochoa has been
the big gun at the fullback posi
tion.
The Conference’s leading scorer,
Gib Dawson, who has scored 56
points so far this year runs from a
halfback post, while Don Barton
handles the other Halfback slot
along with Bobby Dillon.
Menasco—All-American
he specialized on defense and he
has been the regular defensive end
all season.
One of the top sophomores on
the squad, Gilmer Spring has de
veloped into an excellent offensive
end for the Steers.
At the tackles, Bill Wilson an
outstanding defensive man for two
seasons and Jim Lansford, chosen
on the Houston Press All-SWC de
fensive platoon last year, have
been seeing double duty this year.
Davis who plays guard on of
fense has proved an excellent “60
minuteman” along with Bill Mil-
burn who was shifted to tackle this
year to bolster the weak center
of the forward wall.
Jack Barton has held down the
center slot for the steers, seeing
double duty in a few games this
year.
Harley Sewell the successor to
McFadin has come through beauti
fully for the Steers and will pro
bably receive All-SWC recognition
at the guard position.
Lippman, Little On
[J P All-Conference
Big Don Menasco, All-American
on the Associated Press poll last
year along with June Davis are
as good a pair of linebackers as
can be found in the SWC.
Tom “Swede” Stolhandske, the
big end on the Longhorn eleven,
has been mentioned for All-Amer
ican honors this year and should
be one of the ends on the All-
SWC squad.
Thursday’s game will see half of
the top ten leading ball carriers
perform, in A&M’s Glenn Lippman
and Bob Smith, and TU’s Dawson,
Ochoa, and Barton.
Stolhanske was one of the two
sophomores to make the 1950 start
ing offensive lineup and is the
lone regular returning to the of
fensive line.
Last season, Stolhandske caught
23 passes for 314 yards and one
touchdown, but since Head Coach
Ed Price has been unable to de
velop a passer to compare with
Tompkins the Longhorns have been
mostly a ground team.
The Texas squad have attempted
the fewest passes of any SWC team
with 70 and have completed only
26 for 462 yards.
Menasco who was on virtually all
defensive selections for All-SWC
is a defensive specialist and is
called “Tiger” by his teammates.
End Paul Williams, made several
All-SWC selections last year as
Glenn Lippman, leading ground
gainer in the Conference, and Jack
Little, A&M’s huge tackle, both
earned first place positions on the
United Press All-Conference team.
Aggie center Hugh Meyer won
the middle post on the Second
team while Bob Smith, Cadet Full
back, placed on the Third team.
Every team in the loop, with the
exception of the conference lead
ing Frogs, placed men on the 1951
United Press All-Southwest Con
ference teams.
Baylor, which has been among
the nation’s top 10 elevens in the
United Press rankings most of the
season, took three of the positions,
including the only two unanimous
choices, while A&M, Texas, and
Rice placed two each.
The remaining two first team
positions went to SMU and Ar
kansas. The combination of Isbell,
quarterbacking passer, to Stan
Williams pass catching end, shared
the unanimous votes.
First Team
Pos. Name School Wt.
E Bill Howton, Rice 180
E Stan Williams, Baylor 195
T Jack Little, A&M 220
T Bob Griffith, Arkansas 230
•G Bill Athey, Baylor , 215
G Harley Sewell, Texas 220
C Dick Hightower, SMU 215
B Larry Isbell, Baylor 180
B Gib Dawson, Texas 170
B Glenn Lippman, A&M 170
B Teddy Riggs, Rice 172
Second Team
Tom Stolhandske, Texas E
Harold Riley, Baylor E
Ken Gasner, Baylor T
Doug Conaway, TCU T
Herb Zimmerman, TCU G
June Davis, Texas G
Hugh Meyer, A&M C
Ray McKown TCU B
Lamar McHan, Arkansas B
Bobby Dillon, Texas B
Bobby Jack Floyd, TCU B
Third Team
Pat Summerall, Arkansas E
Ted Vaught, TCU E
Bill Forrester,* SMU T
Dave Hanner, Arkansas T
H. Forester, SMU G
Alton Taylor, TCU G
Keith Flowers, TCU ..C
Fred Benners, SMU B
Jerry Norton, SMU B
Bill Burkhalter, Rice B
Bob Smith, A&M B
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