Thursday, November 29,1951
THE BATTALION Page 3
Main Team Strength May Leave
Ninteen Aggie Seniors Play Last
Game Before Record Crowd Today
By GUS BECKER
Battalion Sports Writer
Nineteen Aggie football players
will be playing their last game of
their college career this afternoon
on Kyle Field.
They represent the main
strength of the ’51 edition of the
A&M football squad which will be
trying to save the season from be
ing a complete disaster.
It would be a great climax for
these men who created a great deal
of optimism for the Maroon and
W^ite followers when they were
freshmen in 1948 to send the Long-
» horns down, to their first defeat
in 12 years by an Aggie eleven.
Bob Smith
i The “Masked Marvel” of the
? Southwest Conference, Bob Smith,
who has been All-American for
three years as far as the Aggies
are concerned is co-captain of the
team.
Voted “Sophomore of the Year
by the Associated Press his first
season on the Aggie team, the
powerful 190-pound fullback was
picked for “Athlete of the Year”
by the Texas Sports Writers As
sociation last winter. Ue Hous-
picked as an All-
American fullback on the Chicago
Tribune, NEA and Gridiron Rec
ord, last winter.
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Billy Tidwell
The. third ace in the hole for
the Aggie backfield is Billy Tid
well, who is one of the fastest men
on the squad.
Tidwell was one of the outstand
ing backs on the A&M Freshman
team of ’48 and an all-around ath
lete at Hearne High School where
he played before coming to Aggie-
land.
Against SMU in his sophomore
year, Tidwell scored and almost
broke away on a kickoff return
against the same team.
Since that Mustang game, Tid
well has been a regular starter at
right half and has come into his
own as an outside runner.
In last season’s Presidential cup
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Last year the A&M team made
2,682 yards rushing and almost
half of this was made by Smith
who racked up a total of 1,302
yards.
Smith’s brilliant downfield block
ing has made the other backs more
of a threat to go all the way than
ist year, which has kept A&M at
the top in the rushing department
in the SWC.
Last year all the Longhorns had
to do was to stop Smith, but it
will be a different story this year.
Besides watching Smith the Steers
will have to look out for the other
two aces in the hole and a good
aerial offense.
Glenn Lippman
The leading SWC ground gainer
this year, Glenn Lippman played
on Aggie teams that were out
manned, out
weighed, and
ment, Gardemal has thrown 49, and
completed 22 for 395 yards.'
Yale Lary
A six-foot, 180-pound “utility
back,” Yale Lary handles all the
punting chores for the Aggie
squad.
Starting near
the end of his
freshman sea
son, Lary han
dled all the
kicking duties
for the Fish
and has been
vK 'SK* the number
one punter
ever since.
: 0 u tstanding
on pass de
fense, Lary has been safety for
the Cadets this year and is second
in punt returns in the SWC, with
20 for 366 yards and an average
of 17.8 yards per return.
So far this season, Lary has
booted the ball 45 times 1696 yards
and a 37.7 average.
Hugh Meyer
One of the Co-Captains of this
years’ team, Hugh Meyer held
down the center position most of
the ’49 season and all of last sea
son on offenSe.
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outscored al
most every
game during
his sophomore
and junior
year.
Lippman is
considered one
of the best
j broken field
J runners in the
conference and
has been able to prove himself as
the Maroon and White line has
opened big holes in opponent’s
lines.
In high school, Lippman was
All-American and All-State and led
the freshman ’48 squad that de
feated the Shorthorns.
One of the smallest men on the
squad, weighing 168 pounds, Lipp
man is a conscientious player, an
excellent blocker and the best quick
kicker on the squad.
The halfback has carried the
ball 99 times for a net gain of
628 yards for an average of 6.3
yards per carry.
Lippman is also the leading
scorer for the Aggie eleven, scor-
' ing five touchdowns this season.
tilt, Tidwell accounted for three
touchdowns as the Aggies rolled
over Georgia 40-20.
This season, Tidwell has carried
the pigskin 80 times for 322 yards
and three touchdowns, for an av
erage per carry of four yards.
The leading pass receiver on
this year’s team, Tidwell has snar
ed 13 passes for 256 yards and two
TD’s.
Dick Gardemal
Dick Gardemal became a regu
lar starter midway through the
’49 season and has called the plays
for the Ma-
”r o o n and
White eleven
,in most of the
games since.
. i The ’49 sea-
f, son was almost
Q [half gone be
fore Gardemal
.took over as
jthe regular
^quarterback, in
Sit he SMU
game. Garde
mal went the distance in that game
when the Aggies tied a heavily fa
vored Pony squad 27-27. This
marked the first time an A&M
signal caller had “gone the route”
in at least five seasons.
Gardemal has scored one touch
down this season and has passed
for five. In the passing depart-
few games in which he has been
hampered by injuries.
Charley Hodge
An offensive starter all last sea
son, Charley Hodge is one of the-
reasons why the Aggie aerial game
has improved
this year.
Hodge has
;snatched 10
passes for 109
'yards and two
t o u c h (i owns
last year and
lias already
Caught 17 this
year for 183
yards and four
lTD’s.
The 192-
pound, six-foot-one-inch end is the
best blocking wingman on the team
besides being an excellent receiv
er.
Jaro Netardus
One of the three seniors from
El Campo, the other two being
Lippman and Elo Nohavitza, Jaro
Netardus was
r 1 an All-District
fullback for
; two years in
; high school
> and captained
the team.
1 Netardus was
a regular
' starter in ’49
i ■ Ik * “ until a scige
1 of injuries
Ikept him on
the bench.
A regular defensive end, Netar
dus has played well at this posi
tion, keeping opposing ball car
riers from making wide sweeps.
Sam Moses
One of the Cadets’ “60-minute
men,” Sam Moses started playing
regularly as a sophQinore in ’49
and has held that post ever since.
Members of the A&M Cadet Corps, some 4,600
strong, as they looked while marching down the
streets of Fort Worth recently in their first
Corps Trip parade. Commanded by Cadet Col.
of the Corps Eric Carlson, the corps has eight
regiments commanded by eight full colonels. The
eighth regiment contains the 1800 man freshman
class.
TU Seniors Last Game
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in 260 minutes of playing time,
er, one of the best in the confer
ence. He intercepted passes that
set up touchdowns in games with
Rice and A&M last fall and turned
more than any other player on the
team.
Cunningham—Fleming
The other right senior guard,
Bill Milburn developed into a first
rate tackle as a junior after a
mediocre sophomore season.' Es
pecially is adapted for putting
pressure on passers.
Two more senior, guards include
Don. CunhiiighaPL and Gene Flem
ing. Cunningham is ahotheri con
verted backi'ielder, who excelled
as an linebacker last year and has
earned two varsity.letters.
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Winner of the Lipscomb-Colson
award last year for the best block
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top candidate for AI1-SWC honors.
Jim Fowler
Although he only weighed 165
pounds, Jim Fowler was an out
standing player on the ’48 fresh
man team.
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; 1 the several
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’49 but before
the season was
half over he
was the regu
lar linebacker.
This season Fowler has been the
regular linebacker except for a
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Elo Nohavitza
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Robert Shaeffer
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