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Wednesday, December 5, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 5 A SWC Puzzle Lippman Skipped By Southwest Coaches By BOB SELLECK Battalion Sports Editor The Associated Press has come out with their supposed ly All-Southwest Conference Offensive and Defensive teams for 1951. The only trouble with the talented array of players on the offensive eleven is the conspicious absence of one of the more talented players of the south. Glenn Lippman, the Gallopin’ Ghost from El Campo did not rate a position on the AP selections which are chosen by the Head Football Coaches of the SWC. This is indeed just a little difficult to understand. Lippman ended the 51 campaign as the leading ball carrier. He toted the leather hide 118 times for 801 yards and an average of 6.8 yards per try. This is a total of 30 yards better than his nearest compe titor. Lippman has also scored six touch- downs this fall, which ranks him among the leading scorers.-His yard average is better ed by only one individual who has carried the ball some 24 times less than Lippman. He ranks fifth in the total offense department, yet he is only a runner and all those placed above him are quarterbacks who have depended on passes for most of their yardage. De spite this handicap, Lippman holds the top average per try of the leading five.' Shpuld Be Good Enough All-Conference Back Selleck Glenn Lippman A&M Halfback Chosen on Colliers, UB, and INS ^11-Southwest Conference teams, Glenn Lippman has turned in a sterling performance for the Cadets this Fall. Glenn is the leading ball carrier in the con ference and has scored five touchdowns. Marlin Host For Milk Bowl Tilt By IDE P. TROTTER Battalion News Writer One of the nations newest major bowl games will be held on Dec. 8 in Marlin, Texas only 71 miles from A&M. This will be only the third an nual Milk Bowl classic but it has already created a name for itself all over the nation. It is listed by the Associated Press as one of the nation’s 15 major bowl tilts. For those who do not know, Milk Bowl contestants must be under 15 years of age and weigh less than 100 pounds. They play a fast and spectacular brand of football. TIL Tries To Stop Game No less than a state wide con troversy has arisen over attempts o f the Texas Interscholastic League to kill the annual bowl. The controversy was touched off by a letter from Dr. Rhea Wil liams, athletic director of the In terscholastic League ' to Marlin school officials which banned any high school or junior high football player from the game. Dr. Wil liams also stated that no high school or junior high bands would be allowed to play and that no ticket sellers of high school stand ing could be femployed. “The Milk Bowl will be held this year and every year no mat ter what the Interscholastic League says, replied E. C. Weafer, exe cutive secretary of the National Milk Bowl Association. Joe Norwich of Marlin, chair man of the 1951 Milk Bowl, tele phoned Dr. William in Austin to protest the Interscholastic League ruling. According to Novich all he got from Dr. William was sarcas tic replies instead of the advice he requested. When asked where the Milk Bowl game could be held, Dr. Williams commented, “Well there’s still A&M left.” ► That reply, no matter in what tone Dr. Williams intended it, cer tainly shows nothing but sarcasm for A&M, but it may have earned Bowling League Opens in MSC Last Saturday a junior bowling league was started for the purpose of teaching youngsters the funda mentals and form of bowling. Last Saturday the prize for the student most adept in the ways of bowling, not to mention scoring, went to Bill Jones. The league invites four more to come in and join the standing 14. Anyone may join, just so long as he is between eight and fourteen years old. The league’s next meet ing will roll around at nine a.m., Saturday, more truth than be intended. Ac cording to Weafer, “There have been plans to locate the game there (A&M) on a permanent basis.” Honored Guest—Jim Thorpe Big Jim Thorpe, all time foot ball great, will be an honor guest at the bowl game which will match the Sequoyah Indian School of Tahlequah, Okla, against Thorn- dale, Texas. In the first annual game San Saba won over Cause 20 to 7 and in last year’s competition the champ ion lightweight squad of New Or leans trounced Mexia 50 to 0. High point of Thorpe’s trip will be pre-bowl Indian ceremonials to be held in his honor. This year’s program will have all the fanfare of “big league” football game. There will be bands, full press coverage, broadcasts,, and motion picture cameras. Jac ques A. Jaccard, well known movie writer, producer and director plans to make scenes from the game for “The Milk Bowl Story,” a film based on the junior classic. First Milk Bowl The idea behind the Milk Bowl originated with Mrs. Eugene C. Weafer of Gause, where the first game was played. She wrote of her idea to Ralph Widman, who was sports director of a Dallas radio station. He pre sented the idea to other sports en thusiasts, including Joe Moore, who is now chairman of the sponsoring group. As a result of her idea, the Milk Bowl has become a. self-sup porting project with all profit earmarked for welfare of young sters. The Milk Bowl originators have been commended formally by the Texas House of Representatives for their “overwhelming interest and constructive aid to the youth” of the state. Statistics (Continued from Page 3) Cain, g 0 0 5 0 Woodward, g 2 4 5 8 Lanningham, g 0 111 Totals 15 16 24 46 Free throws missed: Binford, Miksch 2, Davis, McDowell, Walk er Axtell, Kelley 3, Edwards, Beard 3, Cain, Woodward 2. Score by quarters: 1 2 3 4 0 A&M 13 14 8 5 3 NTSC 10 9 10 11 6 Final Score: A&M 43, NTSC 46. Official Attendance: 1600. Referees: Truelson, Gerard. '.:)x \ I t © t You would think that the achievements listed above would qualify any one for anybody’s all-conference selections, but not the Associated Press. You would also think that all the Southwest Coaches (they are the ones that get to vote) would be able to recognize a boy as tops, one that their own team was unable to stop all year. It sems to me that if a ball carrier can go through vir tually the entire season as the leading carrier in a conference as rough as the southwest is should rate a top position on any southwest team. One Vote For Sure Yet, for some reason or another unknown, the coaches that saw this boy Lippman in action did not see fit to vote this way. We know for sure one coach that voted for Lipp man and a deserving vote it was; as for the rest of the coaches we can say nothing. What tops the whole crazy affair is that they finally wind up picking three quarterbacks. It is hard for me to imagine such a thing even on a mythical All-Conference team. All of them would probably be so busy looking at their press clippings that they probably couldn’t decide what play to call. Even a worse thought, can you imigane anything more confusiing that Isbell, McKown, and McHan all fading back to throw the same ball for a pass ? Basketball Has Started Basketball season is here. The Cadets opened their season Monday night losing to North Texas State 43-46. Although the Cadets started off the season on the wrong foot, prospects for the future are bright. The loss of Buddy Davis and LeRoy Miksch early in the iourth period by way of the personal foul route cost the Cadets badly needed height. Under the pressure of the final minutes of the game, the Aggies broke with the strain and seemed to be badly dis organized. Bad passes and frequent calls of traveling by the officials were the signs of a usual early season game. The Farmer five has a long way to go before they open their conference schedule against Arkansas early in January. Most Capable Coach Coach Floyd is one of the more able coaches in the con ference and should give the Cadets more than a chance to lepeat last years accomplishments by winning the S W C crown again. Last year the Aggies ended in a three-way tie with TCU iind Texas, winning in the play-offs but losing badly to Washington in the Western Regional play-offs. (An indica tion of the lower type of ball played in the SWC as compared to the more basketball minded schools in the east.) TCU, with all members of its 1950 squad returning, is given the nod in the SWC battle with Arkansas a close sec ond and the Aggies favored for the number 3 spot. An opportunity for a real show will occur when all of the Southwest Conference schools meet to participate in a preseason, round-robin Cotton Bowl basketball tournament, which will be held at Fair Park in Dallas starting Dec. 26. The Cadets whizzards will start the season with All-Con ference guard and center, Jewell McDowell and Buddy Davis. These two boys along with LeRoy Miksch are expected to carry the brunt of the Aggie attack. Class A Teams Play Quarterfinals Friday Tigers Meet Gators For Regional Title The A&M Consolidated Tigers will tangle with the Sugarland Gators for the Class B Regional title this Friday night at Sugar- land. Game time has been set for 8 p. m. The site of the tussle was determined by a flip of a coin. Fri day night following the Gators convincing 34-0 win over the Cor- Pinckney Corer All-District Center rigan Bulldogs in their bi-district clash. Tiger coach O. V. Chafin, Supt. L. S. Richardson and Junior High Coach Jim Bevans attended the game and met with Sugarland of ficials to work out the final de tails for the regional clash. Tigers Win District 23-24 The Tigers are winners of dis tricts 23 and 24, while the Ga tors won the 21 and 22-B district crowns. If the A&M Consolidated school had won the toss, the game would have been scheduled to be played on Kyle Field. The Gators boast one of the fin est records that the Tigers have encountered this year. Sugarland has won U straight games without a single defeat, while the A&M Consolidated lads have dropped three non-district games but have won all of the games that count with the exception of a 7'-7 tie with Hempstead, which the Tigers won on first downs. Kenneth Hall , One of the outstanding players for the Gators is Kenneth Hall, a 177 pound sophomore tailback that chalked up 22 points against Corrigan and proved that he would be hard for any defense to handle. Bill Coburn, a 150 pound wing- back displayed his speed while Joe Lawrence, 200 pound defensive guard and De Los Santos, lineback er; Louis Salmon and Jim Kachin- ski, ends showed what the Gator defensive wall had to offer. The Sugarland eleven is coached by H. L. Jenkins, a graduate of Austin College, and W. D. White, superintendent of Sugarland schools. Leighton Sparks Tigers Sparkplugs for the Tigers are Jerry Leighton, Willie Arnold, Fred Anderson, David Bonnen, and Gayle Klipple. Leighton is the leading scorer in the Tiger conference with 124 points and is followed closely by teammate Willie Arnold. Fred Anderson is the Tiger quarterback and engineer of A&M Consolidated’s scoring machine. He has a hard charging fullback, Gayle Klipple, to send through the mid dle to loosen up the strong Gator defense. Blum Helps Welch In Planning ’Murals Tavc you ever wondered who aids his program, and is responsible for Barney Welch, Director of Intra- the carrying out of the schedules? mural Athletics, in the planning of Many never stop to consider the Two battles between undefeated, untied teams headline the quarter finals this week in the Class A division of Texas schoolboy foot ball. Wink, the state championship favorite that had some of the shine wiped off it last week in a lusty fight with Albany, tangles with Abernathy. Newcastle, the team with the mightiest defense of the season—it has allowed only- six points—jousts with Hawkins. Abernathy, Wink and Newcastle have won 12 straight games apiece, Hawkins has won one. There is a fifth undefeated, un tied team left in the Class A divi sion, and that team looks like the 4 one that’s going to the finals from /the lower bracket. / Giddings has rolled up 12 ‘ straight victories without being pressed. This v, eek Giddings plays Cedar Bayou, loser of two games. s In the other quarter-finals con test, Industrial of Vanderbilt, with an 11-1 record, plays Pearsall, a team that has been defeated four times. All the games of Class A are Friday. Abernathy and Wink get togeth er at Lubbock in the afternoon. Friday night Newcastle and Hawk ins clash at Denton, Cedar Bayou and Giddings at Cedar Bayou and Industrial and Pearsall at Pear sall. Wink, Newcastle, Giddings and Industrial will be favored to push through to the semi-finals. Wink last week had to come from behind a couple of times to beat an Albany eleven that had lost two games. It was the toughest game of the year for the high- scoring Wildcats and indicated that they might, after all, be able to be had. 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