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.
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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.
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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. The score was 21-13.
98 Texans Apply
For Gaming Permit
Dallas, Dec. 5—CP)—The Internal
Revenue Bureau has released the
names of 98 Texans who applied
for the $50 Federal gambling tax
stamps before the Nov. 30 dead
line.
All but two of the persons were
from the southern part of the state.
James M. Cooner, in charge of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s
regional intelligence unit, said
agents have found 15 Texas gam
blers operating without paying the
tax.
He said he doesn’t know “how
strong the Charges wjjl be” against
the violators.
many assistants that Barney Welch
has or the long and trying hours
that are spent in drawing up the
plans for the year’s activities.
The chief planners for the dc-,
partment are the Senior Intramur
al Managers. They are responsible
for certain of the athletics and any
gripe comes often directly to them.
One of these senior managers
is Bob Blum, better known as “the
Colonel.” This tall senior hails
from Dallas and is now in his
fourth year as a manager for the
Intramural Department.
Bob is in charge of Freshman
Athletics for the department and
is doing a quite capable job of man
aging them. Aside from managing
these freshmen sports, the four
year man is a member of the Exe
cutive Committee of the Business
Society andja member of the Dal
las Club. Re is majoring in Busi
ness
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