California Bound
Bob Smith Glenn Lippman
Two Aggies heading for San Francisco, Fullback Bob Smith and
jrHall back Glenn Lippman scheduled to play in the East-West Shrine
Bowl Game Dec. 29. Both Smith and Lippman are seniors and will
be playing their last college football game. A&M will be capably
represented by two of the best ball players in the nation.
Bowl Facts and Figures
New York, . Dec. 18—UP)—Facts and figures on the coming
Bowl games, giving date, name of bowl, site, teams with time and
probable attendance:
Jan. 5
North-South, Mobile, Ala.—College Seniors, 1:30 p. m.
Jan. 1
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.—Illinois (8 .0) vs Sanford (9-0-1)
4 p. m., 100,000.
Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, La.—Tennessee (10-0-0) vs Marv-
land (9-0-0), 1:45 p. m., 85,000.
Cotton Bowl, Dallas—Kentucky (7-0-4) vs Texas Christian
. (6-0-4), 2 p. m., 75,349.
Orange Bowl, Miami—Georgia Tech (10-1-0) vs Baylor (8-1-1)
1 p. m., 65,000.
Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla.—Miami (Fla) (7-0-3) vs Clem-
, son (7-9-2) 1 p. m., 38,500.
Sun Bowl, El Paso—College of Pacific (6-0-4) vs Texas Tech
(6-0-4), 3:15 p. m., 14,000.
Tangerine Bowl, Orlando, Fla.—Arkansas State (10-0-1) vs
Stetson (8-2), 7 p. m., 12,000.
Salad Bowl, Phoenix, Ariz.—Houston (5-0-5) vs Davton
(7-0-2), 3 p. m., 21,000.
Oleander Bowl, Galveston—San Angelo Junior College (6-0-2)
vs Hinds (8-0-3), 11 a. m., 10,000.
Steel Bowl, Birmingham, Ala.—Texas College (4-1-2) vs
Bethune-Cookman Junior College (6-2-0), 2 p. m., 5,000.
Prairie Bowl, Houston—Prairie View College (8-0-1) vs Ark
ansas A M and N, (6-1-2), 2 p. m., 10,000.
Dec. 29
Cigar Bowl, Tampa, Fla.—Brooke Medical Center of Texas
(9-0-1) vs Camp Lejeune Marines (6-0-3), 7 p. m., 15,000.
East-West, San Francisco—College Seniors, 3:45 p’. m., 60,000.
Blue-Gray, Montgomery, Ala.—College Seniors, 1:45 p’ m
22,500. ’
Dec. 25
North-South, Miami—College Seniors, 7:15' p. m., 40,000.
Cadet Tracksters
Sugar Bowl Bound
' Nine members of the Aggie 1951
champions track team leave Dec-
28 for the annual track meet in
the Sugar Bowl, New Orleans just
prior to the New Year’s Day foot
ball classic.
Head Coach Frank Anderson and
assistant coach Ray Putnam will
have one hurdler, two sprinters
and a pair of relay teams entered
in the meet.
Three members of the 440-yard
relay team—Bill Bless, Bill Stalter
and Bobby Ragsdale, and a promis
ing sophomore Pete Mayeaux, com
promise to sprint relay team.
Champion Relay Team
A right halfback and lineback
er on the football team, Mayeaux
ran the century in 9.9 during try
outs last week. The Aggie relay
team won the conference title last
season with a time of 42.4, but will
enter the race as underdog to a
speedy University of Texas team.
The mile relay team, which won
the conference last season and
defeated the University of Okla
homa in the Texas Relays, may
come in second best to the power
ful Sooners in the meet. Oklahoma
didn’t lose a man off the 1950-
51 team while the Aggies lost two.
DeWitt Turns To Track
John DeWitt of Waco, who let
tered three years in basketball and
an equal number of times in base
ball, is one of the two new men on
the team.
The lanky, 6’ 5” lad joins vete
rans Robert Mays and James Bak
er and newcomer Carol Libby on
the team. A&M was best in the
nation, with a 3:16.0 last season,
until bested by Darks at the Drake
Relays.
Fast-stepping Stalter, high point
man in the SWC meet last year
with 12y 2 points, will enter the
100 meter race along with relay
teammate, Bobby Ragsdale.
Ragsdale’s specialties last year
were the broad jump and the low
hurdles.
Local Aggies Plan
Dance for Friday
The Bryan-College Station A&M
Club will hold a Christmas dance
Friday night at 7:30 at the Brazos
County A&M club house
Admission to the dance will be
$1 stag or drag. Tickets will be
sold at the door. Bryan and Col
lege Station Aggies are invited
to attend the function, according
to Carol Jones, club president.
Paul Leming, senior from Beau
mont, is the lone Aggie partici
pant in the 110-meter hurdles. Sec
ond place winner in the 1951 con
ference meet, Leming won three
first during regular competition
last spring and was conference
champion in 1950.
The nine tracksters, accompanied
by the Aggie coaches, will compete
in the meet Dec. 30 and then stay
over for the Sugar Bowl game be
tween Tennessee and Maryland,
Jan. 1.
Fanners Fade As
Bowl Tournament
Favors Vanderbilt
Official statistics released Tues
day by the Southwest Conference
indicate that TCU’s Homed Frogs
are fast-breaking themselves right
into one of the favorite spots in
the first pre-season basketball
tournament.
The Cotton Bowl tournament,
first in history of Conference, is
scheduled to be held in Dallas
Dec. 26-29 as a feature of Cotton
Bowl Week.
Undefeated Vanderbilt of the
Southeastern conference, only out
side participant in the tournament,
beat well-regarded Texas Tech 55-
49 Monday night in Nashville to
run its victory string to five
straight this season. Vandy will
probably share the favorite’s role
with TCU.
TCU Shows Strength
The statistics, covering games
played through last Saturday, em
phasize the effectiveness of the
TCU fast break.
The Frogs have scored 404 points
while winning five out of six
games for a per-game average of
67.3 a game, tops in the confer
ence. They have limited opponents
to 50.0 points a game.
The fast-breaking Frogs also
rushed the basket more than any
other team in the league. They
have attempted 456 field goals
while making 161.
McLeod Leads Scorers
Individual statistics also reflect
the Frogs’ strength. Center George
McLeod is the league’s top scorer
with 121 points for an average of
20.2 points a game, and Ted Rey
nolds has chalked up 82 points
for a 13.7 average and the number
four spot.
McLeod is followed by Billy
“Toar” Hester of Arkansas with
91 points and a 15.7 average.
Ralph Johnson of Baylor, last sea
son’s conference high scorer is
listed far down the line in the of
ficial statistics because of Bay
lor’s incomplete report, but ac
tually ranks third in the scoring
with 89 points.
Texas, rubbed from the undefeat
ed roster in a 59-55 defeat by LSU
Monday night, averaged 57.8 points
per game in the Longhorns’ first
five games, while allowing the op
position 48.
Good-Bad Rice
Middle-running Rice has chalk
ed up a 61-point average while
winning two out of six games, but
the Owls’ opponents also have aver
aged 61 points a, game.
Rice takes on Vanderbilt in
Nashville Thursday in the first
test of strength of the Commodores
in comparison with a Southwest
Conference team.
Conference officials point out
that SMU, while winning only two
of their first six games, has made
a good showing in losing to some
tough intersectional foes and pos
sibly deserves the dark horse spot
in the tournament.
Sudden Death Pairings
In any case, the tournament pair
ing are a bit on the sudden death
side. Texas and SMU play in an
opening-round game, and TCU and
Vanderbilt are in the same bracket
of the tournament.
Conference officials confirmed
Tuesday that the tournament, to
be played in the Recreatiion Build
ing at State Fair Park, will be the
first time in the conference his
tory that all seven Southwest Con
ference teams have participated in
the same tournament.
_ A&M, winner of one game out of
six starts, is not even given an
outside chance of upsetting the ex
perts' predictions. Sharing in the
Conference Championship last
year, the Aggies have gotten off
to a slow start and probably will
not be any better off by the time
the tournament starts.
Rebel Halfback
Billy Tidwell
Playing for the South, Billy Tidwell will represent A&M while
playing the halfback slot in the North-South Bowl game in Miami
on Christmas Day. He will also play in the Senior Bowl game
m Mobile, Alabama on Jan. 5.
Ag Sport Banquet
Will Be Held Jan. 12
P. L. Downs, Jr., official greet
er from A&M College, has been
named general chairman of the
Ticket and Finance Committee for
the Aggies’ Winter Sports Ban
quet.
The dinner, sponsored jointly by
the A&M Athletic Department and
the Brazos County A&M Club, will
be held in Sbisa Hall on the night
of Jan. 12 to honor members of
the 1951 football and cross coun
try teams. Annual awards will be
made to outstanding members of
the football team.
_ The Former Students Associa
tion is holding its annual club of
ficers and class agents’ meeting
over the weekend of Jan. 12 and
13, and Dick Hervey, executive
secretary for the association said
some 150 persons attending this
meeting would go to the sports
banquet.
The Aggies Club has a meeting
(See BANQUET, Page 4)
r £ T ' Thursday, December 20,1951 , THE BATTALION PageS
Aggies Win First Game 63-44;
Smash T rinity In DeWare Gym
By BOB SELLECK
Battalion Sports Editor
A&M crashed into the winners
column for the first time this year
when they snowed under the Trin
ity Tigers, 63-44, in DeWare Field
House Tuesday night.
Big Walt “Buddy” Davis led the
high-stepping Cadet offense with
25 points, five were free throws.
Davis displayed the talent which
won him All-Conference merits
last year by bouncing all over
the court always just out of reach
of the tiring Tigers.
Davis looked exceptionally good
on re-bounds along with team-
Buddy Davis
All SWG Center
mate LeRoy Miksch, who also
added 12 more points to th^ Ag
gie’s total.
Scoring the greatest number of
points in one game, the A&M quin
tet proved to be too much for the
game but futile efforts of the
inexperienced Trinity five.
However, lanky A1 Jessen, Tiger
forward, flipped in 20 points to
keep the Tigers in the ball game
all the way.
Jewell McDowell, Aggie floor
leader, and Don Binford, a Kansas
lad, contributed 9 and 7 points re
spectively to the Cadet’s first vic
tory in six starts.
The Farmers got the jump on
Trinity and shot to a 14-7 lead at
the end of the first period, never
once falling behind. Trinity’s big
gest try came in the second quar
ter when the Tigers outscored the
Aggies 12 to 11, but still trailed
at half-time by six points, 25-19.
Trinity’s Shannon was the first
player to leave the court by the
way of the foul route with more
than six minutes left in the game.
•
Game at a Glance
A&M
FG
FT PF
TP
Binford, f ....
2
3
5
7
Farmer, f ....
1
0
5
2
Miksch, f ....
5
2
3
12
Houser, f ....
0
0
2
0
Davis, c ....
10
5
5
25
Addison, c ....
0
0
2
0
McDowell, g
3
3
3
9
Carpenter, g
0
2
n
2
Walker, g ..
2
2
2
6
Heft, g
0
0
1
0
—
—
—
—
Totals
23
Trinity
17
28
63
FG
FT PF
TP
Lutz, f
3
2
2
8
Jessen, f
4
12
4
20
Shannon, c
3
0
5
6
Reed, c
1
3
3
5
Dresch, g ..
1
0
4
2
Kerr, g
0
0
3
0
Marthis, g ..
1
1
4
3
Kalmanir, g
0
0
1
0
—
—
—
—
Totals
13
18
26
44
CS Five Edges
Somerville
In District Win
A&M 'Consolidated Tigers got
off to good start Tuesday night
by slipping past Somerville, 28-
27, in their first conference game
of the 1951-52 schedule.
Playing in Somerville, The Tig
ers started out whei'e they left off
in football, winning. Numerous
members of that bi-district champ
ionship football team are also
playing basketball.
Joe Motheral led the Tigers with
a flurry of point-making as he hit
for six field goals and four free
throws good for 16 points. Team
mate Bobby Jackson was second
with five tallies.
Except for the first few seconds
of play, the Tigers led all the way
with the the quarters ending this
way. Tigers 6 Yeguas 5, Tigers
18 Veguas 9 and the third stanza
ended 23-17 in favor of the Tigers.
Consolidated’s “B” team lost,
6-14.
High scoring Davis followed short
ly afterwards.
Forwards Don Binford and Bob
by Farmer also left the battle in
the fading minutes via the same
route.
An amusing incident occurred
the basket.
When the ball hit the top of the
backboard, it was dead and there
fore the shot could not count.
However, both referees failed to
see anything except the ball go
ing through the net, and the goal
In the warm-up contest the Ag
gie Fish continued to show their
domination over this year’s “B”
team by winning 43-30.
Fisher paced the freshmen scor
ers with 14 points while Bill Wil-
lians lead the losers with 12 coun-
period. Dresch, Trinity guard, see
ing that time was running short
decided on a long desperate shot
just shy of midcourt. The ball hit
the rim of the basket, bounced in
to the air, and hit the top of the
backboard and then fell through
with the two score keepers who
explained what had actually hap
pened. After that he could only
comment, “Oh well I didn’t see it
so we will call it good for two
points.”
ters.
The next Fish game will be
against Victoria Junior College in
Victoria on Jan. 5, while their “big
brothers” still have the Cotton
Bowl tournament to enter Dec.
26 before they open their confer
ence season on Jan. 5 in Arkansas.
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