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Aggies Win Four Titles
Ag Athletes Claim
1951 Banner Year
By BOB SELLECK
Battalion Sports Editor
With the coming of 1952, A&M can close the record
books of the 1951 season as one of the better years in the
athletic history of A&M College.
The Cadet athletes displayed a talent
adaptable to the track cinders, baseball dia
mond, basketball court and even the foot
ball gridiron.
The sports year of '51 has been slightly
“stormy” rocking along with the basketball
scandals, fights, and accusations of over-em
phasis on football but through the sinister
mist, emerged two SWC teams with unus
ually good records.
Both TCU and A&M had good years
while the University of Texas had a year
far below par for the Austin lads.
In basketball, it was all A&M. The Ag
gies finished the season in a three-way-tie with TCU and
Texas for the championship. The Cadets whipped their Aus
tin rivals in a two out of three game series and won the
right to represent the conference at the Western Regional
Meet at Kansas City.
In track and field it was again the Aggies all the way.
It was strictly a two team battle all season with the Cadets
coming out on top every time. A&M showed complete domin
ation over the University team, defeating them in a dual
meet, triangular meet, and finally in the conference meet.
Sparking the Cadet Track team, Darrow Hooper, giant
shot putter, went through the season undefeated winning 10
straight times while competing in the conference.
In baseball the Aggies continued to roll over the rest
of its conference opponents. A&M-Texas finished the season
tied for the crown. Again the Cadets out lasted the Long
horns, winning two outjj of three to become representatives of
the conference in the national NCAA meet.
The Aggie nine made a good showing with ace Pat Hubert
becoming an All-American pitcher and being the “Sandlotter
of the Year.”
The only disappointment came during the football sea
son. A&M, picked by many to win the conference, felt the
lack of reserves and a better “T” quarterback failed to win
the title but came through with a brilliant showing in its
final game of the year against Texas.
The Cadets nipped the Longhorns 21-20 in one of the
most exciting football games of the year. It was the Aggies
first victory over their bitter rivals since 1939. Nineteen
A&M graduates played their last year for the maroon and
white.
Baylor and Texas, tri-favorites with A&M, also failed
to come through according to predictions, however the Bears
of Wacoland had an exceptionally good year. The Bruins
finished their season accepting a bid to play in the Orange
Bowl, first time to play in a major bowl game in the history
of the college.
TCU, the favored darkhorse, came through after winning
their first conference victory in an upset over A&M and con
tinued the rest of the season once beaten, sliding right into
{he Cotton Bowl.
Post-Season Bowl Games
Glenn Lippman, sensational Cadet halfback, ended the
season as the leading ball carrier in the conference. He ac
cepted a bid to play in the Shriner’d annual East-West bowl
classic.
Although his West team lost 14-15, Lippman made good
in a typical Texan style. With only a few minutes to go in
the final periol, the elusive Lippman broke through the East
line and raced 52 yards for the second West touchdown.
Billy Tidwell, another star halfback, added another bril
liant performance to his college football career in the North-
South Bowl battle, Dec. 25 at Miami, Fla.
Playing at the offensive halfback, slot for the South.
Tidwell also played at defensive safety spot for one of the
first times this season. Tidwell set up the first South touch
down with a completed pass and run play from the arm of
Billy Wade of Vanderbilt that carried for 41 yards ahd a first
down on the North 14-yard line.
The Rebels went on to defeat the North 35-7 in one of
the most-lop-sided victories in the series. Tidwell also will
play in the North-South Senior Bowl game in Mobile, Ala
bama, Jan. 5.
A cracked vertebra sustained in^
his last college game kept Bob
Smith out of the East-West game.
The injury, which probably was
received in the A&M-Texas game,
was disclosed by X-rays taken af
ter Smith had arrived in California
to train for the Shrine Classic.
Smith’s loss was a jolt to the West
team and might have been enough
for a win. He had been counted
upon for considerable defensive
duty.
Loooking back upon the 1951
Athletic season, we can see that
the Aggies did right well for them
selves and their school. 1952 pro
mises to be an even tougher year
in the Sports World.
TCU is favored to win the bas
ketball championship while Texas
has been given the nod to upset
the Aggies from their track and
field top perch.
However, the Cadets are favor
ed to repeat the^r efforts for the
baseball title, Texas’ domination
of the minor sports is expected to
continue. No football predictions
this early.
Bowl Facts and Figures
New York, Jan. 1—(A 5 )—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 Stanford , (9-0-1),
4 p. m., 100,000.
Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, La.—Tennessee (10-0-0) vs Mary
land (9-0-0), 1:45 p. m., 85,000.
Cotton Bowl, Dallas—Kentucky (7-4-0) vs Texas Christian (6-4-0),
2 p. m., 75,349.
Orange Bowl, Miami—Georgia Tech, (10-0-1) vs Baylor (8-1-1),
1 p. m., 65,000.
Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla.—Miami (Fla.) (7-3-0) vs Clemson
(7-2-0) 1 p. m., 38,500.
Sun Bowl, El Paso—College of Pacific (6-4-0) vs Texas Tech
(6-4-0), 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 (5-5-0) vs Dayton (7-2-0),
3 p. m., 21,000.
Oleander Bowl, Galveston—San Angelo Junior College (6-0-2) vs
Hinds (8-3-0), 11 a.m., 10,000.
Steel Bowl, Girmingham, Ala.—Texas College (4-1-2) vs Bethune-
Cookman Junior College (6-2-0), 2 p. m., 5i000.
Prairie Bowl, Houston—Prairie View College (8-0-1) vs Arkansas
A M and N, (6-1-2), 2 p. m., 10,000.
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.—Illinois (8-0-1) vs Stanford (9-1-0),
Fullback Bobby Jack Floyd (right) tries to give
a football equipped with a handle to Halfback
Johnny Medanich (left) as Halfback Jack Ray
gets a laugh out of the by-play during Texas
Christian University football practice. The Horned
Frogs are preparing ofr their Jan. 1 meeting
in the Cotton Bowl with Kentucky. The ball
with the handle is the idea of Coach Dutch Meyer.
He wanted to remind his backs not to fumble
the ball.
1952 Starts With
Annual Bowl Games
By FRANK SCOTT
Battalion Staff Writer
Cotton Bowl
A great flood of touchdowns is
expected today in the Cotton Bowl
as Kentucky and TCU let fly
with their aerial circuses.
Babe Parilli, making his last
collegiate appearance, will try to
outriing his rival, Ray McKown,
TCU’s brilliant sophomore quar
terback, who rolled up 860 yards
through the air for his club last
year.
Kentucky with a 7-4 record for
the season has successfully emerg
ed from a battle with the flu
germs, and is rated on even terms
with the Frogs, who brings a 6-4
won and lost record into today’s
New Tear’s Classic.
The 75,000 roaring fans will
see two of the Southwest’s finest
linebackers, the Frogs Herb Zint-
merman and Keith Flowers, in
action today. On the other side of
the line will be the Wildcat’s great
All-American linebacker, Doug
Moseley.
Fair, dry and cool weather is
forecast for the event.
Rose Bowl
Grand-daddy of all the bowl
games, the closed-shop Rose Bowl
will pit the best of the Big Ten
Conference, Illinois, vs the best in
the West, Stanford, today at four
p. m. CST.
Illinois, with a powerhouse de-'
fense combined with a quick and
shifty attack, is favored to hand
the Pacific Coast representative
their sixth straight set-back in
the series.
All-American players in the
game, which will be played be
fore 100,000 screaming fans and
viewed by millions of others on
television, will be Stanford’s Bill
BASED ON AF* REPORT
The championship race in South
west Conference basketball starts
this week and everybody knows
where to look for the favorite.
Texas Christian definitely is on
the spot. The Horned Frogs were
the general choice for the title be
fore the season opened; now
they’re picked.
There’s certainly no reason why
they shouldn’t be the favorites.
They’ve won 10 games out of 11,
averaging 65 points per contest
while holding the opposition to a
49.9 and they’ve just finished win
ning the first Southwest Confer
ence tournament.
f Sweep Tourney
The Frogs swept through the
tournament held in Dallas, bash
ing Rice 69-57, edging Vanderbilt
51-49 and slaughtering A&M 65-
35 in the dash to the title.
Vanderbilt was the visiting team
bearing on the championship race
but was a good proving ground.
The tournament showed that
TCU, A&M and Texas again are
the big three, with Rice and
best of the other four members
of the league—Rice, Arkansas,
Baylor, and SMU.
The entire week was given to
this tournament whose success in
dicates it will become an annual
fixture. It drew some 12,000 paid
admissions and brought in more
money than needed to pay for it
self.
McColl and the mini’s Johnny
Karras.
A hero of the 1950 Olympics,
Mob Mathias, will play at a full
back post for the Indians.
Illinois carries a record of eight
victories and one tie into the clash,
while Stanford, rated underdog by
six points, boasts a 9-1 won and
lost record.
Sugar Bowl
Strangely, the only post- season
bowl game pitting unbeaten and
untied elevens figures to be the
most lop-sided. This is the Sugar
Bowl which matches Tennessee,
the nation’s number one team and
Maryland, rated third in the nation.
Gen. Bob Neyland’s Vols are
rated an’eight-point favorite by the
odd-makers over the Maryland)
Terps, who through a light sche
dule went practically untested in
the 1951 season.
All-Americans on hand for the
New Orleans Classic will be Mary
land’s Mighty Mo Modzclewski,
fullback, and Bob Ward, stellar
guard. Tennessee All-American
performers will be Hank Lauricel-
la, who will be playing before a
home-town audience, and Ted Daf-
fer, guard.
Eighty-two thousand fans arc
expected to be on hand for the
kick-off at 1:45 p. m. (CST) in a
setting of fair weather and per
haps a dry field.
Orange Bowl
A passing duel between Georgia
Tech’s Darrell Crawford and Bay
lor’s Larry Isbell is forecast for
the Orange Bowl today.
Most experts are predicting a
free scoring affair with the game
rated a toss-up.
Georgia Tech is unbeaterf but has
been tied by Duke, 14-14. Baylor
(See BOWL GAMES, Page 4)
The polished TCU team, with
unlimited manpower and just the
right balance made it strictly no
contest in smashing the Aggies in
the finals. George McLeod, the
giant Horned Frog center, scored
27 points by himself.
McLeod Leads Scorers
Texas won third place in the
tourney, beating Vanderbilt by a
surprising 65-49 score. A&M had
edged Texas 52-51 in the semi
finals.
The first conference game is
scheduled Wednesday night at Fort
Worth where TCU plays the hot-
and-cold Southern Methodist quin
tet. Saturday night A&M meets
Arkansas at Fayetteville, Rice and
Southern Methodist tangle at Dal
las and TCU and Texas clash in
Fort Worth.
Baylor which has won only one
game this season waits a week
to open the conference campaign.
The Bears play Southwest Texas
State of the Lone Star Contest at
Waco Friday night.
McLeod continues to lead the scor
ing. The Horned Frog star has 182
points—nine more than runner-up
Billy Hester of Arkansas.
Season Standings
Team— W L Pts Op Pet
TCU 10 1 715 540 .909
Texas 7 4 645 584 .636
SMU 5 6 557 604 .455
Arkansas 5 6 549 623 .455
Rice 5 7 719 738 .417
A & M 3 6 405 440 .333
Baylor 1 10 560‘687 .091
Aggie Quintet
Hated Fourth Sn
Defensive Play
BASED ON AP REPORT
A&M, despite a record of only
one win and five defeats at the
time, holds the number 4 spot na
tionally in team defense with the
release of the first official statis
tics.
The Cadet five have held their
opponents to a 46.3 average per
game. Penn State, rated No. 1, has
a 44.3 average while Oklahoma
A&M is second with a 44.7 aver
age. Maryland completed the top
four with 45.7 average.
Kentucky’s speedy Wildcats, rat
ed the No. 1 college basketball
team in the nation, are showing
why with a blistering offensive
rampage.
The boys from the Blue Grass
have taken over first place in team
scoring among the major quintet
with an average of 85.3 points per
game. The national collegiate ath
letic bureau statistics released in
cluded games through last Satur
day.
Kentucky’s 2 - points - a - minute
gang was fourth last week while
Princeton was first. Princeton was
hold to a total of 107 points in
losing two games last week and
dropped clear out of the first 30.
Kentucky, which has held op
position to 55.8 points per game,
has the top offensive-over-defen
sive margin, a spread of over 30
points per game.
The leaders (based on games
played through Sat. Dec. 22):
Team
Offense
W W-L
Pts
Avg.
1. Kentucky ...
5 4-1
429
85.8
2. Syracuse ...
5 5-0
423
84.6
3. Duke
9 7-2
761
84.6
4. Cincinnati
. 6 4-2
481
80.2
5. West Ky. ...
. 8 8-0
633
79.1
6. Stanford ...
. 8 8-0
628
78.5
7. Villanova ...
. 5 5-0
391
78.2
8. LaSalle
. 6 6-0
467
77.8
9. DcPaul
.10 7-3
776
77.6
10. Loyola, Ill.
. 6 3-3
465
77.5
Team
Defense
W W-L
Pts
Avg.
1. Penn State
. 3 2-2
133
44.3
2. Okla A&M
. 6 5-1
268
44.7
3. Maryland ..
. 7 5-2
320
45.7
4. Missouri ...
. 6 5-3
278
46.3
5. A & M
. 6 1-5
278
46.3
6. Mich State
. 4 4-0
186
46.5
7. Tulsa
. 5 4-1
233
46.6
8. Okla. City
. 5 4-1
234
46.8
9. Navy
. 5 5-0
237
47.4
10. Cornell
. 6 5-1
286
47.7
10. Manhattan
. 6 5-1
286
47.7
McDowell,
Miksch Make
Honor Teams
Jewell McDowell and Leroy
Miksch were selected on the
all-tournament teams of the
Southwest Conference bas
ketball tourney last week in
Dallas. McDowell was named as a
guard on the first team, and the
six foot four Miksch was picked on
the second team.
McDowell was also barely edged
oy Johnny Ethridge, TCU guard,
in the selection of the outstanding
player of the tourney. McDowell’s
brilliant ball-handling and floor
work against Arkansas and the Un
iversity of Texas earned him the
all-tourney team honore.
Other members of the all-tour
nament team are James Dowies of
Texas, 6-3, and Dave Kardokus of
visiting Vanderbilt, 6-2, forwards;
Ted Price of Texas, 6-8, was named
as the center, and Ethridge and
McDowell were selected as the
guards.
TCU Fa vored After
Fine Tourney Play
Tuesday, January 1, 1952 THE BATTALION Page 3
Cadets Battle Hogs In
First Conference Game
The once called “disappointing
Aggies” salvaged much of their
lost prestige by taking second place
in the first edition of the Cotton
Bowl basketball tournament.
For the first time in the history
of the conference all members of
the SWC participated in the same
pre-season tournament. It was a
great success and it is being plan
ned as an annual event.
The Aggie five is now working
New York, Jan. 1—GP)—Starting
the New Year right by reviewing
some personal highspots of the
1951 sports year before consigning
it to the record books:
JANUARY — Twirling the dials
during the bowl games with the
big surprise coming when Ken
tucky upset Oklahoma. . . . Texas
for the National Collegiate A. A.
Meetings in a cloak-and-dagger at
mosphere of political maneuvering
which didn’t end when the “sanity
code” was discarded.
FEBRUARY—District Attorney
Hogan took over the headlines
with his disclosures of briebery
and “dumping” in basketball.
MARCH—In spite of the dump
ing, basketball made a comeback
at tournament time when the Gar
den crowds took chubby Leland
(Humphrey) Norris of Dayton as
their pet.
APRIL — The NCAA boxing
tournament was the starting point
for a chilly round of spring foot
ball practice fields . . . Notable
impressions: That Biggie Munn
had more big, good players at Mi
chigan State than you’d ever seen
on one field; that Frank Leahy
wasn’t crying for effect when he
said he didn’t expect too much of
Notre Dame; that Woody Hayes
was trying too hard to be optimis-
out in preparation of their’first
conference tilt of the new season
against Arkansas in Fayetteville
this Saturday.
Beat Hogs Once
In the tournament, the Cadets
set back the Razorbacks 49-46
which means the Arkansas lads
will be out for early revenge in
the first of 12 games that will be
played for keeps.
The tall Razorbacks despite the
tic about the new job he had
taken at Ohio State.
MAY—Time to catch your break.
Baseball races beginning to warm
up with the weather.
JUNE—Golfers moaning about
the “impossible” way of Oakland
Hills had been toughened up for
the open and the two big traps
encroaching on the 18th fairway.
Ben Hogan coming through with
an amazing 67 on the last round
for the most popular victory that
could be imagined.
JULY—The forlorn loom on Sam
Snead’s face as he trudged through
the rain at Oakmont and Walter
Burkemo’s surprise when he reach
ed the last round only to be
slaughtered by Snead. . . . People
still talking about basketball dur
ing the dog days and predicting
there would be new, revelations in
the fall.
AUGUST — Vacation time and
only a few trickles of news about
the West Point and William and
Mary scandals reaching northern
Michigan. . . . Listening,.to the all
star football game from Chicago
in a car parked at the tip of Point
Betsie and having to quit before
the end because it got too cold.
SEPTEMBER—The plush press
accommodations for the amateur
(See HIGH SPORTS, Page 4)
presence of their giant center Bil
ly (Toar) Hester had done no bet
ter than break even in their eight
games prior to entering the Cotton
Bowl tournament.
Hester, the tallest player in the
conference standing 7-foot, has tal
lied only nine points less than
TCU’s George McLeod, who is
leading the conference scorers.
In their first battle Hester was
held to 14 counters while his oppo
nent center on the Aggie five,
Buddy Davis was having a free
night chalking up 22 points to his
credit.
Davis-Hester Battle
This week’s coming battle is
scheduled to be a repeat perform
ance of the Davis-Hester battle.
Jewell McDowell, Aggie floor
leader and general on the court, 1
broke into the scoring column scor
ing 18 hot points at the right time
to help the Cadets smash their
bitter Texas rivals 52-51 in the
same tournament.
It was McDowell who tied the
score 43-43 with a field goal and
again at 50-50. McDowell was the
difference in the overtime, getting
another field shot while Texas was
held to one free throw during an
exciting overtime period.
LeRoy Miksch, who along with
McDowell was selected for the all
tournament team, has been the
only injury so far this year.
Miksch suffered a sprained ankle
in the Texas game but is expected
to be at full power for the Ar
kansas fracas.
Starting Lineups
Don Binford, the Kansas lad,
and Woody Walker-, scrappy little
guard, will probably round out the
starting five for the Farmers.
Marvin Adams, 6-6 forward, Or-
gal Elkins, 6-5 forward, Hester,
7-0 center, Floyd Sagely, 6-0
guard, and Sammy Smith, 6-3
guard, will probably start for the
Razorbacks in their first confer
ence clash.
Everyone on the Arkansas team
stands at least six feet tall or bet
ter. It is the tallest team in the
conference and are expected to
be mighty rough in conference
play.
1951 Sports Year
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