Tuesday, September 9, 1952
THE BATTALION
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Aggie Footballers Look Good
In Intrasquad Game Saturday
READY TO THROW—Quarterback Ray Graves (left) and Halfback Don Ellis
prepare their firing arms while Head Football Coach Ray George (right) and
Backfield Coach Gil Steinke watch.
Coach Ray George unleashed his
70-man Aggie football team in in
trasquad clashes the last two days
during the opening week of prac
tice. First game for the Cadets
is aaginst the University of Hous
ton, and 15 days away.
The Aggie mentor had not plan
ned on the heavy work so soon,
but when the boys arrived in good
shape, and the August heat cooled
slightly with the coming of Sep
tember, he turned them loose for
two brief but spirited clashes.
•Ray Graves, veteran quarter
back, and Don Ellis, promising
sophomore, highlighted the heavy
contact work.
Sophomores Marvin Tate, Sid
Theriot, and Ray Barrett turned in
some fine line work. Tate is a
likely replacement for the injured
Marshall Rush, who is expected to
miss the Houston opener.
Other linemen who looked out-
Cleveland’s Big 4 3’
Sets Long Workout
CLEVELAND—(A>) — The close
American League pennant race is
forcing Cleveland Manager A1 Lo
pez to part with the tradition pitch
ers should get three days of rest
between starts.
There is a strong chance the
Eastern clubs, who play eight
games here in nine days starting
tonight, may see one of the In
dians’ Big Three—Mike Garcia,
Early Wynn and Bob Lemon — on
the mound to start all eight games.
Before the Easterners leave, Lo
pez hopes to have made up the
two games by which the Tribe
trails the New York Yankees.
Wynn Tonight
Wynn hurls tonight against the
Philadelphia Athletics, and Lemon
and Garcia will follow him, Lo
pez said, adding:
‘T’m thinking of coming back
with Wynn Friday against Boston.
Otherwise it will be Steve Gromek.
We’ll see what happens. If Wynn
pitches Friday, Garcia and Lemon
also will come back after only two
days rest.”
The Big Three all favor the idea
of more work and have been push
ing Lopez to start them oftener
than the customary fourth game.
Close to 20
Each of the trio is winthin a
game or two of the 20-victory cir
cle, and within five starts apiece in
the remaining 16 games scarcely
could miss.
With three fine- hurlers not on
ly willing but strong and capable
enough to divide the load, Lopez
well might use them almost exclus
ively for the remaining 16 games.
In the last 16 games, the Big
Three handled 11—all but one of
them from start to finish. They
won nine and lost two.
Coach George Says
Cadet Eleven Can
Win Any Or All
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
It’s all in how you look at it:
This business of picking A&M for
the cellar in the 1952 Southwest
Conference football race.
Almost without exception the
coaches and sports writers have
chosen the Cadets for the bottom
rung. . Coach Ray George picks
his Aggies to finish third.
George sees Texas Christian,
Texas, Arkansas, Rice and South
ern Methodist to tie for first. He
sees Baylor in second place and
his Aggies third. That’s his good-
natured way of seletcing the Ca
dets for the bottom.
Facts Tell Story
Those who have selected the
Aggies for the cellar have done so
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on facts. George lost his dream
backfield and 16 lettermen. These
forecasters who relegate A&M last
in the conference figure you can’t
replace Glenn Lippman, Billy Tid
well, Bob Smith, Yale Lary, Dick
Gardemal, Hugh Meyer, et al, and
come up with a better team.
But when 'you consider -that
George has 17 lettermen return
ing plus some promising sopho
mores who may develop there’s a
chance the Farmers might do
somebody some real dirt this sea
son. The saying is pretty well
worn about not being able to pre
dict a Southwest Conference race
and that upsets are a dime a doz
en, but worn out or not, that may
be the Aggies’ ace in the hole.
Situation Okay
George is in a pleasant situation.
His team Will be ripe to nip some
promising team in the bud which
may have eyes on the title. Even
he is more optimistic than the
sports writers.
“We’re going into every game
to win, and don’t think those boys
aren’t capable of winning any or
all of them. I don’t expect us to
come out on top every time, but
regardless of our losses of expe
rienced players, we will be able
to play anyone a good ball game.”
That’s George speaking and he
may be more than right.
He has some good men return
ing, among them All-Conference
Tackle Jack Little; a quintet of
fine ends in Dai'row Hooper, Eric
Miller, Charles Saxe, Jerry Cross
man and Walter Hill. All are let
termen, Hill earning his “T” in
1950. He was hurt last year.
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standing were ends Darrow Hoop
er, Eric Miller, Walter Hill, all
lettermen, Norb Ohlendorf and
Bennies Sinclair, sophomores.
Tackles Jack Little, Bobby Dix
on and Al Langford also looked
good this early in the game.
Graves Quarterback
Graves guided one offensive unit
which had Ellis, the DeQuincy, La.,
flash at left half. Ellis was man
under on the Split-T with another
group while Roy Dollar, senior
from Mexia, quarterbacked the
third unit.
Although Ellis is a fine Split-T
ball-handler, Coach George feels
that his running ability is needed
more in the same backfield where
Graves is equally as good or bet
ter a quarterback.
On this unit, where Graves is
quarter and Ellis, half, Connife Ma-
gouirk is at full and Raymond
Haas and Johnny Salyer alternate
at right half. This line has Leo
Marquette, center; Tate and The
riot, guards; Durwood Scott, Lit
tle and Dixon, tackles and Hooper
and Miller, ends.
Marshall Rush, regular guard
and second-top man in number of
minutes played in 1951 by return
ing squadmen, is hospitalized this
week at Bryan Clinic where he is
convalescing following an opera
tion for a fractured face bone.
Rush suffered the break in a
non-scrimmage head-on collision
with an Aggie on opening day of
practice.
Ellis Quarterbacks
On the unit which Ellis quar
terbacks, Pete Mayeaux, a New
Orleans junior, is at full and How
ard Zuch and Warren Anderson
are at right half.
Linemen include Bill McMahan,
center; Langford and Jack Frey,
guards; Lawrence Winkler and
Scott, tackles and Ohlendorf and
Charles Saxe, ends.
The third offensive unit, quar
terbacked by 6-2 Dollar, includes
Don Kachtik, full and Juan Coro
nado and Johnny Cavileer, right
half; Bob McCarley, center; Bob
Gosney and Barrett, guards; Dick
Frey and W. G. Blair, tackles and
Jerry Crossman and Sinclair, ends.
Graves’ passing and running
and the slippery running of Don
“The Eel” Ellis featured the scrim
mages.
Both boys guided their respec
tive squads to several touchdowns
and both notched several long
runs. Ellis looks equally good at
quai’ter or lefthalf.
Drills Pleasing
In addition to the offensive drills
which pleased Coaches George, Gil
Steinke, Paul McMurtry and Bill
Duncan, the defensive backfield
coach, Dalton Faircloth, had his
say with some fine pass defensive
work on the part of his secondary.
Particularly pleasing was the
work in this department of Cooper
Robbins, Jr., Don Moore, Henry
Clark, Herb Wolf, Bob Stout, Bill
Ballard, Joe Schero, Joe Boring
and Elwood Kettler.
The Aggies are rated low in the
Southwest Conference this season
and the chief reason, other than
the departure of last year’s dream
backfield and 11 other stars, is
the lack of depth. That’s George’s
big worry.
Lack of Depth
He’s well fixed with 10 ends but
that’s as far as it goes. There
are no centers with any experi
ence and only the injured Rush at
guards.
The tackles aren’t plentiful even
with such stalwarts as All-Ameri
can Little, Dixon, Langford and
Dick Frey.
Graves is the most experienced
back although Mayeaux, Maguoirk,
Zuch and Salyer played briefly
last year.
Key to the success of the Cadets
this fall will be how well the soph
omores and untried squadmen
come through. A&M could surprise
a lot of teams but that’s pnly
wishful thinking at a stage when
the boys haven’t even broken in
their new shoes and shaken out
the kinks and summer muscles.
SWC Notes
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
The emphasis was on funda
mentals at SMU yesterday after
the Mustangs spent the morning
session with visiting writers and
photographers.
Coach Rusty Russell put his de
fensive backs through a brisk pass
defense drill, and four players—
Don Miller, Val Joe Walker, Gayle
Mills' and Johnny Crawford—stood
out.
Frogs Loaf
TCU’s Frogs, still battered from
last Saturday’s scrimmage, took it
a little easier yesterday.
Coach Dutch Meyer sent them
through running drill in the morn
ing, then sharpened up on block
ing, tackling and passing in the
afternoon session.
Ingraham Switched
Versatile Hub Ingraham won a
shift to safety in the Texas Long
horns’ defensive secondary yester
day to fill the vacancy left by the
departed Bobby Dillon, Texas’ 1951
All-America ace.
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