Wednesday, September 24, 1952 THE BATTALION Page 3
Haas Says Spirit
Up On Aggie Team
“I really enjoyed the game Sat- he is capable of playing this year
urday night against the Cougars, 1
Ray Haas admitted this morning.
“We had to win it and I knew we
could.
“Everybody was fired up and
working like a team,” said Haas,
who was the starting right half
back against the Houston squad.
“I guess the reason I liked the
game so much was that everybody
worked together and played heads
Raymond Haas
up ball all the time,” Haas added.
* “I got a kick out of playing; just
being in the game was a thrill.”
A senior this year, Haas is 21
years old, and hails from Kings-
ville. A Business major, Haas was
the leading ground gainer on the
1949 freshman team.
Steinke Comments
Backfield Coach Gil Steinke said,
“If Raymond will play the way
Hugh L. Burns, former head
trainer at the University of Notre
Dame, is now chief trainer for the
Detroit Lions in the National Foot
ball League.
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he will make us a top back. He
(Haas) was unfortunate in having
to play behind Lippman and Lary
for two years.
Everytime Lippman or Tidwell
were injured, Ray turned up with
injuries also, so we never had a
chance to use him too much.”
“Houston—Good Team”
has
good team,’
“Houston
Haas said, “I think they are going
to win a lot of games. Oklahoma
A&M sounds like they have a good
squad also,” Haas continued. “We
knew Arkansas had a good squad,
since it’s almost the same one we
played last year. And the Razor-
backs had a hard time winning
last week.
“I won’t say we will win all our
games this year,” Haas said, “but
if we have the same spirit we had
Saturday, they will know they
played against a good team.”
“All the teams in the confer
ence should have a good squad
this year,” answered Haas, when
asked about the SWC race. “I just
wouldn’t want to say which one is
best. Rice and Texas should have
strong teams and Arkansas will
be pretty tough too.”
OPENS THE HOLES—Big - Bobby Dixon proved himself
against the Cougara' last week. He will receive the open
ing nod at tackle against the Oklahoma Aggies Saturday
night in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas.
Veteran Of Aggies of 1939,
Duncan Not New to Aggieland
After watching the Aggie ends
snagging aerials against the Uni
versity of Houston Cougars, Sat
urday night, you can get an idea
of the good job coach William M.
“Bill” Duncan ha^ done.
Duncan, who is the latest addi
tion to the Cadet coaching staff,
has worked hard since fall train
ing started to get the ends polish
ed for the Aggie air attack.
He has plenty of experience to
pass on to his boys. His grid ca
reer started at Wichita Falls high
school in 1934, where he made the
second team All-State eleven.
Duncan then came to Aggieland
and played on the ’38 and national
championship ’39 squads.
After leaving A&M, Duncan
played one year on the Long Is
land Indians professional club.
Of the eleven ends listed on the
Aggie roster, five started either
on offense or defense.
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Harrow Hooper and Eric Miller
were the regular offensive start
ers, while Walter Hill ancL How
ard Zuch, a converted fullback,
played defense.
Charlie Saxe and Billy McGowan
are two ends being used as line
backers.
Duncan said, “Hill and Bennie
Sinclair can also play offense if
William M. “Bill” Duncan
needed. Jerry Crossman and Nor-
bert Ohlendorf are two more fine
ends and should play a lot of ball
for us.”
Hooper, Hill, Ci’ossman and
Saxe are seniors this season, but
Hooper is the only one who played
much offense last season. Hill
played four minutes of the open
ing game against UCLA last year,
then injured his leg and was out
for the rest of the year.
Crossman and Saxe played most
ly defense last season, leaving
Duncan with only Hooper and Mil
ler as experienced pass receivers.
Coach Duncan watched the Ar-
kansas-Oklahoma A&M game at
Arkansas Saturday night, and con
fessed the Oklahoma Aggies will
be plenty tough.
“The Oklahoma A&M team
could have won the game just as
easily as they lost it,” said coach
Duncan. “They have some good
backs, and an Indian named
Bredde who is a very good boy.
The quarterback, Babers, is about
as good a passer as you can find,
and Elmer Stout, a former West
Point cadet, was very good at
the linebacker position.”
Entered Army
Duncan entered the Army in
February 1941 wherae he served
with the Second Infantry Division
in a field artillery battalion.
The Second Division landed in
Europe on D-Day plus one, and
stayed until a. few months after
V-E day.
After leaving the service, Dun
can spent one season as assistant
coach at Wichita Falls, then be
came athletic director and head
football coach at Belton.
In August of 1948, Duncan left
Belton and went to Beaumont
where he became head football
coach and athletic director at
French High School.
Natatorium Gets New Paint;
First Repairs Since 1934
P. L. Downs Jr. Natatorium, the
college swimming pool, has undei - -
gone a complete reconditioning job
this month.
It was closed from the second to
the eighteenth of September for
an over-all paint job.
Everything was painted for the
first time since it was opened in
1934 except the actual tile of the
pool. The job included painting
the lights, stands, ceiling, flower
boxes and pipework. They were
done in a “Sky-Blue” color, which
is actually a light green.
All the windows were repaired
and repainted and the heating
units were colored a bright alum
inum color. Concrete sections were
painted cream contrasting with the
green doors and woodwork. There
wasn’t a part missed including
Coach Art Adamson’s office.
Coach Pleased
The coach is well pleased with
the looks of the swimming pool
and hopes everyone will enjoy it
as much as he does.
The pool will be open from five
to six P. M. on weekdays and from
three to five on Saturdays and
Sundays during this semester. It
will be closed only on legal school
holidays.
There is no charge for admis
sion, although everyone is re
quired to wear a swimsuit and reg
ulation swimming cap. These may
be purchased at the pool office.
Aggie Against Aggie For
First Time Since 1939
It will be Aggie against Aggie
Saturday night in the Cotton Bowl
in Dallas.
Head Coach J. B. Whitworth of
the Oklahoma Aggies will invade
the bowl with a hard-fighting
team which last week held the
highly favored Arkansas Razor-
backs 20-22.
Don Babers, quarterback of the
sensational “Cimmaron Spread”
vised by the Cowpokes, made an
outstanding showing against the
Porkers Saturday with his passes
from the split-T as well as his
high-stepping runs.
“The Cowpokes lack depth in
the line,” was the pre-season state
ment made by “men in the know.”
But this hardly seems likely when
the Aggies held a big and strong
Razorback line so well.
West Point Man
Elmer Stout, one of the West
Point men who was dismissed last
year in the “cribbing” scandal,
is now at fullback for the Cow
pokes. He adds the power-drive to
their backfield.
Babers set the pace in the Mis
souri Valley Conference last year
with 1,352 yards in 121 pass com
pletions.
Other standouts for the Cow
pokes are center F. A. Dry and
tackle Skip Warren.
Seeman and Payne
Left half Gene Seeman and
guard John Payne are two others
counted on to bolster the hard
driving Cadets. Payne according
to Coach Whitworth, could turn
out to be one of the best sopho
mores in the line. He began to
show proof last week against a
heavy Arkansas line.
The Oklahoma Aggies are in
better shape than the Texas Ca
dets when it comes to reserves.
The Cowpokes have 16 returning
lettermen on their squad, plus the
West Point transfers.
The veterans are the men who
last year helped set a two win and
two loss record in a tough con
ference.
Oklahoma A&M will be looking
for its first win over the Texas
Aggies since the first game be
tween the two teams in 1913. The
Cowboys squeezed out a 3-0 vic
tory in this game by a field goal.
From all advanced indications,
however, the Okies have their
best chance to take one home since
1913 in this game Saturday night.
Here is how the record of clash
es between the schools stands:
Texas
Okla.
1913—A&M
0
A&M
1914—A&M
24
A&M
1919—A&M
28
A&M
1920—A&M
35
A&M
1921—A&M
23
A&M
1939—A&M
32
A&M
Batt Staff Invents
Predicting System
The Southwest Conference al
ways has been known as a confer
ence of upsets and freak finishes
with the preseason favorite wind
ing up nearer the bottom than the
top.
It has always been a nightmare
for sports writers to pick the
winners of each weeks’ contests.
Several systems have been de
veloped to try to come up with the
winners at least 50 percent of the
time. One of the most successful
of these systems is to write each
teams name on a sheet of paper,
then hold the two that are playing
each other in front of an electric
fan then let go.
The piece of paper that goes the
fartherest is predicted as the win
ner. Of course this system is de
pendent on how good a fan is
used.
Another fairly successful way
is to take a concensus of the sports
writers predictions then pick the
opposite. One drawback to this
system is that if all sports writers
use it the predictions will never
get in the paper.
Sure Fire System
A sure fire system is to pick
the winners of last Saturday’s
games on the following Sunday.
This hasn’t found much favor
with editors.
Some sports writers have de
veloped other systems which ai'e
successful some of the time.
The way these few work are to
go talk to each of the opposing
teams coaches, players and train
ers. Then compare their past rec
ords. After this compare the
weights of the lines, yardage aver
age of the backs and the passing
average of the tailbacks or quar
terbacks.
Then go home write the name
of the teams on a sheet of paper
and let their three-year old daugh
ter stick pins in the names.
The teams that are stuck with
the pin are predicted as winners.
The only drawback to this system
is that some writers don’t have a
three year old daughter.
(See BATT STAFF, Page 4)
John Payne
Aggie Fish Team
Has New Schedule
Two changes in the A&M fresh-,
man football schedule have been
announced by Barlow Irvin, direct
or of athtletics.
The Aggie fish play five games
this fall with the opener against
Houston moved up from Oct. 2 to
Oct. 1 at Kyle Field here and the
TCU frosh game at Ft. Worth
changed from Oct. 16 to Oct. 15.
Cooper Robbins, Sr., high school
coach at Breckenridge the past
seven years where his team won
six district titles, will be fresh
man coach. He succeeds Klepto
Holmes who died last February.
Here’s the official Fish schedule
this fall:
Oct. 1 Houston at College Sta
tion 7:30 p. m.
Oct. 10 Baylor at Waco 2 p. m.
Oct. 15 TCU at Ft. Worth 7:30
p. m.
Nov. 6 Rice at College Station
7:30 p. m.
Nov. 22 Texas at College Sta
tion 2 p. m.
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