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THE BATTAblON
Wednesday, October 8, 1952 ,
THE BATTALION-MSC
A&M QUARTERBACK CLUB
Graves, Hill,
Littte, Magouirk
Players of Week
Four Aggies have been chosen this week to take the spot
light as players of the week by the Quarterback Club.
Jack Little, All-America Tackle, played most his time
at the defensive right tackle spot. Among other things, he
covered two fumbles.
He held up the right defensive side of the line all through
the game, and proved his title of “Iron Man” still holds true.
On of the “fumbles” he stole wasn’t actually the fault of the
Kentucky quarterback H. Jones. Little simply stole the ball
out of the running back’s arms.
Magouirk Faced Big Line
Connie Magouirk, fullback, continued to pound the cen
ter cf the line for gains. The defensive line of the Wildcats
was rated as one of the best in the nation, and proved them
selves by their breaking into the Aggie backfield all through
the game.
Hitting the line hard each time, Magouirk failed to gain
yardage against the big defensive line only once. He was
stopped at the line of scrimmage on this play. He is one of
the hardest runners on the Aggie squad, and is fas on the
start.
Graves Has Coolness and Versatality
Ray Graves, smooth working quarterback of the Aggies,
has proven one of the top quarterbacks in the conference.
He can not only pass with sharp accuracy, but can carry the
ball through would-be tacklers like a speedy halfback.
He has shown the coolness of a veteran man-under, when
many times in the Kentucky game he was smothered with
tacklers and still get his passes eff for gains.
At one time during the Wildcat' game, he had passed
11 times and completed (1 in a row. Graves is sixth in
;he nation i ntotal offense and fourth over the country in
forward passing.
Graves nas carried the ball 87 times for a total of 504
yards, and he has passed 53 times, completed 34, had 2 inter
cepted, for a total of 358 yards and an average of 64.2 per
cent. : « v it
Displaying top-notch quarterbacking in every game,
Graves poses as a double threat to any opponent. He drops
back with his right arm cocked looking for a receiver, and if
lie can’t find one he nearly always manages to find an open
ing right through the middle afterfaking out several rushers.
Some of the top Aggie gains have been made this way, and
Graves scored one touchdown in this manner.
Hill Defends Right End
The Wildcat backfield learned a less.on Saturday night
about trying to make yardage over big Walter Hill. This
tough right defensive end plays just outcide of Little, and
makes it tough on anyone trying to skirt his side of the line.
Here is another of the many defensive men who isn’t
mentioned much but who deserves plenty of credit. Doing
his part and never complaining is the roll of Hill. Coach Ray
George of the Aggies says Hill is one of the “best defensive
men in the game,” and he is counted on to do a big job with
all the split-T teams running their option plays around the
ends.
PICK THE WINNER
PICK YOUR TEAM is sponsoi-ed jointly by The Battalion and
the Memorial Student Center. Anyone is eligible to enter as many
times as he wishes. Entries should be mailed to Ed Holder,
Sports Editor of The Battalion, or placed in the contest box in
the MSC before 5 p.m. each Friday. The winner will be an
nounced the following week, and will receive two tickets to next
week’s A&M football game.
‘PICK YOUR TEAM’
A. & M Michigan State
Arkansas Baylor .
Texas — Oklahoma ;
Rice U C L A_„
S M U Missouri
T C U Trinity . ..
GAME OF THE WEEK
Maryland Georgia . : ...—
NAME,
ADDRESS,
1951 Champions
Everyone Gunning
For Big Spartans
The team which succeeds an undefeated outfit such as
Michigan State’s 1951 football machine has a peculiarly
tough row to hoe. The ultimate has been achieved, there is
no way to go except down, every opponent has it marked as
its choicest victim, fans blindly expect it to live up to its
predecessor regardless of facts, it inevitably receives extrav
agant pre-season billing which makes its path just that much
more rocky.
Before Michigan State can be said to have another good
team coming up, let alone a fitting successor to an undefeated
team rated No. 2 nationally, Biggie Munn and company will
have to find the following:
1. A complete No. 1 offensive line.
2. A No. 1 quarterback capable of handling the
Munn system, perhaps the most complex played
in college today.
3. Replacements lor three key defensive linemen.
4. Reserve line strength generally.
Personnel Lost Through Graduation
Fourteen lettermen, including eight offensive and two
defensive first stringers, are gone from the squad through
completion of eligibility. Included are the entire offensive
line: Ends Bob and Bill Carey, tackles Don Coleman and
Marv McFadden, guards Dean Garner and Frank Kapral
and center Jim Creamer. The other offensive regular lost is
ace quarterback A1 Dorow. Gone from the defensive platoon
is the defensive captain and top linebacker, Bill Hughes, first
string guard Dick Kuh, and shbstitute end Orlando Mazza.
Other letterwinners gone are quarterback Allan Jones, end
Bob Ciolek, and halfback Louis Smith.
Experienced Personnel Returning
A total of 27 lettermen are back again. By position,
they are as follows:
ENDS—Doug Bobo, Paul Dekker, Ellis Duckett*, Ed
Luke, Don Dohoney.
TACKLES—Gordon Se'rr*, Joe Klein, Larry Fowler,
Jake Morgan, Chuck Frank.
GUARDS—Frank Kush
LINEBACKERS—Doug Weaver, Ed Timmerman, Leo
Boyd
QUARTERBACKS—Tom Yewcic
LEFT HALFBACKS—Don McAuliffe, LeRoy Bolden,
Johnny Wilson
RIGHT HALFBACKS—Vince Pisano, Billy Wells, Rex
Corless, Ray Vogt
FULLBACKS—Dick Panin, Wayne Benson, Evan Slonac
SAFETY—JIM ELLIS
* Won letters last year at positions other than now listed,
Duckett at right halfback and Serr at guard.
System The Same
The same sys em will be employed as in past years. It
is an off-shoot of the Michigan single-wing system but has
become known as the Munn system because of the various em
bellishments given it by Biggie.
Its operation is essentially, this: The team lines up in
the “T” forma ion, unbalanced line. The play can go off from
there, or the team can shift into the single wing, either left
or right. Last year the play was about half from each forma
tion. The syste mearned he reputation of being the mest
complex in college football in the past couple of seasons be
cause it also incorporates elements of the split-T, double
wing, winged-T and other formations.
The man who picked the winner will re
ceive his two tickets tomorrow night at the
regular meeting of the A&M Quarterback
Club.
Connie Magouirk will do the speaking be
fore the film, giving the audience some idea
of what to expect in the Michigan State
game this week end, and then will narrate
the Kentucky-A&M game.
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