The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 21, 1952, Image 3

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    THE BATTALION
♦
Farmers Knock Frogs
From Top Spot In SWC
The Aggies, improving steadily
since the start of the football
season knocked the TCU Horned
Progs off their perch at the top
of the SWC standings, Satux-day
and showed that they were capable
of giving any confei'ence member
a good battle.
In a rating by the working radio
and pi’ess who watched the con
test, Jerry Cxossman was named
„ the outstanding offensive lineman
of the game. Cadet left end, Cross-
man was the leading pass receiver
f the tussle, snagging a Ray
* Graves aerial good for 22 yards.
Big Jack Little was selected by
the press box workers as the
outstanding lineman on defense
and Joe Boring was picked as the
best defensive back in the hard
fought tilt.
Rifle Team Defeats
TCU by 19© Points
TCU’s sensational tailback, Ray
McKown was nominated as the
game’s best offensive star. Mc
Kown carried the ball 35 times for
135 yards, almost all the Honied
Frogs made on the ground.
After the game, coach Ray
George of the Cadets, praised the
efforts of Little, guaxds Marshall
Rush and Marvin Tate, who was
playing his fix-st game at a de
fensive spot; ends Walter Hill and
Cooper Robbins, and linebacker
Johnny Salyer.
Offensively, Coach George was
pleased with the showing of full
back Connie Magouirk, who toted
the pigskin 13 times for 69 yards.
A&M received the opening kick
off, but couldn’t move and was
forced to punt. TCU wasn’t able
to go either and punted to the
Aggie 16. The Aggies started
moving, racking up five first
downs after TCU safety man
fumbled the ball on his own 35. The
Horned Frog defense held the Ag
gies and Graves booted out on
the TCU 18.
A dx*ive by the Frogs was stop
ped on the Cadet 30, but the Ag
gies couldn’t move and kicked.
TCU failed to move and kicked to
Schei'o on the last play of the
game.
Game at a Glance
A&M TCU
First downs 15 15
Passes attempted , 16 13
Passes completed 6 5
Yax’ds gained passes .... 51 42
Passes intex'cepted by .. 0 1
Net yds. by rushing ....211 173
Total net yds gained ....262 245
Number of punts 6 5
Punting average 35.3 43
Number of penalties 7 3
Yads lost by penalties .. 55 15
Fumbles lost 2 4
Individual Statistics
Leading Rushers
A&M
Carries Gained Lost Gain Td
C. G. L. G. Td.
Magouirk 13 69 0 69 1
(See STATISTICS, Page 4)
Tuesday, Oclolior 21, 10r>2
^ Pagp 3
Sparks CadeVs Touchdown Drive
Connie Magouirk (39), A&M’s hard running fullback,
begins one of his fourth quarter drives which brought the
Cadets their only touchdown. He carried 13 times for 69
yards. Running head on into TCU’s Claude Roach (79),
Sammy Morrow (11) and David Finney (24) Magouirk
picked up eight yards before being stopped.
(Staff photo by Wilkerson.)
The A&M Rifle Team defeated
the TCU Rifle Team by 190 points
in a match held Saturday morning
^before the football game between
the schools. It was the first South
western ROTC Rifle Association
Match of the year for the Cadets
who started off on the right foot.
Six Cadets from each school
fired in the match with the five
highest scores for each team being
counted. The match was fired from
four positions, prone, sitting,
kneeling and standing.
The Aggies took the high score
for each position axxd had an over
all total for the match of 1863
points to 1673 for the TCU team
out of a possible 2000 points.
For the Cadets, Haxny Gayden,
Carl Schlinke, Dwight Huffman,
Dan Grisson, Ray Lyon and Owexx
Hill fired in the match with Gay
den taking the individual high
<-scox’e honors with 380 points out
of a possible 400 point scox*e.
Sergeant M. L. Oberste, Cadet
Rifle Team coach, announced that
ithe Aggie team will fire a xnatch
with every Southwest confex-ence
school this year before each foot
ball game. “If the team can con
tinue to fire as it did against TCU,
it will have a good chance to win
the Association championship,”
said Sex’geant Oberste after the
match.
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The Honxed Frogs drove out to
their own 36 then punted. On the
fix-st play Don Ellis fumbled and
TCU had the ball on the Aggie
22. TCU fullback, Mai Fowler,
fumbled on the next down and the
Cadets recovered as the quarter
ended scoreless.
Beautiful Catch
A beautiful catch by Crossman
of Gx*aves’ pass put the Aggies on
the Horned Frogs 25, but the
TCU defense held fix-m again and
they took over on downs as Graves
overthrew Ellis on a fourth down
pass attempt.
The Horned Frogs then wexxt in
to their famed spread foxmxation
and started dxdving for a touch
down. McKown took the ball nine
times out of the 11 plays it took
to reach paydii't. Johnny Crouch
kicked the extx*a point and the
Horned Frogs led seven to noth
ing with four minutes left in the
half,
Borixxg returned the kickoff 21
yax’ds axxd the Cadets kept on mov
ing until Ellis’ pass was intercept
ed on the TCU 30. McKown hit
his own man and fumbled two
plays later but the clock ran out
with the Aggies on the Horned
Frogs 20.
TCU kicked off to start the sec
ond half, but the Aggies wex’e
stopped and foi*ced to punt. The
Horned Fx’ogs’ Fowler fumbled on
the Aggie 41, but the Cadets
couldn’t move and had to puxxt
again.
McKowxx Quick Kicks
On third down with 23 yax-ds to
go, McKown quick kicked to the
Aggie 30 where Boring hauled it
in and came back up to the 39.
The Horned Fx'ogs recovered an
Aggie fumble on the 50 but could
n’t move and punted to Joe Schero
on the Cadet 10, who bx’ought it
back to the 18.
Then the Aggie offense started
moving. Ellis picked up a fix-st
down ixx two plays, to the Cadet 30.
Ellis and Mayeaux combined for
another first, then Graves made
one h i 'mse 1 f to bring the ball to
the TCU 49.
Magouix-k carx-ied twice for a
first on the Fx-og 35. Magouirk and
Ellis made axxother on the TCU 21.
Mayeaux and Magouix-k cax-ried to
the Horned Fx-og nine for a first
down with goal to go. Graves
kept the ball twice for eight
yards, then handed to Magouirk
who cx-ashed over for the score.
Darrow Hooper made the extra
poixxt, to tie the game at seven
and seven.
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Ags Last In SWC Defense
Ray Gx-aves is the third leading
passer in the nation although he
attempted only 15 passes last week
against the TCU Homed Frogs.
Graves was just behind Agganis
of Boston University who has com
pleted 58 passes to Graves’ 54.
In total offense, Graves is elev
enth in the nation, with 714 yax-ds
in 142 plays. Graves is second in
the SWC behind Ray McKown of
TCU who has gained 834 yax-ds for
a 4.5 per tx-y avex-age.
At SWC Meet
PE Instructor
Px-ofessor Caxl Tishler of the
physical education department is
on the Baylor campus attending a
meeting of the Southwest Confer
ence P.E. instx-uctors.
The pui-pose of the annual affair
is to discuss mutual problems and
improvement aids.
A welcoming “get togethex-” and
the descriptioxx of the P. E. pic
ture as Baylor will start the all
day px-ogx-am. Following at 11
o’clock, will be a fly casting dem-
oxxstration.
A luncheon will be held in the
Coloxxial Kitchexx from 12 noon to
1:30 p. m., after which, the group
will be divided into three divisioxxs
to discuss their mutual px-oblems.
Bert Zagex’S, Michigan State
right halfback,' is called the “pen
guin” by his teammates because
he hails fx-om the xxoi'thern pax-t
of Michigan.
Among the SWC ball-carriers,
Graves is the number 10 man with
176 yards in 52 carries for a 3.4
average per ti-y.
Although Graves has completed
more aerials than any othex- SWC
quax-terback, he is ranked as third
on the basis of net gain on his
passes. T. Jones of Texas is first
with 591 yax-ds, McKown is second
with 589 yax-ds while Graves is
tlxii-d with 538 yax-ds.
Aggies Third—Rushing
The A&M squad is third in the
conference in i-ushing, with 829
yax-ds on 226 rush plays. Texas is
way out in froxxt in the rushing
department with 1095 yards on
288 x-ushing plays. Baylor is sec
ond with 849 yax-ds in 177 plays.
Don Ellis is seventh among the
SWC ball carriers with 200 yax-ds
in 51 plays fox* a 3.9 average.
Roy Dollar is the second leading
puntex- in the SWC behind Jerry
Nox-toix of SMU with a 38.8 aver
age. Dollar has booted the ball
25 times for 971 yax-ds.
Joe Boxing is the second leading
puxxt returner in the conference
with 68 yards in six x-eturns for
an 11.3 avex-age. Joe Schero is
fifth ixx the SWC with 67 yax-ds
ixx eight x-eturxxs for an 8.4 avex-age.
End Jex-x-y Cx-ossman is the xxum-
bex- five man in the SWC pass re
ceiving departxnent with 11 passes
caught for 142 yax-ds ajxd a 12.9
avex-age per pass. Ellis-is seventh
in the group with 15 aex-ials caught
for 139 yax-ds and a 9.3 average
per pass.
Dan-ow Hooper is sixth ixx the
place kicking department with sev
en conversions in eight attempts
for seven points.
Ellis is first in kick off returns
with 10 returned for 256 yax-ds
and a 25.6 average per return.
Hex-bert Scott has intex-cepted
three passes fox* 34 yax-ds to lead
ixx this depax-tment with a 11.3
avei*age. Boring is thix-d with thx-ee
intex-cepted for 15 yards and a
five yax-d average.
Steers Lead Rushing
The Aggies ax-e fifth in avex-age
gain x-ushing with 165.8 yards per
game. The Longhox-ns lead with
219 yards per game x-ushing. The
Cadets are last in avex-age gain
per gain in passixxg, gaining only
109 yax-ds per contest. TCU is
first with 147 yards per game in
the aix-.
Averaging 275 yards per game
oxx offense the Aggies ax-e sixth
in the SWC. Baylor is first with
375 yax-ds per coxxtest. The Cadets
are fifth ixx rushing defexxse, al
lowing opponexxts 176 yards per
game, axxd sixth in pass defense
allowing foes 129 yax-ds per game.
The Aggies ax-e also next to last
ixx per game defexxse allowing riv
als 305 yards per contest.
Fish Lose 19 To 7
In Polliwog Contest
The Texas A&M Fish were vic
tims of the TCU Wogs last Fx i-
day night by the score of 19-7. The
TCU freshman combined the fine
running of Julio Laguax-ta and
Gex-ald Redus fx-oxn the famed
spread formatiion to scox-e in the
secoxxd, thix-d, and foxxx-th pexiod.
TCU scored fix-st in the second
period when Laguax-ta tossed a 14
yard pass to Bill Curtis, to cap
a 54-yard dx-ive.
The Fish went ahead momentax--
ily when Ronald Robbins, quax-ter-
baek, smashed over fx*om the one
yard line. Ben Nicholson convex-ted
the point after touchdown, and the
half ended with the score 7-6.
Wogs Regain Lead
In the third period, the Wogs
x-egained the lead on Redus’ dive
fx-om the two. Ax-vell Epley con
vex-ted his only extra-point out of
three tx*ies.
Regus cx-ossed on a 49-yard x-un
ixx the fourth to end the scox-ixxg
axxd give TCU the win befoxe a
x-ecox-d crowd of 10,000 fans. He
bxxx*st thx-oxxgh the right side, cut
back to the left, axxd wexxt ovex-
xxxxtouched.
Billy Pete Huddleston, fx-om
Iraan was the Fish’s top gx-ouxxd
gainer as he has been all season.
Intramurals
Close Contests Mark Play
Three touchdowns was the lar- cisioned Maroon Band, 386-330.
gest max-gin of victory ixx Fri
day’s intx-amux-al football play as
close scox-es and hard fought games
continued to dominate play.
Dick Connally, Buddy Malone,
and Sandy Schx-ieber crossed the
goal line ixx a 19-0 win by Sq. 9
over Sq. 4.
Louis DeHaes put on one of
the most outstanding individual
offensive shows of the season in
scoring 13 points to hand ASA a
13-0 victox-y over Sq. 2.
De Haes scored on a 55 yard
pass play, then kicked the extra
point to put his outfit in front,
7-0. Later, he intercepted an op
position forward pass and brought
it back 79 yards for the second
touchdowxx.
In an offensive battle Sq. 8 had
a little more scox-ing punch as
they nosed out Sq. 3, 20-13.
In othex- games Jim Staehs
passed 39 yards to Hull in 6-0
Sq. 5 decisioxx over A Sig. and A
Inf. whitewashed A Eng. by a 14-0
count.
Basketball
In basketball games Sq. 2 edged
A FA, 15-14, in a thriller. Jerx-y
Wagonek led the scox-ing with
seven points. Sq. 3 put on a second
half splurge, scoring 15 points
to beat B FA, 22-3. Sherman Tuck
er was top point producer with
eight points.
Twelve points poured in by 1
Gax-ner led Sq. 5 to a 23-7 romp
over C FA.
Sq. 7, B Ax-m., and A Inf. notch
ed bow-ling triumphs Friday.
A score of 165 by Gail Bailey
was good for the top spot in in
dividual scores in Sq. 7’s 452-321
win over A Arm.
B Arm. beat Maroon Band, 332-
325, in a close one, A Inf, de-
Sq. 10 copped a 2-1 horseshoes
win fx-om B FA. Harlan Wensel
and Jules Vieaux axxd Bob Car
penter and Toxn Gholson were
the winning duos. Bob Zumwalt
and Hax-old Fox and Jim May
and Johxx Fx-andolig won their
matches in a 2-1 A Cml. victox-y
over A FA.
AAA and Sq. 10 won 3-0 tennis
victories from ASA and A Arm.
Tiger Rally Downs Waller 20-6
For Second Conference Victory
The Consolidated Tigers moved
one game closer to another confex--
ence championship Friday night,
by tx-ouncing the Waller Bull dogs
20-6.
Waller bux\st into the lead in
the second period on a 59 yard
pass play, Damon to Snow. This
■was all the scox-ing in the first
half.
David Bonnen sent the Tigers
ahead to stay in the thix-d period
on a 37 yax-d x-un. Bobby Cax-tex*
converted to make the scox-e 7-6.
The teams fought to a stand
still until the foux-th quax-ter when
William Ax-nold scored on a 12-
yax-d x-un. Then the Tigex-s put the
game on ice with a 10 yax-d pass
fx-om Fx-ed Anderson to Arnold.
Cartex- again converted.
Boxxnen and Arnold wex-e out
standing on offense for the Tigers
w-hile Rod Cook and Carter were
stone walls on defense.
The Tigers have a 6 and 0 record
in play this year, and have 2 con-
fex-ence wins against xxo losses.
Next Thursday night, the Tigex-s
entex-tain Hempstead on Tiger
Field in what could decide the
confex-ence championship. Hemp
stead and the Tigex-s were the px-e-
season favorites. Last year, the
Consolidated team won on first
downxs, and there is px-omise of an
other good game this year.
He totaled 83 yax-ds including q
fine 62 yard jaunt to the Wog 13.
The Fish were without the ser
vices of Donald Robbins, end, who
received a broken collax- bone in
the Fish’s 21-20 win over the Bay
lor Cubs. He will be out the x-est
of the season.
Next game for the Fish will be
against the Rice, who are supposed
to have the top freshman teaxn in
the conference, on Nov. 6, at Kyle
Field.
Season Standings
Team W L T Pts Op Pet,
0
SMU 1
Baylor 2
Ax-kansas 1
TCU 1
Rice 1
A & M 1
Texas 0
0 7 0
0 76 47
0 41 28
0 19 40
0 59 36
0 48 65
0 20 35
1.000
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.500
.500
.333
.333
.000
Soccer Team (
Ties BAFB
A small gx-oup of soccer fans
watched the A&M Soccer club and
Bryan AFB play to a tie in a
game held Sunday afternooxx be
hind Kyle Field.
Thex-e was plenty of action in
the game, although the scox-e exxd-
ed with both teams having only
one goal apiece.
The BAFB teanx was compose^
xnostly of cadets fx-om Fx-ance aix£
Belgium while the Aggie club is
xnade up mostly of Aggies from
nox’th, centx-al and South America,
with one Aggie player hailing
fx-om India.
Vasas, a Venezuelan Aggie,
xnade the Cadet’s lone goal. The
A&M Soccer teaxxx will meet the
BAFB . cadets November Iv. at
BAFB, captain “Charx-a” Cax-den-
as announced this morning.
Gvm Meets Slated
The A&M Gymnastics Club -is
px-eparing for dual meets with
Texas Univex-sity and the South-
western A. A. U. meet in Dallas.
The gymnasts will pex-fox-m be
tween halves at A&M home bas
ketball games. “Nicky” Ponthieux
and Bud Matthews, champion
N. C. A. A. tumbler, coach the 20-
man team.
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