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Wednesday, November 12, 39p2 THE BATTALION Page 5 For Corps Championship Army vs Air Game Date Set By ED HOLDER Sports Editor Plans for the big Army-Air Force game are now under way. The proceeds from the game will go to one of the most deserving causes here on the campus. It will be used to help Aggies with medical needs who are having trouble mak ing ends meet financially. Money from the tickets and concessions will be placed in the low-riding Student Aid Fund, and students may borrow from it on a non-interest plan. Payments are made when and how the student wants to. „ At the present time, it looks like the game will take place Dec. IS. Kyle Field will be the place and the tilt will be played in full pads. This game resembles very much the battalion type football which was played years ago before the intramural program became so large that uniforms could not be supplied. These plans are only tentative, however, since the Stu dent Life Lommircee win have to give the final approval be fore specific action can be taken. Some History of the Event; Members of the Student Life Committee suggested that a study be made of the possibility of holding some event to help replenish funds in the student loan. A committee head ed by Bill Munnerlyn of Houston was appointed. He and sev eral members of the student body and faculty found that the best possible way to raise funds would be through this football game. Barlow Irvin, athletic director, graciously consented to provide the uniforms, dressing rooms, Kyle Field, and the lights for the stadium if they be needed. This set the ball rolling, but there arose a question as to when the game should be played. Delegation to Ross Hall A delegation was then sent to the Military department with Munnerlyn the chairman, to inquire as to the possibility of holding the game Thursday afternoon just before the Christmas Holidays. The military department praised the purpose of the game, said it was a good idea, and that they would allow the corps to march into the game in the form Df a pass-by to take the place of the regularly scheduled drill period. Their consent was typical of the fine support received by this committee from everyone they have dealt with so far. Further Plans Plans also are underway to see if the 3 p. m. classes on that day can be dismissed in order for the game to start an hour earlier. It seems that if the game starts as late as 4 p. m., the mess halls will have to change their schedule and there will be an additional cost of running the lights for ap proximately a half of the game. Head Football Coach Ray George has said he will make every ef fort to be at the game, and to announce the play-by-play. He add ed his approval to the wonderful purpose behind the game, and said, Two Men From Each Unit “I might even pick up a couple of good players. I’ve heard this in tramural program has some good material.” The next problem which arose was 1 that of how to pick the play ers. It was recommended that each corps outfit choose their two best intramural playei-s, and send them to workouts which are scheduled to start just after the students i‘e- turn from the Thanksgiving Holi days. The coaches of each team will have the I’esponsibility of cutting the squad and rounding them out for the game. If each unit contributes its two men, there will be approximately 60 boys on each squad. This many couldn’t possibly see much action in a football game, so the teams will probably be cut to about 30 apiece. Coaches for the two squads will be senior varsity football players. Plans are to have an end coach, tackle coach, guard and center coach, an offensive backfield coach, and a defensive backfield coach for each team. This will enable them to whip the team into shape quickly since there won’t be but about two weeks left for workouts. Among Named Suggestions Among the suggestions sent Tom the special committee to the student Life Committee was that he price for the game be set at >0 cents per man. Soane members of the committee >elieved this too high, but since he student body itself, and maybe rour best friend, will be the only mes to benefit from the money nade. We hardly see how one could ;ay that half a dollar is too much 0 pay for the price of a good ootball game and a chance to help 1 fellow Aggie. Also tentatively planned, is nembers of the corps will each buy heir tickets from the first ser geant, and march into the game. The two yelling sections will be livided on each .side of the 50 yard ine on the west side of the stad- um. Losing Texans Get New Bosses DALLAS, Nov. 12 — i/P) A new group of owners is prepared to take over the Dallas Texans and operate for at least three seasons an of ficial of the National Football League club said tonight. John Coyle, Texan trustee-dh’ec- tor, said: “There are a few loose ends to be tied down but I think that can be done by Friday, per haps sooner.” The statement followed two long closed sessions of the directors and stockholders ®f the financially distressed professional football team. Coyle said, “No names can be announced now.” One source has estimated the club v-oulq lose $250,000 this sea- Any one who doesn’t want to go to the game will be allowed to stay at the dorm area and superviced drill will be held at the scheduled time. It seems to us that 50 cents is a cheap price to pay to sit out a di-jll period with good enteitain- ment. Those people who live in and around College Station will be charged the same amount for ad mission, and the pi-oposed game time is 3:45 p. m. Officials for the game will be announced latex’, but each will be licensed and qualified. Several committees have been appointed by the special commit tee to get things x'blling, and among them is the Halftime Activ ities Committee. It was suggested that the band play and march at halftime and the tumbling team pcrfoi'm. Other activities may be added at a later date. The quarters Will most likely be shorter than the regular collegiate periods, , since there will be only two weeks available in which the men can get into shape. The pro posed time is 12 Ms minute quai'- tei's. The committee aixd its pux-pose have our full support, since we consider this benefit game one of the most deserving causes of the school yeai'. Fish Letters for ’51 At Atheltic Office F I’eshmcn letter sweaters ax'rived yestei’day and will be distributed sometime tomor- x'ow, announced Baxtow Irvin, athletic dii’cctoxv Men who lettered last year mx the fish football, basket ball, track, or baseball may pick up their sweaters at the jxtliletic office. Aggie Olympic Stars To Be Feted Saturday ALL THE WAY—Ray Graves, (17) Aggie quarterback crosses the SMU goal line for the cadet’s firts touchdown against the Ponies. Ags Salyer Standout Defense Player Again By JERRY ESTES Battalioix Sports Staff One of the standout defensive players for the Aggies this year has been Johnny Salyei', an in- dustx’ial technology major from Austin. This is not so surprising, as he also showed up well as a de fensive halfback last year, in the Aggie secondary. He played This yeax-, he has been a deamon outstanding ball in the Houston game, and had a big hand in stop ping their passing attack. Biggest Thiill Salyer said his biggest thrill so far was his stopping a late TU drive in last years gaixxe with ajx intercepted pass to give the Ag gies a 22-21 victox'y. Speaking of this yeax’s teaxxx, he said, “I think we have just as good a team as last yeax’s, and we have a lot of hustle and competition, which was lacking on the ’51 squad.” He continued, “I believe the players and coaches are satisfied Rifle Team Eases Past Mustangs The Aggie Rifle Team contin ued its winning ways, downing the sui'pxisingly stx-ong SMU team, 1850 to 1821 in a shoulder to shoulder match ffi'ed at SfMU Sat- urday morning. Two of the Aggie’s top men did not participate in the match, Carl Schlinke, captain of the team, and Ray Lyon, which made the score close. Cox of SMU was high poixxt man for the match with 375 of a pos sible 400, but Aggies Leonai’d Bruce and Owen Hill were close behind with 374 apiece. Bruce took high honors in the standing posi tion with an 88 out of a possible 100. The Aggie team has one more ixiateh to fix-e in Southwest Asso ciation play. This will be against the stx’ong Texas University team at Austin. Both the Ag^es and the Texas team ax-e tied for first place, xxeither losixxg a match, so the out come of the match will decide the Association Championship. The Texas Uxxiversity team de feated the SMU team by 40 points, but Aggie Rifle Team coach, Sgt. M. L. Oberste annouxxced that he believes the Cadet fix-st team could win against the Texas squad. This week the Aggie team will fire against the Rice team, which withdrew fxom the Association, but they are considex’ed to have a good team according to Sgt. Oberste. “Ivanhoe” Biggest Drama Ever to Be Filmed in England “Ivanhoe,” M-G-M’s spectacular Technicolor production of Sir Wal ter Scott’s classic novel, which will be on view stai-ting Thursday at the Queen Theater, is the biggest motion picture in scope and cost ever to be filmed in Bxitain, link ing ahead of “Henry V,” “Hamlet,” “Chi’istopher Columbus” and “Red Shoes.” A single day’s call sheet posted by Dix’ector Richard Thorpe stipu lated 12 ti’umpetei’s, 15 Nox-man and 15 Saxon squires, 25 special foresters, 135 oi-dinax-y fox-esters, 160 members of a rough Saxon crowd, 120 mixed Normans, 120 Norman soldiei’s, 200 hoi’ses, thx’ee truckloads of arrows and 26 cows. This was considered a ‘small” day’s shooting for the elaborate pictxxie, which stax-s Robert Taylox’, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders and Enxlyn Wil liams. It was produced by Pandro S. Berman. (Adv.) with the play.this yeax’, compax-ed to what was expected of us be fore the season started. He was a three year letterxxxan for Austin High School, where he x’eceived honorable mention for the All-State team. Salyer will be back next year to deal out more misery for the opposition. Chuck Taylor To Give Show Here Tonight A&M will sponsor a Chuck Tay lor exhibition basketball clinic at DeW r are field house tonight. The clinic will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will last until arouxxd 9:30 a.m. accox’ding to John Floyd, Aggie vai’sity basketball coach. Taylor, one of the most famous cagers of all time, will give dem- oixstratioixs in shootixxg, free throws and will set up various of fensive and defexxsive plays. He will use the Aggie varsity squadmen for his demonstx-ations and exhibitions during his clinic. Also, a movie oix basketball will be showix. All coaches and players in the area of College Station have been invited by Coach Floyd to attend, free of chax-ge. By JERRY ESTES Battalion Sports Staff All Aggies who have competed iix the Olympics will be honox-ed duxing the half time of the Rice game on Kyle Field Saturday. A&M has sent four men to the Olympics since the school was opened. They ax-e Darx-ow Hoopex - , class of 53, Buddy Davis, class of ’52, Art Hax-nden, class of 48, and Jack Mahan, cf ’21. Davis aixd Hooper wex-e the lat est mexx to go to the Olympics fx’onx Aggielaxxd. They left last June for Helsinki and x-etunxed in August. The month of August was taken up with banquets and public ap- peax-ances. Davis coixipeted in the high jump, in which he took first place with a leap of six feet, nine and three quartex-s inches. George’s Gesture Gains Recognition Coach Ray George of the Aggies is x-apidly gaining nation-wide publicity for a gestux-e he uses aft er each game which has been un- heax-d-of in college grid history. George, 265-pound foxrner South ern California tackle star and also a px-o griddex-, tx-udges up to the press box after each game fox’ the post-game intex’view with the working press. And he does this whether his Cadets win or lose. In his second season as head man of the Cadets, Geox-ge follow ed this custom all thx’ough the 1951 season and has continued the practice thx-ough the first five games of the 1952 season. Although the Southwest Confex’- ence writers are accustomed to this unusual procedux-e, the act caused much favox-able comxixent after the Aggie-Michigaxx State game recently in East Lansing. The Macklin field press box in East Lansing was jammed with over 250 working press fx - om the nation’s metropolitan papers. Aft er A&M’s 48-6 Game-of-the-Day loss to the No. 1 team in the xxa- tion, George made his usual long walk to the Spax-tan px-ess box. So flabbex-gasted wex’e the ma jor writers that it took them sev- eral moxxxents to get around to the interview, but then they made the most of it aixd pumped George fox- 45 nxinutes getting coloi’ful, post game tidbits “straight from the mouth of the coach.” Geox-ge says the reason he does this is two-fold. “It gives the writex’s a chance to get the coach’s comments im mediately after the game without them having to look all over the gx-ounds for the coach,” he said. “Also,” he added, “It gives our kids a chance to get dx-essed after the game without the coxxfusion of so many writers and straixgers in the dx-essing room.” Whatever the reason, the big coach has made nxany friends with his custom and the press box in- tex-views are okayed almost 100 pex-cent. He was also an All Southwest Confex-ence center on the basketball team his senior year at A&M. Davis is now working with the Ada Oil Company of Houston, and playing basketball for them. Their team is composed of ama- teux-s, and is a member of an ama teur league. This way, Davis will retain his amateur standing, and be able to tx-y for the Olympics and the seven foot max'k in 1956. Hooper has not been graduated fx-om A&M yet, and is a star end and placement kicker for the foot ball team. He took second place in the shot put at Helsinki”. He was second to Perry O’Bx-ien of South- ex-n Califox-xxia whom he had beaten px-eviously. Ax’t Harnden was a member of the mile x-elay team which took fix-st place. He x-an the fix-st leg of the mile to win his gold xnedal. Harnden now works for the Texas Oil Company. Jack Mahan, who was gradua ted in 1921, went to the Olympics in 1920, and competed in the jav- elixx throw. He placed sixth, but was high man for the American squad. Mahan was also captain of the Aggie football team. He is now a Gaixxesville farmer. j ON TO THE OLYMPICS—Buddy Davis clears the bar here at 6 ft. 11 V-z in. in the 1952 SWC track meet. This was an unofficial world’s record, since the mark was later reduced to 6 ft. ICP/o in. because of a high spot one yard away fro m the “take-off” apron. Davis will be honored here Satur day at half-time along with the other Aggies who hai/e made the trip to the Olympics. Michigan State Still No. 1 Team! Michigan State, Geox-gia Tech and Maryland, xunning all by themselves as the 1-2-3 teams in this week’s Associated Px-ess poll of the nation’s best, face the as signments Saturday that will eith er keep them far out ahead or dx-op them down into the pack. All tangle with tough teams. A clean sweep by the big thx-ee would push them even fux-ther in front than they are after the ballots of 139 sports writers gave Michigaxx State 1,193 points, Geox-gia Tech 1,135, and Maryland 1,128. Michigan State, leader in all ex cept one of the poll’s seven weeks, faces Notx’e Dame. The Irish juihped fx-om 10th to sixth in the poll on their 27-21 up set of Oklahoma Saturday. State’s 35-0 tx'ouncixxg of the Ixlsh last year was the highest score ever xun up against a Fx-ank Leahy team. Revenge also is the background of Geox-gia Tech’s tx-aditional clas sic with Alabama. This time x'e- venge is in the big team’s favox', however, fox' it was Alabama that ran up a 54-19 count against Tech two years ago iix the Engineex’s’ last defeat. Maryland, which is barx-ed—jxxst at px'esent, at least—fx'om a bowl bid, takes on uxxbeatexx but twice tied Mississippi, which could just about wrap up a major bowl bid of its own by trouxxcing the Terx-a- pins. Foux'th-rated UCLA, which has an open date, is the only member of the entix’e top texx, in fact, that can afford to i-elax this week. The Uclans old xdval, Southern Califox’- nia, xxxust beat Washington Satux'- day, or their xxiuch-publicized cli- nxax game with UCLA the follow ing week woxx’t mean much. Tennessee, the No. 7 team, goes against Florida, which like Missis sippi is anxious for some soxf of bowl bid. Oklahoma, which dx-op- ped fx-om foux-th to eighth, will be favored against Missouri in a key* Big Sevexx clash. Texas, No. 9, and Pux'due, No. 10, both face old-tixxie x’ivals in ganxes which could do nxuch to- wax-d settling their confex-ence crowns—and subsequent bowl bids. That guarantees tx'ouble for both. Texas goes against TCU after jumpixxg into the top ten with a 35-33 victory over Baylox-. The Longhox’ns took the place vacated by Kansas, which lost to Nebxaska by a point, 14-13. Pux-due meets Michigaxx jn the Big 10 battle of the v/eek. 1. Michigan State 2. Georgia Tech 3. Mai’yland 4. UCLA 5. Southex-n Cal 6. Notx-e Daxxxe 7. Tennessee 8. Oklahoma 9. Texas 10. Pux-due The second ten was co-Aiposed of: Alabama, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Px-ixxceton, V^ashington, Florida, Kaxxsas, Michigan. Others x-eceiving xlotj-s included: Missouri, Vix-ginia, Njivy. BARBELL ENTHUSIASTS! ncALTM WA75 ADJUST A Sue, REVOLVING BARBELLS AND DUMBELL SETS ARE THE WORLD'S FINEST! 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