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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.
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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.
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Elizabeth Tyalor, as the beautiful Rebecca, Offers her jewels to the
Saxon knight, Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), as an aid in his fight
against the Normans, in this scene from SH Walter Scott’s “Ivan-
hoe,” which opens at the Queen Theater Thursday. The spectacular
Technicolor drama has a cast af thousands, headed by the two Tay
lors, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders and Emlyn Williams.