Friday, January 9, 1953
THE BATTALION
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P O R T
II O R T
By BOB BORISKIE
Battalion Sports Staff
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What’s wrong with the Aggies ?
The question is currently making the rounds and seems
to pop up at some time during every athletic season except
track (and who could complain there?).
But since the situation seems to require analysis, we
may as well consider several different factors, any one or
several of which may contribute to the sitaution.
First, let us consider football, because it is obviously
the spectator sport, the money sport, and the sport first in
# the heart of almost every Aggie.
At the beginning of every season, the state’s leading ( ?)
sports writers make an expense-paid trip around the confer
ence football camps, watch three or four scrimmage plays,
then head back to their typewriters and automatically rele
gate the Aggies to last place. This might be the reason .
After all, every young man on the Aggie football squad
with a high school diploma (or its equivalent) can read the
two and tnree syllable words on which sports writers thrive,
and since “cellar” is constantly drilled into their heads
through their eyes, what would be the natural psychological
effect ?
It might be interesting to see the copy turned out by
one of thefce writers, if at the beginning of every year, his
editor came up to him and said, “Look, Gallagher, your
copy last year smelled to high heaven, and will probably
be lousy again this year. You may occasionally show up
with a good article, but they won’t mean a thing. I already
know that next year you just haven’t got it.”
Would that be a challenge to the
guy, or would every imperfectly
written story, magnified by his
editor, prey on his mind and fin
ally carry all his stories to the
lower quality level ? It’s a point to
consider. Defeatism may be a
state of mind.
Now the basketball season is
moving along, the Aggies have
suffered several straight defeats,
and the question has become a
leading between-class discussion
topic—what’s wrong with the Ag
gies ? Only trouble is, do they
mean the basketball team, or the
student body?
A trip over to DeWare Field
House any night the Aggies are
playing at home may shock you.
From a student body of over six
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thousand men, you will discover
that the Twelfth Man at basket
ball games is literally just that.
With the price of admission al
ready paid for them, just what is
so appealing to Aggies in the
dorms ? For laughs we could say
studies might be the answer, ex
cept they are of secondary impor
tance on any other night of the
week, and of absoultely no conse
quence on weekends.
Since the question has now been
answered with several new ques
tions, we might close this with two
little passing thoughts.
• Aggies, get behind all your
teams and stay there.
• Sports writers, get off their
necks for awhile.
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Ags-Hogs to Battle
For No. 1SWC Win
The Aggie basketballers play
host to the rangy Arkansas Razor-
backs Saturday night at DeWare
Field House, and will be giving all
they’ve got to move back into the
win column.
In their second conference game,
the Ags will be facing a squad that
could easily trot out a starting
five that would average over 6-5 in
height.
In fact, with only two men on
the 12 man squad standing under
six feet, any five they select will
average well over six feet. This
situation may force the Aggies in
to a defensive style of play, since
the rebound may be a little hard to
control.
Intramural t
Highlights
For the second day in a row,
Jake Magee used his sprakling
gridiron talents to bring home a
win as he scored the only touch
down of the game in a 7-0 victory
by Sq. 7 over A Ord. Magee pass
ed for two touchdowns in a 22-0
triumph Wednesday.
Yesterday’s game threatened to
end in a scoreless deadlock when
the hard-xoinning back crossed the
goal late in the game. A Ord.
could manage but one 40 yard
line penetration as the winner’s
tightly knit defense held them in
check throughout the game.
A last half field goal canned
by James Diggs, his only score of
the game, was the winning margin
as Sq. 5 edged Sq. 10, 15-13, in
the best basketball game of the
day. Sq. 5 had spurted into a 13-3
halftime lead on the net rippling
shots of Charles Fischer, Don
Ward, and Leon Hull. Fischer was
high scorer with six points. Ward
and Hull scored four and three,
respectively. Bob Winckler led Sq.
10 with five.
Making a late comeback in the
second half and outscoring their
rivals 10-3, .C FA squeaked past A
Inf., 15-10. Howard and Grobosky
each tossed in a pair of field goals
in the late spurt. Howard led the
scoring with six points.
B Inf., led by Billy Fullerton,
raced to a 12-3 victory over AAA.
Fullerton poured in eight points,
including three first half field
goals, and contributed some sharp
work on the backboards. Cuirt
Nauck scored all of AAA’s points,
a shot from the field and a free
toss in the second half.
Co. I took the first two games
and scored a 2-1 win over Co. B
in a freshman horseshoes game.
Fair Colvin and Bob Renoulf de
feated J. R. Kennedy and G. W.
Moses in the first game and Gary
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With Don Moon, flashy little
Aggie guard sidelined for an in
definite period with a facial in
jury, Coach John Floyd may de
cide to match high hairlines with
the Hogs.
Floyd could start Roy Martin,
6-8at center; Leroy Miksch,
6-5, and James Addison, 6-6, at
forwards; Don Binford, 6-2, and
Joe Hardgrove, 6-2, at guards;
and that starting five would av
erage nearly 6-5. It would also
give a very good account of it
self, because they are all good,
driving basketballers.
Losers to the Baylor Bears,
44-60, Monday night after holding
a 12-point bulge midway of the
second quarter, the Ags hope to
keep the fires burning for four
quarters, and wind up the game
Saturday night up on the ladder
in the SWC.
Tigers Down Dime Box
For Third District Win
Coach O. V. Chafin’s Consoli
dated High Tigers last night down
ed the Dime Box Longhorns in a
48-44 basketball thriller at the
Consolidated gym.
High point man for the Tigers
was Bobby Jackson with 14 points,
but the scoi’ing leader for the
game was the visitors’ Charles
Mitschke who shook the meshes for
17 points.
Dime Box took a fast lead, and
“A” GAME
Cons. A&M (48) Dime Box (44)
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Motheral, 4 3 1 11 Dodd.D. 2 2 2 6
Andrews 2 0 14 Dodd.M. 3 0 4 6
Jackson 5 4 4 14 Mrkrt.R. 3 5 3 11
Bonnen 2 3 3 7 Mrkrt.W. 0 0.30
Anderson 4 4 0 12 Mitschke 8 1 3 17
Massey 12 0 4
Totals . 17 14 9 48.Totals 17 10 15 44
Halftime score: Cons. 21; Dime Box
19.
Officials: Nabors, Jacobs.
at the end of the first quarter led
12-10, but Consolidated pulled out
in front in the second quarter to
leave the court at half time with
a 21-19 margin.
In the third quarter, the Tigers
began hitting from all points to
surge out to a walloping 38-26
bulge at the end of three periods,
and the final period found the Ti
gers coasting and watching a des
perate Longhorn scoring rally fall
short.
Although the Tigers were out-
scored in the final session by 18-
10, the final buzzer left them out
in front, 48-44.
Last night’s 7:00 clash between
the Consolidated and Dime Box
“B” teams was also a smashing
contest with Dime .Box squeezing
out a 27-25 overtime win.
The Tiber “B’s” led most of the
way and held a comfortable 20-13
lead at the end of three quarters,
but Dime Box rushed on with a
12 point deluge to knot it up at
the end, 25-25, and salted away
the game in the two-minute over
time with two points for a 27-25
final score.
Next Tuesday the Tiger “A”
and “B” teams will meet Somer
ville.
“B” GAME
Cons. A&M (25)
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2 12
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Totals . . 11 3 11 25 Totals . 10 7 6 27
Halftime Score: A&M 12; Dime Box 8.
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