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Wednesday, February 11, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 5 SWC Teams Slate Tough ’53 Schedule Hy the Associated Press DALLAS—The Southwest Con ference has completed its football schedule for 1953 and never had a tougher intersectional card. There are 23 games against teams from other areas as the league’s seven teams play games with eastern, southeastern, south ern, Pacific Coast, Missouri Val ley and mid-westem powers. The conference record in inter sectional football wasn’t very good last fall but generally the league is expected to be much stronger this year. In addition to the 23 intersec tional games, there will be 21 con ference contests and games with Hardin-Simmons and Texas Tech of the Border Conference and Uni versity of Houston, champion of the Missouri Valley Conference. All told the 1953 schedule has 49 games. Rice plays Florida, Cornell, Hardin-Simmons and Kentucky as its outside slate; Texas A&M has Kentucky, Houston, Georgia and Texas Tech; Baylor plays Cali fornia, Miami, Vanderbilt and Houston; Southern Methodist meets Georgia Tech, Missouri, Kansas and Notre Dame; Texas engages Louisiana State, Villano- va, Houstori and Oklahoma; Ar kansas takes on Oklahoma A&M, Mississippi, Louisiana State and Irvin Back From Chicago Meeting Barlow Irvin, A&M’s director of Athletics, returned Monday from Chicago where he represented the Southwest Conference in a confer ence of Conferences over the weekend. This special meeting was called to discuss enforcement procedures to be followed next football season. It was decided to let each con ference handle violations by its own members, and all independents would be taken care of by the NCAA directly. Irvin stated that the Southwest Conference is probably the strict est conformer to NCAA rules among the nation’s athletic con ferences. Tulsa, and Texas Christian plays Kansas, Michigan State, Penn State and Washington State. A 10 game varsity football sche dule has been announced by Bar- low Irvin, athletic director at Tex as A&M. Four of the games will be play ed at night. The ark-light affairs are at Lexington, Ky., Sept. 19 against Kentucky, Oct. 3 in the Cotton Bowl, Dallas, against Geox - - gia, Oct. 10 in Lubbock against Texas Tech and Oct. 31 in Little Rock against Arkansas. Here’s the Aggies’ 1953 grid slate. Sept. 19—Kentucky at Lexing ton (night). Sept. 26—U. of Houston at Col lege Station. Oct. 3—U. of Georgia at Dal las (night). Oct. 10—Texas Tech at Lub bock (night). Oct. 17—TCU at Fort Worth. Oct. 24—Baylor at College Sta tion. Oct. 31—Arkansas at Little Rock (night). Nov. 7—SMU at College Sta tion. Nov. 14—Rice at Houston. Nov. 26—Texas at College Sta tion. Castillo Beat In Gloves Eddy Castillo, 173 pound light heavyweight from Temple was de- defeated in a close, split-second Golden Gloves bout at the regional tournament in Austin Monday. Castillo representing A&M, was defeated by 173 pound Tom Ter- bay from Austin. The bout was hard fought all the way by both men. Castillo used powerful rights to the body to scoi’e a knock-down in the thii'd round. He started out quick in the first x'ound, putting up a tight defense and fighting hax - d in the clenches. Tei'bay, howevei', made a terrific comeback in the sfecond x’ound, having Castillo on the ropes twice. Another Aggie, John Crow fi'om Bellaire, lost his match Monday by default since he was unable to ap peal - . Dates Approved For Aggie Rodeo ABILENE—(Spl)—April 16, 17, and 18 have been approved as dates of A&M College Rodeo by the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association here, President Dick BaiTett of Hardin-Simmons Uni versity, Abilene, announced. Approval by NIRA allows points earned by college contestants who ai - e members of NIRA to be ap plied towax-d team and the individ ual championships named annual ly- The Aggie x'odeo team is one of 46 schools in the nation affiliat ed with the group. Some 500 mem bers belong and compete in NIRA activities. Purpose of the association is to promote intercollegiate rodeoing on a national scale, pi'omote clos er relationship among the per sons interested in rodeo and the schools the they represent, estab lish and maintain standards for coxxducting intei'collegiate rodeo competition, increase and maintain interest of college students in the activity axxd other functions of the west, to attract px - ospective college studexxts to eni'oll in the various schools x’epi'esented by NIRA, and to assist members in their NIRA functions. Texas schools who are members of NIRA are Aldington State, Ar lington, Baylor at Waco, Blinn College at Brenham, Hai’din-Sim- mons of Abilene, Odessa College, Odessa, Ranger Junior College, Ranger, San Angelo College of San Angelo, SW Texas Jr. Col lege, Uvalde, SW Texas State Teachci's, San Marcos, Sul Ross, Alpine, Tarleton State of Stephen- ville, Texas A&l of Kingsville, A&M at College Station, TCU of Navy Flight Test Given Feb. 16-19 Naval aviation cadet training tests will be given Feb. 16-19 from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. at the Navy recinxiting station in the Brazos County Court House in Bryan. The tests are being given so all college students, regardless of their total cx - edit hours, may de termine whether or not they can pass the Navy flight aptitude tests. Two and a half hours is re quired to complete these tests. Ft. Worth, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas Western of El Paso, Univer sity of Texas at Austin, Weathex - - ford Jr. College, Weatherford, West Texas State at Canyon, Sam Houston State at Huntsville, and the Univex - sity of Houston at Houston. Davis Story Told In Book The fame of Walter “Buddy” Davis, Olympic high-jump recoi’d holder and former star athlete at A&M, is continuing to spi'ead. In the Januax-y issue of Trea sure Chest, widely circulated comic book, the lead stox - y is a cai’toon account of Davis’ life and athletic success. The magazine’s widest circula tion is amoxxg Catholic primary schools. The stoxy tells of Davis’ child hood battle with polio and how he overcame this handicap to become not only a gi'eat college athlete but an inteiuxatioixally famous sports figure. Tank Team Loses 55 - 29 To Fla. State The sophomore-laden swim ming team dropped a 55-29 verdict to Florida State Fri day night. The Cadets took three firsts against the Seminoles. The Flox-ida club last year boasted a sti’ongly balanced team, as they dropped only two of seven coxxtests. It was the fix - st dual meet of the year for the Maroon and White. “The boys did a terrific job last Friday against Florida, even though they did get beat,” said Coach Adamson. Sophomore Dick Weick took honor's for the Cadets, as he was the only double winner - . Dick won the individual medley with a time only one-half of a second over the pool record—1-62:7. His other- first was in the 200 yard breast stroke with a time of 2:39.6. The other first gained by the Maroon and White was in the free style relay. John Spiech, Jimmy Burns, Lee Pipping, and Burt Kor- gel swam the distance in 3:49.6. Adamson had nothing but praise for his team, as each man on the squad cut from two to six seconds off his time. AIR FORCE BALL Corsages Carnations Gardenias Roses Orchids This Week Only . . . 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