Tuesday, September 8, 1953
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Aggie Football Team
Loses Three Prospects
The Aggie football team has lost
three prospects as Head Coach Ray
George guides the squad into its
second week of practice.
Malcolm Hammack, Arlington
Junior college halfback, decided at
the last moment to cast his lot
with the University of Florida.
T. K. Niland, two-year letterman
tackle, will forego his last year of
eligibility to assist Jim Bevans in
directing the fortunes of the A&M
Consolidated high school football
team.
Ed Hennig, quarterback, with
three more years of football eli
gibility, who came to A&M on a
baseball scholarship, has decided
to concentrate on the diamond
sport.
The remaining 50-odd squad
members are responding to the
one-platoon rule change, George
says, and they are eager and en-
Deer Hunters Missing
Chance For Sure Kill
One moment, Nimrod!
Do you know what you are hunt
ing ? Have you learned as much
as you can about the habits of
the animal you’re planning to
shoot ?
Thousands of optimistic young
hunters will take to the woods Nov.
16 and afterward in search of the
thrill that comes with their first
big-game kill without even know
ing the size ot appearance of the
quarry they seek.
Most young hunter’s have an idea
that the deer they want to shoot
is tall and red and has a sort of
hat-rack of horn on the front end—
and that’s all they know about it.
Actually, the two kinds of deer
in Texas—whitetail and blacktail-r^
don’t get much more than half as
tall as most new hunters imagine
them. And while there is some red
in the coat it isn’t the kind of red
which will stand out against a con
venient green tree. Rather, it
closely parallels the color of a fox
squirrel and is not at all easy to
tee in the brush.
Dr. W. B. Davis of the wildlife
Management department here says
there are several other basic facts
•ibout Texas deer which should
stand the beginning hunter in good
stead.
Deer are habit-prone, just as
people are. Unless he is very much
disturbed, the average buck uses
the same bedding ground night aft
er night, and will feed and drink
at the same places.
The hunter who will spot his
buck in advance, then watch him
to study his feeding grounds and
habit patterns, stands a good
chance of making his kill without
undue effort when the season
opens.
If there is good browsing—deer
are browsers more than grazers—
and good water available, along
with a bedding-place on a small
knoll or rise of ground, the legal
buck probably won’t range off a
tract approximately the size of a
40-acre field.
He does his feeding from shortly
before until about an hour after
daylight, and from a short while
before sundown until a little while
after dark. Generally speaking, he
gets his drink in the morning—
just about at the break of day, and
again late in the evening.
When the sun gets up and the
day’s heat starts to climb the deer
bed down in a thicket or some
other protected place.
The whitetail deer, found wherc-
ever there are deer in Texas, grows
to something like 40 inches high at
the most, while the blacktail, found
in the Trans-Pecos and the far
Panhandle country, grows a little
taller.
“Obey the game laws wherever
you hunt,” Dr. Davis says. “Be
sure you’re aiming at a legal buck
before you pull the trigger. One
other thing,” he adds. “—if it walks
on two legs it isn’t a buck deer—
don’t shoot it!”
thusiastic about two-way football.
At present a lively battle for
starting center is being waged be
tween Fred Broussai'd, fine-look
ing sophomore 220 pounder, and
Cooper Robbins, 170 pound senior.
A starting line-up at present
would probably show Marvin Tate
and Sid Theriot, guards; Durwood
Scott and Lawrence Winkler,
tackles; Bennie Sinclair and Eric
Miller, ends. In the backfield
would be Don Ellis, quarterback;
Joe Boring and Connie Magouirk,
halfbacks; and Don Kachtik, full
back.
Other linemen making the start
ers hustle are Ray Barrett, guard;
and Donald Robbins, .Bill Schroe-
der, and Norbert Ohlendorf, ends,
while backfield prospects battling
for a starting assignment include
Ronald Robbins, Dave Smith, Billy
Pete Huddleston, Bob Easley; and
Johnny Salyer.
The Aggies open the season with
a September 19 night encounter
with the University of Kentucky
at Lexington.
Sammy Baugh
To Be Honored
AtTCUKUTilt
Sam Adrian Baugh, the
lanky West Texan who be
came one of football’s immor
tals and greatest passers, will
be honored at half-time of the
TCU-Kansas game in Fort Worth
the night of Sept. 19.
Baugh, an All-American at TCU
1934-36 and top star of the profes
sional leagues with the Washing
ton Redskins for 16 years, has been
named to the Hall of Fame. Dur
ing the ceremonies here, he will re
ceive a plaque from Jimmy Stew
art of Dallas, a vice-president of
the Hall of Fame Association.
L. R. (Dutch) Meyer, TCU ath
letic director and Baugh’s college
coach, is in charge of the program.
He is inviting all the Horned Frog
players who competed with Baugh
to be present. They will be intro
duced to the crowd and form an
honor guard as Sam receives his
trophy.
Baugh,, now assistant coach at
Hardin-Simmons, has made ar
rangements to be here for the fes
tivities. The Cowboys will be play
ing Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater
that afternoon and Baugh plans to
fly here.
Cadets Will Face Kentucky
Without 1952 Passing Ace
Kentucky Wildcat fans who re
member A&M’s last minute surge
from their own 20 to the Ken
tucky six-yard line last fall won’t
have to worry any more about the
leader of that thrilling, 74-yard
march which almost handed the
Aggies a victory.
Ray Graves, all-Southwest con
ference quarterback, was gradu
ated from A&M this past spring.
The skinny, rubber-legged runner
and passer deluxe completed 19 of
26 aerials in that 10-7 Kentucky
victory last year in College Sta
tion.
Graves passes his quarterbacking
skill to Don Ellis, regular left
half of the 1952 Aggie team. Ellis
moves to quarterback for his senior
year in 1953 and the way he oper
ated the new, unbalanced T forma
tion in spring training led many
an observer to predict better things
for the Cadets this fall.
Ellis, who was married to Miss
Rene Haupt this summer, operated
this same offense at DeQuincey,
La., high school and he’s a natural
at it. The new formation at A&M
is similar to the systems employed
by Michigan State and Iowa.
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The new formation, is the brain
child of Dalton Faircloth, A&M’s
ofensive backfield coach, who was
Ellis’ high school mentor.
As the Aggies wound up spring
training here’s the way the start
ing lineup shapes up for 1953.
Ellis, qb; Connie Magouirk, Ih;
Don Kachtik, fb; Joe Boring, rh;
Eric Miller and Bennie Sinclair,
ends; Durwood Scott and Law
rence Winkler, tackles; Ray Bar
rett and Sidney Theriot, gtiards
and Fred Broussard, center.
All are lettermen and played
against Kentucky last year with
the exception of Sinclair and
Broussard.
Sinclair was out with injuries
in 1952 and Broussard was schol
astically ineligible.
A&M lost 16 lettermen and re
turns 21 veterans. Included in
the number lost is Leo Marquette,
center, who was drafted for having
low grades. Also, Howard Zuch,
defensive end, and Hub Scott, de
fensive halfback, quit football with
the end of platooning.
The 21 returnees also include a
1951 letterman—Bill Ballard—who
did not play in 1952. Ballard is
an end.
In addition to Graves, A&M will
miss Jack Little, all-American
tackle, about as much as any of
the ’52 regulars. Little was a de
fensive demon last year and would
have made a dandy one-platooner.
In fact, he played both ways much
of the 1951 season and was named
lineman of the week after A&M’s
14-7 victory over Oklahoma’s
Sooners that fall.
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