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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1953)
Wednesday, October 7, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 3 Ags Work on. Defense Against Raider Power The Aggies concentrated on de fensive scrimmage against Texas Tech offensive plays yesterday in preparation for Saturday night’s contest in Lubbock with the na tion’s 12th ranking offensive foot ball team. With five players on the injured list, Coach Ray George shuffled his backfield men around to streng then positions where injuries were heaviest. Three of the injured, Joe Bor ing, Joe Schero and Charlie Hall, are halfbacks. Cooper Robbins, center, and end Donald Robbins round out the list of ailing play ers. Don Kachtik worked out at the fullback and halfback positions, while Johnny Salyer was readied for duty at fullback or end. If Kachtik starts at' a fialfback slot, Bob Easley may get the call at ’fullback, with Elwood Kettler at the other halfback position and Don Ellis at quarterback. CIRCLE 4-1250 TODAY & WEDNESDAY starring DONALD O'CONNOR —ALSO— “Red Canyon” Starring Gearge Brent Ann Blythe LAST DAY ** RAY COLLINS-fiODIL MILLER THURSDAY & FRIDAY OCK HUDSON-JULIA ADAMS with MARY CASTLE • JOHN McINTIRE • HUGH 0'BRIAN mA S RAOUl WAISH Production • A UNIVERSAUNTERNAHONAt PICIUK . The starting line will probably be the same as for the Georgia game, with Eric Miller and Bennie Sinclair, ends; Durwood Scott and Lawrence Winkler, tackles, Mar vin Tate and Sid Theriot, guards; and Fred Broussard, center. With his nine yards per carry average in the Georgia game, sophomore halfback Billy Huddles ton gives the Aggies an offensive ground punch to match the threat offered by Texas Tech’s Bobby Cavazos, the Red Raider candidate for all-America honors. Raider coach DeWitt Weaver calls Cavazos a threat to go all the way from any spot on the field. Ellis Still Leads Conference In Total Offense, Passing Don Ellis, A&M’s spark-plug quarterback, continues to lead the Southwest conference in total of fense and passing. He is also first in intercepted passes, returning two for 71 yards and a 35.5 yard average. On 101 plays from scrimmage in three games, Ellis has gained 376 yai’ds for a 3.7 yard average per try. He has completed 29 of 57 passes for 324 yards, an 11.2 yard average per pass and a 50.8 per WHSM-Tm-MST-PlCTURlS-PUW DR,VE ~ |N ^THEATRE CHtHREM UNDER 12 YEARS- YKtl “DESERT SONG” “SOUTH SEA SINNER” THURSDAY — FRIDAY DANGEROUS WHEN WET’ NOW SHOWING QUEEN NOW SHOWING WAS All WOMAN . LOVED ALL MEN... LOVING NONE! GENE TIERNEY DANA ANDREWS CLIFTON WEBB VINCENT PRICE CENTURY-FOX ENCORE TRIUMPH! QUEEN) STARTS FRIDAY "«* RICHARD CARLSON-BARBARA RUSH • a universal international picture CAMPUS TODAY THRU SATURDAY OUT OF THE most daring BOOK OF OUR TIME! starring * " MONTGOMERY UNGASTER CLIFT DEBORAH FRANK DO* KERR SINATRA REED Screen Play by DANin TARADASH • Based upon the novel by JAMES JONES Produced by BUDDY ADLER • Directed by FRED 2INNEMANN COLUMBIA ’ ' PICTURE * ■ Adults Children . .80 . .25 cent completion average. Baylor’s Francis Davidson, play ing in two games, trails Ellis by two yards in passing. He has 322 yards on 14 completions of 26 at tempts. Lamar McHan, of Arkansas, trails Ellis by 31 yards in total offense, although he has played in only two games. McHan has picked up 345 yards on 64 plays for a 5.4 yard average (See ELLIS LEADS, Page 4) Ag Freshmen Meet Traylor-Led Cubs Led by Doyle Traylor, heralded by sports writers as one of the best passers ever produced by Tex as high school football, the star- studded Baylor Cubs will meet the A&M freshmen at Kyle Field Thursday night. Kickoff time will be 7:30 p. m. Admission for non-students will be $1. Coupon books or ID cards will admit students. Traylor, twice all-state in high school, threw 83 touchdown passes in his high school career at Temple and twice led them to the state 3- A finals against Breckenridge in .1951 and 1952. Four Breckenridge Players Four of those Breckenridge play ers are on the Aggie freshman team. Two other Temple players Ronnie Guess and Don Berry are on the Cub squad. Halfback Bobby Keith and tackles Houston Green, Bobby Lockett and Charles Dendy played major roles in the two Brecken ridge victories in the finals. Keith staged a spectacular of fensive performance Thursday night in the 34-0 win over John 31 YARDS OF 118—Billy Pete Huddleston, an outstanding halfback Saturday night, flashes around left end with a pitchout for 31 yards. It was the first time this season Huddleston had carried the ball from scrimmage. Larry Winkler (78) readies a key block on Derwent Langley (44) as Charlie Madison (39) chases the play. Tarleton. He scored 22 points and picked up 76 yards in 10 carries. Lockett and Green were standouts in a line that held the Plowboys to four first downs. Cubs Beat Shorthorns The Cubs beat a strong Texas Shorthorn team, 21-7, last week. Fullback Reuben Saage, of Bell- ville, scored the winning touch down on a 29 yard burst up the middle, faking four Texas players out of position. Slick Charles Scott will call the signals for a hard-running A&M backfield that will give the Cub’s big line a strong test. Scott was the sensation of the Tarleton game with his smooth ball handling and running. He scored once, gained 60 yards on 10 carries and engineered a freshman team that currently looks like the best one of recent years. Powerful John Pardee, Don Car penter and Bill Grandberry will give the Aggies explosive power up the middle and off tackle to go with the wide runs of Keith and Scott . Lloyd Hale, Ben Bloomer and Walker Griffith bulwark the mid dle of the line that repeatedly stop ped Tarleton ground plays before they could get started. A&M Fencers Go to Lubbock The A&M fencing team will meet Texas Tech in Lubbock Fri day in its first meet of the season. Matches will be held in foil, sabre and epee. Bob Braslau and Gus Wulfman are the co-captains. The ’53 team has an 18 - man squad, although only three men can participate in each class in one match. Meets are scheduled with John Tarleton State Junior college', Southern Methodist university, University of Texas, Rice and Uni versity of Houston. Dates of these matches have not been set. Workouts are held from 5 to 7 p. m. Monday through Friday. ROUGH GOING—Tommy Strait, 195 pound sophomore, finds the going rough through the center of the Georgia line. He picked up two yards before he was stopped by Georgia’s Zeke Bratkowski (12) and Howard Kelly (46) on the Bulldog 21-yard-line. ’Mural Tennis, Basketball Start for Freshmen Monday Intramural tennis and basketball began for the freshmen at the Grove yesterday. Company B, led by Wayne Glenn and Larkin Warren, outlasted com pany G. High point men were Tony Specia of company G with five points and Glenn and Warren each with three. Jay Cuold led the fish band to a 19-11 victory over squadron 17. Company F and company D for feited basketball games to com panies A and C respectively. Tennis L. G. Corder, D. L. Moore, H. D. Thompson, G. B. 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