Wednesday, November 4, 1953
THE BATTALION
Page 5
Ags Work on Defense
Saturday 'Pony
Defensive scrimmage against I day’s conference clash with the
freshmen and reserve units was SMU Mustangs on Kyle Field,
featured in Aggie workouts yes- With Elwood Kettler on the
terday in preparation for Satui'- I doubtful list with a hip injury,
Coach Kay George plans to start
a backfield made up of Don Ellis
at quarterback, Joe Boring and
Connie Magouirk at halfbacks, and
Don Kachtik at fullback.
National Statistics
List SWC Leaders
The Southwest conference con
tinues to rank high on both team
and individual leader lists released
by the National Collegiate Ath
letic bureau for football games
through Oct. 31.
In total offense, Baylor is fifth
in the nation with 2168 years in
6 games for a 361.2 yards-per-
game average.
The Bears are 13th in forward
passing with 823 yards picked up
on 54 completions and an average
of 137.2 yards per game.
SMU is second in total defense,
allowing but 176.6 yards per game
to the opposition in 5 games.
Rushing defense listings finds
Baylor in fifth place, permitting
100.3 yards per game, while SMU
is eighth with a 110.6 yards per
game average.
The TCU Horned Frogs rank
fourth in team punting with a 41.4
average for 27 punts.
intramurals”"
Lamar McHan, the Razorback
quarterback, used the Arkansas-
A&M game to vault into third
place in the individual total of
fense race. McHan has picked up
937 yards in 184 plays, while the
Aggies’ Don Ellis has gained 758
yards in 204 plays.
Only SWC performer listed
among the first 20 in rushing is
Kosse Johnson of Rice, with 535
yards in 11 carries, which places
him ninth in the nation.
Ellis is sixth in the nation in
forward passing, connecting on 56
tosses out of 118 attempts for 687
yards. He has had 7 interceptions,
and has passed for 4 touchdowns.
The starting line will be: Bill
Schroeder and Bennie Sinclair,
ends; Durwood Scott and Law
rence Winkler, tackles; Marvin
Tate and Sid Theriot, guards, and
Fred Broussard, center.
Smarting from the 41-14 defeat
by the Razorbacks which removed
them from conference title con
tention, the Aggies will be trying
to knock the Mustangs out of the
race.
Conference losses to Baylor and
Arkansas all but ruined Aggie
chances, and the Mustang defeat
by Texas last week makes this
week’s game a last ditch stand for
the Ponies.
With Jerry Norton, SMU, triple
threat back, and Tiny Goss, out
standing tackle, listed as doubtful
starters for the Mustangs, the con
test may be rated close to a toss-
up by game time.
The Ponies at present are gener
ally considered slight favorites for
the game.
Figer Players Say
Bellville Toughest
Squadron 10
Beats B FA
In Bowling
Squadron 10 led by Harlen Wen-
cel’s 162 defeated B field artillery,
<03-363, in intramural bowling
Monday.
Fred Rose was high for B field
artillery with 129. Henry Goff and
Bob Carpenter helped Wensel,
while J. M. Martinez and Clay
Ruming also bowled for the artil
lery.
David Clark, Jimmy Tyree and
Frank Willis of A field artillery
beat ASA, 534-365. Tyree was high
point man for A field artillery with
193 points. Jerry Estes was high
point man for ASA with 128 points.
A quartermaster’s Hal Wallace,
Clancy Woliver and Taylor Wong
outscored a signal, 406-395.
Wong was high point man for A
quartermaster with 156 points. W.
E. Anderson was high for A signal
with 187 points.
Jimmy Bullock, Vim Monical and
Tom Wheatley of A engineers won
over squadron 3, 374-325. Wheatley
was high point man for A engi
neers with 150 points, while Don
Page was high man for squadron
3 with 122 points.
Squadron 15’s Terry Caldwell,
Cullen Davis and Wayne Leverkuhn
edged White band’s Howard Cal
laway, Merril Gaines and Doug
Krueger, 398-375.
Leverkuhn was high man for
squadron 15 with 182 points.
Krueger was high man for White
band with 163 points.
Dick Reynolds, Gene Miller and
Max Cook of squadron 2 slipped
past Maroon band, 371-351. Miller
was high point man for squadron 2
with 129 points. Ernest Boehler
was high man for Maroon band
with 138 points.
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By JON KINSLOW
Battalion City Editor
A&M Consolidated high school
will have its roughest test of the
season when they play Bellville
Nov. 13.
Five CHS players said the whole
Tiger team was pointing to the
Bellville game to decide the dis
trict champ. The players, David
Bonnen, Fred Anderson, J. B. Car-
roll, Charles Johnson and Pinky
Cooner, all seemed to think Con
solidated would be ready to take
Bellville.
A&M Cagers
Start Workouts
For 32 Dames
A&M’s freshman and varsity
basketball teams started practice
Monday, preparing for a 20 game
varsity and 12 game Fish schedule.
Both open the season against
Lamar Tech on Dec. 1 at Beau
mont.
Thlee returning lettermen and
five squadmen form the nucleus of
a 12 man varsity squad. The fresh
man roster shows 18, with six
players measuring 6 feet, 5 or
over.
Centers Roy Martin and James
Addison and forward Rod Pirtle
are the varsity lettermen. Guard
Don Moon saw much service but did
not letter.
Other returning squadmen are
Ken Murry, Pap McCrory, Stan
Baker and Joe Hardgrove. John
Fortenberry, star of last year’s
freshman team, is expected to add
scoring punch.
“We could be well up on the list
or well down, depending on how
things break for us,” said Coach
John Floyd. “We will have a much
better club than a year ago. I ex
pect fine things from Martin,
Pirtle and Forenberry.”
Floyd thinks Texas, TCU and
Rice are toss-up choices to take
the Southwest conference title.- He
grouped Baylor, SMU and Ark
ansas next.
“I anticipate having a very
entertaining type of basketball,”
said Floyd. “The team will be
shooting more and should get more
rebounds.”
Football player Joe Boring will
join the squad after the football
season. Center Hany Hearne and I
forward Earnest Kennedy are up '
from last year’s Fish team.
Fullback Bonnen will be a big
scoring threat in the title game.
With 60 points to his credit, 165
pound Bonnen is second in Tiger
scoring. Bobby Joe Wade leads the
team with 66 points.
Bellville Rough
“Bellville is plenty rough and
they’re a big team,” Bonnen said.
“We are going to have to get our
pass defense in shape, but we’ve
got two weeks to do it.”
Anderson, 140-pound quarter
back, also thinks the team will be
ready. A two-year letterman, he
says the team is the best he has
played on in high school.
Anderson gave most of the credit
for the team’s success this year
to the line. In fact, he said, the
line has done a better job than the
backfield.
“I know we’ll take Bellville be
cause every time we’ve slipped up
this year we’ve come back to
win,” Anderson said.
Extra - Point Man
Extra point man for the Tigers
this year has been Carroll. He has
kicked 38 out of 42 points, in
cluding 23 straight. A 120-pound
sophomore, Carroll is in his first
year as extra point specialist.
When asked how it feels to have
the opposing line charging in when
he is attempting a conversion,
Carroll said, “They usually don’t
come in. The line gets most of the
credit for my conversions!”
Johnson, offensive tackle and de
fensive guard, said the conference
title depends on the Bellville game.
A 163-pound one year letterman,
he says he is probably playing his
last year of football. AltMough he
plans to enter A&M, he said he
won’t go out for the team.
Besides praising the team as a
whole, Johnson commended Coach
Jim Bevans. Before he entered high
school, Johnson was coached by
Bevans in Junior high.
“I get my biggest thrill out of
getting the quarterback before be
gets rid of the ball,” Johnson said.
Cooner Fills Center
Thi'ee - year letterman Cooner
holds down the center position of
the Tiger line. He said even though
CPIS moved up to a Class A dis
trict this year, the teams aren’t
too much rougher. Sealy was the
toughest team that faced the
Tigers this year he said.
“We’ve got a good chance of
taking Bellville,” Cooner added.
Cooner, a 173 pounder who plays
mostly on offense, said the team
has looked good in all their games
this year.
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Scribes Nominate
Six A^s Selected
jFor A ll-A merica
By JERRY WIZIG
Associate Sports Editor
Six Aggies are among 38 Southwest football players
nominated for all-America by the Football Writers Associa
tion of America.
The 38 include 21 linemen and 17 backs two hundred
and thirty-one players were nominated by the football writers
after the first half of the season.
A&M’s nominees were:
End Bill Schroeder, guards Sid Theriot and Marvin Tate,
center Fred Broussard, quarterback Don Ellis and fullback
Bob Easley.
Here is the complete list of candidates from the. South
west :
Ends-Carleton Massey, Texas; Ed Bernet, SMU; Fliyd
Sagley, Arkansas; Charles Smitjp and Wayne Hopkins, Bay
lor; and Schroeder.
Tackles-Buddy Gillioz, Houston; James Ray Smith, Bay
lor; Dick Chapman, Rice; Jim Lansford, Texas; Don Goss,
SMU.
Guards-Morgan Williams, TCU; John Hudson, Rice;
Phil Branch, Texas; Clarence Dierking, Baylor; and Tate and
Theriot.
Center-Leo Rucka, Rice; Bill Fox, SMU; Leighton
Younger, Texas; and Broussard.
Quarterbacks—Cotton Davidson, Baylor; Duane Nutt,
SMU; Leroy Fenstemaker, Rice, Mai Fowler, TCU; and Ellis.
Halfbacks-Lamar McHan, Arkansas; Jerry Norton and
Frank Eidom, SMU; Dick Moegle, Rice; Jerry Goody and L.
G. Dupre, Baylor; Billy Quinn, Texas.
Fullbacks-Paul Carr, Houston; Kosse Johnson, Rice; Al
len Jones, Baylor; Bill Long Texas; and Easley.
The end play of sophomore agreed that Bill Lucky was better.
Schroeder has been one of the big Yet, on Monday following the
surprises of a surprising team. He game, Jinx Tucker, Waco Tribune-
has started every Aggie game, Herald sports editor, critized the
after edging Eric Miller, a two Aggies in print for allegedly
year letterman. ignoring Smith’s play.
But despite his fine play, Tucker wrote, “His (Smith’s)
Schroeder is not the best end on play was the talk of the press
the team. Bennie Sinclair gets that box, and the efforts of the Aggie
honor. He is a fine, pass-catcher, players to belittle his brilliance in
as he showed against Baylor, is dressing room interviews after the
fast and is hard to circle while on game was over was a bit ironical.”
defense. He is also the second best There’s little doubt about who
pass receiver in the conference, was in the best position to get the
The list of tackles has one not- facts. Playing opposite a guy is
able absentee. Lawrence Winkler certainly a better way to judge
or Durwood Scott certainly rate a his play than watching from the
place on the strength of their con- press box.
sistently fine performances. Smith ‘Smears’ Kettler
Winkler Great Story To top it allj Waco > s Sunday
Winkler’s is one of the outstand- paper had the following cutline
ing-stories of the season. Larry, a under a picture: “Baylor fullback
junior, played high school foot- Allen Jones races 34 yards in the
ball at Temple but didn’t letter, first quarter of the Bruin-Aggie
He came to A&M without an ath- game while James Ray Smith, Bay-
letic scholarship and made the lor’s brilliant tackle, smears El-
Fish team. Last year he lettered wood Kettler, Aggie defender.”
as a guard but was shifted to For Tucker’s information, is was
tackle in the spring and has look- Kettler who knocked Dupre out of
ed great ever since. bounds after going past Smith.
His brother James was an all- The picture, and the game movie,
conference tackle at A&M and was clearly showed Kettler fending
all-pro last year with the Los Smith off with his arm.
Angeles Rams. This is not intended as an at-
^ Nothing needs to be said about tack on Smith. The Bruin tackle
Scott’s play. “Great” sums it up. j s a fi ne player, but we do not
Tucker Controversy think he is an all-America or bet-
In short,* the play of these two ter than Winkler and Scott,
tackles certainly seems to war- Tate and Theriot are continuing
rant placing them in the same straight down the road they start-
class as Baylor’s James Ray Smith, ed on last year, when they were
Smith, it will be remembered, is both widely cited. Both are small,
the boy who was the AP’s line- but theh- speed and hustle more
man of the week after the Baylor- tEm make up for their lack of
A&M game. Smith played a fine si 26 -
game, but most Aggie players (See ‘AGGIES,’ Page 6)
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Blame Goes from Sand
Dunes to SWC Title
By ROBERT BROWN
There is little similarity be
tween West Texas sand dunes and
Southwest conference cross-coun
try tracks, but James Blaine is
familiar with both.
The defending SWC cross-coun
try champ, Blaine sped over the
2.6 mile A&M course in 11:41 Mon
day for a new course record. He
smashed the old record, set by him
last year, by 15 seconds.
Blaine has finished first in every
meet of the year, and the Aggies
are undefe'ated in four meets. His
race Monday was probably one of
the best times ever made in the
SWC. There is no official con
ference record since courses are
not uniform.
Jim has won the conference
cross-country crown the past two
seasons and seems likely to repeat
again this year. He is recognized
as one of the nation’s top runners
and is praised by his coach, Col.
Frank Anderson, as the best cross
country man to ever run in the
SWC.
After a brilliant track career
established at the high school an
nex of Tarleton State College,
Blaine enrolled in A&M. Under the
guidance of Anderson, the stocky
West Texan rapidly developed
into the top-notch runner he is to
day.
Blaine did not stop with his
cross-country victories. He stayed
in training and competed in the
two-mile race at regular track
meets. Last year he won the con
ference two-mile title.
Roads are few and rough around
Blaine’s Pecos Valley hometown of
Imperial, and the terrain is not
suited for track training. Despite
this, Jim never misses his road
work while at home.
Seeing Blaine jogging off into
the sand dunes every morning and
afternoon, folks around Imperial
began to suspect that the sun had
gotten the best of him. That was
before the newspapers began to
praise Jim’s achievements as he
broke cross-country and two-mile
records.
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