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The Battalion
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Number 262: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1954
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Football Year Looks Lean
Intramural Program Gives
Everyone A Chance To Play
Pa u l Brya n t Beg i n s
New A&M Chapter
► A new chapter in the history of A&M football was begun
last Feb. 4 when Paul (Bear) Bryant, successful Kentucky
mentor the past eight years, was named athletic director and
19th head football coach at Aggieland.
Bryant was given a six-year contract at $15,000 per
pear. He replaces Ray George, Aggie coach the past three
Seasons. 4—
Bryant’s coaching record speaks
for itself—66 wins, 25 losses and
six ties in nine years as a head
coach—and he is considered one
of the outstanding coaches in the
nation for his great success at
Kentucky.
His head coaching career began
in 1945 at Maryland where he
brought the Terps out of oblivion
to a fine 6-2-1 record. In 1946 he
departed for Kentucky.
Bryant, was an all-Southeastern
end at Alabama in the mid-thirties
where he played with such great
stars as Dixie Howell and Don
Hutson and had the advantage of
the late Frank Thomas’ tutoring.
A native of Fordyce, Arkansas,
Bryant remained at Alabama as
Thomas’ assistant from 1936-39,
then was an assistant at Vander
bilt in 1940 and 1941. After duty
in World War II in the navy, and
reaching the rank of lieutenant
commander, he launched his career
at Maryland.
Wife of the handsome, 40-year-
old Bryant is Mrs. Mary Harmon
Bryant. Their two children are
Mae Martin, 18, and Paul, Jr., 10.
Not everybody can go for foot
ball, baseball, or track, but at
A&M everybody can play intra
murals — and almost everybody
does.
A&M’s intramural program is
called one of the largest in the
country, with about 80 teams com
peting in 13 sports. Teams are
from the dormitories for civilian
students, and the military units
for corps students.
Yearly team and individual
awards are given to the intramural
champions.
Over-all championships are bas
ed on a scoring system which al
lows each team a certain number
of points for entering a sport and
another number for winning the
league championship, runner up or
other honors.
The intramural program is open
to every student in A&M, and is on
a purely voluntary basis. No credit
is given for participation so far as
scholastic woik is concerned.
Competition Is Stiff
Even in this program without
any credit, the competition is stiff
between units and the honor of
being top intramural outfit is
keenly sought.
Among the sports offered are
basketball, tennis, flag football
(each player carries a flag in his
shorts and when the flag is jerked
out by the opponent the runner is
down), horseshoes, cross country,
bowling, ping-pong, softball, golf,
volleyball, badminton, swimming
and track.
The Intramural Department,
which is directed by Barney Welch,
furnishes all playing equipment ex
cept individual equipment such as
tennis rackets, tennis balls, shoes
and other personal equipment.
Welch also is in charge of fur
nishing officials for all the games,
scheduling events and maintaining
the courts and fields in top condi
tion.
The Intramural Department re
ceives money each year from the
Exchange Store for the purchase
of game equipment such as foot
ball, horseshoes, softballs and bats.
These items are issued to the out
fits to use whenever and wherever
the athletic officers in the outfits
want to.
Equipment of this type is issued
ir the Office of Student Activities,
second floor of Goodwin Hall, at
the beginning of each year.
The intramural program is ar
ranged and planned through the
Dean of Men’s Office and directed
though the Student Activities Of
fice. The intramural office is in
the southwest comer of DeWare
Field House and is open daily from
1 p.m. until p.m.
Any questions pertaining to in
tramurals may be brought to
Welch in his office in Goodwin
Hall.
‘Tntramurals play an important
part in the life of students at Ag
gieland for parious reasons,” says
Welch. “Most boys are athletically
inclined, and although they are not
proficient enough or lack time to
participate in intercollegiate
sports, they still can enjoy their
favorite sport through intramurals.
Fish Team Will
Bolster Baseball
Texas A&M’s 1955 baseball var
sity will be helped considerably by
several members of the 1954 fresh
men team, coached by Les Pahn6r.
The Fish team last spring re
corded a 9-3 record and the three
games lost — Texas, Baylor and
Rice—each were redeemed by Ag
gie victories. The Cadets split
these three teams.
Among the leading candidates
Coach Beau Bell will welcome to
the varsity next fall will be Bill
White of El Paso w'ho led the
Fish in hitting with .467; Dick
Bleckner of West Palm Beach, Fla.,
shortstop who hit .344; first sacker
John Hoyle of Tulsa with a .333
mark; Outfielder Lew Blood of
Ponca City, Okla., leading RBI
producer with a .308 average;
and Pitcher Dick Munday of Bry
an, the frosh team’s top hurler.
With such varsity men returning
as Jimmy Williams, all-South west
conference catcher; Pitchers Jerry
Nelson, Joe Hardgrove and Tex
Vanzura; Outfielders Benn Hub
bard, Les Byrd and John Stockton
and Infielders Joe Schero, Claude
Northrup and Bob Pender, Bell
could field a more potent team in
’55 than in the past two seasons.
For instance here’s a , probable
lineup for next fall:
Byrd, Stockton and Blood in the
outfield; Hoyle on lb; White on 2b;
Bleckner or Northrup at ss; Schero
on 3b; Williams catcher and Mun
day, Nelson, Hardgrove and Van
zura, pitchers.
Missing Quarterback
Hampers Team
Even though indications point to a lean year for football
at Texas A&M, the 1954 season should prove to be an
interesting one.
Lack of an adequate quarterback replacement for Don
Ellis, all-Southwest signal-caller last fall, spells trouble for
Aggie rooters, but the new coaching staff headed by Paul
(Bear) Bryant will bear watching.
On paper the Aggies are fortified by 17 returning
lettermen—15 from last fall and two from the 1952 squad—
while only 10 were lost. But the facts show that several of
those lettermen couldn’t make the grade last spring as
Bryant inaugurated the Split T offense and a good sprinkling
of sophomores have moved 4-
Col. Andy Enters
34th Year Here
Track Coach Frank G. Ander
son, or Col. Andy, as the Aggies
call him, is entering his 34th year
at A&M. During this time, he has
been freshman football coach, com
mandant of cadets, and track coach,
his present job.
During his 22 years as track
coach, the Aggie thinclads have
never placed below third in SWC
competition, and have captured the
crown nine times.
Col. Andy is noted for develop
ing unknowms into steady per
formers. He says his greatest
thrill w'as Walter (Buddy) Darts’
high jump and Darrow Hooper’s
shot put victories in the 1952
Olympic games.
into the top spots.
The Aggies, as last year,
will be plagued by lack of
depth at all positions but
fullback, and lack of size and expe
rience at several slots. Based on
spring training, Bryant should have
six returning 1953 regulars in the
line and one returning regular in
the backfield.
Don Kachtik, senior fullback
from Rio Hondo, is one of the bet
ter fullbacks in the Southwest
conference and with Bob Easley,
Houston junior behind him, this
position is the best-fortified of all
at A&M. The other ten positions
are not manned by as good men
and with much less replacements.
The regular linemen returning
will be Bill Schroeder and
Bennie Sinclair, ends; Lawrence
Winkler, tackle; Sid Theriot and
Marvin Tate, guards and Fred
Broussard, center. Norbert Ohlen-
dorf probably will get the nod at
the other tackle slot while the cur
rent leading backs are Don Wat
son, sophomore, at left half and
Charles Hall, senior, at right half.
Billy Pete Huddleston, a junior,
will go behind Watson and Bobby
Drake Keith, sophomore, back of
Hall
Leading quarterback candidates
last spring wore Elw r ood Kettler,
senior and two-year letterman at
halfback, and Sophomore Charles
Scott. An untried boy—Gene Hen
derson of San Angelo junior col
lege—will be tried at quarterback
w r hen practice opens Sept. 1.
Leading replacements in the line
are Eugene Stallings, sophomore
from Paris and Richard Vick, sen
ior from Beaumont, at end; W. D.
Powell, sophomore from Lockhart,
tackle; Ray Barrett, San Angelo
senior and Lloyd Hale, sophomore
from Iraan, guards and Ivan
Greenhaw, Dallas senior and Walk
er Griffith, sophomore from Hum
ble, center. It’s expected that
Broussard will again carry the
brunt of the work at center as
his likely replacements are inex
perienced.
Bryant gets his first test as an
Aggie coach (after being on the
other bench the past two years
when A&M played his old school,
Kentucky) Sept. 18 when Texas
Tech brings the defending national
scoring champs to Kyle field.
Tech will be grinning for the Ag
gies this fall, since A&M was the
only team to mar their record last
fall. The Red Raiders defeated
Auburn in the Gator Bowl to hang
up an 11-1 season record.
Coach’s Bat Won
Game and Crown
A&M first SWC baseball crown
was hammered in by a left fielder
named Roy (Beau) Bell.
It was the final game of the
season in 1931; the Aggies were
facing the University of Texas.
Bell stepped up to the plate, back
ed by a .474 batting average, and
slammed a home run across the
fence.
Bell, incidentally, is now A&M’s
baseball coach.
After graduation, Bell went into
organized baseball, playing for
Galveston, then the St. Louis
Browns.
He is entering his fourth year
here as baseball coach.
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