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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, September 7, 1954
Sports Writers Choose Texas
To Win Southwest Conference
FORT WORTH, Sept. 7—The numerous and talented University
of Texas Longhorns are the most prohibitive favorites in modern his
tory to win the Southwest Conference football title in 1954.
In the 21st annual poll of the Texas Christian University sports
service just completed, the charges of Coach Ed Price were picked
to win by 68 of the 78 sports writers and newscasters who marked
ballots. Six others gave the Steers a title tie and only four guessers
placed them in the No. 2 spot. Nobody picked them lower than that.
Rating the teams one point for a first-place ballot, two points for
a second, three for a third, and so on, the Longhorns rated a total
of only 86, the best percentage-wise in the history of the poll.
The Rice Owls, defending co-champs with Texas last season, drew
the No. 2 spot with 185 points and the Baylor Bears were third with
215. Each of these teams got two first-place votes and three ties for
the top.
None of the other four teams rate a first-place vote and, in fact,
they received very few ballots above the No. 4 spot.
The SMU Mustangs were fourth'
with 813 points; TCU fifth with
411; Arkansas sixth with 471; and
A&M last with 479. However, the
Mustangs got two votes for second,
Arkansas rated two thirds, A&M
one third as did TCU.
On the balloting, it appears that
Texas is the wide choice to win
easily, with Rice and Baylor rated
some chance at an upset. SMU
and TCU ranged in the middle area
with Arkansas and A&M ticketed
to fight it out for the cellar.
But it should be pointed out that
in the previous 20 polls, the “ex
perts” have been exactly right on
only four occasions (1938, 1943,
1945, and 1950) and twice their
champion got a tie (1940 and
and 1953). So anything can hap
pen.
The complete prediction was as
Golfcrest Tourney To Pull
Players From South Texas
Rasorbacks To Concentrate
On Winning The Close One
A sparkling field of club play
ers from the Gulf Coast area and
East and Central Texas is expec
ted to compete in Houston’s Golf-
crest Country Club first annual
four-ball invitation tournament
over an improved course Septem
ber 18-19.
Tournament Chairman Bill Behr-
man announced names of some of
the leading contenders from among
the early entries. They include
Jack Sellman and John Anderson,
Ray Hadden and Lt. Orin Hitt, the
par-cracking policeman; Frank
Chilson and Ozzie Newall, Cecil H.
Huey and Loyd E. Ellis, Chick Mc
Carthy and Dub Geiselman, Dick
McCreary and Lavourdes Kluppel,
Spiz Berg and Don Stone, Jack
Delmar and Bobby Riegel.
follows:
U.T
86
68
6 T’s
Rice
185
2
3 T’s
Baylor
215
2
3 T’s
SMU
313
0
0
TCU
..... 411
0
0
Arkansas ....
..... 471
0
0
A&M
..... 479
0
0
There was a tendency on the
part of some to eye the Texas Ag
gies, under new coach Bear Bry
ant, as a possible upsetter. Others
saw SMU as a possible darkhorse
and one or two Arkansas writers
predicted the Razorbacks would do
a lot better than Texas experts
predict.
The four “brave” pickers who
went against John Brandon of Sta
tion KCYL at Lampasas, Spec
Gammon of the Odessa American,
Robbie Robinson of the Alice Echo,
and Harold Scherwitz, veteran of
the San Antonio Light. All placed
Texas second.
Some of the comments were en
lightening. One of the best was
by Jack Bell of KDET, Center,
who wrote in the comment space:
“I wouldn’t dare!”
Tommy O’Brien of KTRM, Beau
mont, saw the Aggies as “the big
surprise this year with best bal
anced returning material in the
Conference excepting Texas.” Or
ville Henry of the Arkansas Ga
zette called it the easiest pick in
years. “No one would be more
than one notch out of the place
picked,” he said.
Wallie Ingallis, KGRH in Fay
etteville, tabbed Arkansas third
with the defiant commend: “O.K.
—so I’m a rugged individualist
and have been doing a powerful lot
of wishful thinking.” Blackie Sher
rod of the Fort Worth Press ob
served: “If permissable, I would
vote for Texas 1st and 2nd!”
Mark Batterson, Austin Ameri-
can-Statesman, sounded a note of
warning: “I wouldn’t worry but
for one thing: Why aren’t Jess
Neely and George Sauer looking
more worried?”
Texas Rests
On Standout
Winning Hopes
End Play
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 7
well when ends are swell.
That’s not exactly like the play
wright wrote it, yet that para
phrasing reveals the important
role that ends have played in The
University of Texas football suc
cess.
Standout end play has become
traditional at Texas. The Long
horns have been blessed with an
all-America performer at end of
the past ten years, and champion
ships came during four of those
seasons. And there has been an
all-Southwest Conference end in
the ranks for each of the past
four seasons, as many as two twice
during the two-platoon days.
That may explain why some say:
“As its ends go, so goes Texas.”
Which is another way of saying
that one can not justify the Long
horns’ current high ranking on the
basis of the end situation. It isn’t
that Coach Ed Price and his staff
expect inferior end play, but there
may not be enough experience to
maintain the high standard of re
cent seasons.
Missing from the scene are the
two starting ends from last season.
Carlton Massey was an all-America
performer last year, and both he
and Gilmer Spring made the con
version from two-platoon to double
duty sufficiently to gain all-con
ference recognition.
Lost along with them, tempora
rily at least, is Malcolm Kitchens,
a senior from San Antonio who
might have been a starter this fall.
Kitchens is sitting out this cam
paign through ineligibility.
Only three of the ten end can
didates are experienced, and one
of them may not be sound of limb.
Menan Schriewer of New Braun
fels and Don Jones of Lubbock,
both juniors, are likely starters,
while Senior Howard Moon of Hou
ston is a question mark because of
an ailing arm that cost him more
than half of last season. '
Five sophomores and two juniors,
a transfer and a squadman, com
plete the cast. The juniors are
Allen Dockery of Carrizo Springs,
a transfer from Southwest Texas
Junior College at Uvalde, and Carl
Aalund of Houston.
The sophomores appear to have
clas. The most promising appear
to be Morton Moriarty of Dallas,
who has been in military service
and Mike Trant of Tyler, both of
All’s whom impressed jas freshmen and I len Ernst and Roy Chapman of<
in spring drills. Competing for the Temple and Don Bunn of McAl-
first time along with them are Al- | len.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Sept. 7
No matter what the sport, the old
saying—“It’s the close ones that
really count”—has been time-test
ed to ring true at the end of the
season. Whether the championship
is at stake or just a .500 season—
the close games are the ones which
usually spell success or failure.
And, with the Arkansas Razor-
backs, the inability to take even a
fair share of the close games over
the past five years has cost them
14 victories—nine of them with
Five Aggie Squad Members Drop
From 1954 Football Roster
JUNCTION—UP)—Five members of the Texas A&M
football squad—including' lettermen Joe Boring and Foster
Teague—quit Friday in what was described as a natural de
velopment.
“We have boys quitting all the time,” explained Jones
Ramsey, college sports news director. “They drop out
when they figure they can’t make the team.”
Boring, a back from Dallas, had lettered for two years,
playing mostly on defense. Teague is a junior tackle from
Bossier City, La.
Others giving up football were Ivan Greenhaw, junior
squadman from Dallas, a center; Barton Griffith, sophomore
center from Humble, and Charles Moore, sophomore tackle
from Texarkana.
The departure of these five cut the A&M squad to 40 as
Paul (Bear) Bryant, new Aggie coach, sent his gridders
through fall practice here. A&M is the only Southwest Con
ference squad training away from home.
Ramsey stressed the fact that there was no discord and
that the boys quit the squad for personal reasons.
Southwest Conference rivals. The
Arkansas Razorbacks of 1954 might
well keep this in mind as they con
clude their first abbreviated week
of practice.
The 1950 Porkers set some sort
of record for their inability to win
the tight games—though it must
be said in their defense that get
ting close at all was creditable in
several cases. The Razorbacks that
year dropped six games in a 2-8
season by seven points or less. The
record read 7-12 to Oklahoma A&M,
6- 13 to TCU, 14-19 to Texas, 13-14
to Vanderbilt, 6-9 to Rice, and 7-14
to SMU. There’s no doubt but that
the morale of any ball club is
shaken by such a series of narrow
losses.
Even closer to the scene, how
ever, is the 1953 season that saw an
outmanned Razorback team drop
four out of five close games. The
four losses were by a total of o
15 points, while still another defi
was by nine points. The rec
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7- 6, Baylor by 14-7, SMU by 13 J ,
and LSU by 9-8. Texas defeated
Arkansas, 16-7.
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