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Wednesday, February 29, 1956 THE BATTALION Page 3 UT Routs Ags, 98-70 As Hull Ends Career A-Infantry Nips Band Gridders A-Infantry earned a berth in upperclassmen football semi-finals yesterday, edging White Band by one penetra tion. Jack Gilpin and Gus Beever sparked the aggressive In fantry attack. Cy Holley and Phil Speer paced the potent band of fensive. D-Field Artillery will collide with the Infantrymen in the semi-final highlight. Jim Spencer led the Artillery team to a 7-6 win over C-Infantry. Other D-Field stars were Dan Winship, Bob Smith, and Harry MeBrierty. C-Infantry’s outstanding gridders were Bill Boyd and James Christ. Sqd. 2 defeated Sqd. 1, 7-6 in a playoff game. Sqd. 7’s crafty freshmen cagers toppled mighty A-Field, 39-11, dishing out the Artillerymen’s first defeat. Sqd. 7 will meet Sqd. 10 in semi-final competition. Sqd. 10 downed Sqd. 18, 33-23 yesterday. Others in basketball semi-finals are Sqd. 16, winner over Sqd. 13, and Sqd. 6, victors in a tilt with Sqd. 11. KEYS MADE While You Wait For Dorms Autos Etc. . ^ LOUPOT CIRCLE THRU FRIDAY “Girl In The Red Velvet Swing” Joan Collins Also “It’s A Woman’s World” Clifton Webb WEDNESDAY Prank SINAJDA - Eleanor PARKED Kim NOVAK ; : •A\V b 7 -:.- ThF. MAN ^£!ir<SS 0 lPEN The: ml -Mb? ffc Recommended Adult Entertainment M1IASCO TH.U UNITED ARIlETl Bryan 2?&879 TODAY thru SATURDAY TV’s Program of “I LOVE LUCY” Is Now on the Screen FIRST BIG COMEDY HIT OF 1956! Lucille BALL-DesiARNAZ James MASON in mgm’s FOmERDARUm IN costarring Color • LOUIS CALHERN wHh John John Natalie EMERY - HOYT • SCHAFER QUEEN Positively Last Chance to See This Marvelous Production For an Indefenite Period. ON WIDE SCREEN! FULL LENGTH! X FULL LENGTH! UNCHANGED! $ DAVID O.SEUKICtn r>.d.c;ia» ot GONE WITH THE WIND ^ .TECHNICOLOR By BARRY HART Texas ended Slue Hull’s tenure as Longhorn basketball coach appropriately last night, bombing the Aggies, 98-70, to pull into undisputed possession of fourth place in the final conference standings. A&M saved half of the doubleheader, however, as the Aggie Fish laced the Shorthorns, 68-63, in the Gregory Gym opener. Absorbing their eighth straight defeat, sixth in con ference play, the Aggies fell into a fifth place tie with the Baylor Bears as they ended their season with a 3-9 league record and a 6-18 season record. A&M WAS IN THE game only five minutes, pulling to within one point with the score 4-5, but after that it was all Texas and Raymond Downs’ show. Downs, the brilliant all-SWC forward who leads the league in scoring, pushed in 33 points to lead all scoi-ers. Bill Brophy, playing his final game for the Maroon and White, dropped a fi’ee throw to make the score 5-7 at the 14-minute mark, but then came a five-minute drought in which the torrid Long horns severed the nets for 18 points before Ted Harrod’s free throw gave the scoreboai’d a 6-25 reading. GEORGE M E H A F F E Y and Brpphy hit nine points while Downs and company were throwing in 15. Texas’ 6-10 center, Ellis Olmstead combined with Downs to run the score at the intermission to 49-23, and the Longhorn supporters were more than satisfied. A&M fared somewhat better in the second htalf, scoring 47 points to Texas’ 49, but it was too late then. The Longhorns took the hardwood and started where they had left off, scoring seven quick points before the Aggies could scratch. THEY MOVED TO their largest margin of the evening at 71-34, then watched A&M get semi-hot and pull the score to within 20 points at 68-88 with three minutes remaining. Both Downs and Olmstead fouled out and Coach Hull emptied his bench as the crowd filled the air with the “Poor Aggies” chant. In a last-second attempt to hit the 100 mark, Texas’ Ken Cleveland threw up a desperation shot that stripped the nest, but the horn had blown ending the game. During Every Practice Aggie Gridders Star In Movies WEDNESDAY ‘The year’s funniest film!" — Life Magazine A G.B.D. International Films Release S ' 1*4- : i , ^ '** " * «- r-r 4 ( HU Obi N UN0HM? Yl/Urt- YKfct- — THRU FRIDAY — PETE KELLY’S BLUES’ With Jack Webb — Plus — “ISLAND IN THE SKY” With John Wayne BOX SCORE AGGIES <70) fgr ft pf Ip Hutto 2 10 3 14 Brophy 3 3 3 9 Mehaffey . . 7 O 2 14 Bilbrey . .. 2 O 5 4 Harrod 1 1 O 3 Connally 1 2 3 4 Henry 2 4 1 8 Sutherlin 5 4 3 14 Williams O 0 O 0 Fortenberry 0 O 2 0 TOTALS 23 24 22 70 STEERS (98) fg ft pf tp Dowd 2 1 1 3 Decker 6 0 4 12 Hooten 4 0 1 8 Downs 10 13 5 33 Cleveland -. 6 0 2 12 Olmstead ..5 5 5 15 Howard 4 0 2 8 Shaffer 2 1 O 5 Horwitz 1 O 1 2 Qroogan O O 2 0 TOTAL 39 20 23 98 Halftime score: Texas 49, A&M 23. Ag Fencing Team Rips Air Academy A&M’s strong crew of fencers host the University of Texas and the University of Houston in a triangular meet Saturday in the MSC. The fencing team downed the United States Air Force Acad emy Falcons, 17-10, in a meet at Denver, Colo, last weekend. Carl Hill led the foil team to a smashing 7-2 victory ovei- the Academy. Bill Swann and Charles Wills were the other two mem bers of the Aggies’ entry in the foil division. Ted Castle, Cecil Hill, John Quigley and Swann gave A&M a 5-4 win over the air force cadets in the epee event. Bill Fink, Willis and Len Layne captured the sabre division, 5-4. Roger Clark and Nelson Bourn made the trip as team managers. Electrical Engineers Civil Engineers Mechanical Engineers Accounting Majors LOOKING FOR A CAREER WITH A FAST-GROWING ELECTRIC COMPANY Texas Electric Service Company, one of the largest utility companies in Texas, (but not so large that an ambitious young man wouldn’t be noticed) offers numerous opportunities for college graduates. Representatives of the company will be glad to give you more details about the type of job opportunities in this rapidly growing electric utility firm. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY WILL BE AT THE PLACE MENT OFFICE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, MARCH 1 AND 2. ARRANGE WITH THE PLACE MENT OFFICE FOR AN INTERVIEW. THE TALENTED TOE of halfback Loyd Taylor gets a workout in yesterday’s football drills. Taylor was A&M’s top point after touchdown artist last season. Holding the ball for Loyd is halfback Don McClelland. Sport Shorts By The Associated Press DALLAS — Champion SMU and cellar-dwelling TCU produced the nearest to unanimous choices on the All-Southwest Conference Bas ketball Team selected by the coaches. Larry Showalter of SMU make the team lacking only one vote of getting all seven. Dick O’Neal, high-scoring TCU centei% was the other player getting all but one ballot. Other members of the team are Joe Durrenberger of Rice, Ray Downs, Texas, Jerald Barnett, Arkansas, and Bobby Mills, SMU. Barnett and Mills were tied in number of votes. ★ ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Pitcher Bob Grim took a slight pay cut yesterday when he ac cepted his 1956 New York Yankee contract. The young righthander was cut from $13,000 to $12,000. ★ ABILENE—P. E. Shotwell, dean of Texas high school coaches, was named athletic director at McMur- ry College last night. Shotwell re signed his job with the Abilene public schools Monday. Ed Note: Joining Luther Hall in preparing this third article on A&M football Spring (training is a guest writer, halfback Kenneth Hall. By LUTHER HALL and KENNETH HALL Remembering that the best of fense is sometimes a good defense, we spent most of yesterday’s prac tice period working on defensive assignments. Coach Bryant gave us a new de fense to learn, and part of the two- hour workout was devoted to let ting us run through our new as signments. Starts and stances of both linemen and backs got quite a bit of attention, and as usual we put some more polish on our of fensive plays. ' When someone mentions shooting motion pictures you probably think of Hollywood. But we’re filmed every day—and we don’t have to worry about make-up. By taking pictures of our workouts the coaches are able to catch the weak nesses and strong points of all the players. After movies are taken of an afternoon’s scrimmage, they are rushed to Houston where they are developed immediately so that Coach Bryant and the other coaches can look over the films the next morning. The coaches always start looking at the films at 8 a.m., and sometimes even earlier. Each player is given a grade on how he performed the day befoi'e. The players with the highest grades are put on the “A” team the following day, the next highest on the “B” team, and so on. Nat- m*ally, everyone wants to make as high a grade as possible and get on that No. 1 team—and stay on it. These movies not only help the coaches. They help us, too. We get a chance to go over them and study our mistakes. By doing this we can see exactly what we’re do ing wrong and correct it. If you’ve ever watched us take our limbei'ing-up exercises before practice starts you’ll notice that no one stands in front of the squad and gives commands. We go by sound rather than sight. Our quar terbacks get on the back row and count out the exercises in an un even cadence so that the rest of the team can learn to react auto matically to , the quax'terback’s command. CATFISH BAIT We Have — LAZY IKE LINE BUSTER & WILLIS TROT LINE BAIT Student Co-op Store North Gate McCALL’S Humble Service Station “Where Service Is First” East Gate VI 6-4922 Hy 6 Softball Umpires The Intramural Department needs umpires for softball. Um pires work four days per week and receive $1.00 per game. If you are interested contact Barney Welch at the Intramural Office in De- Ware Field House. AGGIES!! “HOME COOKING” at prices you can afford. GRANNIE’S Next to Campus Theatre — CLOSED SUNDAYS — the pleasure comes thru ... the taste is great! 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