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Must ers Improve; W orried Cox Tries for Two Wilmer Cox, a 6-3 eager from Houston Milby, takes aim at the basket and fires during a practice session in White Coliseum. Cox is a returning letterman and starter from last year’s team. The Ags open the season Dec. 1 against Centenary at College Station. INTRAMURALS The overall intramural stand ings have been re-tallied and in the class A division, Sq. 1 is riding high with 255 points. Second place is held down by Sq. 8 with 280 points and a tie between Co. B-2 and Sq. 4 holds down the third position with 225 points. In the class B standings Sq. 11 holds the fort with a booming Bll points. Sq. 10 is second with £90 and Sq. 1 falls third with 277 points. Class C league leaders is Bizzell with 17214 points. The second place is really in a knot with the Mete ors, Hart and Walton all having Monmouth Park race track at Oceanport, N. J., during 1959 showed an eight per cent increase in attendance over 1958. Wagering showed a 2.7 per centage increase. It takes two to fill the bill TWO BY TWO CLASS For , Aggies and Aggie Wives First Baptist Church College Station ^Jhe Olympia TYPEWRITERS Guaranteed As Long As You Are At A&M OTIS MCDONALD’S BRYAN BUSINESS MACHINES Twenty-Four Hour Black And White Film Developing A&M PHOTO SHOP For The Intellectual Type Aggie! One ruler One pair of glasses with Case One economics book One pipe One ball-point pen These items can be obtained for a nominal fee at the MSC Lost and Found Auction before and after The Bonfire 120 points. The points continued to pile up yesterday with a host of games being played in all classes. Class B basketball winners were Sq. 6, Sq. 10, Co. A-2, Sq. 2, Co. L-2, Sq. 3 and Co. H-2. In classe A-C football Co. E-l took Co. 1-2, Co. G-l won over Sq. 7 and Puryear beat Leggett in the class C division. Only one game was played in class A handball when Co. B-2 out- scored Co. K-2. , In class A horseshoes Sq. 17 beat Sq. 8, Co. F-l took Co. B-l, Sq. 11 topped Co. C-l, Co. C-2 beat Co. A-l and Bizzell won on a forfeit. Texas Aggie cagers open the 1959-60 season two weeks from Tuesday, but Coach Bobby Rogers isn’t marking the calendar like a boy awaiting Santa Claus. The Farmers open play Dec. 1 against Centenary in College Station. Rogers definitely is worried over the progress of his club and fig ures the opening game will come much too soon for the team that is rated high in the Southwest Con ference basketball ranks. “We’ll have to show marked im provement in several departments of the game to put a representative club on the floor against Centen ary,” Rogers said this week. All told the Cadets play four home games at the start of the season before they move onto the road against intersectional foes. “Our rebounding is not as it should be. We’re losing the ball too many times and our defense on the post needs improvement,” the Aggie coach revealed as he pre- pares for his third season at Aggie- land. The return to workout this week of Don Stanley following an op eration brightened Rogers’ hopes, but the former Kilgore Junior Col lege and Buna star is not expected to be ready for full speed for an other month. Stanley showed great promise of being an important cog in Rogers’ basketball machine during the first week of practice before he was shipped off to the hospital for the operation. Most pleasing factor about the Aggies has been the front line de fense composed of Wayne Annett, Wilmer Cox, Elliott Craig, Pat Stanley and Tommy Smith. An nett, Cox and Stanley are junior college transfers while Craig is a junior letterman and Smith a hold out sophomore. Kelly Chapman of Tyler Junior College and A&M last year has shown improvement on defense, too, but needs much more work. “Key to our success this sea son,” Rogers figures, “is (Wayne) Lawrence staying healthy. Law rence broke an ankle last year, missing the final seven games, and sprained the other one in a work out last week. Lawrence is the tallest member of the squad at 6-7, while the re mainder average out at around 6-3, with the exception of Dave (Bull) Corson. Corson is a 6-6 athlete. Carroll Broussard, 6-5 sopho more from Port Arthur, is “mak ing typical sophomoric mistakes, but is much improved on defense,” Rogers noted. “Broussard contin ues to shoot well, but needs more work on his passing which has been erratic,” Rogers said. Broussard was the top freshman player in the league last year and led the Freshman in scoring and rebounding. “At the present time we feel by no means we know our starting lineup, which means we definitely will play more boys,” Rogers said. S PORT SLANT By BOB WEEKLEY S As far as I’ecords go in football, the Aggies have posted a dismal record this year. All can be re deemed if they can upset the touted Longhorns Thanksgiving Day. But whether or not the Farmers win against the Steers, my hat goes off to them for the spirit and aggressiveness they’ve shown in a losing cause. They’ve gone into game after game as underdog, but the fact failed to impress those eleven men out on the field and they played Aggie Swimmer Voted All-America One Aggie swimmer should be getting used to being called an All- American. The Cadet mentioned is John Harrington, who has been named All-American in the 100 and 200 yard backstroke events. Harrington is a junior now, but the selection is for his perform ances last year. While in high school, Harring ton was named All-American three years in a row and probably the only reason he didn’t make it as a freshman at A&M was because they don’t pick Freshman All- Americans. -GROCERIES- CRISCO 3-lb. Can 79c 300 Size Cans—Austex CHILI Can 39c 300 Size Cans—Austex TAMALES 2 Cans 39c 300 Size Cans—Auste'x BEEF STEW Can 33c Nabisco Premium CRACKERS 1-lb. 25c Folgers COFFEE 1-lb. Can 69c 300 Size Cans—Hunts Solid Pack Tomatoes .. 2 Cans 29c No. 2>/ 2 Cans—Hunts Whole Spiced Peaches .... Can 29c Folgers Instant COFFEE 6-Oz. 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The score might read in favor of the other team, but we realize that the Farmers met their opponents with all the strength, skill and ability they could muster and added a fair measure of heart, and the other team went away knowing they had been in a football game. The Aggies have given a 100 per cent effort in every game. If any team in the nation is capable of giving more, the Aggies will find a way to do it. Thanksgiving Day may be the Aggies’ day to win. It would be a great tribute to those who are playing their last game for the Maroon and White. THE BATTALION Thursday, November 19, 1959 PAGE 5 SWC Too Tough; ’39 Aggies Tops By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Editor Another football season slides by without the Southwest Conference being able to produce an unde feated, untied team. It has been 20 years since the league did it, and it may be another 20 years before it might do it again. The trouble doesn’t usually come from outside competition. These teams beat each other. Texas appeared in shape for the first unbeaten season since 1939 when it ran into Texas Christian last week. Logic said Texas should win the game but logic has nothing to do with Southwest Conference football when the season is near ing its close. SWC Always Wins One Southwest Conference teams have the knack of winning the one game they want more than any other regardless of ability or the season record. * It has happened many times over the years and the best way for a Southwest Conference school to take a licking is to be up in tfye ratings. In 1950 Southern Methodist was No. 1 in the nation, had w^n five straight games. Texas beat South ern Methodist 23-20 and knocked it out of the rankings and champion ship. In 1957 Bear Bryant had an un defeated, untied team at Texas A&M that had just been named No. 1 in the country. It had taken eight straight games. Then came Rice and a 7-6 loss. Everybody Ties Once There have been undefeated teams in the conference since 1939 but none ever got by without being tied. Southern Methodist was un defeated in 1947 but was tied by Texas Christian in the last game of the season. Texas A&M was unbeaten in 1956 but was tied by University of Houston. It actu ally was outplayed in that game. 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The schools are so close together and their material from the same source—Texas high school football —and they recruit about equally. All these guys know each other and it’s a well known fact that a fellow had rather beat his friend on the field of conquest than his enemy. Need Super Team It’s going to take a super team to go through the Southwest Con ference without a defeat. Even the 1939 Texas A&M team, the last un defeated, untied outfit, had its troubles. Southern Methodist came mighty close to beating the Aggies of that vintage. That team arose from a humili ating defeat to the national cham pionship. In 1938 Texas Christian whipped the Aggies 34-6. Back on Oct. 17 when TCU beat A&M 39-6, the boys in the press box were searching the records to see if the Frogs ever had licked the Aggies by a more one-sided margin. They found that 1938 result and remind ed Homer Norton, who was the Aggie coach, of it. “Yes,” said Norton drily, “and that teapi became the national champion.” Trainer Sam Lankford of the University of Florida football team has posted a sign in the dressing room. It says: Don’t be a nail— be a hammer. Classic Sport Coat Here we present the natural approach to sports—the Dunwoodie tailored for us by Michaels-Stern. Comi choose from a great array of colors and patterns that are new as the season. $49.00 CONWAY & CO. 4 Q3 jN. College Bryan