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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
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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
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the game like they were equals,
which they certainly turned out to
be.
An average team will take what
ever fate hands them and still plug
along, but a great team like the
Aggies field never gives up. . .and
they never plod along. It is a trib
ute to the team and to the coach
ing staff for the fine showing they
have made this season.
We who know those Aggies out
there playing Saturday know that
for them there is never defeat. 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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There just isn’t anything like
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Aggies of that vintage.
That team arose from a humili
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whipped the Aggies 34-6. Back on
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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
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Aggie coach, of it.
“Yes,” said Norton drily, “and
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