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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION Tuesday,December 1, 1959 s PORT By BOB SLANT WEEKLEY S If there is such a thing as win ning a moral victory, the Aggies won one Thanksgiving Day against the Texas Longhorns with the Steers having to come from behind in the final period to pull off the victory. You can bet that in the years to come this game will be pointed out as what a fired-up team ctin do if they have the heart and de sire to do it with. Our consrratu- lations go out to the football team for the fine showing they made against the Longhorns. ★ ★ ★ ★ When Abb Curtis, supervisor of oficials of the Southwest Confer ence, picked his all-time team from the SWC in the Dallas Morn ing News, he saw fit tp have four Aggies on that mythical team. Martin Ruby, a tackle on the 11)43 team that posted a 7-2-1 rec ord, was selected by Martin as a tackle on his team. According to the records, Ruby was neither all- SWC nor a candidate for all-Amer ican honors while at A&M. Joe Routt, a guard on the 1937- 36 teams, was picked to side Ruby on the line. Routt was all-Ameri can two years at Aggieland and all-SWC twice. Routt was killed in action during WW II. At quarterback Martin put the gi’eat Joel Hunt, the little half back-quarterback who set more in dividual records at A&M than any other athlete. Hunt was all-SWC three years in a row. Martin would have heard screams from all over the Southwest if he hadn’t placed the all-time, all- American John Kimbrough at the fullback slot, which he did. Kim brough was all-American in 1939- 40, the years .the Aggies were un defeated and national champions. ★ ★ ★ ★ Jimmys Williams ’18, was in structed by the Dallas A&M Club to write the following letter to the Aggies football co-captain, with a copy being sent to The Battalion Since it says and means what all Aggies feel about the squad, we would like to reprint part of this congratulatory letter. “The Dallas A&M Club this noon by unanimous and enthusiastic vote instructed me to write you fellows to request that you convey to your teammates our inimense pride in the whole squad. We share your heartbreak over yesterday’s ('Thanksgiving Day) final score. It was about like bidding on a mil lion dollar job and losing- it by a nickle. But the sturdy fight you put up throughout the season, over coming the unusual and often ma terial odds, climaxed by the su perbly magnificent battle you waged yesterday has made us im- measureably proud of you all.” Space won’t allow us to print the remainder of the letter, but it goes on to commend the team for their fine spirit and sportsman ship. ★ ★ ★ ★ The A&M-Centenary basketball game tonight will be broadcast on KORA by the Mobile Oil Company and Mobile dealers. Roy Greer will do the announcing. Gagers Open Season Tonight Against Lofty Centenary Gents Coach Bob Rogers’ basketball team officially opens the 1959-60 season tonight on the hardwood floors of G. Rollie White Coliseum with high hopes of bringing home the Southwest Conference champ ionship to A&M for the first time in eight years. Game time tonight is 8 p. m., with Coach Shelby Metcalf’s frosh scheduled to play at 6:15 against Tyler Junior College. Only once in almost three de cades of basketball have the Farm ers won the championship, and that was a three way tie in 1951 with TCU and Texas, that being the last championship the Longhorns have enjoyed since that date. Last year the Cadets finished in Gents PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS A&M the best of the conference. No Player Hgt. Pos. No. Player Hgt. The tentative starting lineup re 5 Billy Eubanks 5-11 G 22 Wayne Annett 6-y 2 leased by Rogers prior to the game 25 Larry Greene 5-1 G 54 Cari'oll Broussard 6-5 tonight has three unfamiliar faces 43 Jackie Crawford 6-9 C 12 Wayne Lawrence 6-7 on it to the eyes of most A&M 11 John Vasilopoulos 6-1 F 32 Pat Stanley 6-3 fans, with three Junior College 23 Dale Van Bibber C-G F 44 Don Stanley 6-3 stai's getting the starting nod. OFFICIALS: Tom Hamilton and Larry Covin Freshmen Preceed Varsity Tilt Tonight A speedy Fish basketball team opens against a tough Tyler Jun ior College team tonight in White Coliseum at 6:15. Coach Shelby Metcalf said his team isn’t as good with their shoot ing eyes as last year’s team and he definitely doesn’t have another Carroll Broussard. Outside of Qualls the team is smaller than last year’s squad. Tyler is being substituted this season for the University of Hous ton freshmen and in all probabil ity will prove to make the season tougher for the Cadets. Lewis Qualls, Jimmy Cobb, Jim Keller, Charlie Minor and Jerry CHS Wins Opener, Journey to Hearn e By RUSSELL BROWN CHS Correspondent The A&M Consolidated Tigers take on their second foe tonight as the Maroon and White quintet journey northward to battle the Hearne Eagles in a non-district clash. The Bengals, under the mentor ship of Coach Jack Churchill, opened their season last Tuesday in Cameron with a sound 57-27 trouncing of the Yoemen. The “B” team came through with a carbon copy 37-20 victory over the Yoe men reserves. Churchill has installed the tan dem post and fast-breaking offen ses in the Tiger attack this year and the first tilt proved that the Bengals can move the ball against taller opponents and score while using their tight defense to sty mie the opposition. Coach Churchill plans to go with P. D. Gandy, junior letterman, at guard, junior squadman John Ped igo and senior squadman Kelly Parker at the forwards, and junior squadman Jim Riggs and senior two-letterman Bruce Thompson at the high and low post spot. “Biltrite” Boots and Shoes Made By Economy Shoe Repair and Boot Co. Large Stock of Handmade Boots Convenient Budget & Lay-Away Plan $55.00 a pair Made To Order Main Office: 509 W. Commerce, San Antonidj CA 3-0047 57-20; Tonight Coach Billy Litzmann of the Eagles plans to counter with Ho ward White, George White, T. O. Wilkins, Jerry Sowman, and Si mon Martinez in an attempt to garner their second victory in three starts. The Eag-les have downed Mexia 39-32 and have lost to the same Mexia bunch 38-25. The Tiger “B” quintet will be composed of soph Russell Welch at guard, soph Joe Olian and sen ior Fred Brison at forwards, and Bob Adams and Harris Marshall at the posts. Thompson led the Bengals Tues day night with 13 tallies while Riggs, junior letterman Condy Pugh, senior letterman Virden Smith, and Gandy each tossed eight counters for the Bengals. Marshall and Adams led the re serves with 12 points each while grabbing off many a rebound for the Tigers. Friday and Saturday finds the Tigers in the Bryan Tourney be fore meeting Allen Academy, Hearne, and Pasadena next week after every shave Splash on Old Spice After Shave Lotion. Feel your face wake up and live! Sol good for your skin... so good for your ego. Brisk as an ocean breeze, Old Spice makes you feel like a new man. Confident. Assured. Relaxed. You know you’re at your best when you top off your shav^ with Old Spice! po A ■. uce AFTER SHAVE LOTION by SHULTON Windham are the probable start ers for the Fish. Qualls, seven-foot sensation from Houston Smiley, will start at cen ter. He was probably the most sought after high school basket ball player in the nation last year and is the tallest basketball play er ever to attend A&M. Cobb, a 6-0 guard, has been cited by Metcalf as being a very good shot and makes few mistakes. He hails from Buna. Keller, 6-4 forward from Terrell, made quite a name for himself as a high school football player and is doing a good job for the Fish so far. Keller is fast and accord ing to Metcalf has good potential. Minor is a 5-11 guard and the shortest man on the Cadet squad. Minor was on the Pampa cham pionship squad in high school and is described by Metcalf as being a good defenser as well as being the best dribbler at A&M. Windham, 6-6 forward from Hamilton, has made the change from high school center to fox 1 - wai’d. a two way tie for fifth with the young Arkansas Razoi'backs, but suprised the conference by copping the SWC Tournament. A&M fin ished the season with their best record since 1951, a 15-9 record. This year the Ags feature a host of junior college stars, an out standing sophomore and thx-ee top- notch vetei’ans that can play with foi'd. Crawford, a native Texas from Grand Prairie, stands at a lofty 6-9. The Centenary star weighs 220 and is a junior. The Gents feature another tall man in Dale Van Bibber, a 6-6 athlete from Missouri. The Aggies and Centenary have met 15 times previously since 1926, with the Farmers out front in games won, 12-3. In last year’s meeting the Cadets won, 68-57, but the pi’evious year saw the Gents win by almost the identical score, 59-67. Wayne Annett, Pat Stanley and Don Stanley are the three junior college startei’s, and each of the trio boasts JC all-America tags. The Stanley twins are from Kil gore Junior College while Annett is from Paris Junior College. Carroll Broussaixl, the top fresh man in the conference last year and destined to be one of the out standing basketball players in the history of A&M, has earned a starting post for tonight’s game and rounds out the starting five with Wayne Lawrence. Lawrence, at 6-7, is the tallest man on the Aggie team, and judg ing from last yeai'’s record he is the key to A&M’s success in bas ketball. The Ag senior was injured midway in the season last year and the Farmers went into a slump from which they never did quite re cover. Wilmer Cox and Kelly Chapman, both starters on last season’s team, aren’t scheduled for stai'ting roles tonight, but can be counted on to see a lot of action. Cox is a fine shot from outside, and one of the top defensive players on the team. Chapman is a JC all-American from Tyler Junior College. He possesses tremendous spring in his legs, making him a top rebounder. Tonight’s opponents, the Centen- ai’y Gents, boasts one of the tallest players the Farmers will meet all year in the per-son of Jackie Craw- 8c Black And White Prints A&M PHOTO SHOP Look your best at formal affairs Look your best on gala occa sions in formal clothes cleaned to perfection by us. Your “audience” will applaud! Try us soon. Campus Cleaners Texas Rifle Team Tops Ags for Title Texas University scored another first as they out shot the Aggie rifle team in a Southwest Inter collegiate Rifle Conference title match here. Texas scored 1404 points com pared to the 1396 posted by the Cadets. 305 day wonder WRIST MOTION WINDS IT The sturdy water-resistant case of the Seamaster shields the fine Omega movement within from every hazard of dust, mois ture, heat, cold and shock. 18K gold dial-figures. Lu minous markers. 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