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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.
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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
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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-
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