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THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, Steptember 21,1960 Ags Don Full Armor: ‘Have At it Again! The Cadet footballers were in full armor again yesterday in pur suit of perfection aimed at the Texas Tech Red Raiders who will come to Kyle Field Saturday. Yesterday’s workout was a grinding one that lasted for two hours and Coach Jim Myers de scribed it as his idea of a hard session. Myers pointed out that tackle Joe Filers did just about every thing right against LSU last Sat urday and justified his statement by moving him up to first team The Bull Recently tagged as one of the Cadets’ top rookies, James (Bull) Phillips of Freeport, was one of Coach Jim Myers’ better surprises in the A&M-LSU game Saturday night. According to Myers, Phillips did a fine job as a defensive guard. A Lot of ‘Old South’ Figures Featured in Saturday’s Contest There’s more than a bit of the Old South in the Texas Tech-A&M game to be played on Kyle Field Saturday night. Both head coaches are former University of Tennessee players— Jim Myers (1947 grad) and De- Witt Weaver (’37). Another Gen. Bob Neyland student, All-Ameri can Beattie Feathers (’34), is an assistant at Texas Tech. Another former Southeastern Conference player is A&M aide Matt Lair (Kentucky ’48). Tech assistant Tom Hamm was a fresh man at Mississippi State before transferring to Tulsa. Both Myers, at Vanderbilt, and Weaver, at Tennessee and Missis sippi State were coaches in the Southeastern Conference. So did 6 pair of Aggie assistants—Lair More Than Ever At Stake When A&M-Tech Meet A&M and Texas Tech have played 18 football games since 1927 but the 1960 contest on Kyle Field Saturday will be for more marbles than all the others put together. For this game on Kyle Field Saturday will be Tech’s first Southwest Conference game in history. Admitted to the confer ence in May, 1956, the Raiders now play for the championship. Both clubs had non-conference openers last week—the Aggies against LSU at Baton Rouge and the Raiders against West Texas at Lubbock—before the historic clash here at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. A&M leads in the past games, 13 wins to five, with Tech nipping the Cadets the past two years at Dallas. Now that Tech is in the conference, the two teams play home and home. The 1924 season was the last year the SWC had eight teams. Oklahoma A&M dropped out the following year and for 35 years the league had the same seven clubs. at Kentucky and Bobby Drake Keith at Alabama. Tech’s No. 1 assistant, J. T. King, used to coach at Tulane. A&M’s trainer, Charles E. (Smo- key) Harper had a lengthy stint in the Southeastern Conference, with Vanderbilt, Florida, Alabama, and Kentucky. And although A&M assistant Tom Ellis did his playing at Mc- Murry College in Abilene, he is a native of Cleveland, Tenn. While coaches, trainers and the like are important —so are the players. Babe Craig, Aggie quar terback and top punter against LSU last week hails from Knox ville, Tenn. Jones Ramsey, sports publicity director, for the Aggies hasn’t con firmed rumors that grits will be served in the pressbox at Kyle Field. Stinnett, Thrall Pace Class A Schoolboy Ball By The Associated Press Stinnett of the Panhandle and Thrall of Central Texas set the pace' along the Class A schoolboy football trail as the campaign rounds out a month of play. Stinnett, everybody’s choice for the state championship, has romped through three games with an average of 45.6 points. Thrall, unheralded when they started talking about the title, has outdone high-scoring Stinnett. This team has rolled up 178 points in three games for an average of 59.3. Stinnett and Thrall head up a dwindling list of unbeaten, untied teams. There are only a few left of the 182 that started the race the first week of September. And there are some familiar names in the group—White Deer, which won the 1958 championship; White Oak, which tied for it in 1957, and Crowell, always a power. Stinnett, of course, is a former champion. The list includes the following teams: White Deer, Stinnett, Farwell, Sudan, Idalou, Seagraves, Plains, Sanderson, Eldorado, Sonora, Santa Anna, Crowell, Chillicothe, Lindale, Boyd, Whitewright, Ker ens, White Oak, Gaston, San Aug ustine, Shelbyville, Elkhart, Thrall, Hubbard, Granger, Schulenburg, Hull-Daisetta, Sour Lake, Crosby, Eagle Lake, George West, Ingle- side. Two of the teams with perfect records meet each other this week when Kerens clashes with Hub bard. ahead of Wayne Freiling. End Bobby Huntington and guard Jim Phillips brought praise from Myers for the job they did against LSU and Myers admitted they did surprise him a little. Roy Northrup regained his starting position at center that had been recently occupied by Larry Broaddus. , The only injury reported in the Cadet camp yesterday was end Richard Love who reinjured his ankle midway through the practice session. Love missed the LSU game and had only practiced Mon day. ■ Daryle Keeling has moved ahead of last week’s starter, Pow ell Berry at quarterback. Berry will still work some as the man under as well as in the halfback slots. , Coach Myers said the Aggies definitely have more size and speed than last year, but one of the best qualities is desire. Myers said that Texas Tech would present more of a test for the Cadets than LSU did last Sat urday. He said that he expects Tech to gain a lot more ground than LSU. But, Myers added, “If we can’t get ready for Texas Tech, we can’t get ready for anyone.” TopTechRecruitcr Happy He Missed One Grid Prospect LUBBOCK—J. T. King, Texas Tech’s No. 1 grid aide, has a good reputation as a recruiter, but he’s especially happy that he missed out on one footballer. In 1957, when King was an as sistant at Texas A&M, he sought to sign a West Texas schoolboy lineman but learned on the sign ing date that the gridder had de cided to play his college ball in his hometown, in Lubbock at Tex as Tech. A year later King joined Coach DeWdtt Weaver’s staff at Texas Tech, where that lineman, E. J. Holub was making a big bid, even as a sophomore, for All-American honors. Holub, who made the Football Writers and NEA Serv ice All-American teams last sea son as a junior. Two Top Grid Pros Didn’t Like A Pass Mississippi, Syracuse Atop First College Football Poll By WILL GRIMSLEY Associated Press Sports Writer Mississippi and Syracuse are off to an early head start in the race for the year’s college football hon ors. The first weekly poll of The As sociated Press Tuesday showed the Mississippians rated the top team in the country by the thinnest of margins over the 1959 champion, Syracuse. The Deep South powerhouse gained its quick advantage through a 42-0 rout of Houston in its opening game. Syracuse, idle last week, gets a chance to impress the experts in its opener with Boston University Saturday. These two teams, both gener ously endowed with the talent South Texas Amateur Athletic Union Removes Top Official By The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO—The man who organized the South Texas Ama teur Athletic Union and built it into the nation’s largest AAU will be removed from the organiza tion’s top post. Delegates representing AAU groups in Corpus Christi, San An tonio, Austin and West Texas elec ted Alfred R. Stone of Austin reg istration chairman Sunday night. Stone, a training specialist for the Department of Public Safety, received 26 votes to 19 for Erich Pohl in the race for the key job. Army M/Sgt. Richard Patrick McGuirck of El Paso was elected president, succeeding Bob Clark of Austin. McGuirck edged Army Col. Al fred J. Vitacco of San Antonio’s Fort Sam Houston 23-22. Clark and Vitacco were named vice presidents along with Joe Prowse Jr. of Austin, Oliver Jack- son of Abilene and Dee Kaigler of Corpus Christi. Mrs. Mel Wein berger of San Antonio wafe re elected secretary and Dr. J. D. Miller of San Antonio, treasurer. Pohl, a former newspaper ad vertising man who operates the Animal Defense League of San Antonio, has served as registra tion secretary since he founded the South Texas AAU in 1945. The group, whose 217 clubs make it the largest in the coun try, was honored with the progress award of the national AAU prior to the election. which carried them to successful campaigns last year, are the prime pre-season favorites for the na tional title. A special tribunal, representing all sections of the country, gave Mississippi and Syracuse 22 first- place votes each but the South erners scored more points on the basis of ten for a first place vote, nine for second and so forth. Forty-eight members comprise the AP panel. The top 20 teams with first place votes in parenthesis: First Ten 1. Mississippi (22) 434 2. Syracuse (22) 401 3. Washington (3) 378 4. Illinois 214 5. Alabama 182 6. Michigan State 149 7. Kansas 132 8. UCLA 78 9. Clemson 65 10. Oregon State 62 Second Ten 11. Penn State 60 12. Nebraska 59 13. Georgia Tech 53 14. Northwestern 40 15. Texas 37 16. Missouri 31 17. Pittsburgh (1) 27 18. Louisiana State 25 19. Iowa 19 20. Ohio State 17 By RALPH BERNSTEIN Associated Press Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA — Pete Retz- laff and Tommy McDonald of the Philadelphia Eagles admit they once showed disdain for the foot ball weapon that has become their bread and butter —the forward pass. Reztlaff set four ball-carrying records at South Dakota State as a collegian, tie remembers catch ing one pass in college, a screen maneuver that lost 2 yards. McDonald, an All-America at Oklahoma in 1956, was renowned as a fast halfback who could run the hundred in 9.9. He won the Maxwell Club Award as outstand ing college player of 1956, and looked forward to a pro career as a running halfback. He did catch passes at Oklahoma but never took the art seriously. “Specializing in pass receiving was the furtherest thing from my mind,” McDonald asserts. “But I’m happy with the way things worked out.” The 29-year-old Retzlaff was the Detroit Lion’s 22nd draft choice at the 1953 National Foot ball League player selection meet ing. He entered the service after graduation from South Dakota State, finally reporting to the Lions in 1956. “The Lions had a lot of great running backs,” recalls Retzlaff. “So Coach George Wilson convert ed me into an end. Although Wil son helped me a great deal I just couldn’t seem to hang onto the ball.” Retzlaff was traded to the Eagles after the 1956 exhibition season for the $100 waiver and skice has developed into one of the National Football League’s top receivers. In 1958, he tied with Baltimore’s Ray Berry with 56 receptions each for the league re ceiving title. Last year, however, he suffered a broken leg in an exhibition game and didn’t return to full status until the fifth game of the season. He went on to catch 34 passes for 595 yards. McDonald was the Eagle’s No. 3 draft pick in 1957, when other- league clubs passed in the 182- pounder as too light for the game. pro Time Draws Near for Start Of Intramurals Energetic intramural athletes might start working out in the various sports taken up in the program for the fall semester, be cause the opening is just around the corner. 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