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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, December 5, 1962
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By Van Conner
At about the same time that T am writing this (5:30
p. m. Tuesday) Tommy Blake, A&M’s sports information
director, is walking to a speaker’s stand in New York’s Wal
dorf-Astoria Hotel to receive an award for one of the greatest
football players in Aggie history.
Twice All-American guard Joe Routt was posthumously
added to the Football Hall of Fame at the National Football
Foundation and Hall of Fame Dinner.
Routt, who played under Coach Homer Norton and won
his national recognition in 1936-37, was killed in action during
World War IT.
He is one of ten Aggies who earned All-American honors
and one of three who gained national mention twice. John
Kimbrough, another of Norton’s lads, was All-American full
back in 1939-40, and Charlie Krueger, a tackle under Bear
Bryant, held down one of the mythical slots during the 1956
and ’57 seasons.
Halfback Derace Moser was an All-American in 1941—
another of Norton’s products. Moser was also another of
the many Aggies lost in WW II.
Seth Davenport (’40), now a West Texas rancher, was a
Fish in 1937. He tells of going out for the football team and
being adopted by Routt as a personal blocking dummy.
“Every afternoon when practice began,” says Daven
port, “Joe would yell ‘Where’s Fish Davenport,’ and we’d go
off to some corner of the field by ourselves and knock heads
for a couple of hours.”
Davenport said that Routt must have been one of the
most deserving men to win All-American honors. He told of
how the big lineman would go over and over a certain block or
type of defensive charge until he had it perfected.
“Time after time,” said Davenport, “Joe would run over
me and grind me into the turf. Then he would always pick
me up and dust me off, say I’d done a good job, and we’d go
at it again.” Davenport said that Routt was one of the finest
men he had ever known—both on the field and off.
6 Aggies Slated For Bowls
The football season may be over for most of A&M’s
gridders, but five of them will have to suit up a few more
times at least. Center Jerry Hopkins, fullbacks Sam Byer
and Lee Roy Caffey and guard Jim Phillips will play in the
Southwest Challenge Bowl on Jan. 5.
Coach Hank Foldberg will have to “suit up” one more
time also; when he serves as a coach for the south in the
annual Blue-Gray Game on New Year’s Day. Hopkins, Byer,
Caffey and Ken Kipp will play for the Gray in that clash.
Four Cadets Are Pro Picks
And four Ags have been name as American Football
League draft choices in the preliminary grabbing. Line
backers Hopkins and Caffey and fullback Byer were picked
by the Houston Oilers. The Oakland Raiders named George
Hogan as a guard on their list.
Hogan, a 219-pounder from Longview, finished up his
eligibility in 1961. He played tackle for Jim Myers and was
voted outstanding Fjsh lineman during his first season at
Aggieland.
INTRAMURALS
Basketball managers are sched
uled to meet in the intramural de
partment section of DeWare Field
House Monday at 5 p.m., Charles
G. McCandless, intramural direc
tor, announced Tuesday.
Tuesday’s results in upperclass
man horseshoe pitching: E-l over
F-2, 2-1; Sqd. 11 beat A-2, 2-1;
C-3 won over D-l, 2-1; A-l de
feated Sqd. 8, 2-1; and Sqd. 9 beat
C-l, 2-1.
Winning players for A-l were
Ronnie Anz, Con Mims, Phil La-
nasa, Bob Coltrin, Glen Tole and
Cyril Durrenberger.
Class A football results: G-3
won over the White Band, 16-6;
Sqd. 2 beat the Maroon Band, 22-0;
Sqd. 10 beat F-3, 6-0; A-l defeated
Sqd. 1, 6-0; and B-2 over E-3, 2-0.
SPORTS
SECTION
Unbeaten USC
Is Nat’I Champ
By JOHN CHANDLER
Associated Press Sports Writer
Southern California’s unbeaten
football team, an overwhelming
choice in the final Associated
Press Poll for the 1962 national
collegiate football championship,
was rated by some grid experts
Tuesday as the greatest Trojan
squad since 1931.
USC made it a 10-0 season Sat
urday by trouncing Notre Dame
25-0, and heads into its 12th Rose
Bowl game on New Year’s Day
against the champions of the Big
Ten — Wisconsin — rated No. 2 in
the poll.
Coach John McKay’s team re
ceived 42 of the 52 first place
votes in the AP’s special board
which covers all sections of the
country. On the basis of 10 points
for first, nine for second, etc.,
Southern California rolled up 509
points.
WISCONSIN, beaten 7-0 in the
1953 Rose Bowl by USC, got five
first place ballots and 428 points.
Mississippi, with two first place
votes, was third on 393 points,
while Texas was fourth with 343
points. Alabama, the 1961 national
champions, ranked fifth, with one
first place vote and 322 points.
Arkansas was sixth, followed by
Louisiana State, Oklahoma, Penn
State and Minnesota.
In making the No. 1 spot, the
mighty men of Troy become the
first West Coast team to be named
national champions since the 1939
USC team. It was the fourth USC
team to win the national title.
Nine of the 1962 top ten clubs
will make bowl game appearances.
In the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans,
Mississippi plays Arkansas. Tex
as and Louisiana State tangle in
the Cotton Bowl at Dallas; Ala
bama and Oklahoma meet at Mia
mi in the Orange Bowl. Penn State
tackles Florida in the Gator Bowl
at Jacksonville Dec. 29.
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Charltons Ags Give Cards Win
By JIM BUTLER
Battalion Ass’t Sports Editor
In a game called basketball and
characterized by lack of contact,
the Lamar Tech Cardinals out-
free-tbrowed the Aggies 81-74 in
Beaumont Tuesday night.
Fouls dominated play as the Ca
dets committed 26, to 22 for the
Redbirds. Charity tosses made the
difference as Lamar hit only one
more than the Aggies from the
field.
The score was tied eight times
in the first half and the lead
changed hands six times.
A&M took an early lead when
Terry Windham was fouled by La
mar’s Don Bryson and made two
free throws. Seconds later, Bry
son sank a hook shot to tie the
score.
MIDWAY THROUGH the first
half, the Cardinals took a six-point
lead, 17-11, on a pair of layups by
Bryson. A&M came right back as
Bennie Lenox and Gerald Woodard
hit jump shots and Windham hit
on a hook.
With time running out in the
first half and the score knotted
at 31-all, Woodard made a foul
shot and Lenox hit a set shot to
give the Aggies a 34-31 lead at
the buzzer.
Billy Williams opened the sec
ond half for the Cards, hitting a
jump shot to close the gap to one
point. Lew Qualls shot the Ags
into a five-point lead with two
quick baskets, 38-33.
Tech’s Don Heller put the Cards
in the lead to stay at 42-41 with
a jump shot from the top of the
circle. Bryson added two .layups
and Larry Ogsburger netted a free
throw to jump the bulge to six
points.
LAMAR’S MAN-TO-MAN de
fense had the Farmers off-balance
all night, causing many passes to
go astray and forcing hurried
shots.
The biggest edge Lamar held
was 69-56 late in the game. The
Aggies pulled within five points
with little over a minute remain
ing, but failed to overcome the
deficit.
The loss brought the cagers’ I points. Lenox, who fouled out I Lamar was led by Williams,*:;
record to 1-1, while Lamar Tech j with nine minutes left to play, had ' had 23 points, and Bryson, with 11,
is yet to lose in two outings. 12 points. Woodard and Qualls The Aggie play Memphis Stall
High scorer for the Cadets and made double figures with 11 and ! in G. Rollie White Coliseum »a
in the game was Windham with 24 I 10 points respectively. Saturday night.
Fish Lose Opener
The Fish cage team couldn’t
quite come back from a 17-point
halftime deficit as Kilgore Junior
College handed them an 86-72 de
feat Monday night in Kilgore.
High scorer for the frosh was
John Beasley with 18 points. Dick
Stringfellow had 16, Dick Rector
had 12 and Billy Atkinson 11 in
a losing cause.
Allen Academy is the next foe
for the Fish Dec. 11 in the pre
liminary to the A&M-Mississippi
Southern tilt.
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