The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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southwest
reaches its critical stage this week
with TCU playing Texas in Fort
Worth and the Aggies battling our
Owls here in Houston. Texas as
the only team undefeated in confer-
ence play can clinch a tie for the
title by defeating the Christians
who bowed to Baylor 10-7 the week
before last. However, if the Horned
Frogs should regain their early sea-
son form and upset the Longhorns
the race would be thrown into a real
muddle with at least three and pos-
sibly four teams having suffered a
single reverse. These would be .Tex-
as, TCU, Baylor, who plays non-con-
ference Tulsa this week, and the In-
stitute, if we get by the Aggies Sat-
urday.
Texas, of course, is very much in
the driver's seat, having only to win
their two remaining games with
TCU and A&M to gain undisputed
possession of the championship. If,
however, either of these teams
should knock them over (and both of
them have excellent chances of do-
ing so) the race may well end in a tie
with either us, TCU or Baylor shar-
have a slim chance of winning the
crown outright. However, this could
Qnly be accomplished by Texas los-
ing to both TCU and the Aggies and
our winning all of our four remain-
ing games. Anyway, we still have
some sort of a shot at our first con-
ference championship since 1937 and
the Aggie game Saturday can surely
break even if it can't make what
chance we have left. So let's all turn
out and yell like hell for Mr. Neely's
boys. They deserve more support
than we apparently can give them.
* * *
Incidentally, we haven't beaten
the Aggies since 1935 when Wallace,
McCauley, Sylvester, and company
turned the trick by a score of 17-10.
Even our conference champions of
1937 could do no better than a dis-
appointing 6-6 tie, and in the inter-
vening years we have consistently
been on the very short end of a
rather long score. It was 3-0 in 1936,
27-0 in '38, 19-0 in '39, 25-0 in '40
and 19-6 last year.
To do a little summarizing this
means that in six years we have
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Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 a small but determined squad
of Owl footballers will attempt to keep alive their hopes for a
conference championship when they play host to the apparently
rejuvenated Texas Aggies.
Homer Norton, bald mentor of the
Aggieland eleven, brings to Hous-
ton a large squad which includes a
goodly portion of last year's start-
ers who won for A&M its second
championship in three years. In the
backfield will be Jake Webster, Cul-
len Rogers, Willie Zapalac and Leo
Daniels. The first three of this for-
midable quartet were starters last
year while tailback Daniels alter-
nated with all-American Derace
Moser and was considered by many
to be at least Moser's equal.
The starting ends, Boots Simmons
and Billy Henderson, were also reg-
ulars in 1941 and many fans will
doubtless remember Henderson
from 1940, when the lanky sopho-
more caught eight straight passes to
lead his teammates to a 25-0 victory
over the Feathered Flock.
Aggies Have Improved
The Aggies have been improving
steadily since LSU trounced them
early in the season and on the past
two Saturdays have beaten Arkan-
sas and SMU. Without runners like
Kimbrough and Moser and blockers
like Thomason and Robnett the
Farmers' ground game has been re-
duced to a state of relative impo-
scored but two touchdowns and a
total of but 12 points against these
bums from College Station.
It is only fair to tell you that we'll
have to score more points tomorrow
than we have scored in all six of
these games if we want to have any
chance at all against the rejuve-
nated Aggies. True, they have been
beaten four times and two of these
t;ams, LSU and Corpus, we have
defeated quite decisively. But going
on scores of the past two weeks, the
Aggies seem to have found them-
selves. Their very potent passing at-
tack, which was the only thing that
beat us in '40 and '41, is hitting on
all 11 again, and with Leo Daniels
and Barney Welch chunking them at
Messrs. Rogers, Simmons, and Hen-
derson, we are liable to be in for an-
other whipping. Personally we think
the time has come for Mr. Neely to
score over Homer Norton. 20 to 13
looks like a pretty good guess to us.
# * #
It grieves us' deeply to have to
alibi about one of our predictions
for the second week in a row but
Drexel Tech's astonishing defeat of
Ursinus demands an explanation. As
you know we called it 42-3, Ursinus,
and it turned out 34-0, Drexel Tech.
We have talked by long distance
telephone to the Ursinus head coach
and he has related to us a story so
heart rending that we feel it would
be a breach of confidence to disclose
his secret even to you, our faithful
and loyal student body. Suffice it to
say that the game was played under
such unusual conditions that our
small miscalculation of the outcome
is reduced to microscopic propor-
tions by comparison.
• * *
Predictions for this week:
TCU 14, Texas 7.
Rice 20, A&M 13.
SMU 20, Arkansas 7.
Tulsa 14, Baylor 6.
tence. However, Leo Daniels is one
of the top passers in the nation and
with receivers like Rogers and Hen-
derson the Aggies have moved al-
most a mile through the air already
this year. Daniels' sophomore sub-
stitute, Barney Welch, is likewise a
better than average passer and has
combined with his upperclass team-
mate to make Rogers the nation's
leading pass receiver. All this adds
up to a wide-open offensive battle
Saturday afternoon with the Aggies
almost constantly in the air and the
Neelymen relying principally on
straight power from their single
wingback formation.
Owl regulars face another hard
afternoon as the smallest Institute
squad in a decade tries to cope with
the constant stream of fresh talent
Norton will send from the bench.
Dick Dwelle might have to play the
entire game at tailback as Eiken-
berg is limping around on a bruised
hip and Stoop Dickson is definitely
out with a leg injury. Jim Nail is
gettng back into shape and may be
able to give some' relief to the badly
overworked Pete Sultis and Frank
Shirocky. The rest of the squad is
in good shape and should be ready
to smash the Aggie jinx. \
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