Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1947 Page: 6 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, October 30, 1947
Football fans have tin fu sillier
attractions coming up this Satur-
day. Michigan meets Illinois in
whut may be the top game of the
country, Both teams have plenty
of power hut Michigan is much
stronger in reserve stiength, And
that should ha enough to give the
Wolverines a win. If the weather
is bud, then it's a toss-tip.
Texas tunglcs with Southern
Methodist in another big game of
the year. Tile Mustangs have been
something of a surprise this year
but the Longhorns have All-Ameri-
can Bobby Luync and t hat should
be enough.
The third lag battle Unde Cali-
fornia meeting UCLA. The Bears,
under new couch Lynn Waldorf,
have found themselves and this
seems to bp their year. They should
edge out a win over the Bruins.
The other six major teams among
the country’s leading ten should
not have too much trouble. Army
will not have any difficulty with
Washington and Lee. Notre Dame
meets a fighting Navy team but
the Irish haev too much power.
Thougli Penn will probably find
Princeton easy, they’ll take no
chances. Princeton was easy last
year, too, but they handed mighty
Penn a stunning 17 to 14 upset.
Penn State should continue over
Colgate and Georgiu Tech is too
strong to be stopped by Duke.
Southern California should trim
Washington.
• * •
Fistic fans may rate Jersey Joe
Walcott as a weak challenger—but
not the Brown Bomber. Walcott is
dangerous and the Champ knows it.
Louis has no intentions of being
caught off guard and that's why
he’s training so faithfully. But
ring inactivity may spell defeat
for Louis in his coming title bout.
In the last 5Vi years the Brown
Bomber has had only nine rounds
of fighting—one with Tami Mauri-
ello and eight with Billy Conn.
And, you may recall, those nine
rounds were nothing more than an
easy workout.
• • •
Army meets Notre Dame on Sat-
urday of next week. A great rival-
ry ends on that day. It will be the
last game between these two
schools. For years the Cadet-Irish
classic has been one of the most
colorful games in the country.
There has been many an interesting
story before and after each game.
Army met Notre Dame for the first
time back in 1913. That year the
Irish were captained by End Knute
Rockne, and the West Pointers
went down to defeat 35 to 13. Ever
since, with the exception of 1918,
■the Army-Notre Dame battle has
LT. WM. LLOYD QUEEN POST
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Regular meeting on the First
Monday night of each month at
8:00 P. M. at the American Legion
Hall.
Alton S. Queen, Post Commander.
Clyde Crenshaw. Post Adjutant
been an annual event.
But as the years went by, the
game became more important and
grew in color and spirit. Finally,
the game hud grown to such pro-
portions, it had gone beyond control
of the two colleges. A crowd of
74.000 saw thet 191(1 battle. About
740.000 wanted to see it. Specula-
tors were getting as much as $200
for n single ticket and gambling
hud reached a new high. Over $5,-
000,000 in bets were placed on the
game. So Father Cavanaugh of
Notre Dame and General Taylor
decided that an effort of some sort
must lie made to de-emphasize foot-
ball and bring it back to normalcy.
Their first move was to shift the
1947 game from New York to
South Bend and end the series.
Something had to lie done of
course, but it's doubtful if the
break will discourage gamblers
and speculators and produce the
desired results. Notre Dame will
go on meeting major teams and
draw capacity crowds. Army will
also meet major teams and draw
capacity crowds. Gamblers and
speculators will simply shift oper-
ations and go on milking the public
ns usual. Actually, the break hits
only football fans who will be de-
prived of one of the biggest and
most spectaculur football clashes
in the country.
• • •
Olle Tnndberg and Joe Baksi
will stugo a return match in Madi-
son Square Garden right after the
first of the year. Tandherg is the
Swedish heavyweight who copped
a decision over Baksi in Stockholm
last summer which knocked the
Kulpmont, Pa,, battler right out of
a title match with Joe Louis. It was
a costly setback. Baksi is still
young and has possibilities. An im-
pressive win over Tandberg would
earn Bagsi a title shot.
• • •
A few weeks ago when Kansas
defeated South Dakota State 86 to
6, several football fans comment-
ed on the high score being register-
ed by teams today. Most of the
teams are fairly well matched
these days and a score of 40 or 50
or 60 to 0 would be a high score.
But in comparison to the old days,
when Yale, Harvard and Princeton
were really the big three, the 86
points rolled up by Kansas would
not seem so high.
Back in 1884, Princeton defeated |
Layfette 140 to 0. That same year,
Yale handed Wesleyan a 113 to 0
licking. A few weeks later Yale
met Wesleyan again and ran wild,
winning by a 142 to 0 score. Har-
vard also had a powerhouse team.
In 1886, they gave Exeter a 158
to 0 beating. But in those days,
Yale, Harvard and Princeton—
and Cornell should be included too
—were pretty much the bullies of
the gridiron. The only time the
scores were fairly low was when
they played each other.
However, Georgia Tech perhaps
should be rated as the highest scor-
ing team of all time. In 1918, they
went over the 100 mark three
times, defeating Furman 120 to 0,
Grid Stars Pit Manpower vs. Horsepower
“Seven iron men vi. 90 horses” ... the forward wall
of the Wayne University football team of Detroit works
out in novel fashion at thc'blocking sled, providing the
perspiration, while four attractive Tartar fans offer
BELIEVE-IT-OR-NOT
inspiration. The mechanized practice session (ought to
discover whetficr the forward wall could "hold that line” i
against a Chevrolet.The Tartar line admitted they'd h«d ■ '
workout, but said thev'd never faced prettier competition, j
TEXAS AGGIES HOLD EDGE
IN LAST TEN YEARS OF PLAY
By LANOY GUNN
In The Bay City News
During the past 10 years, from
1937 through 1946, both years in-
clusive, the Texas A. & M. Aggies
have won more football games for
a higher average than uny other
team in the Southwest Conft fence.
This includes conference and inter-
sectional games.
Following are the teams of the
conference and the games won, lost,
tied, and the percentage of each.
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
FULL SEASON STANDING
Team
W
L
T
Pet
Texas A. & M.
66
30
5
.678
Texas
63
31
3
.655
T. C. U.
51
45
5
.529
Rice
53
47
5
.528
‘‘Baylor
40
37
4
.518
S. M. U.
49
48
5
.504
Arkansas
38
56
7
.413
Out two years.
ATTEND THE
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North Carolina State 128 to 0 and
the 11th Cavalry 123 to 0. But it
was two years eariler, in 1916, that
Georgia Tech went to tow-n and
did some fancy stepping. They
trimmed Cumberland 222 to 0. The
storekeeper worked the hardest
of them all that day.
* * *
Johnny Clement of the Pitts-
burgh Steelers is a one-man team.
In a recent game, he passed for
two touchdowns, ran for two more
and then paved the way for the
fifth one. Without Clement, the
Steelers would not be up where
they are today.
The Texas Aggies also have the
best average of Southwest Con-
ference teams in conference games.
The Aggies had their best seasons
during the reign of Jarrin’ John
Kimbrough and associates of the
pigskin world.
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
CONFERENCES GAMES ONLY
Team W
L
T
Pet
Texas A. & M. 34
20
4
.62.1
Texas 35
22
1
.612
Rice 30
24
4
.551
T. C. U. 29
25
4
.534
S. M. U. 28
29
1
.491
* Baylor 16
29
• *
..'164
Arkansas 16
•Out two years.
39
3
.301
Arkansas, in 10
years of
con-
ference piny, has
won
only
16
games and five of these
were
dur-
ing the 1946 season.
The
co-eham-
pion Razorbacks defeated all
teams in the conference last year
with the exception of the Texas
Longhorns.
Baylor also has won only 16
games in the conference. The Bears
were out of competition two years
during the war, so therefore could
hardly figure in on the percentage
basis the same as other teams.
Probably the greatest ‘win" for
Baylor was during the 1941 season
when Texas had the number one
team in the nation until one batur-
dny when they met the lowly Bears.
Baylor (as unpredictable as Texas
weather) tied the Longhorns to
spoil their perfect record.
This season, the Bears are off
to a good start and may lose the
rest of their games—maybe win
’em all. . . Who can tell about the
Baylor Bears?
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JUST GAB — The New York
Giants of the National Football
League have done a complete re-
verse. . . . last year they were on
top. . . . currently they’re at the
bottom. The Southern California-
Notre Dame game is already sold
out. If the Army permits, Glenn
Davis will be in shape to play foot-
! ball again next Fall. ... his knee
operation was successful. . . . but
Glenn may stick to studies and for-
get football. Will Hank Greenberg
join the New York Yanks? . . . .
Hank would be quite a drawing
card in New Y'ork. If Rocky Grazi-
ano is through, then Jake LaMotta
and Tony Zale should battle it out
for the title. The Navy football
team has been a big disappoint-
ment. . . . after their close 21 to 18
loss to Army last year, everyone
figured Navy would go places in
1947. . . . they can still close in a
blaze of glory. If Bob Feller is
slipping, his salary isn’t. ... it
amounted to $87,000 for the season
.... even though Feller was off to
a slow start, he was the only 20-
game winner in the American
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1947, newspaper, October 30, 1947; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726090/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.