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Set iff Steer
On Thanksgivtog Day
BY BUD WORSHAM
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 the Sweetwater High School
Htangs play their final game of the 1949 football season.
j|ir opponents will he the Big Spring Steers on the Steer
lTurkey Dav game will mark the finish to a brilliant
for the Mustangs, although once again they lost out
the district championship
stop by their opponents. Not
single one of their n
nine foes
have been able to keep theee
boys from crossing the goal
line. Most of them have made
the weekly honor roll of stars
time and time again.
I ;
a single game.
The Ponies were beaten
twice during the 1949 cam-
paign ami in one of these de-
feats. the Sweetwater lads out-
played the victors throughout
the" statistical chart.
Abilene beat the Mustangs 27-
12 and took the District 5-AA
championship. The other Pony
loss was to the Odessa Bronchos,
who seem to have a jinx on their
playing field when playing
Sweetwater. The Bronrhs, al-
though outplayed, won 20-6.
Coaches Pat Gerald, Ken New-
ton and Mel Grieg started the
football season with a green, in-
experienced hunch of boys.
There were only two regulars
who played in 1948 that return-
ed in ’49. The Ponies developed
fast and made the state's other
Class AA teams take notice.
The Mustang linemen have
gained the respect of all nine
clubs they have faced to date.
This scrappy Sweetwater for-
ward wall held Midland to only
two yards rushing, battered
Electra, San Angelo and Brown-
wood unmercifully.
The Mustang backfield has
proven to be extraordinary. All
of the backs have been hard to
And there wasn’t a player on
the Mustang squad who had to
he taken out of a game because
PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UPS
Sweetwater Big Spring
Player Wt.
Andrews 162
Thompson ......240
Gamel ..........168
Sommerville.....202
Bauleli ........15.5
McMillan ......160
160
160
14.5
160
.150
Cross (e-c)
Hooper (c-c)
Fraley .......
Rushing (c-c)
liaucum.....
Wt. Player No.
158. H. Jones......40
160.. .. Fortenberry .. .46
214.. .. Cunningham .. 51
170.. .. Axtens (e-o).. .47
160.. . .Drake (c-c) .. .21
103. . Laswell ......45
155.. .. A rmisted .....38
155. Wilson .......25
155.. .. A. Jones .....52
150 Washburn .23
150 ...Martin .......36
Sweetwater Reporter, Wednesday, November 23, 1949
of an injury. That noise Is me
knocking on wood. This last
game with Big Spring may foil
up that perfect injury record.
Student managers of tlie Mus-
tangs this year have been Grady
Odem and Roland Peters. Both
lads have worked long and
hard at the job.
Following are the names of
the boys who have comprised the
1949 Sweetwater High School
football team—
Ends — Riley Cross, Bob Gam-
el (switched to guard), Ed Aik-
ens and George Stephens.
Tackles — Charles Thompson,
Bob McMillan, LeRoy Thomp-
son, Douglas Geisler and Robert
English.
Guards — D. C. Andrews
(changed to end), Joe Baulch,
Billy Reynolds, Robert Hin-
shaw, Earl Meachum, Walter
Butler, Billy Palmer and Jimmy
Pace.
Centers — Bill Sommerville
and Douglas Day.
Backs — Billy Hopper, Wes-
ley (Red) Rushing, Ronald Fra-
ley, Van Raucum, Charles Cur-
ry, John Woodard, Melade De-
Gaish, Norris Haggerton, Mor-
ris Haggerton, Douglas Clay-
brook and Billy Geron.
One of the hoys— Fullback
Clinton McDaniels — sustained
a broken leg in the first game he
played in with the “R” squad.
Clinton had a tough break, but
he doesn’t regret coming out for
the Sweetwater Mustang foot-
ball team.
Bnai 6«nw pon|-es £nt/ Season Thursday
In Class AA
1 By kd tns
UP Sport* Writer
Four playoff spots—two
claw AA and two in the City
Conference—will be decided to-
Player
TD PAT FG T
Konnld Fraley, flw.
Prentice Martin, Ab.
5
0
0
30
i
0
0
30
Bill Galusha, Ab.
2
11
1
26
George Kendall. SA.
4
2
0
26
Red Rushing, 8w.
4
0
A
24
Buddy Goode, SA
4
0
0
24
Harold Humber, Br.
3
8
0
23
Hub Ingraham, Ab.
Joe Youngblood. Ab,
3
0
0
18
3
0
0
18
Gene Boyd, Ab.
3
0
0
18
Billy Hooper, 8w.
2
0
A
12
Jimmy Russell, SA
2
0
0
12
Cliff Rowland, SA
0
0
12
Don Low, Br.
0
0
12
Don Strange, Ah.
2
0
0
12
Jack Lister, Ab.
0
7
0
7
LeRoy Thompson, Sw.
A
6
0
6
Norris Haggerton, Sw.
1
0
A
6
Ed A ikons Hw.
I
A
A
A
Riley Crows, Sw.
Charles Dennis, Ab.
1
A
0
6
1
0
0
fl
Dan Winters, Ab.
1
0
0
6
Robert Jones, Ab.
Robert Cobb, BS
1
0
0
6
1
0
0
6
Amos Jonps, BS
1
0
0
6
Howard Jones. HS
1
0
0
6
Carroll Cannon, BS
l
0
0
6
Pat Hall. SA
1
0
0
e
Hob Clatterbuek, SA
Walt Schleyer, SA
1
0
0
6
0
0
6
6
Billy Bishop. Br.
1
0
0
0
DeWitt Tatum, Hr.
1
0
0
fl
Ovvlnn Teague, Br.
1
0
0
6
Janies Black, Br.
1
0
0
6
Bobby Gross, BS
0
4
0
4
John Woodard, Sw.
0
1
A
1
TOUGH AUDIENCE_Bob Williams faces Its Notre Dame team-
mates in this new kind of huddle, introduced this fall. The middle
ol the line crouches and is backed by a second row consisting of the
other three backs, flanked by the ends, Leon Hart, 82. left, and Bill
Wighlkin, 83. Saving time, it enables the Irish to get in more plays,
prevents those other than the quarterback from talking
Total seoresAhtlene 117. Sweetwater
91, San Angelo 92, Big Spring 29, Brown-
wood 09.
Lynn Waldorf Chosen
As Coach Of Week
NEW YORK. Nov. 23 (UP) —
He's the toast of the Coast but
Tech, H-SU Play
LUBBOCK, Tex.. Nov. 23 —
Texas Tech will be after its
eighth Border conference foot-
ball title and Hnrdin-Shwnons
after its fourth when teams of
the two schools meet Saturday three years ago there wasn’t any-
in -loners stadium. j 1 tody willing to start a chain-
Tech won in 1932. 1933 and j pagne campaign for him.
1934 to set a record it is trying: Thcy sairi Horace Greeley’s
to ‘jupln ale. the Red .Raulei» ,afjvi(.e to “Go West Young Man"
onk the crovn again in l,).L,;was n]| ,igilt for gold diggers but
tied with llarf m-Snnmons lor that it certainly didn't apply to
ieadet ship m 1942 and came hack footbaU coache^
to take the championship in 1947 i „ . , . , , ,
and Hits. Hardin-Simmons tied! So ho moved into the hottest
with Arizona for leadership in the business and soothed
19H. with Tech in 1912 and won i 11s -,M)'I,0° grandstand managers
by winning 29 games out of 31 in
three seasons.
He's the United Press coach of
11ho week, monstrous Lynn Wal-
dorf of those perfect record Cali-
fornia Hears who will be out to
devour Ohio State in the Rose
Bowl on Jan. 2.
Waldorf's wonder boys, who
play with the poise of pros, fin-
ished their second straight un-
beaten season by coming from
behind to drub Stanford. 33 to 14
with a last half burst of touch-
down In-* Saturday. And they
! have only one thought ahead
of them now and that's ven-
geance. They'll be out to prove
! against Ohio State that North-
western'.- 2i> to 14 victory in
Hast year's Rose Bowl was noth-
| ing hut a phony fluke.
in 19)6 in an undefeated season.
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’2,eJ Cuban and Juetoreh.
tobaCC°* J know a good
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Y-8 "VTluS
TO I'ROSH UNBEATEN
FORT WORTH, Nov. 23 (UP)
Texas Christian’s undefeated, un-
tied freshman football team
| seeks to close out a perfect, sea-
son today with a victory over
Southern Methodist’s Colts in a
game that may lure 10.00 per-
sons to Purple Stadium.
Haskell, Wink
Meet In Playoff
Here Thursday
A big Haskell line will he out
to stop the Wink Wildcats’ fleet
hacks Thursday afternoon in a
hi-district Class A game at Mus-
tang Bowl in Sweetwater.
Reports reveal that the Has-
kell Indians of District 6-A have
a much heavier and experienced
forward wall tlwm the Wink
team, chamipons of District 5*
A.
But the Wildcats have one of
the best backfields in Class A
this year. Coach Glenn Frazier
reported this week, however, that
injuries may hamper his star
backs. Fullback Bud Rollins suf-
fered a turned ankle in the Crane
game last Friday. Scatback Pat
Drumm is still suffering from a
touch of flu.
Two linemen are also on the
injured list. Gerald Bail, 149
pound end, has a leg bruise and
143-pound guard Carl Sanders is
also sidelined.
The Wildcats lost one confer-
ence game during the regular
campaign—at 13-9 decision to sec-
ond-place Andrews. Wink also
lost a non-coni erence game to
Cathedral of El Paso, 13-0.
The Haskell Indians, coached
by Jack Roten, won the 6-A
crown by beating Rotan, 13 to 12
last Friday at Stamford. The
Haskell lads have lost only one
contest this year—a non-district
game to Ballinger, 34 to 6.
The Wink-Haskell conflict will
begin at 2 p. m. Thursday. Has-
kell will be the host team and
oceupy the west side, as the Mus-
tangs do when they play here.
The Wildcats were reported to
arrive here this morning and
work out in the howl this after-
noon. Coach Roten will not
bring his Haskell hoys over un-
til Thursday morning.
in traditional Thanks-
giving Day games as the 1949
season draws to a close in class
AA and City Conferences with
a light 27-game schedule.
One game was scheduled to-
night and two Friday night, the
remainder Turkey Day with
most of those being daylight af-
fairs.
Outcome of games in 4-AA,
11-AA, Fort Worth and San An-
tonio will round out the full
playoff fields in both divisions
of the Texas Interscholastic Lea-
gue playoffs.
El Paso Austin, unbeaten in
district play, was favored to re
peat as 4-AA champ by defeat-
ing El Paso high. A defeat
would toss the race into a three
way tie involving those two
clubs and Ysleta with the play-
off spot determined by lot
Port Arthur, ranked as the
state's No. 1 team much of the
season, was an odds-on choice to
defeat Beaumont, unbeaten in
district play, for the ll-AA
crown.
San Antonio Jefferson also
was favored to take the Alamo
City flag with a victory over
Brackenridge. A Bfackenridge
victory would throw the pair in-
to a tie with Tech for the title,
but Brackenridge would have to
win by seven points or more to
keep Jefferson from getting in-
to the playoff.
Paschal, likewise, was favor-
ed to defeat North Side for the
Fort Worth crown tomorrow
night. A north side victory
would hand the playoff spot to
Arlington Heights, the defend-
ing state champion.
The favorites should come
through in these four contests.
We still managed to stay
above the .800 mark on selec-
tions last week with 34 correct
and one tie out of 43 games.
That gives us a season average
of .765 on 416 right, 22 ties in
558 games.
Here's our final selections for
the regular season (marked
with "W”) along with the week’s
schedule (all games day games
and conference affairs unless
otherwise noted):
CLASS AA
1— Thursday: Amarillo (W) at Plain-
view; Pampa (W) at Borger.
2— Thursday: Vernon (W) at Electra;
Wichita Falls (W> at Graham; Quanah at
Childress (W), night.
3— Thursday; Brownfield at Lubbock
(W); Lamesa (W) at Midland.
•1—Thursday; El Paso Austin (W) vs.
El Paso High.
6—Thursday: Sweetwater (\V) at Big
Spring; San Angelo at Abilene (W),
night.
6— Thursday: Cisco at Breckenrtdgo
(\V); Mineral Wells at Weatherford (WJ,
7— Thursday: Greenville at Paris lWjl
Gainesville (W) at Bonham; Denison at
Sherman (W).
8— Thursday; Grand Prairie (W) at
McKinney.
9— Thursday: Marshall (\V> at Tyler;
Longview <W> at Gladewater; Texarkana,
Tex. (W) vs. Texarkana, Ark. (Non-con-
ference).
10— Season completed.
11— Thursday: Beaumont at Port Ar-
I thur <W>.
12— Friday: Galveston High (W) vs.
I Galveston Klrwln (Non-conference),
night.
i 13—Thursday: Corsicana (W) at Cle-
burne. Friday: Waco iW) at Temple,
I night.
I 14—Season completed.
15— Season completed.
16— Season completed.
CITY CONFERENCE
Dallas—Season completed.
Fort Worth—Thursday: Paschal (W)
vs. North Side, night.
Houston: Wednesday: Lamar (W) vs.
Mllby, night. Friday: Reagan (W) vs. S.
F. Austin, night.
San Antonio—Thursday: Jefferson (W)
vs. Brackenridge.
1). (\ Andrews
Van liaiiciiin
C harles Thompson
Hill Sommerville
Ronald Fraley
(ieorge Stephens
Weslej Rushing
Norris Haggerton
Mortis Haggerton
Hilly Reynolds
H<>!> McMillan
Ho!) (.atnel
Armor-plated battelships first
were built in 1855, during the
I Crimean War.
Houston
Sam Baugh Signs
For 14th Year
With Redskins
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—In-
destructible, 34-year-old Sammy
Baugh, who ha^ been playing pro
foootball longer than anyone in
the National Football League
Tuesday signed a contract for
1950 with the Washington Red-
skins.
There was no mention of how
much Baugh will get, but it has
been guessed that his salary runs
around $17,500 a year.
Next season will be Baugh’s
14th as a pro. Only one Nation-
al Football League player ever
has bettered that mark. Johnny
Blood put in 15 years service
with Milwaukee, Green Bay and
Pittsburgh, from 1925 through
1939.
Baugh holds all of the alltimc
passing records. He has thrown
the ball 2,568 times . . . 1,476
passes have been completed . . .
for 19,134 yards ... 164 touch-
downs.
When asked why he keeps on
year after year, Sammy answer-
ed—"I work pretty hard down
on the ranch in Sweetwater,
Texas and frankly, I guess I keep
on playing foot Dali because 1
need the rest.’
ORANGE BOWL GAME
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 23 (UP)—
Santa Clara University has ac-
cepted an invitation to play in
the Orange Bowl football game
here Jan. 2, it was announced
Tuesday.
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NEWARK. X. J., Nov 23 (UP)
Joe Louis, perhaps grooming for
another shot at the heavyweight
crown he gave up last March.
One Texan On U.P.
All America Team
NEW YORK. Nov. 23 (UP) —
Press All-America
TRIAL POSTPONED had diplomatic immunity, told
j NEW YORK, (UPl —Trial of O'"' that he npe(le(i con'
[government girl Judith
pointed today toward his third j The I nited
no-decision fight after jicrmit- j lootball team for 1919: O nder
ting young Joe Cheshul to last I the point system the player re-
: ® I reiving the first vote of every
10 founts last night. [person participating in the
Louis insisted he was not mak- „ i,t„ „nii u-mild vet :
iion-wide poll would get
a comeback—but the fight I points.)
na-
3,443
moll took his denials with a grain 1 l*os. Xante School
of salt in view of the steady ox- H Hart. Notre Dame
hibltion schedule lie has arrang- T
ed. G
“I’ll fight exhibitions liecause c
1 don’t train for them,” tile for-it;
mer champion said. "I don't
mind rightin', i don't like train-
in’.”
During the pursuit of the fair-
skinned" youngster from Bay-
onne, N. J.. Louis “opened up”
only in the fifth and last rounds.
He brought bursts of laughter
from the 5.500 fans by back ped-
alling in the ninth.
Nomellini. Minn.
Franz. Calif.
Tonnemakur. Minn
Bagdon. Midi. State
Wistert. Michigan
Weiner, N. Carolina
Sitko, Notre Dame
Walker, S. Methodist
Williams, Notre Dame
Galiffa, Army
Points
3.369
2.263
1.876
2.100
1.022
1.847
1.401
2,569
2.473
1,834
1.799
A raw's milk flow decreases
about 75 per cent when her thy-
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Coplon 'iiletable time to prepare a ease
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Russian employe ol die United ......
Nations, on espionage eonspir- 'lie pros.'emors of Nazi Indus-
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til Dee. 27 at the request of Glib-1 t»l<! the court that he particu-
itch(‘\ - attorney. |larly wanted time to prepare a
Abraham L. Pomerantz, nttor- challenge to the federal District
nev hired bv Gubitehev after i court s authority to try a per-
montlis of protesting that lie1 *>u claiming diplomatic immun-
ity.
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