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SwMtwoftr UpPRiv SwMhwttr, Ttxos'
tangs. Bobcats Will
ash In Scoring Spree
Li
Jilchever team can keep the
Ml under their control through-
out most of the lame will win
FHdiy afternoon.
And so the Sweetwater High
School coaching staff summed up
the San Angelo-Sweetwater foot-
ball encounter to be played at
Bobcat Stadium in Angelo Friday
afternoon at 2 p. m.
Head Coach Pat Gerald te-
lieves his Mustangs can score
against the Bob cats. But then
he relates—“San Angelo has six
men (four hackfielders, two
ends) that will be exceptionally
hard to stop.’
Sweetwater Coaches Gerald
and Ken Newton earnestly be-
lieve that San Angelo is two
McMurry To Play
Howard Payne In
Homecoming Game
ABILENE. Nov. 8—Seeking
to clinch at least a tie for their
third successive Texas Confer-
ence flag, the McMurry Indians
will face a diversified attack in
their Homecoming game against
Howard Payne Friday right.
In A1 Langford, Yellow Jack-
et quarterback, the Indians en-
counter one of the nation’s lead-
ing passers, who has accounted
for more than one thousand
yards. Two weeks ago, Austin
College, without a running of-
fense, gave McMurry a real
scare. With Fullback Jackie
Bearrow, a transfer from Bay-
lor, in the lineup, the Yellow
Jackets have a ground game that
should cause more trouble.
McMurry will not stay on the
ground, either. Since the news
was announced that the Indians
rushing offense topped the na-
tion among small colleges, Mc-
Murry passers have connected
for five touchdowns in their last
two games.
touchdowns better than the Abi-
lene team.
“That doesn’t mean,” implied
Coach Newton, "that the Bob-
cats are four TDs better than
the Mustangs. We’ll just have
to go out there and stop them
somehow. If anyone has any
choice suggestions 1 wish they
would relay them to us.”
At the Sweetwater Athletic
Association meeting last night,
Coach Gerald spoke briefly on
the Angelo offense and how the
Ponies will try to play the de-
fense.
First. Coach Gerald pointed out
the calibre of the San Angelo
backfield. The Bobcats have
three 10-second men in their
starting secondary. And the pass-
ing of Quarterback Bobby Oat-
j terbuck is by far the best in
: high school play. The ends are
big and fast and can hang onto
! Clatterbuck’s long tosses.
No wonder Coaches Gerald
and Newton are worried! They
have two boys who played on
the first string Inst year to pit
against a team that is decorated
with 1048 starters.
Angelo’s ltackfield
Clatterbuck, who pitched San
Angelo High School to several
victories in the past season's
baseball race, is pitching his
squad to victory in football.
The Bobcat quarterback stands
over six feet and weights in the
neighborhood of 200 pounds. He
can throw ’em long or short. He
enjoys tossing long ones— those
that go for touchdowns.
Clatterbuck can hit his receiv-
ers as well as any passer in the
business—college or high school.
Ran Angelo’s other three back-
fielders don’t stand around and
let Clatterbuck to do all the work,
either. They can run and run
fast. Pat Hall, Dwight Trice and
Jimmy Joe Russell are the fleet-
footed mail-carriers. And an al-
ternate, Buddy Goode, is just as
fast.
George Kendall is at one of
the end positions for Angelo and
is Clatterbucks favorite pass-re-
ceiver.
Kendall is more' than six feet
tall and weighs slightly over 200
pounds. He can latch onto any
hall thrown within several yards
of him. Bob Petty holds down
the other end and is another
capable puss-snagger.
And so as one ot tne Sweetwa-
ter coaches explains it—
If the Mustangs can score
every time they get the ball and
stop the Bobcats from scoring
once or twice by recovering a
fumble or intercepting a pass,
be able to
then the Ponies may
beat those Concho lads.
Texas Longhorns M
For Texas Christian
By United Press
Coach Blair Cherry let it be
known today tnal his Texas
Longhorns would be in excellent
physical condition for their
Southwest conference football
clash Saturday against Texas
Christian’s Horned Frogs.
The Longhorns emerged from
their record-spoiling defeat of
Bavlor at Austin last Saturday
without any major mishaps. Joe
Arnold who was hurt in the Bay-
lor game, practiced briefly yes-
terday.
Cherry said his team would
rely "heavily” on the bruising
running game of Fullback Ray
Borneman, who has recovered
from a knee injury that slowed
him down earlier in the season.
At Waco, a collection of bat-
tered Baylor Bears got ready to
work out for Saturday’s game
with the visiting Wyoming Cow-
boys.
The 20-0 pasting the Bears took
from Texas Saturday not only
knocked them from the dwind-
ling list of undefeated teams,
but also took a heavy casualty
toll.
At elast four players were al-
most certain to be out of the
lineup against Wyoming, in-
cluding Halfback Buddy Parker
and Defensive Linebacker Har-
old Attaway.
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By Bad Worsham
Aggie's Bill-Driver
Leads South vest In
Not Yards Rushing
Tuesday, Nov. 8,1949
Texas A&M Grid Team
is Packed With Sophs
SUPPORTING ROLE—With a
shoulder like that of six-foot
three-inch, 235-pound guard
Bud McFadin to rest on, half-
back Perry Samuels wouldn’t
have much trouble keeping his
head above the opposition. B*it
the little sprint champion and
Texas wasn't able to get that
last bit of extra needed for vic-
tory over Rice and Southern
Methodist.
Detroit Lions May
To Pro Contract
DETROIT, Nov. 8 (UP)—Tile
Detroit Lions, who probably
needed it more than any other
National Football League team,
were fortified today with Notre
Dame End I.eon Hart -as the
bonus league draft choice.
But they still must talk him
into signing a contract.
Coach Bo McMillan picked the
bonus from a hat at the league
meeting in Philadelphia yester-
day and immediately named the
265-pound Irish co-captain, one
SNYDER. C. C. Is 5-AA?
There’s several indications
that Snyder and Colorado City
will gain enough scholastics by
the end of this school year to be
forced into Class AA. If they do,
then both schools will probably
become a part of District 5-AA.
However, we believe that it
will take a number of years be-
fore either Snyder or Colorado
City can field a football team
that can take the field against
such teams as Sweetwater, Abi-
lene, San Angelo, Brownwood
and Big Spring.
At present Snyder and Colo-
rado City are finding it hard
even to win the District fi-A
laurels. What chance would they
have against a 5-AA squad?
It takes more than scholastics
to make a football team. Snyder
and Colorado City could, in all
probability, field grid squads in
1953 that would be able to com-
pete against the present Class
AA clubs.
So it might be to their ad-
vantage to remain in Class A, if
at all possible, until a Class AA
squad can be developed.
Colorado City was a member
of AA a number of years ago.
With the increasing population
in both C. C. and Snyder, they
should be capable of playing AA
teams by 1953. We doubt if they
could hold their own until then.
* * *
THE WRITTEN WORD
An article in this week’s Life
magazine is devoted to the Yale
University football coach, Her-
man Hickman, who weighs in
the neighborhood of 300 pounds.
Here is an excerpt from this
article—
“As a tyro coach, hired by
North Carolina State to teach
line play, Hickman was also just
a little too smart for his own
good. North Carolina State’s
big game is with Wake Forest
College, a rival educational in-
stitution just 17 miles away.
“In 1939 Hickman figured that
the Wake Forest boys were ob-
viously superior and that des-
perate measures were called for.
He sat down one night in his
room and wrote a couple of doz-
en letters. The first one was ad-
dressed to North Carolina
State's quarterback and read, ‘I i
By United Press
Texas A&M’s answer to the
Sherman tank — Ramblin’ Ro-
bert Smith—could rest on his
gridiron laurels today and still
say he had experienced a sea-
son to be envied by any back.
Smith, a 192-pound sopho-
more, powered for 175 yards on
23 tries against Southern Metho-
dist last Saturday. The perform-
ance increased his Southwest
Conference ground-gaining lead
to 626 net yards for the season,
with two games still facing the
Aggies.
Kunner-up honors were held
by Bobby Lantrip of Rice. He
gained 96 yards against Arkan-
sas to boost his 1949 total to 471
yards.
Newly released figures show
Raul Campbell of Texas to be
By ED FITE
UP Sports Writer
COLLEGE STATION, Tex.,
Nov. 8 (UP)—The phenomenal
fortunes Texas A&M College
Coach Harry Stitleler enjoyed as
a high school mentor deserted
him as a college head coach, but
today the tide appeared to be
turning.
After a 14-year span during
which the diminutive, silver-hair-
the new passing leader, sup-
planting Texas Christian’s Lin-
dy Berry.
Campbell netted 56 yards
through the air against Baylor.
But Berry, who had held the
lead since season opening, was
idle and his overall total stayed
at 1,047 yards, five less than
Campbell’s yardage.
Third place in the great aer-
ial act went to Adrian Burk of
Baylor whose total was 940
yards.
End Ben Proctor of Texas
continued to widen his pass re-
ceiving lead over idle Morris
Bailey of TCU. Proctor’s total,
including 40 yards on three
tosses against Baylor, was 479
yards. Bailey's was 417 yards.
Kyle Rote of SMU retained
his punting lead with a 44-yard
average. Texas Christian’s Jim-
my Hickey was second with an
average of 40.6, two-tenths of a
yard tetter than All-American
Doak Walker’s spirals for
Southern Methodist.
Bobby Dillon of Texas was
the top punt return artist. He
averaged 19.8 yards, an eight-
tenth yard lead over Rice’s Hex
Proctor.
Rice had the test offensive
average, 37-1 yards per game.
Texas was second with a 371-
yard average.
On defense, Baylor’s 2011 . _
Sv'S pthan8Te ^ More Graduates By
yard mark compiled hv Texas. I
COWBOY RIDES ’EM—Carl
Rollins of the Wyoming Cow-
boys is a remarkable ball-
carrier appreciated most for
bis rugged blocking. Wyom-
ing will tackle Adrian Bnrk
and Baylor in Waco, Nov. 12.
Air Force To Get
Til Advisory Group
Suggests Changes
Navy's Agreement
ed Stiteler’s schoolboy grid ’
teams won 138 games and lost
but 20, he jumped into the col-
legiate ranks as an assistant
coach and for the past two sea-
sons as head coach.
His Texas A&M teams lost
nine and tied one last season and
have lost six, won one and tied
one so lar in 1949.
But, that last tie—Saturday’s
27-27 thiller with mighty South-
elm Methodist—may be the turn-
ing point that will find Stiteler’s '
Aggies on the upgrade again.
Although his only previous
experience with losing teams had
been when he served as the 137-
pound quarterback on an A&M
lea in that won only two of nine
games in 1930, Stiteler told Aggie
backers when lie took over in
1948 that they needn’t expect to
hold many victory marches for
two or three years.
Now, the green sophomores
he has teen banking on are tie-
ginning to show a little of the
polish he expected them to pick
up ibis fall and, while the Ag-
gies still may not cash in a vic-
tory before the season ends
Thanksgiving Day, they’re shown
signs ot capabilities that bode
evil for conference foes next
year or 1951 at the latest.
Of the 22 men who have seen
the most action this fall. 12 are
shophomores, eight are juniors
and only two are seniors.
The backfield which was in-
xrumcntal in matching HMD’s
Doak Walker, Kyle Rote et al
last Saturday was made up of
three sophomores and one jun-
ior. The latter was subbing in
for Soph Glenn Lippman, who
was hurt early in the game.
The entire defensive line was
made up of sophomores. And
sophomores provided nearly half
of the offensive line that out-
charged the Methodists and help-
ed rambling Robert Smith, the
hull-dozing soph fullback, run
I SMU ragged.
Quarterback trouble, which
I had bothered the Aggies most of
the season and teen responsible
i for many of the “Greenhorn” mis-
1 takes, appeared at an end with
! Fronehy Dick Gardemal turning
| in a superb ball handling and
, signal calling performance.
His faking was so perfect at
: times that SMI' defenders grop-
i eed blindly for ball carriers at.
, the line while Gardemal calmly
i eased hack and passed to wide
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 8 HT)-
of the most, sought-after colle-! hope you're not too yellow to j A referendum on raising the age
giate players.
If the Lions succeed in outbid-
show up for the game Saturday, limit of eligibility of schoolboy
It is mv personal ambition to!athletes has been recommended
ding the rival All-America Con- ^t^ak both of your legs. Signed, j by the Texas Interscholasrtc
ferer.ee for Hart it would reunite
the Notre Dame passing combin-
ation with ex-Irish Star Frank
Tripucka, rookie Lion quarter-
back, on the tossing end.
Geo. Kellam's Weekly
High School Ratings
Following are George Kel-
lam’s weekly high school foot-
ball ratings—(Figure in paren-
Wake Forest Player.’
“The next was addressed to
•State’s right halfback and read,
‘I hope you realize that if you
make one good move in the game
next Saturday, my dormitory
mates and I are going to catch
you up an alley and remove
vour teeth. Signed, Wake Forest
Student.’
“In the same vein Hickman
league’s advisory council.
The recommendation, which
thesis indicates
teams last week)
1. Lubbock (1).
2. Port Arthur (2).
3. Wichita Falls (3).
4. Abilene (4).
5. Corsicana (5).
6. Odessa (6).
7. Austin (7).
8. Marshall (8).
9. Baytown (9).
10. Pampa (17).
11. Sar. Angelo (11).
12. Henderson (12).
13. Breckenridge (13).
14. Highland Park (15).
15. Amarillo (10).
16. Waco (16).
17. Sweetwater (18).
18. Corpus Christi (19).
19. Temple (10).
20. Grand Prairie (14).
positions of
open receivers
WASHINGTON, (UP) -The Aggie spirit has never been
Navy has disclosed that it has low. despite the regularity of do-
agreed to give the Air Force feats. Hut, now that the team
more than three times as many ; has found out what it can do
Annapolis graduates next year i the going may be extremely
as it has in past years. rough for pace-setting Rice this
'1 he agreement was hailed im- wn kencl and bitter rival Texas
now goes to the TIL’s executive
committee, called for submission
of the issue to 1,500 schools tak-
ng part in the siate-ivide athletic
program.
The advisory council also urg-
ed the executive committee to
submit to a vote of member
schools a proposed change of
tlie eight-semester rule to a 12-
continued writing anonymous e.
notes to his entire team . . . Then . ed that both recommendations
he put the letters in envelopes, J resulted from the new 12-grade
drove over to Wake Forest and | system.
mailed them. They arrived next j The age limit referendum, if
day on the North Carolina State (approved for submittion. would | SC|100|H
campus, looking so completely allow schoolboys under 19 as of
legitimate that nobody ever St’Pt 1, 1951 to take part in the
athletic program, going into ef-
fort during the 1951-1952 school
year.
It would thus have the effect,
of permitting athletes becoming
19 during the scool year to re-
tain their eligibility. The refer-
endum would give schools the
alternative of retaining t lie pres-
ent 18-year rule or adopting the
change.
mediately in military circles as
a big stride forward in unifica-
tion of the armed forces.
Under the new agreement, 25
per cent of the 690-member
graduating class at the U. S.
Naval Academy may volunteer la gnu every
for transfer to the Air Force. ! the future.
Of these, half will draw flying -
assignments and half will be at-
tached to ground units.
The previous agreement stipu-
lated that only seven per cent
of the Annapolis graduates
would lie eligible for transfer
to the Air Force.
The Air Force has no service
Academy of its own. It must re-
ly on West Point and Annapol-
is for its academy-trained offi-
cers. Others come from civilian
on Thanksgiving
Best of ail, there’s two more
vears-of plh/ together ahead for
almost me entire group and the
perpetual smile little Harry Stite-
ler always wears broadens into
time lie thinks of
SEE THE FOLKS
THIS FALL...IT’S
caught on
“The whole team was aroused
—but in a way that Hickman
not realizing his own literary
strength, hardly expected. ‘Right
then,’ he recalls, ‘is when I
learned the power of the written
word. When the game came up
my team was scared as hell and
Wake Forest beat us, 32-0. Just
goes to show that psychology
isn’t everything’
•Ccientists are working with
temperatures so low they’d make
a home refrigerator seem like a
furnace. In a new Wostinghouse
“push-buttom” laboratory, the re-
searchers can reach down to
459.6 degrees below zero Fahren-
heit—within one-tenth of a de-
gre of absolute zero.
This same incident happened
when Pat Gerald was coaching
at Vernon—only in a slightly
different way. A rival coach
wrote Gerald’s team letters such
as these and signed them with
Vernon squad members’ names.
Said Gerald—“When the Coy-
otes came over for the game,
16 Unbeaten Clubs
Left In Class A
Tn spite of efforts to draft an
international schedule, G3 va-
rieties of standard time are in
use in the world today.
By United Press
Only 16 class A schoolboy
football teams remained un-
defeated today as the race turn-
ed into its ' final two weeks
prior to opening of the playoff
Attention
Hunters
... Time for
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• EXTRA SCENIC BEAUTY
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by GREYHOUND
they were prepared to tear my I round the last of the month,
team to bits. At halftime we i Of that number five had
learned what had happened.” been tied and the others were
unbeaten and untied.
SMU FROSH TIE NTS
DALLAS, Nov. 8 (UP) —
sparker by big Rill Forester,
215-pound fullback, Southern
Methodist University’s freshman
football team battled North
Texas State’s B squad to a 20-20
tie yesterday at Ownby Stadium.
Winning is fun. But you cannot
leave life to luck. Christianity is the
sure thing. The Episcopal Church
can help you learn about it.
St Stephen's
Episcopal Church
502 Locust_Sweetwater
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Four teams fell from the
ranks last week—highly-touted
Mount Vernon, to Mineola;
Hereford, to Canyon; Hamlin, to
Colorado City, and El Campb,
to Wharton.
In addition, Leveretts Chap-
el, which had one previous tie
against its record, was tied
again, 20-20, by Gaston.
Plenty of Itliiea
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In 20, 16 and 12 Gauge
Full or Modified Choke
Shells of Every Size
Autumn-painted scenery ...
mild, crisp weather... un-
crowded hotels and resorts
—all combine to make Fall
the ideal Take-a-Trip Time.
And it’s so easy, so conven-
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IS STILL GOING STRONG
Trade In Your Old Range
For A New
Notre Dame Schedule
Is Full Until 1954
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CHICAGO. Nov. 8 (UP)—Notre
Dame's football schedule is tlook-
ed full for the next four years
so there is no shortage of oppon-
ents, according to Athlete Direc-
tor Ed “Moose” Krause.
Krause told a quarterback
luncheon yesterday that “we
are solidly filled through the 1953
season, and our problem is to |
find room for fine teams that
want to play us.”
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Sam Snead, winner of every ma-
jor tournament in 1949 blit the
National Open, was chosen
“Golfer of the year” today by a
poll of sports writers and broad-
casters.
National Open Champ Cary
Middlecoff of Memphis was sec-
ond and Johnny Palmer of Bad-
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