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February 22 1947
THE H-SU BRAND
Intramural
Games at Tie
By DUANE SANDLIN
This week the round robin Intra-
mural basketball program has pass-
ed the half-way mark with n two-
way tic In the "major league" and
the Rebels lending the "minor lea-
gue". In the major league the Ramb-
ling Recks and Steelcrs lead the
loop in the first round of the tourna-
ment by sustaining three wins and
one loss apiece. The Rambling Recks
lost their only contest to the Green
Frogs while the Steclers bowed only
to the Recks.
The Rebels hold a more comfort-
able position in the first round of
the minor league with five wins
against no losses. Closest competi-
tion comes from the Nameless
Wonders with four wins and one
loss.
Rodney Heck smooth operating
member of the Spartans fourth
place team In the minor class lead
all Intramural baskctccrs In the
first stage by scoring 22 points In
a single game February 17 when
the Spartans overcome the Forty
NIncrs 37-23. The Spartans were
formerly known ns the Zcphycrs
but changed their nickname and
since have shown stronger results.
The Gargons probably the strong-
est outfit on the roll dropped from
the list due to conflicting activities
Most of the Gargons arc working
out for baseball.
The first round of the schedule
was settled Wednesday afternoon
With a couple of minor league tilts.
The Rebels outlasted the Nameless
Wonders 60-45 to gain first position
In the Minor league. David Bost
paced the winners with 16 points
and Gall Burgess rang up 12 for
the losers.
In the final game of the afternoon
the Forty Nlners featured their
first win of the tournament by
besting the Sidewinders 40-36. Lyn-
day Yandell hit eight field baskets
and one free toss for 17 points and
high point honors for the Forty
Nincrs. High point man for the
Sidewinders with 15 points was
Jep Clemmons.
Forty-Niners pf ft fg tp
Yandell 1 1 8 17
Ford 3 0 3 6
Chipman 0 0 4 8
Teel 0 14 9
Peterson 0 0 0 0
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Coach Wcsloy Bradshaw will tond
his Cowboy cagors against tholr last
non-conferonco foo of tho season to
night whon tho H-SU quintot tang
los with tho Howard Payno yellow
jackets in tho corral.
Ranchers Downed Thursday
By Arizona Univ. Wildcats
Sidewinders
Morgan
Foster
Fuller
Heck
James
Clemmons
Harris
Childcrs
1 40
pf ft fg tp
0 0 2 4
3 12 5
0 0 12
10 3 0
0 0 2 4
.. 1 1 7 15
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
JACKETS TO INVADE
SIMMONS TONIGHT
Howaid Payne Yellow Jackets
old time rivals of Hardin-SImmons
will Invade tho corral tonight and
meet tho Cowboys in the locals' final
non-conference game of tho season.
Game time Is slated for 8 p. m.
The Cowboys and Yellow Jackets
met three weeks age on the visitors'
home court. Howard Payne won
54-46.
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Woodson Is Guest
Speaker at Coleman
Coach Warren Woodson Hardin-
SImmons athletic director will be
principal speaker Tuesday night at
a banquet given In Coleman for
the Coleman high school football
team.
Bobby Russ ex-Cowboy football
player and graduate with the H-SU
class of '41 is coach of the Blue-
cat team.
Woodson's football teams have
been undefeated in Inter-collegiate
games during the 1942 and 1946
seasons. There were no games play-
ed between those years. Coach
Woodson served as naval officer
during tho last war. He came to
H-SU from the State Teachers' Col-
lege in Arkansas where he was head
athletic director.
Texas Leads Southuuest
Conference Cager Play
With all their remaining gomes
on their home court it appears that
Jack Grays' Texas Longhorn basket-
bailors have the Southwest Confer-
ence basketball championship virtu-
ally sewed up.
Admittedly it looked like at one
or two times during the football
season that the steers had the pig-
skin title wrapped up and tucked
away too and everybody knows
what happened. Tho Southwest cir-
cuit got hoggish and produced two
winners and neither of them was
the "invincible Longhorns."
But the University of Texas cag-
crs arc two full games ahead of the
remainder of their conference com-
petition. The smooth-functioning
Texas quintet plays more consistent-
ly than sensationally and employs
a fast break.
Arkansas and S. M. U. now arc
tied for second place In the circuit
with two defeats each. The all-important
series Is next weekend Fri-
day and Saturday when Arkansas'
Porkers tangle with the Longhorns
In their last chance to tie for the
title. S. M. U. has already bowed
twice to the stampeding Steers.
Texas has a perfect conference
record and has lost only one" game
In twenty starts.
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Casting Class Organized
A casting class for students inter
ested in learning the finer points
of flyrod fishing has been organ-
ized by Prof. W. D. Bond.
The class will meet each Wednes-
day at 5:30 p. m. Tuition for the
course Is a nominal $2.50 per semester.
MINTER'S present on tho Para-
mount Thoatro Stago . . . Friday
February 28th at 9:00 P. M. . . .
"ACTION UNDER THE SUN" fea-
turlng College and High School
girls and boys wearing tho latest
in sportswear fashions from .MIN-
TER'S SPRING STOCKS.
Cowboy Basketballers End
1947 Season Next Week
By DALMON McNAIR
A last period rally by the hust-
ling Hardin - Simmons Cowboys
wasn't enough to overcome a 13
point halftimo deficit and the power-
ful Wildcats of Arizona university
outlasted the locals to win 00-48 in!
tho H-SU corral Thursday night.
The fighting Cowhands put on a
last period spurt to narrow
tho Arizona lead to 5 points with
only one minute of play remaining
only to let the Wildcats ice the
game with four field goals.
Jack Martin A. B. Foster and
Dick Burris all figured prominently
in tho defense tactics sot up against
tho powerful Arizona quintot and
which held the Conference's load-
ing scoror Richmond to a scant
thrco points throughout the ontlre
game. Richmond's lono field goal
came about midway in the second
half.
The game got off to a slow start
with the lead alternating in the first
stage After the first eight minutes
of play tho score was knotted at
D-all. Then the powerful Wildcats
with only one defeat hi their string
of 21 games employed a razzle-
dazzle fast break gradually pulling
away from the home team to lead
at halftimo 30-17.
Wayno Preston with three field
goals and fivo free tosses led the
Cowboy scorers with 11 points
while Padclford led all scorers with
17 for tho Wildcats.
The victory insured the Arizona
quintet one-half of the Border Con-
ference title.
Box Score
Hardin-SImmons
Players fg ft pf tp
Martin 4 119
Foster .. 112 3
Preston . . . 3 5 4 11
Harvey . 0 10 1
Williams 2 115
Braselton 2 115
Burris 3 117
Pinson 2 0 0 4
Scott 110 3
Leffingwell 0 0 0 0
Total : - 18 12 10 48
Professionals Charged With
Unfair Recruiting Tactics
First H-SU Baseball
Contest With Texas
Scheduled March 13
Murray Evans H-SU baseball
coach announced this week that
Cowboy baseballers have scheduled
a March 13 game with the Univer-
sity of Texas team.
The game is to be played on the
University of Texas diamond and
marks the first athletic contest be-
tween the two schools.
Coach Evans' team is still in the
formative stages and no definite
decisions have been announced on
his starting nine.
Recent warm weather has enab-
led team aspirants to get in some
good workouts. Several games prior
to the H-SU-Tcxas tilt have been
scheduled.
Arizona
Players
Borodkln
Padclford
Enkc
Crurn
Richmond
Udall
Balantyne .
Total
8
3
. 7
fg ft pf tp
3 0 4 6
1 0 17
2 2 8
2 5 16
.'.. .113 3
4 119
0 111
. 26 8 16 GO
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First Round Standings:
Major League W L
Ramblin' Wrecks 3 1
Steelcrs 3
Bootleggers 2 2
Green Frogs 2 2
Outlaws 4
Minor League
Rebels
Nameless Wonders ..
Sidewinders
Spartans
Rustlers
Forty-Niners
W L
5 0
... 4 1
...42
2 3
.- 1 4
. 1 5
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Tho Cowboy basketballers with
more defeats than victories to their
credit will be winding up the 1947
season when they meet the New
Mexico Lobos In the Corral Thurs-
day. Looking at the record we see
that our team had some disasterous
road trip this season.
Trips to Colorado and California
didn't net any prestige for the Cow-
boys but they provided necessary
experience to help the team in the
Border Conference race. The Ranch-
ers didn't figure prominently in the
title chase this year but knocking
over such teams as Texas Tech
and West Texas State they raised
their stock in the eyes of many fans.
Hardin-Simmons quintets certain-
ly haven't made admirable records
in the past and this year was no
exception. However with all the
squad returning except one possibly
two men for further competition
next year our H-SU team should
be able to figure in the conference
race. Coach Bradshaw has been
handicapped this season because A.
B. Foster Bill Scott and others who
belonged to the Alamo Bowl foot-
ball squad were not able to play
until after the first of the year.
Then too such standouts as Jack
Martin Glenn Burroughs Dick
Burris and Nolan Harvey did not
even enroll in school until the spring
semester.
The most interesting revelation
Coach Woodson gave the public
when -he aimed his blasts at the
professionals was the fact that mem-
bers of his squad were approached
on the days of important games.
This doesn't show a very good
policy on the part of the pro scouts.
Perhaps if other coaches would take
the initiative Woodson has taken
and put us some opposition to such
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TEXAS COCA-COLA OTTUNa COMPANY
Arizona Holds Lead
In Border Conference
With only one week of competition
left in the Border Conference
basketball race tho University of
Arizona Wildcats are holding a
comfortable lead over the rest of
the nine team pack.
The Arizona win over Hardin
Simmons last week in Tucson gave
the Wildcats a victory over each of
their conference foes and they ap-
pear to be set for the Conference
title. With the results of this week's
games not yet tabulated Arizona
State of Flagstaff and New Mexico
university were battling for the se
cond place position while Texas
Mines Arizona State of Tempo and
West Texas State were holding the
fourth fifth and sixth places in
that order.
Texas Tech held a one half game
lead over Hardin-Simmons for tho
seventh place slot and the lowly
Now Mexico Aggies with only one
conference win to their credit have
settled for the cellar spot in the
conference race.
Tho Cowboy calendar for remain-
ing games shows tho New Mexico
Aggies to bo visitors here February
26 and New Mexico university
winding up the Cowboy season with
a February 27 game here.
Seven Ruled Ate
Ghantfed in Qama
Seven new changes in football
rules will go into effect when play-
ers return to the gridiron next fall
as a result of the revisions made
by the rule committee of the Na-
tional Collegiate Athletic council in
a meeting held at Kcrrville Texas
Feb. 2.
The average fan will take little
notice of these new changes which
allows a team to send in a substi-
tute while the ball is dead although
time is still In barring of the run
ning shifts by ruling false start
and the softening of shoulder and
thigh pads and helmets to cut down
injuries.
Other changes include: (1) bring-
ing the ball in one-third the width
of the field after an out-of-bounds
play (this will put the ball in ap-
proximately 18 yards instead of the
usual 15 from the sideline) (2) on a
blocked kick in a point after touch-
down try tho ball will be dead and
cannot be run or passed (3) on a
disqualification loul the offending
player will be removed from tho
game and a 15 yard penalty will
be inflicted on the offending team
instead of the usual half distance
to the goal (4) the rules governing
illegal use of the hands and un
necessary roughness were clarified
ABILENE
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DOC" MOBLEY
Mobley Signs With
Professional Eleven
Rudolph "Little Doc" Mobley
Hardin-Simmons football star and
the nation's leading ground gainer
last fall has signed a professional
contract and will be playing for the
Baltimore Colts when they make
their debut in the All-America Pro-
fessional Football league nqxt sea-
son. Mobley the 24-year-old Puducah
halfback led the nation's ball car-
riers during the 1946 season with
a total of 1262 yeards gained in the
Cowboys' ten games.
Named to the Associated Press
Little All-America team in 1942
Mobloy left school to enter the arm-
ed services. He returned to Hardin-
Simmons last fall to lead the Cow-
boys through an undefeated untied
season and into the Alamo Bowl
against Denver university at San
Antonio where the Cowboys were
victorious 20-0. He was again named
a Little All-America back.
Mobley would have graduated this
June but he dropped out of school
to return next fall and complete
his football eligibility with the Cow-
boys. His decision to play profes-
sional ball was reached after he
left the Hardin-Simmons campus.
"I am sure that Mobley has given
the matter great consideration and
has acted according to what ho be-
lieves is the best for him" was the
comment of Coach Warren Woodson.
"He's one of the finest boys I ever
coached both morally and from the
standpoint of ability" the Cowboy
mentor added.
Tennis Players Should
"Keep Eyes On the Ball
"The secret of successful tennis
playing is keeping your eye on the
ball" states Edna Edwards sopho-
more student from O'Donncll. Edna
has been to tho state meet of Inter-
scholastic League in tennis for the
last three years.
The many different strokes are all
important she believes. One's back-
hand stroke should be as effective
as his forehand stroke. Serving is
one of the main aids; therefore a
student player should strive to de-
velop his serves if he is to become
a tennis champion.
According to Edna tho net play-
er always has tho advantage. "The
best method of winning a point is
following an effective stroke to the
net" she explained.
Edna began playing tennis at the
age of ten and has learned that it
requires practice to obtain skill and
a good technique in playing the
game.
She confesses that cheering is an
aid in winning the game when it is
intended for you but when reversed
it is a great hindrance.
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Charges that professional recruit
ing of university athletes is threat
ening intercollegiate football were
made this week by Coach Warren
B. Woodson director of the school's
athletics.
Woodson's charge came following
the announcement that Rudolph
"Little Doc" Mobley had stoned a
contract with the All -America
League Baltimore Colts. Mobley has
been the nation's chief ground gain-
er in 1942 and 1946 and was select
ed on the Associated Press Little
All-America team in those years.
While wishing Mobley all of the
best in the professional game Wood-
son said that the decision of "Little
Doc" to turn professional had not
changed his opinion that Mobley
was tho greatest athlete and had the
finest moral character of anyono
he had coached. Woodson however
criticized Lou Hesscll Baltimore
Colt scout for offering contracts to
students who were still eligible for
collegiate competition.
He charged that Hassell had told
him that the Colts were not inter-
ested in signing Mobley because he
had another semester of athletic
competition remaining but later
made an offer to Mobley even though
ho Hassell knew Mobley was eli
gible for more college competition.
Woodson said his charge against
professionals in interfering with
college athletics did not particular
ly relate to Mobley's case. "This is
just one incident." He claimed that
members of the Hardin-Simmons
team had been offered contracts by
professional scouts on the same
afternoon that the school was play-
ing important opponents. "Straw-
berry" Earl Rowan freshman on
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BASEBALL ROSTER
Name
Jack Boles
Ray Perry
Howard McChesney
Moe Hedrick
Leon Cooper
Harry Stephens
W. Bielachowicz
R. C. Burris
Harland Forsythe
Ray Salo
Name
Gene Spires
J. B. Gibbs
"Red" Cleveland
Al Johnson
Pat Bailey
ACC Ties Wesleyans
In Conference Contest
Since Tuesday night's basketball
battle between Texas Wesleyan's
Rams and ACC at Bennett Gym-
nasium Tuesday things have been
tied up in the 1947 Texas Confer-
ence Basketball Championship race.
In what was termed by most
folks as an upset Coach Bugs Mor-
ris' Wildcats eked out a 63-61 de-
cision over the rampaging Rams the
team that still boasts the scoring
leader of the entire nation Clifton
McNeely.
Tho Rams and Cats have each
won seven and lost one now as
league play breezes into the home
stretch.
Jesse Clardy
Crowley Morgan
Wayne Cook
Billle Newman
Dave Carson
Position
Catcher
Catcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
First Base
. Second Base
Third Base
Position
Short Stop
Right Field
Center Field
Left Field
Infield
Infield
Outfield
Outfield
Outfield
Outfield
Spring Grid Practice Is
Under Way at Tex. Tech
Sping football practice at Texas
Tech will start March 3 with 22
lettermen from last fall back for
competition.
Coach Dell Morgan will be seek-
ing to strengthen several weak spots
particularly in the passing depart-
ment where in the 1946 season Tech
tried 114 passes and completed only
30 for 339 yards.
Lost through graduation were
Co-Captain Roger Smith back and
James Reed guard and fullback Ed
Robnett. Morgan will test several
men in each slot this spring in an
effort to find suitable replacements.
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