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Indians Meei Mississippi
Abilene Christian
Leads Conference
Austin Trailing
Texns Conference piny begins in
earnest tTTis week unci the .sports-
writers seem to have hml some of
Die teams placed In the wrong
spots.
Southwestern last year's collar
team ami Abilene Christian which
was almost on the bottom of the
list have produced the most stat-
tling performances. ACC has won
three stinlght mid the Pirates of
Southwestern co.iched by II. M
Medley have taken two out of
tlnee The Wildcats go to George-
town to meet the l'hatcs S.itinday
afternoon.
MeMuny the team the "experts"
picked to win caused them further
embarrassment by dropping; one to
West Texns State. The Indians
have another week to Ret ready for
the conference foes entertaining
Mississippi Southern in Abilene
Satin day night.
Arc 3 n o i.ooo s t
Austin 2 0 0 1.000 fill in
S'western 2 1 0 .667 42 15
H. Payne 1 1 1 .500 66 -16
McMurry 12 0 .333 SI 67
Texas A&l 0 2 0 .000 13 27
Austin college seems to be living
up to ptedir lions. The Kangaroos
have won two games and are pick-
ed to take the conference flag if
McMurry doesn't repeat. Austin
meets East Texas States in Dallas
Saturday night. ETSC is the sec-
ond 1019 conference champion lhat
the Kangaroos will play. They
downed Midwestern University de-
fending Gulf Coast champion last
Saturday night.
Howard Payne and Texas A&I
also open conference play as the
Javclinas meet the Yellow Jackets
in Brownwood Saturday night. The
Yellow Jackets have a win a loss
and a tie compared with two
Javclina losses.
Payne picked as a dark horse
produced a polished performance
as they rolled over New Mexico
A&M 33 to 6 last week. A&I has
dropped a game to Trinity and
Southwest Texas State.
Last week's results: ACC 13
University of Chattanooga 7; How-
ard Payne 33 New Mexico A&M
6; Austin 27 Midwestern 13; West
Texns tl McMurry 19; Southwest-
ern 7 Stephen F. Austin 0; South-
west Texas 7 Texas A&I 6.
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SPORTS
The WAR WHOOP Friday Oct. fi 1950
FLOYD SAMPSON
McMurry Co-Captains
Buffaloes Stampede
Indian Tribe 41-19
A Buffalo Herd stampeded last
Saturday night In Canyon as West
Texas States tallied three times
in the last five minutes of play
to outseore McMurry's Indians
41-19.
The Indians started nut on the
warpath by marching down the
field after the opening kick-oft
for 76 yards and scoring on IS
plays. Floyd Samson went over
from the 8 after he Brad Row-
land and Kddie Springer had
pushed the hall downtleld. The
try for extra point wan mlsNcd.
The Buffaloes however were not
to be pushed around. The kick-off
was brought out to the 36 yard
marker by Charlie Wright. The
ball was maneuvered from there
to McMurry's 4 with little fullback
Bill Gross along with Charlie
Wright crashing through the line
and Gene Mayfield tossing com-
plete passes all over the gridiron.
From the 4 Mayfield passed over
the double stripe to end Roy Lee
Dunn for a touchdown. Dunn's try
for conversion failed but tho
Tribesmen were off-side and it was
counted.
Shortly after McMurry received
the kick-off hand-off specialist
Doyle Dean fired a pass which
Buffalo Harry Smith intercepted
and took 55 yards down the sideline
and over the goal untouched.
Dunn's boot was good as the scor-
ing for the first half ended in favor
of West Texas State 14-6.
Charlie Wright took McMurry's
second half kick-off in the end zone
and brought it out to the 27 before
charging Paul Schuelke shook him
loose from the ball and promptly
recovered it.
"Mr. Inside and Outalde"
Floyd Sampson and Brad Row-
land respectively combined for
5 yards on two plays and on the-
and BOB RE1LY
next Rowland took a hand-off
from Quarterback Dean and
plow oil through for McMurry's
Hfcnnd score. Schuelke mode
good his try for the extra point.
The Buffs countered shortly with
their third T.D alter a set-up in
the form of a "roughing the kick-
er" penalty against the Indians.
McMunians after taking WT's
kick-off went on a 60-yard march-
ing spree down to the Buffs' 14-
yard line where Rowland's fumble
wns recovered by an alert Buflalo.
The tables turned again however
as Billy Sisson recovered May-
field's fumble on his own 19. Row-
land went 11 yards for a first down
and the men from West Texas
State drew a 15-yard penalty. Tho
ball was quickly moved to the Buf-
falo 7 with Rowland carrying tho
heavier part of the load. Doyle
Dean slipped through from there
and Schuelke's try for conversion
was blocked.
With only about five minutes to
play tragedy struck. The West
Texas Staters scored throe times
before the time ran out.
The first T.D. was set up by an
Intercepted pass with Wright pil-
ing over from the 25. The Buffs
took over again on the 26-yard
line after a failure on a fourth
down attempt for a first and Cross
a few moments later slithered past
the line for another tally.
With only a couple of minutes
left Quarterback Mayfield who
fired with radar accuracy all night
unwound again to the 27-yard line
to Dunn who raced over for the
Buffaloes' final score. Dunn's kick
was low.
Brad Rowland McMurry's lit-
tle all-Amerlcan back was tho
leading ground gainer for the
contest with 160 yards 23 of
them coming on a scoring daub.
ibe Makes First
Home Appearance
McMurry Indians play host to the Mississippi Southerners
here in Abilene at Fair Park stadium Satin-day night in their
first home game of the 1050 Toot hall season.
Bubbcr Phillips an all-con fei-cnce halfback tops the list of
17 returning letternien on the Southerners team as well as a
host of sophs whi) earned letters
WINS BUCK
JACK HALL
PREDICTS UPSETS
Jack Hall came through to pre-
dict several upsets and win tho
dollar last week. Of the 20 games
played Hall predicted 17 of the
winners correctly and was closely
followed by Bill Moring Buddy
Dulln and Don Hale who predicted
15 games correctly.
In the Austin-Midwestern tussle.
Hall said that the Kangaroos would
win by 15 points and they came
through by beating the Indians 14
points (27-13). Hall said that the
Kentucky Wildcats would beat the
Mississippi Rebels by a score of
33-6 and tho Wildcats won 27-0
27 points different just as he pre-
dicted. Among the upsets of the week
was the Michigan State-Michigan
U. game in which the Wolverines
lost 14-7. T. D. Hamilton predict-
ed the exact score on that game.
Only one person thought thnt the
McMurry Indians would lose their
battle to the West Texas Buffaloes.
Other upsets were the T.C.U.-
Oklahoma A&M game (7-18) and
Texas A&I-Southwest Texas State
(0-7).
Here is another list of gridiron
classics pick and win. Remember
the deadline is 10 tomorrow morn-
ing. MeMurry-Miss. Southern .. ..
A.C.C.-S'west Texas .
Army-Penn. State .. .
Austin-E. Texas State
Ball St. Teachers-De Pnuw . ..
Baylor-Mississippi St.
Georgia Tech-Florida .
H.S.U.-Arizona .. ..
Georgia-No. Carolina
. H. Payne-Texas A&I
. Rice-L.S.U
Michigan St.-Maryland . ...
Michigan U. -Dartmouth . ...
Navy-Northwestern
Notre Dame-Purdue . .
. Oklnhnmn-Tcxns A&M
Slippery Bock Tch.-Kdinboro St.
S.M.U.-Missouri . ...
T.C.U.-Arkansas
Texas-Temp e
INTRAMURALS
Touch Football Starts for Men;
Women Schedule Softball Finals
Touch football intramurals arc
slated to start next week reports
L. D. Cunnigham intramural di-
rector. All clubs and classes that wish
to participate should submit by
Monday a list containing the team
name its captain or manager and
the players to Marvin Sanders
Dick Rlchey or Mr. Cunningham.
When all the lists are in a meet-
ing will be held for the captains
or managers in order to work out
a schedule and to set up some
rules he said.
There is no maximum number
Gene Mayfield completed 10 of
18 passes for the winning Buffs;
two of which resulted in touch-
downs. Bill Cross rolled up 110
yards on the ground and tenmmato
Charlie Wright was not far behind
with 108.
on the freshman tenm in the 1U49
season. Mississippi Southern hns
lost two games to date 55 to 0 to
Tennessee and I!) to 13 to Delta
State.
Tho Southerners will be with-
out tho service of their 1040
Little All-Amerlcan end Cliff
Otggtn who was graduated last
May. Coggln established three
new collegiate pass - snagging
mark while with the Mississippi
school.
Last year the Southerners out-
scored McMurry 55 to 32 but the
Indians came out on top in the
statistics column
Southern's football coaches have
another job that of plugging a big
gap at offensive right halfback.
Lindy Stewart has been shifted
from the fullback posttion and is
expected to carry most of the load.
Stewart is better known as a top-
notch punter.
If the change remains Coach
Thad Vann will field a backfleld
with three seniors and one junior
all of whom arc lottermen.
Bobby Holmes will be at quar-
terback Morris "Lightning"
Brown at left half and Clint
Arnold at fullback for the senior
threesome to team with Stewart
a Junior on tho attack.
Coach Wilford Moore's Indians
are expected to be in top-notch
shape for the game tomorrow
night. They have been working on
defense and passing offense.
Once again the "experts" have
picked the Indians to win but it is
expected to be a hard battle to the
finish for both teams a good spot
for an upset.
MICA Features Puppets
In First Presentation
Before a well - filled audience
MICA gave its first presentation
last week featuring the Lesselh
Maiiouettes in ".lack and the Benn-
stalk." Other attractions were variety
circus numbers and a Chinese
shadow show under the direction
of Leslie and Kle.mor Heath owners.
of players a team may have hut
each oiganization must have at
least seven participants Mr. Cun-
ningham concluded.
Women's intramural softball con-
tinues with the finals in the cham-
pionship and consolation rounds
scheduled for next week says Miss
Margaret Godbey director.
The play opened Monday at 3:30
p.m. at the Fair Park diamond
where the Second Floor President
Hall girls defeated the Boyce-Hunt
Hall combination 6-3. Byrdie West
twirled for the winners while Mary
Hartgraves and Mary Hitt divided
time for Boyce-Hunt.
Miss Godbey welcomes everyone
out to see the games which will
from now on be played on the
campus diamond.
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