Texas Leaguers

In the Southwest Conference, where razzle-dazzle football comes from, no college has ever won the championship two years in a row. With the highly developed Texas Interscholastic League as its kindergarten, with many a local angel who would rather invest in a footballer than a race horse, with sufficient funds to lure some of the smartest coaches in the country, the Texas league breeds no weak sisters. At the start of each season, at least five of its seven members are considered potential champions. Last week it looked as if this year it would be Texas A. & M.

Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, a State school that turns out good farmers and engineers and also (from its famed cadet corps) many reserve officers for the U. S. Army, has failed to turn out a championship football team since 1927. Last week proud alumni, who like to refer to their alma mater as the Texas Athletic & Military College, could crow again. With a powerhouse offense--a rarity in the cactus country, where all teams are pass-daffy--Homer Norton's Farmers had bowled over all opponents this year, had averaged 22 points a game.

Last week Texas A. & M. played host to Southern Methodist, its chief rival for the conference title. Southern Methodist had lost only one game this season -- a 20-to-19 hairliner to Notre Dame. But the Farmers, led by 210-lb. Fullback John Kimbrough, trampled them as though they were cornstalks, ruined their Sunday-go-to-meetin' passes and chalked up another victory, their eighth, 6-to-2. With one eye on the mythical U. S. championship, the fame-hungry Farmers took a squint at their rivals, the two other bigtime college teams in the country that remained undefeated, untied last week:

> University of Tennessee, still unscored on but scoffed at because of its weak schedule, smashed The Citadel, 34-to-0.

> Cornell, that had beaten Syracuse, Princeton, Penn State, Ohio State and Columbia this season, added Colgate to its string, 14-to-12.

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