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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1919)
Show Your Loyalty to The Battalion and sub scribe for same to-night! Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas VOL. XXVII. A. AND M. T-CLUB ORGANIZED FOR ’19-20 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, OCTOBER 23, 1919 A. & M. HAS INVINCIBLE TEAM NUMBER t A. AND M. STUDENTS WIN STOCK JUDGING Object to Make Winning of Letter a Real Honor and Bring Winners'in AH Sports Together Pen Pictures of the Men who Are to Garry Farmer Banner to Victory. Seniors 'Win Over Juniors for the First Time in the His tory of the Dallas Contest At its first regular meeting of the year the A. &. M. “T” Club elected the following officers: Scott Alex ander, president; Jack Mahan, vice- president; Everett McQuillen, secre- tar ya^fear^asurer _ This organization is of compara tively recent origin and fills a long felt want among the athletes of this college. The T-Club has been organized as a business and social body for the en couragement and advancement of all athletics here. Its object is to make the winning of a letter at A. & M. mean a real honor and to bring to gether the winners of letters in any sport at this college in closer touch with one another. Besides the T-men of the college, all letter men from other colleges, both among the students and the in structors, are eligible for member ship. 'At present the T-Club has a small room in the second floor of the Y. M. C. A., as its headquarters, but so large is the number of letter men who have joined this new organiza tion that larger and better quar ters are being sought. New furni ture, magazines and other necessary articles for a good live club have been oredered and will be here soon for the use of all the T-Club mem bers. As the years go by this new organ ization plans to become the livest, most active club at the college and to advertise A. & M. athletics to the whole country. This is just another of the big steps on foot by which A. & M. shall get the recognition she rightly desrves from rival colleges, which oppose us in athletics every year. And, as a final word, let us say that the T-Club is here to stay, for old A. & M. letter men are back from the service and the entire number of T-men gathered here is greater than ever before in the history of the college, thus forming a bunch of fel lows who will stick together as no others can. FIGHTENG SPIRIT INSPIRES CONFIDENCE Now that we have played g°mes on the schedule f .. Ji 1 . _ Cl 1U SCctSOTT,' aiici ncivC "OUx xixxiiiZ, battery in action, we feel confident that our men will deliver the goods in the classic games of the season to be played in the near future. Coach es Bible and Graves are instilling into our men the fighting pep that made the 1917 team victorious. Although our team is lighter than usual, and have had little experience, they are being whipped into fighting condition, and our coaches feel con fourj upon at any time without materially -[{"ai'aaiflBrf'T Ih *v up ;, w , e , ha ,L- the first games of the season. Sev- the first games of tne season, of our men were disabled, some of them will not likely get into the games to be played. You can’t keep a good man down through and those not too seriously hurt are again in fighting condition and can be used to a great extent in the com ing games. With such men in the backfield as Frazier and Mahan for fullbacks; fident that they will live up to the standard set by former A. & M. teams. Last year Coach Bible installed a light spring practice schedule so that the men would learn the fundament als of the game and begin to get hardened for the hard, grinding, fail practice. This has helped in pro ducing a team that uses not only physical strength, but head work. Now out of the one hundred men who went out for the team this fall, eleven of them were letter men. This gave us a nucleus upon which to build a hard-hitting team which has a large surplus of good men to fall back Higginbotham, Weir, Askew and Martin for half-backs; Knickerbock er, Morris, Harrison and Baskin for quarter backs, we have two back- fields equal in strength upon which we can laways depend. In Jack Ma han, we have the fastest and hard est working fullback that ever played on a southern gridiron. Each of the other men are as dependable and can always be relied upon. Vandervoort, Anglin and Pierce are holding the center of the team against all attacks. Each of them can be thrown into action at any (Continued on Page 8) Last week about 45 A. & M. stu dents from the Senior and Junior classes went to Dallas to judge live stock at the Texas State Fair. Be sides the A. & M. representation, there were two< men in the . contest .Gml/ha Vi-; orinruo>" J t ~*~^V7T at Arlington, Texas. There were four days of real judging. Prizes of $12, $8 and $5 respectively for first, sec ond and third places helped to make the competition more spirited. All kinds of live stock, including draft horses, beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep and hogs were judged. Two classes of horses, four of beef cattle, two of dairy cattle, four of sheep and four of hogs were judged. The winners in each kind of stock were as follows: HORSES—First, K. J. Edwards- with 146 points; second, D. L. Ste vens, 144 points; third, C. Dyer, with 142 points. BEEF CATTLE—First, L. R. Read with 220 points; second, H. C. Rob inson, with 217 points; third, W. W. Derrick and A. J. Neyland, tied, with 211 points each. DAIRY CATTLE—First, E. N. Holmgreen, with 190 points; second J. F. SoRelle, with 184 points; third D. L. Stevens, with 182 points. SHEEP—First, M. G. Snell, with 243 points; second, E. E. Reynolds, and S. C. Evans, tied, with 233 points each; third, W, T. Burns, H. B. Horn and W. Menzies tied, with 236 points each. HOGS—First, K. J. Edwards, with 237 points; second, L. R. Reed, wi-h 233 points; third, L. H. Alsmeycr, with 231 points. The tan high men of the contest were as follows: First K. J. Ed wards, 1001; second, L. R. Reed, 991; third, M. G. Snell, 989; fourth, W. T. Burns,, 971; fifth, W. W. Derrick, 968; sixth, L. H .Alsmeyer, 962; sev enth, D. L. Stevens, 952; eighth, H. S. Cavitt, 949; ninth, I. F. SoRelle, 941; tenth, J. T. Rollins, 935. Study of the final results brings out many unusual facts. Out of the thirteen Seniors in the contest, four