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\ll OPHS HALF OF GRID SQUAD James Walton . . . Dumas tackle Jerry Hopkins . . . Mart center Keith Huggins . . . Houston guard Jim Phillips . Freeport guard George Hogan . . Longview tackle Jim Harper . . Borger guard Ronnie Brice Andrews quarterback Lee Roy Caffey . Thorndale fullback Sam Byer Marlin fullback Ags Hold Winning Marks As the Texas Aggies roll into [the 1960 football campaign, the records over the past years show that the Cadets have winning [slates against eight opponents. The only two teams facing the Lggies. this year that hold win- ling records are the University [of Texas and the University of Arkansas. The Longhorns have taken 44 wins from the Ags since 1894 and lost but 17. Five of the encounters have ended in a tie. [The Razorbacks have won 16 games from the Ags since 1903 and lost 14, with three ending in a tie. Only one team—Louisiana State University—can even their series record with the Cadets. The Tigers have last 11 times to the Ags, while winning 10. Two games end ed in ties. An LSU triumph, which many say will be easy in the sea son opener, would even the series at 11-11. Over the remaining opponents for the year thd Ags stand like this: Welcome AGGIES! North Gate Barber Shop See Us “For That Cut of Distinction” North Gate College Station Texas Tech, 13-5-0; Trinity, 16- 1-2; University of Houston, 4-2-2; Texas Christian University, 29-16- 5; Baylor University, 33-16-7; Southern Methodist University, 20- 17-5; and Rice University, 23-18- 3. Intersectional Slate Tough For SWC, Too As if playing each other in the rueling Southwest Conference tie race, most all league schools ace equally grueling tests on the itersectional slate. Take a look at some of the op- 'osition: 01 Miss, being primed for the national championship, Pittsburgh, Iniversity of Southern California, >hio State University, Louisiana 'tate University, Colorado Univer- : ty, Georgia Tech, Navy, Univer- 'ty of Oklahoma. . . Texas Christian University ap- ears to have the most rugged chedule, facing Southern Cal, r .ansas and Pittsburgh. On the ther side of the ledger, Texas ’ech appears to have the easier ntersectional schedule, doing bat- ’e with West Texas State, Tulane nd Wyoming on the intersection- il trail. Top games that will doubtless ttract national interest include: A&M vs. LSU, University of Arkansas vs. Ole Miss, Baylor Uni •ersity vs. Colorado, Rice vs Georgia Tech, TCU vs. Pittsburg’’ md, of course, the Oklahoma-Uni ersity of Texas clash in the Cot on Bowl that is already a sellout Freshman Basketball Schedule Coach—Shelby Metcalf Dec. 5 Tyler Junior College at Tyler Dec. 9 Kilgore Junior College at College Station Jan. 3 TCU at College Station Jan. 7 Baylor at Waco Jan. 12 Kilgore Junior College at Kilgore Jan. 16 Texas at Austin Feb. 4 Tyler Junior College at College Station Feb. 7 Rice at College Station Feb. 11 TCU at Fort Worth Feb. 18 Rice at Houston Feb. 24 Texas at College Station Feb. 27 Baylor at College Station Freshman Football Schedule Oct. 5 TCU at Fort Worth, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13 Baylor at Waco, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 Houston at College Sta tion, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11 Rice at Houston, 8 p.m. Nov. 19 Texas at College Sta tion, 2 p.m. Holiday Plaza t'A otel WELCOMES YOU TO AGGIELAND Swimming Pool Complete Hotel Service Elehugh Levy "32 TA 2-3748 Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Chambles 1720 Texas THE BATTALION Thursday, September 15, 1960 College Station, Texas Page 7 4 A Little Touch 4 0 Texas,’ A&M Twelfth Man Holds Nation Wide A&M’s Twelfth Man tradition enjoys long-time far-reaching fame and proof of this was sent to The Battalion recently by Ben Trotter, ’59, who is stationed at Fort Banks, Mass., near Boston, Mass. The clipping is from the Boston (Mass.) Herald and is a reprint of a May 15, 1946, column of noted Sports Columinst Bill Cunning ham. Cunningham died recently and some of his best columns are being reprinted. “There’s been a little touch o’ Texas around heah lately, Strang- uh! For one thing, an old Fort Worth boy, Col. (Kentucky, that is) Alvin N. McMillin, has been here brushing up on his culture. Amongst those he’s been brushing it up with is an old Dallas boy, Col. (likewise Kentucky, that is) E. William Cunningham, who chances to be oversigned. “We’re a couple of black land mavericks who strayed long ago, darned nearly strayed together as a matter of fact, but didn’t, and it was funny to find ourselves sit ting side by side as imported guests at the very happy banquet of the local chapter of the Univer sity of Indiana Alumni. There was nothing funny about Col. Mc- Millin’s being there. He is the distinguished coach of the Cream & Crimson Fighting Hoosiers, who last season won the football cham pionship of the mighty Western Conference, and landed the Col in the top spot as “Coach of the Year.” “Myself? I was present to pay my respects — with a few well chosen words — and I paid ’em. “The Col., of course, is the famed Bo McMillin, the Centre College All-American quarterback of 1919-20 and the gentleman who won fame in his time by defeating Harvard singlehanded with one of the most sensational solo feats in the history of Harvard Stadium. “Bo was the rabbit-legged quar terback and captain, to the best of my memory, of the North Fort Worth High School eleven. I was the dashing center rush and cap tain—no, come to think of it, I was a blocking back that last year —of the Terrill School team of Dallas. “The local A&M alumni of the region were very active, to state it quaintly. Uncle Charley Moran was the A&M coach, but he got himself into conflict with the powers that were and quit, or he was fired. I never knew which. He promptly came up, however, with a new connection far to the northeast of our native prairies. It seemed the name of the place was Centre College, and it appear ed to be located in a place called Danville, Ky. “Bo and the rest has become warmly attached to Uncle Charles and they decided to go up into the borderlands with him. They did, and the rest is history. It was super-terrific history in 1919, ’20 and ’21. “I wasn’t so warmly urged as the rest to go, as it was mostly a Ft. Worth deal, and anyhow, at that point the Dartmouth Club of Texas, or so the three or four brethren called themselves, de cided to install a Dartmouth schol arship in the prep school I had the honor to attend. I decided to shoot for it. “There were but two of ws ‘working our ways through Dart mouth.’ I worked mine playing the piano in chapel mornings, and whatever was current on the ath letic field afternoons. The other self-helper helped with the jani- toring and the grounds. He wasn’t a bad tackle, either, as great east ern throngs were due to see short ly- “And, in backsight, it’s funny still how it all worked out. I got back to the home country ahead of Bo and the rest, and was only fairly well broken in as a news paper cub on the city side, which means the news side, of The Dal las Morning News, when that great Centre team dropped off in Dallas on its way back from the Coast to play what amounted to an exhibition game for the benefit of the North Texas folks—mostly their own folks. “This was to be their last game as an historic team, and, oddly enough, this same Texas A&M was to furnish the opposition. The Texas Aggies of those days were n’t the mighty machine they latbr became. In fact, this affair was expected to rank with the Alamo as a one-sided slaughter. “A Boston paper with winch I’d filed my name as a possible cor respondent in that particular dis trict wired me to send a routine 500 words and the lineups. I had never written a sports story be fore and was a little uncertain about the whole business, but the sort of miracle a man in the field of sports literature waits half his life to see blew loose in that sta dium that afternoon. The pitiful Texas club came out of its locker room crying and fighting and pro ceeded to murder the great na tionalized eleven. “So there, a fledgling, I sat with the greatest sports story of the time in my lap. In fact, it was one of the greatest of all time. It reeked with color, drama. “There was a great story angle in the fact that the Texas team used up everything it had on the bench, and the coach sent up into the stands to get a sub who hadn’t ‘made the trip’ but had paid his own way to be a spectator and was sitting up there with his girl. This swain, hastily summoned, was rushed below, hurried into a suit and thrown into the fray where he starred all over the place. “That story got me my job in Boston. 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