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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1922)
The Baily Bulletin Published each morning, except Monday, by the Publicity Department of the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College of Texas. Of- ficial Publication of the College. Distributed free to all students, instructors and Campus residents. Advertising rates furnished on application. Office: Room 118 1st floor Academic Building. WILLIAM BENNETT BIZZELL, President of the College. FRANK O. MARTIN, Publicity Secretary. VADA TUCKER, Assistant. FOOTBALL GAME SHOULD BE EXAMPLE “The Aggie Spirit”, so long whis- pered and briefly commented upon outside of Aggieland as well as with- in has been at last heralded to the world through long streaming head- lines and flowing columns on the front, back and inside pages of all the newspapers, great and small in stories of the winning by the 1921 A. and M. football team of a game from the wonderful Centre eleven. In that game cold, lifeless, mechan- ical technique in yellow striped jer- seys succumbed to the warm, perfect- ly throbbing, human willed, spirit im- bibed football team dressed in the maroon and white. Football which is a child of the twentieth century had its greatest day of play at Dallas on January 2. It was an exhibition of will against might, loyalty against ambition, un- selfishneess against mere desire. The action of that team will ever exist as an example not only in sport circles but in all departments of hu- man endeavor for it marks an achieve- ment of men who struggled with vir- tuous determination. Since the Game will live in the minds of men everywhere as a guide for effort it should certainly have a great significance in the activity at this College and as the minds of those Aggies were tuned to the job in that game so the mind of every student in every department of the College should be harmonized to the tasks be- fore them in order ‘that everything undertaken in the name of the school may be as gloriously achieved. For the endeavor of every student to be crowned with the glory that now rests above the individuals of the 1921 football team it is only nec- essary for them to apply themselves as seriously and make the sacrifices that characterized the long training period taken by the Aggies who com- posed the team, and to feel the im- portance of their endeavor that rest- ed in the hearts of those warriors re- garding the work that they had under- taken. THE BEST TEAM WON. (Dallas News.) When the football team from Col- lege Station defeated the collection of seventeen or eighteen young men who engaged in the game at one time or another on behalf of Centre College it was a glorious outcome. It’s al- ways glorious when the home team wins in football. If football has any weakness as a sport it is the fact that the winners take all. There’s no con- solation for the losers. But the team of the Agricultural and Mechanical College seems to have something else to its credit. Although it is generally said to be inferior in playing ability to the team over which it won, it did win, and did it fairly and squarely. It is probable that, if the composite of leg muscles and back muscles and of hitting power, running power and generalship could be footed up for the two teams Centre would even today be accounted the better team of the two. And yet Centre lost. The reason was that A. and M. purposes and determinations were kit together in a great resolve to win— and A. and M. won. wins such games. of individual personality in the ab- sorbing common desire of the squad that counts. If this game means any- thing it means that a team of ac- knowledged firstraters can be beaten by a team of men not acknowledged to be firstraters. This means that the superior rating—as in the case of many other rule-of-thumb compari- sons—isn’t necessarily firstrate. The man who is capable of the best foot- ball isn’t always capable of being re- liable for his one-eleventh of a foot- ball team. makes a practice of trying to hire or wheedle or entice a supposed football man into its classrooms merely to have | his participation in its gridiron ac- tivities is lowering, in a way, its main chance at the sort of spirit that won for A. and M. in Monday’s game. The sought-after player, whether he be professional or not, tends to re- gard himself as bigger than the neces- sity of loyalty to the athletic interests of his school. On the other hand, the player chosen from the ranks of stu- dents in school for serious purpose feels an overwhelming sense of grati- tude and love for his school which no It isn’t physical | perfection or weight or strategy that | Tt is the pooling | and against the reduction of it to a And the school which ; : Bryan. 090900206900 0890000000009 i Complete : Stock . . $ Regulation A. & M. Uniform 3 Goods .. { 1. M. WALDROP & C0. 8 BRYAN ONIN TORR OROR ORT ARCA OOD noncollegian can estimate, and which no football coach can call upon in vain. 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