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The Daily Bulletin Vol. V College Station, Texas, Friday, January 6, 1922. No. 77 Southwestern Football Recognized ALABAMANS WILL VISIT HERE TODAX Party of Forty in Two Pullman Cars Will Study Organization and Work of the College. A party of Alabamans, about forty in all, including representatives of Alabama Polytechnic College at Au- burn, Alabama, leading farmers and bankers of the state and others inter- ested in agriculture which has been touring Texas for the past few days studying agriculture as practiced and operated in the state will stop at Col- lege Station this morning and remain here during the day to learn of the work being done at this institution and of its relation to the various ag- r cultural interests and organizations in the state. They will come here from Dallas where they have been attending the annual convention of the Texas Farm Bureau Federation. They will ar- rive on the early morhing southbound H. & T. C. in two special Pullman coaches, which will be set off here. An entertainment committee com- posed of Dr. J. O. Leidigh and J. Lynn Thomas, which has been appointed to receive and en- tertain the visitors, met with E. J. Kyle, Dean of the School of Agricul- ture yesterday morning and made up a tentative program to be followed during the day. The party will be met at their cars this morning and escorted to the Y. M. C. A., where they will register and be assigned to rooms and then they will be taken to the Mess Hall for breakfast. Following the serving of breakfast they will be assembled in the Y. M. C. A. chapel about 8:30. Dean Kyle will take charge of the meeting. He will tell in a general way of the or- ganization of the College, its various departments, and divisions of work and will then “call upon members of the teaching division, Experiment Station and the Extension Service to (Continued on Page 2) Morgan, A. H. Trumphet Corps Will Put A. and HC. on Par With West Point Band The military band of the A. and M. College of Texas which has long been recognized as one of the best musical organizations in the South is to have added to it a trumpet corps which will place it on a par with the famous West Point musical organization recognized as the best in the nation. The college has purchased twenty- four of the French style trumpets and the trumpet corps is being or- ganized. The trumpets are long brass instruments and attached to each one is an A. and M. banner. The A. and M. band now has 63 members and the addition of the trumpet corps will give a total per- sonnel of 87. The addition of the trumpets to the band will enable the cadet corps to make a much better show in par- ades and reviews and the part that the band has always played as the various exhibitions made at athletie contests and on other occasions will ta greatly enlarged. Mr. Fairleigh, director of the band is experienced in the direction of a trumpet corps having had such an j organization as a part of his com- imand in the Third Infantry regi- ment. A trumpet corps is a part of all large French musical bands and all men who served overseas are famil- iar with them. BRE... STUDENTS ARE WANTED FOR THE TRUMPET CORPS Twenty-four men are wanted as members of a trumpet corps which is to be organized at once as an addi- tion to the band. That number of trumpets has been received and Mr. Fairleigh, band lea- der is ready to begin the organiza- tion of the corps. He asks that any student who can blow a brass in- strument of any kind report to him at once if he desires to join the corps. leader of the corps in cheering and’ BIBLE ONNAT'L RULES COMMITTEE AGGIE COACH GIVEN HIGHEST NATIONAL ATHLETIC HONOR. ASHBURN REELECTED Baylor, Rice, University of Texas Rep- resented on Advisory Rules. That the Southwest had gained much recognition in the football world even prior to the winning of the re- markable victory over Centre College by the Texas A. and M. College, is the statement of Major Ike Ashburn, com- mandant of the College and chairman of the athletic council, who has just returned from New York where he attended the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Associa- tion. He is district representative for the Seventh District of the Collegiate Conference, which includes the states of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. ; Recognition of the rapid advance- ment made in the athletic world and especially the football world, came in the form of the appointment of Dana X. Bible, head coach of athletics at A. and M. to membership on the na- tional football rules committee. This committee was appointed at the an- nual meeting of the Association in New York City, on Dec. 29. This is the first representation the South- west has had on the National rules making body. Coach Bible will rep- resent the South, Southeast, South- west and Middle Western States and conferences. The only other new ap- pointee was Coach Andy Smith of the University of California. The membership of the National rules making body, which is the high- est honor that can come to a man en- gaged in athletic work, is coniposed of the leading football men of the world. E. K. Hall of Dartmouth, Walter Camp, Yale; A. A. Stagg, Chicago; J. A. Babbitt, Haverford; PF. W.
