The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, December 01, 1924, Image 1

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Published Semi-Monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOLUME III.
BRYAN, TEXAS, DECEMBER 1, 1924.
NUMBER °*3
DIRECTORY OF FORMER STUDENTS
READY FOR DISTRIBUTION
SURVEY REPORT
NOW AVAILABLE
LACKS COURAGE
Recommendations As To Educational
System and Its Coordination Make
No Real Contribution To So-
lution of Problems.
IS REVIEWED BY AGGIE.
Article Below Considers Newspaper
Articles on Report.
The report of the specialists in ed-
ucational administration charged with
the work of surveying the institu-
tions of higher learning, which con-
stitutes a part of the educational sur-
vey of Texas, has been completed.
While the complete survey report re-
lating to the state-supported insti-
tutions of higher learning is not ye:
available, the conclusions of the com-
mittee that surveyed these instita-
tions have appeared in the public
press of the state.
Summary of the Survey Recommen-
dations Relating to the Agricultur-
al and Mechanical College.
The survey report makes severol
recommendations relating to the Col-
lege, which may be summarized us
follows:
1. The complete separation of the
University of Texas and the Agricu'-
tural and Mechanical College of Tex-
as.
2. The creation of a Board oa
Higher Curricula with the following
duties:
(1) Approval or disapproval of all
new courses of study.
(2) Final authority in determin-
ing major and service lines of work
(3) Approval or disapproval cf
proposals for new institutions of
higher learning... _._. ..
(4) Preparation of estimates of
the financial needs of each institu-
tion.
3. All graduate work, including all
branches of engineering, should be
concentrated at the University cf
Texas, with the exception of grad-
uate work in agriculture.
4. Training teachers of vocational
agriculture should be assigned ex-
clusively to the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College.
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HOOPOOOVPOOOPOOVDOVOOOOOOOD
WANT AN AGGIE PENNANT?
The Association has a large
supply of Texas Aggie wind-
shield stickers in maroon ani
white for distribution among
present day students, former
students and friends of the coi-
lege. These are being dstributed
by county agents and by local
tlubs. If you want some and
will put them into the hands
of persons who will use them,
drop a postal card to Associa-
tion headquarters advising as to
the number desired. No charge.
The Association believes that
the wide use of these stickers
pn automobiles will give a fair
ronception, a sort of a picture,
nf the following the A. and M.
College enjoys. Send in for
rome and then see to it you and
your friends stick them on your
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Ca Ca COR OAS SOR ORO ORO ORO ORO OROSOR ORR,
TEMPLE B. HOFFER, B. S, C. E,, '04.
LOYAL AGGIE MAKES POSSIBLE
FORMER STUDENTS DIRECTORY
NOW READY FOR DISTRIBUTION
President Hoffer Oil Co., of Ft. Worth,
Bears Cost of Publication
of Volume.
SEND IN APPLICATION.
Book Will be Mailed This Week to
Those Who Apply to Association
fer a Copy. Free for Members
in Good Standing.
The Association of Former Students
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas announces that the
publication of the directory, the ex-
pense of publication of which far ex-
ceeds what the average man, unac-
quainted with printing costs would es-
timate the cost to be, is made pos-
sible entirely by the liberality and
helpfulness of Temple Boynton Hof-
fer, B. S., C. E., 04, President of the
Hoffer Qil Corporation of Ft. Worth.
Early in January of this year, Mr.
Hoffer proposed that he would glad-
ly bear the cost of publishing such a
directory if the Association could get
its lists in such condition as to make
the publication of a directory a real
service to the former students and
friends of the institution. The work
of preparing has been slow but Mr.
Hoffer has stood his ground and has
manifested at all times a deep inter-
est in the success of our work.
His interest in the success of the
Association has been reflected in other
equally substantial ways.
Temple Boynton Hoffer was born
at Austin, April 16, 1835. His father
John Hoffer, was a merchant at Bal-
linger and later at Clarendon. Young
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CADETS WIN-LORE
IN ANNUAL SHOOT
WITH ARMY TEAM
A. and M. Team Cops Pistol Match
But Loses Rifle Shoot With Crack
Second Division Team.
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Texas A. and M. divided honors with
the second division teams in rifle and
pistol firing on the rifle range of the
A. and M. College here Friday morn-
ing. The regulars won the rifle match
by only nine points and the cadets won
the pistol by 25 points. But in losing
the rifle match only nine points the
cadets feel that they were highly
honored as four of the five members
of the rifle team are the recognized
best shots in the United States Army,
having been on the national team
which shot against the rifle teams of
fostered by the regular army the past
year. In the rifle firing the regulars
gained a lead of ten points in the 200-
yards slow fire, but the Aggies crept
up on them, gaining steadily on the
300 and 500 yard slow firing range
and the 300 yard rapid fire, then drop-
ped back nine points in yielding on
the 200 yard rapid fire range, which
was the last fired. Lieutenant Rob-
inson of the 1st Infantry was captain
of the rifle team which composed four
enlisted men. Lieutenant Hennessy
was captain of the pistol team.
other countries in the cempetitions,
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ATHLETIC INTRAMURAL PROGRAM
GETS AWAY WITH FLYING START
WITH OPENING BASKETBALL RACE
The gigantic intramural athletic
program which has been carefully and
thoroughly worked out by the new
Department of Physical Education to
extend the benefits of organized play
and regular physical exercise to the
entire student bedy of the A. and M.
College of Texas, was well started
this week with the beginning of the
interbattalion basketball league.
There are four divisions of the
league designated for convenience as
rary outside courts have been erected
for a begining and wil be adequate
for the fall months. By the time win-
ter has arived and made out-door
playing uncomfortable the new gym-
nasium will have been completed of-
fering the facilities sufficient for a
large league of players.
The basketball league is only a be-
ginning of the program of play that
has been planned by the Department
of Physical Education under the di-
rection of H. H. House. Through a
A, B. C, and D. In two of the leagues
there are five teams each and in each
of the other two six teams, making a
to tal of 22 teams that will be brought
into competition. All teams in each
one of the leagues will have action
once a week, meaning that there will
be a series of games on the basket-
ball courts on the Aggie dril lfield
four days of each week after class-
work ends at 5 o’clock and in the in-
terim until suppel call. The days se-
lected for play are Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday, and Friday. Tempo- |
questionnaire he has ascertained the
likes of every student for kinds of
sport and is now buisily engaged in
checking these answers in order to
be able to organize the kind of sport
best desired by the students.
Included in the program of train-
ing besides the compulsory calisthen-
ics for freshmen are basketball, base-
tall, boxing, cross country, equitation,
football, golf, hare and hound, hand
ball, polo, rifle shooting, soccer, swim-
ming, tumbling, and pyramids, track,
volley ball, tennis, and wrestling.
M. H. “Ox” Ford is with the Fed-
eral Horticultural board and is now
located at Tuscon, Ariz., with head-
quarters at the Tusconia hotel.
B. R. Kennedy, of the Texas Farm
Cotton Bureau is located at P. O. Box
250 in Austin. Kennedy wants a di-
rectory.
Houston Aggies Play Daddies
To Orphans
Playing “Daddy” to a flock of lit-
tle orphan tots is about the most
worthwhile and the most joyous game
in the world according to Meredith
James, Ralph Soape, M. T. Garrett,
Harry Giles, and some of the other
outstanding men at Houston. The
Harris county A. and M. Club observ-
ed “Father and Son Week” by taking
the kiddies of Faith Home at Hous- |
ton, on a theatre and supper party
last week.
“I think we got more fun out of
the little fellows than they had out
of the show and the A. and M. Club
is going to follow up this sort of
work right along,” Meredith wrote
the Association headquarters. “The
club put it over and we simply acted
at Theatre Party
as “Daddies” for the kids that after
' noon.”
| The Houston A. and M. Club is
| sponsoring a number of exceedingly
i worthwhile moves at Houston. Atten-
dance runs around one hundred a
week and enthusiasm is high. Good
work with the High School boys is
being done by the Bayou City Aggies,
too.
Much discussion of the report of the
Board of Control with their recom-
mendations with reference to subordi-
| pating the A. and M. College to the
| University of Texas from the stand-
point of salaries was had at the last
i meeting of the club. Dr. Kyle also
discussed the report of the Education-
al survey which takes some fancy
slaps at Aggieland.
THE PEPPER BOX HI
NMSELF |
HOW HE STRUTS HIS STUFF
Bob Berry in one of those end runs—Everybody’s getting their man.
{the whimsical smiles of Lady Luck
THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND WITNESS
LONG HORN VICTORY OVER AGGIES
IN LAST TWO
MINUTES OF PLAY
Lady Luck Smiles on Longhorn
s When Magnificent Stadium is
Dedicated Turkey Day—Aggies Lacked Punch at
Opportune Time.
In a hard fought game marked by
and marred by the derisive smiles of
that same Lady insofar as the Aggies
are concerned, Bible’s proteges wound
up the season Turkey Day with a sev-
en to nothing defeat at the hands
of the University of Texas. That de-
feat followed a victory over the Rice
Institute team on Nov. 14 at Kyle
Field by the score of 13 to 6.
The University game was lost when
only 2 minutes and thirty seconds
were left to play. A short basketball
loop pass just over the secondary line
from Stalter to Allen, was struck
twice by Aggies and finally bounded
into the arms of Allen, who broke
through just at the right time to re-
ceive the twice deflected ball and run
twenty-five yards for a touchdown.
The game started with a brilliant
show of offensive strength by the Ag-
gies following Kishi’s magnificent
thirty-five yard return from the kick-
off. A couple of psses put the ball
down within striking distance of Tex-
as goal line where Berry, Kishi, and
Wilson succeeded in raming the ball
to the University’s two yard line.
There the Longhorns held.
again in that quarter did the Aggies
have the ball in Texas territory and!
after that, due to losses on exchange
of punts, the ball was not deep enough
in Texas territory to permit of a de-'
termined offense.
The first quarter was decisively A.
and M,’s. The second and even break
but in the third and fourth Texas had
the edge.
The game was hard fought through-
out with neither team able to accom-
high and far. There was a slight
breeze from the north.
Both teams indulged in practicing
forward passes as the vast stadium
resounded with the battle cries of the
students.
The Aggies cheer leaders arrived
and the cadets went wild. Each had
its quota of former football heroes on
the side lines.
The coaches called their men around
them for the final conference. Just
before the teams went into play the
Longhorn band brought the audience
to its feet again with “The Eyes of
Texas Are Upon You.”
Longhorns Sockless.
For the first time in its history, the
Texas team took the gridiron sockless,
as Coach Stewart believes bare legs
are hardest to tackle.
Crippled Captain Miller of the Ag-
gies begged his mates .to win the
game for him. Captain Miller receiv-
ed a broken leg in the first game of
this season.
Captain Marley of the Longhorns
and Acting Captain Waugh met in
mid-field and tossed the coin. The
Aggies won the toss and elected to
Once | defend the north goal.
Kickoff at 2:50.
At 2:50 Thompson kicked to Kishi,
who ran the ball back forty-five
vards, almost getting away for a
touchdown.
Wilson made a yard over left tack-
le. The ball was out of bounds and
was carried in fifteen yards. i
Kishi made no gain at right tackle.
Berry made no gain around left end.
Wilson fell back to kick.
He kicked forty yards to Foster,
plish a great deal off of the other
team.
The dedication of Texas’ magnif-
icent stadium was a memorable event
and approximately thirty-six thousand
spectators saw the game. The scene
and the setting was magnificent. The
game was spectacular in spots.
The game in detail follows:
At 2:30 the Aggies came on the
field led by Captain Miller on crutch-
es. A few seconds later the Longhorn
team came in from the opposite en-
trance. Both teams warmed up.
The rooting of the rival sections
was very lively. Approximately 35,-
000 persons were in the stadium.
“Mule” Wilson practiced punting
for the Aggies with quarterback Ber-
ry handling the punt, while Wright
practiced kicking for Texas with
Smith, Foster and Smalley handling
the punts.
The coaches conferred with the of-
ficials. The green turf of the field
was in excellent condition, and made
a pretty picture, mingling its colors
with those of the opposing schools.
Aggie Kickers Good.
M. Dansby practiced kicking field
goals for the Aggies. Both Wilson an
Wright, the men who will do the kick-
ing for the two teams, seemed to be
who was downed on Texas’ 20-yard
i line by Hardman.
Slover made 6 yards off left tackle.
It was a bad pass and Irvin of the
Aggies recovered the ball on Texas
20-yard line.
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WHO HAS THIS PICTURE?
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George Hope, tackle on the
’02 Aggie team, the first to ad-
minister a walloping to the Uni-
versity of Texas has written
Tom Blake, Houston lumber-
man urging that Tom endeavor
to get a copy of that picture of
the first touchdown ever made
against Texas. The Aggie would
like, also to have a copy of that
picture and if some old timer
who has it will send it in THE
AGGIE will have copies made,
send George one, and promptly
return the original to the own-
er.
George is with the Longacre
Agency, real estate, insurance,
and loans, at 366 Broadway Un-
ion Hill, New Jersey.
We would be glad to hear
from any one who knows whe
has one of these pictures.
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AGGIES BEGIN TRAINING FOR
BASKETBALL SEASON OF 1925
Early basketball work has begun
at Texas A. and M. College. Under
the direction of Captain Paul Wash-
burn and Gene Darby, star forward of
last year, who finished his athletic ca-
reer at the end of the season, the fun-
damental principles of basketball are
being reviewed by the members of the
squad. Fourteen men were called out
for practice by Captain Washburn.
Seven of last year’s squar are in
uniform. They are: Captain Wash-
burn, guard; Harry Duckett, center;
Marvin Dealy, guard; Sid Kyle, cen-
ter; Arch Damon, fcrward; Gut Kru-
ger, forward, and Mark Wilcox, for-
ward. Of the seven, Washburn, Duck-
ett, Dealy and Damon are leter men.
In addition to the old squad men,
Washburn called out five members of
and Perkins. John Broad and Bill
Montgomery, members of the 1923
and 1922 freshman teams, were also
called out.
The very fundamentals of basket-
ball are being taught and reviewed,
the men being in good condition.
However, better condition ie being
worked for in the thre afternoons
the team practices a week. Prac-
tice is being held in Bryan at the Al-
pletion of the Aggie gymnasium,
len Academy court, pending the com-
which is now under construction. A
little goal practice is had every day.
At the end of the football season,
Norman and Mitt Dansby, now two
cogs in Bible's football machine, will
report for basketball bringing the to-
tal out for practice to 16. Norman
was a member of the 1924 squad, and
the 1924 freshman team. They are:
Tapp, Baker, McConaughey, Blown
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Mitt played regularly for the fresh-
man five.