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About The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1925)
i o { TO POSTMASTER: | RETURR a pe ‘ POSTAGE ; A “ "R GUARANTEED + | . : : Published Semi-Monthly by t sociation of Former Studerts of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOLUME IV. BRYAN, TEXAS DEGEMBER 3, 1925. NUMBER 5 FARMERS SWAMP STEERS IN TITLE TILT FIVE THOUSAND * AGGIES ENJOY PERFECT DAY TH RkEIng Proves a Real Audiel. Day With Perfect Weather, Per- fect Game and Perfect Hand- ling of the Crowd. 25,000 PEOPLE ON CAMPUS Seventeen Special Trains Take Thous- ands of Happy Aggies Home Af- ter Long Day of Meeting Old Friends and Seeing College Once More. Not Since the Pilgrim Fathers set | aside a certain day in November (we can not figure the exact date out) for Thanksgiving have Texas Aggies had a better day than last Thanksgiving. If the season of 1925 was an A. and M. year, Thanksgiving surely was an A. and M. day. More old Aggies than ever have been assembled at College Station were back for that day and brother they sure did celebrate it. Wednesday the advance guard swept in. You know most of the old timers who were here that day but in addi- tion to the old faithful there were many others who came from far and distant lands. Fred Dinan recently back from South America, . Red Moore and Lefty Rogers from California and | Fats Carroll from Illinois got the palm for coming the longest distance for the Thanksgiving festivities. The festivities started Wednesday after- noon late with a review of the cadet corps. That night the “T” Associa- tion staged a jam up entertainment of | six specialty numbers combined with movies of the Rice-A. and M. ge x and a two-reel comedy g Special trains. started golling. in ight ul’ dye RF noon sh, Sly sfter suadn k :venteen ‘speci als made the local tracks look like a metropolitan switch yards. M. headquarters. Old Aviics swarm- ed there to meet old friends, to regis- ter, and to get meal tickets for the noon luncheon. The College and the Brazos County A. and M. Club co- operated in putting over a free feed for the returning old men and their families and more than 1200 enjoyed that luncheon. There was no speech making, no effort at a program, just a feed which was over in forty-five minutes giving everybody ample time to get to the field. Business Manager James Sullivan had Kyle Field all dressed up in its “pest bib and tucker” with the colors of the two institutions and United States flags giving the historic field appealing holiday attire. Men who came with a gripe in their souls over the location of their seats forgot it on entering the field and when they found that thers was not a “bad seat” in the whole enclosure. Seats for twenty-six thousand persons were pro- vided and fully 25,000 of those seats were occupied. Had the University pushed its sales Kyle field would have ~ been sold out. The day started with a drizzle that extended all of the way from Dallas to Houston. Every man jack who wore the maroon and white met the shower with a prayer on his lips for a dry field. Lowering clouds hung over the sky until just before noon when they disappeared and the sun showed its smiling face. The result was that the field was springy but fast. The day was a little warm with a stiff breeze sweeping diagonally across the field but not enough to in- terfere with the play. The gates opened at twelve o ‘clock. Sully had an efficient corps of ushers on the job and by the kickoff practi- cally everybody was all set and ready to go. And such a game. The re- sult far exceeded the wildest dream of the proudest Aggie. Texas went home with a defeat, the worst defeat ever administered them by an A. and M. team and one which probably nev- er has been exceeded by any team meeting the Orange and White. Most of the specials left soon after the game but they did not take all of the old gang with them. Bob Briggs, Pat DeVine, A. C. Love, Dud Perkins, and a lot of others remain- ed over. They are all too old and feeble to dance but they took a fling at it anyhow and greatly enjoyed the week end. Of course there was an informal dance that night at the Mess Hall. Friday night was the Thanks- (Continued on Page 4) | ‘The Y. M. C. A., was A. and | Another Epidemic Hits the Herd Woon voit a) I= 11g PL fall Be =~ > oir (acy FOES CORSICANA MAN IS EX-STUDENT A. & M. Corsicana Aggies Bring Meyer Cohen, 77, to Thanksgiving Game After Absence of Forty-Eight Years. Corsicana will have the distinction of sending one of the oldest if not the oldest former A. and M. student to the Thanksgiving football game at College Station this year. This man is Meyer Cohen, also the dean of Corsicana wholesale grocers. In the year 1875, Mr. Cohen states the Texas Agricultural and Mechani- cal College was opened for the re- ception of students. Mr. Cohen enter- ed the college at the opening of the 1876 term and continued through the year 1877. Forty-eight years have passed and from that day until this Mr. Cohen has never been back to his alma mater. But he will return next Thursday as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Elliott of this city, who will also have as their guest Dis- trict Judge Hawking Scarborough. Mr. Cohen stated Tuesday that the only students in the A. and M. Col- lege from Navarro county during the time he was there that he is able to | recall are Dr. Edgar Y. Mullins and Col. G. W. Hardy. Dr. Mullins is to- day perhaps the outstanding man in Southern Baptist circles. He is pres- ident of the Southern Baptist Theo- logical Seminary at Louisville, Ky., and recently was elected world pres- ident of the Baptists at their meet- ing in Stockholm, Sweden. Col. Hardy is a prominent and successful lawyer and oil operator of Shreveport, It is understood that Mr. Elliott and Judge Scarborough will introduce Mr. Cohen as the original ex-student of A. and M. as well as the Rip Van Winkle of that institution, who has awakened to the call of his alma mater after a sleep of forty-eight years and returned to view the land- scape o'er, and see the annual Thanksgiving football classic of the entire Southwest, the clash between the Texas University and the Texas Aggies.—Corsicana Daily Sun. PROBABLY OLDEST | ‘SUCCESSFUL IN COACHING FIELD A. and M. Athletes Scattered Over Country as Successful Athletic Coaches and Directors. AGGIE COACHES IN DEMAND Bible Gives Regular Coaches Course With College Credit. Aggies Take Teams High in Interscholastic Football Race. Scattered over the State and even as far as California are many for- mer Aggie athletes engaged in the coaching business. = The courses in athletic coaching offered at A. and M. under the direct supervision of Mr. Bible and carrying regular college credits have been widely patronized by students with coaching ambitions. Practically every A. and M. man who has gone into the coaching work has been a success. More and more of them every year are following this work and there is such a demand for men from the College that it cannot in any way be filled. Every man recommended by Bible and the Athletic Department has been carefully considered and trained. In addition the high schools have learn- ed to admire and demand men who teach the game as cleanly and as fair- ly as they have been taught it at Kyle Field. Some of the Exes making successes in the coaching field are: Jim Crow, ’17, line coach at Bay- lor. Grady Higginbotham, ’12, West Texas Tech. A. B. “Bugs” Morris, "24, Abilene Christian College. E. S. “Woodrow” Wilson, ’20, Burleson College; J. T. “Little Dough” Rollins, Farmersville High; Henry McClellan, 22, Gilmer High; Jim Bradford, 22, Greenville High; “Tim” Griesenbeck, '17, Main Aye. High, San Antonio; Heinie Weir, ’21, Itasca High; (Continued on Page 6) 21, HARRIERS WIN CONFERENCE RACE FROM LONGHORNS Anderson’s Team Beats Varsity at Rice Meet. Aggies take Five out of First Six Places. CRUMP CROWDS SANDY Texas Star Endurance Runner Barely Noses Out Aggie in Thrilling Con- test—Brown Runs Second. Frank Anderson's Cross-Country | team broke one of the fields long dominated by Texas University when they won the annual Conference Cross-Country race, held at Rice In- stitute November 21. Texas has al- most always won this long distance track event. The previous week in a dual meet the Longhorns had beaten the Aggies over the steep hills around Austin. They were favored to repeat at Houston. The feature race of the day was between Esquival of the Longhorns and Crump of the Aggies. The veteran Texas star nosed out Crump in the last few yards. How- ever, A. and M. Harriers took the next five places and the meet. The final score was A. and M. 25, Texas U. 43, Rice, 77, S. M. U. 99. The course was heavy and the win- ning time not as good as either Crump or Esquival could do on a dry course. Cross-Country running is one of the new sports in the Southwest and An- derson and his men deserve great credit for their victory. In the North and East Cross-country is a very popular sport and its popularity is increasing in this part of the coun- try. The men finished the conference race in the following order: Esquival, Texas; Crump, A. and M.; Brown, A. and M.; Childress, A. and M.; Con- nor, A. and M.; Macey, A. and M,; Hooper, S. M. u. T. Jd. McCarty, 22, is, is, again back in Texas and is with the West Texas Utilities Co. at Abilene. Mac has charge of their structural work and concrete designing. COURT PROSPECTS AT AGGIELAND NOT PROMISING Loss of Capt. Wilcox Hurts Aggie Chances and Leaves Only Kyle and Baker as Nucleus for Green Team. With a successful football season over, Aggie fans are turning to thoughts and dope on the coming basketball title race. Prospects at Aggieland are far from bright. A squad of some twenty men have been working three nights each week un- der Coach Bible since the middle of October. They will start intensive work immediately and play their first games before the Christmas holidays with the Sam Houston Bearcats at Huntsville. "The real race begins af- ter Xmas with Bible taking his quint to Shreveport for a pair of tilts with the Centenary five. After that the going will be thick and fast with con- ference games every week. The loss of Captain Mark Wilcox, who recently withdrew from school, ~ Stops “Rammin’ Rufus” AGGIE OFFENSE DAZZLES TEXAS “IN GREAT GAME Bible and Rothgeb Machine Outclasses Varsity Eleven to Count Four Touchdowns Against Orange and White. 28-0 FINAL SCORE Aggie Line Smears Varsity Offense, , and Opens Gaping Holes for Fleet Far- mer Runners. Well, men, that’s that. Doleful Doc Stewart brought his Longhorns over last Thursday, same being known in other parts of the country as Thanks- giving Day, and Bible and Rothgeb trotted out an inspired eleven that sent the Orange home with the weak end of a 28 to 0 score. The teams went on the field rated as even in ability and talent. They came off with another championship for the Farmers and with the worst defeat the Aggies have given the Steers since the game was introduced into this section. It was a perfect day, warm and clear, and the wind only strong enough to keep the boys cool. Kyle Field was dry for a change and out of the twenty-five thousand specta- tors at least twenty thousand of them seemed to be rooting for the Aggies. The football shades of every old A. and M. star that ever wore the uniform for his school must have hov- ered over the Aggie eleven and the spirit of Aggieland had full sway in their breasts for that stirring two hour battle that ruined the Long- horns for another year. There was no denying and no stopping saptain “Mule” Wilson and his men. The Far- mer line left no dofgatz. ry ‘periority over the Stger Tomard wail, x The fleet feet of the Aggie backs spelled doom to the disheartened Tex- as eleven. The Farmers scored by every means open to them. They drove one over by main strength; they passed one over; they intercepted a Texas pass and carried it 92 yards for the third and they picked up a fumble for the fourth. If there had been any other way to get over the Texas goal line the score would have been even larger. The first drive started in the first quarter from the Aggies own 45-yard line. A pass from the accurate arm flying Berry was good for a total gain of thirty-five yards. Two plung- es by Hunt and one by Wilson were good for a first down on Texas’ 8- yard line. Hunt picked up a yard and Captain Wilson plunged it over in the next two successive tries. That ended the scoring for the first half. The Farmer boys were roundly out- playing the visitors. After the usual palaver between halves the game was resumed and the rest of the afternoon proved a nightmare for the Longhorns. Nor- man Dansby acted right mean in the 3rd quarter when he scooped up a fumble on Texas 25-yard line and loped over for the second touchdown. The play seemed to break the hearts of Stewart’s proteges, and a few min- utes later Farmer Sikes took a Tex- as pass out of the air and galloped } will hurt the slim chances of the Ag- gies. The little forward was one of the best in the conference. and can hardly be replaced. His loss leaves only Baker and Kyle as letter men around which to build a winning ma- chine. Kyle has been elected to the captaincy and as he is already captain of the baseball team the tall lad will have his hands full for the remainder of the year. Baker should be one of the best running guards in the State this year. The little Ft. Worth flash is a fighter, fast, and experienced and cool. Outside of these two men the ability of the rest of the gang is un- known. Kyle will either be at center or forward, and Baker at one guard. From the Freshmen of last year come Clark and Furneaux, forwards, Mat- thews and Sikes, centers, Broyles and Figarri, guards. Of the lot Sikes looks like the best bet and may force Bible to shift Kyle to a forward place. Clark and Furneaux look like good prospects at forward and Broiles and Figarri are both capable guards. (Continued®on Page 6). the length of the field for the third tally. The race between the gangling Aggie end and the whole Texas elev- en was the high spot of the day for the racing fans. downs the Aggies decided to score one via the air and Hunt and Wilson started it when the big Farmer cap- tain took a rifle-like pass at top speed and accounted for a gain of thirty- three yards. With the ball on Texas’ 18-yard line Bob Berry woke up and stepped around left end to the one- yard line. The Aggies drew a five- yard penalty for offsides and Hunt promptly shot another bullet-like pass to little Berry for another touchdown and another record for Aggie teams to shoot at in their coming games with the Longhorns. Pages could be written on the stars of the day. There were nineteen for the Aggies alone and one or two for the Longhorns. It wasn’t a case of too much Wilson, or too much Hunt, or too much anybody else. It was just too much A, and M. team. 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