The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, December 03, 1925, Image 1

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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-
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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;
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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
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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.
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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. It is doubt-
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