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E. Zimmerman,
1606 Main St.,
Houston, Texas.
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Published Semi-Monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOLUME IV. BRYAN, TEXAS DECEMBER 1, 1927. No. 43
AGGIES CR
1200 A. & M. FOLK
DUNCAN'S GUESTS
ON THANKSGIVING
Twenty-Two Special Trains Aid Autos
in Bringing Huge Crowd to
Campus for Turkey
Day Game
A. AND M. MEN REVEL
Glorious Victory and Meeting of Old
Friends Make Day One Not to
Be Forgotten by Thousands
of A. & M. Men.
The greatest gathering of former
A. & M. students in history char-
acterized the Thanksgiving Day at-
tendance on the campus last Thurs-
day. They came from far and near,
from Cuba, from New York, from the
middle West, from the Pacific Coast
and they literally flocked in in droves
from every section and city of Texas.
Of the 27,000 visitors to the campus
that day it is safe to say that better
than half of them were A. & M. folk;
A. & M., their families and intimate
friends.
The wonderful victory over the
traditional rivals, the Longhorns, was,
of course, the high point of the day
and left the followers of the Farmers
ecstatic with joy. The game was wit-
nessed by the greatest crowd in Kyle
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ible and Bassett Present
Aggieland’¢ Conference Champions
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THIRD ROW: Scovell, Robbins, Figari,
SECOND ROW: Martellra, Cape, Rektorik, Wylie, Varnell, Snead, Conover, Hunt (C), Sikes, Alsabrook, Crawford, Bartlett,
BOTTOM ROW: Day, Hable, Kyser, Mills, Rogers, Davis, Petty, Burgess, Ish, Dorsey, Florey, Roland, Oliver, Kleber.
TOP ROW: Left to right: Stransky, Holmes, Jeffries. Neal, Head Coach Bible, Line Coach Bassett, Trainer Sprague, Business Manager Sullivan,
Freshman Coach Higginbotham, Track Coach Anderson, Brown, Blount, Laster, Cox, Criswell.
Ewell, Rowland, Deffebach, Holleran, Sprott, Lister, Gnauck, Cuthrell, Mosher, Richter, Cody.
Wren, Decker, Holleran.
RANKS OF IMMORTAL AGGIE
BACK-FIELD STARS WELCOME
JOEL HUNT AS ONE OF GREATENT
CAPTAIN JOEL HUNT
Hundreds of football fans and foot-
ball players wrung the moist hand
of the above young man after the
Texas game which closed his football
career at Aggieland and the shades
of immortal Aggie football stars of
the past must have hovered close
around him to welcome him to their
ranks. Hunt must take his place
among the greatest of them all, not
only of the Aggies but of the other
conference and Southwest teams as
well. Louie Hamilton, Tyree Bell,
“Chock” Kelly, Cristie Beasley, “Rip”
Collins, the Higginbothams, Jack Ma-
han, Sammie Sanders and many others
of past history must make way for a
new man in their ranks of Farmer
heroes and immortals. Joel Hunt is
th- Southwest’s greatest player of the
modern game. There was nothing he
could not do and star in doing it.
Passing, kicking, running the ends,
driving off the tackles, returning
punts, blocking and running interfer-
ence, playing safety, directing the
strategy and play of his team, en-
couraging his mates—all of them he
was a master of. He ranks as one of
the greatest football performers the
Southwest has ever had. He would
be acclaimed as equally great nation-
ally were he in a section where All-
American players come from.
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FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS
FEAST ON 91-POUND
SCHEPP’S FRUIT CAKE
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The Dallas A. & M. Club pre-
sented the 1927 Aggie football §
huge 91-
pound specially baked fruit «
cake ds u reward foi thel’ sac-
cessful work immediately afta:
the game Thanksgiving Day and
the cake was more than enough
© for all of them and their friends. 4
It was baked by The Schepp’s
Bakeries of Dazailas under the
supervision of Julius and George
& Schepps themselves and was a «
beautiful thing in addition to its
size and eating qualities. The
names of every man on the Ag-
gic team were enrolled on the
cake in icing, along with those
of the coaches. Captain Hunt
cut the first slice, p
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H. VOELCKER, "09
NEW PRESIDENT
TECHNICAL CLUB
Herbert R. Voelcker, '09, prominent
Wichita Falls architect and A. & M.
leader, was recently elected President
of the Wichita Falls Technical Club,
one of the most active organizations
in that city. Voelcker is senior part-
ner in the of Voelcker and
Dixon, 5¢0 Morgan Bldg., and usually
firm
has esveral young Aggie architects
with him. He is an enthusiiastic A.
>. M. man and active in the affairs of
the Wichita Falls club,
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BOOSTS LOAN FUND
WITH $1,000 GIFT
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H. G. “Happy” Hynds, ’10,
President of the McLennan and
Waco A. & M. Club, came to"
th: Thanksgiving Day Game
brought with thea a cheek h
for one thousand “Iron-men,”
as an addition to the Waco A.
& M. Club Loan fund already
established here at A. # M.
The total in their fund is now
$1,400.00 and every year they ¢
arc assisting scores of students
thru A. & M. The money has
been earned thru their opera-
tion of the “A. & M. Kountry
Store” at the Cotton Palace each
year, under the general direc-
tion of Abe Gross. More will
be told of this unique endeavor
and plan in a later edition,
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UNOTHER A&M. MAN
CHOSEN OFFICER
TEX. GROUP ASCE
The Texas section of the American
Society of Civil Engineers recently
honored J. T. L. McNew, ’18, of the
C. E. Dept. here, by appointing him
as Secretary-Treasurer for the com-
ing year. F. E. Giesecke, 90, head
of the Engineering Lxperiment Sta-
tion of the College is a past Presi-
dent of the organization and now a
member of the Board of Directors.
Tames E. “Baldy” Pirie, ’04, is First
Vice President at this time. A. & M.
engineers are well represented in the
Society.
funeral.
ERNEST FARQUHAR, A. & M. FRESHMAN,
DIES FROM FOOTBALL INJURIES
Ernest E. Farquhar, 21, of Jonesboro, Texas, a Freshman student
at A. & M. and a star on the Freshman football squad, died in a Temple
hospital on the morning of Nov. 17, following injuries received in foot-
ball practice here several days before. Farquhar, an end, was injured
Tuesday afternoon and taken to the College hospital. He apparently
was not seriously injured but became worse and was sent to Temple
accompanied by the College nurse and his brother, Sergeant W. W.
Farquhar of the U. S. Air Corps on duty here,
The death, the first casualty of its kind ever suffered at A. & M.,
plunged the whole campus and student body into gloom. Memorial
services by the entire student body were held Thursday afternoon,
attended in a body by both the Varsity and Freshman football squads.
A number of Farquhar’s team-mates, Coaches Bible, Higginbotham
and Anderson and other College officials and students attended the
Farquhar was an outstanding man.
of work carried, his demerit sheet in the Commandant’s office was en-
tirely blank and he was working his way thru school. His death has
caused the whole Student Body and faculty to grieve and the Former
Students will grieve with his family over the loss of so fine a man.
He was passing in every hour
A real old-timer dropped into the
office the day the Mustangs were so
well tamed in the person of J. B. Gib-
son, ’83, of Trinity, Texas. He im-
mediately joined the Association and
placed his endorsement on the work
of the organization. Many changes
thave been made on the campus since
his school days but he’s still as strong
Fas ever for A. & M.
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USH STEERS TO WIN CHERISHED TITLE
STEERS PROVE
NO MATCH FOR
JOEL HUNT & (0.
Farmer Running and Passing Attack
Rolls Over Longhorns for Four
Earned Touchdowns.
HUNT STARS, AS USUAL
Brilliant Backfield Behind Sterling
Line Plays Perfect Football For
Three-Quarters of Game—Tex-
as Shows Flash of Power.
By Milt Saul.
Sports Editor of The News.
The eyes of Texas were upon Texas
Aggies Thanksgiving Day—magnetic,
moving eyes that drove the maroon
warriors of College Station to a mag-
nificent victory over University of
Texas Longhorns, 28 to 7. The. tri-
umph at Kyle Field carried with it the
1927 Southwest Conference champion-
ship. It seemed all the sporting. eyes
in Texas saw the Aggies ascend to
this lofty pinnacle on the wings of
Joel Hunt’s deadly forward passes
and his high-powered heels.
It was Hunt’s big day before nearly
30,000 frenzied football fans. The
brilliant quarterback rose to new
heights as his lamp of gridiron glory
flickered and went out on a vivid dash
over the Texas goal line for the final
touchdown for his team in his last
game in an Aggie uniform. The vast
assemblage deemed it a fitting close
for a great football career and cheered
the Waco boy in sustained roars as
the combat ended.
King Puts Up Battle.
Joe King, lean Longhorn quarter-
back, fought the battle of his, life for
Texas. Supported by Wild Bill Ford,
King in the final quarter drove him-
self and his team half-way acroSs the
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COL. E. B.
The E. B. Cushing Library will
COLLEGE BOARD HONORS LATE
COL. E. B. CUSHING BY NAMING
NEW A. & M. LIBRARY FOR HIM
CUSHING
Alumni Association. He served the
soon take its place upon the Campus
of the institution so ably served and
so deeply loved by the man for whom
the building will be named. This de-
cision was made by the College Board
of Directors in meeting the day be-
fore Thanksgiving and will meet with
great approval by the people of Tex-
as and by the A. and M. Family in
particular. Col. E. B. Cushing was a
member of the class of 1879 and later
in 1.fe served as the President of the |
College faithfully and well as Presi-
dent of its Board of Directors. He
was a staunch friend of any and all
A. and M. men. He was a towering
success in his engineering profession
and he was an outstanding war hero
in spite of his advanced age at that
time. His death came on February
17, 1924. A. and M. men everywhere
are rejoicing over the honor paid him
by the Board of Directors of the Col-
lege.