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In writing about football players
every sports writer leaves himself
a loop-hole by reminding his read-
ers that some “unknown” may blos-
som into a real player and win a
berth over some better known star.
Roy Young, 200 pound Port Arthur
sophomore on the Aggie squad, has
an excellent chance to serve as an
example of that kind. He was a
second-string center last year on
the Fish team and attracted little
attention until he won the heavy-
weight boxing title in the intra-
mural finals last spring. This fall
he has been shifted to an end
position, and he’s likely to see con-
siderable service.
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Pete Dowling, the big lad from
Houston who was scheduled to be
a great end until he broke his leg
last fall before the opening game,
will not participate in football this
fall, and very likely his football
days are over. However, he ex-
pects to play baseball, in which
sport he is also a star. Had he not
suffered his injury he might well
have become one of the great ends
of the conference. He was fast and
tipped the scales at around 200
pounds.
Wonder what will happen to the
athletic situation at L. S. U. now
that the Tigers have lost their
patron saint, Huey Long?
Reports persist that Texas Uni-
versity will have a great team this
fall and that Chevigny has been
“playing Possum” over his pros-
pects and his material. Backfield
material in abundance is at his
command and if a farward wall
can be molded to go with it the
Steers will be as potent a threat
as the conference can offer.
The most glaring weakness of
this fall’s Aggie Eleven so far
looks to be the absence of a
capable kicker and passer. Several
of the boys on the team do both,
but poorly. Kenneth Mills, younger
brother of Tommy Mills, captain
of the ’'29 team, is a nice passer
and kicker, but so far has not been
able to break into the limelight
because of other short-comings.
Shades of the fall of 1924—that
youngster you see walking across
Kyle Field is Jim Ed Hunt from
Teague, a younger brother of Joel
Hunt, Aggie athletic immortal who
completed his football career in
1927. Young Hunt is out for the
“Fish” football team and every-
body will be well satisfied if he
turns into as good a football play-
er as older brother Joel, now back-
field coach of the L.S.U. Tigers.
He'll be Col. Frank Gist Ander-
son most of the time, Comman-
dant of Cadets at Texas A. & M,,
but old habits are strong and old
loves hard to forget, so this fall's
Aggie Cross-Country team will be
coached by Frank Anderson. And
he’s expected to be an invaluable
ally this spring to track coach
Rollins. Incidentally the Aggies
expect to have a strong team of
Harriers this fall with a fair
chance to snatch conference honors
from the University of Texas.
The Aggies opening game of the
season was marred by an unfor-
tunate injury to Lee Parmley, star
end of the Stephen F. Austin
Teachers. He suffered a fractured
cervical vertebra, but is recovering
nicely and is expected to be com-
pletely well within a few weeks.
The accident followed his fumble
and attempted recovery of a short
kick-off.
The opening game likewise dem-
onstrated that several sophomores
will play plenty of football on the
Aggie eleven this fall. Bob Nes-
rsta, Dick Vitek, Chink Manning
and Ed Wicker, all played in their
first conference game and showed
they could carry the mail. Big
Bruno Schroeder blocked well and
will see plenty of service at full-
back. Boyd and Wright are fast
youngsters, tho small, who will be
constant threats when in the game.
Kenneth Mills, the squad’s best
passer, tossed a long one to soph-
omore Roy Young, end, for one
tally.
In the line big “Bomber” Lind-
sey came thru in great shape, as
did Johnie Morrow and Roy Young,
ends. “Brama” Jones and “Phoebe”
Phythian looked fair at guard and
big Whitfield, “Red” Church and
Ed Elmendorf loomed as fair
tackle replacements. Puryear play-
ed some at end and one or two
other sophs got into the game.
ALLRED TO SEE
TEMPLE-AGGIES
PLAY AT TYLER
The biggest crowd ever to wit-
ness an athletic event in East Tex-
as, is expected to be on hand for
the intersectional Temple-Univer-
sity-Texas A. & M. football game
to be played at Tyler on October
5 at 2:30 p. m. The game has been
dedicated to James E. Allred, who
will be present, together with many
other political luminaries. The 150
piece A. & M. band will be present
to lend encouragement to the Ag-
gie team. “Pop” Warner's Temple
Owls featuring “Dynamite” Dave
Smukler, 220-pound, All American
fullback, are rated as one of the
outstanding teams of the season.
Max Gilfillan, ’17, of the Rose
Festival Athletic Association at
Tyler reports a brisk seat sale and
wide interest in the game. Some
of the better tickets, however, re-
main unsold. Side Line reserve
tickets sell at $3.30, $2.20, and $1.65
and may be secured by writing to
Mr. Gilfillan and inclosing money
order or certified check for the
tickets desired. Four thousand un-
reserved seats at the end, selling
for $1.10, will be sold. A complete
sell-out is anticipated by the day
of the game.
Following the game an A. & M.
dance will be held at the College
Club from 9 until 1 in Tyler, fea-
turing music by the Aggieland
Eight, student orchestra. Several
special trains will run into Tyler
for the game, including one from
Houston that will bring a heavy
contingent.
Governor James E. Allred, mem-
bers of the State Railroad Com-
mission, and many other big-wigs
will be present at the game, which
has been dedicated to the governor.
The intersectional battle will be a
feature of the annual Tyler Rose
Festival.
ATHENS AGGIES
PLAN FOOTBALL
RALLY OCT. 4TH
Underwood Lake, near Athens,
will be the scene of a big A. & M.
barbecue and football rally on the
night of October 4 on the eve of
the A. & M.-Temple University
intersectional football game to be
played at Tyler the next day.
Frank LaRue, 23, is in charge of
arrangements for the party. Un-
derwood Lake is widely known as
a beautiful spot and has entertain-
ed many similar occasions and
many distinguished guests. Honor
guests for this meeting will be
members of the A. & M. coaching
staff. The Aggie team will spend
the night in Athens, staging in that
city Friday afternoon a final work-
out before the Saturday game in
Tyler. All A. & M. men are in-
vited to attend the Athens meet-
ing but should make reservations
in advance by writing to Frank
LaRue, Athens, Texas.
In addition to honoring the foot-
ball coaches, the meeting will also
be in celebration of October 4, the
birthday of the A. & M. College
and the day set aside for meetings
of A. & M. men all over the world.
AMARILLO SAYS
STAG PARTY T0
OBSERVE (CT. 4
The Amarillo-Panhandle A. &
M. Club will celebrate October
fourth, the Birthday of Texas A.
&. M., with a big stag banquet
and smoker at the Amarillo Hotel,
7:30 P. M. on the night of Oct. 4th.
A big attendance is expected with
many men from other Panhandle
cities and towns coming for the
party. Every A. & M. man is in-
vited and may bring as many
MALE friends along as he desires.
A program of entertainment is be-
ing arranged that promises to be
an excellent one. Any visitors in
that section on October fourth will
find a warm welcome that night
at the Amarillo Hotel.
R. T. Baggett, ’26, writes from
780 Virginia Avenue, N. E. Atlanta,
Georgia, that he occasionally sees
L. O. Buchanan, 27, who is located
in Atlanta; and W. D. Armstrong,
’29, who is located at Experiment,
Georgia. He says all three of them
are doing well.
HOUSTON HONORS
AGGIE COACHES
A. & M. coaches Norton, Mec-
Quillan, Rollins, and James, were
honor guests at a regular night
meeting of the Houston A. & M.
Club, held at the Ben Milam Hotel
on September 5. The party was in
the nature of a smoker and was
attended by some 75 men. Presi-
dent V. P. Parr, ’26, of the Houston
Club presided. Short talks were
made by the visitors and by Dr.
J. Allen Kyle, ’90, one of the vet-
eran members of the Houston club.
Plans were laid for running a
special train from Houston to Ty-
ler for the AGGIE-Temple Uni-
versity Game, and other club bus-
iness was transacted.
The meeting was an enthusiastic
one and A. & M. coaches and other
visitors present were given a warm
welcome.
Tinus Writes For
Bell Lab Record
W. C. “Bill” Tinus, 28, who is
doing radio development work in
the Bell Telephone Company Lab-
oratories, breaks into print with
an article in the September issue
of the Bell Laboratory Record. He
writes on “A Moble Transmitter
for the Ultra High Frequencies”.
Tinus began his radio career in
an amateur station immediately
after the war. Before entering A.
& M., he served with several early
broadcasting stations and also
served as a radio operator at sea.
While a student at A. & M., he
was active in the management and
technical handling of WTAW, the
A. & M. College broadcasting sta-
tion. He has been working with the
technical staff of the Bell Labora-
tories since graduation. He has
been working on the development
of airplane radio equipment.
Mrs. Tinus was formerly Miss
Mary Fraps, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. G. S. Fraps of the campus.
Doyle Williams, ’29, sends in
his dues with the news that he] _
finally has a permanent address
and would like to keep up with
what the gang is doing. He is|
with A. M. Lockett & Company at
Kilgore, Texas, as a sales engi-
neer and gets his mail at Box
1266.
Arthur McFarland, ’05, veteran
of the U. S. Engineer Corps, re-
cently moved from Galveston to
Washington, D. C., where his ad-
dress is 4550 Connecticut Avenue,
N. W.
Graham G. Hall, ’13, returned
early in September to Texas after
a summer in Colorado. Shortly
after October 1, he will leave for
a six week’s tour covering the en-
tire Pacific Coast and other points
in the mid-west, as President of
the National Hotel Greeters’ As-
sociation. Before the year is over,
he will cover every section in the
United States in this official ca-
pacity. His headquarters remain
at the Ben Milam Hotel in Hous-
ton.
Louis H. Huebner, ’17, is Lieu-
tenant Commander in the U. S.
Navy and attached at the present
time to the U. S. Naval Air Sta-
tion, Seattle, Washington: He re-
ports that his old shipmate, Roark
Montgomery, ’17, was with the
Navy Department in Washington,
D.C. Mrs. Huebner was formerly
Miss Helen Holick of College Sta-
tion. Lieutenant Commander Hueb-
ner has been in the Naval Service
since the war.
Percy Zimmerman, ’25, Archi-
tect, First National Bank Building,
Longview, Texas, reports a recent
visit from Paul J. “Admiral” Wash-
burn, ’25, who is with the Johns-
Manville Corporation in New York
City. Mr. and Mrs. Washburn and
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Lipscomb, ’25,
together with Mr. and Mrs. Zim-
merman, enjoyed three days of real
reunion at Longview. Washburn,
as a cadet at A. & M. achieved
considerable fame through his
speedy traveling about the basket-
ball court. He has continued this
characteristic and is as likely to
be heard from from Milwaukee or
New Orleans, as he is New York
City.
L. B. Howard, 35, is with the
Texas Company at Hackberry,
Louisiana and wants to get in
touch with any other A. & M. men
in that section. :
ARKANSAS MEN
PLAN BANQUET
LITTLE ROCK
A meeting of all A. & M. men
living in Arkansas will be held in
Little Rock on the night of Nov-
ember 2, following the TEXAS
AGGIE-University of Arkansas
football game to played there that
afternoon. J. W. Mitchell, ’19, Sec-
retary of the Little Rock Boys’
Club, 8th and Scott Streets, Little
Rock, is taking the lead in making
A big turn-out is
arrangements.
expected with members of the A.
& M. coaching staff and E. E. Mc-
Quillen, 20, Secretary of the Asso-
ciation of Former Students, as hon-
or guests. The organization of an
Arkansas A. & M. Club is also
planned. The party will be held in
the form of a banquet at the Albert
Pike Hotel in Little Rock, imme-
| diately following the game. The
first reservation for the banquet
was made by Colonel T. H. Barton,
99, President of the Lion Oil Re-
fining Company, at El Dorado,
Arkansas. Those attending plan to
gather at the Albert Pike Hotel
immediately following the Aggie-
Arkansas football game.
El Paso Club Ends
Membership Drive
With Big Success
The El Paso A. & M. Club cele-
brated its regular monthly meet-
ing at a picnic dance at Waterfill
Gardens, Zaragosa. Ladies of the
club furnished the picnic supper
and dancing was enjoyed later. One
of the largest turn-outs of the
year was present. At the meeting
the El Paso Club made a whirl-
wind finish of their “Pull ’Em In”
Campaign to raise the active mem-
bership of the club in the Associa-
tion of Former Students 512 per
cent. Officers of the club include:
Jack J. Ledbetter, 25, President;
George Resley, ’31, Vice President;
end J. Russell Kennedy, 28, Sec-
retary.
HIGH SCHOOL AND PREP STARS
ABOUND AS GREAT AGGIE FISH
SQUAD REPORTS FOR GRID WORK
Although too early in the season
for a complete list of freshman
football candidates to be compiled
railbirds watching the first work-
outs of this fall’s Fish crop rate
it as the best that has ever en-
rolled at Texas A. & M. Some 150
hopefuls reported for practice to
head coach ‘“Siki” Sikes, and are
being outfitted as rapidly as pos-
sible. Aiding in the freshman pro-
gram will be Coach J. W. Rollins
and Paul Callahan, ineligible var-
sity veteran end, and Pete Dowling,
star end prospect last year whose
broken leg has prevented football
competition this fall.
The Fish team will open its three
game schedule against Allen Acad-
emy, the game to be played at
night in Bryan on October 3. The
remaining two games will be
against the first year teams of
Rice and Texas.
A partial list of the freshman
candidates shows a liberal sprink-
ling of All-State high school per-
formers and of star junior college
players. Later in the fall the AG-
GIE will present a complete roster
of .the freshman squad, mentioning
at this time a few of the better-
known boys who are leading the
way in the early season work.
Among the ends are Rankin
Britt, 205, all-state end of last
year from Ranger; Pat Rayburn,
190, Cleburne, who starred at
Weatherford Junior College last
fall; L. B. Sikes, 170, Leonard, a
younger brother of Coach Sikes
who played last fall at Paris Jun-
ior College; Shelby Blaydes, Ft.
Stockton, 185, All-District; Mau-
rice Henry, 170, Bryan, All-Dis-
trict; Von Tress, 170, of Dallas,
and of course many others.
Headlining the tackle aspirants
are Jim Counts, 212, Decatur, with
several years of Junior College ex-
perience; Paul Wofford, 208, Ar-
lington, who played at Paris Jun-
ior College; “Red” Haller, All-City
of Dallas who weighs 215; Free-
man Bokenkamp, 200, of Houston;
John Baker, 200, of Taylor and
Joe Logan, 190, Sonora. Among the
guards are R. B. Rackley, 205, Cor-
pus Christi, who starred with
Schreiner last year; R. W. Crook,
210, Granbury, who played last fall
with John Tarleton; E. C. Harris,
180, Beaumont; Faubian, 185, Free-.
port; Marvin Gearke, 205, from the
state of Iowa; Warden, 180 of
Ranger, Hinnant and Brennan,
Corpus Christi, and others.
The center position should be
well cared for with big Zed Coston,
210, All-state high school player
from Dallas in 1933, and Schreiner
star last fall; Carter Burns, 190,
Cuero, who starred at Allen Acad-
emy last year; Vannoy, 190, Clarks-
ville, and others.
Dick Todd, 170, Crowell; Bill
Audish, 185, Brenham; were rated
two of the best high school backs
in the state last fall. Eura “Indian”
Brim, 195, Grove, Oklahoma, was
an All-state Oklahoma full-back;
Horace Lansford, 170, Crockett,
All-District; Owens Rogers, 160,
Mart, All-State B team; Cooper
and Murphy, Dallas high school
stars; “Corky” Steffens, 190,
Brady, All-District; “Dutch” Sach-
se, 185, Quitaque, All-District; Sen-
tell Caffey, 180, Cisco, All-District;
Julius Pickoff, 190, Taylor; Jean
Devine, 170, Pharr, who played
with Schreiner last fall and who is
the son of Pat Devine, ’12; Milton
Merka, 180, All-District, Bryan;
Jesse Newman, 170, Cuero; Dillon,
former star Allen Academy back;
“Bubba” Otto, LaGrange, All-Dis-
trict; Bruce Wooley, from Arkan-
sas; Burks, from Morton; Jim Ed
Hunt, Teague, and others.
Dudley S. “Wrinkle” Moore, ’18,
is again coaching the Lampasas
High School Badgers. He is one of
the veteran high school coaches in
that section of the state.
'E. C. Schwope, ’24, is with the
L. E. Witham Construction Com-
pany and located at Canadian,
Texas.
Headquarters puts the
alarm on the air . - -
Patrol cars pick it up,
acknowledge orders,
report progress.
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