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LIBRARY CAMPUS os Arn If this paper is not RETURN called for return POSTAGE postage is guaranteed GUARANTEED by publisher. \ ANS Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. VOL. X COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, NOVEMBEP. 1, 1936 NUMBER 64 Soil Conservation Men Star As (Championship Campaign Leader Asks Fast Last Quater Drive Featuring the sensational work of A. & M. men who are in the Soil Conservation Service in Tex- as, the CHAMPIONSHIP CAM- PAIGN, to make the A. & M. Ex- Student’s Association the best or- ganization of its kind in the South- west, completed its third quarter on November first. The month of November will be the final quar- ter of the campaign, and a sus- tained drive, with the cooperation of many members of the Associa- tion, will be necessary if the cham- pionship goal is to be reached. Under the plan of the cam- paign members of the Asso- ciation are asked to contact other A. & M. men and line up their membership. Every present member is considered as a member of the “Squad”. The securing of one new mem- ber promotes the squad-man to a “REGULAR”. Two new members jump him to an “ALL-CONFERENCE” per- former, and four new mem- bers bring him into the cov- eted “ALL-AMERICAN” hon- ors. To date the performance of those men who have won ALL-CONFERENCE and ALL-AMERICAN honors has been wonderful; but the cry- ing need of the campaign in its final quarter is 1000 squad-men who will become regulars. “There is hardly an Asso- ciation member who could not within 15 minutes, line up another active member,” de- clared Ass'n. President and campaign coach C. A. Than- heiser.” Our only difficulty is getting our men to take a few minutes of their time and ap- proach some other A. & M. man on this matter. Those who have done so report to me they ‘ have been surprised at the ease with which additional members of the Association can be lined up. It is my hope that in this final quarter we will really ‘Go To Town’. You - know, when we started this campaign we were determin- ed to ‘Set a pattern’ for this year’s Aggie football team, but Homer Norton and his boys have gone a long way further toward a championship than we have”. With the month of November remaining in the campaign as the final quarter of the Championship Drive, there is ample time for any and every present member of the Association to do his part toward making the A. & M. Exes organi- zation the best of its kind in the Southwest, if not in the United States. A new member secured by each of 1000 present members would get the job done. With ALL-AMERICAN per- formers within its ranks showing up almost daily, A. & M. men with the Soil Conservation Service or- ganization in Texas quickly became practically 100% active members of the Association. Rivalry between various groups of the organization spread rapidly, with the result that this organization, so largely under the direction of A. & M. Agricul- tural and Engineering graduates, quickly set a record for active membership in their Ex-Student Association. A similar percentage of active membership among all A. & M. men would make the As- sociation the greatest of its kind in the United States. Noteworthy, also, was the good play turned in by the A. & M. men of Ft. Stockton, under the leader- ship of County Agent L. E. “Cap” Bailey, 25. Every A. & M. man living in Ft. Stockton, and.within a. radius of many miles of that city, is an active Association mem- ber. “All-American”’ Jas. R. Atkins, ’34, Mt. Pleasant C. L. Babcock, ’18, Beaumont L. E. Bailey, 25, Fort Stockton C. G. Brock, ’33, Garland E. W. Buchtien, ’33, Waco F. K. Buckner, ’23, Dallas J. B. Crockett, ’08, Dallas Paul A. Cunyus, ’27, Madisonville P. L. Downs, Jr., 06, Temple W. H. DuPuy, ’19, College Station Dr. J. Allen Kyle, ’90, Houston W. E. “Bill” Langlotz, 27, Dallas E. C. McFadden, 24, Dallas Louis P. Merrill, ’26, Fort Worth Edgar T. Nagle, ’18, College Station George Resley, ’31, El Paso W. F. Saage, ’26, Temple E. A. Schattenberg, ’25, Harlingen A. L. Sebesta, ’30, Carrizo Springs Colonel Oscar A. Seward, Jr., ’07, Groesbeck Travis L. Smith, Jr., 98, Houston Grady W. Turner, ’20, Sherman ‘| Paul H. Walser, "23, College Station J. L. Wright, ’25, Little Rock, Ark. “All-Conference” Marion H. Badger, ’31, Taylor B. B. Cochran, ’22, Houston Johnnie Crump, ’27, Houston V. G. Forrester, ’25, Greenville Jack Idol, ’26, Benjamin C. B. Johnson, ’25, Wolfe City Dudley Mann, ’29, Temple D. O. Marshall, ’21, Wichita Falls C. C. Morris, ’11, Corsicana Gus Schattenberg, ’28, Silver City, N. M. : J. D. Seymour, ’13, Columbus | T. B. Warden, ’03, Austin J. O. Woodman, ’31, Fort Worth “Regulars” D. A. Adam, ’26, Graham E. E. Aldridge, ’16, San Antonio Luke L. Ballard, ’05, Breckenridge | Kirk P. Brock, ’28, Liberty | A. F. Buchanan, ’14, Dryden W. G. Castle, ’21, Lake Charles, La. Guy Cornett, ’16, Corpus Christi | W. A. French, ’13, Abilene W. J. Hancock, ’24, Beaumont H. G. Heard, ’23, Austin i H. W. Eitt, ’26, Elephant Bute, N. " Mex. L. C. Jinks, 22, Little Rock, Ark. K. L. Kirkland, ’21, Fort Worth Fred Lyon, ’12, Amarillo M. L. Malone, ’22, Marlin Penrose B. Metcalfe, 16, San An- gelo T. P. Metcalfe, ’11, Franklin W. S. Millington, ’30, Bastrop C. L. Murph, ’18, Wichita Falls W. S. Nicholson, ’24, San Angelo T. B. Powers, ’28, Corpus Christi O. J. Rea, ’30, Tomball W. W. Rice, ’29, Benjamin T. J. Skrabanek, ’26, Temple L. E. Sommers, ’35, Temple Joe C. Strieber, ’25, Bryan Gene Wilder, ’27, Beaumont Demonstration Farm Starter and Father Walter C. Porter, father of five A. & M. sons, and on whose farm near Terrell the first agricultural extension demonstration work was done in Texas, died recently at the age of 68. For 40 years, he con- ducted his model farm near Ter- rell in addition to engaging actively in banking and other business af- fairs. In 1913 in collaboration with Dr. S. A. Knapp, of the U. S. De- partment of Agriculture, he es- tablished the first demonstration farm on the Porter plantation, marking the beginning of this type of agricultural extension work. He is survived by his widow and 9 children: Harry Porter, Dublin; John C. Porter, ’18, and Charles M. Porter, ’25, of Terrell; J. W. Porter, '22, Dallas; W. A. Porter, ’30, Tyler; Tom: P.: Porter, ’31; Mount Pleasant, and three daugh- ters. AMATEURS TOP PROS IN SIDE LINE CONTEST Showing remarkable consistency, Joe Williams, ’29, Lamesa, and Davis Watkins, ’30, Salt Lake City, Utah, tied for first place in the Side-Line Coaches Contest, grad- ually pulled ahead of their nearest rivals. Each of the two leaders has missed just three games out of the 21 played to date, with total scores of 821s. In the Professional division of the contest a group of four Texas sports writers are tied for first; Brown Booth, McAllen Press, Mc-; Allen; Uncle Jake King, Uncle Jake’s Sports News, Dallas; Pax- ¢ BEAUMONT CLUB T0 FEAST AND GET GRID DOPE The Beaumont A. & M. Club, carrying out its plan of football programs during the fall, will hold its next meeting on the evening of November 9th., at the Neches Pow- er Station. All the food and drink that any man can consume is being offered for the 25 cents admission, and a full house of Sabine District Aggies is expected. President Al Saenger, ’32, prom- ises to have a review of the S.M.U.- Aggie game, to be played in Dal- las the Saturday before the meet- ing, delivered by an eye-witness at the game, and one able to give technical and intimate details of the battle. This plan has been fol- ton Dent, El Paso Times, and Joe lowed with success on previous Woosley, Daily News-Telegram, games of the season at earlier Sulphur Springs. These four lead- ers have scores totalling 72%. Still in reach of the leaders among the amateurs is a group with scores of 77%, and any one of the bunch might take a sudden spurt to capture the lead. The group includes Sam Brewster, ’27, Knoxville, Tenn.; B. F. Gray, 23, Sherman; R. L. Koerth, 32, Dallas; Claude Mast, ’25, Dallas; J. B. Snider, ’14, Waco. Trailing the leaders among the Sports-Writers are Bruce Layer, Houston Post; Orville Lee, Paris News; “Red” Buehrer, Brenham Banner; Bill Singleton, Dallas Times-Herald, and Flem Hall, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. Attention Aggies In California With an opportunity to see their own football team in ac- tion many A. & M. men liv- ing on the Pacific Coast will be present in San Francisco when the Aggies meet San Francisco University at Kezar Stadium on Armistice Day. Headquarters in Frisco will be at the William Taylor Hotel. Many Texans are expected to accompany the team on its trip, taking advantage of the low round-trip rate offered by the Sante Fe Railroad on its All-Expense Tour. : Returning to Texas the party will stop off at Los Angeles, making its headquarters at the Rosslyn Hotel in that city. Ar- rival at Los Angeles will be at 7 P.M., Nov. 12th., via S. P. Lines, with departure at the same time the following day. A. & M. men of Southern California are invited to gather at the Rosslyn Hotel in Los Angeles at 7 P. M. on the night of Nov. 12th., for an informal meeting to get acquainted with the party from Texas and to meet with each other. No din- ner will be held. A. & M. Plates To Be Delivered This Fall According to news recently re- ceived from Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, of Etruria, England, the first delivery of the eagerly awaited Texas A. & M. Memorial Plates is expected to be made in Novem- ber. According to officials of the Wedgwood concern, the A. & M. plates will be among the most beautiful this world-famed com- pany has ever produced. A set of one dozen of the plates, which are dinner size, can be secured for $24 in the original edition, and $18 in the regular edition. The plates are being marketed by the A. & M. Commemorative Plate Associa- tion, Box 56, Temple, Texas. P. L. Down,s Jr., ’06, is head of the Commemorative Plate Association. Hollis U. Bible, ’30, former Ag- gie gridster and brother of Coach D. X. Bible, is president of the Air Conditioning Company, Main at Richmond, Houston. The company was organized by Bible last June to represent the General Electric Company in its air conditioning program in this territory. Mr. and Mrs. Bible make their home in Houston and Hollis is an occasional campus visitor. gE vind bby £4, a "Ri oh RE on wi aS BSL ol a bd (ARG SEL RRs Lh meetings of the Beaumont Club. At the club’s October 26th. meeting Sports-writer “Tiny” Scur- lock reported on the Rice-A. & M. and Texas U.-Rice games, with Charley Babcock, "18, reporting up- on the mud battle at Waco between A. & M. and Baylor. HEADS TEXAS G0. AMARILLO PLANT The recent appointment of G. C. McSwain, ’20, as superintendent of the big Texas Company Refin- ery at Amarillo, climaxes a per- iod of 16 years of both work and education by McSwain. Sixteen years of work, because McSwain entered the services of the Texas Company shortly after leaving A. & M. in 1920, and has climbed steadily from his starting job as a laborer to his present position. Likewise 16 years of additional education, because he has largely educated himself in the refining business during his years with the Texas Company. A member of a pioneer family of Brazos County and raised on a farm within sight of the A. & M. College, McSwain, in spite of it being an agricultural school, went to work at the Texas Company in 1920 because he didn’t want to wait around for some other opening to occur. Since that day in 1920, he has been right in the middle of the refining business. At the time he started with the Texas Com- pany, that concern was just going into the oil cracking refining pro- cess and McSwain became an ex- pert along this line. In 1927 he was one of 23 em- ployees selected from the entire Texas Company organization, to take a 9 month’s training course in all departments of the oil refin- ing business. At the completion cf this course. McSwain was further assigned to a second training course in the handling and supervising of men. He was transferred to Am- arillo in 1928 as assistant superin- tendent of the Texas Company Re- finery, remaining in that capacity until September 1936 when he was appointed as superintendent. Married in May, 1924, to Miss Irma Lavelle, the McSwains have two children, a daughter of 11 and a boy 9. The latter is already plan- ning to enter A. & M. in 1944. One of Amarillo’s outstanding citizens, McSwain is an active member of the Amarillo-Panhandle A. & M. Club. ih 7 # Deadly Arkansas Passes And Cadets Off-Day Ends Unbeaten Record-Team Closes On Road Tumbled from the top of the con- ference ladder and from their un- defeated position by their Arkan- sas defeat, the Aggie football squad will take the road for the rest of the season. All but gone is their chance for a conference title, with a game and a half lost, al- though there is still a faint chance that no team might escape two de- feats. The S.M.U. Mustangs, by winning Saturday from Texas in their first conference game, are perched atop the conference stand- ings. The AGGIE-S.M.U. battle at Dallas next Saturday will be the high-light of the week’s football program in the Southwest. Tickets for the game were practically sold out when the Aggie went to press, and some 18,000 spectators are expected at the S.M.U. stadium. The Cadets must win from S.M.U. to remain in the running for con- ference honors. Following the game at Dallas the Aggies will entrain for their first invasion of the Pacific Coast, meeting San Francisco University in that city on Armistice Day, Nov. 11. Returning home they meet Centenary at Shreveport on Nov. 21st., Texas University at Austin Nov. 26, and end their season against Chick Meehan’s Manhat- tan College team at Tyler on Dec. 5th. CADETS SPLASH 10 0-0 TIE IN BAYLOR BATTLE Playing in a sea of mud and water that was ankle deep in many spots on the field and that made the game look more like water polo than football, Homer Nor- ton’s surprising Aggie team was held to a scoreless tie by Baylor at the Bruin’s Homecoming in Waco. Only one earned first down. and that by the Bears, is a good indication of the kind of game and the kind of weather. The only remarkable feature was the handl- ing of the wet, muddy and water- logged ball by the centers of the two teams and the kickers. The Aggies really went into the game and made every effort to win, trying running and pass plays thru-out the first half. Baylor, either because they felt it better tactics or were more willing to try for a tie game, played thru- out for a break, and kicking us- ually on first down. There were heroes of the game despite its drab character. Bill Stages and “Doc” Pitner matched kicks with Lloyd Russell of Bay- lor, and all three lads did fine work in kicking and in handling the ball. Pitner saved the Aggies when he ran down a Baylor player after a pass interception that look- ed like a sure score. Much credit must also be given the centers of both teams for the passing which was remarkable when conditions are considered. Dick Todd and Dick Vitek of the Aggies played great ball at the safety position, their punt returning more than balancing the better kicking of Russell. Neither team could make any headway against the defensive line but perhaps the condition of the field had as much to do with that as the strength of the two lines. Both teams had chances to score when breaks gave them the ball deep in the other’s territory. There was no chance of any ground gain- ing, however. Baylor missed its best chance when the gun ending the first half found them on the Aggie 5 yard line with one down left to try a field goal. The Aggies missed their best scoring oppor- (Continued on page 3) RSs pa XE i fe Lek 2) Showing the form that made them one of the pre-season fav- orites for the Conference title, and playing against an Aggie team that either suffered an “Off-Day”, or just was no match for their opponents, the Arkansas Razor- backs shelled the Aggies from their undefeated position by a score of 18 to 0. The game was played on Kyle Field before 8,000 spectators, most of whom had predicted an A. & M. victory. Misplays by the cadets and a great passing attack by the Hogs tell the story. Although they man- aged to pile up 15 first downs to their opponents 11 the Aggies were never able to shake into the open their running threats, Dick Todd or “Chink” Manning, and at no time were able to stage any consistent running attack. Their passes prov- ed boomerangs when Arkansas in- tercepted a total of six. On the other hand the Hog’s passing at- tack was deadly, two heaves re- sulting in touchdowns. The first Arkansas tally was al- most a gift. A short punt after being backed on their own five vard line gave Arkansas the ball on the A. & M. 13 yard line. Jack Robbins, Arkansas ace, faked a. pass and went to the 5 yard line, and on the next play drove over. That ended the first half scoring and the Aggies were still very much in the ball game. Todd re- turned the ensueing kick-off from five yards back of his goal line to the 50 yard line, but fumbles and intercepted passes stopped every Aggie drive. Arkansas scored touchdowns in the third and in the fourth quar- ters, mainly as a result of a pair of heaves from Sloan to Hamilton. Joe Routt, the Aggie’s candidate for All-American honors, was again the outstanding linesman on the field. Outside of his play and some nice work by Nesrsta and Man- ning, Aggie backs, there was little to praise in the play of the Cadets. Robbins and Sloan, Arkansas backs, with their passing, running and very alert defensive play, were out- standing for the victors. The Ag- gies were minus the services of first string center Charley De- Ware, with Arkansas also playing without their regular snapper-back. Heart-broken over their first loss, and openly crying as they came from the field, the Aggie eleven apparently could never get started. They might have lost, anyhow, when playing their best; but there was no question but that they were having one of those days that every team has when nothing goes right and when everything that is tried results in further de- moralization. Numerous substitutes were used in a fruitless endeavor to turn the tide. The Lineups Arkansas Tex. A. & M. Benton ii... uu | 4 Le el VED, Stages Vansickle........... | odd LAREN TT Young Sanders.............. LiGesoe on 550 Routt Woodell............... Col..i a tat Coston Gilmore............. B.G.....0 ind Jones Spillers... 0 R.T....50% 8 Whitfield Hamilton.......... RB: Ls aay Morrow Bebbins. 2). cuts QB... fry a Vitek Keen... 500 LH. ..h Todd Martin, i... RH... 0-0 Shockey Brown... rw. BB. Cummings Score by periods: Arkansas Lon 6 0 6 6—18 Texas A.and M. ...0 0 0 0— 0 Scoring touchdowns: Arkansas— Robbins, Martin, Hamilton. Substitutions: Arkansas — Gor- don, Hunter, ends; Corbett, Lal- man, Stout, tackles; Hinton, D. Martin, B. A. Owen, guards; Don- aldson, center; Fletcher, Martin, Rawlins, Montgomery, Sloan, backs. Texas A. and M.: Seago, Britt, ends; Bransom, Church, Kirby, tackles; Phythian, Minnock, guards; Wessendorf, center; Pitner, Boyd, Nesrsta, Manning, Rogers, backs. (Continue on page 3)
