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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-
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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