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Beats all how sports writers us-
ually fall for the “Bull” so plenti-
fully put out by players and pro-
moters of the Professional football
game, to the effect that the “Pro”
game is better, faster and brainer
than the college game. Its a lot of
hooey, and the records bear it out.
At Houston last Sunday the Chi-
cago Bears, one of the top rank-
ing pro teams eked out a narrow
10 to 7 victory over the Southwest
All-Stars.
Here’s a leading team from the
pro league that is in fine condition
after playing thru its regular sea-
son. It meets a group of All-Stars
who practice together just one
week, and many of whom have not
played a football game in two or
three years. Among the latter were
such men as Jake Wilson, Baylor,
Bohn Hilliard, Texas, McCauley,
and Witt, Rice. None of these men
could have been in any real shape
to play their best.
Yet they go out and play the
“Big Shots” off their feet, and but
for a 75 yard run with a fumble
would have beaten the Pro team.
~ Looks like the pros should be
better, but they can’t prove it with
the performances they put on in|
this section.
Now comes one of the Dallas
sports writers with a statement
that warns the Southwest Confer-
ence to beware of how it treats
the S. M. U. Mustangs, else the
Ponies might pull out of the league,
and then where would the rest of
the conference be. The boys up
there who pound the typewriters
certainly make it hard for old
Matty and his Mustang coaching
staff,
Joel Hunt, ’28, must move over,
and make room in the niche he has
previously occupied alone as the
one undisputed ALL-TIME All-
Conference backfield man. Sammy
"Baugh must be given a place on
any All-Time Team of the South-
west, just as Joel Hunt must be
placed thereon, and has been una-
nimously so placed by whoever was
naming the All-Time team since
his playing days. These two lads
are about the only ones whose right |
to the team will not be disputed.
Shades of the past! Two of the
stars of the Texas College of
Mines football team at El Paso
are Dick and Mike Jr., sons of
Mike Balenti, one time All-Ameri-
can at Carlisle, and who played a
star game at half-back for the
Aggie team of 1909. Mike senior
lives in Oklahoma. Both of the
boys are backs and Mike Jr. was
the leading ground gainer for the
El Paso team the past season.
According to announcement made
by the athletic department the Ag-
gies next fall will open on the
East Coast and close on the Pacific
coast, undertaking the most am-
bitious schedule in the history of
the school. The season’s opener for
the team will be in New York City
in a return game with Chick Mee-
han’s Manhatten University Jas-
pers, on October 2. Returning to
Texas the Cadets will meet Miss-
issippi State in the Tyler Rose
Festival feature, and then will take
on their six conference rivals. The
schedule will close with another
engagement at San Francisco
against the San Francisco Univer-
sity Dons on December 4th. No
game will be played on the Satur-
day preceding the Thanksgiving
game at College.
Although plenty of travelling is
involved the schedule should not
prove as wearing as that of last
fall. Of the conference games Bay-
lor, S. M. U. and Texas will be
played at College.
The best remark of the past
year, made by a lady fan at one
of the games, “I think Mr. Tuck-
er (Jinx) looks like Noel Coward.”
Welcome news to Aggie football
partisans is the decision made by
All-American Joe Routt to return
next fall for his final year of eli-
gibility. And a big bouquet to the
same Mr. Routt for being a near
“Distinguished” student as well
as a swell football player.
“Hub” McQuillan’s Aggie Bas-
ketball squad promises to win more
games this winter than last, but
is still far from championship cali-
a a LE ul ih cAR PE
Liberty Names Routt All-American
Joseph Rout, Texas Aggie foot-
ball star, has been picked by Lib-
erty Magazine as a member of the
All-Players’ All-American foot-
ball team of 1936. In recognition of
the ability of the All-American
guard, Liberty will present: him
with a gold football. The date for
the presentation has not been set.
yet but it will be a public affair
by a personal representative of
Liberty Magazine.
Routt was also picked as Ally
American by the Associated Press
earlier in the year and by many
other news agencies throughout
the nation. Being placed on the
Liberty All-American team is a
signal honor in that the team is
selected by 1,498 of the leading
players in all parts of the United
States.
Joe Routt has definitely stated
that he wil return to A and M
next football season to complete
his three years of eligibility. He is
a senior and can graduate but has
played on two years of varsity foot-
ball. Until lately, there was much
doubt as to whether or not he would
graduate or come back next season.
CADET CAGERS LOSE
TO RICE
The Aggies dropped their opening
basketball game of the conference
season at Houston Wednesday
night, falling before the Rice Owls,
32 to 25. Steen of Rice, with 15
points, and Frieberger of the Ag-
gies with 10 points, paced the scor-
ing. The game was the opening
battle of the current conference
race.
Dr. Ernest F. “Beck” Becker,
’00, is still residing in Brenham,
Texas, where he has been a den-
tist for the past 381 years. He of-
fices in the Citizens Drug Building
and his home is 418 W. Third
Street.
Frank J. “Father” Bittner, ’30,
is a bookkeeper for the Flatonia
Oil Mill Company at Flatonia,
Texas.
Hubert A. Becker, 00, is living
in Brenham, Texas where he has
served as Justice of the Peace for
Washington County for the past
ten years.
John H. “Dub” Browder, Jr., '15,
is owner of the City Drug Store
at Groesbeck, Texas. Browder is
a past member of the Groesbeck
School Board and of the Board of
the Chamber of Commerce.
Lawrence A. Jalufka, ’36, is an
accounfiant with the Violet Gin
Company, Violet, Texas.
Malcolm J. Carmichael, ’36, is
teaching mathematics and science
in the high school at Carlton,
Texas. He gets his mail at Box
43.
J. T. Hardy, ’36, is with the Oil
Well Supply Company, Dallas,
Texas.
Ira B. Duck, ’14, is assistant
county agent for Taylor County,
with headquarters at Abilene,
Texas.
Lawrence A. Rothe, ’35, has
been transferred as assistant in
agricultural conservation from
Guadalupe County to
County as county agricultural
agent, with headquarters at
Boerne, Texas.
John D. Franklin, Jr., ’36, is
teaching vocational agriculture at
Blackwell, Texas, where he gets
his mail at Box 122.
Ed S. Martin, ’36, who is with
the Humble Oil and Refining
Company, Wink, Texas, had the
misfortune of breaking his right
leg above the knee not long ago
and will be in the Big Spring Hos-
pital, Big Spring, Texas for some
time yet.
T. A. Morgan, ’30, is valuation
engineer for the Lone Star Gas
Company and lives at 309% E.
9th Street, Dallas, Texas.
Merit B. Toland, ’30, is field en-
gineer with the Northern Natural
Gas Company, Omaha, Nebraska.
J.. ‘Bernard - Baly, 25, 1s with
the Department of Health, State
of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J. Baty
was a recent Texas visitor, having
visited the Texas Centennial at
Dallas and witnessed the Texas
A. & M.-S. M. U. football game
this fall.
4 Tpobert E. Merrell, ’19, is an ar-
ch.%y . at Clovis, New Mexico and
gets his mail at Box 852, of that
city.
Richard “Bear” Wright, ’33,
sends in his dues. Richard is still
at Alice, Texas and is getting
along fine.
ber. At this date Arkansas and
Texas look like the cream of the
crop; with -Baylor ‘anda T. CU.
fighting it out for the cellar. Rice,
the Aggies and S. M. U. are in
betweeners, with hardly a shot at
the title but good enough to es-
cape the cellar.
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Alvin A. “Red” Behrens, ’26,
has been with the Barnes Cotton
Company, of Brenham, since he
finished A. & M. “Red” is book-
keeper for the company and also
classifies cotton.
Fred T. Bennett, 21, who has
been with the State Highway De-
partment for the past 13 years, is
resident engineer at Austin, Tex-
as and makes his home at 1710
Palma Plaza of that city.
George “Pete” Bock, ’28, is as-
sistant superintendent of building
for the T. L. James & Co., Inc,
Waco, Texas. Bock gets his mail
at. P. 0. Box 1163, Waco.
For the past six years, Earl J. A.
“Booger” Bergstrom, '29, has been
connected with the Austin National
Bank, Austin, Texas. He lives at
603 W. 17th Street of that city.
Roy A. Box, 27, is teaching
vocational agriculture at Worth-
am, Texas and gets his mail at
Box 22.
Charles E. “Nick” Carter, ’20,
is assistant cashier for the City
National Bank of Mexia, Texas,
and lives at 818 [E. Palestine
Street.
Willis R. Bodine, ’26, is teaching
physical education in the Austin
Public Schools. Since receiving his
degree from A. & M. in Agricul-
tural Engineering in 1926, Bodine
has received his B. S. in Physical
Education and also his M. S. in
Education from the University of
Texas. Bodine resides at 4515 Ave-
nue D, Austin, Texas.
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Herman F. Heep, ’18, announces
the removal of his office, and the
Heep Oil Corporation and Conroe
Drilling Company, from Suite
2708 Gulf Building, Houston, to
Heep Building, Corpus Christi,
Texas. This move became effective
on November 1, 1936.
John B. “Dreamy” Mooney, ’34,
is with the Texas A. & M. Exten-
sion Service and makes his home
at McKinney, Texas.
James L. Myrick, 29, is teaching
vocational agriculture at Crandall
High School, Crandall, Texas. This
is Mpyrick’s second year at Cran-
dall.
For the past 15 years, Robert B.
Neale, ’08, has been owner and
operator of the Denton Bus Lines
and he and his family reside at
1112 North Locust Street, Denton,
Texas.
Howell Nolte, 21 has been with
the Denison school system for the
past 16 years. At the present time,
he is head of the Industrial Arts
Department and gets his mail at
Box 117, Denison.
Russell Osborn, ’30, is assistant
chemist for the Kimball Milling
Company and makes his home at
619 West Pecan Street, Sherman,
Texas.
Clem J. Pinson, 24, is farming
at Forney, Texas.
Clarence W. Robertson, ’28, is
a partner of the Robertson Grocery
Company at Terrell, Texas, and re-
sides at 604 N. Francis Street of
that city.
Orville W. “Abe” Reagin, 07, is
a director of the Forney State
Bank. Reagin has been with this
institution for the past 21 years.
He lives at Forney.
G. W. Glezen, 24, is with the
Magnolia Petroleum Company and
makes his home at 635 Highland
Drive, Beaumont, Texas.
David M. Glassford, ’36, is locat-
ed at Groveton, Texas and gets his
mail at Box 232.
W. H. “Hal” Phelps, ’31, writes
that he has been enjoying listening
to the A. & M. games. He is still
located at Little Rock, Arkansas
at 2415 Schiller.
Who Remembers How
“Blue” Frazier Got
Lasting Nick-Name
C. R. “Blue” Frazier, ’13, is fac-
tory manager for the Mack-Inter-
national Motor Truck Company in
Arizona. He makes his headquar-
ters with the Neil B. McGinnis
Company, 1401 S. Central, Phoenix,
Arizona, and recently wrote to se-
cure information regarding the
College for a young friend of his
at Phoenix, whom he hopes to see
at A. & M. next fall. Frazier re-
calls his cadet days in C-Company,
where he and such side kicks as
“Pap” Dwyer, Verne Scott, Percy
McGhee, and others, made merry.
His nickname, “Blue,” he remem-
bers, was given him by O. GC.
“Spud” Holcomb, ’13, when he
first arrived at A. & M., and this
nickname has stuck with. him to
the extent that he uses it even on
his business card, and the story
of this nickname is a good one.
He would like to hear from any
of his old friends, or see them
should they come through Phoenix.
Louis J. Franke, ’28, was recent-
ly made Assistant Extension Edi-
tor for the A. & M. Extension Ser-
vice, with his offices located in the
New Administration Building on
the campus. Franke was formerly
county agricultural agent of
Brooks County.
The greatest handicap to exca-
vation work in Houston, quicksand,
has been conquered by a new sys-
tem devised by the San Jacinto
Construction Company in laying
the Polk Avenue underpass sewers.
According to J. B. Dannenbaum,
’18, president of the company, a
well-point system is used. By this
system, the water is sucked out
of the wet sand by a series of well-
points, or perforated pipes, leav-
ing the sand dry. Dozens of con-
struction engineers have visited
the scene in Houston to inspect
the new system. Dannenbaum is
one of Houston’s best known con-
tractors. :
Dr. Charles L. “Charlie” Cole-
man, ’36, who has been practicing
in Los Angeles, California, has re-
turned to College Station, where
he is a member of the Department
of Veterinary Medicine and Sur-
gery of the A. & M. College.
Travis Hall, ’21, is a member of
the soil conservation force at Mon-
ticello, Arkansas.
G. D. Johnson, ’36, sends in his
dues to the Association. Johnson
is in the Radio Development De-
partment of the Bell Telephone
Laboratories in New York City,
New York. His Address is 802
Graybar-Varick Building, 180 Var-
ick Street, New York City, N. Y.
J. B. McCluskey, Jr., ’36, is
serving a tour of active duty with
the U. S. Army and is stationed
at Fort Crockett, Texas. Other A.
& M. men at Fort Crockett are R.
R. Shannon, ’34; S. D. Bruns, ’34;
J. T. Terry, ’36; and F. A. Hollings-
head, ’16.
J. F. Hodge, 25, sends his best
wishes to the Association. His ad-
dress is Route 1, Box 600, Semi-
nole, Oklahoma.
R. M. Armstrong, ’30, is with
the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company, 200 E.
Fifth Street, Mansfield, Ohio. Arm-
strong was formerly located at
Philadelphia.
Jack Harding, who graduated in
electrical engineering in 1933, is
now in Winchester, Kentucky, as
Division Sales Manager of the
Kentucky Division of the Commun-
ity Public Service Company.
John B. “J. B.” Bell, 27, is Dis-
trict Traffic Chief for the South-
western Bell Telephone Company
at Austin and has his office in
the Telephone Building of that
city. His home address is 4103
Avenue H. He has been with the
Telephone Company for the past
ten years.
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1936 Brings Significant Campus
Changes-'37 Finds Work Aplenty
Looking back over the good year 1936, and scanning the horizon
of the youthful year 1937, the AGGIE presents some thoughts on the
past and the future of the A. & M. College. In its 60th. year the in-
stitution is undergoing more far-reaching changes than at any time
in its long history. The year just past witnessed some very significant
developments, and the continued progress of the institution. For 1937
the AGGIE presents several items that deserve attention.
Presenting these 1937 needs brings no crystal-gazing credit to
the AGGIE, as they are already well known in most events to authori-
ties of the college. But bringing them to light may serve some pur-
pose in focusing the attention of A. & M. men and of the public upon
them.
The Old Year
GRADUATE SCHOOL. Taking
its place with other leading insti-
tutions of the United States, the
Graduate School offered for the
first time last year graduate work
leading toward the awarding of
the PhD Degree. This advanced
work is being given by members
of the College faculty and by re-
search workers of the Experiment
Station staff. Although not as
spectacular as some other school
developments, the establishment of
‘a first class Graduate School will
prove one of the most far reach-
ing steps in the development of
the Texas A. & M. College.
ENROLLMENT. Breaking all
previous records and attesting to
the popularity of the college, last
fall’s enrollment of 4,150 students
severely taxed both campus and
Bryan housing facilities.
CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS.
Although the big building pro-
gram has been completed, numer-
ous campus improvements continu-
ed during 1936. Paving of the im-
pressive new entrance on the East
side of the campus, construction
of a new U. S. post office at the
North gate, an addition to the hos-
pital, construction of the AAA
Building, and a continuation of the
landscaping program, were the
outstanding accomplishments in
the development of the College’s
fine physical plant.
RETIREMENT PLAN. The’
setup of a retirement plan for Col-
lege employees who reach the age
of 70, should mean much in the
future to those men and women
who devote their lives to the pro-
gram of the institution.
WILL HOGG STUDENT LOAN
FUND. Receipt of the $50,000
student loan fund bequest of the
late Honorable Will Hogg, increas-
ed the total student loan funds ad-
ministered by the Association to
the sum of $244,000.
DR. MARK FRANCIS. The
death of Dr. Mark Francis, after
nearly half a century of service to
the College and to the state,
brought grief to every friend of
the institution. One of the nation’s
outstanding scientists, his death
meant a loss to the institution that
cannot be replaced.
ATHLETICS. A football team
that compiled a spectacular and
splendid record, that achieved
national recognition, and that pro-
duced one All-American player, to
gether with a general advance-
ment along all other lines of inter-
collegiate and intramural sports,
brought happiness to athletic par-
tisans of Aggie teams.
HEROES UNRECORDED,
Were rank and file members of
the academic, the research, the ex-
tension, and the forestry divisions
of the College, whose day to day
work meant so much to the South-
west. Note-worthy has been the un-
complaining shouldering of terrific
loads by the teaching staff, the
splendid research results of the Ex-
periment Station as exemplified by
the work of Fred Hale, ’22, and Dr.
P. C. Mangelsdorf; and the cheerful
acceptance of tremendous New Deal
Program burdens by members of
the extension and forestry divis-
ion staffs. ;
EX-STUDENTS’ SUPPORT.
Ex-Student support has been given
indirectly and directly where pos-
sible to many projects for the bene-
fit of the institution. The sons of
A. & M. have exerted their good
wishes and their influence in be-
half of the institution and those
charged with its supervision and
operation.
Now For 1937
A. & M. MEN. A strengthen-
ing of the devotion of A. & M.
men to their College, to the end
that more definite and direct aid
may be given to the institution
and its program. Representing the
desires of A. & M. men along this
line stands the Association of
Former Students, and through this
organization A. & M. men are of-
fered their best opportunity to be
of real service and aid to their
Alma Mater. An increase in the
active membership in the Associa-
tion would mean a similar increase
in its usefulness.
CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT.
Some definite solution to the pres-
ent very trying student housing
problem is imperative. Needed bad-
ly also to serve as a community
center is either a Union Building,
or an adequate hotel, or a combina-
tion of the two. Provision should
also be made, in the opinion of
the AGGIE, for some campus in-
stitution in the nature of a mu-
seum, or records’ hall, that would
collect and preserve historic ma-
terial connected with the life of
Texas’ oldest state educational in-
stitution. Attention should be giv-
en to some definite plan that would
give the College Station commun-
ity an identity of a more gentle
and a more cultural nature than
it at present possesses.
THE LIBRARY. The library
must be improved and enlarged
before the College can hope to
take a very high place in the ranks
of leading educational institu-
tions.
THE LEGISLATURE. It is
hoped the legislature will recog-
nize the needs of the College and
will provide adequate financing
both for the Graduate School and
for faculty salary increases. Des-
perately needed along this line is
the realization on the part of the
legislature and the- citizenship of
Texas, that the A. & M. College
system is not only a school but is
an institution serving more people
of the state and developing more
wealth in the state, than any other
state institution. When that real-
ization arrives, the AGGIE be-
lieves that the A. & M. College in
its legislative program will not be
measured by the same yard-stick
as some other institutions that ex-
ist only for the purpose of educat-
ing boys and girls, however worthy
and successful these other insti-
tutions may be.
HOMER NORTON, and his
Athletic Department carry the
good wishes of all A. & M. men for
their continued success. Athletic
teams of which their followers may
be proud rather than champion-
ships won or lost, the AGGIE be-
lieves is the desire of most A. &
M. men.
MOST NEEDED, perhaps for
the continued development and
growth of the A. & M. College, is
a progressive, liberal, and open-
minded point of view regarding the
College on the part of both its ex-
students and its governing authori-
ties and faculty. If the institution
is to grow, it must change. Any
necesesary changes should not be
slowed or hampered by any reac-
tionary forces within or without.
A conservative liberalism on the
part of those charged with admin-
istering the institution, backed up
and aided by a cooperative atti-
tude from the school’s friends, will
play a leading part in making the
A. & M. College second to no in-
stitution of its character in the
United States.
John J. Hanrahan, ’36, is with
the Kaw Pipe Line Company and
is located at Russell, Kansas,
where he gets his mail at Box 641.
He extends best wishes to Comp-
any A, Engineers, of 1936.
George D. Comnaas, 35, is now
located at the Tyree Hotel of Bay-
town, Texas. George is with the
Humble Oil & Refining Company
and likes his work very much.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. “Pete” Rob-
ertson, Jr., ’34, spent Christmas
with Mrs. Robertson’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Bailey, of Col-
lege Station. Mr. and Mrs. Robert-
son left College for El Paso, where
they will make their home in the
future. “Pete” is with the Austin
Road Company of Dallas. They
have a big contract near El Paso,
calling for the building of a large
dam and irrigation canal.
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