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is going to do the punting, and better passer than southpaw Shock- mention some of the other fresh- FOOTBALL COMBINATION— (Continued from Page 1) huskies will develop into a capable conference performer. Right now Steele, Branson and Boyd look best to the rail-birds. The end positions are wide open, with veterans Johnie Morrow, Ran- kin Britt and Bill Seago due for plenty of competition. Although missing spring practice because of an injured shoulder, Morrow is ex- pected to return to the form that made him a sensation as a sopho- more and big Britt is steadily im- proving. Seago is the best pass snatcher on the squad but is weak will give you a backfield, but who how do you get that way leaving off a swell half-back like Bobby Nesrsta! And there’s a freshman recruit out there, Waleman Price by name, who looks like an even ey, who weighs 190, and who might even be a fair to middlin kicker. And “Corky” Steffens, squad-man | and Bill Audish, freshman, think they should get the call over full- back Bruno Schroeder, and maybe they will. g And how can you leave off “Red” Cecil, the fastest man ever to wear an Aggie football or any other kind of uniform? Or a sweet run- ning back like Bill Boyd, not to ‘men and squad-men recruits. Don’t get the idea Kyle Field is just so cluttered up with great backs that Norton can’t make up his mind who to play. The trouble is that most of the Cadet backs are specialist, or at least there are none of them who can do “Everything”. There’s not a real triple Threat back in the lot; and its adding a few more gray hairs to Norton’s head. But we'll let you in on a secret. By next September some of the boys might rate that triple-threat designation. Todd is doing lots of passing and kicking this fall and if he gets good enough he could] go a long way toward solving the “combination” ailment. Or if Price continues his sensational passing and brushes up on his kicking well enough to pass the exams, and can back up the line and block in the full-back post, HE might offer the solution. Shockey could do likewise with similar improve- ments. And a backfield of Schroeder, Steffins, Audish, and Joe Routt would pack lots of power. Yeah! that’s goofy; but that’s the way you'll get trying to solve that “Combination” trouble. Try it and see, but take a rest when you start mumbling to yourself or picking at the covers. Right now it looks like Steffens, 195, Schroeder, 195, or Audish, 188, are the best of the big power- house backs, with Schroeder and Steffens in the lead. Either Vitek or Rogers will usually be in the game to call signals from one half-back post. Todd, Cecil, Bill Boyd or Nesrsta will usually be found at the tail-back position, with Shockey, Proce, Nesrsta or Stef- fens at the other half. Norton is giving all the lads a chance and the development of any one of Roy M. Vick, Jr., ’35, has been transferred from Trinidad, Texas, to Waco, where he is still employ- ed by the Texas Power and Light Company and gets his mail at Box 644. Jack F. Doyle, 35, formerly with the architectural firm of Atkinson & Sanders, Bryan, Texas, has ac- cepted a position in the govern- mental architectural service at his old home, Brownwood. Ernest F. Scales, ’36, is associ- ated with the League Ranch at Benjamin, Texas. He is assistant manager. Prior to January 1 of the Soil Conservation Service and gets his mail at Box 24, Wolfe City, Texas. Perry Dannelly, ’32, has been a junior agricultural engineer with the Soil Conservation Service for the past two years and is at pre- sent located at Wolfe City, Texas. Herman F. Dieterich, ’13, is manager of the Dieterich Certified Farms at Garland, Texas. Frank C. “Little Tubby” Ehling- er, '13, is chief clerk to the Superintendent of the Dallas and Austin Divisions of the Southern Pacific Lines at Ennis, Texas. He has been with the Southern Paci- fic Lines for the past 24 years. His residence address is 506 W. Baylor, Ennis, Texas. Herbert Fisher, ’09, is assistant engineer for the Southern Pacific Railway Company and is located at Ennis, Texas. He has been with this railroad for the past 20 years. Peter W. Handley, ’19, is a salesman for the Handley Drug Store at Garland, Texas. W. M. “Red” Heath, ’20, is sec- tion foreman for the State High- way Department at Sulphur highway department for the past 10 years. W. W. “Goat” Hewitt, ’32, has been coach and a teacher in the Groesbeck High School at Groes- beck, Texas, for the past four years. “Pete” was a letterman in football in 1930, ’31, and ’32. John H. Ratcliff, ’34, is teach- ing school at Bowie High School at El Paso, Texas. passing line might “Set” the back- field combinations to general sa- tisfaction. And before we forget, Bobby Nesrsta may be the lad to do the booting. He got off a couple of beauties in the Thanks- giving Game at Austin last fall. March 10 will see the close of the 30 day spring session allowed under conference rules. Opening next fall against Manhattan in New York the Aggies will need to be in tip-top shape, and their fine practice this spring will go far to- ward giving them a running start next fall. Helpful also is the new conference regulation permitting practice to start on September 4, almost a week earlier than the past starting date of September several men along the kicking or 10. Springs. Heath has been with the Hiram Brofles '29 Quits Colorful Flying Over Yangtze-Kiang A bronzed, young man leaned easily against the wall of a building on one of Fort Worth’s busy down town streets one day recently, a puz- zled half-smile playing across his face. “Looks sort of funny now,” he broad—shouldered petition. The China National, with its line from Shanghai to Chung- king, and the Pacific-American Airlines, flying regularly from Shanghai to Canton, with a stop at Hong Kong, are doing a lot to- ward linking the country togeth- er. The marshy, flooded areas of China still defy railroad and high- way builders to a great extent, J. D. King, Jr., 28, is band di- rector and a high school teacher of Ennis High School, Ennis, Tex- as. His residence address is 609 North McKinney Street, Ennis. Lester F. “Les” Lawhon, ’33, is junior soil surveyor of the Soil Conservation Service located at Wolfe City, Texas. Walter W. Leach, 24, is with the Humble Oil and Refining Com- pany at Groesbeck, Texas. Martin McBride, Jr., ’36, is liv- ing at 310 Stonewall, Greenville, Texas. Cottonseed Breeders, at Garland, Texas. Mr. Watson has been oper- ating this firm for the past 30 Newton Avenue, Woodbury, New Jersey. Biles says he likes his work fine and is looking forward with much pleasure to the A. & M.- Manhattan game next fall in New York. Bernard P. Brown, 28, send in his Association dues. He gets his mail at Box 169, Port Arthur. Brown is secretary-treasurer of the A. & M. Club. Laddie J. Lesikar, ’28, is in business for himself doing electric contracting for the last four years in Palestine. Lesikar does any type of electric contracting within a radius of 100 miles of Palestine. a Theodore T. Carter, ’33, has changed his address from Marshall, Texas to Irvington, Alabama. Car- ter is anxious to see any of his old A. & M. friends who might be in his part of the country. John R. Haas, ’37, who gradu- ated on February 1 from A. & M. in chemical engineering, has ac- cepted a position with the Con- goleum-Nairn Corporation at New- ark, New Jersey. Elmer H. Gibson, 34, is on an active tour of duty with the U. S. Army and is stationed at CCC: Camp S. P. 54-T, Tyler, Texas. x N . this year, Scales was with the| . =. _. . : ah as 2 o on blocking and defensive play. : 2 5 $ said, indicating the hurrying lines ; . | He maintains offices at 1208 Syl- =a “Teff” Sikes, squad-man, and Luling Foundation, Luling, Texas. of traffic moving along, “after Charles B. Metorink van Avenue, Palestine. A = Bailey Timmerman, up from the otc B jp. | nearly three years in China where |OWner and operator of the: Mc- USTIN i “B” team, are showing some pro- ee oh J Li Too they drive on the left side of the gf Sen re Mare 107] ployd H. “Dusty” Helm, ’35 is BRIDGE COMPANY i = ise thi ing. Mimms, Dwyer, pls ac erin Lhe dL. B. streets.’ 1. don't believe PII trust] YY. “Yer, gnnis, lexas. bus, res)- ti icely "aft : DALLAS, TEXAS . puss bi #4 SH iy Office at Ennis, Texas. His home myself in a car—if I have to drive | Fence address is 806 N. Preston. Sa 8 Quel. — having CONTRACTORS - BUILDERS Ry uncan an mith are up from address is 506 W. Baylor Brnlsl . ; , g ag undergone an operation for appen- MANUFACTURERS E SE Tith foam. hut oll need sea : ) it—until I get kind of acclimated i co AU ey dicitis at Wheeler Memorial Hos- | | Roads - Bridges - Road Machinery § 3 soning. Joe Turner might later be John S. Bell, ’31 is with the gan; C Toe I. gine "18 NE g 2 pital at Tyler. “Dusty” is with - moved back from center to end. , pa B 1 Taser ) Cotipony ot It was Hiram Broiles, ’29, avia- oil gly. ee ompany, a OTIS; (the Soil Conservation Service and E Dissatisfied with last fall’s end Sulphur SFr iby p tor, lately of Shanghai, but now exas. gets his mail at 306 Federal Build- E play the Aggie coaches are giving u a : happy to be back in Texas and in : : . ing. ’ Bo this position plenty of attention : yh his home town, Ft. Worth. Since | Bart C. Pate, '11, is with Pate i, h € Agg. 4 el. an d by this spring and bearing down on H. A. Bo E Gi Se the fall of 1934 Broiles has been oh Pale his at bed A recent campus and Bryan I heii dl igh mom of th Bonham Cotton Mile Ming nap ships for “he SPIES Texas, and gis bis ll vitor” wae “Litrant Trai vy i and Morrow loon 2s ithe Sioriery, for the last 15 years and is a |; re a vi ide) 0 | in the fertilizer business for the Hetherington, : Puen Bre ON THE CAMPUS b! but Timmerman, Seago and Sikes : tion. He resigned recently to re- U. S. Army Air Corps. Hethering- K 3 » Soh past director of the Chamber of torn 30 the. States past 18 years. 4 5 will give them ample competition. E norce at Doha. a part piesl u o the States. ton was recently transferred from Offers You 4 b.. i Pe] . IY) J . . Shofield B k ; 4 E Combination Trouble dent of the Rotary Club, and a Kind of Lonesome. Ellis V. Scott, ’25, is chief pav- a to Cin 3 a, ; KL : i Textil : ing i igh-| 7. 1 4 , a ] B Norton will face the same trouble pas a iy . Jie “No particular reason . . . yes, #4 For I re oh Lieutenant Hetherington was for- Comfortable Rooms: 4 SR with his backs next fall that he. : : some unrest there, but not that | : ) "| merly employed by the Lawrence wm ; gy Has had Sines reaming todd M. is 920 North Main of that city. altogether,” he parried, “kind of His home address is Lancaster, | ocery Company of Bryan and Dining Room and 1 RL : Sagi a, lonesome. Lor the State. much as where he gets his mail at Box 271. d : ; . 4 Re selecting a combination that will| oo. 4 «Bil» Carothers, 26 a ne made many friends in this com- Lunch on . : : » “4% | anything else uess. i Roo! 5 gombine good dotensive play, block. is living at Sulphur Springs, A John M. Sheffield, ’22, is mana- Eni: RE ing, passing kicking and offensive| n, . “«pji’ is a director of the “T should say not . . . looking for | ger of the Thomas Furniture Com-| pW. + «pusty” Gr 120 é 1 ge power. Preshman Prank Woods Sulphur Springs Chamber of Com-|, job now, but not too quick. I|Pany at Sulphur Springs, Texas. |. 4 a Make It Yi 38 looks like the squad’s best kicker, J ’ ! * i : 3 is with the State Highway Depart- are our f fe : 4 Ker | merce. want to rest some. First vacation | Sheffield has been with this com-| =. Paris Teas and his rest ie along Fith Jock Cooper on EF I've had since I went over there.”|Pany for the past six years. His doa address iv 336 Lamar Ave Headquarters Ee Mills, Sugdmen. But Done Raymond B. Cleveland, ’27, is| American pilots are in demand |residence address is 427 College Ns 5 these hogs Re ho *% oe teaching vocational agriculture in |in the Chinese service, Broiles in- Street, Sulphur Springs. : i ge With some of & go OF jos a en | ire Garland Independent School| dicated. Most of the Chinese army bY A other phases of play are consider-| py. i: and gets his mail at Box flying instructors are Americans| D. L. Smith, 17, is a partner 3 a ed. : 46, Garland, Texas. or Italians. of Smith & Moncrief Hardware 3 . . . t ’ Dick Vitek and Dick Todd are : : Flying is no longer a novelty in| Company at Sulphur Springs, Tex- i fatily goriain io be ses ot Wince L. Connally, ’28, is a| China, he said. Passenger and mail | as. He gets his mail at Box 285, Be though Shick Rogers 13 4 i salesman for the Connally Seed ships have been flying on regular Sulphur Springs. : Ee Vitel plenty for the signa ee M81 Store at Sulphur Springs, Texas. |schedules now for seven years. FOR bi job. Adding Shockey for sind Commercial lines are doing a good| Ferris Watson, 01, is principle : ) ing and Schroeder for his plunging Reginald F. Creed, ’29, is with | business with practically no com- | owner of Ferris Watson & Sons, KOHLER PLUMBING FIXTURES years. William T. “Tommy” Wingo, 31, is living at 424 Church, Sulphur Springs, Texas. Allen C. “Doc” Wright, ’25, is Broiles observed. Flying Boats Broiles piloted the flying boats, following the picturesque Yang- tze-Kiang River along much of the Shanghai-Chungking route. The ships are piloted through four river gorges, the longest 25 miles, with walls of rock rising from 1,200 to 5,000 feet on each side. It’s the safest route over that par- ticular stretch of country. Broiles explained. The flying boats could settle down on the swift-moving river in case of a forced landing, but a land ship wouldn’t have a country. By air, the Shanghai- Chungking trip is negotiated in eight hours. It takes a boat 10 days to make it on the river. Broiles piled up 1,280 flying hours during one calendar year in China, the most ever flown by a pilot in China. Illness of a relief pilot made double duty necessary, so his average for the year was more than 100 hours a month. In this country pilots are limited to about 85 hours of flying each month. As for the Communist uprising and the Chinese-Japenese disputes, Broiles had little to say. Apparent- ly nobody is certain just where the country is headed, he observed. There’s no doubt but that China is rapidly becoming a more belliger- ent and powerful nation, he assert- ed, what with the Chinese army buying the best equipment avail- able, and crowding more and more men into the service. For the present Broiles is living at the home of his parents, 1506 Cooper St., Ft. Worth. At A. & M. he was captain of the 1928 base- ball team and a star outfielder. He was a member of the ‘Casual’ organization on the campus and received his degree in Agricultural Administration. He received his aviation training with the U. S. Air Corps at San Antonio and holds a commission as Lieutenant in the Air Corps reserve. Charles B. “Skeeter” Johnson, 25, is assistant agronomist and technician-in-charge of the Soil Conservation Service Camp located at Wolfe City, Texas and gets his mail at Box 248. chance in the rough and marshy estimator draftsmen for the South- ern Pacific Railway Company at Ennis, Texas. Wright has been with this company for the past 11 years. He recently sent in dues for the Association. William R. Brown, ’35, is travel- ing salesman for the Williamson Candy Company. Brown is cover- ing the entire state of Texas and is making his headquarters at 6107 Lindell, Dallas, Texas. He was a recent campus visitor. George Lesikar, ’28, has recently received orders from the govern- ment to report for three months at the Signal Corps School at Fort Momouth, New Jersey, beginning March 15. Lesikar made the high- est grade on competitive examina- tions of all reserve officers in the 8th Corps Area. W. E. “Willie” Langlotz, 27, is still with the Austin Bridge Com- pany, Dallas, and gets his mail at Box 1170. “Willie” is just up from a severe case of “flu”. J. SR S¢Corps Barnett™ Jr. 236, sailed early in -February on the Statendam to South America where he has accepted a position with the Standard Oil Company of Venezuela, Caripito, Venezuela. A student at A. & M., Barnett was a letterman in track in 1935 and a member of the crosscountry from 1933 to 1935. O. B. Magrill, ’35, who has been assistant county agent at Seguin, Texas, has been transferred to Leaky, Texas, as county agent. Ma- grill was a member of the Varsity football team during his cadet days. ' Ralph T. ‘Smittie” Smith, ’27, for the past 19 months has been in Arizona, where he has command of CCC Company 1849, Camp DG- 8-A, Hillside, Arizona. Smith says he has enjoyed very much keeping up with the Aggie football team this fall and winter. John L. 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