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JFPORY FODDER & Homer Norton’s Aggie football- ers report a great time on their trip to San Francisco and other western points. They closed out their season with a brilliant dis- play of offensive power and fi- nesse at Frisco, they returned for a stop of two days at Los Angeles, and they took in the Grand Canyon for good measure. The fine showing made in the Frisco game this fall will do much to crowd Kezar Stadium on the afternoon of October 8, next fall when the Cadets go back to play the University of Santa Clara. The Santa Clara Bronchos are one of the Coast’s big attractions and are undefeated this season. They played in the New Orleans Sugar Bowl last winter, beating L. S. U., and return this year for a return engagement. Santa Clara is one of the oldest schools on the Pacific Coast, enjoys a high academic standing, and the game next fall will mark the Aggies’ entrance into “Big Time” football on the Pacific Coast. Without taking any credit from Jim Benton, star Arkansas End who was awarded the Houston Post’s “Most Valuable Linesman” trophy this year, the AGGIE never- theless believes that Joe Routt was deprived of that honor by unreas- onable, selfish and indefensible voting by some of the sports writ- ters making the selection. No one need apologize for Ben- ton; his selection can be easily de- fended, and the AGGIE congratu- lates him and is happy that he has “been so highly honored. But take a look at the voting done by the following sports-writers, Flem Hall, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, George White, Dallas News, Jinx ‘Tucker, Waco- News-Tribune, Weldon Hart, Austin-American, W. | J. Lemke, Fayetteville, Ark., Tony in in linesmen and the seven 1 v valuable backs. versed, the first man named get- ting seven points, the last man on | the list one point. Four of these men chose Routt FIRST, giving him 28 points. TWO left him off altogether, and Ben- ton nosed him out 34-33. The point the Aggie makes is that the men who left Routt out of their first seven did so not thru any fair or unselfish reasoning. To say that ROUTT was not ONE of the seven most valuable linesmen in the league is to make a ridiculous and indefensible statement. Allowing for wide difference of opinion the selection of Benton Aldrich, Hale, Sprague, Boyd of Baylor, or Jones could be defended, perhaps, but that still leaves sev- enth place for Routt. And a pair of even seventh place mentions for All-American Routt would have given him the Most Valuable Linesman Trophy. Routt is not kicking. He has had enough football honors as things stand with All-American selection for two years, and the AGGIE is not kocking at the selection of Jim Benton for the Past Award. But here’s a hope that whoever the gentlemen were who failed to in- clude Routt in their list will for a long time look back on their snide action with a feeling of sin- cere shame. And the AGGIE seconds the sug- gestion of Jinx Tucker that in the future the votes of those making ‘this selection be made public and that a run-off be arranged between the two high men. Graduation will hit the Aggies hard next fall. Playing their last this fall were Joe Routt and Virgil Jones, guards, Roy Young, tackle, Joe Turner, center, Jim Shockey, Bob Nesrsta and Dick Vietk, backs, and all in the “Regulars” class. Also through are Bill Boyd, back. Bailey Drennan, guard, and Teff Sikes, end. Richard Haughton, Jr., ’37, J. C. Hughes, ’37, and Carlos Sierra, ’37, are all taking the student engi- neering course at the General Elec- tric Company. Haughton and Hugh- es started out in the Erie, Pa. plant and Sierra at Schenectady. Ketterson, Texas, A. & M. ‘and Scoring was Te-|m.. cones A. & M. football followers shed tears when they think that three fourths of the above collection of gridiron talent will not return to play for the Maroon and White next fall. The above lads were named on most of the All-Confer- ence teams this fall, with Routt going on to his second year of All- American recognition. Of the group only Dick Todd will be back next fall. Roy “Spanky” Young, 215 pound tackle who came from Port Arthur where he had no high school foot- AGGIE ALLSTAR GRIDSTERS Routt | ball experience, won his honors again this fall in spite of a series of injuries that plagued him most of the season. Todd will complete his eligibility in 1938. His perfor- mance this fall stamped him as the greatest running back in the Southwest. Routt and Young form one of the greatest guard combinations in the history of the conference. Only rarely does one team boast of a pair of men as capable at that po- sition as were these lads. Both are seniors. Virgil “Brahma’ Jones hails from Sweetwater, where he | was a great backfield star in his high school days. He was the best offensive guard in the conference this fall. The only Southwestern player ever named All-American for two successive years and the South- west’s outstanding linesman for those years is Joseph Eugene Routt. He came to A. & M. from Chapel Hill, weighs 193 pounds, and legend has it that Matty Bell discouraged his coming out for football on the grounds that he would never make a regular. Last fall Routt made most of the Yo un = All-American selections; this fall he has made 17 out of 18 selections. He will play in the East-West All- Star game in San Francisco on New Year’s Day. He has, of course, been an All-Conference selection for the past two years. He is ex- pected to receive his degree at Mid-term. Although the quartet above were the recipients of the Post- Season honors, equally jarring to future prospects for winning teams is the loss of Dick Vitek, Bob Nes- rsta, Jim Shockey, and Joe Turner, other cadet regulars of this fall. FOOTBALL FINAL STANDINGS S. W. Conference Games Team W SL" To Pet. Rice 52... Ae dope. 0 750 T..C. Usr. ins... Bony. 2.667 Ark. nugan.l 852.1. p83 A. & Mg. li... 2n2..2 .500 Baylor .i.....i....... S83 10. .500 S.M.U............. 20%4 0 .333 Texas ci..ao0. 0. 5-0 .167 Team neer in the Cw Pe oney Di- vision ot the Engineering Depart- ment of the Columbia Broadcasting System of New York City. His ad- dress is 80 Riverside Drive. “Hutch” is still being asked to relate his experiences with Ad- miral Byrd’s last arctic expedition. F. E. “Jocko” Roberts, ’31, is with the Resettlement Administra- tion, Carthage, Texas. James A. Adams, ’20, is field agent for the Bonholders Protec- tive Committee, and gets his mail at Box 307, Chillicothe, Missouri. Captain J. W. “Bill” Keienburg, Jr.,, ’23, is commanding officer, company 2834, CCC, Fort F. E. Warren, Wyoming. He has been on active duty since 1935. He re- ports seeing Tommie Goodrich, ’33; EY. “Fire Chief” Harpole, ’24; and James A. “Pat” Patterson, ’30, occasionally, all of them being on active duty in the same area. J. P. Zinn, ’36, is teaching com- mercial work in the Bastrop High School at Bastrop, Texas. Jule R. Smith, ’13, is with the Humble Oil & Refining Company at Houston. John W. Hull, ’35, is working for the Subterrex, and gets his mail at 1531 Richmand Road, Houston. S. A. Newman, 23, invites his A. & M. friends to come to see him at his new home 61 Woodhaven Drive, Mount Lebanom, Pittsburgh, Pa. John T. Hanway, 17, is super- intendent of wharves for the Har- ris County Houston Ship Channel, Navigation District, and is in charge of operations for the port of Houston wharves and docks. He is captain of Company G, 143rd Infantry, Texas National Guard. which organization is the prede- cessor of the Houston Life Guard which was organized in 1873. Names Scarce On Aggie Team Next Year; Twins Play Sports writers and Aggie fans are in for a lot of headaches next year when the Texas A and M .| College football team takes to the | field—that is providing scholastic a do not en wy is that in the a ut or is it | both; and am I seeing double or are the Rahns twin brothers ? The Rahn boys from Dayton are twins, Lehman, sophomore guard and brother Leon, freshman guard, may fill the spots to be vacated by Joe Routt and Virgil Jones. Or again by subing for each other, A and M may have a Rahn in the line sixty minutes of every game for the next four years, and it will always look like the same one. The brothers are the first twins to play at A and M since W. B. and T. B. Powers, of Beau- mont, played end on the freshman team in 1931. Herbert Smith, San Angelo, soph- omore end, will find two more of the Smith family on the varsity roster next year. Earl (Bama) of Frisco City, Ala., and a 1936 Navasota star, are the others. Both are backs. Jack Kimbrough, sophomore end from Haskell, may be on the re- ceiving end of passes from brother John who plays in the backfield and punts as well as passes. With Wallace, another brother, a stu- dent at A and M, eligible for var- sity play, this family could tie the Smiths for making things diffi- cult. Another brother, Bill, grad- uated from A and M in 1935 after being a star back for three years. Like the Spragues at S. M. U. there seems to be no dearth of Kim- broughs for the Aggies. Jo-Jo White, Amarillo, sopho- more end, may catch passes from Finis White, of Cleburne. Finis is playing fullback for the “Fish” and doing a lot of kicking and pass- ing. Two Duncans will be end pros- pects. Bill is a sophomore end from Henrietta and Bob, a fresh- man, is from Henderson. Both are six-footers and weight about 180 pounds. Clarence Hall, of Marshall, and Bob Hall, of Port Arthur, are in- cluded among the backfield pros- [fo pects on the “Fish” team. If all goes well they will be on the 1938 varsity squad to help confuse. Imagine two Halls or Smiths throwing passes to two Duncans, or to another Smith; or a White or a Kimbrough passing | to a White or a Kimbrough; or of Rahn doing a block while anoth two Thanks From Aggie Band Members of the A. & M. College Band through their leaders, ask the AGGIE to express the band’s apprecia- tion for all donations to the band fund. Starting last sum- mer band leaders inaugurat- ed a drive to secure suffi- cient money to enable the band fo Decom pany the foot- 3 ball - > is a fine, x & M. A otgont- zation are particularly an- xious that donors be assured that the funds they gave will not in any way be squan- dered or misused. Friends of Oscar Washam, ’15, will regret to know that he is con- fined in the Veterans’ Hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma, for an opera- tion. He hopes to be up and at ’em again within 60 days. Drop him a line. J. W. Vollentine, Jr., ’37, is an engineering apprentice for the Caterpillar Tractor Company and lives at 117 Jackson Court, Peoria, Illinois. C. M. Bowdn, ’30, is with the Southwestern Bell Telephone Com- pany and is now located at Mar- shall, Texas. He has not missed a Thanksgiving Game since 1927. W. M. Love, ’22, is county agent at Waxahachie. Robert W. Holly, ’37, is with the Federal Land Bank at Houston and lives at 2709 Wichita of that city. X. B. Cox, Jr., ’37, is assistant in agricultural conservation at Robert Lee, Texas. E. R. Pustejovsky, ’37, is as- sistant rural supervisor with the Farm Security Administration and gets his mail at Box 471, Nacog- doches, Texas. have an idea of the possible head- aches for scribes and fans next year. Although Joe Routt completes fanjily will have brother “Chip,” ineligible this year, in there to keep the name alive. Joe Boyd, sophomore tackle, will carry on bus Boyds, Bill “Dub” Boyd completing his playing this year. So far as can be seen now, there re no Youngs, Joneses, Nesrstas, 7iteks or Shockeys in sight to con- inue those names in Aggie lineups ext year. There are enough anf wi 1 this year, the Routt /Youngs and Joneses in school, how- ever, to make up three teams, and, who knows, some of them may Rahn makes a tackle, and you will | come out for the team next year. Dr. H. Byron Lackey, ’30, recently elected President of the Pecos Chamber of Commerce. Af- ter his graduation from A. & M. in 1930, Lackey attended dental school and has been practicing that profession in Pecos for several years. As a student at A. & M. he will be best remembered as a star baseball player, captaining the Ag- gie team in 1930 from his catchers position. He played professional baseball during several summers whole attending Dental College. Walter Ohlendorf, ’13, is farm- ing down in Mexico. His address is Ave. Matamoros 911 Pte., Tor- reon, Coah., Mexico. Lawrence E. “Satch” Lanford, ’36, has recently moved to Tobe, Colorado, where he has purchased a ranch. Lanford reports that he is quite busy getting started in the cattle business. C. M. Morgan, ’29, is with the State Highway Department and lives at 2309 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth. He is the happy fath- er of a baby only several months old. C. A. Chipley, 26, is with the State Highway Department at Strawn, Texas. Lawrence Ortolani, ’29, is with the State Highway Department at Cleburne, Texas. 0. E. Hass, ’37, is with the State Highway Department and gets his mail at 6101 Gaston Avenue, Dal- las. Lt. James M. Jones, ’35, is serv- ing with the 37th Attack Squadron at Langley Field, Virginia. He re- ports that W. A. Trembly, ’35, is flying with the United Air Line, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and that H. H. Whitfield, ’35, is with the Pan American Ail Lines at Coral Gab- les, Florida. The three of them went to Randolph Field together in June, ’35 after graduation and all completed the U. 8S. Flying course. was | Farmers Again Swamp Dons By Huge Score Coach Homer Norton’s Maroon and White Farmers ‘ploughed the San Francisco Dons into the turf at Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, by a 42-0 count. The game marked the second time in as many years that the Aggies had swamped the same team by large scores and the defeat was the worst the Dons had suffered in five years. For the first six minutes the Aggies softened up the Dons and them started their scoring field day. Todd returned a punt to the S. F. U. 45 and on the next play carried to the Don 23. Todd then danced through half a dozen would be tacklers to the one yard line from where Vitek crashed through for the score. Todd kicked the evtra point to lead 7-0. In the second period Todd gath- ered in a Don punt on their 32 yard line and after racing all over their end of the field stepped across the lince for the second touchdown. Todd added the extra point. Score Aggies 14-0. In the second half Todd and Mills worked the ball down to the Don one yard line and then Nesrsta, playing his last game, busted the line for the third ceunter. The Cadets used the air lane to work the ball down to the Don nine and then “Dub” Boyd came on the field and kicked a field goal from the sixteen yard stripe to make the score stand Aggies 23, Dons 0. At the start of the last quarter Britt covered a fumble on the Don 36 and then Mills passed to Vitek and when he stopped the Aggies had another score. : A few plays later Mills shot a E I¥ R Britt hii) the ake 42-0 in favor of the Cadets. At the last part of the game Joe Routt tried his luck in the back- field and made nine yards in two | tries. Dick Todd carried the ball 16 times for 107 yards or an av- erage of 6.7 yards per try. The game marked the last ap- pearance of Virgil Jones, Bill Boyd, Roy Young, Bob Nesrsta, Dick Vi- tek, Jim Shockey, Red Church and Drennan in an Aggie uniform. W. H. “Sam” Langford, ’27, is still living at Chowchilla, Califor- nia. Horace D. Reynolds, 27, is with the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, 1515 Santa Fe Building, Dallas. F. E. Flinn, ’22, is farming near Robstown, Txas, Rout 2. George H. Calleott, ’32, recent- ly moved from Sabinal to Kerr- ville, Texas. Jack R. Welhausen, ’35, gets his mail at 615 W. Henrietta Avenue, Kingsville. Fred W. Erhard, ’36, is southern field representative for the Feder- al Commission on Apprentice Training. He makes his headquar- ters in Austin and is living at 505 Texas Avenue. Edward B. Rice, ’29, is still with ‘the U. S. Geological Survey and located at Montgomery, Alabama. His office is in the Post Office Building. R. S. Crockett, 24, after 11 years in Port Arthur with the Gulf Oil Corporation was transferred by that company to th Philadel- phia Refinery. He lives at 844 Mason Avenue, Drexel Hill, Pa. J. S. Netherwood, ’11, Assistant Supt. Motive Power and En- gineering, C. S. Wilson, ’16, Chem- ist, Dave Singleton, ’20, and L. W. A. Baur, ’22, all with the South- ern Pacific Lines at Houston, as- sisted in the designing of the new high-speed, streamlined locomo- tives that are hauling the new light weight passenger train De Luxe, “The Sunbeam,” between Houston and Dallas. oN db 5 e, bth the i Lg Ee | ba 11 Ly over to the Dons just
