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
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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.
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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.
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