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LIBRARY CAMPUS RETURN If this paper is not POSTAGE called for return postage is guaranteed GUARANTEED by publisher. Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College VOL, XI COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, DECEMBER 1, 1938 NO. 18 AUSTIN JINX-INSPIRED TEXAS TEAM JOIN FORGES TO DEFEAT AGGIES 7-6 ON THANKSGIVING Old Man Jinx in all his fury, aided and abetted by an inspired Longhorn team, upset the dope and upheld the Jinx reputation on Thanksgiving afternoon at Austin when the Aggies lost the South- west’s annual football classic to Texas, 7 to 6. Thirty-five thousand spectators watched the great game and cheered Texas’ first victory of the year. The game belonged to Texas throughout most of the afternoon, the Aggie score coming in the final minute of play when a Longhorn fumble was recovered behind the Steer goal. Failure to kick the ex- tra point gave the victory to the Longhorns. That was the only real threat the Aggies made, while Texas thundered at the Cadet goal line several times. Brightest feature of the game for Aggie fans was the stubborn goal line defense of their team. Not once but several times the Cadet line successfully defended its goal from inside its own 10 yard line. After each thrust had been repulsed it seemed the Ag- gies would get going, but it was just not their day and the inspired Longhorns could not be denied. Texas scored early in the final quarter. From their own 46 they launched a running attack that was not halted until Puett drove over left tackle from the 3 yard line for the tally. Lawson kicked goal. In the final seconds of play Todd kicked to Texas 10 yard line. A run lost the Steers another five yards and then Olbrich recovered a Texas fumble over the goal line for a touchdown. Todd failed to make the point after touchdown and there the score remained. STATISTICS The starting line-lup: A. & M. Texas U. Brith :.........nn LE... ....A Roach Boyd conti. ibie LT ........q Williams Steffens ............ 1G... Rhodes Coston ..........x.. DIME, ates Baines Minnock ........... RG oe diilo nate Naiser Bransom............. BE... coe Esunas Schroeder .......... RE... Peterson Prices. cov nim QB. nen Forney Roddy rod Si LIfeto 2.0 Davis Rogerse.......%... Bt fF. Boyer Thomason .......... a Lawson Officials: Referee, Viner (Mis- souri); umpire, Minton (Indiana); (Continued on page 4) Tri-Cities Club Likes Aggie Band Sans Swing Music The Tri-Cities A. & M. Club, youngest of the many clubs, held its second meeting on Nov. 22 at the Humble Co. Community House in Baytown with 30 men present. After getting warmed up with a football discussion the group turn- ed its attention to the A. & M. Band, paying that campus organ- ization high tribute for its fine work during the fall season. The group passed a resolution com- mending the band for staying with its military formations and march music and hoping there would be no attempt made to emulate any of the “swing” tactics of some oth- er college bands. The Club will hold its next meeting sometime early in December and all A. & M. men in the Tri-Cities area are invited to attend the meeting. Al Saenger is president of the club which was just organized this fall. 50. GAL. CLUBS BOB WHITE, '24 IN GARAGE BIZ Robert F. “Bob” White, 24, re- cently named president of the Southern California-Los Angeles A. & M. Club, report that his club held a very successful dinner-dance on the evening preceding the A. & M.-S. M. U. game, November 4. Members of the club, some thirty in number, attended the Baylor- Loyola game at Los Angeles in a party and provided a real rooting section for Baylor. The club is very anxious to see the Texas Aggies play in Los Angeles. President White spent six years with the Shell Oil Company after leaving A. & M,, later entering the garage business in Los Angeles. In 1934 he acquired full interest. He and Mrs. White and their 7-year- »| old daughter recently built a beau- tiful home in Glendale, near Los Angeles. The daughter is a very talented little dancer. (Continued on page 4) Bob is a| offices Back To Post John W. Hawkins, ’93, veteran employee of the State Land Office, was appointed Chief Clerk of that office by Land Commissioner Elect, Bascom Giles, recently. Except for a period in the army, Mr. Hawkins was employed in the Land Office from 1903 to 1936. He was candi- date for the office in 1936, but was defeated by W. H. McDonald. For the past two years he has been practicing law in Austin. Mr. Hawkins is rated as being better acquainted with important funec- tions of the State Land Office than any living man. P. C. Franke, "22 Heads Ad Men Paul C. Franke, Jr., 22, of Hous- ton was elected 1939 president of the Southwestern Association of Advertising Agencies at that or- ganization’s annual meeting in Fort Worth. Among the directors of the organization elected was Victor LeMay, '25, of Fort Worth. President Franke is a member of the firm of Franke, Wilkinson, and Schiwetz of Houston. He was cadet colonel at A. & M. in 1922. He received his degree in textile engi- neering and later was with the cotton firm of Anderson and Clay- ton. He became editor of the firm’s publication, “The Acco Press”. Later the above advertising company was formed and has become one of the best known and most successful companies of its kind in the south- west. The third member of the firm is E. M. “Buck” Schiwetz, 20, widely known architect. The firm in the Cotton Exchange Building, Houston. Texas Freshmen | Eke Out Victory 7-6 Over Aggies Although they lost, 7-6, the Ag- gie Freshman football team proved a pleasant surprise in its annual battle with the University of Texas Freshmen, played in Austin on the afternoon before Thanksgiving. Doped to lose by a heavy score to what has been called the Long- horn’s greatest freshman squad, the young cadets led until late in the final period and gave a fine account of themselves. The Aggie youngsters scored first in the first quarter. A pass from Moser to Sterling from mid- field to the Texas 15 yard line, and on the first play from there Mar- shall Spivey shot off left tackle for the tally. Goal was missed and proved the final margin between the two teams. It was the first de- feat in two years for Aggie fresh- man teams. The big star of the afternoon for the winners, and the “difference” between the two teams was the speedy, shifty little Crain. Time and again he put the Longhorn Fish in scoring position by long punt returns and sweeping end runs. For the Aggies the play of Mo- ser, Dugger, Robnett and Spivey stood out in the backfield, with Holder, Simmons, Bucek, Sterling and Wesson doing yeoman service in the forward wall. Lineups: Texas starters: Howthorne and Flanagan, ends; Cohenour and Baker, tackles; Weedon and V. D. Basey, guards; Thayer, center; Martin, Doss, Crain, Patrick, backs. Subs: Harrell, Freeman, M. Basey, Goodwin, Mayes, Johnson, Peveto, Wood, Garrett. A. & M. starters: Sterling and Simmons, ends; Motley and Joeris, tackles; Bucek and Martin, guards; Holder, center; Moser, Spivey, Rob- nett, and Dugger, backs. Subs: Rogers, Henry, Bumpas, Clark, Me- Phail, Mansfield, Sowley, Wesson. A recent campus visitor was John W. “Frenchy” Persohn, ’19, from Niagara Falls. He’s one man who finds Niagara Falls no Honey- moon. He is superintendent there of the Carbide and Chemical Corp. big plant, and makes his home in Youngstown, N. Y. As a student at A. & M. he played first base on the baseball team. SIMANK ROMPS IN EASY WINNER BRIGGS SECOND ON SCORE: GUESS IN SIDE-LINE COACHES CONTEST “Andy” Rollins, Jr. To Take Exam For Rhodes Scholarship A. 'P. “Little Andy” Rollins, Jr., ’39, Civil Engineering senior at A. & M. and the son of A. P. Rol- lins, ’06, Dallas, is the only stu- dent from A. & M. who will enter this year’s competition for a Rhodes Scholarship. He will take the district examination in Hous- ton in December and if successful will then take the final exams cov- ering applicants from several southern states. Young Rollins is a Cadet Captain, president of the A. & M. Scholarship Honor Society and has made only one grade less than “A” during his previous three years at A. & M. “Just a chip off the old block,” say all the Rollins clan. HOUSTON CLUB'S PARTY T0 HONOR SOUAD-COACHES The Houston A. & M. Club will honor the entire Aggie football squad and its coaches at one of its famed “Whing Dilly” parties, to be held at 7 p. m. Monday, December 5. The party will be held at Dokey Hall, and is expected to draw an attendance of several hundred A. & M. men. A Dutch buffet dinner and various entertainment features have been planned by officers and members of the club. For the past decade the Houston Club has been entertaining the Ag- gie football squads at various types of parties, ranging from huge more or less formal affairs to strictly parties of the smoker variety. The Houston Club meets regularly each Monday noon on the mezzanine floor of the Rice Hotel and extends a cordial invitation to any visitors to attend these meetings. Officers of the club include George A. For- syth, ’17, president; Victor A. Bar- raco, ’15, vice president; M. E. Dealy, 25, secretary-treasures; and Charles R. Haile, ’12, sergeant at arms. Starting with a rush and show- ing crushing strength during the middle periods of the contest, K. E. Simank, ’30, Brenham, took un- disputed first place in the Texas Aggie Annual Side-Line Coaches Contest. For the good year 1938, hat victory makes Simank the King of all Side-Line Coaches. He scored a total of 107% points out of a possible 125, missing only the Rice- Oklahoma, the Rice-L. S. U., and the Thanksgiving games and get- ting a half score of 2% points out of the Baylor Aggie tie. He was 10 points ahead of his nearest com- petitors, one of the most convine- ing victories since the contest was started 10 years ago. Second place honors go to R. W. “Bob” Briggs, ’'17, Pharr, and a member of the College Board of Directors. Although he had plenty of company in his score of 97%, his guess as to the score of the Thanksgiving game was closest to the actual score, thus returning him winner of second place. First place winner Simank will have his choice for prize of a sub- scription for the remainder of the year to the student BATTALION or a copy of the 1939 LONGHORN issued next spring. Second place winner Briggs will receive the re- maining prize. Nosed out for second place, but showing fine work with scores of 97% was a group including T. G. Ratcliffe, 24, Houston; Rupert W. Green, ’33, Houston, Ralph E. Rinn, '33, Yoakum; John F. Schultz, 23, Dallas; and Joseph Avant, ’31; Vicksburg, Miss. Next in line with scores of 92% was a small group made up of Aaron Gensberg, ’33, Crane, P, D. Robertson, ’34, Dallas, E. B. Laugh- lin, ’32, Houston; and E. B. Keng, 37, San Angelo. Some 200 read- ers of the AGGIE entered the con- test. Morris Williamson, ’36, was re- cently transferred from Houston to Seymour, where he will have charge of two counties in that area for the Farm Security Admin- istration. He is the son of H. H. Williamson, ’11, Director of the A. & M. Extension Service. THERE WAS COLOR ALONG WITH TEXAS’ 7 TO 6 WIN OVER THE TEXAS AGGIES Left to right, top row, “Pass in . . the corps staff sees Aggies pass . . . “Slick” Rogers confers with the officials before Review” . the game . . . three yell leaders all in a row: Burns was also around. . . the Band goes fancy on its “TU” . Peterson and Rogers scrap over a pass ... Todd goes around end for the Aggies as Longhorns— Rhodes (13), Boyer (52), Peterson (15), Jackson (51), and Sweeney (30)—go after him . . . “Dough” Rollins and Homer Norton confer before the game—it’s bound to be before the game because they look happy.— From THE BATTALION.
