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Aggie football hopes have been
bolstered by the fine showing in
practice and in early games of
Sophomore Derace Moser, the 180
pound speedster from Stephenville
and Junior Bill Connatser, 170
pound halfback from Denison. Both
turned in some real kicking in the
Oklahoma Aggie game, as well as
doing some high-powered climax
running, long touchdown dashes.
If Joe Boyd, veteran Aggie tack-
le and All-Conference selection
last year, is not the best tackle
in the Southwest this fall, the sec-
tion will have several All-Ameri-
cans at that post. He’s looked bet-
ter than ever this year, losing
none of his savage, determined
type of play and at the same time
becoming smarter and cagier.
It can’t be long before the Uni-
versity of Texas is back among
the leaders of the conference in
football. The Steers again this fall
gathered in what looks like the]
best freshman crop in the league,
and more of them than almost
any two other teams. With ma-
terial coming in such quantity and
quality the Longhorns are bound
to be among the leaders in the
next five years.
Few previous years have seen
so wide a difference in the opin-
ion of the “Experts” as to the
standing of conference teams this
fall. The Aggies have been picked
to finish all the way from the top
to the cellar and the pickers have
been sports writers well posted up-
on Conference teams. T.C.U., Rice
The aerial view of the new] Publicity Dept., the Forestry Ser-
nearby. The only new dorm nam-
Keeping Up With The New Campus
can be seen from the picture.
and Arkansas, with S.M.U. and A.
& M. as dark horses, continue to| campus is shown above to enable
rate as the favorites. The Arkan-|A. & M. men to locate in their
sas prospects are almost depend-| minds the new dormitory group
condition of Kay|and other recent buildings. The
Eakin, one of the best backs in| driveway enters from the main
the league who was out most of | highway running EAST of the
last season with injuries. Without | campus, with the old road and the
him they are scarcely of champion- | railroads running on the west and
ship caliber. Lain and Cordill car-|in the background of the picture.
ry Rice’s hopes, although they will | The lower center building is the
be backed by the most impressive | new Administrative Building, hous-
array of man-power in the con-|ing the President, the Executive
Vice President, the Deans, the Re-
gistrar and the Fiscal offices, the
ent upon the
ference.
vice, the Soil Conservation office,
part of the Extension Service, Stu-
dent Publications, the Print Shop,
the A. & M. Ex-Students Associa-
tion and others.
Upper left is the new dormitory
group, housing 2600 students. At
the left hand end of the group
is the new mess hall, nestled in
between the last two dormitories
of the group. Old Quality Row, res-
idence street, is hidden in the
trees but runs parallel to the long
axis of the dormitory group and
ed is Kiest Hall, honoring Mr. E.
J. Kiest, Veteran Board Member
and friend of the college.
In the upper center can be seen
Kyle Field, with its stadium and
the Memorial Gymnasium. Upper
right shows the drill field, looking
much smaller than it seems to
drilling students. Just below the
drill field can be seen the old
Main Building, with its bronze
dome.
That the new dormitories are as
close to class rooms as the old
Other buildings shown clearly in
the immediate center group in-
clude left to right the Animal In-
dustries Building, the Animal Hus-
bandry Pavilion, the Agricultural
Bldg., and the Agricultural Engi-
neering Bldg.
The large group of white build-
ings in the upper left are the 14
cooperative houses located on the
campus. Smaller buildings in that
area are residences in College Park,
out toward the location of old
“Bohe” Hall.
T.C.U. is up among the favorites
because of the fine record the | this Ponies
year the
might
Neither
Frogs have turned in over the past | easily be title winners.
10 years. Matty Bell got fine re-
sults out of the material at hand
last fall, and if he does as well
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Texas nor Baylor is given much
shot at the title, but either will
be capable of trouncing any rival
they play. The Aggies are the big-
gest “IF” club in the conference.
Some of the brightest sopho-
mores in the history of the South-
west will show their wares this
fall. Presto Johnson at S.M.U.,
Jack Wilson at Baylor, Derace
Moser at A. & M., Don Suman at
Rice and Laydon and Crain at
Texas are sophomore backs ex-
pected to break into the lime-light
with large splashes. Adams, T.C.U.
tackle, and Fawcett, S.M.U. guard,
are being touted as great sopho-
more linesmen, along with sever-
al youngsters at Texas University.
It’s much harder for a sophomore
linesman to- star than a back.
Down in the shambles of that line
is where the old experience really
counts.
The Cadets left Monday night
for their San Francisco set-to a-
gainst Santa Clara on the night of
Oct. 6. The following week they
meet Villanova, undefeated for the
past two years, as the football fea-
ture of the Tyler Rose Festival.
Those two games will be a real
test. The T. C. U. game at Ft.
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Worth follows on October 21, and
5,000 cadets will be on hand to
help the Aggies in their first con-
ference encounter.
S. M. U. made the best showing
of any conference team in last
week’s games by holding Oklahoma
to a 7-7 tie at Norman. The Soon-
ers are rated as one of the Na-
tion’s better teams and the Mus-
tang showing ups their stock in
the Southwest Conference Sweep-
stakes. Arkansas furnished the
surprise with a poor showing a-
gainst Mississippi State while Tex-
as, Baylor and the Aggies beat
Florida, Southwestern and Centen-
ary about as doped. T.C.U.’s loss
to U. C. L. A. on the coast was
a mild upset but the Frogs looked
good in losing, and the Uclans were
a pretty tough team for an open-
ing game played at night a thou-
sand miles away. Rice was nosed
out by a smart Vanderbilt eleven
at Houston but also looked satis-
factory.
Net result of the games was to
raise S.M.U. stock, lower Arkan-
sas, and leave the other teams a-
bout as before.
R. L. “Soapy” Suggs, ’32, who
has been in Sumatra, N. E. I. for
some time plans to return to the
United States in the near future
and asks that his mail be forward-
ed to 256 Humble Building, Hous-
ton. Suggs has found his work in
Sumatra quite interesting and has
added many new experiences to
his new career.
Thos. C. Bain, 27, is industrial
engineer for the Community Nat-
ural Gas Company, Waco, Texas.
Bain is getting overly anxious for
the football season to open.
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1939 TEXAS AGGIE
FOOTBALL ROSTER
(Arranged by Positions)
No. Player
BACKS (19)
53 Abbott, John
33 Audish, William
49 Conatser, William
34 Force, Henry
27 Geer, Carl
28 Jeffrey, Marland
39 Kimbrough, John
42 Moser, Derace
45 Price, Walemon
30 Pugh, Marion
66 Robnett, Edward
26 Rogers, Cullen
Rothe, Joe
32 Smith, Earl
26 Spivey, Marshall
47 Thomason, James
36 White, Finis
70 Williams, George
48 Wood, Frank
ENDS (11)
Boyd, Hugh
68 Clark, Willard
69 Cowley, Harold
55 Henderson, Bill
56 Dawson, William
52 Duncan, William
40 Kimbrough, Jack
37 Miller, William
[29 Smith, Herbert
67 Sterling, James
46 White, Joe
57 Buchanan, Bill
TACKLES (9)
64 Boyd, Joe M.
35 Heimann, Chester
Joeris, Leonard
54 Pannell, Ernest
Parish, Joe
58 Routt, Chip
65 Ruby, Martin
63 Wesson, Euel
GUARDS (9)
Bates, Gus
Browder, Harris
44 Bucek, Roy
38 Henke, Charles
57 Henry, Pete
Motley, Zolus
50 Rahn, Leon
24 Reeves, John
43 Robnett, Marshall
CENTERS (4)
62 Hauser, Henry
59 Herman, Odell
Shelton, Howard
60 Vaughn, Tommie
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Brenham 193 58 1%
Denison 170; 5d. 2%
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Newcastle 180 6.0 1%
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Jacksboro 180 6.0 3
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Freer 135 6.1 3
Houston 190 6.4 3
Crockett 995 6.5 2:
Henrietta 185 6.2 1 5
Haskell 186 6.0 2
Brownwood 1835 6.1 3
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Amarillo 187". 6.0 1%
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Abilene 220 6.5 3
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Waco 200 6.3 3
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Fort Worth 195 "6.6 2
Groesbeck 193 541 3
Schulenburg 2005" 5.11 3
Kerrville 204 6.2 2%
Lake Charles, La. 198 6.0 3
Abilene 200 6.1 3
Dayton 185-- 5.10" 2
San Antonio 178.2 5.7 2
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the Purina Mills, Inc. and located
at San Benito, Texas, was award-
ed the William Sample award,
which to Purina men is the highest
distinction that can be bestowed
on one of its members. This award,
yearly, goes to the most outstand-
ing man in each sales division in
America from Purina’s General
Sales Manager, Mr. William Sam-
ple. Byrd rounded out this year
his 15th anniversary with the firm,
having been in Purina’s selling or-
ganization since his graduation.
R. G. Eargle, 24, is with the
American Steel and Wire Company
and lives at 2008 McGregor, Hous-
ton.
Cecil F. “Red” Boulden, ’20, re-
cently resigned from the Portland
Cement Association to become chief
engineer for the Railroad Division
of the Texas Railway Commission.
His headquarters will be at Austin.
He succeeds John G. Turney, ’27,
who resigned to become assistant
engineer to John M. Nagle, ’11,
director of public works for the
city of Houston.
Paul L. Martin, ’39, is with the
Seaboard Life Insurance Company
of Houston and is getting a start
and training by the W. Ford Mun-
nerlyn Agency with headquarters
at College Station.
The W. F. Munnerlyn Agency of
College Station has been leading
the entire Seaboard Life organiza-
tion during the past year. Head of
the agency is W. Ford Munenrlyn,
’26, and associated with him are:
H. E. Burgess, 29; 0. A. Donaho;
and Sid Loveless, ’38.
Floyd Thurman, ’30, for the past
three years teacher of vocational
agriculture at Kaufman, has re-
signed to attend Iowa State Col-
lege at Ames for graduate work.
Since 1934 Thurman has taught
at Scurry-Rosser, Lancaster, and
Kaufman. His vocational agricul-
ture students have compiled re-
markable records under his direc-
tion.
Lewis Dodson, ’25, the old caval-
ryman from Amarillo, was the
principal speaker at the regular
luncheon meeting of the Alamo A.
& M. Club in San Antonio on Aug-
ust 22. Dodson is sanitary engineer
for the State Vocational Education
Department. The San Antonio Club
meets on the second and fourth
Tuesdays at noon at the Milam
Cafeteria. :
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John W. Simmons, ’31, has been
transferred by the Texas Company
to Bahrein Island. His full address
is Bahrein Petroleum Company,
Box 11, Awali, Bahrein Island,
Persian Gulf. Johnnie was form-
erly with the Texas Company at
Port Arthur and is a past pres-
ident of the Port Arthur A. & M.
Club.
Jack C. Skains, ’29, is still with
the Shell Oil Company Incorporat-
ed of Houston, and is at present
located in South Louisiana, where
he has been for the past four
years. His mailing address is 711
Washington Street, Lafayette,
Louisiana. Going to work for the
Shell Company immediately after
graduation, Skains has seen ten
years of service with the company
and at present is connected with
the Engineering Section of the
Land Department.
B. P. Greenwade, ’28, is living at
319 Marshall Avenue, Port Arthur,
Texas, where he has been with the
State Highway Department, Bridge
Division, since May 1928. Green-
wade is now Junior Resident Engi-
neer on the Neches River Bridge,
near Port Arthur. He is married
and has one little girl.
J. W. Greenwade, Jr., ’30, is with
the Aetna Life Insurance Company
and is located at Dallas, where he
makes his home at 3513 Linden-
wood Avenue.
J. Ted Jones, ’35, reports that
he has been playing quite a lot of
baseball this summer. He is living
at 109 N. 8th St.,, Temple. He is
with the Santa Fe Railroad.
W. Sangster Bizzell, 22, P. O.
Box 730, New Orleans, Louisiana,
is manager of the Louisiana Rat-
ing and Fire Prevention Bureau.
O. K. Hoyle, ’34, who has been
* teaching vocational agriculture at
Decatur, has recently accepted a
similar position at Pilot Point,
Texas.