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A sideline observer of the after-
math of a great football season
can easily see why it becomes so
difficult, in fact to date impossi-
ble, for a championship team to re-
peat in the Southwest, or in the
nation. Banquets and radio ap-
pearances, autographs and personal
interviews, quotes and misquotes
in the press, rumors and wild
statements, pile up in unbeliev-
able quantities to harass both
players and coaches. Your oppo-
nents add fuel to the fire, figuring
to make it easier to topple you
from your pedestal next fall, and
they figure it right.
For example, the story that John
Kimbrough would enter the movies
to play in Westerns. “It’s a lot
of bunk,” protests Kimbrough, “I
can’t ride, I can’t shoot, I can’t
rope, I don’t have a horse, a big
hat or any boots,” and ends up
with “What the Hell, can’t I have
a minute to live my own life.”
Then there’s this reaction. An
Austin sports writer replied to the
report that John would enter the
movies with the statement that
when the university players got
thru with him next Thanksgiving
Day, he would not be in any shape
to consider a movie engagement.
The upshot of it all is to fire
your opponents to the highest de-
gree and to saturate your own boys
with football so that mental stale-
ness is just around the corner. And
mental staleness on a football team
is worse than physical staleness.
Big John Kimbrough and Joe
Boyd, All-Americans, have borne
the brunt of the unwelcome pub-
licity load, but every other player
on the Aggie team has also felt
the burden.
That’s the big reason the gam-
blers will give you long odds on
a team’s repeating.
“Hub” McQuillan’s Aggie basket-
ball team has been the big surprise
of the current court race. When
the cadets beat T. C. U. they were
congratulated upon winning their
only game of the season. But they
astonished the critics by trimming
both Baylor and S. M. U. at Col-
lege.
Captain Woody Varner of the
Aggie basketball team should be a
real leader, and is proving just
that. He is Colonel of the A. &
M. Cadet Corps in his off moments
and an Honor Student as well.
The outstanding sophomore
basketball players of the season
are Bill Henderson of the Aggies
and Kinney, the tree-top tall cen-
ter of the Rice Owls. Henderson
should make the greatest Aggie
cager in many years with a bit
more experience. Incidentally, he
is expected to play a lot of foot-
ball for the Aggies next fall as
well. He performed on the “B”
squad this past fall and gained
needed experience to go with his
195 pound, six foot four body and
his sensational pass-catching abil-
ity.
Orchids to North Carolina State
College for a courageous stand
behind the announcement that ath-
letic scholarships would be offered
at that institution. The sooner
every conference takes such a
stand, or REALLY does away with
subsidies to athletes, the sooner
the present hypocritical situation
will be remedied. There may be
no subsidization in the Eastern
Ivy League but that’s the only
major conference that can in any
truth make such a statement. And
this column just doesn’t happen
to know about the Ivy League.
This column does know of too
many cases where Texas boys have
been subsidized in other large con-
ferences to believe any of their
claims of purity. Those leagues
include the Big Ten, the Southern,
the Big Six, and the Pacific Coast.
It’s just too much to be asked to
believe that a poor Texas boy with
no money but with ample athletic
ability goes so far away from
home to “Work” his way thru
school because he “Loves” that
particular school.
It’s not a nice picture, but the
sooner it comes into the open and
the facts are openly faced and
admitted, the better it will be for
athletes, coaches and schools. Aft-
er all is there any difference in
paying a lad to play football and
in paying one to edit a school paper
or to play in the school band? And
it would be surprising to know
how much financial aid is given
band members in some schools.
RC. “Beau® Bell," ’3Y, former
Aggie baseball great and Major
League performer, has been traded
by the Detroit Tigers to the Cleve-
land Indians. He makes his winter
home at New Braunfels.
Aggie athletic authorities are
coming in for some gentle twitting
about next fall’s schedule on the
ground that it is too easy and that
it is approaching the Tennessee
standard. Most of this is because
a bid to meet Ohio State in Colum-
bus, Ohio, was declined. With U. C.
L. A. at Los Angeles, one of the
Coast’s strongest elevens, and six
conference games already sched-
uled it is difficult to see any basis
for saying the Cadets will play a
soft schedule. Chief reason for
turning down Ohio State was that
the team would have been forced
to play in Columbus one Saturday
and in Los Angeles the next. And
in spite of' what a few people seem
to believe, football players still
must pass their work and attend
classes to do so. The Aggies would
have been delighted had Ohio State
accepted their invitation to play
the game in Texas, at Dallas,
Houston, San Antonio or College
Station.
That Number One football team
of the Nation, or maybe that new
five year contract, really started
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OKLAHOMA CITY » NEW YORK,
Regional Director
G. C. Street, Jr., ’05
Gustavus C. Street, Jr., ’05, has
been appointed and confirmed Re-
gional Director of the Wage and
Hour Division, U. S. Department of
Labor, in the region embracing
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and
New Mexico. His headquarters
will be in the Wilson Building,
Dallas.
For the past six years, Mr.
Street has been with the Public
Works Administration in Texas in
an administrative capacity, his last
post being assistant regional di-
rector at Fort Worth. He is a
civil engineer by profession and
made his home in Houston for
many years, where he was presi-
dent of the Pyramid Steam Com-
pany and active in the construction
industry.
As a student at A. & M., Street
was a senior captain, a letterman
in football, and active in other
student affairs.
From his office in the Wilson
Building at Dallas, Mr. Street will
direct the activities of the Wage
and Hour inspectors in the South-
western Region. He is known as
an expert in labor relations mat-
ters.
Alfred H. Walker, ’36, has been
transferred as county agent for
the Extension Service from Culber-
son County to Menard County, with
headquarters at Menard, Texas.
Chas. B. Foster, Jr., 38, is mak-
ing his home at 836 Robinson
Place, Shreveport, Louisiana,
where he is working for the Water
and Sewerage Department of the
City of Shreveport, Louisiana as
an assistant engineer to the sup-
erintendent engineer.
E. L. Rasbury, ’20, is with the
Texas Company, Sales Department,
205 East 42nd Street, New York
City, N. Y., where he is assistant
district sales manager.
N. K. Quarles, ’39, gets his mail
at Route 4, Box 58, San Augustine,
Texas, where he is teaching voca-
tional agriculture at the Norwood
School in San Augustine County.
Thomas Orval McMillan, ’38, has
been appointed assistant county
agricultural agent for Lamar
County by the A. & M. Extension
Service. His headquarters will be
Paris, Texas.
Homer Norton on the road in a
big way. Last week was just a
sample of Norton’s weekly sched-
ules since the Sugar Bowl game.
He started with Gainesville on
Monday night, Big Spring Tuesday
night, Ft. Worth Wednesday, Dal-
las Thursday, Conroe Friday and
back for the big Aggie banquet at
College on Saturday night. At each
city he was the principal speaker,
usually at high school football ban-
quets, and also showed motion pic-
tures of the Sugar Bowl game.
Norton and Dutch Meyer of T.
C. U. have been chosen by the
Texas High School Coaches Asso-
ciation to stage that organizations
coaching school next summer. The
coaches of both the 1938 and the
1939 Number One teams should
prove a real inspiration to those
taking the course. With such men
available the high school associa-
tion is to be congratulated in using
them rather than men from the
North or East.
Jock Sutherland, famed Pitt
mentor, is finding that laying out
of coaching for a year is disas-
trous. Last year it was thought
he could have almost any open
coaching job he wanted. He's still
unemployed and last reports indi-
cate that he is anxiously striving
for the job at Washington TUni-
versity, St. Louis.
LAMENT OVER A. & M.S EXPANDING
ROLL-
CALL
I picked up the Directory of A. & M. men
On a desk of a friend used and worn,
And opened the pages to see who was within,
And looked for first place to see who had won.
But, alas, it was not the one I expected it to be,
For Abbott, A. J. seems to rank no more
And has been replaced by Aaron E.
I passed down a few mames and was hit to the core
For his name I did not find even out of place—
Could the College forget his
figure and face?
No, for his name used to stand at the top of this page
On each ramlist in the good
old days.
Now I turn to the back and look at the last
I hoped to see Zuber, N. D. the very last on file;
But again I am disappointed
and aghast,
For I find Zumwalt, Robert W.
A mere infant of the ’35 class.
Now all you old boys of ’18 to
J Yi
Will remember the ramlist which at supper was read,
Which was headed by Abbott, A. J.
And ended with good old Zuber, N. D.
—G. N. Stroman, ’17.
KGKO To Carry
Campus News Each
Tuesday Evening
Radio Station KGKO, located in
Fort Worth, has begun a new ser-
ies of programs designed for stu-
dent listeners of Texas colleges
and universities. The name of the
program is The Campus Editor
and is broadcast at 10:30 p. m.
each Tuesday on the frequency of
570 kilocycles.
The program consists of the
reading of items from college news-
paper by the Campus Editor, with
the acknowledgment of the paper
and the college or university.
The Battalion has received a let-
ter from Milton Atchison, the
KGKO Campus Editor, requesting
that the Aggies join up with the
eleven or more school papers al-
ready represented on the program
As this program should prove
quite interesting to everyone here
at Aggieland as well as the folks
at home, the station has been put
on The Battalion’s mailing list.
Sam T. Logan, ’34, is located at
Muleshoe, Texas, where he has
been transferred by the A. & M.
Extension Service as county agent
for Bailey County. He was formerly
located at Menard, Texas. :
J. Wiley Holmes, ’37, has been
appointed county agent for Cul-
berson County by the Extension
Service. His headquarters will be
Van Horn, Texas.
Burton D. Lee, ’32, is still with
the Texas Company, (Venezuela)
Ltd., Apartado 267, Caracas, Vene-
zuela, S. A. Burton said a few days
after he landed at Caracas, he was
on a bus and one of the passengers
recognized his class ring and intro-
duced himself at T. R. Warrick,
’30. He likes his work fine but is
already anticipating the time when
his States leave is effective in
July 1941 and he gets to come
back for a look at the campus.
James O. Woodman, ’31, has been
transferred from Tarrant County
to Dallas County as assistant
county agricultural agent, where
his headquarters will be Hall of
Records, Dallas, Texas.
Edwin R. Post, 37, has been
made rural supervisor, Farm Se-
curity ~~ Administration, Nacog-
doches. He was formerly assist-
ant county supervisor, F.S.A. at
San Augustine.
Young Aggies
Head Dallas
Football Stag
Four hundred members of the
Dallas A. & M. Club attended a
stag smoker at the Adolphus Hotel
last Friday night. The principal
speaker of the occasion was Felix
McKnight, ’32, Associated Press
sports writer.
Following MecKnight’s talk on
Southwestern Football and brief
remarks by Association Secretary
E. E. McQuillen, 20, motion pic-
tures of several of last fall’s foot-
ball games were shown.
The meeting was opened by J.
W. Williams, ’18, Dallas Club Pres-
ident, who then turned the program
over to A. J. Phillips, Jr., ’38, sec-
retary-treasurer of the club and
chairman of the Arrangements
Committee for the occasion.
A feature of the occasion was
the attendance of a large number
of younger A. & M. men. The Dallas
Club meets regularly each Friday
noon at the Adolphus Hotel and
plans to hold one night meeting
each month from now until sum-
mer.
Ernest F. Sebesta, ’39, gets his
mail at Box 358, Crosby, Texas,
where he is teaching vocational
agriculture.
Jack C. Webber, ’39, is living at
Odessa, Texas.
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