The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, October 01, 1946, Image 1

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FROM THE CAUFUS
REVIEWING STAND
The Sports Parade
. Charlie DeWare’s Aggie “B”
team will open its schedule against
the Rice “B” team at Kyle Field
on the afternoon of Oct. 4, after
Bergstrom Field cancelled out an
earlier game. The Rice-Aggie fra-
cas will be repeated in Houston on
Nov, 15th.
SUGGESTIONS RECEIVED DE-
PARTMENT RE FOOTBALL
TICKET PROBLEM: It is open
season on suggestions regarding
the distribution of football tickets,
particularly for the Thanksgiving
game. Some suggestions already
received. Limit sale to two ducats
to each Ex-Student; this perhaps
will be done next year, but offers
no real solution beyond distribut-
ing the tickets more widely. Many
will object as it would eliminate
attendance of children, especially
sons. . . . Play TWO games each
year between A. & M. and Texas,
one at College and one at Austin;
proponents point out this is done
in other sports, and was done by
the two schools back in the old
days. . . . Move the game to the
Cotton Bowl: in Dallas. . . . Com-
plete the south end of the Aggie
stadium, which would add thous-
ands of additional END seats that
no one seems happy to receive . . .
Double-deck present stadium on
side, no financial figures as to cost,
ete., available, . . . Promote the
sale of Season Tickets and give
season ticket purchasers first
choice; proponents point out that
much of the football ticket trouble
lies in the fact that EVERYBODY
wants to see the Texas game and
too few want to see the Arkansas
and other games at Kyle Field.
Season tickets would put fans in
the stadium for ALL home games
and enable Aggies to bring top
non-conference games to Kyle
Field. Topping off the suggestions
is the one from some engineer to
put the playing field on a revolv-
ing table, revolve it slowly so
EVERYBODY would be on the
50 yard line at some time.
In the words of Senator Clag-
horn, “That football ticket problem
is NO joke, son”. Perhaps none of
the above ideas are practical or
advisable, but embattled Homer
Norton and Athletic Business Man-
ager Pink Downs are sincere when
‘they say that they’ll build a monu-
ment to anyone who can suggest
a real solution. And the Association
of Former Students would doubt-
less join them.
Oh, Yes! We almost forgot the
suggestion that the game be played
in some valley where any size
crowd could stand, sit or lie on
the surrounding hillside. “Wouldn't
make any difference,” he wrote,
“Whether you had 10,000 or a half
million spectators, and you
wouldn’t need any ushers.”
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS the
ticket matter is a very real prob-
lem; one that deeply concerns
College authorities, athletic coun-
cil, athletic officials and the Asso-
ciation of Former Students. Too
many good friends each year are
made unhappy by not getting any
seats to certain games, or over the
location of the seats they do get.
This column doesn’t mean to be-
little ANY suggestions for im-
provement and hopes they will con-
tinue to be made. Somehow, some
day, some one may hit on the idea
that would turn the trick or at
least improve the present situation.
Perhaps this is the place and
time to present the thoughts of
one veteran Aggie football fan,
a man whose long record of sup-
port of athletics the College and
the Ex-Student Association attest
to his deep interest and loyalty.
LAST FALL, when ticket matters
were not half as bad as they have
been this year, he wrote, “In my
opinion the Ex-Student Associa-
tion should divorce itself COM-
PLETELY from ticket distribu-
tion, even to the extent of not
permitting its lists and addresses
to be used in sending out ticket
order blanks. For a big game
at Kyle Field the Athletic Dept.
has only about 2,000 seats be-
tween the 50 and the goal lines
for sale to Ex-Students. They
have only 3500 in all and every-
one, I think, will agree that mem-
bers of the football squad and the
Faculty should be allowed the
other 1500. That means that we
are holding out to 15,000 A. &
M. men the HOPE, or the IDEA,
that they are going to get good
seats. It just can’t be done and
everybody is unhappy. I have
just tried to get tickets for the
World Series and had my check
returned. I didn’t get mad about
it, but if they had sent me an
order blank and then returned my
money I would have felt that I
had been hornswoggled somehow
or other. — What's more, every
year the football ticket deal will
GET WORSE because the Ex-Stu-
dent numbers increase. Every
time we add a thousand Ex-Stu-
dents to our rolls we make that
many more men THINK they are
going to get good seats, when they
know if they study the ticket mat-
ter that the great majority just
can’t be seated in the few good
seats that are available. — The
TEXAS AGGIE each year ex-
plains about how the other team
gets half the seats, how the stu-
dent body takes half our remain-
ing seats on the side and why
there are so few for Ex-Students,
but the explanation doesn’t seem
to ‘take’.—So, in my opinion, I
think the Association, and we
& M. men ourselves, would be
better off if the Athletic Depart-
ment just started selling tickets
on a first come-first served basis
to everybody. Then if we did not
get tickets, or if we didn’t like
the location of the tickets we did
get, maybe we wouldn’t blame the
Association or the Athletic De-
partment for something they can’t
help anyhow.”
BACK TO H A.P. PIER
THOUGHTS, take a gander at one
Clarence “Cotton” Howell, 190
pound Aggie end from Nacogdo-
ches. He has the makings of the
greatest pass receiver in South-
west Conference history. He
can not only snag them with
the best, but he is so clever
with his feints against a de-
fensive man that you'll miss the
artistry if you don’t watch closely.
Fact of the matter at this time
is that there is no passer on the
Aggie squad clever enough to
match Howell and he often fools
his own thrower. If the passers
can become as clever as Howell
it will be something to watch as
a thing of football beauty. Aggie
end play this fall will be the best
since 1939 when Jim Sterling and
the late Herbie Smith were so
good. Behind Howell are the veter-
Norton Higgins, letterman
an
Charley Wright (yes he’s from
Beaumont, Mr. Babcock), Marion
Settegast, son of tackle Marion
Settegast, 17, and Morton Shefts
who plays either end or tackle.
This Wright is coming fast and
could be a starter if he keeps im-
proving. All the above are big men
and rugged. With the exception of
Higgins they all have three years
eligibility remaining and Higgins
has another year after this one.
Scooter Yeargain, senior, and a
pair of promising freshmen, Merl
Porkop, 190, Bastrop, and Wray
Whittaker, 190, Houston, complete
the A team array of ends, plus
letterman Floyd Hand, 175, up
from the B team.
“Burbank of the Wheat Field”
The award of a $2500 Distin-
guished Service prize by “Reader’s
Digest” recently spotlighted the
outstanding contribution of Edgar
S. McFadden of the Texas A. &
M. Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion and the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. McFadden is an
agronomist in cereal crops and
diseases and has been at A. & M.
since 1935.
The $2500 ‘“Reader’s Digest”
award was announced in that pub-
lication in September, together
with a story on McFadden’s thirty-
year struggle to develop disease-
resistant wheat. Title of the article
was “Burbank of the Wheat
Field.”
Research begun by McFadden in
1916 while still a student at South
Dakota State College “has added
hundreds of millions of dollars
to our national wealth. . . . possi-
bly twenty-five million people who
would otherwise be dead or dying
of starvation are alive and eating
because of this man’s work”, de-
clared the article.
McFadden developed a cross
between Yaroslav emmer, a tough,
fibrous, worthless feed wheat
which was not attacked by stem
rust, and Marquis, a righly popular
bread wheat, but not rust resis-
tant. McFadden named his product
Hope after eight years of research.
The Hope wheat was resistant to
diseases, but produced low yields.
It could, however, be crossed with
high-yielding bread wheats, a pos-
sibility previously scoffed at by
other plant breeders. By the out-
break of World War II, a host
of Hope derivatives—grandchildren
of McFadden’s original cross —
began crowding older varieties
out of the wheat fields.
One of the Hope crosses, Austin
wheat, was planted on a million
acres in Texas, much of it on land
that could never produce wheat
before because of the rust pesti-
lence. Another Hope derivative
took over almost all of the Califor-
nia wheat belt. Fifteen million
acres are now planted to Hope
grandchildren in the north.
For all the millions of dollars
he put in the pockets of American
farmers, McFadden profited not
one penny beyond his salary until
his great work was recognized by
the “Reader’s Digest” and he re-
ceived the $2500 award. McFadden
and his family live at College Sta-
tion. He is continuing his work
and feels that eventually the rust
problem might be whipped once
and for all. Were Texas planted
to rust-resistant wheat, the migra-
tory spores which cause the dis-
ease would have no place to spend
the winter and would be destroyed.
That is the point and the victory
over rust that McFadden and
other plant breeders are working
toward.
Twenty Five Years Ago in the Texas Aggie
(Taken from Texas
The L. S. U. “Tigers” won a 6-0
victory over the Aggies at Baton
Rouge. . . . A brilliant Bryan High
School football team beat the Ag-
gie Freshmen 3-0. . . . The Uni-
versity of Texas announced that
football at that college had finally
become self-supporting. . . . The
Aggies beat S. M. U. 13-0 at Fair
Park in Dallas with the great Ag-
gie Band of 50 pieces proving a
sensation. It was a “wide open”
game, S. M. U. attempting seven
passes with two completions. The
Aggie files of 1921)
Aggies threw three passes with no
completions. Morris and Pinson
scored the T. D.’s.
Dan F. Rugel, ’12, is with the
Dallas National Bank. . . . Presi-
dent W. B. Bizzell returns from a
trip to Washington. . . . Stock
Judges Johnny Carlisle, O. D. Din-
widdle, Fred Hale, W. S. Foster,
H. L. Atkins, W. L. Knapp, and
W. M. Love spent a practice-judg-
ing week at the Texas State Fair
in Dallas under the direction of
A. |organization’s recent convention at
Coach W. L. Stangel.
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THE TEXAS AGGIE
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VOLUME XIII
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1946
NUMBER 14
“Yea-n-a-a, Gig em, Aggies!
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These are the fellows who keep the Twelfth Man yelling in unison. From left to right: Bill
Beck, veteran yell leader; Dutch Hartman, junior; Bill Rosser, senior; Asa Holleman, junior; and E. C.
Kobs, senior.
Giesecke Named Texas Legion Head
Urges A. & M. Veterans to Participate
Bertram E. Giesecke, 11, Austin,
was unanimously elected Com-
mander of the Department of
Texas American Legion at that
Galveston, Never in the history of
the Texas Department has a candi-
date for Commander been unani-
mously chosen.
A veteran of World War I, Gie-
secke has been active in Legion
affairs for many years. He twice
served as Commander of his home
post at Austin and since 1939 has
been a member of the National
Bertram E. Giesecke, "11, Comdr.
Dept. of Texas American Legion
Conventions Committee of the
American Legion and is at pres-
ent a member of the National Re-
solutions Assignment Committee
of the American Legion.
The son of Dr. F. E. “Pal” Gie-
secke, ’86, New Braunfels, for
many, many years a member of the
faculty of the College, Giesecke
graduated from A. & M. in 1911
and then from the University of
Texas in 1913. He has for many
years followed the profession of
architecture. He is senior member
of the firm of Giesecke, Kuehne
and Brooks, Austin. He and Mrs.
Giesecke and their two children
reside in that city. He is President
of the Texas Society.of Architects
and active in other architectural
and civic affairs.
In a special message to A. & M.
men, Giesecke writes, “I particular-
ly hope that more A. & M. men
will join and become active in
American Legion affairs. The Le-
gion has a definite influence in
American life and in local and
state affairs. That influence must
be constructive. The Legion needs
fine leadership. I feel that it is
the duty of all veterans, and par-
ticularly those who have had the
advantage of training and educa-
tion, to join the Legion and to
help us in working along construc-
tive lines. I urge A. & M. war
veterans to become members of the
Legion, to participate in the ac-
tivities of their local posts, and
to take their proper place in Le-
gion affairs.”
Giesecke is the second A. & M.
man to be elected State Command-
er, the other being H. Miller Ains-
worth, ’19, Luling, who served a
few years ago. The Texas Depart-
ment has had a total of twenty-
eight Commanders. Giesecke’s Aus-
tin address is 504 W. 33rd Street.
ST. LOUIS
The fall activities of the St.
Louis A. & M. Club opened with
a meeting on September 10, at
which time Vice President R. A.
McBride, 54, 265 So. Ninth St.
Wood River, Ill, succeeded E. E.
“Gene” Ballard, '12, as President
of the Club. Gene recently resigned
his position with the National
Bearing Division, American Brake
Shoe, Co., to become Chief Design
and Installation Engineer for Les-
ter B. Knight & Associates, Con-
sulting Foundry Engineers, 120
South LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill.
Jack Oliver, ’41, Club Secretary-
Treasurer, has announced a meet-
ing for the second Tuesday in
October, at which time a Vice
President will be elected. * "
HOUSTON WHING-DING
The largest Houston Club Stag
party ever held was staged on the
evening of Sept. 13 with some 600
men present. A delicious buffet
dinner was served. The program
featured musical numbers and
talks by members of the Aggie
coaching staff headed by Coach
Norton. Al Saenger, ’32, served
as master of ceremonies. Jack
Pink ’27, headed the general ar-
rangements committee. Regular
meetings of the club are held
each Monday noon at the Rice
Hotel.
The Placement Office
Listed below are some of the
recent calls received by the Col-
lege Placement Office. That of-
fice was recently re-established
with headquarters in the new Ad-
ministration Building. Mr. W. R.
Horsley and Lucian M. Morgan,
’35, are in charge.
Anyone interested in any of the
positions below or in additional
consultation with the Placement
Office is invited to write direct
to that office.
1. Men qualified for agricultur-
al extension work. Needed at
present are information specialist
(Editor), an agronomist, a soil
specialist, agricultural engineer,
agricultural economist and a few
County Agents. Also needed are
assistant agents for 4-H Club
work and one trained in entomol-
ogy. Salaries run from $2800 to
$3600.
2. A man qualified as an agri-
cultural reporter for a large radio
station.
3. Man as dairy plant foreman
in New Mexico.
4. Poultry Husbandry major to
operate a ranch.
5. Accountants and traveling
auditors with a chain of hotels.
6. Chemists and engineers with
a rubber manufacturer.
7. Accountant for a building
material contractor,
8. Men to learn casualty insur-
ance business. This includes a
training program.
9. Accountants for an oil com-
pany.
10. Young civil engineers for
heavy field work with an oil pipe-
line company. Also have other
calls for civil engineers from ma-
jor oil company.
11. Young civil engineers for
structural design and manufactur-
ing work in the oil field equip-
ment business.
12. Men now in responsible re-
search positions, ages 30-37, cap-
able of assuming personal respon-
sibility for the direction of re-
search teams engaged in the solu-
tion of highly technical problems.
Require two physicists, two physi-
cal chemists, two for ceramics and
two for metallurgy, all with PH.D.
degrees. Also two mechanical and
electrical engineers with B. S. plus
considerable experience. Salaries
run from $6000 to $10,000 per
year.
13. City Manager for medium
size west central Texas city.
14. Young electrical and mech-
anical engineers for petroleum re-
fining company.
15. Mechanical, chemical and
electrical engineers and draftsmen
for both junior and senior classi-
fication with manufacturer of air-
craft landing gear, tools and other
pneumatic equipment.
16. Electrical, chemical or me-
chanical engineers for service with
a fire prevention engineering or-
ganization.
17. Mechanical, electrical and
petroleum engineers for service
with the Naval Experiment Sta-
tion.
18. Architects for high class-
ification jobs in federal service in
the southwest. Salary $4900.
19. Engineers with high classi-
fication for federal work in the
southwest. Requires experience
similar to that of an Army post
engineer. Salary $4900.
ANYONE INTERESTED
WRITE THE COLLEGE PLACE-
MENT OFFICE, COLLEGE STA-
TION.
1947s SWEETEST LETTER
“Have broken right arm. Am
allowed very limited writing
each day. Today’s quota used in
writing check for Development
Fund and regret it could not
have been larger.”
Seley E. Schaefer, ’13
Box 93
Natalia, Texas
Horsley and Morgan
Now In Charge of
Placement Office
Reorganization of the College
Placement Office has been effected,
and the Office moved back to the
new Administration Building from
Goodwin Hall. Wendell R. Horsley
and Lucian Morgan, ’35, are in
charge of the new office and its
program.
A. & M. men will recall that the
first central Placement Office for
the College was inaugurated by
the Association of Former Stu-
dents, under whose direction and
financing it operated for several
years before the war. When the
war came, the Office was taken
over by the College, but under war
conditions found its work inter-
rupted. It is now back on firm
footing, however, and its services
are available to men secking em-
ployment and to employers seeking
men. Although a College office,
the placement program will work
in close harmony and cooperation
with the Association of Former
Students and with A. & M. clubs.
Both Horsley and Morgan are
thoroughly experienced in place-
ment work.
“Dear Mom”
Recently published is a compila-
tion of the private letters of Lieu-
tenant John G. Ellzey, ’41, to his
mother, Mrs. Belle Green Ellzey,
402 East Prairie, Cuero. Lieutenant
Ellzey died in action in France in
1944. Title of the book is “Dear
Mom.”
Mrs. Ellzey’s book is a tribute to
her son and to the thousands of
other Americans killed in World
War II. It has received splendid
reviews from the critics. It was
published by the Alan F. Pater
Company of Newburgh, New York,
and sells for $2.00.
FT. WORTH STAG
The Ft. Worth Club held a foot-
ball stag party on the evening of
Sept. 17 at the Westbrook Hotel.
Following a buffet dinner the pro-
gram was given under the direc-
tion of football “Experts” Stan-
ley J. “Punk” Baker, ’27, and O.
N. “Pos” Yeary, 27. Baker qual-
ified by being Ex-Student Repre-
sentative on the Aggie Athletic
Council, while Yeary qualified as
one of the busiest football offi-
cials in the state. Herbert Spreen,
22, served as Master-of-Ceremon-
ies. Club President H. E. “Buck”
Cunningham, ’32, delivered atten-
dance prizes,
The Ft. Worth Club meets each
Monday noon at the Hotel Texas
Den, and extends a cordial invi-
tation to visitors and to Ft. Worth
A. & M. men to be present.
ATHLETIC COMMITTEES
MEET AT COLLEGE
The annual meeting of A. & M.
Club Athletic committeemen was
held at College on September 21,
following the opening football
game, Tyree L. Bell, ’13, Dallas,
Chairman of the general Athletic
Committee of the Association, op-
ened the session and turned the
meeting and program over to
Coach Homer Norton and mem-
bers of his staff. The group en-
joyed a three-hour discussion of
the athletic program and how A.
& M. clubs and A. & M. men
might assist. Representatives were
present from the following clubs:
Washington County, Lufkin, Waco,
Robertson County, Bell County,
Milam County, Montague County,
Grayson County, Fort Worth,
Houston, Eastland, Coleman Coun-
ty, Brazos County, Stamford, Ty-
ler, Deep East Texas, Port Ar-
thur, Wharton-Jackson Counties,
San Antonio, Triple M, Wichita
Falls, Dallas, Shreveport, Yoakum
and Beaumont. i
away from the Texas Tech fray at
campaign.
As the conference now stacks
teams.
AGGIES 47 - EAGLES 0
Use of the punt as an offensive
weapon and a parade of all sixty-
one members of the A squad fea-
tured the opening Aggie football
game at Kyle Field with the North
Texas Teachers going down by a
47 to 0 count. Outside of the
punt department there was little
shown by the Aggies, with Coach
Norton keeping most of his of-
fense under wraps.
The punt was used at both ends,
on the kicking and the returning.
Barney Welch, who a year ago
was with General Patton’s Third
Army in Europe, provided the
kicking thrills with booming punts
sailing out of bounds on the
Teacher’s 10, 5, 6, and one foot
lines. He quick-kicked once for
63 yards.
Punt returns were even more
sensational. Buryl Baty and Mann
Scott collaborated on the longest
via a backward pass that brought
a punt back for 85 yards and a
T. D. Marion Flanagan returned
one sixty yards for a touch and
Leo Daniels duplicated for 57
yards. Welch tallied three times
from scrimmage and did some
fancy punt returning himself. Dev-
astating downfield blocking made
the long returns possible.
AGGIE LINE TOUGH
The Aggie forward wall was
stout on defense, setting the Ea-
gles back for a net loss of three
yards on running plays. Aggie
end play for the day was disap-
pointing, practically all the Eagle
gains coming on delayed plays
that fooled the Cadet wings badly.
At that, North Texas threatened
to score only once, after a long
pass completion inside the 10.
Every member of the Aggie
squad in uniform for the game
his football wares. The constant
stream of men slowed down the
Aggie offense and prevented the
score from being larger.
CADET CORPS MARCHES
An innovation reminiscent of
West Point and Annapolis was the
marching into the game of the
Aggie Cadet Corps, led by the big
222 man Aggie band. The cadets
marched into the stadium, circled
the stands and then into their
seats.
CHICAGO ELECTS
The Chicago, Ill., A. & M. Club
met on September 6 and elected
Paul Huey, ’25, President and J.
Pat Casey Jr., ’40, Secretary-Treas-
urer. Paul is Western Manager for
the Progessive Farmer, Room 2050
Daily News Bldg., and Pat is with
the Crane Co. Research Laborator-
ies, 836 South Michigan Ave. Re-
tiring officers were: President,
Troy P. Wakefield, ’38; and Sec.,
Capt. Raymond T. Hander, ’38.
The meeting was designated as
“guest night” and the group was
privileged to have as their guest,
Mr. Ivan Willis, Assistant to the
Vice President of Industrial Rela-
tions, International Harvester Com-
pany. The Club plans to have some
outstanding man attend each meet-
ing for the coming year. :
ALAMO ENTERTAINS
Officers of the Alamo A. & M.
Club of San Antonio entertained
members of the College Board of
Directors with a luncheon in that
city on Sept. 28, at the conclusion
of a meeting there by the College
Board. Other guests included San
Antonio Directors of the Associa-
tion of Former Students, Presi-
dent C. M. Gaines of the Associa-
tion, President Gibb Gilchrist and
other College officials.
The Alamo Club is holding a
series of evening meetings this
fall for those unable to attend
the club’s regular weekly lunch-
eons. The first night meeting was
held October 3 at the Menger Ho-
tel. The regular luncheon meet-
ings are held every Monday noon
at the Menger.
MR. ANONYMOUS REPLIES
— AND ITS OK BY US
The previous issue of the Ag-
gie reported receipt of a ten
dollar bill for the Development
Fund from an anonymous donor
who was thought to have just
forgotten to identify himself.
In reply to the little note in the
Aggie Mr. Anonymous writes,
“Thanks for the write-up in the
Texas Aggie. Made me feel
good. Here’s another bill. I
want to help when I can, but
I like to do it this way.” — Our
thanks TO YOU, Mr. Anony-
mous. We will list your gift
under that name, and are happy
to do so. (Now who in heck do
you reckon that is?)
was given an opportunity to show |!
Aggie Grid Stock Drops
After Texas Tech Defeat
October not only brought chilly, rainy weather to Texas, it brought
a cold, gray dawn to Aggie football hopes when the smoke rolled
San Antonio. That 6-0 defeat, and
the impotency of the Cadet attack and defense, indicate that the Ag-
gies had everyone fooled as to their caliber in the current football
up the Longhorns of Texas Uni-
versity are farther than ever in front, with Rice still in the runner-up
position but with Arkansas raising the experts brows no little by
virtue of a tie with Oklahoma A. & M., one of the Nation’s top
The Aggies must find themselves in their next two games with
Oklahoma at Norman and L. S. U. at Baton Rouge if they are to
make any headway at all in the conference.
TEXAS TECH 6-AGGIES 0
A record-breaking 25,000 fans
saw an alert, hard-fighting Texas
Tech team stage an upset to score
its first victory over the Aggies
in the Alamo Stadium at San An-
tonio. Tech clearly deserved the
victory, taking the play away from
the Aggies thru-out the game.
Only a staunch goal-line defense
prevented another Red Raider
touchdown. Despite several scoring
opportunities the Aggies never
really seriously threatened to cross
the Tech goal.
The only bright spots for the
Aggies were one great goal-line
stand that held the Techs for four
downs inside the five yard line,
and some long distance kicking by
Welch and Holmig. The Aggie
passing attack was poor and no
sustained running attack ever de-
veloped. Tech finally scored with
a 10 yard sweep around end that
sent the ball carrier over standing
up. In an effort to find a combina-
tion that would click Coach Norton
made numerous substitutions.
Aside from the game the week-
end in San Antonio had two high-
lights. A greatly over-estimated
melee at the Aggie midnite yell
practice brought reports of a riot
to nervous San Antonio just emerg-
ing from a serious flood.
The other high-light was the
sterling performance between
halves of the game by the 225
piece Aggie band under the direc-
tion of its new band-master Verge
Adams, ’29. The band staged the
most intricate and perfect drill
ever performed by that famous
Aggie organization.
STARTING LINEUPS
TECH. ... A&M
J. Smith ...... LE Howell
R. Winkler .... LT Dickey
Read fo.tinh io. clei LG.....w.- Stautzenberger
Nabors, '.... 2s. ale. 03 | DTIPEIR 0 ary
Lawhorn RG J. Winkler
YA STA TE Bl vn eoiminesensi Moncrief
B. sKelly >." | RE .. Higgins
Standefer QB Daniels
B.«Smith........; LH Welch
Di Lewis... 0k. RH Goode
Robnettft onic: EBook. Sturcken
SUBSTITUTIONS
Texas A&M: Daniel, Denton, Dusek,
Flanagan, Flowers, Hallmark, Hollmig,
Knight, Overly, Prokop, P. Smith, Scott,
Shefts, Tulis, Turley, C. Wright, D.
Wright, Zapalac, Pickett.
Score by periods:
Texas Tech f.....0 0 L107. 0 0 0 6—6
A&M." 0 0 0—0
Officials: Ray MeCullouch, TCU, Ref-
eree; Maxey Hart, Texas, umpire; Gene
Bedford, SMU, head linesman; Joe Ward,
Texas, field judge.
STATISTICS
A&M Tech
10.5%. oth Birst downs; 2... ..coon cc. 9..
Yd. ov... Net yards rushing ................ 150
LS, A Net yards forwards ................ 14
LH ARTS en Forwards atempted ........ 10
SR RW Forwards completed ......... 1
XL... 05.0 2000s Intercepted: by b....niinl 4
0... Yds. Interceptions returned ...... 24
Slit i Punts, number. ................. 15
Lp pS Punts, yards average.............. 33
23 ht Yards punts returned............ 54
2 A Re Ball lost fumbles ................ J
Sd AN Wa Pentlties tier 5
111 J Yards lost penalties ............. 78
BRAZOS COUNTY
The Brazos County A. & M. Club
met September 19, at the Maggie
Parker Dining Hall, Bryan, with
approximately 100 members and
the entire Aggie coaching staff
present, Coach Norton spoke on the
football prospects for the season
and introduced Marty Karew who
gave the basketball picture to the
group. Others speaking were Lil
Dimmitt, Frank Anderson and
Charlie DeWare.
It was announced at the meet-
ing that Jim Thomason, ’41, star
blocking back of the national
champion Aggie team of 1939, will
be assistant business manager of
Athletics. Thomason is now doing
graduate work at the College in
accounting.
President Fred Hale, ’22,  an-
nounced the appointment of J. T.
L. McNew, 18, as general chair-
man of the Christmas party hon-
oring at A. & M. football and
cross country teams.
Officers serving the club this
year are: President, Fred Hale, '22;
1st Vice President., Fred L. Cavitt,
’08; 2nd Vice President, Brown-
rigg H. Dewey, Jr., ’38; Secretary,
Oscar L. Crain, ’30; Treas., Elmer
G. Smith, ’25; Sgt.-at-Arms, W. N.
“Flop” Colson, ’40; Good Samari-
tan, P. L. Downs, Jr., 06.
W. R. Carmichael, ’28, served
as President last year; Fred Hale
as Vice President; Fred L. Cavitt,
Secretary-Treasurer and J. W.
“Dough” Rollins, ’17, as Sgt.-at-
Arms.
GALVESTON
Fifty members were present at
the regular monthly meeting of
the Galveston County Club on
Sept. 19, reports Club President
E. W. “Ernie” Conway Jr., ’42.
The next meeting of the club will
be on the evening of October 17.
The Club meets each month on the
third Thursday. President Con-
way represents the Great South-
ern Life Insurance Company with
offices at 102 Cotton Exchange
Bldg., Galveston.