THE BATTALION.
offense, while seldom indeed was it
that an A. & M. man was given the
ball that he did not make a good gain.
As in the Tulane game the home boys
were frightfully slow in forming their
interferences and getting their plays
off. This allowed the Baylor boys
to sometimes get through and down
the runner for a loss. The half backs
were timid about taking their men on
the offensive, and did not follow their
interferences with anything like good
form when carrying the ball. In the
second half there was an improve
ment in this respect, and A. & M. also
abandoned the masse plays through
Baylor’s heavy lines for short gains,
and paid more attention to the ends,
getting around them for some beauti
ful long runs. The treatment received
by the College boys while at Waco
was the very best. Toby’s Business
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College gave a. delightful dance f*md
reception to the team the night be
fore the game, enabling us to meet
many of Waco’s beautiful and charm
ing young ladies. We greatly enjoyed
the several hours we were able to
spend at Toby’s, and are indebted to
them for a charming evening. A
warm friendship exists between Toby
College and A. & M., and it is to be
regretted that her team was unable
to play the game scheduled with the
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College. After the game on Thanks
giving evening the students of Baylor
University gave the team a reception
in the parlors of the University, an
account of which appears elsewhere.
The game as a whole demonstrated
that with hard practice and further ex
perience Baylor will soon stand as a
foot-ball rival among Southern col
leges.
The enemies of athletic sports in
colleges will ,soon have to take in their
sign. Regardless of their untiring ef
forts to down such honorable and ben
eficial exercise, this very branch of
college life has risen to such a prom
inent position that the condemners of
it will think twice before they dare
say a word to hurt such a promotion.
Universities and colleges of note have
long ago recognized the fact that the
present generation of mankind neg
lected physical development which, to
a very large extent, causes the lack
of that pride, chivalry, sense of duty
and regard for honor which existed in
the American youth of Colonial days,
but we are compelled to say, is grad
ually decreasing in the American boy
of to-day. Not only is this a recog
nized fact among men who have direct
interest in college athletics, but the
presidents, moreover, of most of our
high universities, fully agree with us
on this subject. Only recently has
there been a bill introduced in the
United States Senate to promote ath
letic sports at the military academy at
West Point and the naval academy
at Annapolis. Mr. Chandler, who in
troduced the bill, called especial atten
tion to the cultivation of the great
college game—foot-ball—and by this
bill be took the stand that should have
been taken long ago, that a sustained
effort must be made to increase the
efficiency of physical training at the
West point and Annapolis academies,
and that less attention should be given
to higher mental training. This clause
sounds somewhat like the language of
the old Romans and Athenians. But
we endorse this bill, and do not en
dorse the long practised method of
placing the youth at the desk as early
as he can read and write, and of in-