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THE BATTALION.
Published Weekly by the Corps of Cadets Under the Management of the Austin Literary Society.
Volume XII.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 11, 1905.
Number 12.
FOOTBALL.
Last Sunday night, the 8th inst.,
the managers and captains of the
company football teams held a
meeting in the guard room. This
meeting was for the purpose of
discussing the advisability of play
ing the company games this winter
term as originally intended.
Most of the company representa
tives were of the opinion that the
games should be permanently sus
pended until next session; but
nothing definite was decided upon.
The motion was made and adopted
that the meeting adjourn until the
members could talk to their re
spective companies concerning the
intended move. However, one re
sult of the meeting was that next
Saturday the corps will be able to
witness a game of football between
companies A and B vs. C and D.
Boys of the corps, we hope that
you, one and all, will advise the
managers and captains not to sus
pend the company games. If this
move is allowed to mature it will
hurt very materially our football
team next year; and, in fact, will
injure football years to come.
It is useless to enumerate the
various ways by which the playing
of company football games, in the
fall, rather than the winter term,
will affect our College team. But
the principal effect of it would be
to prevent the less confident boys
from trying to make their College
team.
^-.Tha-students should think well
before deciding to cancel the games
already scheduled. There are argu
ments, and good ones too, both
for and against playing in the
winter term; but if the matter is
carefully gone over I am confident
that you will agree with us and
not cancel the games.
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BASEBALL.
Prospects for a winning baseball
team this year are growing brighter
and brighter as time goes on.
When the opportunity comes we
should be able to have a record
that will outshine all other College
teams in the South.
Among the many good appli
cants for the team this year there
are Wesendorph, for catcher;
Smith, Fluff, Crooks and Lane for
pitcher. For the outfield, there
are—Kelly, probably the best
fielder and base runner in any
College team in the association;
Hackney, the old reliable, who has
stood the test of time, having
played with our team for the past
three years; Lipscomb, Reese,
Noble and others. In the infield,
besides our already proved heavy
and hard-to-catch players, Hanna
and Church, there are many A1
applicants. Guenther, Williams
and Huff are plum good ones.
With the above material there
is no reason why we should not
turn out a winning team. With
the proper training and coaching
which they will receive—and Platt
is the man to give it to them—we
should be able to make a record
that could be compared with none
other.
Manager Kyle is figuring on
giving our boys a Southern trip.
We hope that he will succeed in
his efforts. We know that it will
act as an incentive to good, hard
labor from the boys, and will lead
to such results as any College
would be proud of. Capt. Hanna
says that he is confident that such
a trip would be beneficial to this
years’ team, besides leading up to
better results in ensuing years. /
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THE ALL AMERICAN TEAM, f
Walter Camp has completed his
selections of the all American team.
The West has two representatives,
Heston, Michigan’s halfback, who
has made more touchdowns than
any man of the season, and Eck-
ersall, Chicago’s brilliant player.
The line up is as follows:
End—Shevlin, Yale.
Tackle—Cooney, Princeton.
Guard—Piekarski, Pennsylvania.
Center—Tipton, West Point.
Guard—Kinney, Yale.
Tackle—Hogan, Yale.
End—Eekersall, Chicago.
Quarter—Stevenson, Pennsylvania
Half—Heston, Michigan.
Half—Hurley, Howard.
Full—Smith, Pennsylvania.
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HOLIDAY NOTES.
The examinations closed on
Thursday, December 22, 1904, and
the boys at once began to leave for
their homes in different parts of
the state. The I. and G. N. ran
two special trains to accommodate
the students. By Friday morning
there was only about two dozen
boys left out of four hundred
students. The student body had
vanished in the night.
Out of the two dozen that were
left here only four were seniors
and the remainder were under
classmen. Nearly all of the stu
dents who remained at College are
young men who are paying their
way through school and who have
to take advantage of every oppor
tunity to make a little money to
help pay their way through school.
The student labor fund renders a
great deal of assistance to the
young men who are struggling
hard to get an education.
Every student that stayed here
during the holidays tried to get
work in the branch that he was
studying, but if he could not,
worked at what he could get.
Several of the students were busily
engaged helping Prof. Weir to
place the machinery in the Textile
building; some were wiring some
of the building for the electrical
engineering department, while
others were looking after the stock
at the barn, and others were out
doing some surveying with Profs.
Nagle and Spepce,
But during the holidays there
were other things going on besides
work. The people of the campus
had a Christmas tree for the little
children. About 7:30 o’clock on
Christmas eve everybody gathered
in the chapel where a pretty
Christmas tree had been arranged
by the ladies. The children, sixty
or seventy in number, came in
last, marching in couples, one go
ing to the right and his partner
going to the left of the tree, and
forming almost a complete circle
around it, then they sang and re
cited suitable pieces for the occa
sion. The children were then
seated on the front row. Old
Santa Claus appeared at this time
in the form of Mr. George Bittle
and began to take the presents ofl.
He did not take many things off
before he caught fire and was soon
enveloped in flames. If it had not
been for the quick work of Captain
Sargent, Prof. Nagle and Dr. Lan-
ham, Old Santa Claus, I fear,
would have been burned up. As
it turned out no one was hurt
much, but Santa Claus’ rig was
not in a suitabl- 1 condition to ap
pear before the people any more.
After the presents had been dis
tributed to the little folks each
cadet was called up and given aj
sack of fruit. \
The campus people were very
kind to the students and tried to
1 make them have as pleasant a
j time as possible.
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COMPANY FOOTBALL.
To the regret *of many the com
pany football A games were not
played last fall, as they generally
are and should ^be, by all reason
evident to all. But they were not,
and the sacrifice was right and
proper. Now, since they yet re
main to be played or not as the
dispositions of the different cap
tains determine it, a step for the
right should be taken.
The salvation of the ’05 team
is in our company teams. From
the players developed here in these
games we get the College team. If
the new men do not come out in
these trial games we do not see
their ability and consequently
many a man of great value is ever
lost. Look at Haltom, the captain
for ’05; he started in the company
team; it was here that he showed
what he could do. Woodman,
Street and many others who have
started in these games are now or
have been at the head of the list.
Let the games be played, for here
lies the salvation of our College
team. It does not furnish men
alone, but creates that enthusiasm
without which no team can make
a winning eleven. This College
needs such work if any school
does. Not that we are void of it
now—such is not the case, but we
need more of it.
There are no out-door sports of
any kind in the winter term. Why
not have these games? We need
them to stir up the campus, to
keep ever the spirit of football be
fore us and to encourage all such
sport. There is goal to make; we
are on the road, though it seemed
as if fate was against us last year.
There is a hope for us if we work.
There is a time to try, this is now.
Let the company teams come out
this term and we will have made a
good beginning for next season.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
There is no short cut to happiness.
Virtue is not a matter of vocabulary.
Nothing succeeds where the soul fails.
A little silence may save a lot of sor
row.
With God life and love are synony
mous. i
A sharp man always cuts his own
fingers.
Repentance cannot tear up the roots i
of the past.
No man reaches the stage of triumph
but by the steps of trial.
The man who takes life as a dose al
ways finds it a bitter one.
A man makes no particular progress
by patting himself on the back.
Virtue may be its own reward, but it
is not its own advertising agent.
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