THE BATTALION
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas,
VOLUME XVI11
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, DECEMBER 9, 1910
NUMBER 10
LOUIS ROSENBEDG
LECTURES
E. E. Students Attend
Numbers.
Large
Louis Rosenberg, of tbe 'engineering-
staff of the Southwestern Telephone
and Telegraph Company of Dallas, lec
tured Friday night to the E. E. Society
on storage batteries. He’s that com
pany’s storage battery expert and
came to College at the invitation of
Prof. Bolton.
Mr. Rosenberg began with the com
position of the storage battery most
widely used. He mentioned the ad
vantages and disadvantages of the
many types of batteries, but confined
his remarks to the lead-lead peroxide
type. The subject was treated in de
tail and illustrated by numerous charts
made by Mr. Rosenberg from experi
ments conducted by himself.
It is the intention of Mr. Rosenberg
to publish a book treating of the sub
ject in the simplest manner so that
the owners of automobiles and other
apparatus requiring the use of the bat
tery, as well as the technical man,
may thoroughly grasp the subject and spectacular run. The senior officers of turned, to find, instead of the expected
become efficient in the operation and j the one battalion were necessary to
care of this little electric accumulator. : keep the crowds off the field.
At first Kyle Field only had bleach-
TOE G1MPKHIP
SETTLED
First Wins After One-Sided Game
With Third Saturday.
MORAN,
Head Coach A. & M. Football Squad.
Considered Best College Athletic Field
in Southwest.
KYLE FIELD.
ers with a seating capacity of about
five hundred. In 1908 our present
grandstand was transferred from the
Bryan fair grounds. At this time there
The athletic field on which so many '"as no water at the park. New there
A. & M. football and baseball play- Tie eight showers, hoc and cold water,
ers have received their training, and j vviui dieasing rooms and lock-
on which the cadets have witnessed
many athletic victories, bears the
name of the person who, more than
any other person, has worked for its i m " st of them ' This * ear th ' e coaches
establishment—Prof. E. J. Kyle. It themselves a private dressing
was not such an easy matter to raise , rooiu t0 the rear of the other rooms,
the money and attend to the minor the rubbers, “Blacky” and “Nigger,”
details of its establishment. In the have their own room. Hydrants have
day when this athletic park w r as con- teen distributed about the grounds so
ct’yed it was difficult enough to equip that sprinkling may be done when
the playeis. When a little money was -teoed. Electric Lghts are now r in-
jers. riiese looms are under the rear
•of the grandstand. Coach Moran built
niost of them.
made in the football season it was
dissipated by track and baseball. Yet
Prof. Kyle managed to build the park.
Before the park was built the ath-
staliecl, aading to the convenience of
the athletes.
Last spring Coach Moran graded the
quarter mile track w'ith cinders. He
barbed wire, a new board fence en
closing about ten acres of ground. A
220-yard cinder straightaway is under
construction. Moran will have three
baseball diamonds next spring; one
each for the first and second teams
to practice on, and one for the sched-
u’ed games only. Next fail there will
in the same manner. The entire park
be three football grounds to be used
wull be drained and improved in many
ways.
In tbe game Saturday afternoon at
the Battalion football field, the First
Battalion team had the kick-off from
the west side with the advantage of
a wind.
After a few minutes of play Sanders
of First made a touchdown and Fra
zier kicked goal. After several bril
liant runs First again advanced the
ball into Third’s territory and Bran
son made a touchdown. Frazier again
kicked goals. The score: First 12,
Second 0.
In the second quarter brilliant play
ing was done by both battalions.
Block of Third made the sensational
run, a gain of forty yards. Forward
passes were worked successfully by
both sides. Neither side scored.
The third and fourth quarters were
a repitition of the second, neither side
scoring. Both teams discovered indi
vidual stars. The First’s goal line was
never in serious danger. The Third
was compelled to defend its goal line
stubbornly.
This game settled the championship
of the Battalion league and entitled
First’s players to a Battalion letter.
THE “T” ASSOCIATION.
How It Works and Who May Join.
FOOTBALL SQUAD ENTERTAINED.
Eryan People Show Appreciation by
Theatre Party and Feast.
letic contests took place on the ground didn’t have it done, tut with a free
now occupied by the old division of "'ill took the old gray mule and did
Tent Row. The rooters gathered along the work himself. # New low and high
the side lines and each individual was hurdles were secured last year and
The members of the 1910 football
spuad was very nicely entertained in
Bryan, Wednesday night of last week.
Messrs. Jonhnson and Lawrence, les
sees of the Bryan opera house, pre
sented the football men with compli
mentary tickets to the “Witching
Hour.”
After the show Messrs. Pete San
ders and J. R. Astin entertained them
tagged with a big freight tag when many minor details taken into account, at the Elk’s Hall with a banquet,
he showed his ticket or paid his Those who were here last spring The men who went enjoyed them-
money. As a gridiron the ground was "’ill recall that Prof. Kyle proposed selves thoroughly and claim that Pete
rough and full of holes. At one time building a barbed wire fence around Sanders and his cohorts are royal en-
a visiting player broke his knee by the park last summer. It was a sur- tertainers on the banqueting and on
stepping into a hole while making a prise to all of us this fall, when we re- the theatre propositions.
One of the greatest honors consid
ered by the students is the winning
of the college letter on one or another
| of the athletic teams. Those stud-
I ents and ex-students who have won
! their “T” constitute the membership
I of the “T” association.
The officers of the association are
I
president, vice-president, secretary
treasurer. Each member pays an en
trance fee of one dolar, and fifty cents
a year thereafter.
Those members convenient to the
college meet every year at commenc-
ment and discuss various athletic feat
ures. The students who were given
“T’s” the proceeding year are taken
into the association at the “T” ban
quet.
Formerly a “C” was given for prow
ess in athletics, hut as the “C” had
little significence the college letter
was changed to the “T”, for which
so many students work long and faith
fully.