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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1911)
VARSITY WON ON A FLUKE. (Continued from Page 1.) ities had taken the proper precautions. The gates should have been opened by 1 o’clock in order to let the people in as they arrived. the streets, looked bold—those that were clad in true blue were* all right, but those that showed yellow had to cough up. Tfre boys in uniform made many friends on their 'march back to town. They could convert almost any- | thing to their way of thinking. The | yellowest kind of an auto could drive i up, listen to the ttoys’ argument for Carnival Association Acts in Bad j a f ew minutes, and leave without Faith with the Corps. | showing a sign of their former spirit The Carnival Association reserved | of hostility. Oh! what wonders we seats for the cadets at the price of {can work. One of the walking beau- .$1.50. This section was to be in the j ties of Houston who is lord high sov- best part of the bleachers and large j ereign of all he surveys became con- enough to comfortably seat the corps. Instead of this they were shoved off down at one end of the Held and jammed like sardines in a box. It will be a happy day in No vember when the people of “Heavenly Houston” get us to put on another verted to the college spirit and marched along with the boys in the height of glee. We wonder if he knows now “Who is Who and Why?” The Saddest Thing of All. As the large crowd was leaving the free show on the streets. To the best I field, thousands solemn with the bit- of my recollection, which is not very ter sting of defeat, others jubilant victories, tho poor, the University sat opposite the j over the sweetest of middle of the field in the grandstand j and out of the rain during that glori ous game in 1909. During this last game, though on bleachers like ours, they were directly opposite the mid dle of the field. Old Lindy on the Box. No mistake about it; Old Lfndy was there with the GOODS. Although everything seemed to work against him, Lindy fought to the bitter end. He had everything well planned, and like the great Nappleon Bonaparte, if his plans had been executed he would have crowned himself and his follow ers with great victory. He had his megaphones there in abundance; he had lemons to throw at the cadets j, he had sweeps and hammers, and he had THAT SMILE THAT WILL NEVER WEAR OFF; but his'main source of noise fell down on him, the sweeps would not work. He intended to have them in front, but there was not enough room there for a baby to rattle its rattler. He then tried to ^ put them on top of the bleachers stand, 1 staunch warriors of the Red and but there was not room there for them j White were clustered around their to hold on and beat the sweeps too, j coach. Such a sight has not been wit- so they had to be given up as fail- | nessed in many a day—men who had ures. With an even break Old Lindy j been jubilant over many a gridiron would have shut that Varsity bunch (victory wore heavy hearts from a sad up before they realized where they {defeat. Eyes that had sparkled with were; as it was, he held his own. The fight, five minutes before, were now best part of the whole show was showering a flood of tears; sinewy, I*indy demonstrating the “Law of Fall- determined faces were now limp and ing Bodies.” Lindy changed the expressionless. Poor Emma! the phy in. Barnes three round end. Farmers fail to make forward pass. Texas’ ball on fifty-yard line. Ball goes over on downs; onside kick puts ball out of bounds. Texas’ ball on their twenty-yard line. Puett tries end, noting one yard. Kirkpatrick punts fifty-five yards and Texas re covers. James thrown for loss of two yards. Kirkpatrick rips off fourteen yards. P.uett repeats with twenty yards. (Time out for Texas.) Farm ers penalized fifteen yards for hold ing. Puett four yards. Kirkpatrick four yards. Downs, no gain. Farmers' ball on fifteen-yard line. “Wrinkle” Lambert comes to life, and tears off three yards. Grissom repeats. “Old Ves” punts to fifty-yard line; returns twenty. Texas no gain on line plunges, and so try for place kick. Kirkpat rick’s toe fails him and ball falls out side the goal post. ' Vesmirovsk}" makes three. Hohn no gain. “Ves” punts to Texas’ forty-yard line. James net five yards. Texas- penalized five yards. Kirkpatrick makes five yards of the necessary fifteen yards to go. He kicks to Farmers’ fifteen-yard line. Kerns downed by Woodhull. Time up. Second Quarter. Goals are exchanged. Vesmirovsky TYREE BELL, Right Half and a Ground Gainer in Monday’s Game. Ginks state of equilibrium and grav ity did the rest. The poor fellow did not know that Lindy had other meas ures save moral persuasion to carry a small point like that. Old Lindy had the costume; Old Lindy had the smile; Old Lindy kept the multitude Laughing all the while. What Happened After the Game. The. cadets did not start their col lection of souvenirs—relics, Y-ALLER RIBBONS, fancy sky pieces and other little things that look good on the lace curtains at College, until after the game. The whole dog-gone sky looked yaller right after that game, but the first thing we knew, a little grey got mixed in with it. Before we got to town everything looked grey. What changes can be wrought in a little time! One of the Varsity kiddos said: “If A. & M. had won the game, they would have taken the town.” Right he was—close observer of hu- amn nature. But although we didn’t win, we took the town any way. it is customary for the A. & M. boys to support the winner’s colors, and as they did not have any after the game, they made it their business to get some. From the color scheme on the campus today, a stranger would take College Station to be Varsity’s hold hopes and aspirations of his school career died with the final sound of the referee’s whistle. Many a time in the past year he and Caesar have locked each other in fond embrace and whispered the words, “SOUTH ERN CHAMPION!” But never shall it be; the cause is a dead one so far as our captain and manager are con cerned. We all feel the sting, but none like Emma and Caesar. The blood stood still in the veins of every cadet when Barnes rose before the corps in front of the Main building the day after the game and said: “My grief is for Cretcher and Hooker; it is their last chance.” Others may re turn and fight again for the Red and White and get revenge on Varsity, but these two stalwarts have fought their last. Many handkerchiefs were used after Coach Moran, the greatest of all Southern coaches, spoke his words of praise for the loyal student body. Such words as he spoke could not have come from any place save the heart of an Irishman. THE GAME IN DETAIL. Texas won kick-off and chose south goal. Kirkpatrick kicks fifty yards to Bateman, who fumbled but returned fifteen. Farmers fumble, but Holliday The young men who recognize and appreciate good clothes are the fellows who come to our store. gets ball and takes it to center. (Time out. The fellows that stood erect on j out for Texas.) M. Harold out, Mur- tears Varsity for eight yards round left tackle. Hooker gains five yards through same place. Kern, the brainy quarter, begins play by tearing up J five yards through center; no gain. Grissom, no gain. Vesmirovsky fails to make place kick goal. Ball goes over. Kirkpatrick punts. Bateman two yards. Time out again for Texas. Hohn gains ten yards. “Ves” makes two yards. Bateman through tackle for two yards. Varsity fails to gain in two downs and so Kirkpatrick calls his toe into use by punting to the Farmers’ twenty-five yard line. The quarter (Kern) returns twenty yards. The Farmers penalized fifteen yards for holding. Grissom, no gain. Vesmi rovsky punts to Texas’ forty-yard line. 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