THE BATTALION
Published Weekly by the Students' Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
TWENTIETH YEAR COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1912 NUMBER 10
LOST FIRST GAME
KANSAS WINS OVER HERETO
FORE UNDEFEATED FARMER
TEAM BY 13 TO 10 SCORE.
BEST GAME OF SEASON
Teams More Evenly Matched and
Game Harder Contested Than
Any This Year.
On a field that was a sea of mud
the football team of the A. and M.
College suffered its first defeat of the
season at the hands of the Kansas
Aggies by a score of 13 to 10.
The Farmers’ team was not beaten
because it was not able to cope with
the strength of their opponents, but
were beaten on a fumble at the close
of the first quarter and an intercepted
forward pass within two minutes of
the close of the game which gave the
large end of the. score to the Aggies.
The rain the morning before the
game put the field in a very bad con
dition, and this handicapped the
Farmers’ fast back field men, also
the muddy ball could not be used to
good advantage on the forward pass.
The game was hard fought from the
very start. It is safe to say that no
two teams so evenly matched have
came together in the state -this sea
son. The backfield of both teams
were about equal, hut in the line Kan
sas was heavier. However, in spite
of the heavy line Coach Moran’s boys
made several long gains through the
opponents’ line. On the other hand,
Kansas was not so successful through
our line, and resorted more to end
runs and a few line plunges. Both
sides kicked often. Vesmirovsky out
classed his opponent, Prather, by ten
or twelve yards on each punt.
The Aggies were first o draw blood,
when A. and M. kicked to their nine-
yard line where the ball was fumbled
by A. and M., and recovered by Kan
sas. After three successful line bucks
the ball was carried over by Kansas.
During the rest of the first half the
ball was kept going up and down the
field, although A. and M. kept the ball
in her possession most of the time.
In the second half Montgomery
saved the day for A. and M. by his
spectacular work in receiving a for
ward pass and running through a
broken field thirty-five yards for a
touchdown. Several times our be
loved Monte made long gains on for
ward passes, and would have made
touchdowns had it not been for the
muddy field.
In the third quarter, after an ex
change of punts, the Farmers worked
the ball down to the thirty-five-yard
line and here Higginbotham kicked a
goal from placement. The cadets
breahed easy again as the Farmers
had a four-point lead, but then came
the fatal last two minutes of play
when Pollon intercepted one of Beas
ley’s forward passes and ran sixty-
five yards for a touchdown and kicked
goal, making the score 13 to 10 and
Continued on page 2.
A. AND M. GLEE
m TO TOUR
Will Spend Two Weeks Giving Con
certs in North Texas
Cities.
The Glee Club of A. and M. College
is preparing for the annual trip, which
is to be taken next spring. The club
is composed of twenty-four members,
selected after competitive trials for
the various parts. They will be ac
companied on their trip by an orches
tra chosen from the college band and
by the College Mandolin Club. A two-
part program is being prepared. Part
one consists of songs by the glee club
and selections by the orchestra and
the mandolin club. In part two a light
opera pertaining to various phases of
college life ■will be presented.
The schedule of the trip provides
for a ten-day tour to cities of North
Texas. A special car will be provided
by the railroads. Engagements have
already been made for Kidd-Key Col
lege at Sherman and the College of
Industrial Arts at Denton.
The officers of the club are as fol
lows: M. H. Young of Montgomery,
president; G. G. Hall of Houston, vice
president; S. W. Senter of Dallas, sec
retary; H. M. Brundrett of Mesquite,
manager; D. T. Killough of Galveston,
sergeant-at-arms; F. D. Steger of Col
lege Station, director.
The members of the club and their
parts are as follows: First tenor, L.
C. Dennis, J. H. Thompson, W. B. I
Muse, H. M. Brundrett, J. D. Brown, I
J. D. Buchanan; second tenor, A. R.
Hawkins, C. L. Mitchell, M. H. Young,
S. C. McCarty, H. E. Runge, R. E.
Bruce; first bass, G. G. Hall, S. W.
Senter, G. F. Wellage, C. L. Downs,
G. N. Evans, A. A. Lenert; second
bass, C. F. Eason, H. L. Griffin, D. T.
Killough, H. O. Smith, L. G. Ritch,
O. S. Gray.
“B” COMPANY BOYS
LOYAL TO FRIEND
Will Not Attend Thanksgiving Hop
in Respect to Cadet W. B.
Schiller.
A beautiful example of loyalty and
brotherhood respect is shown in the
fact that those members of Company
B who had . planned to attend the
Thanksgiving^ hop have now declined
to go out of respect for their close
comrade and friend, the deceased
Cadet W. B. Schiller, who was a ser
geant in their company.
FORT WORTH CLUB MEETS.
A short meeting of the Fort Worth
Club was held last Friday night. The
death of the father of one of the
members of the club was announced,
and a floral offering was arranged for.
It was also decided at this meeting
that during the Christmas holidays
the club would have a theatre box
party (with girls), followed by an
“after the show dinner.”
OUR DEPARTED COMRADE.
This week the solemn gloom of
death has settled like the fall of night
over the student body. The grim
reaper has visited us and all too early
and carried off in the bloom of youth,
I in the vigor and energy of young man
hood, our beloved companion, William
Burton Schiller. “He died while the
shadows still were falling toward the
west. He had not reached on life’s
highway the stone that marks the
highest point. But using a burden for
a pillow he fell into that dreamless
sleep that kisses down his eyelids i
still. While yet in love with life and;
raptured with the world, he passed
to silence and pathetic dust. Yet,
after all, it may be best just in the
happiest, merriest hour of all the voy
age, while eager winds were kissing
every sail to dash against the unseen
rock, and in an instant hear the bil
lows roar—a sunken ship.” The ulti
mate fate that comes to us all came
to our comrade in the flower of youth
with his life journey all before him.
He was the embodiment of all that
we admire in young manhood—that
jideal type of man “who is afraid of
'no one and of whom no one else is
afraid.” He was popular with his fel
low students, spotless in his integrity,
irreproachable in his daily life—that
kind of young man typified in the cadet
expression, “the finest fellow in the
world,” gentle, manly, agreeable and
strong.
The Battalion takes this means of
extending to those left behind our
sympathy at this hour of sorrow and
grief.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Whereas, it has pleased the Al
mighty God in His omnipotent wis
dom to remove from our midst our
beloved classmate, William Burton
Schiller; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the class of
1914, recognizing His wisdom in all
things, bow r our heads in humble sub
mission to His will, and extend our
heart-felt sympathy to the bereaved
mother, sister and brother; and be it
further
Resolved, That as a token of our
respect to the family of the deceased,
copies of these resolutions be pub
lished in The Battalion, and in the
Temple Telegram; and that a copy be
sent to the family.
(Signed) The Committee.