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Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVII.
A. AND M. T-CLUB
ORGANIZED FOR ’19-20
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, OCTOBER 23, 1919
A. & M. HAS INVINCIBLE TEAM
NUMBER t
A. AND M. STUDENTS
WIN STOCK JUDGING
Object to Make Winning of
Letter a Real Honor and
Bring Winners'in AH
Sports Together
Pen Pictures of the Men who Are to Garry Farmer
Banner to Victory.
Seniors 'Win Over Juniors for
the First Time in the His
tory of the Dallas
Contest
At its first regular meeting of the
year the A. &. M. “T” Club elected
the following officers: Scott Alex
ander, president; Jack Mahan, vice-
president; Everett McQuillen, secre-
tar ya^fear^asurer _
This organization is of compara
tively recent origin and fills a long
felt want among the athletes of this
college.
The T-Club has been organized as
a business and social body for the en
couragement and advancement of all
athletics here. Its object is to make
the winning of a letter at A. & M.
mean a real honor and to bring to
gether the winners of letters in any
sport at this college in closer touch
with one another.
Besides the T-men of the college,
all letter men from other colleges,
both among the students and the in
structors, are eligible for member
ship.
'At present the T-Club has a small
room in the second floor of the Y. M.
C. A., as its headquarters, but so
large is the number of letter men
who have joined this new organiza
tion that larger and better quar
ters are being sought. New furni
ture, magazines and other necessary
articles for a good live club have
been oredered and will be here soon
for the use of all the T-Club mem
bers.
As the years go by this new organ
ization plans to become the livest,
most active club at the college and to
advertise A. & M. athletics to the
whole country. This is just another
of the big steps on foot by which A.
& M. shall get the recognition she
rightly desrves from rival colleges,
which oppose us in athletics every
year.
And, as a final word, let us say
that the T-Club is here to stay, for
old A. & M. letter men are back from
the service and the entire number
of T-men gathered here is greater
than ever before in the history of the
college, thus forming a bunch of fel
lows who will stick together as no
others can.
FIGHTENG SPIRIT INSPIRES CONFIDENCE
Now that we have played
g°mes on the schedule f ..
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battery in action, we feel confident
that our men will deliver the goods
in the classic games of the season to
be played in the near future. Coach
es Bible and Graves are instilling
into our men the fighting pep that
made the 1917 team victorious.
Although our team is lighter than
usual, and have had little experience,
they are being whipped into fighting
condition, and our coaches feel con
fourj upon at any time without materially
-[{"ai'aaiflBrf'T Ih *v up ;, w , e , ha ,L-
the first games of the season. Sev-
the first games of tne season,
of our men were disabled, some of
them will not likely get into the
games to be played. You can’t keep
a good man down through and
those not too seriously hurt are
again in fighting condition and can
be used to a great extent in the com
ing games.
With such men in the backfield as
Frazier and Mahan for fullbacks;
fident that they will live up to the
standard set by former A. & M.
teams.
Last year Coach Bible installed a
light spring practice schedule so that
the men would learn the fundament
als of the game and begin to get
hardened for the hard, grinding, fail
practice. This has helped in pro
ducing a team that uses not only
physical strength, but head work.
Now out of the one hundred men who
went out for the team this fall, eleven
of them were letter men. This gave
us a nucleus upon which to build a
hard-hitting team which has a large
surplus of good men to fall back
Higginbotham, Weir, Askew and
Martin for half-backs; Knickerbock
er, Morris, Harrison and Baskin for
quarter backs, we have two back-
fields equal in strength upon which
we can laways depend. In Jack Ma
han, we have the fastest and hard
est working fullback that ever played
on a southern gridiron. Each of the
other men are as dependable and
can always be relied upon.
Vandervoort, Anglin and Pierce
are holding the center of the team
against all attacks. Each of them
can be thrown into action at any
(Continued on Page 8)
Last week about 45 A. & M. stu
dents from the Senior and Junior
classes went to Dallas to judge live
stock at the Texas State Fair. Be
sides the A. & M. representation,
there were two< men in the . contest
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at Arlington, Texas. There were four
days of real judging. Prizes of $12,
$8 and $5 respectively for first, sec
ond and third places helped to make
the competition more spirited. All
kinds of live stock, including draft
horses, beef cattle, dairy cattle,
sheep and hogs were judged.
Two classes of horses, four of beef
cattle, two of dairy cattle, four of
sheep and four of hogs were judged.
The winners in each kind of stock
were as follows:
HORSES—First, K. J. Edwards-
with 146 points; second, D. L. Ste
vens, 144 points; third, C. Dyer, with
142 points.
BEEF CATTLE—First, L. R. Read
with 220 points; second, H. C. Rob
inson, with 217 points; third, W. W.
Derrick and A. J. Neyland, tied, with
211 points each.
DAIRY CATTLE—First, E. N.
Holmgreen, with 190 points; second
J. F. SoRelle, with 184 points; third
D. L. Stevens, with 182 points.
SHEEP—First, M. G. Snell, with
243 points; second, E. E. Reynolds,
and S. C. Evans, tied, with 233
points each; third, W, T. Burns, H.
B. Horn and W. Menzies tied, with
236 points each.
HOGS—First, K. J. Edwards, with
237 points; second, L. R. Reed, wi-h
233 points; third, L. H. Alsmeycr,
with 231 points.
The tan high men of the contest
were as follows: First K. J. Ed
wards, 1001; second, L. R. Reed, 991;
third, M. G. Snell, 989; fourth, W. T.
Burns,, 971; fifth, W. W. Derrick,
968; sixth, L. H .Alsmeyer, 962; sev
enth, D. L. Stevens, 952; eighth, H.
S. Cavitt, 949; ninth, I. F. SoRelle,
941; tenth, J. T. Rollins, 935.
Study of the final results brings
out many unusual facts. Out of the
thirteen Seniors in the contest, four