Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVIII COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, OCTOBER 30, 1919. NUMBER 2
Trinity Tigers Go
Down Before A. & M.
Fighting in True Form Aggies Romp on Waxahachie
Visitors 42 to 0.
If the sport writers in general over
Texas expected the Farmers to have
pnipOCIMT Vr/IP a hard 8 ' ame with - the Tigers, it is
1 t>l\ i iiLniLdl i i AjAll i time' they were waking 7- fd" uie - Tact
POLICY OF Y. N. C. A.
DR. KNICKERBOCKER
AT A. AND M. COLLEGE
Delivers Eloquent Sermon in
Guion Hall, Using Football
to Illustrate Points
One of the most beautiful, most
inspiring messages which has come
to our College, .was that brought last
Sunday morning by Dr. H. W. Knick
erbocker of Marlin. As his text he
chose a selection from Proverbs:
'never 1 "'--~ ru ^ e * : k his spirit is better
than he that taketh a city,” and a
portion of Paul’s letter to Timothy:
“I have fought a good fight.”
Taking as his illustration our foot
ball men, he began by congratulating
us on having such a splendid group
of men on our team. The applica
tion was apparently to the football
boys, but his idea was relative to the
entire audience and applied to each
individual life.
The value of clean habits, clean
morals, and clean play was empha
sized—our duty to cultivate the best
that is in us—to develop our moral
selves—form clean habits, and strive
to overcome temptation and put
down evil influences which would in
anyway incapacitate us. He urged
that we use clean speech, shun pro
fanity, which when used only caused
energy to be uselessly exerted, thus
wasting reserved efficiency.
He told us how necessary it was
to play the fair and square game of
football—that he had no respect
whatever for any team that played
unfair. At this point in his sermon
he stopped for a minute to congrat
ulate us for having a team composed
of clean, strong men who played
only clean football; that we are
fortunate in having a coach whose
ambition and endeavor is to keep our
team clean, and to uphold principle.
Mr. Knickerbocker remarked that
he was the father of three football
players, and that he was proud of
that fact. His son here is typical of
the straight-forward, splendid char
acter of which he spoke, we are glad
to say, and we are all proud of
“Knick” too! Mr. Knickerbocker
made the assertion that he would
rather have his son have a broken
shoulder than a broken spirit. That
was quite forceful, and impressed
everyone with the idea intended—
that although difficulties come and
we make mistakes, it is better to
ROSS VOLDNTEERS
ELECT OFFICERS
Many New Men Taken In and
Crack Military Organiza
tion Is Forcasted
On last Sunday afternoon a ses
sion of the R. V.’s was convened in
the Airdome and several new men
were made members of this organi
zation. After the election the usuM
sojourn was made to Casey’s and
the health of the new men was drunk
to the fullest extent.
Among the new members taken in
are: Harrison, Manning, Ballard,
Frazier, Rassmussen, Kennard, Pe-
teet, Hamilton, Boulden, Rollins,
Herd, Kudena, Drake, Smith, Zegar-
ro, Derrick, McNew, Carter, Cole
Singleton, Turpe, Dennison, SoRelle,
Knickerbocker, King, Martin, Farrell,
Thompson, Buie, Walker, Hugon,
Cox, Langston, Allen, Scuddev,
Barnes, Baskin, Latimore, Horn,
Legg, Livingston, Davidson, Potts,
Stovall, Tucker, Crippen, Roberts,
Egger, Montfort, Baucom, Reed,
Barber, Thomas, Adkisson, Burkes,
Johnson, Reynolds, Martin, Gouger,
and Evans. Major Ike Ashburn,
Coach Bible and Coach Graves were
made honorary members of the or
ganization.
It has been stated that this will
be the best company ever assembled
and the present plans indicate that
our week in April will be highly so
cial as well as military.
THE OLD COMPANY SPIRIT.
Where has the old company spirit
gone to? “Fish” even forget what
company they are in when they in-
trobuce themselves to an old boy.
Something is radically wrong, per
haps it is due to the neglect of the
old boy’s or maybe it is just the
lack of interest on the part of the
“Fish”. What ever the cause may
be let’s eliminate it and reestablish
the old company spirit.
have stumbled and gotten up and
fought again, than to have given up!
“I have fought a good fight,”
should be a motto for everyone of us
—to be able to say that, we must
needs have conquered ourselves, and
strengthened ourselves spiritually,
mentally and morally.
Importance of “Y” Work
Clearly Set Forth In Five
Definite and Concise
Principles
By O. F. Reynaud.
Last year, owing to the war con
ditions, the College Y.M.C.A. was not
organized as a local Association, but
with the return of college life, the
Association is again endeavoring to
establish itself in such a way that
every student and Campus resident
will come in contact with the activ
ities of the Y.M.C.A., and will feel
that the College has been benefited
by the “Y” work. The Y.M.C.A. or
ganization is in itself an indigenous
spiritual campus movement of stu
dents and faculty for the following
purposes:
(1) . To lead students to faith in
God through Jesus Christ.
(2) . To lead students into mem
bership and service in the Christian
church.
(3) . To promote their faith fund
amentally through prayer and Bible
study as well as to stimulate well-
rounded development in mind and
body.
(4) . To promote a positive moral
and religious college spirit.
(5) . To challenge students to de
vote themselves, in united effort with
all Christians, to making the will ox
Christ effective in human society, and
to extend the Kingdom of God
throughout the world.
By these five principles, and by
considering the “Y” work as char
acteristic of Christian organization,
we come more to realize its purpose
in the world, and its motive here at
College Station. We are all men of
reasonable power to think. Were
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that A. and M. has not only a fight
ing team, but a winning team.
Playing almost faultless football,
our team gave not only the sport
critics a surprise, but also the Tigers
a severe drubbing—the final score
being 42 to 0. Our line held with
out a waver, even when the reserve
men were sent in. Every man in the
backfield made himself an individual
star. Teamwork and headwork was
the feature of the offensive with a
generous amount of fight and deter
mination in the defence. Our team
was on the aggressive every moment
of the game; Trinity making only
first downs twice, these being on
short passes. Our backfield worked
with clocklike precision, time and
again through the line and around
the ends for long gains, while our
ends pulled down long passes freq
uently. The staller work of Mahan
was the predominating feature of the
game.
In the first quarter the Aggies
went straight down the field easily
making the downs. Higginbotham
made a twenty yard run followed by
a touchdown by Mahan through cen
ter. “Hig’’ easily kicked goal mak
ing the score 7 to 0.
The second quarter was featured
by freak plays and successive small
gains. Alexander and Davis each
receiving long forward passes for
gains of fifteen yards or more. Ma
han made several good gains while
Weir got away for a fifteen yard end
run.
A. and M. came back stronger than
ever in the second half, frequently
making long gains. Mahan was the
center of attraction, making a spec
tacular run through center for thirty
yards and a touchdown, and again
around right end for a fifteen yard
run and a goal. Harrison kicked