The Daily Texan wants to know if one adding machine
will be enough to keep up with their score on Turkey Day
YES!
And the machine will not need art operator.
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVIII
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 27, 1919
NUMBER 6
CARRY ON. FIR1EIS!
NOVELTY SHOW
A BIG SUCCESS
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THANKSGIVING
HOP ARRANGED
SOUTHWESTERN PIRATES DEFEATED
BY AGGIES IN A RAGGED GAME
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OUR ALL STATE SELECTION
The Stock Judging Team achieved
the highest goal possible when they
met and defeated all comers for the
championship of the United States
at the recent meet in Chicago which
is still in progress.* This is the sec
ond win by A. and M. and distinction
goes with this in that no other school
has ever had its name carved upon
the bronze bull more than once. Ad
vices from the Animal Husbandry
department state that it is only
necessary to win once more in order
to keep the international trophy in
College Station forever. The compe
tition was strong in that all of the
foremost Agricultural colleges of the
country were represented by teams
of experience and men who had been
reared in a country noted for its
high grade stock. The victory was
not an easy one when we take into
consideration the time spent in prep
aration, the long trip into a foreign
field, among new men, new officials,
etc., but they were from Texas A.
and M. and had the punch to deliver
which they did. Too much credit
can not be bestowed upon the men
composing this team as they have
won as much a victory as our glory
crowned football eleven—they have
won their “letter” in stock judging
and have placed the name of old A.
and M. at the highest possible niche.
This victory reflects credit on
the instructors of the ■ Animal
Husbandry Department and es
pecially to Mr. W. L Stang-
el who has labored with the
team all during the weeks and on Sat
urday afternoons in the attempt to
put out a winning team and his ef
forts have met with success. And
again, to the men who have been in
active competition with the team
here at College—the scrubs—to them
can as high a tribute be paid as with
out them a victory might not have
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Another Texas bunch has come
and gone—a sadder and wiser team.
With the past games and all odds
in their favor, Varsity felt that she
was in a position to break the old
traditions that A. and M. oculdn’t be
whipped on her home grounds. But
she reckoned without reason. She
underestimated the ability of twelve
men—Bible is the twelfth—and she
did not consider that old Aggie
fight that hurled a ripping, tearing
line and an all-state tornado of a
backfield through every defense that
she could put up with twenty-two
men.
The A. and M. fight of the last
twenty years seemed concentrated
Thanksgiving in one stumpy mass of
muscle called Jack Mahan. There
can be no description of the way he
put his head in front of the ball and
his belly behind it and tore througn
men who would have risked their
lives to stop him. Texas may rightly
say he was a devil, and he was in
his own home town that day. The
last of the game he ripped the Texas
line as he did in the first. Quick
and uncanny in his picking of holes,
Mahan gave the Texas team fits try
ing to knock him off his feet. His
defense was as good as his plunging
and, with his wonderful endurance,
makes a man for the All-American.
In Higginbotham’s punting the
Texas team suffered from a most
reliable weapon of offense. In the
first quarter the Farmers were placed
in a position from whence they could
smash across by the superior toe-
work of “Hig.” But, in this as in
all other departments of the game,
it was the support of the whole team
that made “Hig’s” punts effective.
The results are not a real compar
ison between his kicking and that of
McCallum of Texas. Davis and
Gouger were fast and sure in hold
ing Higginbotham’s long boots where
they fell. Wheras, the Texas ends
were noticably slow in going down
under McCollum’s punts, and in re-
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as the years pass a memorial time
in the history of A. and M. College.
The football game and the dance
have something fascinating about
themselves that can only be answer
ed by the feelings of the individual.
On the eve after the great game
on Kyle Field where our team de
feated the University of Texas in one
of the greatest games in football
statistics, a charming dance took
place in Bryan given by the Elks
i Club to which practically all those
who had their girls down for the
game and the Hop were present. The
others who did not receive an invi
tation attended the Corps dance giv
en at the Gym, the College orchestra
furnishing the music.
Friday evening between eight and
nine o’clock couples began entering
Sbisa Hall. The decoration of the
place presented a pleasing effect in
red and white to the eye. On the
floor a football field was marked
off with white lines, on both extremes
having the goal posts wrapped in red
and white ribbons. In the center*
the orchestra had its place surround
ed in a circle by beautiful palm
trees. All along the walls of the
enormous place chairs were located
for the visitors and chaperones at
tending the affair. Every minute
more and more couples entered the
spacious hall, the charming dresses
and the beautiful girls were like
fragrant rose buds just opened in
the midst of a garden in the month
of May. Nothing could have been
welcomed more by the students than
the above fact.
Sharp at nine o’clock, E. S.,
(Woodrow) Wilson, captain of the
team accompanied by Miss McClin-
don led the grand march. About five
hundred couples took part in it, at
the same time that more were ar
riving. After the distribution of the
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