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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1919)
2 THE BATTALION A. and M. figthing spirit. “A Texas A. and M. team is always to be fear ed,” remarked a former instructor in this institution, as he watched this year’s contest from the ring side. “They always keep on fighting after everyone else has quit”. He knows the A. and M. College and the A. and M. spirit, and the fact that he is now conected with another institution and is coaching another institution’s team, does not cause him to under estimate that fighting spirit. “Cat fish” Goodman, the corps and the band were all there to see the team off and to let them know everyone was be hind them and the team knew that when they returned, victory or no victory, the same bunch would be there to welcome them back. With a knowledge of such support as that no team could ever lay down upon this student body. The team’s first stop was the Uni versity of Missouri. The cordial wel come with which the team was i’e- ceived at this place could not be ex celled anywhere. The A. and M. team now understand fully the significance of the word “showed”, as it is used by a Missourian. They not only told our team they were welcome, but they showed them. From the time the team arrived until they left, three days later, they were made to feel at home. Every single animal posess- ed by the University was made avail able for the team to work upon. Be sides, there was always at least one instructor and usually several stu dents to accompany the team around the University. Prof Trobridge was kind enough to give the team as much of his time as he could very well spare from his work. Prof. Hughes, Secre tary fo the Dean, was especially kind LliL^^s, ih;u^"in'trai;icjiiy Ltvc entire time to them while they were working, and on Sunday evening he had them out to his home where the boys enjoyed a very pleasant even ing. Some of the members of the team declare that “Concept” Cook came very near going too far with the telling of wild tales about “down in Texas” in his attempt to detract the attention of those about him from the amount of popcorn he was eat ing. Cook, from all reports, had an insatiable desire for eating, excelled only by that of our dignified Colonel W. T. Burns. However, to return to the enter tainment of the team at Missouri, too much cannot be said in praising the Farm House boys of Missouri for the ■entertainment the team received at their hands. Besides having the team out to dinner with them one even ing, their homes were thrown open to the boys at all times. The Farm House, by the way, is a fraternity among the agricultural students of the University of Missouri. They have their own home as any other fraternity would have and the mem bership is made up of as fine a bunch of fellows as one could wish to meet. On leaving the University of Mis souri the team went to Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. Here is where they experienced their first taste of a northern winter. This first taste was a bad one and it is needless to say as long as the boys were in the north they never got over the first impression. It was at Ames that the Non-Collegiate Stock Judging team from Texas, under the supervision of Mr. H. H. Williamson, Extension Ser vice, joined the College team. Both teams worked together at Ames, making a party of twelve in all. Coxey’s Army had nothing on this Texas bunch. A side trip was made to Ankeny, Iowa to work out on Bel gian horses on the farm of Mr. Chas. Irvine. Mr. Irvine met the team at the station and carried them by auto mobile out to his farm. Although he was preparing to ship out his horses to the International Livestock Expo sition that evening, he was gracious enough to give the boys his entire afternoon helping them get straight on Belgian type. This was probably the most profitable afternoon’s work of the entire trip. The fact that the A. and M. team stood first in the con test in judging horses is largely due to their afternoon’s work at Mr. Ir vine’s. It was on the return trip to Ames that a very mysterious thing happened which the team has never been able to fully solve. The mystery is why did Prof. Stangel, the team’s coach, prefer to stay in a little town like Ankeny alone while the team caught the interurban back to Ames. Anyone of the entire party will ans wer that to his knowledge Prof. Stangel never drank a thing stronger than a cup of black coffee before the team lost him. Yet why did he miss his car when he was sitting in the depot and every other one in the party caught the car. Early Thanksgiving morning the Non-Collegiate team left Ames as their contest came off on Friday. Taking the day as a whole Thanks giving wasn’t altogether a pleasant experience for our team. All the morning was devoted to judging, the afternoon to inspecting the Iowa State College, and, incidentally, wish ing that they were back in Texas for the big game at A. and M. When the reports from the Ames-Drake game played at Des-Moines began to come in, they only served to make the A. and M. bunch the more homesick. All Friday w»—■ from Ames to Chicago and the team’s cheif occupation on this trip was mooching newspapers trying to find out the score of the Texas-A. and M. game. About the only incident of any importance that occured on this trip was when some one discovered the re sults of the game at College Station. The train narrowly escaped being wrecked. On arriving at Chicago the team was met at the hotel with the news that the Texas Non-Collegiate team had been beaten by only one point. That put the college team to think ing. To think of being so close and then losing. The night was a miser able night. Every man was strung to the highest pitch from the prev ious week’s work out. There was the double strain of not knowing who was on the team, for the team was not to be announced until the next morning and the knowledge that 7:30 the next morning, Saturday, November 29, brought each man face to face with the goal toward which each had been striving for four long years had no quieting effect upon his nerves. The question now was “will we be able to make it?” Early dawn found the eighteen teams who were to battle that day for the International Livestock Judg ing honors hastening toward the great pavillion of the International Live stock Exposition. The Texas team hastily forced a morsel of food down for no one could have an appetite that morning. While they were eat ing Prof. Stangel gave the standing of the men in the previous week’s work out. That standing determined who should go into the contest. Burns, Edwards, Derrick, Reed and Cook were to constitute the team and Stev ens was substitute. But there was no time for the men to comment on the results of the New Fall Suits l i Y i I T i t T T T T Y f I Y i 1 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y T I I f T t In the double breast ed belted models, the smart suit of the sea son for young men. You’ll find them here in a great collection of beautiful fall woolens, Browns, Greens, Greys, Blues and fancy mix tures, beautifully tail ored and finished. At $30, $37.50, $45 Copyright 1919, Hart Schaffner&.Marx Y A. M. WALDROP & GO. THE STORE FOR YOUNG MEN This is likely the last time you will read this Bat be fore Xmas, and I wish to thank you all for your liberal patronage for 1919, and assure you same has been appre ciated. If you are in need of a Xmas gift, I have them, and prices are guaranteed to be right. Wishing you all a happy Xmas and a safe return to A. and C. in 1920, and don’t forget I am always here to please and serve you. J. M. 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