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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1919)
THE BATTALION 3 wek’s work out. Only a few minutes more remained for the men to get to the seats assigned them. The coaches only advice was “Fellows” this isn’t going to be a one man contest. It is going to be a team that wins and it is to be a figthing team. I know you have got the fight.” The wisdom of this advice was seen later in the re sults. That was enough said. The team knew they had the fight, or at least they felt that way. Blood was in their eyes, or was it the vision of that old student body way down in Texas wildly cheering and the “Wlid Cat” as the train had born them away from College Station, or was it a vision of that same student body welcoming them back upon their return. What ever it was, something in the eyes of those Texans spelled no special good for their opponents. The Texas team had been “dopped” clear out of the contest. In fact, few seemed to realize that Texas would be in the contest at all. The coach was young and inexperienced, and the older and more experienced coaches having teams in the contest were inclined to ignore him entirely. Where they got this idea of inexper ience it is hard to say, yet it is need less to say that all of them were en tirely disillusioned when the results of the contest were posted. Every man was given his number and a seat to correspond to that num ber, and to use the language of the superintendent of the contest, every man had to be covering that number on his seat when he was not judging. Team mates were not permitted to be together. Here is one of the most trying things about the contest from the contestants standpoint. The man on the right or left is a stranger to you. You may be from Texas, the man on your right may be from Dakotas, the man on your left may be from Pennsylvania. Further more, in so far as the contest is con cerned, these men are your enemies. One never has a chance to speak a word to his team mate. This stock judging contest is truly an instance of every fellow for himself and the devil take the hind most. Every man must keep in mind everything the coach has told him in the past, he hasn’t a team mate beside him to help him over the rough places. There isn’t much about a judging contest that is of interest to a looker on. There is no playing to the grand stand, there is no encouragement to come from the side line. Prof. Stan- gel made the remark that through the entire contest not one single time could he catch the eye of a member of the Texas team. Evidently the team realized the true situation, that the coach had done all he could and now it was up to them. Twelve classes of livestock consti tuted the placing in the contest and this was completed by noon. All the contestants were given lunch in the dining room of the Stock Yard Inn. Appetites were not in evidence at this meal. After luncheon the contestants were assembled in a large hall and the judges began immediately to take reasons. Then began the real tug of war. By the middle of the afternoon everyone began to feel the effects of the excessive strain. From then on it was an endurance contest. Men who had shown up strong in the beginning now began to weaken. Others who had not been so strong continued to hold up to the end. It is in the giving of reasons that a team has its real opportunity of im pressing its personality upon the judges. It was remarked more than once by the judges that the Texas team was fighting the others off their feet. This explains in a large way the victory of the Texas team. Dur ing the last few sets of reasons the physical and nervous strain began to tell to the limit. Many of the men had to support themselves on a stool while giving reasons on one of the classes of livestock. But it was good to see every member of the Texas team attend first to the kicking that stool under the table before he began on his set of reasons. The team was too worn out to sit up for the results of the contest. They went immediately to the hotel and went to bed. But there wasn’t much sleep to be had, for visions of cattle and horses and sheep and hogs were swimming before the eyes. Every one had finally fallen asleep when Prof. Stan gel returned to the hotel at 2 a. m., Sunday with the news that the Texas team had won. Then pan demonium broke loose. The night man came around to our team’s rooms and suggested that the boys be a lit tle less noisy but it was useless to talk to a bunch of maniacs. They fell upon each other’s shoulders and it isn’t at all unlikely that some one cried a little bit. And the proudest one of all was the Coach, Prof. Stan- gel, “Runt” as he is affectionately called by the team. It was rightly so that he should be proud. Prof. Stangel was origin ally a member of the International Livestock Judging team from this in stitution but was not permitted to compete on account of the contest being called off when the foot and mouth disease was raging in the north. It was his first experience coaching an International Team and it is certainly an enviable record to put out a championship team the first time. The team gives Prof. Stangel the credit for winning and he gives the team the credit. The college knows that both the team and Prof. Stangel come in for their share of the honors and there are certainly enough honors in such a victory for both. This makes the second time this college has won the bronze bull trophy. The rule is when it is won three times by the same institution it becomes the permanent property of that institution. No other institu tion has succeeded in winning the trophy more than once. The Junior class is already getting ready to make the bull permanent property of this institution. As “Alkali” Reed the man that comes from a family of stock judges expressed it the night when Prof. Stangel had brought the results to the team, “By gads, fellers, we’ve got two knots tied in that bull’s tail and next year we’ve got to tie the third one.” We believe the Juniors are the ones to tie the “third one” and thus keep the bull in our own corral. THE CAMPUS CLUB More than fifteen hundred stu dents are registered at A. and M. Fourteen hundred and fifty of these are going home. About two score are from such distances that this ■pleasure is prohibited them. While enjoying the holidays to the full est, remember these men and send a wee bit back to College Station to the Campus Club. They have such arrangements as to share all pack ages equally. Each sender will re ceive a card of thanks and the Bat talion will publish the names of those who remembered the Campus Club when the holidays are over. 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