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VOL. XXVIII
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 26, 1920.
NUMBER 16
JUNIOR STOCK
JUDGING TEAM
LEAVES SOON
Coach Stangle Inaugurates a Unique
Method of Choosing
the Team
THE BIG NOISE
MINSTREL WAS A
GREAT SUCCESS
Big Audience Entertained by All-
Star Cast With Music
and Fun
Judgir, ^
Feems as if Coa^jp-i
In just a few more hours so to
R '- the men who will actiA-oi'vr
Junior StocJ'"
Will be know
Stangel is trying to keep a few Jum
iors in the greatest anxiety for the
longest possible period of time. How
ever, such is indeed not the case, for
the new system of picking the team
aims to give absolutely every one a
fair shot at the team and yet give
the strongest possible team.
This time Coach Stangel has pick
ed nine men to work out for the
team this final week. Heretofore,
the men who actually composed the
team and who went on the trip were
given the final workout during the
last week. Out of this nine will be
picked a team of seven. Formerly
only six men have made the trip.
Heralded by a multitude of posters
and announcements that the .great
“Catfish” would_ nnsitivelv f eliver
*fs an end-rnan.^-Crte' Big
THE AGGIE FIVE
DEFEAT RICE IN
BOTH GAMES
Owls Throw Scare Into Overconfi
dent Aggies in Second Game But
Are Finally Defeated
By annexing the last two games
against Rice the A. and M. quint
MAHAN’S TEAM
WINS THE ALL
COMPANY TITLE
W i nne rs of the All-Company Silver
Footballs Picked by Seven
Judges
In the fastest, cleanest and “pep
piest” all-company football game
e lM\\v : gim ; ^ Until seven-thirty all
doors" g J.Vv, .. lAirdome were" guarded
and only'^f.npus residents and fair
dames with “rinctumed” cadets and
Casuals were permitted to loll in
the cloak-room or take their seats in
the parquet. Eager eyes were
watching through the places where
the windows used to be*, as the
hordes of humans hunting happiness
surged from the dormitories. It was
a cosmopolitan gathering—aristo
crats from the court-rooms of Milner
trod on the pedal foundations of ruf
fians from the corner-rooms of Biz-
zell, and freely exchanged compli
ments with the lordly doorkeepers.
About the time we usually turn our
rp, • , . ----- attention from cattle-pens and our
Z.T r ln V U c.""’; 1 1 of imagination on the funda-
broke another record and continued i that has ever been played on A. and
on its unito.KujateA- wa.v_tqw.arcl an ,ohinUffrrect - Ivxai.ar. ./’ngne-
week are: R. C. Mowery, S. C.
Evans, Jack Mahan, M. G. Snell, C.
Luker, H. C. Robinson, E. C. Ward,
M. Menzies and C. H. Rothe. With
such competition among themselves
with none knowing exactly who is to
make the team the chances are very
rosy that the team when it is made
will be composed of men who will
be all the stronger due to the keen
competition. Let the best men win.
The contests in Oklahoma City
and Ft. Worth have simmered down
to the proportions of duel contests
between Oklahoma and Texas. For
a time it seemed as if there would be
quite a delegation of teams, but they
all got cold feet, or for some other
unaccountable reasons will not turn
up when Texas and Oklahoma cast
their hats in the ring. It is very dis
appointing indeed, that some of the
stronger teams from Kansas, Iowa,
etc did not come, .for we will be in
the dark as to the strength of the
teams these states will turn out for
the International next fall.
mental nature of light, the doors
were opened and in thirty-three and
two-fifths seconds the audience was
ready to be entertained. However,
many minutes were to pass before
the curtain should rise. Each new
comer was inspected and all circum
stances with the coming of said new
comer were discussed. The A. and
Five jazzed in and the audience
had music with its gossip. The jazz
was snappy and the waltz was
dieamy, but both were eclipsed tem
porarily by the arrival of the com
mandant. Expectancy rose as
eight-thirty drew near and the red
lights began to wink behind the cur
tain. On time to the minute, the
lights flashed off and a hush greeted
the opening number of the Bitr
Noise.
The immortal “Old Black Joe” was
the first offering of the well-bal
anced chorus. An attempt to men
tion all of the effective chorus num
bers would consume too much space
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undefeated season. Seventeen games
have the Farmer boys played
and although they have been pretty
lucky on some of the close ones,
seventeen victories are marked down
to their credit. The one ambition of
the ubiquitous Owls was to take just
one game from the Aggie club and
at the end of the first half of the
second game it looked as if their de
sire was to be fulfilled.
The most insiduous evil a suc
cessful team must combat, is over-
confidence, and at the start of the
second game the home club was so
full of ttiahtit xzfiffffivbgkqjvbgk
full of it that it fairly oozed from
their bodies. They went into the
game under the impression that it
was impossible to lose and as a re
sult the Rice five outfought, outshot
and outpassed the Aggies thoungh-
out the first half. With the score
8-5 against them the now awakened
Farmers rallied and of course Rice
was no match for them. Capt. Mc-
Quillen started the fireworks by
three fast field goals in the first five
minutes of the second half and
Forbes pulled himself together and
kept the good work going. With
the whole team playing like fiends
the game ended with Driver’s boys
winners by a score of 28-13.
The first game was a walkaway
for the Red and Wdiite. Securing the
lead early in the first half the Far
mers were never headed and the
Owls went down to defeat to the
er and faster team won over Ex-
Captain Wilson’s football aggrega
tion by the close margin of 7-0.
The lone score of the game was
made when Ogle, end on Mahan’s
team, recovered a fumble and ran
thirty yards for a touchdown fol
lowed by a kicked goal.
The game was played Sunday,
Feb. 22, before the largest and
most enthusiastic crowd that ever
watched an all-company game at
this institution.
Substitutions were freely made on
both sides in order to give every man
on each team an opportunity to
show his ability.
Some twenty substitutions were
made.
Every man fought gamely and
despeiately throughout the game in
older to qualify for the mythical
all-company eleven and possession of
one of the silver footballs which are
given every year to each man win
ning a place on the all -company
team.
Those men showing special ability
on Mahan’s team and picked for all
company were: Scofield, fullback;
Beasley, halfback; McGharity,
quarter; Legg, center; Wendt, guard;
Brown, tackle; Riggs, end.
Those making the all-company
team from Wilson’s team were: Mc
Millan, half; Deitrich, guard; Winn,
tackle; Wilson, end.
Every man picked for the all-com-
pany team starred in playing his par-
tune of 43-13. The whole Aggie ticular position. The head-work and
team starred and the game was fea
tured by fast passing and excellent
foul shooting by Forbes. The ref
ereeing of Henderson of Texas was
the best seen here this year. Driver’s
five ends the season with Texas
Fiiday and Saturday at home and
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carrying of the ball by McGharity,
the punting and passing of Scofield,
the aggressive defensive and offen
sive work of Deitrich, Legg, Wendt,
Brown, and Winn, the defensive
work, tackling and handling of pass
es by Riggs and Wilson and the
tackling, interference work and all-
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