THE BATTALION
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REVIEW OF BASKETBALL SINCE
ITS INAUGURATION AT A. AND
M. COLLEGE IN 1913.
(By James Sullivan)
Basket ball at the A. and M. Col
lege of Texas is a new game as com
pared with the other major sports as
the 1920 team is only the eighth quint
to represent the College in this branch
of sport. The spring of 1913 marked
the entry of this sport at the College
and a baby team was turned out that
season. Eddie Driess of SanAntonio
has the honor of being the captain of
the first basket ball team at A. and
M. and F. D. Steger, then general sec
retary of the Y. M. C. A. coached
the team. No college games were
scheduled that season, but the team
played several of the leading Y. M.
C. A. teams of the state together with
normal schools and fast high school
teams. Only six games were played,
however, and the Aggies won four
and lost two, dropping one each to
Galveston Y. M. C. A. and to Hous
ton High. The A. and M. five scored
311 points to their opponents 96 dur
ing the season.
Little improvement in the team in
1914 was made and again only a mod
est showing is credited to the five rep
resenting A. and M. that season. Of
the seven games played the Aggies
registered five victories. Only two
college games were included in the
schedule, both being Howard-Payne
of Abilene, Texas. Captain Peters
of Hondo led the team and it was
again coached by F. D. Steger. This
team scored 271 points while their
opponents were scoring 108 in the
seven games.
It was not until 1915 that the Ag
gies really broke into conference in
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fifteen games winning thirteen and
losing two, one to Texas Christian
University and the other to Rice In
stitute. This team met and defeated
some of the best teams in the State,
among them the Decatur Baptist Col
lege, Southwestern University and
Baylor University. The Aggies ran
up a total score of 497 points to their
opponents 272. The team was cap
tained by “Nic” Braumiller of Tex
arkana and was coached by F. D.
Steger. On this team were such men
as Dudley Everett, Marion Settegast
and Max Gilfillan whose athletic abil
ity has been recognized on numerous
occasions as each of them have been
the choice of several coaches in pick
ing an all-State and an all-South-
western foot ball team. This team
scored 497 point to their opponents
272.
The season of 1916 opened with
every prospect of the Aggies being
first under the wire. Thirteen games
were played that season including
games with Baylor, Tulane Univer
sity, Southwestern University and
Rice Institute. The Aggies and the
Longhorns did not meet since the
Longhorns were still using the out
door court and would not agree to
play on an indoor court, thus no game
was scheduled. The Aggie five were
runners-up for the conference title,
winning eleven of the thirteen games
played, scoring 442 points to their op
ponents 174. Such men as “Nic” and
Walter Braumiller, Marion Settigast,
Gilfillen and Burkett played on this
team. “Nic” Braumiller was again
captain and the team was coached b£
D. V. Graves.
The Aggies were coached in 1917
by Lieutenant Morris, an old West
Point star and Assistant Commandant
of the Cadet Corps at the College.
Lieutenant Morris got better results
with his team than any man who had
up to that time directed the destinies
of an A. and M. quint. Burkett,
Settigast and Gilfillen formed the
nucleus of the team and around them
a hard fighting fast five was formed.
The four Texas games that season
formed the climax of a successful
year. The Aggies set an association
record by shutting out Daniel Baker
without a score. Gilfillan and Bur
kett were chosen on Ruggles’ all
conference team that year. The Ag
gies scored 504 points to their oppon
ents 362. With this team graduated
Captain Burkett, Settigast and Gil
fillen.
The season of 1918 opened with
only two letter men answering the
call for basket ball. Coach Bible
was called into the service and W. L.
Driver at this juncture took up the
work of endeavoring to develop a
winner in basket ball for A. and M.
With a green team the Aggies won
ten and lost eight games during the
season, scoring 329 points to their op
ponents 311. The conference title
this year ended in a decided muddle.
Texas had split even with Rice and
Baylor, while the Aggies had per
formed the same feat. All teams
were short on veteran material that
season and very few out-standing
stars were shown. That season, how
ever, developed some fast men for the
Aggies who afterwards proved their
mettle. They were Longcope captain
of the 1919 team and McQuillen, cap
tain of the championship 1920 quint.
“Tubby” Starnes of San Antonio was
captain of the 1918 team.
With the return of many students
from the service the basket ball sea
son of 1919 opened with every pros
pect of a championship team and but
for an unfortunate loss at Waco to
a team that had been defeated by the
Aggies three times that season by
scores of 41 to 8; 39 to 5 and 56 to
24, would have won the conference
title. Of the four games played be
tween the Aggies and the Longhorns
that season each team won two. In
these games the Aggies scored 86
points and the Longhorns 84, or an
average of 21 1-2 and 21 points re
spectively to the game. It is thus
seen that the teams were very evenly
matched and both played true to form.
The season as a whole marked the
most successful year in the history of
the College. Eleven of the fourteen
collegiate games were won with a total
of 535 points against their opponents
294. Eddie Longcope was captain
and the team was coached by W. L.
Driver.
By defeating the Longhorn two
games here Friday and Saturday
nights the Aggies closed the basket
ball season of 1920 with nineteen
straight victories and won the South
western conference championship. The
team representing A. and M. College
met and defeated all the leading
teams in the conference, playing four
games each with Baylor University,
Rice Institute, and Southern Meth
odist University and the University of
Texas. Two games were played with
the Baylor Medics of Dallas and one
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