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THE BATTALION
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D. H. KEITH, Statistician
and Intramural Athletic Editor
W. H. CALDWELL, Editor
O. C. GENTRY Associate Editor
E. D. SHERIDA]
Assistant Editor
CONFERENCE SEASON OPENS SATURDAY
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Aggies vs. the Mustangs, Fair Park
Stadium, Oct. 25.
Get that pass blank from your first
sergeant, fill it out and have it ap
proved immediately if you haven’t al
ready done it. It is going to take the
combined fight of both the team and
the twelfth man to win Saturday, so
be ready when the time comes to go.
* * *
Now we are not trying to assume
the role of “Doleful Doc” Stewart
and far be it from us to imitate him,
but there is something that we want
impressed firmly upon the minds of
every student here at A. and M: There
is a large number of you that think
we are going to walk away with this
game in Dallas Saturday. If you are
included in this number, for the love
o’ Mike dispell this mistaken idea
from your mind. If you could have
seen this team in action last Satur
day against State, you would realize
that this is not propaganda, but facts.
S. M. U. has an excellent team this
year. It is composed of veterans
that won the Southwestern Champion
ship last year and they haven’t for
gotten how to play football since they
won these honors during the last cam
paign. They have a splendid line and
an excellent backfield that is fast and
shifty. If they had a good punter,
thtir would have a combination that
would approach Utopia in the foot
ball world. And to top it off, they
have been instilled with confidence
after their victory over the Long
horns and are after us now. Get mean
gang, and let’s see some fight.
scribe. Don’t pay any attention to
this propaganda, but just get down
and help that football -team to win.
And above all, keep cool—don’t get
excited and wrought up unnecessa
rily. You take care of your end of
the battle; Coaches Bible and Roth-
geb with those eleven Fighting Farm
ers will take care of the rest.
RUSSELLVILLE AGGIES.
Last Saturday we played a team
from the neighboring state of Ar
kansas. They were new opponents
for the Aggies, from practically a new
school. Four years ago, the Russell
ville Aggies, as they are known in
their home state, were in the high
school division. At that time they en
tered collegiate ranks and their rise
to prominence in college circles has
been phenomenal. In these four years
they have been defeated three times;
these defeats coming one a year for
the past three years. The first one
came from Tulca U., the second from
the famous West Point eleven and the
third at the hands of the Farmers.
Arkansas is divided into four ag
ricultural districts and each district
has its own agricultural college—
Russellville Agricultural College be
ing the name of the school the Farm
ers played Saturday. This team is
to be highly commended for the rec
ord it has made. There are only about
350 students enrolled, and that fact
that it is a co-ed institution, de
creases the number available for the
athletic teams at least a third—per
haps a half.
They were at a disadvantage here
Saturday, coming from a cool climate
to the suffocating atmosphere of
FISH AND SCHREINER IN
STITUTE ELEVENS BATTLE
TO A SCORELESS TIE
First Year
Men Outplay
Team.
Kerrville
The Fish clearly outplayed Roy
Neely’s Schreiner Institute boys, but
were held to a scoreless tie. It was
a battle royal from beginning to end,
with the slimes having the edge on
the offense. In the last quarter, they
staged a terrific drive of five first
downs from their own forty-yard line
only to be cut off two yards short of
a touchdown by time being called.
There was some confusion as to
whether or not the time was really
up, but the Schreiner team was given
the decision.
This drive was due largely to the
line smashing of Willis and Sykes
who ripped through the line play
after play for large gains. Hunt han
dled the safety job nicely and got off
some long runs. Turner at quarter
Results of This Game Will Have Much!
to do With The Final Outcome
of the Conference Race.
ran his team well and also played
bang-up defensive game, intercept
ing two forward passes.
The line-up:
Freshmen Schreiner Inst.
Lester Dizzel
Left End
Woodland Henderson
Left Tackle
Speed Merriman
Left Guard
Sprout Rawlings
Center
Maufrias Greenaway
Right Guard
Carpenter Andrews
Right Tackle
By this time most of you have read
the sport pages of the various news
papers of the state in which start
ling statements have been and con
tinue to be made. They have caused
quite a furor over the campus, and all
this is quite unnecessary.
Just stop for a minute and think
this thing out. These articles have
been prepared for the press by some
inexeperienced writer in Dallas who
knows about as much about football
as the Average American does about
the Russian situation or the price of
putty. The boy is trying to pick
up some extra money by this kind of
work, and is trying to do it by in
venting wild tales with absolutely no
background on which to base these
so-called dope stories.
Anyone with any knowledge of the
game will readily detect the falacy
in the statement that “the Aggies’
offense could not dent, the sterling
defense of S. M. U.” when statistics
show that the Farmers made 14 first
downs to the 2 that the Mustangs
were able to make during the game.
This is merely an example of the ig
norant mutterings of a would-be sport
Brazos county, and having to travel B urne y Schubert
800 miles on top of that. Although
under severe handicaps, they put up
a game scrap and although outclass
ed in every department of the game,
they never lost sight of their sports
manship and played clean football
throughout the game. We enjoyed
their short visit to Aggieland, and
hope that the athletic relations be
tween these two schools will continue
for they are a clean cut bunch of
men.
* * *
Confidentially now, we hear from
certain persons that this “Wild Bull
of the Brazos Valley” is apt to look
much the same as a tame milk cow
about next Saturday night.
* * *
Looking from the press box that
“T” last week looked mighty good for
a first try. There wasn’t but one
pair of hands went up on “Rickety
Rock” and they didn’t get all the way
up.
T. C. U.’s scout to the game, Dutch
Meyer, couldn’t last the whole game
through. He left in time to catch the
‘Jennie” for- Houston. Too bad,
Dutch, that we couldn’t spread our
stuff for your benefit. Several other
scouts were here too—S. M. U. and
Baylor.
Right End
Turner Floy
Quarter
Willis Edwards
Left Half
Brock Moore
Right Half
Hunt Magee
Forward
Substitutions — Freshmen: Sykes,
Moore, Rektorik. Schreiner Institute:
Laughlin, Wolffmueller, Stafford,
Babb, Key.
Officials—Referee, Real; Umpire,
Remschel; Head Linesman, Franklin.
CONFERENCE STANDING.
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T. C. U 1
Baylor 1
S. M. U. 1
Texas Aggies 0
Rice Institute 0
Texas U. 1
Arkansas U. 1
Oklahoma Aggies 1
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We are about to pass the half wa
mark on that famous Thousand Mil
Walk. The road has been rough bu
not as rocky as we expected it to be
Saturday, we play our first conferenc
name with S. M. U. and including th
Turkey Day classic, there are fiv
games to be played against contend
ms for the southwestern honors thi
fall and every one of these have rea
"ootball teams. In other words th
rest of the way is going to be a Ion
uphill climb. If any of you thin
otherwise, just have someone to wak
you up for you are either unconscious
or dead from the neck up.
The results of the game Friday dh
not upset the dope much. S. M. U.’
lefeat of State did not come as j
T ery big surprise, although many ex.
pected “Doleful Doc’s” Steers to corm
through in a walk. But the Texas
■seam was badly crippled and did no
ohow much defensive strength on this
account. The Rice Owls were defeat
ed by Louisiana State on two costl;
'umbles. T. C. U. took Simmons int<
:amp by a small score and Baylor was
credited with a decisive win over Ar
kansas Razorbacks.
Saturday we face the Mustangs al
the Fair Park Stadium on the groun
that they defeated the Longhorns onl
a week before. They have a team o
veterans; a team composed of players
that won the championship last sea.
son, and that has been strengthened
by the addition of several brilliant
men. They present a fast, formidably
offensive and put down dangerous de
sense that is hard to penetrate.
For two years the Aggies have tak
en the small end of the score in th
games with this team. Are you goin
:o let them boast of a third ? It i
going to take the efforts of every on
■shat can possibly arrange to go t
Dallas on the 25th, for the twelfth jl
man in this game is going to be th<;
deciding factor. Men, you are going
to have to fight, and fight with more .
than you have shown so far this sea- '
son. Get right, gang! For we MUST
win.
SUMMARY OF THE TEXAS AGGI1
ARKANSAS AGGIE GAM!
Results of games last week:
Baylor 13, Arkansas 0.
S. M. U. 10, Texas 6.
L. S. U. 12, Rice 0.
T. C. U. 7, Simmons 0.
Oklahoma Aggies 23, Rolla School
of Mines 0.
Total No. Yds. Gained:
A. and M. 298.
Arkansas 96.
First Downs:
A. and M. 23.
Arkansas 5.
Passes:
A. and M. attempted 5, completed 2
Arkansas atempted 7, completed 1
Punts:
A. and M., Wilson 7 times for av.
erage of 46 yards; Pinson 3 times
for average of 43 yards.
Arkansas, Tucker 10 times for av
erage of 33 yards.
Penalties:
A. and M., 20 yards.
Arkansas, 15 yards.
WE MUST WIN that FIRST CONFERENCE GAME