THE BATTALION
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O. H. KEITH,
Statistical!.
W. H. CALDWELL, Editor.
0. C. GENTRY, Asso. Editor.
E. D. SHERIDAN,
Assistant Editor.
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ability to win athletic battles. Be-
The first of those three games have
been safely tucked away in the old
duffle bag. Two more remain on the
list that must be won; The defeat
of last year at the hands of Rice
must be avenged; and then the Texas
University game on Turkey Day at
the brand new stadium; but we have
plenty of time to consider the crown
ing event of the 1924 season. This
week must be spent in preparation for
the Owl invasion.
Down at Houston, they have a new
cra:hing staff at the Institute, made
up of men that are nationally famous
in the football world. The head
ccach, Heisman, has written books
that are considered by football men
to be text-books on the subject. He
gained recognition several years ago
when he was coach at Georgia Tech
cause a victory has been won on the
athletic field of honor does not justi
fy a demand upon the academic de
partment for the discontinuance of
classes for a day to proclaim to out
siders the fact that we have defeated
our opponents. Aggie traditions are
not built upon such weak foundations.
The only instance that can be re
called where a holiday was proclaimed
over athletic achievements, was in
1922 when the Aggies won the South
western Conference title in basketball
after a hotly contested struggle. The
Aggies defeated the' University of
Texas on Kyle Field one Friday night,
thereby winning the championship. A
half holiday was given the student
body by Pres. Bizzell the next day.
FRESHMEN DEFEAT
ALLEN ACADEMY
ARMISTICE DAY
Undefeated Team Adds Another Vic
tory to Its List
They have as line coach, Bedenck, who | This was the same year that the Ag-
was placed on Walter Camp’s All-igies were champions of the South
American team as a tackle last year. | and the half holiday was in recogni-
These men have developed a team
this year that is the best Rice has had
in years; a team that have strong
hopes of defeating the Aggies on
Kyle Field.
The Aggies seem to have a member
of the famous “Grange” family in its
lineup. This is none other than the
diminutive Bob Berry, the outstand
ing star of the Aggie-Horned Frog
game. Berry, with his brilliant runs,
gained a total of 263 yards in this en
counter, gaining on almost every at
tempt. However he did not receive
the credit of a single touchdown that
was made by the Farmers. He made
cne after a sensational 28-yard, brok
en field run, but the play was called
back and the Aggies penalized 15
yards for using their hands on the of
fensive.
* *
The following is an extract from
Jinx Tucker’s column in the Waco
News-Tribune:
“Fumbles certainly have prov
en disastrous to A. and M. dur
ing the last two years. Some day
one of Bible’s men is going to
pick up a fumble to win an
important game for A. and M.,
and Aggieland will celebrate the
event with a holiday.”
It is true that fumbles have proven
our downfall on several occasions dur
ing the past two years. However, if
one of the Aggie players should hap
pen to pick up a fumble and as a re
sult win a game for the Farmers,
there would not be a demand made up
on the faculty the next day, or even
several days later as some schools in
this state do, for a holiday on which
to celebrate the occasion. Such ac
tions are a reflection upon the team’s
tion of the two championships that
had been won to that time.
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Charlie Waugh added another block
ed punt to his credit against T. C. U.
when he broke thru the line and block
ed Clark’s attempt. The big Aggie
tackle recovered the ball and trotted
over the goal line for a touchdown. It
was the second one that he has block
ed this season against a conference
team,—the other against S. M. U. in
Dallas.
* * *
Hardman played the greatest game
of his career last Friday: He was
all over the field, making tackles right
and left, besides opening holes thru
which a wagon could have passed with
ease. If an outstanding man in the
A. and M. line would be named it
would certainly be this individual. If
his next two games are like this one,
some body is ging to have to hustle to
beat him out of a place on that myth
ical eleven.
* *
D. X. certainly gave us a very
pleasant surprise when that new pass
ing attack was launched against the
Frogs. Dansby, on the sending end of
the aerial attack, is improving won
derfully.
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Clark, the T. C. U. quarter, is one
of the neatest little field generals we
have seen this season. He was be-
youd question, the outstanding indi
vidual for the visitors. Besides be
ing a capable general he is a brilliant
defensive man. It was he that on
many occasions came from the safety
position that he was playing to tackle
the Aggie backs after they had pass
ed the line of scrimmage.
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In one of the feature events of the
Armistice Day celebration held in
Bryan Tuesday, the Aggie Freshmen
defeated the fast Allen Academy elev
en by the one-sided score of 36 to 14.
The game was featured by long runs
and fumbles on both teams. Coach
Anderson’s men flashed an open run
ning attack that the Academy for
wards were unable to solve and before
the second quarter was two minutes
old, two touchdowns were marked up
to the credit of the Slimes.
Allen was forced to take up the de
fensive at the very start of the game.
Their kick-off went over the goal line
and the ball was put into play on
the twenty-yard line. On the first
play, the rangy Sykes drove over left
tackle from a punt formation, and
passing the line of scrimmage, weav
ed his way through the rest of the
Allen team and raced eighty yards
with perfect interference for the first
touchdown. It was completed and the
extra point added before the game
was two minutes old.
The second counter came in the
early part of the second period. Hunt
intercepted a pass, and the Fish back-
field carried the ball to Allen’s 30-
yard line, where they were stopped
for two plays but on the third, Willis
completed a perfect pass to Hunt who
received it on the dead run and ran
over the last marker for the touch
down. Hunt kicked the goal.
In the second quarter, Coach An
derson sent in the second team, and it
was against them that the Freshman
goal line was crossed for the first
time this season. Allen scored two
touchdowns against them before the
half ended. In the last half, the first
team was sent back and before the
final whistle that ended the game had
blown, three more Freshmen had car
ried the ball over the enemies’ goal
line and had added a safety for good
measure.
Fish Allen
Calloway Bethea
Woodland
Left End
(C)
Speed
Left Tackle
Sprott
Left Guard
Recktorick
Center
Hill
Right Guard
Right Tackle
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Coaches Heisman and Bedenck, to
gether with their collection of Owls
from Rice Institute, accompanied by
practically the entire student body,
will fly into Aggieland Friday with
but one purpose in view,—to beat A.
and M. on Kyle Field. They have
been pointing to this game since the
very beginning of the season and
have been waiting until the day ar
rived when they could invade the home
of the Aggies. Judging from the
games played between these two
schools in the past, the Farmers are
expecting the usual fighting team that
Rice puts on the field every year when
they play A. and M. No matter how
bad their eleven shows up against the
other schools, they can always be ex
pected to play the best game of the
season when they face the pupils of
Bible. To them, the game with the
Aggies is the climax of their foot
ball season. They measure the suc
cess of the year by the results of this
annual struggle.
The Owls present one of the most
formidable elevens that has been
gathered together at Rice in many
years. They were powerful enough to
trounce the Longhorns to the tune of
18 to 6 in Houston two weeks ago
and they haven’t lost any of their
power in the two short weeks that
separated that game with the one with
the Aggies. It is true that Austin
College took the game from them in
Houston last Friday, but the Kanga
roos were playing a team that was
not up to its form by a large margin.
From tackle to tackle, the Owls have
the heaviest line in the Southwest.
The rest of the team adds to the
strength of the line, a brilliant pass
ing game and an exceptionally good
running atack. They also satnd with
runing attack. They also stand with
ence standing.
The Aggies, on the other hand, have
the sting of defeat from last year
still smarting them. They face Coach
Heisman’s eleven Saturday not the
team that tied S. M. U. in the Fair
Park Stadium or the one that took
the small end of the score in Bear
fracas a week later in Waco, but
a rejuvenated team; a team that
will flash an entirely different of
fensive and lay down the same im
pregnable defense that was exhibited
in the game with the Horned Frogs.
It will be eleven men fighting to
avenge the defeat of a year ago.
In every game on Kyle Field this
year, the Farmers have emerged vic
torious. The game with the Owls will
be the last to be played this season
on that battle-scarred ground. We
must close this year’s campaign on it
with a clean slate, and to keep this
record free from the tarnish of de
feat, those Owls must be sent back
to their roosting place without the
laurels of victory flying from their
colors; they must be crushed; owl
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