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The Aggie basketeers left today on
their first and last extensive road
trip of the season. Wednesday night
they tangle with the Mustangs in
Dallas and during the week-end, they
will play games with the Arkansas
Razorbacks in Fayetteville. The lat
ter team has lost only one game this
season, and that one was to the strong
T. C. U. aggregation.
The following week, on February
3 3, Bible’s men face the Mustangs bn
the court in the new memorial gym
in the last contest before the dedi
catory game with the University
Longhorns the following Monday.
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BALL TOSSERS
HARD AT WORK
ON KYLE FIELD
Prospects for Winning Team Bright
en as Players are Declared Schol
astically Eligible.
Coach Rothgeb’s ball hawks are
hard at work, practicing daily to get
into condition for the opening of the
baseball season. Advantage has been
taken of every bit of warm weather
and the entire squad of nearly fifty
men have been working out on Kyle
Field. The first game of the season
was played Saturday before last be
tween two teams picked from the men
on the squad.
Coach Billy Disch will have a vet
eran combination in the field when
the baseball season opens, that will
be strengthened by the addition of
several freshman stars from last
season. So will Coach Rothgeb.
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Word has been broadcasted from
Austin that many of their freshman
stars in football have either flunked
out or have quit school. Dispatches
telling of their reinstatement or that
they have suddenly or miraculously
become eligible are expected with ev
ery issue of the daily press.
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The Intramural Football League
has passed its halfway mark. Many
men that will be of value to Coach
Bible in the selecting of next season’s
football squad are being found and
the members of the 1924 freshman
team are adding experience and gain
ing confidence while playing in Aggie-
land’s own football conference.
IMPORTANT GAMES SCHED
ULED FOR SATURDAY
INTRUMURAL LEAGUE
The intramural football season is
half over. Five of the seven teams
remain undefeated but only three of
them have broken into the games
won column.
Owing to the fact that exams were
the order of the day last week and
that so many men had left the com-
pus after they had finished their
work, the games were suspended.
They will be resumed Saturday after
noon with the following games on the
card: Air Service vs. Artillery; 1st
Battalion vs. Cavalry; Composite vs.
3rd Battalion.. These games will
have a very important bearing on the
outcome of the race for supremacy as
all of the undefeated teams are slat
ed to play. Come out that afternoon
and give your team the support they
deserve.
Stock in the club took a sharp rise
after the examinations were over and
practically all of the men who are out
for the team made satisfactory grades
in their work.
There are letter men back for ev
ery position and this material is sup
plemented by members of the strong
freshmen team of last season who are
back this year fighting hard for
places on the Aggie nine. If the
pitchers can come through with the
goods, the cadets are practically as
sured of a team that will render a
splendid account of themselves in the
conference pennant chase that will be
gin in March.
DEDICATORY EXERCISES AND
DANCE IN NEW GYM, ON
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH
Monday, the sixteenth, is to be an
eventful day at the College. With
the coming of the old “T” men, the
dedicatory exercises of the Gym, the
dance, (and most important of all)
the game, business should be rush
ing.
The exercises are to be held in the
gym at seven o’clock, and immediate
ly following will be the game with
State University. The game will
probably be over by nine thirty and
the dance will start as soon as the
floor can be arranged and the gym
is cleared. The dance is to be a regu
lar corps dance given in honor of the
old “T” men and is scheduled to be
a gala affair.
TEAM STANDING IN INTRA
MURAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
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3rd. Battalion
Composites . .
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In two of the fastest games of
basketball ever played in the south
west, the Texas Aggies were twice
in as many days the victims of the
terrific onsloughts of John Maul-
betsch’s charges from Oklahoma A.
& M. The first game ended 24 to
15 although the pupils of Dana Bible
scored more points than the visiting
Aggies, while the second encounter
ended with the Texans on the small
end of the 19 to 17 score.
First Game.
The visitors opened the game with
a dazzling attack that the Texas Ag
gies were unable to solve and before
the first twelve minutes had ended the
score stood 12 to 1 in favor of the Ok
lahoma aggregation. At the close of
the half, the Texas team staged a
somewhat belated rally and the period
ended 16 to 6.
During the latter half of the en
counter the pupils of Coach Dana
managed to hold their own, but the
lead that had been piled up by the
visiting team was too great and
there was* little hope of wrestling the
laurels of victory from their grasps,
despite the fact that nine points were
added to eight for the invaders.
Lookabaugh and Captain Connor
both played brilliant games for the
Oklahomans although it would be
rather an injustice to the other mem
bers of the team to name any indi
vidual stars. The excellent team
work and the ability of the entire
team to make long shots were the
factors that made possible their vic
tory and spelled defeat for the Tex
ans. Hall was high point man of the
contest with a total of 13 points.
Dealy and Wilcox playing forwards
for the Texas Aggies, were the high
point men for that team, the former
accounting for three field goals
and Wilcox looping two of that vari
ety and one free throw. “Punk” Bak
er turned his best game of the sea
son at guard and this is evidenced by
the fact that all of the goals made
by the pupils of Maulbetsch were
made from long shots.
The lineup and score:
Oklahoma Aggies
Position PG FT To’l
Calmes, forwar..d 2 0 4
Peery, forward 2 1 5
Hall, center 6 1 13
Connor, guard 0 2 2
Lookabaugh, guard 0 0 0
Elder, forward 0 0 0
Total 10 4 24
Texas Aggies
Position FG FT To’l
Dealy, forward 3 0 6
Wilcox, forward 2 1 5
Kyle, center 0 0 0
Washburn, guard 1 1 3
Baker, guard 0 1 1
Tucker, forward 0 0 0
Damon, forward ......... 0 0 0
Duckett, foi'ward 0 0 0
Totals 6 3 15
Referee: Sweeney, Bethany.
Second Game.
The Saturday night’s tussle was a
heartbreaking loss for Bible’s men.
It was the most thrilling encounter
that has ever been witnessed on the
court at College Station; two extra
five minute periods being necessary
to decide the victor. Captain Wash
burn blazed his way into basketball
history at Aggieland by looping two
goals from beyond the center of the
court making the two extra periods
necessary to determine the winner of
the exciting contest.
The Texans stepped off to an early
start through the aggressiveness of
Kyle, Dealy, and Washburn and the
first half ended with the score 10
to 5 in their favor.
At the start of the final period,
both teams came back with a furious
rush that lasted the entire length
of the half, and kept the student body
and spectators on their feet the en
tire time in the excitement of the
affair. After the invaders had
rushed the ball against the defense
of the defense for a couple of times
with out success, they launched an
aerial attack from the center of the
court and its vicinity. This togeth
er with several free throws enabled
the visitors to cut down the lead that
the Texas Farmers had gained dur
ing the first half. Hall looped a long
shot and tied the score and Peery
placed another one in the basket to
put his team in the lead. With only
ten seconds left to play, Washburn
astonished the thousands that packed
the new gym by a sensational shot
made from the center of the court
just before the shot was fired that
would have ended the game. After
a minutes rest, the team returned to
take up their furious gait that had
been maintained through the game.
The Oklahomans repeatedly attempt
ed to bring the ball down to within
scoring distance but met with dismal
failure when they struck the air
tight defense laid down by Washburn
and Baker. In a desperate effort to
score they resorted to long shots and
finally Hall tallied. And with only
seconds left to play, the stocky guard
and captain of Coach Bible’s aggre
gation again repeated his spectacu
lar feat of a few minutes before
by looping another basket from al
most exactly the same spot on the
court, and another extra five minutes
were required to settle the tied
score. But the strenuous pace that
had been set throughout the game
was beginning to tell on both teams
and the play was slowed up. The
visitors with their clever passing
finally succeeded in chalking up
another marker that the Texans were
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