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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1925)
THE BATTALION from point where the ball had been put in play. This caused much con fusion as to which team should have possession of the ball and often re sulted in a team being given almost the length of the field on a penalty. In the future the penalty will be 2£ yards from the spot where the foul occurred. 7. Shoulder pads unless made of soft material, must be thoroughly padded on the outside. 8. Rules against flying tackles and tackling below the knees stricken out. Neither rule has been enforced for years and it was decided that they had no place in the code. 9. The scrimmage line was defined as an imaginary vertical plane. Here tofore the scrimmage line has been regarded as an imaginary line on the field of play and laws relative to the position of hands and feet were ap plied with that idea in view. It was agreed that the scrimmage line is in reality a plane and that it was not necessary that the player crouch down and place his hands on the ground to comply with the law. Thus shifting from one position to another will be rendered much easier and much fast er. 10. Committee recommended that preparatory and high school teams should not play more than twenlve- minute quarters. 11. When an off-side player touch es a kicked ball, the ball then bound ing across the opponents goal line or toward the kicking side’s goal and the off-side player touches it a second time he has committed two fouls and either may be accepted by the offend ed team. Of course, if the ball was first touched outside the 20-yard line the defensive team would naturally take the ball at that point but if it were touched inside the 20-yard line and then rolled over the goal line and touched by off-side player a second time the team offended would elect the second foul which would give a touchback. 12. Approved rulings relating to cases, such as time taken out and as to whether time should be charged against a captain when a substitution is made were adopted. The death of Mr. Camp halted the discussion on several points which will be handled by mail vote and results recorded at a later date. TWO WELL KNOWN STUDENTS RESIGN Sommers Putnam, well known and popular student, has reported for work at Zacapa, Guatemala. Putnam will be employed by the firm of Kil- hauer and Rodezno in the construction of a railway from the interior of Gua temala to the coast. Putnam came to A. and M. with the present senior class. He distinguish ed himself in football, though never winning a letter, he has won the name of the hardest fighter on the several squads he has played with. In his three and one-half years here Put nam has made many friends, all of whom regretted to see him leave. Lester Hagan, ex-humorous editor of The Battalion, has also resigned from school. Hagan’s resignation comes as a result of his father’s bad health, and it is our opinion that Lester should be commended for sac rificing his personal good for the wel fare of the one who needs him. Hagan’s loss is felt by The Bat talion, for he has been quite a capable member of its staff. It is the sin- cerest wish of the staff as well as his many friends that circumstances will allow him to return to school next fall. Hagan’s successor is C. F. Gorman. ♦j* *$*• ■*$» *$*■ -*5* ■»£♦ *£* •i* ❖ * SAY BO, DIDJ’A! * ❖ ❖ ♦£* ♦f**f*' Say Bo Was it one of those Terrible Friday afternoons, When the entire cadet corps Feels the INCLINATION to Don the old NO. 1 UNIFORM and March around the DRILL FIELD To the martial notes of the band, In honor of certain visitors of PODUNK CENTER? Didja PAINFULLY decide that Even though your MILITARY HEART WAS WITH THE BOYS? You would have to refrain From attending the review And catch some much-needed SHUT-EYE that you had lost While rushing the COLLEGE WIDOWS? Didja consign yourself To the gentle arms of MORPHEUS? But were you rudely , Awakened by the steady knocking Of the “TACTLESS” OFFICER IN Charge ? Didja heart beat faster Than those martial Notes of music, As you dashed into the closet? Didja hear a pass-key Enter and unlock the door And were you found in the CLOSET Clothed in B. V. D.’s and socks And a SAM BROWNE BELT, DIG'GIN in a box of SAW DUST! And the stern question: “What are you doing in here?” Didja very inaptly reply: “SIR, I AM LOOKING FOR MY SABRE.” In the RAMING that followed Didja thoroughly realize that: It would be easier for a BUZZARD to be CURED OF HALITOSOS Than for a 2ND LIEUTENANT To MISS a REVIEW formation? Say Bo, didja? BASSET ORR DID! CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS ARE ANNOUNCED The United States Civil Service Commission announces the following open competitive examinations: Jn- iir Agronomist, Junior Animal Hus bandman, Junior Botanist, Junior Horticulturist, Junior Nematologist, Junior Pathologist, Junior Physiolo gist, Junior Pomologist, Junior Poul try Husbandman. Receipt of applications for the above positions will close May 5, 1925. The examinations are to fill vacan cies in the Department of Agriculture at the entrance salary of $1,860 a year with good chances of advence- ment. Applicants must have been gradu ated from a four year’s course at a college or university of recognized standing, or be senior students in such instiutions who will graduate in June. Competitors will be rated on, prac tical questions; a thesis to be deliver ed to the examiner on the day of the examination; and education, training and experience. There will also be an examination for the position of Pathologist at a salary of $3,800 a year. Applications for this examination will close May 5, 1925. Heroditus tells of a road built 4000 B. C. It was in Egypt and reached half way across the African conti nent. It required 10,000 men working ten years to build a single half mile of it. The stone for the Pyramids was hauled over this road.—S. C. Highway. 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