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T HE BATTALION
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A. R. MENGER, Editor
C. M. FLORER
Assistant Editor
AGGIES OPEN SEASON WITH TRINITY TIGERS
CROSS COUNTRY
CHAMPIONSHIP
LOOMS AGAIN
PROSPECTS FOR
“FISH” ARE THE
BEST IN YEARS
FEATURE COLLEGE
YEAR TO BE INTRA
MURAL SPORTS
AGGIES MEET
WORTHY FOE
IN TRINITY
Team to be Built Around Two Strong
est Men in the Conference.
Over Two Hundred Freshmen Have
Signed Up.
Will Give More Men Opportunity To
Participate In Athletics.
Coach Anderson’s call for cross
Prospects for the Freshman foot
Intra-Mural sports have always
country men was answered by some
eighteen or twenty men, among them
being Johnnie Crump, captain of this
year’s team and who finished second
in the conference last year, and Chil
ders, an excellent man who earned
his letter last year.
Prospects for another championship
in cross country are very bright this
year. The Aggies have lost as many
men as other members of the confer
ence have, but they are being re
placed by ineligibles of last season
and men who were uncovered in the
intra-mural cross country meet of last
season. Brock, who did not return
last year and who is eligible this
year, is expected to return and help
fill the large gap left open by the
graduation of such men as Killion,
Bowen, Johnson, and Macy. Munn,
an ineligible of last season, is fast
whipping into shape and is proving to
be a real find.
The Aggies will have but two dual
meets this year. On November first
they will meet Texas University at
Austin. Last year the Austin crew
were the victors in the dual meet but
were snowed under in the conference
meet. On November twelfth a meet
will be run off against Rice between
the halves of the Aggie-Owl football
game at College Station. At College
Station on Saturday, November twen
tieth, the conference meet will be held.
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* AGGIE CAPTAINS FOR THE *
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❖ Football—L. G'. Dieterich. ❖
❖ Cross Country—J. Crump. *
❖ Basketball—S. J. Baker.
❖ Baseball—H. H. Tucker. ❖
*i* Track—E. Parker.
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Vice-President H. M. Whaling, Jr.,
of Southern Methodist University, an
nounced last week that the next pro
ject on the building program would
be a $500,000 library. The school
campaign for endowment and build
ing to be conducted in the next five
years will be $10,000,000.
ball team at Aggieland this year are
the best in the history of the insti
tution. So far two hundred and
twenty-three men have turned in their
cards to the Athletic Department. Of
this number about one-hundred have
been issued equipment.
The large number of candidates out
makes it impossible for all of them to
be suited at once. Those that have
not received equipment will be given
a chance as soon as possible. The cut
and fill system of elimination will be
used. When a candidate proves un
worthy he will be cut from the squad
and his uniform given to someone
else.
Some of the best high school and
prep school stars of the state are on
hand and working out daily. The
number includes several from the
larger high schools of Dallas and San
Antonio, as well as men from the
schools of the smaller towns that were
runners-up and finalists in the Texas
Interscholastic League last year. Sev
eral all-state men are included in the
list.
On the whole the candidates for this
year’s team are bigger and better
than those of last year, which was
considered one of the best ever as
sembled at A. and M.
At the start of the training season
Coach Bender will have charge of
the backfield men. Coaches McIn
tosh and Eitt the linemen, and Coach
Anderson the ends. Brown and Rich
ter of last year’s fish who are inel
igible for the varsity this year are on
hand and are giving much valuable
assistance to the coaches.
Later on in the season the squad
will be divided into groups and each
coach will have his own particular
team to deal with.
been enthusiastically participated in,
but this year plans are afoot for a
very extensive program that will give
any who cares to a chance to show
just what he can do. This will give
those who can not make the grade
for the Varsity a chance to feel the
thrill of rivalry that accompanies all
sports.
Intra-Mural cross country will be
very hotly contested this year. Al
ready there are some eighteen or
twenty freshmen working out who
have come from Prep and High
Schools with very good records for
the distance races. These men should
prove to be very good material for
next season’s Varsity squad.
Intra-Mural basketball will follow
the cross country. Only last year the
teams were so arranged that each
company had a team composed of up
perclassmen and one composed of
freshmen. The winner of each group
played a series of games to determine
the championship of the entire col
lege.
Another very important Intra-Mur
al sport is football. A large number
of very valuable men have been dis
covered for the Varsity squad for
the preceding year. Then there is
track—this and all other Intra-Mural
sports have brought out dormant ath
letes for the Varsity squads. With
the program in vogue for this year
there will no doubt be other sports.
Each year to the team winning
the championship in the respective
sports, trophies of some description,
well worth trying for, are awarded.
To the man amassing the largest
number of points for all the contests
in which he participated, a medal is
awarded. Last year this medal was
awarded to L. J. Franke.
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TEXAS A. & M. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 1926
Friday, Sept. 24—Trinity University at Waxahachie.
Saturday, Oct. 2—Southwestern University at College Station.
Saturday, Oct. 9—Sewanee at Dallas.
Saturday, Oct. 16—University of New Mexico at College Station.
Saturday, Oct. 23—Southern Methodist University at Dallas.
Saturday, Oct. 30—Baylor University at Waco.
Friday, Nov. 5—Texas Christian University at College Station.
Friday, Nov. 12—Rice Institute at College Station,
Thursday, Nov. 25—Texas University at Austin.
This year, for the first time in a
number of years, the Aggies will open
their football season away from Kyle
Field. Meeting the Tigers in their
own lair will make the contest as dif
ficult if not more so than the one last
year on Kyle Field.
The Trinity Tigers are a well nam
ed and well manned crew. Last year
they proved this when they held the
later championship Aggie team for
three trying quarters and then only
did the Aggies, through a supreme ef
fort in the final quarter, emerge the
victors by a twenty to ten score. The
Trinity line-up will be changed by
only one name, that of Yantis a star
tackle who failed to return ihis year.
With the Tigers presenting such a
formidable front the Aggies will no
doubt encounter a very hard and try
ing game.
Trinity, with such a front as they
have put on, has given all teams that
are members of the new Texas Asso
ciation, organized only last year,
warning that they are out to win the
crown this season.
The Aggies, with only six of last
year’s letter men back, have practi
cally rebuilt their squad with younger
but by no means inexperienced men
from last year’s varsity and also with
men uncovered in the past season’s
Freshman and Intra-Mural teams.
Those letter men who have returned
are, Dieterich, captain of this year’s
squad, who was a tackle on the myth
ical All-Conference team of last sea
son, Watts, who starred at center,
Price and Sikes, who very ably cared
for the wing positions, Ironman Wood
man, who was a world of power at
full, and Hunt the sterling halfback—
he also was a member of the All-Con
ference team. These men are the
nucleus around which this year’s
team is being built.
Although the sport calendar for this
week is well filled the eyes of the
football southwest will be focused on
the Aggie-Trinity contest. Sewanee,
as well as all members of the South
west Conference, will be one of the
closest observers as they are already
preaching “BEAT THE FARMERS”
—and few of them know what Ag
gieland holds in store for them in the
shape of a football team. But it won’t
be long now before all shall see how
the team will stack up against their
worthy opponents—MAYBE.
We’ve Got
to Win That First Football Game