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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1926)
10 THE BATTALION Aggies Meet Ponies in Initial Conference Tilt Saturday AIR BATTLE IS LIKELY TO BE TACTICS OF WAR ♦J»- +$*• ♦Jt +$*■ +$+ +J4- ❖ ❖ ❖ DROP KICKS ❖ ❖ ❖ *** +*+ >!• *J» ^ Tarry but a moment and listen to this: “Eight days of intensive train ing for the MOST important inter sectional football game in the confer ence have passed at the Longhorn camps, . . Say, can you imagine such a thing. From a standpoint of one of the teams it will be the pre mier classic of the season—but from the standpoint of the other—well—■ they seem to think the Aggie-Sewanee clash was but a mere trifle alongside theirs. ’Member gang, how a couple of years gone by they wanted to ex clude the Aggies from their schedule because they were such a small school crew? Well, Aell—something else yet remains to be seen and said. As yet, in Aggieland, “There have been no regrets.” -63-0— Recently in the Dallas News there appeared a cartoon of the pitching Mustangs with a high board fence aroud it, on which were perched Tex as, A. and M., and T. C. U. The com ment that the very brilliant caricatur ist assigned to Texas, all diked up in his spurs and the comical cow boy regalia, was, “I think I’ll contribute to the Red Cross.” Well, that sounds all right; guess they will need all they will contribute. To A. and M., arrayed in the garb of the hard work ing Farmer lad, a nigger shooter in his pocket, his shoes half soled, all in all he was an uncouth towheaded looking yokel, he asigned, “Me to,” meaning he would also contribute to the medical aid society. Well that’s all right too, because that Mustang will need all the contributions that can be collected to administer first aid when that ragged Farmer lad gets through riding with a sursingle, the saddle shown on the ground will not be used as they are not used to such soft seats; chapping it is not good. -63-0— Serious doubt is being manifested as to the once famed and once highly adhered to sportsmanship qualities of “Those Leather-Lunged Cadets.” They were formerly looked up to as a model but after witnessing some of the oc currences of the last few games this model has been knocked from the ped estal. To single out an individual a member of a visiting team, to hoot him is bad enough, but to throw lem ons at him and jeer when he has been working under a severe handicap in an attempt to uphold that which every team should cherish, its good record, Sportsmanship—BAH — a misnomer. Be careful Aggies, lest you wreck (Continued on Page 12) AGGIES MEET TEXAS IN DUAL CROSSCOUNTRY First Grueling Contest Comes Friday With Texas Over New Five-Mile Course Laid Out at A. and M. AGGIES SWAMP NEW MEXICO IN SPIRITED GAME New Mexico Team Fought a Game, Clean Fight to End, But Were Badly Outclassed. Next Friday the Aggies will display their early season’s wares in the cross country line when they meet the strong team made up of nearly all veterans from the Texas University. This will be the initial dual contest for both teams and it, as it always does, will prove to be a hard and grueling contest over the new five-mile course but recently mapped out. Last year in Austin over the hills and down the rain covered dale the Aggies met de feat at the hands of Sandy Esquival and his versatile hill and dalers. When Texas arrives in College Sta tion they will bring with them a team as strong as the one they presented last season. Although the fleet footed Esquival will be missing, there will be men equally as competent to take his place in the form of Connor, Miller and Summerall. These men have al ways given the Aggies a hard fight and to say the very least this year will prove to be no exception. But recently there has been laid out a new five-mile course over which the race will be held. The seven men that were picked after final compe tition last Saturday were: Haile, Lef- fingwell, Moore, Crump the captain of this year’s team and the near con queror of the noted Esquival, Avila, the remaining two men will be chosen from Brock, Essary and Mnnn. The Aggie team as the old saying goes, has been “sweating blood.” Rain or shine they are ready to go, they have been practicing for many weeks and practicing hard—a championship is at stake. Last season they journeyed to Aus tin to take on the Austin tribe and were accordingly handed out a defeat that went to Texas on a very small margin. This year having them on our own course should give the Ag gies a chance to even up the account. The Aggies have something hard to uphold this year as last year they won the championship and they are work ing hard to maintain and hold to that championship that means so much— especially in such a thankless sport as cross country. Art Prof: The nude is chaste when motionless. Stude: But how can a nude be mo tionless when chased ? Amid the flowing colors of a holi day regalia bedecked Kyle Field that marked the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the College, the Tex as Aggies defeated the University of New Mexico by an overwhelming score of 63 to 0. For the second time in as many weeks the Aggies have upheld and added honor to the pres tige of the Southwest. This day had been set aside in Ag gi eland as “Walter Camp Memorial Day,” that day may serve well to re call to our minds that worthy man; the founder of football, the premier American sport; it was not marred by any unsportsmanlike tactics by either team; it was played clean and true from start to finish. The New Mex ico team, although they saw from the start that they were outclassed and that they were up against a far su perior team than theirs, did not fail to fight for all that they were worth from whistle to whistle. The Aggies had the edge from the very start of the contest and only a very few times did the New Mexico team so much as penetrate Aggie ter- j ritory. Boykin with his ever true | passing to Long, was the one to throw I a scare into the Aggie followers when in the last periods of the game he successfully completed two very neat passes that netted some odd thirty yards. These two passes and one other enabled the New Mexico team to mark up three first downs against the Farmers. Long runs by Hunt and Woodman marked the outstanding features of the Aggie offensive. Many fumbles and inaccurate passes were in prominence because of the wet and muddy condition of the field. The game play by play: The Aggies won the toss and chose to receive and defend the west goal. Renfro kicks off to Simmons who re ceives the ball on his 30-yard line and returns it to mid-field to the 42- yard line. Colgin hits tackle for one yard. Hunt cut through the same tackle for six more yards. Woodman crashes over right tackle for the first down. Hunt hits right tackle for four yards. Colgin through right tackle for two yards. Hunt passes the ball to Sikes who lets it slip off his fingers. The next try was a neat one (Continued on Page 11) Loser in Aggie-Mustang Battle Sat urday Will Be Practically Elim inated From Conference. Next Saturday afternoon at Fair Park Stadium the Texas Aggies meet the S. M. U. Mustangs in their an nual battle, which is also the first con ference tilt for both teams. Both have been undefeated this year, al though the Mustangs have a much more impressive early season record, having played the strong Missouri Ti gers, Missouri Valley Conference champions of last year, to a 7-7 draw last Saturday. S. M. U. has not defeated the Ag gies since 1923 when they came off the field with the big end of a 10-0 score, the first Conference team to ever turn the trick. 1924 resulted in a 7-7 tie, while the Farmers defeated the Ponies last year 7-0. This year S. M. U. has a team that is stronger offensively and defensively than the 1923 team which won the conference championship. In their ranks are such stars as Mann, Wade, Dawson, Keys, and others who have proved their ability as star gridiron performers in the past. They have also one of the best punters in the conference in Redman Hume, who is playing his first year in conference football. Mann and Hume are both adept at the running and passing game, the Mustang’s biggest threat. According to the dope the Aggies will enter the game the under dog, but in a game like this the dope does not mean a thing. The under dog is very often possessed of the hard est bite and the Ponies are more than apt to find a much worthier foe than their conceit will allow them at pres ent to consider. There has never been a team that found a game with A. and M. an easy affair, and the Ponies will no doubt be glad when it is all over. Only remember this, gang—all of us are going to make the trip and we must stick with the team, because fight and lots of it is needed to put victory over, and we must do our part and help the team, because we must have that first conference game in our favor. Frosh—What do they do in chapel here ? Soph—Oh, a speaker gets up and looks over the student body and then prays for the college. ’Member Those Bears, Gang. They’re the Next Ones