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T HE BATTALION
AGGIELAND TO HAVE NEW
ATHLETIC FIELD
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10,000 additional temporary seats for
the Thanksgiving game, Sullivan
said, which will make available 30,-
000 seats for the 1927 Turkey Day
Game. The permanent seating capac
ity of the A. and M. Stadium of steel
seats heretofore used has been 9,000,
though it has been possible to raise
this by temporary seating stands to
25,000.
The new stadium will occupy the
same position on the east side of Kyle
Field heretofore occupied by the old.
The initial concrete unit will be on
the west side. It will be 360 feet long,
90 feet deep at the bottom, and forty
rows high. The steel stand on the
east side of the gridiron will not be
disturbed for the present. The steel
structure on the west side to be re
placed by the concrete unit, will be put
in place at the north end, forming the
bottom of the U-shape and connect
ing the concrete unit with the steel
unit on the east side. Two other con
crete units in time will replace the
steel on the north and east. The south
end will be left open, forming the
mouth of the U.
By the addition of four and a half
acres to Kyle Field on the south, the
present area of 10 1-2 acres will be
increased to fifteen. This will form a
plot 300 yards long by 250 yards wide
as the home of sports at Aggieland.
It will afford space for the varsity
football gridiron within the stadium
and two practice football fields; var
sity baseball field, and a diamond for
the freshman team; track course in
cluding straight-a-ways and circular
course and pits for jumping, polje
vaulting, etc. The basketball court is
in the present gymnasium where am
ple locker and shower facilities to ac
commodate the athletes are located.
Under the new arrangement, the
track course will be moved from
the baseball field to the inside of
the stadium, around the football grid
iron. The circular track around the
football gridiron will be 25 feet wide
and there will be a 30-foot wide, 220-
yard straight-away course extending
through the open south end of the
stadium. These courses will have con
crete curbs on both sides all the way
around. Through this arrangement the
stadium will furnish seating facili
ties for the track meets. The base of
the track courses are being laid now.
The varsity baseball diamond will
be moved from its present site to the
southwest corner of the enlarged Kyle
Field. Batters will face directly north,
which will eliminate sun-glare for the
outfielders. The present baseball
grandstand of wooden seats will be
moved but the seating capacity will be
increased by 1,000 seats, making a
total capacity of 4,000 seats in the'
baseball grandstand. Work moving
this stand will start about June 1, af
ter the present diamond season. The
new baseball diamond site has already
been graded and sown with Bermuda
grass. By next September, the met
amorphosis of Kyle Field, with the ex
ception of the all-concrete- stadium,
will be a reality, Sullivan said.
A feature of especial interest to
sports writers in connection with the
new Stadium will be the press box
which “Sully” has planned. This will
be a press box lacking in no facility
for the sports writers. With the ex
ception of the front, it will be in
closed as a protection against wind
and rain. Thirty-six seats and desk
• room for thirty-six will be provided.
The press box equipment with elec
tric lights, radio wire, two telegraph
wires, long distance telephone, six
field telephones. The sports writers
will have at his hand all conveniences
for dispatching his report without
leaving his seat in the press box.
The financing of these improve
ments for Kyle Field by the Athletic
Department from its income over a
period of years, will be a process of
putting into the athletic plant at the
College the revenues from college
sports, a self-sustaining, self-building
process. The realization of the com
pletely worked out plan will be the
realization of a dream that has ab
sorbed the unflagging interest, the.
constant attention of Business Mana
ger Sullivan since he first took over
the reins of business manager of the
department in June of 1919. Under
“Sully’s” regime, the athletic plant
of the College has grown step by
step from a property probably worth
$10,000 to its present dimensions. Kyle
Field was smaller in 1919 than it is
now. A dilapidated board fence sur
rounded it. There was no steel sta
dium, no baseball grand stand, no
gymnasium building, no tennis court
accommodation. Kyle Field toady
stands as an example of what can be
done in building up a physical educa
tion laboratory. When all of the plans
that are revolving in “Sully’s” brain
are worked out, it will be a more com
pelling example.
LONGHORNS DEFEAT AGGIES ON
TRACK.
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to form, finished 150 yds. ahead of
the Texas /team.
100-yard dash—1st—Cockrell, Tex
as; 2nd—Landa, Texas. Time 9.8 sec.
220-yard dash—1st—Buck, A. and
M.; 2nd—Cockrell, Texas. Time 21.2
seconds.
120-yard high hurdles—1st—Ken
nedy, A. and M.; 2nd—Btallter, Tex
as. Time 15.5 seconds.
220-yard low hurdles—1st—Kenne
dy, A. and M.; 2nd—Stallter, Texas.
Time 24.3 seconds.
440-yard dash—1st—Parker, A. &
M.; 2nd—Daniels, Texas. Time 50.8
seconds.
880-yard run—1st—Crump, A. and
M.; 2nd—Conner, Texas. Time 2:01.3.
Mile run—1st—Miller, Texas; 2nd
—Haile, A. and M. Time 4:35.3.
Shot put—1st—McKenzie, A. and
M.; 2nd—Bartlett, A. and M. 43 feet,
9 1-2 inches.
Discus throw—1st—'Gooch, Texas;
Bartlett, A. and M. 134 feet, 8 3-4 in
ches.
Javelin throw—1st—Smith, Texas;
Yeary, A. and M. 178 feet, 4 1-2 in
ches.
High jump—1st—Ashley, A. and M.
and Sheppard, Texas tied at 5 feet 11
1-2 inches.
Broadjump—1st— Smith, Texas;
2nd—Sheppard, Texas. 23 feet 2 in
ches.
Pole Vault—1st—'Patterson, Texas;
and Brown, Texas, tied at 12 feet.
Two-Mile run—1st— Slaughter,
Texas; Childers, A. and M. Time 10:
21.
Mile Relay—^Winning team A. and
M. composed of Burgess, Blair, O’Neal
and Capt. E. Parker. Time 3:28.8.
Total score, Texas 63, A. and M. 54.
Our next meet will be with S. M.
U. on April 9 at Kyle Field.
CONFERENCE STANDING.
Texas A. and M. .
Won
. . .2
Lost
0
Pet.
1,000
Texas U
. . .3
1
.750
Rice
. . .2
2
.500
S. M. U
. . .1
1
.500
T. C. U
. . .1
3
.250
Baylor U
. . .1
3
.250
The man who says “It can’t be done”
is interrupted by the man who is do
ing it.
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self is apt to be cold.
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