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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1927)
10 THE BATTALION MONIKERS For the average person the name with which he was christened gener ally suffices for public and private ’uses. But in the realm of sport there seems to be a marked departure from this rule. There is, for instance, am ple testimony of that fact in the in genious and in some instances baffling “monikers” by which a large number of the Texas Aggie football men are known, not only to their team mates and fellow students, but among grid iron fans as well. Some of these names have been be stowed by sport writers but the ma jority of them are nicknames given by fellow team mates and it is by such names that the players are un usually best known. Once bestowed, these names stick like Mr. LePage’s well known adhesive fluid. For the most part, no matter how they sound, they become terms of warm regard and fellowship. An illustration, “Siki” Sikes, “Dutch” Rektorik, “Red” Petty, “Tuck” Lister, “Johnny” Deffebach, “Sis” Wylie, “Loggy” Sprott, “Little Willie” Bart lett, who weighs 190 pounds, and “Burge” Burgess, letter men on the 1926 Aggie team, are better known by their nicknames than those they use when signing their college exam ination papers. Captain Joel Hunt is generally known among his team mates simply as “Joel.” There are many other Aggie grid iron pseudonyms of later coinage, that are expected to become familiar to football fans before the present season is over. “Pinky” Alsabrook, all state high fullback from Cisco, is known virtually everywhere by his nickname, in fact, there are few who know what his Christian name is. “Jenny” Wrenn, “Klepto” Holmes, “Gut” Mosher, “Sheik” Davis, “Pop” Cody, “Sloppy” Rogers, “Big Bill” Holler on, “Connie” Conover, “Firpo” Mortellra are some of the others whose nicknames will probably take a firm hold in the minds of the sport fans this year. Some of the men have more than one nickname. “Tuck” Lister, 194- pound tackle from Livingston, is of ten called “Featherweight;” “Jenny” Wrenn also answers to the name of “Bird;” Rektorik, varsity letterman and guard on last year’s team, is al ternately called “Dutch” and “Cupid;” and “Sheik” Davis has another less romantic nickname in the simple one of “Dave.” Even the coaches come in for their share of nicknames. In less formal moments, Coach Dana X. Bible is known affectionately among his col leagues as “D. X.,” and Charles F. Bassett, new Aggie line coach and basketball coach, somewhere in his athletic career annexed the cognomen of “Chuck.” He is big enough to sug gest that it might have come from his physical ability to do just that. Freshman Coach R. G. Higginbotham, star athlete at A. & M. seven years and more ago, is still known as “Lit tle Hig,” a nickname that he acquir ed as an Aggie, and Frank Anderson, track coach, is known in more inti mate moments as “Andy.” CUPID UP TO DATE Cupid Up to Date is now a thing of the past but what a thing it was. Despite the pessimisstic attitude taken and maintained by the Cadets, only about a hundred attending it’s performance, the show was in point of presentation a large success. What / / Undiscovered country in industry ^ I 'HE globe’s surface no longer holds much undiscovered country, but the pioneer-minded man can still find plenty of it in industry—partic ularly in the telephone inaustry. In the Bell telephone companies throughout the entire country, men are now exploring the 1930’s and 40’s and 50’s, charting the probable trend of population and the require ments for service. In research and development, and in telephone manufacture as well, the Bell System takes seriously its respon sibility to give adequate service now and to gird itself for a long future. “OUR BELL SYSTEM tsf nation-wide system of 18,000,000 inter-connecting telephones PIONEERING WORK HAS JUST BEGUN’* was lacking in polish and acting was completley made up for by the spicy humor and unique costumes. In fact every one that went enjoyed them selves immensely, but due to the fact that it was being put on solely for the cadets and the money to go to an institution that plays an important part in quite a few cadet’s college car eer, it received a very poor attend ance. It is always so. OPPROBRIUM There is a man on this campus who deserves all the curses of Pygmalion. Not satisfied with devastating the hills surrounding San Antonio with dum-dum and high explosive, he came back to the second summer session and opened up a campaign on the harmless chee-chee bird. Every night he and his vicious companions fared forth on the campus armed with flash lights and nigger-shooters. First the despicable hunters would shine their lights in the poor defenseless birds’ little eyes and then draw back their nigger-shooters and deal demoniac death—from a radius of one or two feet! And now, men, this odious crea ture flaunts his person upon the campus, unreviled. He is none other than O. Haenel Hegemann, Major of Montgomery’s Mounted! A. & M. STOCK JUDGING TEAM. (Continued from Page 1) in Kansas City on November 12. Then comes the biggest test of all, the In- ternatonal contest at Chicago on No vember 26. In 1913 and again in 1921 our team won the prize award, a bronze bull. One more victory will bring the prize to A. and M. perma nently. But we are not the only ones ineeding just one more victory to capture the coveted animal, as Per due, Illinois, and Oklahoma A. and M. have two victories each to their credit. The Saddle and Sirloin Club gives a rodeo and pageant every year to defray the expenses of the team to the International meet. We owe it to ourselves as well as to the team to attend the rodeo. Stay behind the team, and we will have another ani mal on the A. and M. campus. A roomate is a person who never has anything of his own and who des ignates all your possessions with the word “our.”