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
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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.
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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.”