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THE BATTALION
AGGIES CLASH WITH SEWANEE TIGERS SATURDAY
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Remember gang, Jest we forget,
that one reason that we did not do
so well last year was overconfidence.
Fight every game as it comes and
look upon every opponent as a most
worthy foe, because they are that
and more. The season for easy games I
is over and for everything we get
from now on we have to fight and
fight hard. That long THOUSAND
MILE WALK is two games gone, and
the bill is getting steeper all the
time.
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According to dope reports that have
been trickling down from the Moun
tain, Doctor Mike Bennet’s Sewanee
warriors are bent on getting on the
big side of the score this year. For ,
four yeaks they have beein trying!
to do this and during that period, in
1925, they managed to stage a tie
game, 6 to 6. :
Coach Bible is going to take twen
ty-five players to Dallas and all of
them will probably see service in the
game. The Sewanee coajches are
bringing thirty-three players as he
has always been handicapped in the
past games by lack of reserve
strength. j
We notice by the Austin newspapers
that the conference title will be de
cided in the Texas -S. M. U. game.
According to one of the papers the
Aggies have too weak a line to clear
the way for the Four Horsemen in
the backfield. That line did not look
very weak in the Southwestern game.
Southwestern had a good opportu
nity to score once when the ball was
on the one-yard line, but that Aggie
line was in the way and the back-
field proved their alertness by break
ing up the Southwestern passes.
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The Aggies showed a wonderful im
provement over the previous week’s
performance. If the team continues
to show the same improvement in
each game we shall have another one
of those 28-0 victories on Turkey Day.
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Incidentally the Cadet Corps show
ed improvement also. It was behind
the team just as strong at the finish
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The Aggie backfield that will start the Sewanee game,
in place of Alsabrook.
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LAST WEEK’S CONFER
ENCE SCORES.
Arkansas 32 College of the
Ozarks 0.
S. M. U. 32 Howard Payne 0
A. & M. 31, Southwestern 0
Baylor 20, Trinity 12
Rice 20, Sam Hougtpn .No.rrpab
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Texas 0, T. C. U. 0.
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WHERE THEY PLAY THIS
WEEK.
S. M. U. vs. Centenary at
Shreveport.
Texas U. vs. Trinity at Austin.
A. & M. vs. Sewanee at Dallas.
Baylor vs. Arkansas at Fay
etteville.
T. C. U. vs. Texas Tech at Ft.
Worth.
Rice vs. St. Edwards a,t Hous
ton.
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SEWANEE COMES
FOR VENGENCE
j Hailed as the Greatest Intersectional
I Classic of the Season. An Aerial
Battle to be Main Feature.
The Texas Aggies will receive
their first real competition of the sea
son next Saturday in Dallas when
they meet the Sewanee Tigers of the
Tennessee mountains. Yearly this bat
tle has been looked forward to by
Aggie followers as it is from the re
sult of this game that they make es
timation of the teams strength. Each
year in the past has produced favor
able results, but from vague reports
from the mountanious regions the re
sult of this year’s battle will be much
more questionable than the previous
ones.
For the past four years the Tigers
have shown improvement, the scores
being 14 to 0 in favor of the Farmers
in 1923, the next year the Aggies had
a tough battle but managed to win
by the score of 7-0. In 1925 the Tig
ers clearly outplayed the Farmers and
up to the last few minutes of the game
had a six point lead, but the Aggies,
assisted by that spirit of Aggieland
and boy friend, the little group of Ag
gies that were there that memorable
day WERE PUTTING IT OUT!—-
held them for downs and Dansby
blocked a punt and raced for a touch
down, tying the score 6-6 as the last
whistle blew. Last year was a near
repetition of the year before. The
Lucky Tigers had a new basketball,
soccer, and football combination that
puzzled Bible’s disciples throughout
the game and in the first few minutes
of play they pulled a fluke kick,
couldn’t be called a drop-kick because
it was fumbled and kicked squarely
between the posts, hence the term of
Lucky Tigers. Again in the last
minute of the game the Farmers came
from behind and won 6-3, little Joel
Hunt got loose in midfield and ran
through the entire Tiger team for a
touchdown.
This year the Tigers are going to
be harder to defeat than ever before.
They consider that they have had
a successful season if they defeat the
Texas Aggies and theis year they are
spurred on by the past years’ results
and are determined “to chase the
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