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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1927)
♦- >- V ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ •*$* ♦♦♦ *+ + : DROP-KICKS : ❖ ■**- *X* +X+ *X* +X+ *X* *X* ♦♦♦ +Z* ■*•♦* ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ Well we are off on that THOUS AND MILE WALK and before we get started good I wish to call your at tention to the beacon that Colonel Nelson thinks will brighten the way down Championship Avenue. It is a good motto and says the whole thing in a nutshell: SMILE. Regardless of what happens—smile. * Si* * It was easy to smile after that game Saturday. The Aggies sure look good this early in the season and thoughts of the future are certain to bring smiles. * * * An old Aggie custom resulted in a rather humorous incident after the game Saturday. When the cadets started to carry the visiting players off the field one of the Trinity play ers thought he was about to be mob bed, so he set out for the gym as hard as he could run. He had a hard time evading his pursuers but he reached the gym before any of his teammates. That night he was subjected to a lot of good-natured razzing by the other Trinity players. Hs * * It was noticed that a number of students failed to make use of the new student entrance to Kyle Field thereby causing too much congestion around the main gate. The manage ment will highly appreciate it if the students will enter and leave by the gate on the east side of the field. * * Another thing that looked bad was a bunch of students leaving before the game was over. Always bear il\ mind that “church is not out until the last hymn is sung” and the team needs your support just as much in the last few minutes as at the beginning of the game. ❖ * * The cadets are to be complimented on the sportsmanship shown toward the visiting v team. That is one reason why the athletes at other schools like to play on Kyle Field. We have the c;l eanest-playing team in -fhe Con ference and the cleanest bunch of gen tlemen supporting it. * ^ 5ls Captain Joel Hunt made the first touchdown of the season. He started off the season in the same brilliant manner in which he played all last year. Every man that got into the game Saturday played well and Coach Bible is going to have a hard time deciding who to use each game. (Continued on Page 12) PISH FOOTBALL HAS AGGIES MEET AUSPICIOUS START Freshman football has started, with two hundred candidates answering the call of Coach Higginbotham. As in the past years there are more men out for the team than there are uniforms, only one hundred uniforms being available this year. Fifty men have been issued uniforms and there will be fifty more given out this week. Definite plans have not been an nounced, but the coaches intend to have one hundred men out for prac tice every afternoon. There is a mis taken impression among the “Fish” that they will not be called but as elimination of players takes place in the first two squads, others that have signed up will be given a chance to show what they have. The Fish tea mis fortunate in hav ing four of the best Freshman coach es in the conference. Anderson, Eitt, and McIntosh are well known, but this is Coach Higginbotham^ first year at A. and M. He is well known however over the state because he is an old Ex-Aiggie football star from “way back yonder.” The “Fish” will not have a sched ule this year. Only one game being played, and that with the aneielnt enemy Allen Academy on November 11. There are six all-state men and lots of other likely material that un der the efficient coaching staff should develop into good Varsity material that will be valuable next year. TENNIS. Mr. Thomas will be the Coach again this year. With two lettermen back from last year, and four crack play ers from last year’s fish squad, he intends to put the Aggies on a par with the other conference teams. Hyland ,Aggie star from last year, will be back. He has developed into a smart tennis player, annexing the Beaumont Singles Championship this past summer. The team will feel the loss of W. Davis and Ross, but with Gill and Kelly from last years squad, and with Darby, Storey, Moss and Cates from the Fish squad the Ag gies should give the rest of the teams in the Conference a struggle. Darby and Hyland should make a doubles team that is unbeatable. Texas University will have the Con ference meet this year, it being here last year. This will be one of the five matches played by the team this year. Although the Conference race does not start till some time in the spring, every evening finds the play ers practicing hard and the team de serves the support of every loyal Ag- gie. SOUTHWESTERN ON SATURDAY Hard Battle Expected. With the opening game of the sea son now history, the Texas Aggies are pointing toward next Saturday, October 1, when they will meet Coach Lefty Eden’s Pirates from George- town-on-the San Gabriel. The game will be played on Kye Field. Since Southwestern flashed across the grid horizon last Saturday with a 19 to 6 victory over | Baylor, a Gonjferlenoe eleven, the coming clash may be a bit stiffer game than the Aggies found with Trinity. In defeating the Tigers, the Biblemen ran up one of the largest first game scores in their history, 45 to 0. ■*$*• -*£*- +X* +J+ •>$«■ +£*• -*£*• ■*$*• LAST WEEK’S CONFER- * ENCE SCORES. * *> Texas A. and M. 45, Trin- ity 0. *> Texas University 43, Okla- Southwest Teachers 0. *** S. M. U. 69, North Texas *** State Teachers College 0. ++* Rice Institute 0, Loyola 13. * T. C. U. 27, Daniel Baker 0. Baylor 6, Southwestern 19. ❖ j ❖ *x+ *x* +t+ +t+ *x* *X* +X+ +X+ ■*$* +X+