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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1927)
12 THE BATTALION AGGIES FAIL TO BREAK FROG JINX +J*- *** *%*■ I DROP-KICKS i ♦*- ❖ *b ❖ ❖ 4* 4* 4» 4* 4» 4' 4* 4‘- 4* 4* That g-ame Saturday certainly prov ed that a fighting team cannot be whipped. Both teams were fighting —you saw the result. * 5}: * CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM PICKED FOR 1927 SEASON Will Meet Loughorns November 5. Ten men from a group of twenty After the game there was much talk among Ft. Worth people of a “moral victory.” Ye Editor has of ten wondered what a moral victory is good for. It doesn’t count anything in the percentage column. * * * The cadet corps made a wonderful showing in Fort Worth—not only in the parade but at the game. It was hot and uncomfortable in the stands but the cadets were yelling just as loud and strong in the last quarter as when the team first came on the field. * * * In passing we want to take this space to compliment the T. C. U. stu dent body and team on the clean play and sportsmanship they showed last (Saturday. * t- Looking over last week’s scores we find much food for serious thought. S. M. U. and Texas both showed re markable scoring power. We have two weeks in which to prepare our selves for the raid of the “Morrison Scoring Machine.” * * In the meantime Texas Tech is go ing to try its best to defeat us, as a victory over the Texas Aggies would give them considerable publicity in the football world. CONFERENCE STANDING. p W L T Pet. S. M. U .. .1 1 0 0 1000 Texas U . . .2 1 0 1 750 Texas Aggies . . . .2 1 0 1 750 T. C. U . .2 0 0 2 500 Arkansas . .2 1 1 0 500 Baylor . . .1 0 1 0 000 Rice . .2 0 2 0 000 ■**+ *£+ *$*■ -*$«- ■*$*■ +$*- 4* 4* 4* 4- 4* 4* 4*- 4* have been selected for places on the Texas Aggie cross country squad for 1927 as the result of the showing made in competition races held last week. Although there were four squad men from last year in the competition the best showing was made by men from last year’s freshman squad. Three out of the first five to com plete the course and seven 07Ut of the ten selected for places on the squad are athletes who are running their /first year for the varsity. In the order in which they finished in the first competition race, those chosen for places are: J. G. Killian, Alvord; J. P. Avila, San Antonio; E. Thompson, Cameron; A. B. Childers, (Capt.) Jasper; C. Y. Shoemaker, Jacksonville; G. H. Moore, Dallas; J. B. Michael, Fort Worth; E. E. Kyser, Marlin; J. B. Haile, Goliad; E. W. Sudderth, Leonard. The four squad- men are Captain Childers, Avila, Haile, and Moore. The squad is being pnt through daily workouts and one competition each week by Coaches Frank Ander son and S. D. Snyder in preparation for the first dual meet with the Texas Longhorns at College Station Novem ber 5. The event will take place at the same time the S. M. U.-Aggie football game is being played and spectators at the game will be able to view both contests. Other meets scheduled for this year are with Rice at Houston November 11, the day of the Owl-Aggie gridiron clash, and the conference meet at Dal las November 19 when S. M. U. will be host to the conference teams. +%* ->*> ■*$«■ ■*$*• +$*■ ■*$*■ *♦«*• ■*$*• ■*$*■ •*$«■ ■*$*■ ■>$*■ 4* 4* 4- LAST WEEK’S SCORES 4* 4* 4* 4* WHERE THEY PLAY THIS * 4* WEEK * 4* 4* 4* Texas U. vs. S. M. U. at Dal- 4* 4* las. 4* 4* A. & M. vs. Texas Tech, at 4* 4* Lubbock. 4* 4* T. C. U. vs. Baylor at Waco. 4* 4* Arkansas vs. Louisiana State 4* 4* at Shreveport. 4<- 4* Rice vs. Southwestern at Hous- 4» 4* ton. 4 > >4+ ♦J* -*£«- +$+ -*$«■ +%* +%*- >v*- ■*$*• 4» S. M. U. 32; Missouri 9. 4- 4* Texas U. 27; Rice 0. *** 4* T. C. U. 0; A. & M. 0. 4- 4» Baylor 6; Centenary 9. 4* 4- Arkansas 34; Missouri Miners 0.4* 4* 4* -»$«- •*£*■ ♦£*- -*$*• *$+ ■*$«- -*$*■ -*£*- ♦J*- ♦Je “I hear that a Chinese couple have named their new baby in honor of Lindbergh.” “What is the name?” “ One-Long-Hop.” AGGIES TO VISIT PLAINS Friday, October 28th the A. & M. football team will trot out on the field at Lubbock as the first South western Conference team to play on the plains. They will be given a wel come second to that of the cadet corps alone, as there will be hundreds of old Aggies there from all over the plains who want to see if they can still give “Farmers Fight” with that old roar from ’way down deep. The plain’s people have been looking for ward to this game for a year and they are planning a wonderful reception for the team and for all the old Ag gies who will congregate there for the game. The Texas Tech Matadors have been pointing to this game, as a victory over Texas A. & M. would give them the recognition in the football world that they desire. Their school is very young but they have had remarkable success on the gridiron and nothing would please them better than to de feat the Aggies. The Matadors are coached by Ewing Freeland, who will be remembered for his success at S. M. U., as he helped coach the Mus tang team that first brought S. M. U. into prominence. The Aggie team will be without the personal support of the cadet corps and with the long railroad trip up there we look for a hard close game. FISH FOOTBALL SQUAD CUT TO 60 MEN The fifth week of practice fincjs the freshman football squad of the A. & M. College of Texas reduced to 60 candidates who have been selected as the most promising of the nearly 200 who reported for practice at the be ginning of the season. One hundred men were outfitted for practice at the opening of train ing and as various ones of these dropped out new ones took their places until all of the applicants had been given a tryout. The squad has been divided into two groups, one under the direction of R. G. Higginbotham and Henry Eitt and the other under Frank G. Anderson and D. C. McIntosh. Hig ginbotham, a star of past years on the Texas Aggie team who is still known as “Little Hig” is freshman coach, while Eitt, former A. & M. player, and “Doc” McIntosh, member of the col lege faculty, are assistants. Frank Anderson, track coach, has been help ing in the football training work as (Continued on Page 14) FARMERS AND FROGS BATTLE TO SCORELESS TIE Once more the strong Aggie team went against the weaker Frogs and again they were met by a ringing defeat. For defeat it was to the Ag gies, the corps as well as the team. Under-rated by the newspapers, the T. C. U. Frogs proved themselves last Saturday to be one of the strongest defensive football teams in the South western Conference. Time and again the Aggies, lead by Hunt with his famed ability, were stopped for downs and again, as in the past two years, the Frog wall of defense held the Farmer machine within a few yards of the goal line for a scoreless tie. Both teams entered the contest with a determination to win that wa« invincible, both student bodies were keyed to the pitch where all were putting out with their all, and neither could be denied. In the first play of the game the breaks went against the Farmers that might have given a victory to T. C. U. if they had been playing another team, but the Fighting Farmers set tled down to their aggressive game and soon got the ball into the op ponent’s territory where most of the remaining part of the game was played. Hunt was watched constantly and, lacking Conover, Burgess and Varnell to give him his accustomed interference, they were on him like a ton of brick. The success of the Ag gie aerial game was mediocre and the running attack was less. The total number of yards gained by the entire team was less than that gained by Hunt alone in any of the other games played this year, an outcome of the superior defensive game of the Frogs and lack of the driving interference of the regular Aggie backfield. Hunt, Jefferies, Lister, Bartlett and Deffebach were the outstanding stars for the Farmers and Williams, who was able to play for only a few minutes of the game on account of injuries, was the star for the Frogs. Mathews, hefty end, Toler, playing safety, and Melton, a new tackle in the Southwestern Conference, were outstanding players for the “Fight ing Frogs.” A. & M. Pos. T. C. U. Sikes Matthews L. E. Lister J. Williams L. T. Holmes Brumbelow L. G.