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THE BATTALION
AGGIES FAIL TO BREAK FROG JINX
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That g-ame Saturday certainly prov
ed that a fighting team cannot be
whipped. Both teams were fighting
—you saw the result.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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“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
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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.