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THE BATTALION
AGGIES READY FOR LONGHORNS
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Four gone and one to go!
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That most important of all games
is next. Texas can redeem an un
successful season by defeating the
Aggies and the Aggies can clincli the
Southwestern Conference Champion
ship by “Sawing Varsity’s horns off.”
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The most popular song on the cam
pus is' “Good-bye to Texas Univer
sity.”
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According to this s£uff called “dope”
the Aggies ought to repeat that 28-0
triumph of two years ago, but “dope”
doesn’t mean anything in the annual
Aggie-Longhorn clash. The underdog
wins just as often as the favorite.
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Texas has a grear line. It would
be hard to find better tackles than
“Ox” Higgins and “Gordy” Brown.
And the rest of their line is just as
good.
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The Texas backfield is the most er
ratic in the conference. When it is
functioning - perfectly it can’t be beat,
but it looks sorry when everyone isn’t
“right.”
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Some way or other the cripples on
the Texas squad always seem to get
into shape for the annual classic and
play a whale of a game. Texas has
been hindered by injured players in
every game this season but by Tur
key Day they will all be in shape to
play the game of their lives.
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If the Aggies win this game it will
mean that several of them will be
picked for that mythical All-Con
ference team.
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The Aggie cross-country team is
due for a championship Saturday.
Under the able leadership of Capt.
Childers they have been working hard
every day since the beginning of
school and Saturday will show the
results of that work.
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The Aggies chief competition will
come from the Rice Institute squad,
but we believe that the course in Dal
las will be more like die College Sta
tion course and the A. & M. runners
will come through with a champion
ship.
AGGIE FISH DE
FEAT ALLEN 27-6
Displaying an abundance of ma
terial which should be of much value
on future varsity elevens, the Fish
Monday downed the Allen Academy
gridsters by a 27 to 6 score in their
annual game played on Kyle Field.
Th e freshman coaches used two en
tirely different teams in the game, the
squad coached by Higginbotham and
Eitt playing two quarters and that
coached by Anderson and McIntosh
playing the other two.
All of the Fish touchdowns came as
results of long runs made by the
freshman backs whose brilliant run
ning at times would have done credit
to players of far more experience
On one occasion Sessions, former San
Marcos Academy star, ran 90 yards
from the kickoff to score a touch
down, and several times Clark, all-
state man from Marshall, and Phil
lips, an all-state back from McKinney,
made spectacular runs for 25 yards
or more. Floyd, former Gilmer high
school gridster, and Cotton, quarter
from Beaumont high, also made sev
eral nice runs.
Farquhar, Hornsby, Anderson and
W. B. Powers were the outstanding
players on thee freshman line.
Pyland, San Marcos boy, and Bar
nett, all-state end two years ago from
Dallas, were the stars on the Allen
team, Plyland’s passing being par
ticularly good.
The Allen touchdown came in the
first few minutes of play as a result
of a fumble which placed the ball in
easy scoring distance, ana at only one
other time did they threaten the A.
& M. goal. In the last few minutes
of the first half an attempted punt
by Phillips was blocked and the ball
was recovered within the freshmen’s
five yard line. The Fish held their
opponents for down, however, and the
ball went over within three inches of
the goal.
The freshman scored their first
touchdown a few minutes after the
Academy team ran theirs over. Zara-
fonetis carried the ball around end
for 62 yards and his buck through the
line for 5 yards put the ball across.
Zarafonetis also kicked goal.
Neither team scored in the second
and third quarters but the Fish broke
loose in the final period to run across
three touchdowns in which the run
ning of Phillips, Clark, Floyd and
Sessions featured.
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OWLS HOLD AGGIES
TO 14-0 SCORE
All good football teams have a bad
day through a season and all bad
teams have a good day—last Friday
the Rice Owls certainly had a good
day and, let’s hope, it was the ‘bad’
day for the Farmers and that they
have it out of their system for the
season. For those keeping up with
the dope on the teams the game was
one of the sorriest of the season, peo
ple expecting to see the Aggies, the
leaders in the race for the Southwest
ern Conference honors, run away with
the Rice Owls, fighting with Baylor
for the celler, were sadly disappoint
ed because with the exception of the
scond quarter, the Owls were equal to
anything that the Farmers put out.
This may be attributed to several
things, the field was bad and Bible
probably instructed his men to save
themselves to eliminate the possi
bility of getting injured, looking for
ward to bigger game, or it might
have been a let up on the part of the
players which is quite natural after
such a hard game with S. M. U. and
then playing a team considered to be
“duck soup.”
To Burgess and Dorsey, the only
ones that showed the old time Aggie
Fight, much credit is due, both made
gains consistently through the Rice
line and played a wonderful defen
sive game. The Owls turned in the
best game of the year for them as
they always do against the Aggies.
Their defensive was of the best dis
played in the conference this season.
CROSS-COUNTRY
Under a big handicap, the Aggie
Cross Country team lost the dual
meet with Rice, at Houston, last Fri
day, by a 28-29 score. The course was
the regular four mile course, but it
was in the city, and had to be run on
the pavement, and on cement side
walks. The Aggies were not equip
ped with rubber soled running shoes,
and had to use the regular spiked
shoes. Needless to say, this was what
lost the race, because the team put
up a wonderful battle, against what
is generally conceded to be the Ag
gies’ strongest rival for Champion
ship honors this year. The team as
a whole is in fairly good condition,
although several of the men have
stiff legs and feet from the meet, but
TURKEY-DAY CLAS
SIC WILL MEAN
MUCHTOTEAMS
When the Texas Aggies and Long
horns clash in their annual Thanks
giving game on Kyle Field this year,
the Longhorns will have the edge on
their old rivals in the thirty-three
games in which these two teams have
met since 1894. The Longhorns have
come out at the long end of the score
in twenty-one games while the Ag
gies-have won only nine. The other
three games resulted in scoreless ties.
In the ten games played since 1917,
the year in which Coach D. X. Bible
became head coach at A. & M., the
results do not favor the Longhorns
so decidedly, for they have won five
of the games to the Aggies four, the
one remaining having resulted in a
tie. The Longhorns’ aggregate score
for the thirty-three games is 416 to
the Aggies 176. Since 1917 the Ag
gies have piled up a total score of 64
to the Longhorns 48.
Since Coach Bible has had the Ag
gies under his care they have won
four conference championships, in
1917, 1919, 1921, and 1925. If the
Aggies win from the Steers on
Thanksgiving Day they will win an
other championship and give Bible an
average of five out of a possible ten
championships, a record seldom ex
celled. Although Bible became head
coach at A. & M. in 1917 he is in his
tenth year as head coach this year.
He was not at A. & M. in 1918, being
at that time in the Air Corps of the
Army during the World War.
INTRAMURAL ATHLETICS
Intra-mural basketball swings into
finals, with the league winners as
follows: Battery C, Troops A, B, and
C.
In the semi-finals, Battery C will
meet Troop B, while Troop A will
play Troop C.
If the arrangement can be made
possible the final game to determine
the college champions will be played
Saturday night at 6:45.
The cross-country meet will be held
December the tenth with no limita
tions on the number of entries, and
it is expected that each man who
hopes to enter will be in shape.
“How come Hohn, why don’t you
believe in dreams?”
“Because I married one.”