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THE BATTALION
I DROP-KICKS :
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Southwestern Conference Cham
pions in Football and Cross-country.
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The first two conference events of
the year resulted in championships
for the Agg-ies, football and cross
country. Basketball is next.
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Everybody is still talking about
football. The All-American teams
picked by the nationally-known sports
writers have not been published yet
and everyone is waiting to see how
the Southwestern Conference stars
will fare. Sprott has already been
picked for the New York Sun’s sec
ond team and for Davis Walsh’s third
team. Joel Hunt was given quarter
back on Walsh’s third team.
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The mythical teams that most
sportsmen want to see their favorites
on are the teams picked by Grantland
Rice, Lawrence Perry, and Walter
Eckersall. All of these men have giv
en considerable space in their columns
to Joel Hunt and other stars of the
southwest.
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Joel Hunt leads the conference
scores with a total of 128 points with
Hume of S. M. U. second with 116
points.
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The leading scorer in the East is
Lane of Dartmouth with a total of
125 points.
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So far as the Sports Editor of the
Battalion has been able to find out,
no football player in any major col
lege has scored more points this sea
son than Joel Hunt.
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Fifteen football letters were award
ed by the Athletic Council to the fol
lowing: Hunt, Alsabrook ( Bartlett,
Burgess, Davis, Deffebach, Dorsey,
Figari, Holmes, Lister, Mills, Petty,
Richter, Sikes, and Sprotts. The re
quirements for a letter are high at
A. & M. calling for playing in 100
minutes or more of conference time.
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For the fifth time in the past ten
years of Dana Bible’s reign as Aggie
Head Coach the Southwestern Con
ference title flag waves over Kyle
Field. In that past ten years no
other conference eleven has won the
title more than twice and that’s about
as good a record as even the most
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CROSS COUNTRY LETTERS
AWARDED
Five men on the A. and M. College
cross country team, winners of the
1927 Southwest Conference champion
ship, were awarded the varsity cross
country letters by the Athletic Coun
cil as follows: Captain A. B. Child
ers, Jasper; J. P. Avila, San Antonio;
J. B. Haile, Goliad; J. G. Killian, Al-
vord; E. Thompson, Jr., Cameron.
The bronze trophy, a small mounted
bronze statue of a cross country run
ner, awarded by the conference to the
College winning the championship, has
been received and placed on display
in the athletic department.
25 FRESHMEN ARE GIVEN
NUMERALS
Twenty-five freshmen football num
eral awards at the A. & M. College
have been made for the 1927 season
by the Athletic Council. R. G'. Hig
ginbotham is freshman coach. Num
eral awards were to the following: C.
H. C. Anderson, Dallas; H. U. Bible,
Jefferson City, Tenn.; F. Broiles, Ft.
Worth; T. R. Buckman, Ft. Worth;
L. E. Clark, Marshall; H. B. Delery,
Houston; H. L. Evans, College Sta
tion; E. E. Farquhar (deceased) Jones
boro; J. G. Floyd, Rosewood; T. A.
Henderson, McKinney; H. R. Hornsby,
Austin; J. W. Humphries, Denton; S.
S. . Langford, Ft. Worth; A. A. Moore,
Itasca; J. M. Noel, McCall; C. B.
Northcutt, Frisco; M. E. Overton,
Stamford; H. D. Phillips, McKinney;
T. B. Powers, Beaumont; W. B. Pow
ers, Beaumont; G. F. Rechenberg,
Dallas; M. Sessions, Austwell, C. A.
Tracy, Houston; R. L. Van Zandt, Ft.
Worth; G. H. Zarafonetis, Brecken-
ridge.
In awarding the freshman numerals
the Athletic Council paid added trib
ute to the memory of E. E. Farquhar,
Jonesboro, who died following injuries
received on the gridiron, by directing
that certificate of appreciation of the
student be prepared and sent to Far-
quhar’s parents.
‘NUMBER 8’ DEDICATED TO
JOEL HUNT
That famous “8” worn for three
years on an Aggie jersey by Joel
Hunt, has become a tradition, and will
be worn no more by grid performers
of Aggieland. The Maroon and White
jersey that has become famous in
Southwestern Conference football has
made its last appearance, and the
number that it has carried has been
dedicated to the finest of Aggie foot-
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BASKETBALL PROSPECTS
GOOD THIS YEAR
Fifteen men, four of whom were
lettermen on the varsity quintet last
year while the others are freshman
numeral men, give Coach Charles F.
Bassett an unusual array of material
from which to select the Texas Ag
gie basketball squad this year.
The four lettermen back this year
are: J. V. Sikes, Leonard, captain
and guard, who is playing his third
year with the varsity; S. J. Petty,
Decatur, forward; W. E. Davis, Steph
en ville, forward; N. A. Webster, Tex
arkana, center and forward.
The freshman candidates are: R.
J. Blount, Gainesville, center and
guard; H. Broiles, Fort Worth, guard;
J. E. Brown, Alvord, center; Brooks
Conover, Dallas, forward; M. Darby,
Houston, center and forward; R. R.
Dorsey, Fort Worth, guard; H. N.
Keeton, Fort Worth, guard; T. C.
Lockett, Dallas, forward; F. Scovell,
Dallas, guard; W. F. Taylor, Burle
son, forward; R. Varnell, Barry,
guard.
Three of the lettermen, Sikes, Petty
and Davis, and four of the first year
men, Conover, Varnell, Dorsey and
Brown, are members of the Aggie
football squad this year. Sikes and
Petty play opposite ends while Davis,
Varnell, Conover and Dorsey are
backs. Brown plays at center.
Three games will be played before
the Christmas holidays, two with the
Sam Houston State Teachers’ College
at Huntsville, December 15th and
16th, and the other with the Hous
ton Y. M. C. A. at Houston Dec. 17.
Following is the complete schedule
for the season:
Dec. 15-16—Sam Houston State
Teachers’ College at Huntsville.
Dec. 17—Houston Y. M. C. A. at
Houston,
Jan. 4—Houston Y. M. C. A. at
College Station.
Jan. 7—Rice Institute at Houston.
Jan. 12-13—Sam Houston State
Teachers’ College at College Station.
Jan. 16—'Southern Methodist Uni
versity at College Station.
Jan. 21—Texas Christian Univer
sity at Fort Worth.
Jan. 23-—Southern Methodist Uni
versity at Dallas.
Jan. 30—Rice Institute at College
Station.
Feb. 4—Texas University at Aus
tin.
Feb. 11—Texas Christian Univer
sity at College Station.
Feb. 20-21—University of Arkan
sas at College Station.
March 3—Texas University at Col
lege Station.
HUNT LEADS AGGIES
TO 28-7 VICTORY
8 — 8 — 8
Before a record breaking crowd of
over -27,000 football fans, Joel Hunt,
all-time All-Southwestern back, prob
able All-American back and the hard
est and most conscientious fighter
that the football world has ever seen,
led the Texas Aggies to victory over
the Texas Longhorns and to another
Southwestern Conference Champion
ship for the present class of ’28, end
ing the football history for the season
of 1927 in a sensational and memor
able manner. Two years ago it was
that the Aggies won the Champion
ship by defeating the ancient rival
from the Capitol City by piling up an
unheard of score of 28 points, again
in this good year of ’27 history re
peated itself and the Aggie Seniors
wearing the “Fish” numerals will al
ways point to it and say, “Yes, I grad
uated in ’28, but that is the score of
the games that decided the two Cham
pionships for us while I was in Ag
gieland.”
As of old, it was the game of the
year, both teams fighting hard, in
spired by the traditions and histories
of past games. For the Aggies it
was just their year, they could not
be denied. For the Longhorns it was
just another game against Texas Ag
gies, always sufficient reason for in
spiration, and fight they did, putting
Bible’s team on the defensive for the
first time this season. As a result of
this furious onslaught the team from
State broke a longstanding record in
the history of the two schools, that
of taking the ball across the Aggie
goal line by direct plunging. Nor is
this a discredit to the Aggie line, one
of the best that the college has ever
seen, but an expected outcome of open
type of football now being played.
As of old, Joel Hunt was the out
standing star of the game, closely fol
lowed by his team mates. The line
contained seven stars throughout the
game, from end to end it would be
hard to discriminate as to the most in
dividual star. For Texas, McCullough,
at center, and King, Rose and Bald
win in the backfield were the out
standing stars although during the
third quarter every man on the team
fought like demons and brought the
crowd to their feet, yelling, crying
and apprehensive. Such fight must
be duly credited.
After the last whistle blew there