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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1928)
8 THE BATTALION AGGIES OPE CONFERENCE WITH A WIN! INTRAMURAL ATHLETICS. Weather conditions were such last Saturday that the Intramural depart ment thought it advisable to postpone the first of this seasons scheduled football games. These games are to be played during the week, thus mak ing it possible to follow the regular announced plans. There seems to be a stronger line-up in each battalion than those of the past. The college volley ball champions will be detei'mined during the week, there are three teams left in the run ning. The Tennis tournament was dropped just before the holidays but will be continued with permissable weather. The renewing- matches will be played within the next two weeks. The plan of the Intramural board is that every man take part in at least one sport. If the promises come true this will be Aggieland’s greatest year in Intramural contests. This is the Athletic and Military College of Texas, and all we have to do is put more on the athletic part. RESULTS OF INTERBATTALION FOOTBALL GAMES PLAYED JAN. 10. First Bat 15 Thii’d Bat 6 ***** * * * * Air Service 7 Artillery 0 In their last practice game before opening the conference season, the Texas Aggies lost a close, hard-fought contest to the Houston Triangles, 41 to 37. This was the Aggies first ap pearance on the local court and the c’adets had an opportunity to see all of the players in action before the game was over. ❖ * * The 1927 Texas Aggie football squad, accompanied by the coaches and business manager, will journey down to Houston Saturday to be the guests of the Houston A. and M. club at a football banquet. Among the high spots of the evening will be the presentation of All-American diplo mas to Sprott, Hunt, and Sikes. These thi'ee Aggie stars were given All- American mention on the team pick ed by “Pop” Warner, Knute Rockne, and Tad Jones for the Christy Walsh Syndicate. * * * We have been told that no com pany has at present started making square peas but we know of no law to keep us from mashing them flat. FRESHMAN BASKETBALL Seventeen men from the squad of more than sixty who first reported as candidates for the Texas Aggie freshman cage team for 1927-28 are working out daily under the direction of Freshman Coach R. G. Higgin botham and much promising material for varsity teams of coming years is being developed. S. J. (Punk) Baker, captain and star of the 1926-27 Texas Aggie varsity quintet, is assisting in the training. As in football, the freshman squad is used to scrimmage with the varsity, but in addition the “fish” team will meet quintets from several of the high schools of the state. Definite announcement of the schedule has not yet been made but negotiations are under way for games with Bryan, Houston, Austin and Waco teams. For the forward positions Coach Higginbotham has R. D. Hardcastle, Houston Heights high school; H. U. Bible, Jefferson City, Tennessee; H. B. Cox, Houston Central High; W. G. Cotton, Beaumont High; R. B. Jones, Leesville, Louisiana; E. K. Martin, Palestine High. Hardcastle w'on statewide recognition during his two years at Houston Heights and is one of the outstanding candidates on the team. Bible, a brother of Head Coach Dana X. Bible, played three years with the Jefferson City, Missouri, high school, and seems to be better in basketball than he was in football, in which he won his freshman numeral the past season. Cotton was a letter- man at Beaumont high school three years and is a fleet-footed forward of ability. Besides one year as a letter- man with Palestine high school, Mar tin received two letters in basketball from Randolph Junior College. Jones is a three-year-man from Leesville, La., and Cox received a letter from Houston Central High. It is with material for the center positions that the freshman squad is particularly favored. C. T. Hoke, all state center from Houston Heights high school; H. D. Phillips, three- year-man from McKinney high; W. P. Russell, who was awarded two let ters at Breckenridge high school; R. C. Bell, four-year-man at Bellville; A. M. Allison, forward and center from Denton high school, and H. E. Thompson, Hereford boy with three years experience at guard-center, from as promising an array of ma terial from which to select a center as could be desired. R. T. Lamb, another Houston Heights high school product with two years experience; H. C. Skaggs, two- year-man from Fort Worth; E. J. (Continued on Page 9) T RACK Reinforced by eight members from last year’s varsity squad and seven teen freshman numeral men, the nine lettermen who have returned to seek additional laurels on the Texas Ag gie cinder path and track give Track Coach Frank Anderson an unusually large amount of material from which to build his 1928 track team. Since the opening of College in the fall all of the men have been training regularly and the beginning of actual practice finds them in excellent phy sical condition for the grind which will continue without interruption, ex cept for the Christmas holidays, until the close of the track season in the spring. The lettermen who have returned to enter training are: C. E. Buck, Beaumont, captain and sprinter; Hershel Burgess, Hale Center, fleet backfield star of the champion Ag gie eleven this year, who runs the quarter mile; J. B. Haile, Goliad, a member of the champion Aggie cross country team this year, w'ho runs the mile; A. B. Childers, Jasper, captain of the cross country team, two miles; J. R. Kennedy, Denison, hurdles; H. Ashley, San Antonio, jumps; Z. W. Bartlett, Marlin, center on the Aggie eleven this year, weights. The squadmen back are: W. K. Hol- leron, San Antonio, javelin; O. N. Yeary, Ft. Worth, javelin; G. H. Moore, Dallas, half mile; V. J. Head, Bi'ownfield, pole vault; Simon Utay, Dallas, sprints; A. R. Kroulik, Bell ville, broad jump; N. A. Webster, Texarkana, hurdles; A. L. Van Nest, Burkburnett, hurdles. AGGIES HAVE TWO GAMES THIS WEEK After having defeated the Rice Owls in a sensational manner in Houston last Saturday night by the score of 27-23 the Texas Aggie Bas ketball team will begin a week of hard work preparatory for the S. M. U. Ponies, their next conference match. With “Siki” Sikes back at center and captain of the team, the Aggies have begun to show up in the old- time Aggie fashion, plenty of pep, speed and fight. Coach Bassett has plenty of material, although some of it is green and will be slow in develop ing, and again in Basketball as well as in football the Aggies should be con tenders for the Conference honors. Sam Houston State Teachers’ bas- keteers will invade Aggieland next Thursday and Friday nights for a practice game with the Aggies, and from what we hear of the Teachers (Continued on page 9) DEFEAT RICE 27-20 IN A FAST AND EXCITING GAME Darby High Point Man. Grant Stars for Rice. The Texas Aggies defeated the Rice Owls in their first conference basket ball game of the season Saturday night by a score of 27 to 23. The game was played in Houston before a large crowd. It was a fast game and abound ed in brilliant playing. The Aggies roundly • outplayed the Owls in the first half, emerging with an 18-7 score in their favor. But the second half was a different tale. The Owls made a brilliant comeback and caused lots of excitement, but they were not capable of defeating the boys from College Station. Darby of the Aggies was high-point man, with Webster and Keeton of the Aggies tied with Grant of the Owls for second. The entire Aggie team showed a marked improvement over their previous performance with the Houston Triangles. The game was not only fast and exciting, but was also pretty rough, Koenig and Grant of the Owls retir ing early in the second half with four personal fouls apiece. Captain Sikes of the Aggies also left the game be fore it was over for the same reason. This victory over the Owls in their first conference game gave the Ag gies a percentage of 1,000 in the con ference race. Summary: A. and M.— Fg. Ft. Pf. Tl. Petty, f 10 1 3 1 Keeton, f 2 3 3 7 Darby, c 4 0 0 8 Webster, g 3 1 2 7 Sikes (cant.) 1 2 4 4 Blount, g 0 0 2 0 Totals 10 7 14 27 Rice— Zuber, f 0 2 0 2 Lanscope, f 1 1 1 3 Billups, f 0 3 1 3 Morgan, f 1 0 0 2 Kendrick, c-g 0 1 0 1 Koenig, g 0 1 4 1 Grant (capt.) 3 1 4 7 Thomas, g 1 0 1 2 Furman, c 1 0 1 2 Totals 7 9 12 23 Officials: Referee, Boggess, Um pire, Henderson. -—=53 Chic Winn: “I’d rather be a chauf feur than a jockey.” Jim Blackaller: “Why?” Chic: “A jockey only gets to see the horse’s neck, while the chauffeur gets to see everybody neck.”