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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1928)
THE BATTALION a /Miodg [MO TT® g[}®p P®Q!)0(ig * * * FREE THROWS * * * # * * * :|s * * * * * * Church is not out until the last hymn is sung. And this conference basketball race is not over until the last game is played. Where there’s life there’s hope. We lost to the Mus tangs but there are lots more games to be played yet. * * * T. C. U. comes next. The Frogs seem to have a one-point complex; they lost a pair of games last week by a one-point margin. They dropped the first to S. M. U., 24 to 23, and the other to Baylor, 28 to 27. If we beat them I don’t care whether it’s by one point or thirteen. * * * The Aggies split a pair of games with thd Sam Houston State Teach er’s College last week, losing the first one 37 to 41, and winning the second, 37 to 15. Both games were fast and exciting and gave the cadets a chance to see the entire squad in action. * * * Arkansas and S. M. U. are so close they can eat out of the same chili bowl. ❖ •*if+ ■*$«■ >4+ -*£<- ❖ ■*■*<*• v£*- ■* ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ CONFERENCE STANDING -I* ❖ *1* * Team P w L Pet ❖ ❖ Arkansas . . .4 4 0 1,000 ❖ ❖ S. M. U. . . . .4 4 0 1,000 * ❖ Baylor . . . . . .1 1 0 1,000 * * A. & M. . . . .2 1 1 500 ❖ ❖ Rice . .2 0 2 000 * Texas . . . . . .3 0 3 000 -* ❖ T. C. U. .. . .4 0 4 000 * * ❖ -*$«- ■*$*■ +£* +£+ •*£«. ❖ H ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ * Although the Southwest Athletic Conference at its last meeting in Dal las voted to extend the gridiron sea son Ho the second Saturday after Thanksgiving, Head Coach D. X. Bible and Business Manager of Athletics, James Sullivan of the A. and M. Col lege of Texas are making no plans to take advantage of such extension. “So far as we are concerned, we feel that any conference game after our Thanksgiving Day game with the Uni versity of Texas would be an anti climax,” they said. “We want to join with the University of Texas in the feeling that the Thanksgiving Day game wall be the final game of the season for each institution.” During the 1928 season, the Texas Aggies will have ten games, from the opening of the season through CAVALRY AND 1ST BATTALION WIN FRIDAY The Battalion League Football race is getting under way with some inter esting and spectacular games, creat ing a fine spirit of rivalry between the respective outfits. Last Friday the Cavalry met the 3rd Battalion and defeated them by a decisive score of 26-6. The Jockeys clearly outplayed the paddlefooted Doughboys in running attack and passing, both teams showing up plenty of defensive fight. The Cavalry have the brightest prospects of win ning the title this year that they have ever had and they were good the last two years. Jefferies quit the Varsity Squad with Stransky in order to be eligible for Battalion football and these big boys with worlds of experi ence and ability will be hard to stop. One of the best games that has been played this year was played by the 1st Battalion and the Air Service last Friday, the 1st Bn. winning by score of 13-0. It was a hotly con tested battle throughout but the heavy line and fast backfield of the 1st was too much for the Squadron. The 1st, with its heavy line of ex perienced men and its fleet backfield composed of “Peg” Putnam, Johnson, and “Fish” “Ironman” Woodman are going to be headers in the percent age column in the League. The Composites won from 2nd Bn. last week by score of 6-0, score being made by blocking a punt and racing across the line with the pig skin. Sgt. Wright was visibly pleased with his cohorts and it is whispered that he has given these boys the “Bull-flun key” concession as reward for their stellar playing. The Composite team has an excellent passing combination but their running attack is weak. Played Won Lost Pet. 1st 2 2 0 .1000 Cav 1 1 0 .1000 Comp 1 1 0 .1000 Air S 2 1 1 .500 Art 2 1 1 .500 3rd Bn. . 2 0 2 .000 2nd Bn 2 0 2 .000 Thanksgiving, and this is considered a sufficiently full schedule. It was pointed out that colleges all over the Country cojnsider the Thanksgiving Day game the wind-up of the season and that there is no sentiment here to make the season longer. There might, of course, come times when the Aggies would want to play post season games with representative teams from other sections, but these games would fall most logically dur ing the holiday season. COACH BASSETT Charles F. Bassett, or “Chuck” Bas sett as his intimates know him, head basketball coach at A. & M. and now absorbed with the developing of the Aggies 1927-28 cage team, began his work at the A. & M. College of Texas in September as line coach of foot ball. Bassett came to A. & M. as football line coach and basketball coach and in addition to this will assist Head Coach Dana X. Bible in spring football training. Bassett is an engineering graduate of Michigan State College and a graduate in physical education of the University of Michigan. He came here from the University of Michigan where last year he assisted Yost in football and Mather in basketball. He has had six years’ coaching experi ence. He played three years, 1917, 1919, and 1920, on the varsity football and basketball teams of Michigan State College. He coached two years at Arthur High School, Saginaw, Mich., and for three years was coach and director of athletics of the Senior High School and Junior College, Flint, Mich. During that period his football teams won state championships three out of five years and basketball teams he coached reached the state tourna ment each year and he put out one state championship cage team. Bas sett also played two years on the col lege baseball team at Michigan State. During the war Bassett saw service overseas in the engineering corps and while stationed as captain of Base Section Five, around Brest, France, coached an army football team that reached the semi-finals of the A. E. F. championship. S. M. U. TAKES THRILLING CON TEST FROM AGGIES, 39-25 Unperturbed by the loud and en thusiastic yelling of the cadets the Mustangs went onto the court at Kyle Field Monday night and demonstrat ed that they had a right to be consid ered as contenders for the conference championship by trimming the Aggies 39 to 25. The Aggies fought to stem the tide and at times outplayed the Mustangs but the Blue forwards were not to be denied. Mann and Allison were a constant menace to the cadets’ hopes. For a while it looked as if the Ag gies would hold the Mustangs, for the first half ended 18 to 15. Both teams were playing a fast snappy game with very few fouls. The Ponies opened the second half with a rush and almost before the Aggies realized it they had the game socked away. Allison’s uncanny goal shooting was enough to decide the game, although the Aggies never quit fighting. Davis and Blount were in jected into the fray and Davis furn ished the fans with several thrills as he brought the ball through the Mus tang defense. Allison of S. M. U. was high-point man of the game with 19 points. Keeton was the highest scorer for the Aggies with 7 points. Summary: Keeton Petty . . Darby . Sikes .. Webster Davis . . Blount . FG FT PF TP .3117 .3 0 2 6 .0 0 2 0 .14 2 6 .10 12 .12 14 .0 0 0 0 TOTAL 9 7 S. M. U.— Mann 2 2 Allison .8 3 Hooks 4 2 Lindsey 1 0 Johnson iO 2 9 25 1 6 2 19 1 10 2 2 2 2 TOTAL 15 9 8 39 Officials: Referee, Henderson; Um pire, McCurdy. + 4 + •►j*- •*$*• ■*$«- >+-*• •*£«• -*$*- ■»$*■ •*£«■ ■*$»• * * * LAST WEEK’S CONFER- * * ENCE SCORES. ❖ * ❖ ❖ S. M. U. 32; Rice 20. ❖ H Arkansas 42; Texas 26. ^ *** Arkansas 59; Texas 29. ^ ❖ Baylor 28; T. C. U. 27. ❖ ❖ S. M. U. 39; A. & M. 25. * ❖ H ♦♦♦ *♦«- -*•> H ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ++* ❖ ❖ ❖