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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1928)
THE BATTALION FROSS TAKE GAME ON KYLE FIELD NORRIS TROPHY FOR AGGIE ATHLETE DROP KICKS You are rated as an under-dog again, see what a few slips will do, look back and remember what has happened before. ♦ He * The team needs jour support now more than ever, you are not a “Quit ter.” There never has been a real Aggie who would say that he was through. Stay and put out. * * * Things may go wrong as they of ten do so its up to you to uphold the Traditions that have lived thru fifty years of prosperity. * * * All we cherish and hold high is at stake men. We will come back, we must. * * * The team will have a long trip to the land of Razorbacks this week end. * * * Go down to Kyle Field, look that bunch over and see just how hard they are fighting. * * * To further complicate things it looks as though Red Delery will be out for a few days with a badly bruised arm. * * * The breaks are against you, go back to the old days and reason out the question. x= * * It’s up to you to give as you never have, so strap on the old war bonnet and fight for them all you are worth. COMPANY TENNIS STARTS. With the beginning of Tennis on Monday 22nd. our Intramural Sports are well progressing toward another great year. Tennis this year has as sumed the style of varsity play more than in the past. Each company is represented by a team of six who are paired off for doubles play. At any time during the match new men may be substituted but the men taken out cannot return or enter another match until the next contest. Company managers who have not held their competition should do so at once and be prepared to enter their best team when called upon to play. The fight for basketball honors is getting “hotter.” Troop C has lost a game to the strong B Battery (Continued on Page 11) TROPHY OFFERED FOR PRESENT MENT TO AGGIE The Norris Athletic Trophy award ed by the President of Norris, In corporated, Atlanta, Ga. Manufac turers of NORRIS Exquisite Can dies to the student of A. and M. College of Texas, who most dis tinguishes himself in athletics dur ing the scholastic year 1928-1929. The rules are as follows: 1. The Norris Athletic Trophy Committee, made up of the Chairman of the Athletic Council, Head De partment of Physical Education, President of Senior Class, Cadet Colonel, the Commandant, and the Secretary of the Former Students Association, with Mr. Frank E. Low- enstein, of Atlanta, Ga., as ex-officio chairman, shall have charge of the details of awarding the Trophy. In the absence of the ex-officio chair man, the Chairman of the Athletic Council shall preside at all meetings of the Committee. The Secretary of the Former Students Association shall act as secretary to the Com mittee, and shall keep a record of all proceedings. 2. To be eligible for the Trophy the prospective recipient must have attained a passing grade oh at least seventy per cent of his scholastic work carried during the year. 3. The winner shall be determin ed by a popular vote of the student body in a primary election to be held annually during the first week in February and in a final election to be held annually at the same time and place that balloting occurs for the election of student officers. 4. The three men receiving the highest number of votes in the pri mary election shall be considered as candidates for the Trophy, and shall enter the final election to be held simultaneously with the election of student officers as above provided. 5. Each regularly enrolled stu dent of the college may vote once for the candidate of his choice in the primary by writing the said candidate’s name on the ballot pre pared for that purpose, and deposit ing the same in the ballot box. But after the field of candidates has been (Continued on Page 12) WHAT WILL SATURDAY’S GAME MEAN? On the T. C. U. special train Sat urday night, a T. C. U. man re marked to an A. and M. cadet that he supposed A. and M. would now go in a hole, pull the hole in behind them and put on their mourning colors. Needless to say, he received a fitting reply to that remark, but the question is, how do you feel. Old Army. We are now in our proper posi tion, no one concedes us an outside chance to win. Several of the sport writers say that we may get lucky and win the Rice game. In the many years of A. and M football, when the going was har dest and the praise' for the other team the loudest, that was when the old dyed-in-the-wool, never-lacking, never weakening, Aggie fight, car ried us through. Men, if we care to do so we can admit that we hav- n’t the material that Arkansas, S. M. U., and the other conference teams of this year boast. We can say that it is just a hard year. But down in our hearts we must remem ber those old strong-hearted prede cessors of ours, who never had th material, were always the unde dog and fighting against odds. Those were the men who fought for A. and M. and the glory of winning on pure “guts” and grim determination. Gentlemen, we have a heritage more precious than fine gold or a thous and new dormitories and fraterni ties, that of never knowing the word weaken. Of accepting the odds and winning on “guts.” Defeat is no dis grace, for there is glory in defeat, but our job and our determination from here on out is to go on that old football field in a cold fury. The man who can’t shed a tear when he is taken from a game on a football field or the man in the stands who can laugh and say it does not matter, is not worthy to play on an A. and M. team, nor to claim that team as his own. Time and again some old Ex-Stu- dent has said that he thinks that the fine old flame that A. and M. kept burning so brightly is flicker ing and passing out. To those of us who are here now, that is a bitter challenge and if true, it is no more than a statement that we haven’t the “guts” to take our punishment (Continued on Page 12) CROSS COUNTRY SQUAD SE LECTED. Coach Andy’s dalers had their second competition of the pres ent season between the halves of the Aggie-Frog football game. The com petition was held primarily to de termine the members of the regular squad. Winners again finished first with a time of 22:19 for the course. The other leading candidates were right on his heels and finished near ly the same as in the first compe tition. Moore, Brown, Shumaker, Michael, Kyser, Perkins, Badger, Mil ner, Williams, Johnson, Campbell, Suddath, and Grantham finishing in the order named. The above named men are at present considered on the squad and Coach Anderson expects to whip his charges in shape by the first dual meet. Fish Roberts ran the course with the Varsity and finished in second place and very close to Winders. It is said that there is another Fish just as good as Fish Roberts. There are over 60 Freshmen taking Fish P. T. Cross Country and all run the