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.
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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.
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The breaks are against you, go
back to the old days and reason
out the question.
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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
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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
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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
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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