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Published Weekly by the
Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VGL. XXVII
BRYAN, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 14, 1928.
NO. 9
A. & M.-TEXAS
GAME HISTORIC
RODEO-PAGEANT
PROMISES GAIETY
SENIOR CLASS
GIVEN BANQUET
A. H. TEAM
OFF FOR MEET
Ancient Gridiron Foes to Meet For
Thirty-Fifth Game.
Pretty Girls and Wild Westerners in
Gala Affair.
First of Series to be Given Thurs
day Night.
A.
H. Judging Team Leaves
Wichita and Kansas City.
for
When the Texas Aggies and the
Texas Longhorns line up on the
It won’t be long now, boys, before
one of the greatest events of the
Memorial Stadium gridiron at Aus
tin Thanksgiving Day for the kick
off of what has come to be the Tur
key Day classic in Texas, these an
cient gridiron foes will be facing-
each other for the thirty-fifth time.
A long record of competition that,
in football. So long, indeed, that it
goes back almost as far as does the
game itself in Texas.
Since 1894, when these two teams
fought the battle that started the
feud, there have been only two in
terruptions to break the continuity
of games, each of which has seen
attendance and rivalry grow. The
first break followed the first game,
in 1894, and lasted until 1898 when
the second game was played. The
other break was from 1911 until
1915. From 1898 until 1911, how
ever, the two elevens met at least
once each year and often twice in
the same year so that even though
there have been several years in
—~ ~ ~ which the two teams did not meet,
the mitnner of games played equals
the number of years that have elap
sed since hostilities began.
Several of the Aggie-Longhorn
games of recent years have become
bright pages in the history of foot
ball in the Southwest Conference.
Last year, in 1925 and in 1921, the
outcome of the conference pennant
race hung upon the result of the
Turkey Day games. The Aggies won
the game and the championship in
1925 and 1927 but in 1921 the two
teams battled to a scoreless tie
which, however, saved the title for
the Aggies. It was in the Turkey
Day tilt on Kyle Field in 1925 that
the Aggies piled up the 28-0 score
against the Longhorns, giving them
the worst drubbing ever received at
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season rolls around and it will give
us all a chance to forget our work
for a few hours and fill us with
mirth until it is unforgivable. The
final preparations for the annual
A. and M. Rodeo and Pageant have
been made and now the only thing
that the promoters are waiting for
is the arrival of the night. And what
a glorious night those hard working
juniors have planned for us; prob
ably the greatest array of entertain
ment that has ever been afforded
to this student body, and to the peo
ple of Bryan and vicinity.
Ringmaster Ralph Howe knows ex
actly the kind of amusement we want
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CORPS DANCE TO
BE GALA AFFAIR
W. C. Morris, social secretary of
the Senior class, has announced an
other corps dance for this Satur
day night. It will be the night of
the A. and M.-Rice football game,
and the night should be a good one
for a dance.
There will be several special trains
which will bring the Rice students
and the Houston people to College
Station for the game. Most of these
students and Houston people will
stay over Saturday night to attend
the dance. And thus the usual crowd
at the corps dances will be augment
ed by the good looking girls from
Rice and Houston.
It is expected that the dance will
be one of the best of the season,
even though it is only a corps dance.
It will be held in the Mess Hall
annex, and will start promptly at
9 p. m. Aggieland will play, and we
all know what a success the leaders
of the orchestra are making out of
it this year.
Dr. Walton is giving the senior
class the first banquet of the year
Thursday night at 6:15. The senior
members of the Y. M. C. A. cabinet
are promoting it. All seniors and
members of the faculty staff are
urered to attend. Proxy’sm>vn pur
pose is to afford the members of
the senior class and the faculty the
opportunity to become better ac
quainted with each other.
Mr. Elmer Scott, head of the Dal
las Civic Federation will be the
speaker for the occasion. Dr. W'al-
ton has been kind enough to offer
to pay the expenses of any speaker
whom the seniors may want for their
meetings. Several such banquets are
being planned for the seniors during
the year.
Dr. Walton is of the opinion that
the three other classes should be giv
en a banquet for the same purpose,
and he is going to try to arrange
one for each class sometime during
the year.
MANY STUDENTS
FAILING IN WORK
The startling fact that more than
fifty per cent of the student body
is doing unsatisfactory work at the
present time was revealed when the
final tabulation of unsatisfactory re
ports turned in to the Registrar’s of
fice on November 1 was completed.
The majority of these students
were reported as failing in one and
two subjects, but a great many of
them are doing unsatisfactory work
in three, four and five, and even a
few failing in six subjects.
There was a total of 1562 stu
dents reported to the Registrar’s of
fice for unsatisfactory work, or 58.9
per cent • of the entire enrollment.
Of these there were 732 doing un
satisfactory work in one subject, 430
in two subjects, 243 in three subjects,
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The A. H. Stock Judging Team
left last night for Wichita and Kan
sas City, Kansas. At Kansas City
they will enter the stock judging
contests held in connection with the
American Royal Livestock Show. The
A. and M. team won the meet lasr
year.
This year's team is composed of
A. A. Storey, C. E. Morris, S. E.
Bunton, J. M. Jackson, T. C. Caudle,
W. J. Fields and H. H. Weatherby.
The team will return November 22
and on the 27th will leave for Chi
cago to take part in the competition
at the International Livestock Show.
At this meet all of the large schools
of the country will be represented.
The team will not return until Dec
ember 6.
At the International event the
much coveted prize is a large bronze
bull, given to the team that wins
the contest three times. A. and M.
teams have won twice and this
year’s team is determined to bring
to A. and M. the trophy, where it
will be erected at some place not yet
selected.
PRIZES OFFERED
MATH STUDENTS
For the purpose of stimulating
more interest in Mathematic in par
ticular and in good scholarship in
general certain friends of the col
lege upon the initiative of Professor
J. W. Mitchell will offer several
awards to sophomore and freshmen
students in mathematics during the
current session.
A first prize of thirty dollars, do
nated by Mr. James Sullivan, Busi
ness Manager of Athletics, will be
given to the sophomore student do
ing the best work in the department;
a second prize of twenty dollars, do
nated by the firm of A. M. Wal
drop & Company of Bryan and Col
lege Station will go to the sopho-
CORPS DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT