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THE BATTALION
MATTY BELL
ON AT A.&M.
DROP KICKS
And now when we are herded to
G'uion Hall to listen to our politi
cians, we shall at least hear a few
different words. Instead of that old
sob plea, “Boys, we’re for you every
day of the year except Thanksgiv
ing” it will be “Boys, we’re for you
every day of the year except Thanks
giving and APPROPRIATION DAY.
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Little Dan Cupid kinda overdid
things this summer while we were
away and off-guard. He got center-
bulls on Coaches Reid, Petty, and
Holmes. W. L. Penberthy, Director
of Intramural athletics is now the
only one in the Athletic department
still holding the fort.
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For the first time in several years,
the sports writers have failed to
announce that the Aggies will cop
the championship and beat Texas
because it is an odd year and just
the Aggies time to win. Doleful Doc
Stewart, former Texas U coach, made
.the first grid prediction and then
everyone else followed with the same:
Baylor. Baylor does have a wealth
of material, and this one fact may
spell defeat for them in that Jen
nings may fail to find his right
combination in time. Baylor is fav
ored in the way of schedules in that
they have no hard intersectional
games. The Aggies have four tough
ones in a bunch, Tulane, Kansas Ag
gies, T. C. U., and Arkansas, and
if they go through these teams on
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FIFTY MEN REPORT FOR
FIRST PRACTICE
One week of intensive training has
done much to smoothe out the kinks
and co-ordinate the work of the
huskies that .are to make the Ag
gie football team of 1929. Coach
Matty Bell faces his first season at
Aggieland with a nucleus of twelve
lettermen, five from the backfield
and seven from the line of last
year’s eleven, on which to mold a
team capable of going through four
hard early games, which will either
make or break the Aggie machine.
Altogether 50 men reported for the
initial practice, these including in
addition to the twelve lettermen a
promising array of candidates from
last year’s Varsity and freshmen
and intramural teams.
Assisting Bell, in the early work
outs are Coaches “Klepto” Holmes,
line coach and all-Conference guard
on the Championship Aggie eleven
of 1927; John B. Reid, assistant Var
sity coach and head basketball coach
and former head football and bas
ketball coach at N. T. S. T. C.;
Frank Anderson, assistant Fish foot
ball coach and varsity cross-country
and track coach; R. G. Higginbotham,
freshman coach; and “Red” Petty,
assistant freshman coach and star
Aggie wingman for the past three
years and member All-Conference and
All-West teams. W. L. Penberthy,
Intramural Director, is assisting by
taking a few of the kinks out with
his long list of calisthenic drills.
Captain Tom Mills, black-headed
flash from Groesbeck, is leading his
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FRESHMAN FOOTBALL
With the opening of the fall term
much interest is being displayed in
the prospects of the fish football
team for this year because it is on
these men that the future Aggie
teams must depend. Discussion is rife
about which colleges have acquired
the most outstanding high school grid
stars of 1928; nothing much is known
of the Aggie fish yet, but it is
known that • several All-State men
have registered and also many em
bryo stars that will soon be uncov
ered. When 212 high school and
academy players reported to Fresh
man Coach Higginbotham last year,
a new mark was established, but^
again this year an increase is ex
pected with the number running
around 250. It will be impossible to
handle this number properly and the
same method used in the past will be
resorted to. About 50 men will be
equipped first, but it is planned to
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The face of this “Matty” Bell,
whose title reads Head of the De-
partment of Physical Education but
who is better known as the head
| football coach, is not a new one to
j Texas Aggies and their supporters.
Nor is his name a new one in the
j ranks of Southern football players.
| Matty coached Texas Christian
University for the past six years.
During the last four years his
teams defeated A. and M. twice and i
tied them twice. Both the times that
the Aggies bowed to the Bellmen the
former copped the Southwestern Con
ference championship.
In his younger days Matty whiled
away the time playing on the Fort
"Worth Central high school team.
Later he spent quite a while on the
gridirons of Centre College.
Aggie football players who knew
or had heard of Bell before he came
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INTRAMURALS
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE. 1929
DATE SCHOOL
SATURDAY, SEPT..28 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
TULANE UNIVERSITY
KANSAS AGGIES
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN TEACHERS COL.
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
RICE INSTITUTE
UNIVERSTY OF TEXAS
T. W. MILLS, Captain MATTY BELL,
JAMES SULLIVAN, Business Manager
SATURDAY, OCT. 5
SATURDAY, OCT. 12
SATURDAY, OCT. 19
SATURDAY, OCT. 26
SATURDAY, NOV. 2
SATURDAY, NOV. 9
SATURDAY, NOV. 16
THURSDAY, NOV. 28
PLAYED AT
COLLEGE STATION
NEW ORLEANS
DALLAS
FORT WORTH
COLLEGE STATION
COLLEGE STATION
COLLEGE STATION
HOUSTON
COLLEGE STATION !
Coach
Since not every student can be a
candidate for varsity athletics, the
intramural program is so organized
to give him an opportunity to par-
| ticipate in a sport to his liking. For
I the Freshmen who do not understand
j this new form of athletics, this ar-
I tide is especially directed. Intra-
[ mural literally means “within the
walls;” hence athletics within the
school. Competition is carried on
between the different military or
ganizations, the band, and casuals.
In each organization there is a com
pany manager. This man organizes
the teams and keeps the men post
ed as to the time of games and when
new sports begin. A list of these men
will be published as soon as it is
completed. Each new man is espec
ially encouraged to get in touch with
his manager and participate in the
spoi'ts he likes best and if he can-
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