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THE BATTALION
AGGIES, FROGS RENEW HOSTILITIES
DROP KICKS.
TEAMS ARE OUTSTANDING CONFERENCE CONTENDERS.
Two old scores were settled and
one repulsed when the Farmers met
ed out a 19-0 defeat to the Kansans.
Way back in 1910 the Aggies jour
neyed to Manhattan only to return
on the blank end of an 8-0 score.
Then two years later the Kansans
came to Texas and took the long end
of a 13-10 score in a bitter struggle
which many veteran Aggie grid
fans cite as one of the most color
ful battles in the history of the
school. This 19-0 win settles that
score.
Then the coach of the Aggie ele
ven settled a score with his old
team mate. Back in 1923, “Bo’s”
Centenary Gentleman journeyed to
Fort Worth and crushed the light
Frog team 23-0. It was Matty Bell’s
first year at T. C. U., and with his
first team at Aggieland he settled
this score. All Coach McMillan can
show is a large number of his grey
hairs pulled out during the little
fray at Dallas. The sport scribes
enjoyed themselves for once, this hair
pulling stunt being a little different.
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And again “Bo” is disappointed.
As All-American quarterback of the
world champion Centre College ele
ven, he suffered one of his most
humiliating defeats. He’ll have to
come again.
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About 1400 tickets have been sold
to the students for the Frog-Aggie
clash. All students are urged to get
their tickets as soon as possible.
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Brown, Bible and Van Zandt are
out for awhile, but are expected to
get in the T. C. U. game. Their in
juries not being considered serious.
Misfortune seems to be hovering
❖ LAST WEEK’S SCORES *
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❖ Texas Aggies 19; Kansas Ag- ***
*** gies 0.
❖ Baylor 19; St. Edwards 0. *
Texas U. 27; Arkansas 0 &
❖ T. C. U. 28; Centenary 0. *
❖ S. M. U. 15; Austin College 0. <*
❖ Rice 14; Southwestern 6. *3*
♦> Mississippi 7; Tennessee 52.
❖ Louisiana State 27; Sewanee *
❖ 14. *
❖ Nebraska 13; Syracuse 6. *
U. of Oklahoma 26; Creigh- *>
❖ ton 0. *S*
❖ Tulane 34; Miss. Aggies 0 ♦I*
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Victorious over strong intersection
al rivals last week having definitely
! placed their teams as outstanding
j contenders for Southwest Conference
; laurels, Coach Matty Bell, of the
; Texas Aggies, and Coach Francis
| Schmidt of the T. C. U. Horned
! Frogs, are expected to leave nothing
unused in their bags of football j
! tricks and tactics when they place
their teams on the field to blast the
cap off their 1929 conference sched-
! ules at Fort Worth, Saturday.
Early games of both teams indi-
; cate that both contestants have ef-
I fective aerial attacks and baffling
wide-open systems of play which
are expected to make Saturday’s
j game loom as one replete with all
; the action and color that daring of-
; fensive tactics can bring.
Coach Frank Anderson, Aggie track
; and freshman grid mentor, who saw
j the Horned Frogs trounce the Cen
tenary Gents last Saturday, char-
1 acterized the T. C. U. eleven as “one
of the strongest in the history of
T. C. U. and one of the smoothest-
working, least excitable teams I have
ever seen.”
The Aggie coach also described
Howard Grubbs, veteran Horned
Frog quarterback, as “one of the
bert passers the Southwest has boast-
j ed in several years.” It was large-
j ly due to this sterling backf ield ace
! that the Frogs were able to thor-
; oughly perform their task against
the Gents last week.
I Though slightly hampered during
; the early part of the week by the
| absence from practice of Joe Brown,
center; Roscoe Van Zandt, guard;
and Hollis Bible, quarterback, the
Aggies, acting upon these reports
on the Frogs, wasted no time in get
ting down to intensive training for
their T. C. U. fray and their week’s j
work is being featured by daily j
scrimmages against T. C. U. plays
and formations as presented by Coach ;
Roswell Higginbotham’s Aggie fresh- :
men.
Much attention has been given to i
perfecting a defense especially for j
the offensive play of the Horned
Frog eleven, and several new offen
sive plays instituted particularly
for use Saturday indicate that fans
may keep their eyes open for plenty
in the way of surprise plays against
the Frogs.
Bible, Brown, and Van Zandt, who
were all out •with minor injuries ear
ly in the week, are expected to be
in tip-top shape when Coach Bell
takes his team to Fort Worth Sat
urday. No really serious injuries re
sulted in the Kansas Aggie game last
week.
Of particular interest to Aggie
fans will be the 1929 debut of Ralph
Dorsey, Aggie half who, because of
a broken hand has not pai’ticipated
in a single game this season. It is
interesting to note that this dan
gerous triple-threat man of the Ag
gies will make his initial bow of the
season in his home town, Fort
Worth. Leonard Clark, who got into
action against the Kansans last
week, is another back whose recovery
greatly enhances the chances of the
Aggie eleven.
HILL AND DALERS IN
FIRST COMPETITION
With a squad of 22 men, four of
whom are lettermen, Coach Ander
son has every reason to look for
ward to a successful cross country
season. Although it is rather early
to make any predictions it seems that
the Aggies stand a good chance of
retaining the Southwest Conference
title which they have held since
1927.
Captained by C. Y. Shoemaker,
elongated stepper from Palestine,
the squad has been working dili
gently for the past three weeks.
R. N. Winders, S. B. Michael, Ed.
Thompson and Shoemaker are the
four lettermen who have returned.
M. H. Badger and Red Brown, both
lettermen of the ’28 team, are not
out this year; Badger is being saved
for the track season while Brown
transferred. Moore, captain of the
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AGGIES SMOTHER KANSAS.
Scoring a touchdown before the
fans had seated themselves and two
in the last quarter, the Texas Ag
gies overwhelmed the Aggies of
Kansas in one of the hardest fought
football classics this fall, 19-0. The
famous “Bo” trotted 32 huskies of
Kansas on the Fair Park stadium in
a vain effort to stem the Aggies’
scoring attack. It seemed that for
a part of the game his men could
bruise through the Aggie line at
until they reached spots that threat
ened the Aggie cause. Later in the
game it seemed that the speedy backs
and fighting line had spent them
selves and could do no more than
hold their own. Had it not been for
penalties, the Aggies score and vic
tory would have been much more
impressive, but 19 points are more
than enough for this game.
The first score came early in the
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There seems to be quite an epi
demic of sorry school spirit prevail
ing among a few of the Southwes
tern conference schools. Here a cou
ple of weeks ago the Texas Uni
versity students took occasion to run
their own famous Longhorn band
off the football field under a bar
rage of apples 'and cushions. They
must have a good football team that
can keep winning games behind such
spirit. By the way, they have dis
continued selling apples and cush
ions at the Texas games. It’s a
good thing they don’t peddle base
ball bats and shot-puts!
In a recent game that Rice Insti
tute played with Sam Houston
Teachers College, the stands were
thrown into an uproar when some
of the students began heaving cush
ions out on the field and also at
the cash customers. Drastic steps
have been taken by the Institute au
thorities to put a stop to the throw
ing.
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The supposed “big intersectional
clash” between S. M. U. and the
University of Mississippi should be
nothing more than a walkaway for
the Mustangs. Although the sports
scribes have been boosting the game,
Ole Miss’ record is erfcugh to give
the Ponies a big edge. They have
played three games, losing to Ala
bama, 22-7, Vanderbilt, 19-7 and to
Tennessee, 52-7. They meet at Fair
Park Stadium in Dallas Saturday.
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University of Missouri students
will take to the air in the future
when going to foreign fields to see
their football team play. Cabin air
planes service has been provided for
the students and their first big trip
will be to New York, when they
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* WHERE THEY PLAY THIS ♦
* WEEK *
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*** October 18. ❖
* S. M. U. vs. S. M. U. Colts *
*♦* at Dallas. *
*■** October 19. *!»
* Aggies vs. T. C. U. at Fort
*1- Worth. &
* Texas U. vs. Oklahoma U. at ❖
**• Dallas.
* Baylor vs. Arkansas at Waco.
*♦•* U. of Mississippi vs. Loyola ❖
*> at New Orleans.
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