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THE BATTALION
MUSTANGS INVADE KYLE FIELD
DROP KICKS.
The 1928 Championship Aggie
Cross Country team will meet the
Texas Hill and Dalers here Friday
in the first dual meet of the sea
son. Recently the Steers defeated the
Owls at Austin on a muddy course.
The Aggie team was picked last
Saturday.
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The Houston Ex-Students’ Club
has announced that is BIG' banquet
in honor of the Aggie grid team will
be held December 14. This is one
of the largest events of its kind;
last year many exes were unable
to secure tickets for the famous af
fair because only a limited numbei’
could be seated. This is one of the
strongest alumni clubs in existence.
Just before every game, a telegram
is delivered to the Aggie team from
this bunch of livewires.
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And again the Steers failed to
break the S. M. U. jinx. They have
not beaten the Mustangs in six sea
sons now, and before that the Pon
ies were not much in the football
world. The Aggies have lost only
five games to the Frogs.
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It still remains for some club
to cross the Steer’s goal line, but
they slipped slightly in their drive
for their second championship when
S. M. U. repulsed them for the
sixth time. T. C. U. still remains our
favorite. The following is the con
ference standing:
AGGIE AND PONY TRIPLE THREAT MEN PROMISE TREAT.
Team W L Pet. Pts.
T. C. U 1 0 1.000 160
Baylor 1 0 1.000 259
Texas iy 2 0 .833 120
Arkansas 2 2 .500 133
S. M. U % Yz .500 94
A. & M 0 2 .000 157
Rice 0 1 .000 28
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“Beat the Aggies as bad as they
beat us on Kyle Field” is the battle
cry the high stepping proteges of
Ray Morrison will be chanting when
that formidable aggregation steps on
Kyle Field next Saturday. Reports
have floated down this way that the
Aggies have been crying that they
have been saving their strength for
the Mustang game and now are won
dering if the Farmers have any
strength left at all. Last year, if the
Mustang supporters remember cor
rectly, the Aggies had no semblance
of strength, yet outfought, outplayed,
and ejected the Mustangs from the
title race. Although the Aggies are
definitely out this year a win over
the Ponies would do much to retain
the prestige as gridiron performers
that has long been the heritage of
the Aggies. The Mustangs enter the
game with an enviable record behind
them, including scoreless ties with
the powerful Nebraska Cornhuskers
and Texas University elevens and a
52-0 win over Ole, Miss, and with
this record should enter the game
favored to cop the game.
But then the Aggies are playing
on KYLE FIELD and no team has
decisively defeated them on their
own lot. The Mustangs, in five at
tempts, have hung up a victory on
Kyle Field only once, in 1923 when
they came off with the long end of
a 10-0 count.
A game full of spectacular plays
and thrills, is promised the fans
who journey to Aggieland for the
clash. Special trains will bring Mus
tang supporters from Dallas and
ore special will be run out of Hous
ton and early ticket sales indicate
that over 15,000 people will see the
game. Added interest is given the
battle in that the stadium will be
ready for use for the game. A seat
ing capacity for 34,000 will be avail
able. Another feature is the fact that
the field cover will insure a dry
field and thus a fast offensive game.
Mills and Mason promise to figure
repeatedly and brilliantly in the
performance. Both are outstanding
among the backs and both are on the
passing end of the aerial game which
both teams will undoubtedly present.
Each is a triple threat man, each is
a contender for all-conference honor,
and each is among the high scorers.
The Mustang supporters are pretty
cocky over this game. One bright
Dallas scribe predicts a score of 21-
6 and says that the reason the
score will not be any larger is be
cause they wish to save their men
for the Baylor game next week.
Well maybe so—but anyway we are
glad that they are going to let us
score on them.
EIGHTEEN REPORT FOR INI
TIAL BASKETBALL PRACTICE
ALLEN BOWS TO FISH.
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* LAST WEEK’S RESULTS ❖
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❖ Aggies 54, Stephen F. Austin
Teachers 0.
4* Texas 0,. S. M. U. 0. 4*
*> Baylor 34, Texas Tech. 0. ♦>
4* Arkansas 32, L. S. U. 0. J >
4* Rice 7, St. Edward’s 20. ❖
4* T. C. U. 25, North Texas 4*
4* Teachers 0. ‘J*
4* Nebraska 12, Kansas 6. ❖
4* Oklahoma Aggies 20, Tulsa *>
4- U. 0. ❖
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AGGIE HARRIERS MEET
TEXAS FRIDAY
The Aggie Freshmen grid team
continued their brilliant brand of
football last week against the Allen
Academy aggregation, smashing out
an easy 13-0 decision on a wet and
muddy field at Bryan. It was the
second consecutive victory of the sea
son for the Fish, their first victory
being a win over the powerful
Brownsville high school team.
An incessant drizzle which fell
on the quagmire of mud, hampered
the passing attack of the Fish. They
resorted to straight football to eke
out the win over Puny Wilson’s
proteges.
The first score of the game came
when Breedlove, scrappy guard, broke
through and blocked an Allen punt
on their 25-yard stripe. Austin, Fish
signal caller, scampered around end j
for twenty yards and the first j
touchdown of the game. He also con
verted for the extra point.
Scoring festivities were then put
to a halt until the fourth quarter, !
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The sandy hills of Aggieland will
resound with the beating of foot
falls of orange and white and of
maroon and white warriors here
Friday when the Texas Aggie and
Texas University cross country teams
meet in their annual encounter. The
cadets will probably be the favoi - -
ites to win.
Coach Anderson’s harriers have
been working hard since the begin
ning- of school, and at last will have
a chance to test their mettle against
a team of known worth. Two weeks
ago the Longhorns took a hard-
fought race from the Rice Owls. The
race was run over the hills sur
rounding the University campus.
Judging from past competitions,
Perkins will be the Aggies’ ace in
the affair. Saturday he ran the 3.8
mile course in 19.49 minutes. Dick
Winders, conference champion in the
run last year, has still to reach his
peak, and so far has had to contend
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Eighteen candidates, three of them
lettermen from last year, six of
them numeral men of the 1928-29
freshman squad, and the remainder
varsity and intramural players, re
ported to Coach John B. Reid, new
Aggie cage coach from North Texas
Teachers College, Friday for the in
itial practice of the season.
In addition to Captain Keeton, all-
southwestern guard and one of the
high scoring men of the conference,
Johnny Konecny, veteran guard of
the 1926-27 and ’28-’29 teams, and
“Shiro” Hoke, center and forward,
were the other lettermen to report.
Joe Brown, who holds down the cen
ter berth of the Aggie Cage team
as well as that of the Varsity eleven,
and Jerome Harris, star guard on
the Farmer quintet and candidate
for an end berth on Coach Bell’s
eleven, will not report until after
the present football season has clos
ed. The Aggies lost Petty, Caudle,
Davis, and Webster by graduation.
Lamb, guard, did not return to
school.
Only six freshmen were awarded
■minerals on Coach Roswell Higgin
botham’s strong freshman club of
last year, but all of them returned
and all are very promising cagemen.
The 1928-29 numeral men are Bob
Harling, guard; Charles Beard, for
ward; George Carpenter, forward;
Lester Veltman, guard; Fred Keith,
forward; and Robert Hunter, guard.
Broiles, numeral man of the 1927-
28 freshman team and the most
promising guard of that squad, has
again enrolled and will try for a
position on Coach Reid’s first quin
tet.
Promising squadmen from last
year’s team are: E. K. Martin, for-
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4* WHERE THEY PLAY THIS *
* WEEK 4*
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4* Friday, Nov. 8—Cross Coun- 4>
4* try. 4.
4* Aggie vs. Texas at Kyle Field 4.
4* Saturday, Nov. 9—Football «>
4- Agsries vs. S. M. U. at Kyle 4*
4* Field. 4.
4* Texas U. vs. Baylor at Aus- >
4* tin. 4.
4* T. C. U. vs. Rice at Fort 4»
4* Worth. 4.
4* Arkansas vs. E. Cen. Okla. 4*
Teachers at Fayetteville 4*
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