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THE BATTALION
Steer-Aggie Tilt Holds Interest
DROP KICKS.
Coach Frank Anderson’s harriers
are due to win their third consecu
tive conference championship next
Saturday at Houston. These men
train and work hard for 8 or 10
weeks for just one race and receive
little attention from the Corps. Lit
tle recognition is given these fight
ing Aggie warriers, not even by the
Athletic Council, for to letter in
the sport only the first five men
of a championship team are given
the coveted T, and only those fin
ishing among the first ten of the
entire conference meet when the
team fails to win the title.
* * * *
Nine Aggie gridmen, nine of the
hardest playing men in the South
west Conference will hang up their
uniforms for the last time when they
check in after the Longhorn game
Thanksgiving. Mills, Conover, Dor
sey, and Bible complete a quartet
that will be hard to replace next
year; and Brown at center. Richter
and Ewell at guards, and Alsabrook
and Varnell on the wing positions
are five positions that Klepto Holm
es will have difficulty replacing.
Give these nine veteran warriors a
couple . of tackles and they they
would present a team which is about
as good as any that can be muster
ed from the entire Aggie squad.
* * *
T. C. U. has at last accomplished
one of its long cherised desires; to
beat a Texas grid team. Also they
are, for the first time, in the run
ning for the championship. No mat
ter how their games terminates
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AGGIE HARRIERS
SWAMP RICE
Farmers Due for Third Conference
Flag.
Although Willis, crack distance
man for the Owls, ran the Herman
Park and Rice Track Cross Country
course in 23 minutes and 37 seconds
to finish about 300 yards ahead of
Winders, the Aggie team became
quite tight and allowed the Rice
harriers only three places of the
first ten, the majority of the Owls
trailing in for the last places. The
final score added to be 23 for the
Farmers and 37 for the Feathered
tribe.
Winders is fast hitting his stride
and should be in top shape by next
Saturday. Last year the Rice star
was supposed to finish first in the
meet, but Winders outdistanced
him and Shoemaker came right in on
his heels; maybe Dick will see fit
to retain his championship this year.
Perkins, who has been leading the
Aggie pack, fell to 4th place on the
Aggie team, but should finish strong
next week. S. M. U., T. C. U., Texas,
Rice, Baylor and A. and M. will all
have teams entered this year, and
the Aggies are due to cop the title
for the third year because the team
is well balanced and it takes that
kind of a combination to win the
championship. Texas and Rice were
conceded to have the strongest teams
but the Aggies had three men to
finish ahead of the best Texas man
and finished nearly the entire team
ahead of the Owls.
BELLMAN SILENCE
HOOTING OWLS
INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL
FINALS SUNDAY
Cross-Country Meet Also on Program
Of the 40 basketball teams enter
ed by 25 organizations in the In
tramural Cage Leagues, seven have
finished their schedules with their
records clean. In order to properly
handle the large number of teams it
was necessary to form seven lea
gues, four in Class A competition
and three in Class B. Two infantry
outfits, Company B and Company C,
carried off the larger part of the
honors when both their entries cop
ped their league championships;
other organizations in the finals are:
Battery A and Troop D in Class A;
and Battery E in Class B. It will be
necessary to play the finals on Sun
day afternoon as the Varsity is
using the court in the afternoons
and this is the only time that the
College championship could possibly
be determined.
Participation records in basketball
were overshadowed by 190 this year
when 508 men took part in the race
for the basketball championiship.
Class A had 295 participants, while
Class B had 213. Company D, B Sig
nal Corps, and Company G each
had 18 men competing in Class A
and Company D and B tied for the
high honors with 22 men in class
B. Company D had more men com
peting in basketball than any other
organization. 40 men played for
Company D.
TEXAS TICKETS ARE
STILL AVAILABLE
Southwest Conference Standing:
Team W L Pet. Pts.
T. C. U 3 0 1.000 208
S. M. U 2% y 2 .833 131
Texas 3 2 .600 132
Baylor 1%1% .500 265
Arkansas 2 2 .500 198
Aggies 1 3 .250 190
Rice 0 3 .000 69
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❖ WHERE THEY PLAY THIS *
❖ WEEK ♦
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❖ T. C. U. vs. Baylor at Waco ❖
❖ . S. M. U. vs Rice at Dallas ❖
❖ Cross Country ❖
❖ Conference meet at Houston *>
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Coach Matty Bells grid warriors
went bird hunting Saturday and
found an Owl which yielded 26 fea
thers, but only after it had taken
six bites from the Aggies’ lean body.
This victory formally served notive
on Coach Clyde Littlefield’s Texas
Longhorns that the Turkey Day tilt
would be far from a set up and that
they must perfect a strong defense
and mighty offense if they intend
to do the Aggies’ job of dedicating
the completed new concrete stadium.
The Aggie machine functioned ra
ther well at various periods of the
Owl game, but sputtered at regular
intervals, which was probably due
not to any fault of the Aggies, but
because the Owls were continuing
the old custom of playing their
hardest game of their season against
the cadest. This win now brings the
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Approximately 27,000 tickets have
already been sold for the Annual
Turkey Day tilt between the Aggies
and the Longhorns; and Business
Manager James Sullivan says there
are about 6,000 good seats left in
the cement stadium. The sale is
still brisk and anyone desiring seats
must get their orders in immediate
ly. However, 5,000 temporary seats
will be erected at the open end of
the U if all the tickets in the sta
dium are sold. He says that every
one will be accommodated.
Twelve thousand tickets were sent
to Texas University, and 21,000 kept
at this office. Tuesday morning
there were about 3,500 of the Aggie
tickets left and Mr. Sullivan said
that he thought the University had
sold about 8,000 of their lot.
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36th Clash Between Ancient Foes.
Although this annual Turkey Day
tilt between two ancient foes will
have no bearing on the Conference
title, the Aggie-Longhorn game
promises to loom across the foot.-
ball horizon as the outstanding game
of the season, if for no other rea
son than the fact that the feud is
as nearly as old as football in the
Southwest. It is the football classic
of the Southwest and is recognized
as being a fitting climax to the con
ference grid race, regardless of the
standing of the two teams in the
percentage column.
This ancient feud dates back to
1894 and since that time only two
interruptions have broken the con
tinuity of the games between the
two teams. This year, because of the
place this fray has attained in the
Southwest, no other team of this
conference has scheduled games,
preferring to play the Saturday be
fore or after Thanksgiving. There
fore Business Manager Sullivan ex
pects that the larger number of
fans ever to witness a Steer-Aggie
scrap on Kyle Field will fill his new
stadium and help the Aggies dedi
cate it. There are 34,000 seats in the
new concrete stadium ar^dj 5000
additional ones can be erected if
needed. Seats are still available and
may be had by writing to the A. &
M. Athletic office. They will be end
seats, but they are good high ones
and an excellent view of the game
may be had.
There are features and features
which will make this game one of
the most alluring if not one of the
most colorful spectacles of the year,
but not even the traditions of the
two schools, the homecoming events
of the two state institutions, the
ardent but friendly rivalry, the two
huge rooting sections, the famous
Aggie and Longhorn bands, the Ag
gie “T” formed by 2600 cadets, the
performance of the Texas Cowboys
and Band on the field between halves
and the mammouth crowd of frenz-
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* LAST WEEK’S RESULTS *
* Aggies 26; Rice 6 ❖
* S. M. U. 25; Baylor 6 ❖
*** T. C. U. 15; Texas 12
* Arkansas 13; Centenary 2 ->
* Nebraska 13; Oklahoma 13 ❖
■*** Tulane 18; Sewanee 0 ❖
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