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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1929)
WE MUST WIN It is not merely traditions and customs that spur us in the desire to win; it is the expression of the respective individuality of each member of the Cadet Corp. fhp lattalion ADVERTISING Business has been increased through the medium of advertising. The contributions from such make this paper possible. Trade with our advertisers and mention our paper. Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas VOL. XXVIII BRYAN, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 27, 1929. NO. 11 DEDICATION GAME DRAWS THOUSANDS DEDICATION OF CONCRETE STADIUM WILL MARK REALIZATION OF NINE YEAR DREAM FOR JAMES SULLIVAN Half-Million Dollar Athletic Plant Achieved by Aggie Business Manager. Total Cost $350,000 Governor to be Principal Speaker on Dedication Program at Kyle Field Thursday. By Jack Barnes Thanksgiving Day will mark the realizatibn of an ambition which, nine years ago, was only a dream in the mind of James Sullivan, bus iness manager of athletics at the A. and M. College of Texas, the dedi cation of the new $365,000.00 con crete stadium. Hundreds of celeb- reties, and thousands of football fans gathered at Kyle Field to witness the football classic of the South will add to the occasion pomp and color never before seen in Aggie- land. President T. O. Walton of A. and M. will preside at the formal pro gram of talks and F. M. Law, Houston, president of the board of directors of the college, and presi dent H. Y. Benedict of the Univer sity of Texas, will speak briefly. Voice amplifiers will be used so that the words of the speakers will carry clearly to the fans seated (CosVymied on. Page 6) 5,000 EXES WILL GATHER FOR GAME Silver Buckle and Belt WS11 be Awarded to Fartherest Ag gie Traveler. RIVAL CAPTAINS More than 5000 former students of A. and M. College are expected to be on hand for the Thanksgiving Day classic with the Texas Longhorns and visiting old haunts about the campus during odd hours of the Thanksgiving period, according to E. |E. McQuillen, secretary of the For mer Students. In accordance with the annual custom, THE TEXAS AGGIE, of ficial publication of the ‘exes,” will this year award a prize to the A. and M. man who travels the greatest distance to see the game. This year's prize will be a sterling silver buckle and blet, the buckle to ’ with the A. and M. seal. adorned PROMINENT MEN OF TEXAS ON PROGRAM HERE. AGGIELAND MECCA OF SOUTHWEST GRID FANS AS HOSTS SWARM TO MOST COLORFUL AFFAIR OF YEAR Stage all set for Entertainment of Largest Football Crowd in History of College. Many Noted Visitors Moody, Benedict, Law and Stark Among Notables Taking Part in Events of Day. Among the notables taking part in the colorful affairs of Aggieland this Thanksgiving will be President T. O,, Walton of A. and M., upper left; President IT. Y. Benedict of the University of ^ right; F. M. Law, president of the board, of directors at A. and M., lower left; Lutcher Stark, president of the bogird .of regents oft the University of Texas, lower right. These men will be heard in the dedication ceremonies. at Kyle Field Thursday. TURKEY DANCES WALTON RETURNS ARE ON PROGRAM DAN MOODY MOONY MUSIC MID MESS HALL MEALS Loudspeaker Now Being Installed- Expected to Drown Strange Noises. Aggieland and Serenaders to Play War Dances^ Four Crystal Balls Will be Hung. To the rhymical jazzy tunes of the Aggieland and Campus Serenaders orchestras, the Aggies, whether win- The only rules for the contest are ! ners of losers, will celebrate next that the traveler must both comci I Thursday and Friday nights For to the game and return to his place | the first time in the social history of abode and that his claim for the | of the institution, the two campus honor must be attested by one other j orchestras have been engaged to A. and M. man. Last year's winner furnish music in war dances lasting Shades of night clubs, road houses and cabarets! No longer will the little cadets of Aggieland eat their meals to the tune of inhaled soup and amid cries of “gunwaddin',” “baby,” “bullneck,” “spuds,” “blood.” “artillery,” etc., for within the week A stra i ns th e sofest music, the la- p KillVI I test popular tunes and other var • ; ieties of banquet-hall harmony will be wafted through Sbisa Hall by the electrically-operated loud-speaking units being installed under the di rection of T. L. Hiner, electrical T ,. ,. . , . engineering student from Granbury. In the meeting last week of repre- \ ° „ ,. . ... . The source of the music will lie sentatives of the land grant colleges radio or electrically repro in Chicago, President T. O. Walton duced records, the music being dis- of Texas A. and M. was elected, with tributed by eight large loudspeakers four other prominent scholastic lea- P^ ace( i i n strategic places in the ders, as members of the executive committee of the Association. Elected a Member Executive Com- mitte*e Association American Land Grant Colleges. GORDY BROWN Both playing their last games as college gridsters and both making a final try for all-conference honors, Tommie Mills, top, captain of the Aggies, and Gordy Brown, bottom, captain of the Longhorns, will have something in common when they meet on the gridiron Thursday des pite the keen rivalry between them. Each will be playing in his third Aggie-Texas grid classic and each has a win and a loss to his credit in previous meetings between the two teams. Mills will be the starting quarterback of the Aggies while Brown will start at tackle for the Steers. was “Lefty” Rogers, former Aggie basball twirler, who treked to the game from California. Among the former students ex pected to be on hand will likely be a number of former yell leaders, back to take part in the traditional yell practice and bonfire. Among those expected are: E. G. (Cue Ball) Cook, Putnam; Allan Peoples, Dallas; J. D. (Jake) Langford, Greenville; O. E. (Beaumont) Buck, Beaumont; Hike McConnell, Crockett, who lost his voice as an A. and M. yell leader and has not yet fully recov ered; and Benny Garrity, Cy Ed wards, and Shorty Short, all of whose names are familiar to followers of football at A. and M. for a num ber of years past. annex and banquet-room as well s in the main hall. Official announce ments will no longer be unintelli- The other prominents chosen for ' gently shouted but will be read in from nine p. m. to two p. m. both the committee were Director Bliss of the sound-proof booth which has nights. Iowa, Director Paul Maris of Ore- been installed in Sbisa hall for that There will be nothing formal about gon, Dean Mann of Cornell Univer- purpose and amplified and distribut- these dances, with the possible ex- sity, and Dean Duncan of Alabama, ed by loudspeakers throughout the ceptiort of the admissions being two | These additions to the committee hall. dollars for Thursday night and a dol- were made because the former one The project was planned by Hiner, lar aand a half for Friday night, had no representatives from the cot- who contracted for the installation The usual uniform number one will ton states. Dr. Walton and Dean of the equipment, which the college be regulation for cadets; one other Duncan were the two appointed for purchased at an approximate cost this special reason and they are to of one thousand dollars. It is plan- meet with the federal farm board of ned to have the new system inaug- land grant colleges in the near fu- urated Thanksgiving Day for the ture to work out necessary detailed entertainment of visitors on the cam- plans. pus for the Aggie-Longhorn game. The committee was charged with I It won't be long until the mess the responsibility of assistang the hall will have napkins on the table, federal farm board in developing and the old custom of using the plans through which the farm board table cloth will disappear, according can make the most effective contri- {to a number of wise-crackers on the butions to agricultural welfare campus. By C. V. ELLIS Where is that sting of Aggies spirit? If such ever existed it is being displayed tonight, for as we look down uppn the land of the Texas Aggies we are attracted from here to there by some pronounced display of typical college enthus iasm and can see only the effect of justly inspired emotion predomi nating the student body. Only once in two years can an equal to such a situation be seen on the A. and M. College campus with the cadets assembling for that renowned last yell practice in front of the “Y” and with war hoops like those typically produced by the Cherokee penetrat ing the brisk clear atmosphere sur rounding the college, for tomorrow the slashing battle between gridiron warriors of the Texas Longhorns (Continued on Page 6) RIVAL COACHES. s V ^. regulation for cadets will be gentle manly conduct. The lack of ornamental decora tions in the main mess hall will be in keeping with the characteristics common to all Aggies'; simplicity and roughness. However, their love for romance and mystery will be ex emplified by four large crystal balls which will transmit to the dancers a variety of colored lights. SCENE OF FOOTBALL CLASSIC OF THE SOUTHWEST THURSDAY COACH CLYDE LITTLEFIELD The new $350,000.00 concrete stadium of the Texas Aggies at Kyle Fi eld, which will be dedicated in the Aggie-Longhorn clash Thangsgiving Day. The stAdium has a seating capacity of approximately 33,000 and, including the playing field, covers approximately 5% acres. Pictured above are the coaches of the teams who clash on Kyle Field Thursday in the thirty-sixth episode of the Texas Aggie-Texas Longhorn gridiron feud. At the top j is Matty Bell, Aggie mentor, who for the past few years has been head coaach of the T. C. U. Horned Frogs. He has never led a team to victory over the Steers. In the bot tom picture Clyde Littlefield, Long horn coach, is shown. Littlefield last year coached a Southwest conference championship team and is Credited with a victory and a loss against the Aggies in his two previous years at Texas.