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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
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RIVAL COACHES.
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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.