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THE BATTALION
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SPORTS BITS
BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR.
VETERAN AGGIE LINEMEN
BROAD INTRAMURAL
PROGRAM PLANNED
Well, OP Army, those eleven
warriors are marching forth to
go to their first battle next Sat
urday. A good start is half the
fight, so let’s all get on the line
early and sink those Pirates.
The Championship Road is
mighty hard going, with lots of
detours and side roads, but if we
take each obstacle as we come to
it, neither looking ahead nor be
hind, that championship pennant
will be flying over Kyle Field
after Thanksgiving. Remem
ber the slogan, “There shall be
no regrets.”
Fellows, “There Shall Be No
Regrets” is a darn pretty song.
That is just the kind of a song
that we have been needing down
here for a long time. This is the
first time that a new song has
been presented to the corps in
several years, and early com-1
ments indicate that it will be our
most beautiful song. This song
was written by Curtis Vinson,
director of publicity at A & M
and set to music by R. J. Dunn,
director of the A & M Band.
Reports show that the school
is lagging behind in paying stu
dent activity fees. Fellows,
that’s not right. When you
pay your student activity fees,
you are supporting the major ac
tivities of this school that are
run by you, for you, and with
you. You seniors that haven’t
paid your fees—The Longhorn
and The Battalion are products
of the senior class and if you
won’t support them—how do
you suppose that the three un
derclasses will do?
Ye scribe was duly surprised
College Night when the freshman
class didn’t continue to give the
other twelve when “fifteen for
Prexy” was given. Maybe that
goes to prove that the Fish ’34
are ten per cent smarter than we
were. Gang, it surely did sound
good to hear the corps go
through the yells the way they
did on the opening night, and to
hear Prexy, the Bull, and Dean
Kyle give the same talks for the
fourth time. Seems kinda good
to hear those fighting yells once
again; after all football season
is certainly the cream of the
crop.
Various Texas sport writers
refuse to give the Aggies credit
for having much of a team, and
they certainly don’t think much
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DAN ABBEY CARL MOULDEN BYROM MAGRILL
ADRIAN TRACY JACK CHRISTIAN ROSCOE VAN ZANDT
Six of the seven returning lettermen from last season's team are linemen, with only one playing his last season
with the Maroon and White. It is these six men that will probably be called upon to handle the line positions again
this year.
zuu Presnmen Answer
Hig-g-inbotham’s Call
bcore Guessing
Sport of Ex’s
With a freshman squad of almost
200 out for practice, Coach Roswell
Higginbotham, Aggie freshman men
tor, has issued uniforms and is putting
a very promising bunch of fish
through the paces every afternoon on
the practice field.
This squad of freshmen is the most
promising looking aggregation of for
mer high school and junior college
players that have come to Aggieland
in a number of years, according to
Coach Higginbotham.
Several games have been scheduled
for the freshman squad this year which
will test the real mettle of the Aggie
youngsters, and there will be a num
ber of scrimmages with the varsity
this fall. The freshman games will
be played sometime during the month
of November.
Coach Higginbotham, former Aggie
grid and baseball star is entering on
his fourth year as freshman football
coach. He will be assisted by Track
Coach Frank Anderson, Walter Ew
ell and H. G. Dillingham.
CONFERENCE RESULTS
T. C. U. 47—Denton Teachers 0
T. C. U. 40-—East Texas Teach
ers 0.
Rice 32—Southwestern 6.
WHERE THEY PLAY
A & M vs Southwestern
at College Station.
T. C. U. vs Austin College
at Ft. Worth.
S. M. U. vs Howard Payne
at Dallas.
Arkansas vs College of the
Ozarks at Fayetteville.
Texas U. vs Texas Mines
at Austin.
Baylor vs North Texas Teachers
at Waco.
Rice vs Sam Houston Teachers
at Houston.
* *
The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teachers has given
more than $18,817,000 in 837 retiring
allowances from 1906 to 1930.
There is one automobile in the Un
ited States for every four and a half
persons.
A very novel contest to judge the
ex-students’ ability at guessing the
outcome of twenty important football
games in this year’s schedule is being
put on by the Texas Aggie, the paper
edited by Me Quillen, secretary of the
Association of Former Students.
The games are Oct. 4, A & M-Neb.,
S. M. U.-Notre Dame, Baylor-Purdue;
Oct. 11, Arkansas-T. C. U.; Oct. 18,
A & M-T. C. U., Texas-Okla., Baylor-
S. M. U., Arkansas-Rice; Oct. 25, A
& M-Arkansas, Rice-Texas, S. M. U.-
Indiana; Nov. 1, S. M. U.-Tex.; Nov.
8, A & M-S. M. U., Baylor-Tex., T.
C. U.-Rice; Nov. 27, A & M-Tex.,
(Score estimate required); Nov. 29,
S. M. U.-T. C. U., Rice-Baylor.
The prize of the contest is a $10.00
hat to the one with greatest guessing
ability and most of those submitting
decisions either gave their hat size
or their address, or both. One said a
cap would do if too many tied him in
the contest.
You can get a lot out of life by just
looking at it.—Louise Kennedy Mabie.
Within a few days the department
of intramural athletics, headed by
W. L. Penberthy, will resume its work
of sponsoring for the fourth year a
series of athletic contests among the
campus organizations, the purpose of
which is to bring to each student the
opportunity of indulging in his fa
vorite sport.
The value of intramural sports can
not be stressed too highly and it is
hoped that every student will avail
himself of this opportunity so as to
be the greatest benefit both to him
self and the organization to which
he belongs.
As has been the custom, handbooks
containing rules, regulations and
hints, will be issued to organization
managers for distribution among all
students. The purpose of these books
is to give the students a better un
derstanding of the workings of the
intramural department, and to enable
them to keep up with the schedule of
intramural contests.
Fees amounting to five dollars for
the year must be paid into the intra
mural office not later than one week
from the date of the opening of the
season.
Basketball is the opening sport on
the intramural program for this year,
and is due to begin early in October.
Unit managers will soon be notified
and may start making reservations
for the forty-five minute practice per
iods by applying at the intramural
office. Eligibility blanks must be
made out and turned in for all com
peting men.
Since the inauguration of these
athletics on the campus, the number
participating each year has steadily
increased and it is expected that this
year will see a larger turn out than
ever before. It should be of little ef
fort for all to find a sport to their
liking from the selection offered. The
sports which will be offered at var
ious times during, the coming year are
basketball, handball, tennis, football,
cross-country, golf, swimming, rifle
shooting, track, playground ball,
horse-shoe pitching, speedball, boxing,
wrestling, and volley-ball.
Due to the interest displayed by the
students in basketball, each organiza
tion will be allowed to enter two
teams, one in Class A and the second
in Class B. Both classes have prac
tically the same standing, but players
may not be interchanged from Class A
to Class B, although B players may
change to A teams.
The championship is won on a sys
tem of points and the organization ac
cumulating the largest number of
points is thus the one which obtains
the possession of the intramural flag
for the following year. At the pres
ent time the standard is held by Bat
tery F. Points are awarded by en
tering men in various sports, and by
winning games and contests.
Intramural sports are the only
methods by which all students are en
abled to indulge in their favorite
form of athletics. Many students, un
able to make the varsity in their first
year, have been given a second chance
to succeed by gaining recognition
through their playing with the intra
mural department.
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guages.