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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1930)
6 THE BATTALION Joel Hunt Added to Texas Aggie Coaching Staff SPORTS BITS BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR. Well, there are no regrets—the Ag gies put up a fight that would do credit to any team A & M ever turn ed out. The team showed about 1000 per cent improvement over the game against Tulane the previous Satur day. There are a thousand “ifs” to that game — if we had only had a Joel Hunt or a Tommy Mills in there—if we had only completed that pass across the goal line—BUT any team that fights as the Aggies fought against a team that was rated two or more touchdowns better on our home field, deserves the highest of praise. The corps is to be congratulated up on the yelling they did. From the press box, one could see the T C U cheer leaders waving their hands— and hear the Aggies. The corps really put out—and the yells were well tim ed. The only bad thing was during the “T” part of the corps went down too early on Skyrocket—and the top of the “T” was ahead of the front during Locomotive. A little more prac tice will smooth that out. The “Flying Frog” didn’t do so much flying—or runnng either—for it was Grassy Hinton who was the main show for T C U. Leland was stopped completely as far as his spectacular playing went. Harry Stiteler, playing in his first “big” game for the Maroon and White, showed some of the prettiest broken field running displayed this season when he intercepted a Frog pass on the 10 yard line, and brought it back over 15 yards. Harry is little and light—but he is plenty elusive and fast. Jack Christian’s ankle wasn’t hurt as seriously as it was thought at first —and he will probably be in shape to start the Arkansas game next Sat urday. Saturday brought several upsets to conference teams. The Mustangs had their conference hopes lowered a bit by the tie with Baylor—and the Owls received a set back when they were nosed out by Arkansas. Any team playing the Razorbacks on their home field is faced with a hard game. Play ing the Hogs at home is like giving away a couple of touchdowns. Texas pulled a surprise when it scored 17 points on Oklahoma in the last quarter to win. By comparative scores, Texas is about seven touch downs better than the Aggies—but actually—that’s a different story. The game against Arkansas Satur day will be a tough one. The Razor- backs are hard to beat at home—and they will probably be just as hard to beat at Little Rock. The 40-0 score when they were beat by T C U doesn’t mean anything as far as their real strength goes. Don’t get the idea it will be a snap game. Do so—and there shall be some regrets. Professor Raymond Moley, of the Department of Public Law at Colum bia University, has recommended that a broader education be accorded stu dents to be lawyers. Freshmen to Play Allen Grid Team With 115 candidates still on the squad, Roswell Higginbotham, head freshman coach, is driving his charges at a rapid pace in preparation for their annual game with Allen Acad emy of Bryan on Kyle Field Friday, October 31. The freshmen will also meet the Brownsville Eagles in Brownsville at a later date. The squad has been divided into three dviisions. A, B, and C. Those showing the most promise during the first week of practice were put on squad A, which is coached by Higgin botham and Walter Ewell, former Aggie lineman. The second, or squad B is under the supervision of H. C. Dillingham and Frank Anderson, Ag gie track coach. All the rest of the candidates make up squad C, which is directed by Ralph “Heebie” Dorsey, A & M back for the past three years. When a man is placed on one of these squads it does not mean that he is there for the entire season, for men will be moved up or down from squad A, depending on their ability. A new policy has been adopted this year in that no freshman will be cut off and every man wishing for a chance to demonstrate his ability has been welcomed to come out. The initial baptism of fire was giv en Coach Higginbotham’s squad Mon day afternoon in a scrimmage with the varsity. The scrimmage was held on Kyle Field between four and six o’clock. Although outclassed, and a bit tim id, apparently, the freshmen gave a good account of themselves in several instances, especially so once when they completed two successive passes for a gain of 25 yards. Frogs Take Close One From Aggies After a fierce three period strug gle, Coach Bell’s Aggie warriors were forced to accept a 3-0 defeat at the hands of TCU on Kyle Field last Sat urday when Noble Atkins, mighty Frog center, kicked a field goal in the closing session. Before a crowd of approximately 12,000 people, the Maroon and White put up a struggle that ended only with the final whistle. Time and time again the TCU backs tried to burst through the stalwart Aggie line, only to be cut off with short gains. The Aggie team, rated vastly inferior to the Frogs, put up a fight as only an Aggie team can fight on Kyle Field. It was Atkins, mighty Frog center, who brought the lone three points and victory for TCU by kicking a field goal from the 20-yard line in the third quarter. Grassy Hinton, Frog quar terback was largely responsible for TCU’s 13 first downs, Cy Leland be ing stopped very effectively by the fighting Aggie line. The first half of the game was evenly divided between the two teams, neither team being able to do very much against the other. The second half was when the fun began. Both teams were well steamed up by then and went back in the game determined to fight. Early in the third quarter, Hinton picked up a blocked Aggie punt, and ran to the two-yard line before being downed. Answering the (Continued on page seven) Aggies to Meet Hogs at Little Rock Saturday A & M Gridsters Out to Avenge 14-13 Defeat of 1929 Season With the memory of last year’s 14- 13 defeat still fresh in their minds, the Aggie football team will leave Thursday night for Little Rock, Ark., where they will meet the Arkansas University Razorbacks Saturday af ternoon on Kavanaugh Field. Coach Bell and 28 of his charges will leave at 7:30 Thursday evening, going by car to Hearne where they will board the train for the long ride to Little Rock. Arriving in Little Rock Friday afternoon they will have a light workout before retiring to the Albert Pike Hotel. The team will re turn to A & M about noon Sunday. This year, the Arkansans are fully determined to repeat their victory— and even more so after their 7-6 vic tory over Rice last week. The Razor- backs always fight when before their student body, and the game this year I being more than one hundred miles from Fayetteville will be an advantage for the Aggies. Concerning the coming game. Coach Bell says, “The Razorbacks are point ing towards the game with the Aggies with fullest intentions of beating us, and it will take the best playing of every man on the A & M team to de feat them.” Every man on the squad, with the exception of Oran Dawson, 220-pound tackle, will be available for the game. Dawson will probably be out for two more weeks, nursing his ankle which he resprained the other day. Arkansas will probably present the team that was victorious over Rice. The team the Aggies will meet is a far different team from the one TCU trampled on 40-0 at Ft. Worth. They were affected by the heat, but Satur day they will be playing in a cool cli mate that is to their liking. TCU had everything to its advantage in that one sided game. The main hope of the Aggies in this game will be via the air route. Ar kansas is rather ineffective in that (Continued on page seven) DEFENSIVE CENTER Nolan Nolan turned in an excellent game as defensive pivot man against the Horned Frogs last wee*:. JOINS COACHING STAFF JOEL HUNT Thanksgiving- Tickets Go On Sale November 1 In order to satisfy questioners as to when tickets may be obtained for the A & M-Texas game on Thanks giving Day, James Sullvian, athletic business manager, has announced that the Thanksgiving football tickets in the A & M section will go on sale November 1. Tickets will be sold only through the mail. Any letters received before the first will not be filled until Nov. 5. Those coming in on the first days in November will be filled in the order that they are re ceived in the office. The letters should be addressed to James Sullivan, College Station. The price of the tickets will be $3.00, and a check or money order should be en closed in the letter. Students will exchange coupon 32 and one dollar for their indviidual tickets at a later date. Everyone must have a ticket, in cluding lettermen, jmembers of the band, and members of the varsity. Harriers in First Weekly Competition Displaying exceptionally good form for this early in the year, the cross country team ran their first competi tion over the regular course Friday. M. G. Perkins, track and cross country letterman, finished in fine style to win the race with a time of 19 minutes and 30 seconds. He was followed closely by P. T. McClendon, promising distance runner from last year’s fish squad. The remaining men came in in the following order: E. A. Obergfell, third; Dick Winders, captain and letterman, fourth; S. Marquez and T. M. Smith. The pace set by the team was as a whole very good for this time of the season, especially for the first com petition. Coach Anderson is planning a series of competitions to be held each week and in order to determine which men will compose the team that is to open the harrier schedule with a meet against the TCU squad on No vember seventh. Former A. & M. Star To Remain Here For Grid Season Addition of Joel Hunt, former Tex as Aggie grid star, to the A & M College of Texas football coaching staff for the remainder of the cur rent gridiron season, was announced today by Dean Charles E. Friley, chairman of the A & M athletic coun cil, following recommendation to that effect by Coach Madison Bell. Hunt, triple-threat performer who starred particularly as a ball toter, ended his football career at A & M as captain and quarterback of the 1927 championship team. He was all- Southwest Conference back in 1925, 1926 and 1927. Following the close of the college baseball season in 1928, Hunt, also a diamond star, signed with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was sent to the Houston Buffaloes, later to another club of the Cardinals and returned for the 1929 season to the Buffaloes. He played with the Buf faloes during the past season. “Joel will work as assistant coach in the backfield, largely to demon strate the art of ball toting, broken field running, stiff-arming and other requisites of a good backfield man,” Coach Bell said. Secret Practices Rest of Season Continuing throughout football sea son, the gates of Kyle Field will be closed every day to the public except on each Monday and days of games. On Monday afternoons at 4:30 the general public is invited to Kyle Field to see scrimmages between the var sity and the freshmen. These scrim mages will be played on the regular varsity football field, and the fans may be seated in the stadium. This change is being made since so many come down each day and inter fere materially with the practice of the various teams. There are ap proximately two hundred men out for football on the varsity and freshman teams and when others crowd around they interfere seriously with the work of the coaches. STELLAR GUARD LORD Lord, sophomore guard, continued to play brilliant football against the TCU eleven last week. He is fast and an excellent intrference runner.