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6 THE BATTALION A.ggizs Start Basketball Training Season Monday Centenary Gents Engage Downtrodden Aggie Eleven On Kyle Field Saturday SPORTS BITS BY. FRANK W. THOMAS JR. The Aggie hopes for a conference championship this year were torn to pieces with the 13-0 defeat handed them by the Razorbacks last Saturday —but true to the traditions of the conference—if we can’t win it, may be we can keep somebody else from winning it. A hard fighting team is essential to every college—often times, a weak er, more determined fighting team will whip the more powerful team— and most of the A & M team is fight ing hard. Determination to win is one of the most essential factors of any game—and it takes determina tion to win a game. It is true that the Aggies haven’t the powerful crushing team that they have had in the past—and to lose four straight games is demoralizing if anything is—but don’t get discour aged, there is still time to turn this into a successful season. We have had four hard games— four hard weeks, without a let up— but cadet corps and football team— stay in there and fight—fight hard! Just remember, “It isn’t whether you won or lost, but how you played the game.” For the third time, someone has taken a “Texas” pennant from atop the stadium. The last one was taken after the T C U game, before all the pennants could be taken down. Un doubtedly, this was done as a cute trick, so that it could be hung upside down in someone’s room, but—Mr. Sullivan has these pennants on the stadium so as to improve appear ances and to give it more of a college air. If taking pennants continues, the athletic department will be forced to discontinued placing flags around the (Continued on page 7) Harriers Show Speed Second Competition The cross-country team held anoth er competition last Saturday and the team showed "a great deal of improve ment over the previous Saturday’s form. Four men came in in 19 minutes flat to tie the first place honors, fol lowed closely by a fifth. This time cut 35 seconds off the previous week’s time and shows that the team is rap idly rounding into form for its first conference meet which is with the Longhorns on November 7. The four men to tie for first were Capt. R. N. Winders, M. G. Perkins, E. A. Obergfell, S. Marquez, with M.- played in the final run-off. The team is probably one of the best that the Aggies have had in a number of years and will bear close watching on the day of the confer ence meet. Norton Bringing Powerful Un defeated Eleven Here for Non,-Conference Game Fresh from victories over Baylor University, Iowa State and a tie with Texas University, Coach Norton’s Centenary Gentlemen will invade Ag- gieland next Saturday in an attempt to keep up a perfect season by de feating Coach Bell’s gridsters on Kyle Field. Two years ago, the first meeting between Centenary and the Aggies was held on Kyle Field, and after a hotly contested battle, the Gents came off the field 6-0 winners. There was no game between the two schools last year. Coach Bell has introduced some new plays to be used especially against the Gents, and developed a backfield com bination which will be effective both on the offense and defense. This will aid the Maroon and White in putting up more of an offensive fight than has been seen heretofore. The crew of Dansby as signal caller at half, Hewitt at quarter, Wolf at the other half, and Capt. Bull Floyd at full is being groomed to iron out the wrin kles that were displayed in the Ar kansas game. The Aggies returned from the Ozarks without injuries to any member of the team, so it is probable that all who saw service Saturday will be in shape for the coming game. The Centenary team is rated as strong as the team which went through an undefeated season in 1927. The Gents have a very able ball car rier in Brown, who was largely re sponsible for the 7-2 victory over Baylor at Shreveport Saturday. The Gents are not only good at running plays—-but they out passed Baylor considerably. Reports from the Louisiana school (Continued on page 7) Tumblers Exhibit Prowess at Fair With less than four weeks practice the tumbling team, coached by W. D. Staples of San Antonio, trav eled over to Woodlake last week and gave a tumbling exhibition for the benefit of those attending the annual Trinity county fair. The trip was made by Staples and nine of his tumblers. Those making the trip were Staples, P. C. Richard son, N. O. Gorman, L. L. Pullet, A. A. Stanchos, V. D. Want, C. J. Lester, L. Manzanera, P. H. Moore, and F. G. Sleeper. Five of these men receiv ed sweaters last year. The others were squadmen, however. Staples announces that he is still in the market for prospective tum blers. The squad now working out numbers fourteen, four having al ready been added. From this number eight men will be given sweaters at the close of the season. Several more exhibition trips are being considered by Staples, the plans of which will be announced at a later date. Ag-g-ies Drop Fourth Straight to Porkers Fighting against a rejuvenated Ar kansas team, Coach Bell’s wa>riors were defeated 13-0 at Little Rock last Saturday. This victory firmly estab lished Arkansas in second place in the conference standing, and eliminated A & M from the conference running. The first quarter was a punting duel between McFadden and Uptmoor and Dale, with McFadden reeling off his usual sensational punts of from 50 to 70 yards. The Razorbacks’ first score came in the second quarter after Cowboy Kyle and Uptmoor had placed the ball on the Aggie seven yard line after a ser ies of running plays. On a reverse play, Dale carried the ball across. In the third period, the Hogs scored after (Continued on page 7) Freshmen, Allen In Annual Battle Here This Week Coach Roswell Higginbotham’s Ag gie freshman gridsters will get their first taste of interscholastic competi tion when they open their 1930 grid schedule on Kyle Field Friday with the strong Allen Academy eleven of Coach Puny Wilson. To date the fresh men have had only scrimmages with the varsity to break the monotony of daily practices. With the Aggie freshmen showing what is said to be the heaviest and most promising group of gridsters in history at A & M and with the Allen cadets flaunting a record as yet un marred by defeats, the game promises to be one of the best of the annual tilts between the two teams. Last year the freshmen defeated Allen 12-0 at Bryan. The coaches of both teams were star athletes at A & M. The A & M freshmen squad this year boasts a larger number of men whose names figured prominently in high school and academy grid circles of the past few years than any other freshman team in A & M history. Among those who were outstanding prep school players are George Domingue, stellar quartedback of the strong Port Arthur high school team last year; R. E. Barfield, halfback and (Continued on page 7) S M U—A & M Ducats To Be Sold Sunday The announcement has come from 1 James Sullivan, business manager of | athletics, that student tickets to the annual Southern Methodist-Texas A & M clash at Dallas on November 8 | will be issued to the student body j next Sunday afternoon from the fiscal office in the Main Building. The exact time of the issuance of | these tickets will be announced later ; in the week through The Daily Bulle- | tin. Students will exchange coupon num- j ber 31, the yellow slip in the rear of J the athletic coupon book, and one dol- I lar for a ticket to the tilt. Three Lettermen Expected In Group Of Twenty-five Candicates to Report COUPON NOTICE Beginning with the football game Saturday, November 1, 1930, between A & M and Cen tenary, no one will be admitted to Kyle Field for athletic con tests on a coupon that is DE TACHED from the book. On each coupon it plainly states ‘NOT GOOD IF DETACHED”. Each coupon must be signed with pen and ink and the book presented to the ticket-taker who will detach the coupon and retain it and return the book to the holder. In order to avoid delay at the gates students should come down early. They will be ad mitted at both gates number two and three. REMEMBER IF THE COU PON IS DETACHED FROM YOUR BOOK OR IS NOT SIGN ED IT WILL NOT BE HON ORED. Zuppke to Coach Mid-West Eleven DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 28.—-Joe Utay, president of the Dixie Classic has announced the selection of Robert “Fighting Bob” Zuppke, head coach of football at the University of Illinois for the past seventeen years, as the man to handle the Mid-West team, who shall on New Year’s Day meet in Dallas an eleven representative of Southwest football. The contest, the site of which has not as yet been se lected, will be the third annual Dixie- Classic for a fund to aid in the sup port of the Scottish Rite Hospital for crippled children, an institution in Dallas. Zuppke’s record since taking hold at the University of Illinois in 1913 is one that compels admiration and respect. His elevens have won 90 games, lost only 29, and have been tied eight times. When one considers seriously the fact that Illinois is a member of the Big Ten, a conference that reflects and plays some of the greatest football in this country, the magnitude of Zuppke’s record is ap parent. Under Zuppke, Illinois has won seven championships, two of them held jointly with other schools. Zuppke’s Illinois elevens have won 56 Big Ten contests; lost 24 and tied eleven; Shiro Hoke, Beau Bell and Char lie Beard are Lettermen Reporting to Read CONFERENCE STANDING Team W. L. T. Pet. r c u 2 0 0 1000 Arkansas 2 1 0 666 Rice 1 1 0 500 Baylor 0 0 I 500 S M U 0 0 1 500 Texas 0 1 0 000 Aggies 0 2 0 000 A squad of 25 candidates, three of them lettermen from last year, six from the freshman numeral men of last season, and the remainder varsity squadmen and intramural stars, is ex pected to report to John Reid, Aggie basketball coach, Monday, November 3, when the work of building the 1930- 31 A & M cage team will get under way. In addition to C. T. (Shiro) Hoke, Shiro, center and captain of the team, the lettermen are R. G. Bell, Green ville, guard and baseball letterman, and C. B. Beard, forward from Ft. Worth. The freshmen numeral men, all members of Coach Roswell Higgin botham’s powerful freshmen team of last year, are J. P. Miller, Princeton; E. S. Horn, Dallas; J. C. Moody, Cor pus Christi; Chas. Malone, Dallas; R. E. Diaz, San Antonio; and W. R. Young, Ft. Worth. Among the promising squadmen from last year expected to be candi dates again this season are Lester Veltmen, baseball star from San An tonio, and G. J. Fix, Dallas. There are a number of men that showed up well in spring practice, al though not members of last years squad, they include: A. M. Doche, Amarillo; C. G. King, Ft. Worth; C. E. Marcum, Estelline; and J. E. Rob erts, Terrell. Men who have been members of freshman squads, but who have not come out for the varsity until this year are: A. G. Nixon, Canton; Paul McFadden, varsity football player of (Continued on page 7) Basketball Features International Program Intramural basketball is rapidly drawing to a climax with Battery E, Battery D, C Infantry, and C Engin eers leading their respective leagues in Class “A”. While Company H, In fantry, Troop C, Battery F, and Bat tery E are at the top of their respec tive leagues in class “B”. The competition is so close and the enthusiasm so great that it is impos sible to say who the most likely title contenders may be. C Infantry, last year’s champions, have a strong “A” team this year and are threatening the aspirations of many teams. The end of this week should see the best teams singled out, and some hotly contested games are expected to be played in the final run-off. “A great deal of enthusiasm i- be ing shown over basketball, and al though there have been only a few games played it is hoped that there will be no let up in either spirit o co operation with the intramural depart ment to eliminate as many forfeits as possible,” says W. L. Penberthy in discussing the intramural program.