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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.