VOL. XXIX
NO. 11
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 26, 1930
AGGIES-LONGHORNS PLAY 37TH GAME
Longhorns Ready
For Aggie Clash
With only one game standing be
tween them and the Southwest Con
ference championship which no one
gave them a chance to win this sea
son, Clyde Littlefield’s Longhorns are
primed for their annual Thanksgiving
battle with the fighting Aggies of A
& M at Memorial stadium. Baylor’s
astonishing slaughter of the T C U
Horned Frogs in Ft. Worth Saturday
cleared the pennant path for the
Steers, and a victory over their an
cient rivals means a title for the Or
ange and White.
Advance ticket sales indicate that
over 40,000 spectators will see the
contest. Temporary bleachers seating
several thousand have been erected,
and Steer officials are confident of
a full house. All seats between the
20 yard lines have been sold out for
a month. The game starts promply at
2 o’clock.
After a shaky start, climaxed by a
biting 6-0 loss to Rice Institute, the
Longhorns have swung into their
stride and are being hailed as the
greatest team Texas has produced in
several seasons.
The Longhorns are not cocky or
overconfident. The Rice Owls attend
ed to that. They have a deep respect
for a big Maroon machine which has
not found itself this year, but which is
none the less dangerous to any team
which takes it lightly.
Physically the Longhorns are in
splendid shape. Coming through three
gruelling conference tilts in a row
without a serious injury to any man
is unusual, to say the least, but such
has been the good luck of the Steers.
Present indications are that every
man on the Texas roster will be avail
able for the Thanksgiving battle.
Five Steers will wind up their three
years of eligibility in the Aggie con
test. Captain Dexter Shelley and Mil-
ton Perkins, halfbacks; Lester Peter
son and Rut Vining, veteran wingmen;
and Nick Gatoura, center, play their
last game for the Orange and White.
SOPHOMORE BACK
HARRIER CHAMPION
Capt. Dick Winders
Running 3.8 miles through mud and
water in 19 minutes and 30 seconds,
Winders last week led the Aggie har
riers to their fourth straight confer
ence title and won individual honors
for the second time in three years.
Freshman Eleven
Completes Season
When the final whistle blew in the
fish-varsity game last Saturday the
fish closed another season of football;
a season that brought to light much
nteresting and valuable material
among the freshman class. The team
this year is considered stronger than
any fish team of several years. Out
standing through the year has been
the exceptional playing of R. E. Bar-
field and G. E. Domingue from Port
Arthur and Ted Spencer, all of whom
jwere all-state high school players last
year.
' One hundred and eighty candidates
reported for the team at the beginning
of the season, and in the process of
elimination, not a man was actually
cut from the team by the coach. In
stead of the usual practice of the
coach dropping a few men each week,
a man was allowed to come out as
long as he felt that he was helping
the team, and when he turned his
uniform, it was done of his own ac
cord. There were three squads form
ed at the beginning of the season.
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SEVEN AGGIES
PLAY LAST GAME
When the final gun goes off in Aus
tin tomorrow, seven of Coach Matty
Bell’s gridsters will end their foot
ball career with the Texas Aggies by
reason of completion of eligibility
period.
Three of these seven who will play
their final game against the tradition
al rivals, the Texas Longhorns, are
letter men from the past years, Cap
tain Bull Floyd, who has suffered
from an injured knee most of the
season but is one of the most pow
erful, charging fullbacks in the con
ference and an outstanding defensive
back; Adrian Tracy, flashing speedy
end, who is one of the outstanding
contenders for all-Southwest wing
honors this fall; and R. L. Van Zandt,
letter man of 1928 and a plunging
guard in the Aggie line. In addition
to making bids for their third letter
in football, Tracy and Floyd will com
pete for their third letter in track
this spring, a sport in which both are
exceedingly prominent. Floyd holds
the present Southwest Conference rec
ord in the javelin throw, while Tracy
is one of the fastest quarter-milers
in the south.
Harry Stiteler, 137 pound demon
quarterback who was found in the
intramural football games, will be
playing his last game in his only year
of varsity competition. Harry is un
doubtedly the lightest and smallest
quarter in the conference, but his
lacks in size are made up in fight.
The veterans and prospective letter
men who discard the Maroon and
White jerseys after the game for the
last time are Harry Phillips, halfback
who has shown brilliantly at times;
James Woodman, hard fighting full
back who has taken Bull’s place very
ably during his injured spell; and
Walter “Minute Man” Emmons, pass
receiving wingman that brought the
Aggies six points by catching a pass
over the Mustang goal line. Stiteler,
too, will bid for another letter in track
and as a pole vaulter, for which he
holds the Southwest Conference rec
ord.
Ernest Koy, fleet sophomore back,
whom the Aggies will have to stop
Thursday if the Steers are to be held.
Memorial Stadium, Austin, where the Texas Aggies and Texas Long
horns will participate in the thirty-seventh episode of their gridiron feud
which started in 1894.
Ancient Rivals Renew Feud
Which Was Started in 1894
AGGIE CAPTAIN
Floyd (capt.)
Floyd, who has been missing in the
A & M backfield for several weeks on
account of injuries, has been named
to start at fullback against the Steers
Saturday. It will be the last grid con
est of the Maroon captain’s college
career.
B Signal Intramural
Basketball Champs
Company B, Signal Corps won the
dass A basketball championship Sun
day afternoon by defeating Battery
B, Artillery by the decisive score of
16-8 in one of the hardest fought and
best played games of the intramural
season.
Company H, Infantry was declared
class B champion after smothering
Company A, Signal Corps, 23-6. This
is the second year that two classes
of basketball have been sponsored by
the intramural department, and since
such an unusual amount of interest
has been shown the practice will be
continued next year.
In the semi-finals, Company B, Sig-
lal Corps defeated Battery D. Artil
lery and Battery B downed C Engi
neers in the class A competition; Com
pany H, Infantry defeated C Cavalry
and A, Signal Corps eliminated Com
pany A, Infantry.
An unusual but interesting factor
presents itself at this stage in that
both A and B Signal Corps units were
represented in the finals for the bas
ketball championship. These organiza
tions, heretofore practically inert with
respect to intramural sports, have
fnade remarkable progress during the
current intramural season thus far,
and bid fair to give plenty of trouble
in the race for the intramural stan
dard.
The members of the class A cham
pionship team will receive sterling sil-
ver medals from the intramural de
partment, and it is customary for the
organization which is represented to
give sweaters. The class B champions
will receive bronze medals. This is the
first year that medals have been given
fo class B teams by the department,
and it is hoped that by giving these,
more interest will be shown in class
B competition.
Probably the feature of the class
i A championship game was the long
distance goal shooting of C. B. Floyd,
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Dope Means Nothing-
. Past Games Indicate
At five o’clock in the morning, the
first of three trains bearing almost
two thousand Aggies will depart for
an invasion of Austin where an in
spired Texas Aggie football team,
keyed to their highest fighting pitch
of the season will take the field
against the highly touted Texas Uni
versity Longhorns tomorrow after
noon in the annual Thanksgiving Day
classic of the southwest football
world. Although rated decidedly the
underdogs, Coach Matty Bell’s charges
are due to give the 46,000 people that
jam the Longhorn Memorial stadium
a real treat along football lines.
Although having lost to four con
ference teams by the smallest of mar
gins, the Bellmen are determined to
end this season in a blaze of glory
and destroy the Steer’s championship
ambitions.
Following the arrival of the corps
in Austin, a parade will be held which
will march up Congress Avenue to
the State Capitol.
The festivities of the day will be
gin promptly at 2 p. m., when the
starting whistle of the 37th annual
football game between the University
of Texas and A & M will blow.
This yearly classical clash has be
come the leading drawing card of
the south, and this year, with the
Steers’ conference hopes depending
upon this game, the attendance will
probably be greater than ever before.
The game in 1928 drew a crowd of
over 38,000, the largest on record.
The Aggie-Longhorn grid rivalry
dates back to 1894, almost as far back
as football in the Southwest, and since
that time there have been only two
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TEXAS CAPTAIN
Dexter Shelley, Half