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Tf-j- THE BATTAT rrkM THE BATTALION Hi Bears Make Debut on Aggie Soil Saturday * * * * * * * * * * * H« * * ❖ * * * ^ * * * * * TOUCHDOWN GIVES HORNED FROGS GAME IN THE LAST QUARTER After Failing- To Score With Field Goals, Touch Down In Last Minutes Of Play Decides Winner ■ * A touchdown in the last five minutes of play gave the Purple and White from T C U the neces sary margin of victory and added another year to the Horned Frog “jinx list” over the Aggies, Sat urday afternoon. From the very start of the con test both teams settled down to a' strictly defensive game, neither taking chances but instead being content to wait for the breaks. As a result, the entire first quarter was devoted to punt exchanging, with the Frogs gaining a slight advantage due to a strong wind. The start of the second quarter found the ball down in A & M ter ritory, but the Aggies soon regain ed the yardage lost in the initial period on kicks and soon had the oval near the center stripe. The next three quarters found both teams playing offensive football, Sport Sidelights By W. J. Faulk A gnashing of teeth, a ripping of line, a smashing, tearing, fight ing team of Golden Bears will en ter the den of the “Fighting Far mers” Saturday afternoon, and a- nother conference game will be on. Both teams are rated to finish low in the race, but the Bears have already stolen a march on the Ag gies by winning a conference tilt from the Razorbacks while the Ag gies were dropping one to the Frigs. The Bears have a passing at tack second to none; the Aggies boast a powerful running attack, and an areal offense that has yet to get underway properly—The Aggies have a powerful line, but the Bears likewise have power in their forward wall. The game Saturday marks the return of the Aggies for their first major game on Kyle field this sea son. Three road games have pro duced but one victory, but there is still time to get off on the right foot, to win some games, and to re-establish an old tradition— that no team takes the long end of the score on Kyle field, but the Aggies. and although the Frog warriors were twice within the Aggie ten yard stripe, once in the second and again in the third period, neither team could fanthom the other’s defense when it meant a score. It was not until late in the game, when the Frog eleven sud denly showed a spurt, which gain ed them a touchdown, that enough drive was exhibited by either team to push over a counter. Try Two Field Goals Twice during the game the Pur ple and White attempted their fa vorite “last chance” scoring route, by way of the field goal, but on both occasions those educated toes failed to function and the ball went over to A & M on the 20 yard line. It will be remembered that in the five victories the Frogs have gained over the Aggies, two of them, in 1925 and again last year, were won by a mere three points. The victory Saturday made the third win for the Frog by a mar gin of six points. And in that fiercely fought bat tle an Aggie line, fully fifteen pounds to the man lighter than the forward wall which represent ed the Purple and White, for the third time in as many games matched the heavier boys man for man for near the entire game, when at length the weight advan tage began to tell and the Aggie forwards were stopped by the pow erful Frogs. Throughout the affair, however, the Aggies successfully stopped, what the Christians are dubbing, the nations fastest back, Red” Oliver. But while Oliver was held in check Spearman and Hin ton broke through the A & M de fense to cross the Aggie goal line. Hewitt and McFadden Star “Goat” Hewitt’s off tackle smashes and end runs early in the game along with his passing late in the closing period easily made him the outstanding Aggie back of the afternoon. However, McFad- den’s kicking continued to be a mighty weapon for the Aggies on the offense. Ben Boswell, the 215 pound Frog tackle from Fort Worth, proved the spark plug in the Toad line both on the offense and defense. Along with Johnny Vaught, anoth- eer Fort Worth pride, Boswell was a thorn in the Aggie flesh the full sixty minutes of play. AGGIES MEET THESE MEN SATURDAY Event Will Mark First Football Game on Ryle Field With Baylor The poi'tals of Southwest confer- ! staff of coaches, which includes ence history will be opened and a Klepto Holmes, line coach; Joel Golf Prospects Good For the first time in the history of golf at A and M, Aggie golfers are confident of winning the South west conference golf champion ship. Although only one letterman will return, Perry Keith, he will be ably assisted by Charlie Malone, and Guy Zachry, who were both on the team last year, and several Sophomores are sure to win places on the divot diggers team. Law rence Christian, who was a mem ber of the team last year, is at tending school but will not be eligible to play this year. Due to the graduation of Bern- hard Schriever, last years’ first man, the Aggies are certain to have a new first man in their pres- Former Student Now Holds Boxing Classes Barney Gibbs Enrolls At Allen Academy Although Rice was downed by the Mustangs, Lloyd Gregory, Sports Editor of the Houston Post- Dispatch, says that the Owls still have an even chance to grab the Southwest gridiron title. If this is true of thee Owls, then the same applies to the Aggies. The party has just begun, and although the ponies are at present leading the chase ►with a clean slate it is wholly unlikely that an undefeat ed team will emerge winner of the title. Freshman Squad Receiving Hard Training But Showing Great Form After the scrap Saturday the Horned Frogs have elected to take a nice long, much needed rest. So the Froggies will meet the um- mons “Cowboys” in a practice tilt in Abilene on the coming week-end. The 200 pounders found the going a bit too tough against the Aggies and five regulars of the T C U line may be absent from the line up Saturday. It is virtually cer tain that the other three will be ready for competition. Coach Roswell 1931 charges are positions on the year’s /reshman team is made up of about 35 candidates placed on three different squads according to their ability. Coach Hig, as he is better known around the campus, has a very able staff of assistants to help him round the freshmen into shape. Dutch Dillingham, line coach; Bones Irwin, line coach; Ralph Rorsay and Roscoe Van Zandt. All four of these coaches are former Aggie players. The Aggie freshmen will receive their first baptism of fire under the maroon and white on October Higginbotham’s , 23rd against the powerful Browns- going through ville Junior College Scorpions. A squad. This ^ Coach Higginbotham with 25 mem bers of the team, will leave here on Thursday afternoon, October 22nd for Brownsville. The team will not make any stop off for a practice session while en route, but will go straight through to their destination. The freshmen are in for a tough battle with the Scorpion eleven. The Brownsville team recently handed the strong Fort Sam Hous ton gridders the overwhelming de feat of 88-0. Coach Hig will have his men primed for the tilt as he has an old score to settle with the Brownsville Scorpions for the 19-0 defeat of his team last year. For the past two years the best boxer on the campus was old Bar ney Gibbs, that happy-go-lucky ex ponent of the manly art of ear- cauliflowering. Despite the fact that fighting was his hobby, Bar ney had no enemies—fear perhaps. College tended to cramp “Kid” Gibbs’ style and under the con stant stress of avoiding studies and failing courses he wilted notice ably. Vowing that 1930 was to be his last year in an institution of higher learning, he began the sum mer with etherial aspiration of “K O-ing” Old Man Depression and carving his niche in the fighters’ hall of fame. Shreveport citizens, however, weren’t spending their savings this summer to watch trunk-clad “mugs” cavort within a rope enclosed square and autumn caught Barney with no funds or prospects. That still small voice within him suggested that Bryan might hold possibilities—and sure enough, a timely offer (perhaps) to play football for Allen Academy saved him from this winters bread line, Always - the racketeer, Barney heard opportunity clamoring at his portal, accepted the chance to “die for dear old Allen” on the grid iron and incidentally organize a boxing class with professor Gibbs at the helm. The class role includes about twenty-five scions of opulent families—monetary return is of secondary consideration however, love of the sport is the incentive for Barney. He spends his afternoons prac ticing football and where he spent his evenings may have been instru mental in getting him campused this early in the year. new record placed therein when the Green and Gold flag of Baylor University is placed on one of the principal standards atop the sta dium on Kyle Field for the first time in conference history, Sat urday afternoon, when the Golden Bears and the Maroon and White resume gridiron relations, after a four year break. Although twenty-nine games have been played between the two schools, this will be the first to be played on Kyle field, all others having been played in the Bear stadium in Waco. Of the twenty- nine battles, the Aggies sold a decided edge with twenty victor ies against six losses and three dead-locks, two of which were scoreless. The major portion of the Aggie victories were accounted for before the 1920 season, how ever, for since then both teams have broken even, with three wins and one tie. Started In 1899 Football relations were first be gun between the two colleges in 1899 and countinued, with only four short interruptions, until the mishap which caused a severance of relations in 192G. The twenty- nine battles in 17 years, with a few intervening breaks, can be ac counted for as a result of extra games being played in the years 1901, ’02, ’03, ’04, and ’05. Three games were played in the years 1901, and 1902, while two were played in 1902, 1904, and 1905. A review of scoring statistics show that the Aggies have amassed a total of 370 points as compared to 163 for the Bears. Saturday afternoon will find the Aggies determined to make amends for the setback they received at the hands of the T C U Horned Toads in their opening conference tilt of the season, and their sixth straight conference loss in two sea sons. The fact that Coach Matty Bell’s charges have failed to register in the' win column of conference gam es in two seasons, and their loss to T C U last week will likely prove doubly disastrous to the Bears when the two teams tangle Saturday afternoon, since it is said that a team profits more by it’s losses than by it’s wins. Baylor Has Perfect Record The present conference standing shows that the Bears have a per fect record, having played only one conference game, which they won from the Arkansas Razorbacks 19- 7. Coach Matty Bell and his entire Hunt, backfield tutor; and John Reid, erstwhile head basketball mentor, as pass defense directors; are putting the boys “through the mill’ this week in an effort to iron out the rough spots in the Aggie pass attack and to perfect a real defense capable of dampening the vaunted overhead scoring machine of the Bears since it was a defi ciency in that department that cost the Aggies the game at T C U Saturday, and likewise it was a ' very efficient and smooth working j pass attack that was responsible for the Baylor victory over Arkan sas. Although the Bears have no Botchey Kooch’s or Paradeaux’s, they will place on the field a for ward wall which already proven it self capable of stopping the pow erful Centenary backfield for three full quarters and then returning the following week to check the Razorbacks completely. In “Red” Harris the Bears have a real star, at one of the wing po sitions, while in the backfield the “mighty Alford,” of basketball, fame in the Southwest conference also, is especially adept in tossing the pigskin. It was this pair that proceeded to deal misery to the extent of five touchdowns to the Centenary Geentlemen and the Razorbacks on the past two week ends. Lack of Reserve Strength A weakness that already has shown itself in the Baylor camp is the lack of reserve strength, which conversely the Aggies found plentiful in the struggle with the Horned Frogs Saturday afternoon. The performance of the first string Baylor eleven to date has been commendable as compared to other Southwest conference teams, but the work of the reserves could har dly be anything but disappointing to Coach Jenning. On the other hand Coach Matty Bell’s reserves proved themselves very dependa ble in the game Saturday. A tentative starting line-up for the Maroon and White as announc ed early this week show's the same team which started the game a- gainst the Frogs, they are: Bell, left end; Magrill, left tackle; Gus- eman, left guard; Rudder, center; Christian, right guard; Moulden, right tackle; Malone, right end; Hewitt, quarterback; McFadden, left halfback; Bai-field, right half back; and Aston, Fuffback. Coach Bell has announced, how ever, that several changes will lik ely be made in the line-up before (See BAYLOR page 5) Cross Country Team Preparing To Capture 5th Championship For Someone You Love— Your photograph in that Aggie uniform! Aggieland Studio Joe Sosolik, Prop. LUCCHESE BOOT CO. Made to order Boots, Belts & Shoes. Write in for or der blanks. 215 Broadway, San Antonio, Texas. dBie vJo. Name L5 Goode, R. L5 Martin, S. T. 16 Randow, W. H. 17 Stringfellow, J. 19 Puckett, B . 20 Fowler, O. M. 21 Young, W. L. 22 Allen, P. D. 23 Gregory J. L. 24 Moehlman, H. M. 25 Gerlack, C. 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Home Position W eight Olney Back 150 Gilmer Back 152 Hallettsville Back 150 Terrell Back 150 Spur Back 180 Fort Worth Back 170 San Antonio Back 153 Kosse Back 185 Tyler Back 180 Bryan Back 155 Livingston Back 173 Harlingen Back 175 Decatur End 172 Amarillo End 180 Corpus Christi End 17£ Schulenberg Tackle 178 Leonard Guard 180 Kemp Guard 188 Milford Guard 175 Houston Guard 160 San Antonio Guard 177 Decatur Center 178 Fort Worth Center 173 Temple Center 170 Fort Worth Tackle 215 Decatur Tackle 185 Gladewater End 182 San Marcos Tackle 185 With the purpose of capturing the fifth consecutive Cross Coun try Championship, the Cross Coun try team has been holding daily workouts tapering off for the corn- squad of last year and are giving varsity meh stiff competition for the lead in time trials. G. R. Ad- dicks, La Grange, and A. Nance, Limeta, members of the ’31 track team are the speed merchants of Kodak Finishing Films Picture Frames petition with other teams in a few | c i u b and will make the other weeks. With sixteen candidates led j con ference teams realize that the by Captain Melton Smith, Sulphur | ^g.gi es are still supreme in the j Springs; and coached by the genial! cross country meets. The start of conference compe tition this year will find the Ag gie harriers tuned and waiting, ready to repeat as pace-setters of the conference for the fifth time in as many years. j track and cross country mentor, I Coach “Andy” Anderson, are (rounding into the form that has brought home the cup for the last three years. The only returning letterman be sides Captain Smith is Salvador Marquez; Yorktown, but members The powerful Longhorn eleven, I of last seasons track squad and j said to be °.^ ° f t early i n j freshman team make the Ag-1 strongest g ri un J gies confident of repeating their | the seaso^ma^^^^ afternoon victories the past four years, usually 1 g ward war ded” Akins; Ft. Worth, Ed Ob- ergfell; San Antonio, and H. C. Smith, Ft. Worth, are crowding Captain Smith and Marquez for their lead in Squad competitions while C. D. Long, Roscoe; Hector Fuentes, Saltillo, are making ev eryone step to stay with them. The latter two, along with W. R. Rus sel, Ft. Worth; and J. G. Otts, Quero, come from the freshman . n th ey meet the Harvard war- %v who were responsible for a ” ;«ional opset to win over the 860 Saturday. After losing to ATmy Z Steerl were barely able ^ Ce i nut a 3-° victory over thej 10 eke Sooners, in Dallas. 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