BEAT Thi: bat talicn TEXAS
Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas
VOLUME 30 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 25, 1931 NUMBER IO
TURKEY DAY CLASSIC
S-W GRID SPOTLIGHT
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35,000 EXPECTED FOR CLOSING CONFERENCE GAME
ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE
FOR VISITORS’ CONVENIENCE
By special train, automobile, and the “highwaying” modes
of transportation, 35,000 football fans, intent on seeing the
football classic of the Southwest began early today an ad
vance on Kyle Field where Coach Madison Bell’s Fightin’
Aggies and Coach Littlefield’s Longhorns of Texas Univer
sity will terminate their 1931 football rivalry Thursday after
noon. Arrangements for the accommodations of all guests
have been completed to conclude every convenience and detail.
Program for the day begins officially at 2:00 p. m. when
the twenty-one hundred members of the A and M cadet corps
march on the football field in mil-*
itary formation for the first time
in this style to present their yells
and pay tribute to the greatest of
all football coaches, Knute Rockne.
Immediately after this the teams
will enter the field and warm up
for the event of the day, scheduled
to start at 2:30 p. m. The holiday
celebration will close here -with a
dance that night in the Mess Hall,
honoring the football and cross
country teams. Herman Waldman
and his orchestra from the Gunter
Hotel at San Antonio will play.
Room Reservations
Room reservations for those
staying over night have been pro
vided by students of Hart, Bizzell,
and Goodwin halls vacating for the
week-end, and allowing girls to
stay in these halls. Men staying
over the week-end will be allowed
to stay in other halls with the stu
dents that they visit.
Dance
Everyone is asked to re
member the ruling by the col
lege authorities in regard to
the girls staying in the dor
mitories. All occupants must
be in their rooms twenty
minutes after the dance is
over. Students and visitors
are asked to co-operate in
enforcing this ruling in order
to avoid any unpleasant feel
ings.
Annual Gridiron Banquet
Honoring Football And
Cross Country Teams To
Climax Season..
In going about the campus, vis
itors and stangers will find the
map of the campus on this page of
value in locating various halls,
buildings and points of importance.
Traffic
Traffic on the campus will be
unusually heavy on this day, and
all streets surrounding the build
ings will be closed. In order to
faciliate automobile traffic, every
one is asked to park their car on
arrival. Cars will be parked in the
area marked, “Drill Field.’'’ This is
(See GAME on page 8)
The Annual Gridiron Dinner of
the Houston A and M Club, given
in the honor of the A and M foot
ball squad, will be held December
7 at the Rice Hotel. The entertain
ment will feature Ted Fiorita and
his nationally famous orchestra
which will play during the banquet
and after the dinner those in at
tendance will be admitted free to
the dance at the Rice Hotel that
night.
In spite of financial hardships
and other difficulties the Hous
ton A and M Club has decided to
go ahead with this annual affair
and present plans point to one
of the best ever staged. The grid
iron dinner has now become one
of the biggest A and M affairs of
the state and visitors will be pres
ent from other cities.
Special Preview
There will be a special pre
view showing of “Possessed,”
a picture featuring Clark
Gable and Joan Crawford, at
the Palace theater in Bryan,
Wednesday night beginning
at 11 P. M. This arrangement
has been made to accommo
date students and Thanks
giving visitors, who will want
to see the picture before
leaving for the holidays.
Railroad Schedule
Southern Pacific Lines
From— Arrive
San Antonio 4:32 a. m.
Dallas 3:22 a. m.
Houston 4:32 a. m.
Waco 11:30 a. m.
Austin 11:59 a. m.
Port Arthur 11:50 a. m.
Beaumont 11:50 a. m.
Galveston 11:50 a. m.
Austin 12:15 a. m.
Austin 12:30 p. m.
Houston 2:12 p. m.
Houston 1:30 p. m.
Kennedy 1:00 p. m.
Fort Worth 1:10 p. m.
Dallas 1:10 p. m.
Houston 1:18 p. m.
Missouri Pacific Lines
Depart
12:13 p. m.
1:49
4:33
6:30
5:30
5:30
5:30
5:30
5:30
6:10
4:30
5:30
6:20
6:00
6:00
5:45
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From—
Arrive
Depart
Longview
... 11:15
a. m.
6:00 p. m.
Fort Worth
... 12:30
p. m.
6:15 p. m.
Austin (Student, Cowboy
Club Special)
... 11:40
a. m.
6:50 p. m.
Austin (Football Team) ...
... 11:59
a. m.
6:50 p. m.
San Antonio
... 12:10
p. m.
7:00 p. m.
San Angelo
... 12:45
p. m.
7:10 p. m.
Galveston
... 12:10
p. m.
5:55 p. m.
Houston
.... 12:25
p. m.
5:45 p. m.
Bay City
... 12:45
p. m.
6:30 p. m.
A. & M. CAMPUS MAP
College Buildings
1. Veterinary Hospital
2. Agricultural
3. Animal Husbandry
Pavilion
4. Laundry
5. Proposed Chemistry
6. Francis Hall
19. Ross Hall
20. Acadmic
23. Pfeuffer Hall
24. Civil Engineering
25. Foster Hall
26. Hart Hall
27. Physics
28. Science
?0. Chemistry Research
80. Research Administra
tion
Extension Service
Guion Hall
Bizzell Hall
Goodwin Hall
INFORMATION—
Both the Southern Pacific and the Missouri Pacific will have information booths at the depot.
Ask the Cadets or Officers on the campus for any information or assistance.
U. OF TEXAS HEADQUARTERS—
Guion Hall will be headquarters for ex-students and friends of Texas University. There will
be drinking water just outside the building.
A. & M. HEADQUARTERS—
Y. M. C. A. will be headquarters for ex-students and friends of the A. & M. College. The lava
tories on the second floor will be reserved for ladies. Men’s lavatories in the basement.
food—
Mess Hall: Will be given over to visitors. The doors will be open from 11 a. m. to 1:00 p. m.
A fifty cent hot lunch will be served. Fully 8,000 persons can be served in the Mess Hall if the time is
utilized.
Aggieland Inn: The dining room and coffee shop of the Aggieland Inn, just across from the
Mess Hall will be open all day.
Casey’s Confectionery: In Y. M. C. A. building, lunches served all day.
Aggieland Pharmacy: North gate of campus, lunches and drniks.
Sandwich Stands: There will be sandwich stands on the campus. These will sell sandwiches, hot
dogs, coffee, cold drinks, fruit, candy.
DRINKING WATER—
Fountains will be found on the porch of the Y. M. C. A., under the small pavilions located be
tween Legett and Ross Halls and between Foster Hall and Hart Hall. Water barrells at Guion Hall.
REST ROOMS—
Mess Hall: Lavatories for ladies in the basement of the Mess Hall Annex.
Y. M. C. A. Second Floor Parlor: Parlor and lavatories reserved for ladies.
Stadium and Memorial Gymnasium: Both ladies’ and men’s rest rooms.
CHECKING STANDS—
Checking stands may be found at the Mess Hall Annex and in the Y. M. C. A. building.
FIRST AID—
The College Hospital will be open for emergency treatment. A drug store is located at the north
gate of the campus. Following the game there will be a nurse in the ladies’ rest room at the Gym
nasium.
PARKING SPACE—
Automobiles will be parked on the Drill Field. Traffic will be restricted on account of the large
number of care. JUST AS SOON AS YOU REACH THE CAMPUS YOU SHOULD PARK YOUR
CAR.
OLD RIVALRY PROMISES
MANY THRILLING EVENTS
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Plans For Agricultural Engi
neering Building And New
Swimming Pool To Be Dis
cussed.
A great Maroon and White machine of Aggieland will
meet an equally great Orange and White aggregation of
Texas Longhorns in the thirty-eighth battle of the South
west’s classic of classics on historic Kyle Field, Thursday
afternoon at 2:30. The game this year will bring together
two teams probably more evenly matched than any two
schools have produced in modern years, and surely the most
evenly matched since the season of 1925 when both teams met
on Kyle Field with a clean record in conference games, and
the Aggies handed the Longhorns a 28-0 setback which was
— their worst defeat in the history of
"the Turkey Day tilts.
Although there will be no cham
pionship awaiting this year’s win
ner of the struggle, as has been
the case in four of the last six
engagements, one of the South
west’s most spectacular battles
this season is likely to be found
on the Kyle field gridiron when
the two teams tangle, past records
show.
It was back in 1894, when Texas
was still in it’s infancy, Buffaloes
to be found roaming the plains,
there was no such thing as a foot
ball field and stadiums were un
heard of, that the Texas Long
horns, then known as “Vahsity”
and the A & M Aggie who then
called themselves “Wildcats” be
gan a rivalry for the supremacy
of the gridiron in the Southwest.
In thirty seven battles, already in
the annals of football history, is
shown that “dope” means absolu
tely nothing when the “Fighting
Aggies” meet the Texas Longhorns
in the feature of Texas gridiron
battles on Turkey Day. And the
records show that an apparent in
ferior team has several times risen
to great heights and downed some
of the best the Southwest has pro
duced, in the season’s prize game.
Two Breaks in the Long Rivalry
In the long string of battles be
tween the two elevens the athletic
relations between the two schools
have twice been severed, each time
for a period of three years, but
due to the fact that in the “Old
Days” two games were often play
ed in the same season, the number
of struggles exactly equals the
number of years the teams have
met. Twenty three times, in the
thirty seven years, the Longhorn
Steer has been the victor. In eleven
of the contests the Farmers have
whipped the Steers and three gam
es have been scoreless deadlocks
when the final gun sounded.
I ^TTlIlQ PlirullJKPfl The rivalry began with “Varsity”
-Bu.lI.lUo 1 111 UllddCU soundly trouncing a weak Aggie
m 1 1 team 38-0, and each succeeding
lo londuct reed ",',1'° the Lor, ?,T, ^
ders until the season of 1902. Two
T 1 T7 • , games were played that year, the
LJlU experiments first endin g in a scoreless tic and
the second in a victory for A & M.
Incidentally this was not only the
Animals Purchased To Test initial win for the Maroon and
Feed Value Of Different
Foods In Specialized Ra
tions.
Adoption of a revised plan of the
campus and authorization of the
construction of one or two new
buildings is taking place in the'
regular meeting of the Board of
Directors which opened session
here Wednesday and will continue
through Thursday morning. Re
ports are to the effect that defi
nite action will be taken on the
new Agricultural Engineering
building and the swimming pool.
The Board, composed of F. M.
Law, president, Houston; Byrd E.
White, Dallas; Walter G. Lacy,
Waco; P. L. Downs, Jr., Temple;
H. C. Schuchmacher, Houston; G.
R. White, Brady; and Joseph Ko-
pecky, Hallettesville; will meet in
session with the building commit
tee of the Board of which P. L.
Downs is chairman, and will work
on the re-arranging of the campus
which is to be brought about by
the adopted plan. This will change
the campus to face the new Hous-
ton-Dallas highway east of the col
lege.
Much work is to be done in the
next few months regarding these
changes and it is expected that
another meeting will be held in a
few weeks.
A carload of feeder lambs nave
been received by the Animal Hus
bandry Department, and will be
used for the purposes of feeding
experimentation. These lambs were
shipped from Ft. Worth and under
the supervision of Mr. A. K.
Mackey, Professor of Animal Hus
bandry, will be divided into six
lots for experimental convenience
of handling.
Experiments in feed stuffs will
be conducted with these animals
and a careful examination of their
condition will be made from time
to time. The lambs will also be used
in class work to illustrate the
amount of gain and the cost per
pound during the feeding period.
This experiment has been run on
different carloads of lambs for the
last four years and the results
have been quite beneficial to the
Animal Husbandry Department in
giving students actual experience
in feeding lambs.
(See TEXAS on page 6)
CONFERENCE DOPE
THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE
Texas at A & M (Thanksgiving)
Saturday
Baylor at Rice
S M U at T C U
Centenary vs. Arkansas, Shre
veport.
Last Week’s Results
Texas 6, Centenary 0
T C U 19, Baylor 6
Rice 26, Arkansas 12
S M U 13, Navy 6
Conference Standing
School
W.
L.
Pts.
Pet. Opp.
S M U
5
0
80
1.000
25
T C U
4
1
39
.800
22
A and M
2
2
40
.500
21
Texas
2
2
42
.500
16
Rice
2
3
57
.400
57
Baylor
1
4
•32
.200
90
Arkansas
0
4
25
.000
94