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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1933)
H J- u. . iMi ti t* \ 1 ’M f l TEE BATTALION Arkansas May Cinch S. W C. \i Wfltchin!* the At^ies BY CARROLL ROBERTS HOMER H. NORTON i *T have no plane for the future aa yet" said Coach Matty Bell Sunday afternoon. “My entire time has been spent with the team, and the suddeness of the announce ment of my being replaced next year, by Coach Homer Norton caught me unprepared for next year." Continuing, coach Bell stated that he would spend the entire time betwen now and Thanksgiving with the team and that he would not give any thought to what he would do next year until after that time. Coach Bell expressed his plea sure of having coached at Texas A and M with the words, *'1 have f t spent some of the most pleasant years my life at Aggieland and I have especially enjoyed the fine support and spirit of the student body toward the football team. I only hope that the years to come will find the Texas Aggies at the head of the list for football supremacy." —Texas la Next— Sports writer or dreamer? Many sports writers go on fan tastic jbumeys prior to football games—merely prognosticating on the impending results. Sometimes the hit, sometimes they miss. A hit is lucky and a miss is unlucky but the misses can always be ex cused by saying “dope-bucket spill" while a hit rates the words “I’m good,* - But there are some things that cannot be so easily overlooked and so easily excused—for instance the article appearing under Kern Tips’ column in the ’’Houston Chronicle” Saturday November 16. Tips was a little uncertain as to the outcome of the Rice—Aggie game in his predictions so gave the decision to Rice. His miss is easily excusable, but his reason-put in no uncertain terms—cannot so easily be disregarded. Maybe some, might call it an inspiration from the Al mighty as he sat down to write, yet the dictionary defines it as hallucination. ^Here it is: ‘ “Last Saturday, the famous Tex as Aggie Cadet corps did some thing that this loyal, die-hard band of grid-crazy young men has never done. They booed their Texas Aggie football team. It sounds* like tresuion many old-time Aggie men. including myself, had a hard time believing it But it came to pass. The famed twelfth man at every Aggie home game booed for about three minutes after T C U had scored its last touchdown. That’s something that has never ' happened to an Aggie team, and it •hews something or other that I wouldn't care to define, but it does make the Rice Owls look good out. there Saturday". In the first place, I suppose that above writer meant S M U be cause that was the team that the Taxes Aggies played on the men- tiotoed Saturday. In the second place, I will concede to the writer that the Cadet corps and everyone connected with A and M felt the defeat to the Farmers on Kyle field, which as my records show was the worst ever dealt to tho Aggies on the traditional grid iron *—but never-the-less, he is the only parson that I have been able to find that thought he heard said booing and I have questioned foot ball players, cadets, and yell lead $ im mm ATTACK FATAL TO RICE OWLS Farmers Show Real Form In Defeating Owls 27-0; (’mi ser and Murray Outstand ing. jCAN TEXAS STOP. RAZ0IRIBACI BACKS IACKS? S&t ifel I ' •f? t >rn Victory Would Give Every S. W. Conference Team Chance At Flag Except Rice . j/L-iJm i f I Texas Aggie football team's answer to the firing of its cuach came without reservations last Saturday afternoon in the form of a 27-0 victory over the Ui<e Owls. Not since the Aggies bent Arkansas in 1927 by a score of 40-6 have the Cadets taken a victory by a larger margin from any member of the Southwest con ference. IMa>it)g inspired football. Coach Matty Bell’s men put 1 over a passing attack that completely dumbfounded the Owls. To name the stars of the game would be to name the entirf Ag gie team, as every man who play ed turned in a wonderful game of fobtball and fight. It waa the first Above is homer H. Norton, head co^ferenee game that the Aggie coach at Canary College, who has l.»oked anything like the will succeed .\ atty Bell as head id 1 l , »f»«*»°n estimations had doped the Departmeit of Physical Edu-1 th ^ lo P 1 **- * cation at A a|ui M next fall. Nor- P'H Couaor from Breckenridgc Biddle ISAS TEAM w IS INELIGIBLE Southwest Football Fans To Watch ('loaely (>amc Being Played In Augttn; Baylor To Meet S M F In Dallas. Razorbacks May Be Forced To Forfeit All Southwest Conference Victories. J ton w ill conn to A and M next spring to conduct spring football practice * led the attack of the Aggies. At th^ sending end of eight at the •Ive completed passes, Couser C >Joa. OA/V t-fAH.*. i3S' The ahili}<’ iff Coach Clyde Littl^ Longhorns ti> stop these Arkansas 1 est approximation to the full strength buck field was made with Randow. Nlirtin. and Fowler all able to ehtdr. Little Bill Couser did a wonderful job at quarter (>ack, doing the big part of the twelve completed passes, Couser i.ongnorns n> stop mese Arkansas luuorMcka , sept the pigskin straight to its | determining the outcome of the pre^t flag ratt destination with deadly accuracy FRESHMEN BATTLE Taexorr* eufa Tex* University orbacks MLill g<> far in and tossed three at them to re ceivers who went over for toilch- doto-ns. Kimbrough was on the re ceiving end of two of these touch down heaves while Barfield colt* nested into the other. Ray Murrey Aggiy ball Uting, making 73 yards «(>red the pther touchdown on a on running ^1*?* Hn 't throwing 8 completed passes three of which were good fur touchdowns. Couaer has probably turned in the beat broken tiled; running of any man on the team to date. —Texas Kay Is Next— played the best Murray game of hisj career last Saturday against Rice. Not only was Ray short pass from Muggins Fowler. Fowler, who had been odt of the game for four weeks, did some nite work and Randow, who has n out all season, did some won ful running and passing n the line, Murray and Robert son at ends, Jordan and Cummings at; tackle, and Woodland at guard stepped the Owls attacks before they Aryer became dangerous. Mur ray turned in the most brilliant laying of his career, recovering twin fumbles, catching four passes, including one for a touchdown, and miking one point after touchdown (Coatnued on Page St THE RAMBLERS TO FOR CONTEST WITH A 6 TO 6 COUNT THE S M U PONIES Freshmen Will Travel To The-Ilgani Must Win the Re Beaumont Saturday To maiding (iamef With Rice Meet the Lamar Junior (’<>1- Icge. and the Mustangs To Stay in the Conference Race. i •I--' —i Waco^ Tex., Nov.J 22. Smarting from a KM) defeat handed them Academy by.the ’Texas Tech -Matadors last week. U|e Golden -Bear football squad Of Baylor i’niversity is pointing' for the nqxt hump in their . IJlBJ football Whedule. The Crizzlie* meet KaV Morrison’s Souther* MethodistV Mustangs in Pallas fiatunday. X«v. 26. Coach 1 Jdfriey Jeiinings is giv- HHr Murr^if AGGIE HARRIERS DEFEAT RICE IN MEET AT HOUSTON Taylor of A and M FlniahcM Firxt. Wilson of Rice Sec ond. and Remainder of Ag gie Team Takes All Other I Maces. In a game filled with thrills and first class foot hull color, the Aggie Fish and the Allen stood toe to toe Monday night. November 12th, by defeating B i lassiest and hardeit fought bat tler played on Forrest F'ield this season, which ended in a 6 to 6 lie. 5 ‘ Breaks came at the opportune time for a thrilling game. Punt- were returned for substantial mg much time - to ^training his gaib*. passes Hung far across the charges to stop the! famed aerial field with receiver* leaping high circus be expects Bie Ponies to into the air for spectacular catch- open up; Saturday. ^The veteran es, hard and outstanding tackle.- Baylor line is in Excellent con- made. and just when it seemed the dition to -tap the llustang pass- Fish had gained a sufficient quan- H1K and thair runn^ig attack as tity of markers to insure victory well. i the Wilson coached clan took Uu* As th4y are in a hie, with four situation into their hands and ex- other oltvens for scrond place in More turbulence was added to an already mixed up conference race Tu<-sday by the announcement of the finding of Ulysses (Heinle) | Schlueter, Arkansas sub-tackle, in eligible for conference play. Fchlueter was declared ineligi ble for having played with Coach Dana X. Bible's University of Neb- raaka Cornhuskers last season in the big six conference. Arkansas officials said the Schlueter had been received as a junior college transfer and that he did not regis ter his Nebraska credits. Mr. D. A. Penick, president the Southwest conference said that the case would be referred to the conference committee for settle ment when they meet December 9. From a hasty reading of the con ference regulations. Dr. Penick said that he could not find any thing bearing on this particular point and could not state off-hand what effect this would have on the conference games already played ! by Arkansas. In the opinion of Professor E. W. McDiarmid of T C U, vke-pr«i*- ident of the conference, all gam es in which .Schlueter has partici pated would have to be forfeited, but the final settlement would have to be left to the ruling o! the committee at their next meet ing. In case the games that this sub- I tackle has played in are counted out. T (’ U and Baylor will both have a loss wiped off their slati and wllll either have a wonderful > chance to w*in the conference race Baylor and T C U both have y«* i Coach Fred Thompson’* Arkan- i xas Kaxorbacka will either win thW first Southwest Conference Chafupionship since that school hns been i* the conferenjre of will lose their bhft opportunity to do so next Frjd&y as they go to Austin to play the'Sgxas Urtiversity Long horns.- The rest of th^ Jfouthwest will be cloudy watching i this garde in Austin because if tk** Longhorn- cortie across with a victory over the Rarorbacks, every team in the conference except Rke toQ- still have a chance to win the thronp, A and M and Arkansas having the possibility of ending tied for the honors, j | \ Texas* hope of victory faded al most as fast aa the Homed Fro*'* piled up scores last Saturday in Austin When T C U yet the Long horns down to a devastating 30-0 score. After the chilling effect of a 105 yard run to a touchdown by Charlie Casper after the open ing kick off, the JLdnghorns wen.* never able to reguin their feet. ^ but after a week's dest, they may turn the tables, as if the vogue in the confetence games so far this year. • * / The Razorbacks warmed up for this contest by taking over k 63-0 victory from Hendrix College, with Geiser, Biddle, Criswell. G. Jordan, and Laforge fairly making a race track oat of the grid-iron. With such a momentum to start with, the Kazonbacks will be hard to stop together with the fact that they, are fighting for a cinch on the championship. In other games of the confer ence. Rice will go to Fort Worth to battle the F'rogs and attempt to gain a little preftige for this season In which they have won one game out of four conference starts, and the Baylor Bears will go to Dallas to play their color ful, annual battle with S M U.' Bay lor. after defeating T C U and Texas, has its eyes un the confer ence ciown in case Arkansas, los es her final game knd has been getting aet for the strong Mus tangs, laying down to defeat under to play S M U and Rice. Rite, the other conference team the heeli of Texas' Tech in ordei that has played Arkansas will lose the only win that the Owls have been able to put over this season. There la no denying that the cadet corps waa discouraged after the third defeat of the season had taken place and that in the game the most outstanding man on the field but he played the best game at end position that this conference has seen in a long time; sad ac cording to coach Beil, one of the best games at end that he had ever seen. Murray did; not “jusf arrive" in that game. Steadily from the fir*t> of the season Be has been starring at the wing position, getting bet ter and better over a start that was eVen betier than most ends ever arrive to »t their peak. Manv ecuted a 74 yard forward march for a touchdown to tie the score. The Aggie F'reshmen clearly outclassed their opponents duriag the first half, playing close to the Ramblers goal line and making several scoring threats. In the first quarter Wyatt passed 24 yards to Holtxclaw to place the fans who go by numbers have atop . ,, . ■ . p„i for . fri. ,ec„nd.. thumb, ! *«'"■ h-««. .nd .fwr » .!«», 1 1 romft— \ nar The Aggies have begun to be- lieye that anybody with the name Wilson, should be called “Rabbit”. Wpek before last a Wilsoa of the ball on the 4 yard line. Allen re Tegas University Harriers lead (Continued on Page 5) the field in the dual meet held here on November 10th. The next day the "Rabbit" Wilson of 8 M U' lead the Mustangs to a fast finish against the Aggie eleven on Kyle Field and last Saturday another Wilson of Rice came near finishing first in the cross country meet be tween the Aggies and the Owls. R. E. Taylor nosed out Rice’s Wilson to break the tape for the the conference flat! Bears an- oat to w)n maitjing- two games •tr-— » -'—S Rii le* and the Rice Owls. with Rice, the team was .dually their pulling the twelfth man rather ups, or asked the one next to him who is that number 31 M . That’s Ray Murray. t Rice is the only team now mathe matically out of the conference race for championship. T C U, Baylor A and M, Arkansas, Texas, and S M U can still win. 'A and M and Arkansas coujd end 4s • tie if Texas beats Arkansas, S M U and Baylor tie and S M U beat or tie M , 1T C U. It all depends on whether season has the Aggie - offensive Texa , ^ ArkltnMA| for * ^ play been intact In the game with don . t the fe ve thrf TuUne, Randow, and Martin were champion , hip . out while Domingue was just get- t ’ 1 m ting over a rib injury; Fowler was —Tea* la N«x»— injured in plajr with the Sam MURRAY 1*1 FnUFn Houston Bearkats and could not en- m 1 LfclH.e.11 ter the T C U or S M U fracas, Madison, Wik-—Pledging of Bur- neither could Randow, or Sid Mar- 1 bank Murray, son of Governor than the twelfth man pulling the team. The team and coach de serve all the credit for the win— they certainly got credit for the losses, all of it, but as for the cadet corps booing the team, ’tis just a fantasy. —Texas la Next— At no time during the entire pla*d second the six remaining members of the Aggie harriers placed one after another in the following order: John Barnett, Hec tor Puentes, R. M. Langley, Foy Cook, and Wilburn DuBois, to take the meet 19-36. The cross country conference championship meet will be held in Houston next Saturday and due to Rice’s weaker team the champion ship will likely go to either A and M or the University of Texas. Rice can change the outcome of B INFANTRY WINS THE INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL RACE Company B Engineers Run- nersup In dose Contest for Class A Championship. About five hundred basketball enthusiasts saw B Company In fantry win the Class A Basketball championship Sunday afternoon. November 12th, by defeating B Company Engineers 18 to IS. B Company has not lost a game dur ing the entire season and the team work displayed in Sundays game showed that they have been “right”. It would be hard to pick’* chase the their re- ith the Poti- If Texas beats the Raxorbacki this week any of four teams’can end the season ir at least a tie for the conference crown b.d winning its last two- games. For the Bruins this numr.' that thef must elimi nate ttye Mustangs {and end the , season b> beating th«- Owls on Carroll field Dec. 2., The Hean will depend largely on the passing and ' running of their triple threat field general. Joe Jack F’earce. for-‘their scoring threat. The Green 4nd Gold de fense wPl be led two wingmen# Co-Captain F'rank Jam es and Jim Tom “R< d Petty, and the chaiWing red headed guard, Harold (9em, who halls from Dal las. But In their last two confer ence games every map in the Bay lor forwgrd wall hasl been charg ing .harcT and, as a result, the Homed frogs and the Ix>nghoms have beep held scoreless. Although it is not definite, * special ttain will probably run r faeve to rave her strength for the pon ies. The Texas Aggies will rest *(- unlay and prepare f<>j the annus> grid-iron classic of the year- -uBw Thanksgiving game with Texas Universityv | , 4- ’ TICKET SALES FOR TURKEY DAY TILT Rabbits’ Feet Help „ , ' „ Break Notre Dame’s RAPIDLY MOUNTING I-ons Losing Streak PreHent Indications Are Thai Attendance Will Exceed Notre Dame has fotmd a way to stop its losing streak- Saturday Coach Hank Anderson Twenty Thousand; Recent received a cigar box filled with Grid Results Favorable. rabbits’ feet and immediately pass 1 11 j ed them out to the ' firat twenty players that he came to. with the words *Tf we enn’t score with all this luck we cxn’t sc-xv at all”. That afternoon the weary Irish made their first victory and first acore in five games by decisively E, W. i trouncing Northwestern 7-0, and Aggie piled up the impressive total of Sales of tickets for the Texas Aggie-University of Texas Long horn football gajne, to be played Thank, givirg day on Kyle Field are advancing at a fairly rapid clip as the day for the big game draws near, according to Hooker, secretary of the Athletic Council. Several thousand yardi gained from scrimmage good seats still are available, how to only 48 for their opponents. ever, 1m raid. I i f- " - . Tickets ia the University section OHIO FRATERNITIES from Warn carrying 'several Hun an outstanding player from the the confereace meet by taking one team sinccrit functioned as a well or two places above one of the operated machine. dred Ba] game. >r students to the Pony ; K I ■ ■»■■■■ ». tin. ~ Mighty Ted Spencer had a shoulder hurt in the Tuiane game but has been playing anyway. / Although the scintillating Do mingue was not able to enter the Owl hunt last Saturday, thf clos- William H. (“Alfalfa Bill”) Mur ray of Oklahoma, this week w-s announced by Phi Theta at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. The gover nor refused tp allow his son to join a house last year. other teams, so watch the Wilsons. T C U will have some men enter ed Saturday’s meet to run for individual record, but their scores will inot effect the three conference N0IS WKR OF SCORE- GUESSING (CONTEST v . i former in L. E. Lee of Houston. St Louia-MlP) You don’t Lee scored eight of the Engineer's have to attend footbs II games to kno*f all about theni. This was game sold for $3 each even with The Engineers had a star per- Amderson said today that the Aggies and the Long have the beat conference teams that they have ever had and Saturdays race would really composed of the following men: H. he “the race of champions”,' J (Continued on Pag* 8) points Sunday. The Engineers did not hit their stride early in the game due to the late arrival of W. G. Roach of Houston, one of the outstanding guards of the Class A leagues. The championship guard was of the stadium will be on sale at the University athletic offices in Austin antil Wednesday night, November 29. Mr. Hooker said, after which they will be obtained only at coDege station. Mail ap plications for tickets still are be ing filled. The price of the tickets this year ia only 82 including the fed eral amusement tax, which marks the cheapest price in years for tickets to this game. For the past several years, with the exception of 1932 when the tickets sold for 82.50 each, the tickets for this SET HONOR RECORDS Columbus, O.—Members of Dhb State University's 71 fraternitiei hung up a new scholarship record, last year, according to Dean of Men J. A. Park. The yaar’s scholarship average for 2,300 men in Ohio’s social and profeaionel fraternities waa 2.41 out of a posible four points. Five years age the average wet 2.31. end each year since then the record has improved, the dean says. D. A. R. WOULD BLOCK RICE PLAY . I ns tm ted by H. Wilderman. of Menard, III. He was tie winner of a <100 newspaper prize for pre dicting the scores oi: a selected number -of . football games, at college. It turned out Wild- was convict No, 4915 in the State Prison. out a federal amusement tax. The coitcrete Kyle Field stadium has a seating capacity of more than 33,000 people, every seat of which affords a good, clear view of the field. Aggie athletic offi cials expect a crowd of about 25,- 000 to attend this game. Houstoa, Texas.—Efforts wen- being made this week by the Unit ed Daughters of the Confederacy to block plans for the presentatio 1 of •Undo Tom’s Cabin” by the Dramatic Club at Rke Institu*< ' rr- Of the U. D.. C. contend the play ia an affront to the South. -1