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COLIJGE STATON. TlkA. NOVEMBER 2», 1933
FOR S.W.
A. A M Mkct of Texas
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NUMBER 11
Expected To
Latest Crowd Id Several Years
To Witness Annual Grid Contest
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Indications are that approximately 36,000 football fans
will gather at College Station tomorrow to witness the South
west’s outstanding gridiron classic—the annual Thanks
giving game between Coach Matty Bell’s Texas A and M
Aggies and Coach Clyde Littlefield’s Texas University Long
horns.
/■ Although no definite program^ 1 *
ha* been outlined for the enter
tainment of the visitors before the
game, the inspection of the new
college buildings will likely occu
py most of the visitors time as thfa
will be the first outstanding at
traction at A and M since the build
ing program undertaken last year
ha* been completed. Ex-students
will find much pleasure in visiting
their old haunts and telling the
present “fish” what it was like
when they were freshmen.
The game will begin at 2:30, and
during the half the A and M stu
dent body will form the human
*T” for which they are so fsm-
* ous. Following the game, Dave
Harman and his orchestra will
play the Thanksgiving Ball, at the
Mess Hall, honoring both Texaa
A and M and Texas University
football and cross country teams.
Room reservations have been
made by the * student*
FARMERS’ OUSTANDING PLAYERS
Fish Outplay Opponents In
Scordess Content Held In
Beaumont I^ast Saturday;
Wright Outstanding Per
former.
> vacating
Hart Hall for the week-end and al
lowing their women guests to use
them. Men visitors staying over
the week-end will be allowed to
stay with the students in the oth
er dormitories.
Because of the heavy traffic
over the week-end. visitors are re
quested to park their automobiles
on the drill field as soon as they
arrive on the campus
iog space is cared for by the cam
pus policemen.
Arrangements have been made
to keep the College Mess Hall open
from eleven o'clock until one and
a hot lunch will be served for
forty cents. Other place* where
meals will be served are: Ag-
gieland Inn, Casey’s Confection
ery, Aggieland Pharmacy, Mrs.
Parkhill's Cafe, and .Mrs. Wright’s
Lunch Counter.
Playing almost wholly on the
enemy’s side of the 60 yard line,
i but failing to put in that little bit
of extra: power at the goal line.
Coach Koswell Higginbotham’s
' Aggie freshman eleven was held
to a 0-0 deadlock in their last
game of the season at Beaumont
Friday night, November 24, by the
strong I .a mar Junior College Car
dinals.,
The Lam*r Junior College,
which is a top favorite to win tbr
Junior College State Champion
ship, was roundly outplayed by the
freshmen and did net make even
one serious scoring threat during
the entire game. The Junior Col
lege boys mrera playing under cov
er, however, because next week
they will play the semi-final* for
State Champion* and were afraid
that scouts would be observing
their pet ptar*-
Thanksgiving Game
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(Entire Farmer Team Available
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For Closing Conference Game
Texaa A and M’a Fighting Farmers will meet the Texas
University Orange and White Longhorns at 2;30 tomorrow
on historic Kyle Field in the Southwest’s outstanding grid
iron spectacle of the year. Although both teams have aspired
highly at one time during the season to win the conference,
neither is now in the race for championship honors, but fans
-» -♦a-IB likely sec the grestest battle
of the football season as both
EDS HE
Puentes, Aggie ( aptain. Leads
Team In Conference Meet
ing At Houston; Aggies
May Be Given Champion
ship.
DAVE HARMAN TO
PLAY FOR ANNUAL
THANKSGIVING HOP
Nationally Famous Orchestra
Leader and Band To Play
Dance Honoring Football
and Crow-Country Teams.
Dave Harman and his Orches
tra should present the finest en
tertainment at the Thanksgiving
Dance in the Mess Hall Thursday
night that A and M has ever wit
nessed. The dance will be honoring
both Texas A and M and Texas
University football and cross
country teams.
Harman, who,is s native Penn
sylvanian, attended the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, and has play
ed for prom* at most of the lead
ing colleges in the East, such as:
Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Amherst,
Dartmouth, Princeton, New York
University, and numerous others.
He has also played on both the
National and Columbia Broadcast
ing Systems.
In Miss Paula Fraser, Harman
leading the
In midfle d, the “fish’
clicked well
shifty field
offense
with Fred Wright,
general from Bastrop,
attack. Wright asada
several long runs and was instru
mental in harrying the ball to the
scoring lohes on several of these
jaunts. GUnn Wyatt, immediately
after entering the game in the lat
ter part of the first quarter made
two 20-yahd runs and for awhile
looked as if he were going to car
ry the ball over for a touchdown
but the Cardinal line strengthened
and held When the little Cadets
came intq the ten yard line.
Probably the outstanding star
on Coach Gray's Cardinals was
Smith, a ( pound tackle from
Nederland. Smith was in almost
every play, breaking up the Aggie
attacks several times before they
could get started and opening up
large gaps in the line. Ted Dorsey,
halfback, made the longest run for
the Cardinals and also the longest
run of the game. On a surprise
play when the M Fish" had the Car
dinals backed up to the 2-yard | _
line, Ik>r*ey went back into the 12
punt formation but instead of ; 13
kicking, went through an open- 14
mg in the line made by Smith. 15
and raced through the. surprised 13
freshmen for 41 yards "before he n
was stopped by Wyatt.
First down honors went to the
Fish by making 11 to Lamar's 4.
Although tho game with Lamar
AI>ove are six of Matty Bell’s mainstays in the 1933 A and M football machine. These Ag
in ?s will go far in repelling Texas University's Longhorns tomorrow. \
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STARTING LINE-UPS
Tetxas University
Position
Texas A and M
FNDELL
:buhr
(ARTT
|ITH (Captain)
NNINGTON
ATES
UNGER
IGAN
tNOLD
IARD
LAURENCE
LEFT END
LEFT TACKLE
LEFT GUARD
CENTER
RIGHT GUARD
RIGHT TACKLE
RIGHT END
QUARTERBACK
LEFT HALF
RIGHT HALF
FULLBACK
1
MURRAY
JORDAN
WOODLAND
ROACH J
CONOLEY
CUMMINGS (Captain)
ROBERTSON
COUSER :
STRINGFELLOW
BARFIELD)
GREGORY.
Officials: L. R. (Dutch) Meyer (Miss.), referee; Roscqt Minton (Indi), umpire;
Hafry Viner (Mo.), head linesman; and E. C. (Mule) Frayer (Baylor), field jtldie.
Itexas
ROSTER
Will present one of the most popu
lar torch singers and entertained Junior College was the last on the
aow touring the $mnh. schedule, the freshmen will con-
Very interesting *torie* have tinue to work out. Coach Higgin-
been told of Haftdan, who is pre- botham announced, until Thanke-
maturely grey, his hair having
turned grey within a period of two
months at the age of eighteen. Har-
man- prefers to discuss the cause
Of the rapid change privately,
. Iwwsvar, with those who are cur-
Mk
Other nationally famous spots
that Dave Harman and his orehes-
■ tra have played are the Million
- Dollar Pier. Atlantic City, New
\ Jersey; Palais D’or, New" York;
Yoeng’s Resturant, New York
City; Picadilly Club, Philadelphia;
and William Penn Hotel, Pitta-
burg.
giving and the numerals will be
presented one week from that date.
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SPECIAL PREVIEW
Wednesday night at eleven
o’clock there will be a spe
cial preview of “Footligkt
Parade” gt the Palace The
atre in Btyan. The manage-,
ment of t)ie theatre has an
nounced that there will be a
special bus returning to Col
lege after the show.
J'
Name
Talbert
Niebuhr
Had lock
Fagan
Sanger
Wettel
Pre jean
Hilliard
Johaston
Hubbell - .
Phillips
Weir
Van Zandt
Gray
Preibisch
Weller
Pennington
Whitman
Smith
Greear
Barbel
Laurence
Jurecha
Coatee
Mennenbruch
Mi
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S. W. CONFERENCE
STANDING
A AND M ROSTER
undell
Max son
Arnold
Bohls
Mayne
Hughes
Beasley
Platt
Wysong
Bell
Team—
W.
L.
Pet.
No. Names
Arkansas
- 4-4
1
AW
6 Stringfellow
T C U
*
2
.600
6 Martin
Baylor
2
.600
7 Thompson
‘A and M
,..l
2
.500
10 Co user
Texas
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3
.400
11 Randow
S M U
-
3
.409
12 Witkowaki
Rice
r
.20#
14 Roach
Full
M
c
I
7
I
1
16 Reid
Team—
w.
L.
Pet.
16 \ Barfield
T C U
1-8
2
.800
17 ; Dominguc
Arkansas ..
4.7
2
.771
19 I Fowler
A and M
I 6
8
.66$
20 Crow
Baylor
.4.1
4
.565
21 Maxwell
S M y
- J.4
6
.444
22 Reiehardt
Texas
6
.444
23 Stack
Rice
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7
A0O
24 | Gregory
Season’s Records ■
25 Co no ley
TEXAS
26 Kimbrough
A and M 38
A and M 13
A and M 84
A and M 17.
A and M 7„..
A and M 14
A and M 0...
A and M 0...
A and M 27..
-...-....iMthweatarn 0
Texaa Mi»ae 6
— -...Nebraalca 26
. Oklahoma 9
Centenary 0
_J_ Rice 0
- S MJU •
Baylor S
T C p 30
.Arkanaa* 20
L AND M
—THaity 0
Tulane 6
89
FRONT BASEME
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. Sam Houston 14.40
Texaa A am) I 0 41
T C U H
Baylor 7
Centenary 20
S M U 1®
Rice 0
Breedlove
Woodland
Merka '
Haynes
Murray
Conns Bey
, Callahap
Nolan
! Cummings,
Kenderdine
Golasiaaki
Crow, J.
f i Robertaon
(I Spencer
Wilkina,
Godwin
Ullrich
j Tohline
Irwin
Jordan
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Position*
Half
Quarter
Half
Quarter
Quarter
Half
Center
Half
Half
Quarter
Half
Guard
Guard
Center
Center
Full
Guard
Half
Guard
Guard
Tackle
End
End
End
Full
Tackle
Tackle
End
Guard
Guard
End
Full
End
Guard
Tackle
End
Guard
Tackle
Captain Hector Fuentes led the
j Aggie harriers against a strong
| Longhorn seven to tie for Confer-
! ence Championship honors
Houston Saturday, November 25,
each team Kcoring 32 points. The
Rice Institute Owls, the only other
entrant in the meet, ran a poor
third.
George Wilson, spectacular Tex
as runner, finished first and was
followed by Wilson of Rice, the
only Owl to place in the first ten.
Oneal Arche** captain of the Texas
team, finished third, then Captain
Fuentes led Foy Cook, Taylor, and
Laaglev across the lint to place
4th. 6th, 6th, and 7th. Storm and
Cox of Texas placed 8th and 9th
and Barnett of A and M placed
tenth. Those (hen finishing in the
1 first ten place* received letters
for the meet.
’• The conference championship
remains undecided but it may be
given to A and M When the South
west Conference Officials hold
their meeting in Dallas on Decem
ber 9th to decide the conference
football championship. Cross coun
try championships are decided by
the placing of the first five men
on each team and in the event of
a tie Che placing of the sixth man
of either team usually breaks the
tie. Figuring on this basis, A and
M would be given the champion
ship, since both DuBois and Roy
Cook came in ahead of Heddon and
Cohen, the 6th and 7th member*
of the Texas team, but since the
Southwest Conference has no def
inite ruling on cross country ties,
no definite decision can be made
until the meeting of the officials
on the ninth of December.
In the event that A and M is
adjudged winner of the champion
ship, A and M will lead the con
ference in all-time croes country
championships having six crowns
and one tie to ite credit against
six crowns for the Longhorns. A
and M tied with Rice in 1928 and
teams will be fighting for tradi
tion as well as for their coaches.
Both teams will be playing their
last games under their present
coaches.
Although at the first of the sea
son, A and M was touted to be the
outstanding contender) for the
conference championship and
the Longhorns were rated along
with the cellar, the Cadets went on
a downward path and at the middle
of the season, the two teams were
being rated exactly opposite to the
way they were at the first of the
yaak. Coach Littlefield’s aggrega
tion seemed to gather strength as
it went along and reached its peak
when his team took over the strong
S M U Mustangs 10-0.
The Aggies reached their peak of
defeat when this same herd of
Mustangs came to College Station
and trounced the Cadets 19-0. Tho
latter part of the season saw the
Faraiers stage a comeback when
they trounced the Rice Owls 27-0
and the same day saw the high
flying Longhorns take a bad turn- *
ble St the hands of T C U by a
30-0. margin.
Not much can be judged from
't-a-ons standings on how the Ag*
gie-Steer game urill turn out be- •
cause on '.his occasion, which has
been' rifjhtly called the ^isiracle
game,” the weaker team often by
mere grit and determination soars
up and completely overwhelms the
stronger eleven.
The best possible background for
this game is past games. They
show the annual grid battle be
tween these old rival# is something
apart to itself, not depending on
conference standings nor any kind
of football dope, but upon the
fight showed by the teams on the
field that one day when they meet.
Tomorrow’s battle will be the
fortieth time that these two t**mf
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37 GIVEN
ROSS VOLUNTEER
CONGRATULATIONS
Junifcn and Seniors Will Be
Initiated Sunday Afternoon.
December 17, In Animal
Husbandry Pavilion.
to date Rice has three crowns and
one tie to her credit.
Coach Anderson said today that
both A and M and’Texas Univer-
1 sity have had the best cross coun
try team* this year that they have
ever had. He further stated that
he had thoroughly enjoyed work
ing with his men this season snd
that all of them had contributed
wholeheartedly to the successful
ness of our season.
GRATITUDE
To show its feeling of
friendship and respect the
cadet corps will present to
Coach Matty Bell a sterling
silver bowl and set of eight
silver goblets Wednesday
night preceding the annual
Thanksgiving bonfire. By his
clean sportsmanship and hard
fighting during his five
years at A and M, Coach
Bell has won a place in the
heart of every cadet.
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Congratulations were extendep}
to thirty-seven members of the
junior class who were recently el
ected to membership in the Ross
Volunteers, on Kyle Field Sunday
afternoon, November 26, Those
juniors who were elected to mem
bership in the honorary organi
sation are: A. P. Meador, Waco;
L. R. A Id well, Sonora; B. W. Rog
ers, San Antonio; Richard Alex
ander, La Grange; A. B. Swank.
Wills Peint; J. C. McRaney, San
Antonio; K. A. J. Monier, San
Antonio; R. H. Bulks, San An
tonio; M. C. Dillingham^, Ft.
Worth; F. O. 'Dellinger, Beau
mont; W. R. Langston, San Anto
nio; Kay Halsell, Bryan; S. J.
Miller, San Antonio; W. H. Sea
man, Houston; J. A. Muller, Dal
las; L. M. Morgan, College, Sta
tion; E.. E. Tucker, Summerrifie;
Tom Dooley, McKinney; J. E.
Evans, Plainyfew; G. H. Williams,
San Antonio; W. L. Boothe, Sweet
water; H. T. Bbiley, Corpus
Chriati;'G. D. Commas, Cuero; J.
J. Cloener, Houston; R. H. KJofs-
ner, Ediaberg; L. M. Sommers,
San Antonio; J. B. Johnson, Car-
riso Springs; Richard Rodfrish,
Dodd City; R. A. Bell, Hereford; *
G. H. Lambert, Shreveport; C, Y.
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