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“W* haven’t got a thimr to fear," rfwmted Cal Hubbard
as he shuffled down the aisle to find a (tomfortabk place to
prop his number 12’*. “They’re human beings just hke we
are and we can be just as tough as they can. If Mil Af|tt
Band has as much effect on the team as it does on me those
Red Devils will be Red when they come out of that ball game.”
"You don’t need to worry about us because we’re gonna trive
’em h~l and make ’em Uke it." The cheerful Cal was very
confident after watching his Hne go through the drill at t or
rest Field in Bryan Monday night.
TboM who want to »e« th« Play 1 ’
by Play account of the Afir»«-Tein-
ple football fame in the Assembly
Hall Friday Night had better get
S seat as soon as possible as a
number of spectators are expected
from Bryan and nearby towns. The
game starts at 7:30 p. m. Every
body bring their TWO BITS and
enjoy the ball game.
BILL STAGES made a beauti
ful block of the last A aad I man
between Fowler and the goal Sat
urday afternoon when the Aggies
were struggling hard to keep on
equal ground with the scrapping
Jhvelinas. Stages was hustling on
every play Saturday and was reap
ing reeulta too. He helped block
one of the Javelina punts and
brought down the last A and I
try for extra point that would have
eventually been the margin of vic
tory but the Aggie line was off
sides aad the second try was suc
cessful.
“Zimmie” Randow had the best
punting average of any man on the
field Saturday afternoon with an
average of 41 yards per punt.
Bams, A end I fullback did some
good punting by booting the pig-
akin 367 yards in 13 tries, but his
average was ruined on two blocked
punts The punting visitor made
an average of 28.2 yards per kick.
The Aggie place kickers are bat
ting 1.000 this season. In four
placements against the Bearkats
Couser -scored twice and Nash 1
Thompson duplicated the same
afternoon. Thompson kicked the
two extra points last Saturday to
bring the total to six for six. It
seei»s as though the Aggies are
well supplied in “Golden Toes.”
Randow, fleet back from Halleta-
ville, la the leading Aggie scorer
to date. Zimmie has scored three
touchdowns for a total of 18 points.
Trailing Randy is Newaome 6,
Fowler 8, Thompson 4, and Couaer
1 ■ 1 4- ;
“I am as happy as I can be”
shouted “Swampy” Rollins to Tom
Dooley Tuesday morning aa they
were jerking their odds and ends
together for'the trip to Philadel
phia. The sturdy little end -from
Gulfport, Mississippi was so thrill
ed that hd almost skipped from
room to room instead of taking his
customary alow and easy stride.
Rollins saw little action in the
first game with the Bearkats and
was in the hospital last Saturday,
but the Mississippi lad will have an
opportunity to show what he has
in Philadelphia Friday night.
Pete.Dowling, who has been in
the hospital siafe September IS
with a broken l.-g received on the
football field, is able to walk to
the classroom on crutches. Pete
made his first cissies Mondsjr. In
his room ip the hospital Friday,
while his leg was still ia a plaster,
this scribe carved his aante on
Dowlings leg along with what ap-
. pea red to be half the student body.
If there was an athletes Pams
missing on the Dowling roeter
this writer was enable to find it.
Ike Lowenstein, All Conference
outfielder ort the baseball team last
year is one of the late enrollees.
Ike played centerfWM for
ham this summer and has receiv
ed several offers from Class A
league teams to try out with them
next spring. Ike plans on graduat
ing here in May.
Aggies Practicing Tonight
Under
Lights
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DEAN KYLE RESIGNS AS CHAIRMAN OF
ATHLETIC COUN8IL
The resignation of E. J .Kyle,
Dean of the School of Agriculture,
and chairman of the Athletic Coun
cil, as member of the Athletic
Council was a severe blo\* to the
Athletic department and nil who
was interested in athletes at A
and M. Dean Kyle, who has been
connected with athletics at A and
M since 1902, has been a most
faithful promoter of athletic af
fair*. His work with the Athletic
Council is one of the reasons why
athletics at A and M have such a
bright future. Dean Kyle’s ser
vices will be sorely missed.
Below are some of the recent
actions of the Council.
1. Restored golf and tennis ns
minor sports.
2. Added swimming as a minor
•port and employsd our find
swimming instructor and coach.
S. Made plans for greatly en
larging Kyle Field by including all
of the college land lying south of
the present athletic grounds.
4. Arranged three interstate
games for this year.
5. Begun negotiations for a gan •
with the University of Mexico U
be played in Mexico City during
the Christmas Holidays of 1936 .
6. Begun negotiations for a game
to be played with West Point. _
7. Assembled probably the best
coaching staff ever to represent
any institution in the South.
Shorty Aiders©*, University of
Texas fresh mas football coach,
was in the Stadium to scout the
Aggie-Javelina football game Sat
urday afternoon. The freshman
mentor had his usual quota of las
sies with him. Three Texas U. Co
eds were accompanying the Austin
representative. Wearing colored
glasses the sly Alderaon throught
he would escape the eye of the
Aggie coaches, hut Coach “Pappy"
Anderson seeing the gentleman in
the stands promptly paid a by
stander twenty five cent* for his
identification.
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THREE FOR FOUR JONES
In searching over some papers
of the past summer I found the
reason for Frits Jones new nick
name (Three for Four Jones). The
Temple Daily Telegram of Temple,
Texas carried an article about a
gams between Temple and Sparks
in a play off for the championMiip
of the Central Texas League. Jones
was playing centerfield for the
Sparks aggregation and batting in
cleanup position. He had been their
most consistent hitter of the sea
son. In this *i* < ial game Frits got
the Sparks club off to s flying
•tort by practically winning the
game single handed with a single,
a double and » triple in four tim
es at bat, knocking in two of the
three runs hi* dub scored and
scored the other one himself after
he had tripled. Since that time
Frits has become known as Three
for Four Jonek'
REMINISCENCES OF AGGIE ATHLETES
- Roswell G. “Little Hig” Higgin
botham, Head baseball coach and
Freshman football and basketball
coach, ia one of the greatest ath
letes that ever entered athletics
at A aad M.
“Little Hig" was a freshman at
Aggie land ia 1917 and was a mem
ber of the championship team of
that year. He was a star both on
the gridiron and the diamond be
ing a star punter and passer of
the football team. The versatile
Aggie played halfback on the 1917
and 1919 championship teams and
was a “T” man on the 1920 eleven.
He was chosen All Southwest Con
ference halfback in 1919 and 1920.
His absence from the 1918 team
was because of injuries. In 1918,
1919, and 1920 Higginbotham play
ed short^>p fbr the baseball chib
as well as jRkfng his regular turn
in the box the last two years tn
school. Besides his athletic work he
made a good scholastic record dur
ing his enrollment at A and M.
After leaving eehool Higgin
botham coached one year at Sher
man high school, then became as
sistant football coach aad bead
bast ball coach ai Austin College.
While he was coach there Austin
College took the TIAA baseball
.hampionuhtp in 1924 and football
championship In 1928.
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Fanners Getting
Final Polish At
Butler Stadium
Light Workout Thu» day
Tllght at Philadelphia to
Umber Up
Coaches Homer Norton, Cal
Hubbard, thirty four football play
ers, “Doe” Sprague. Mr. Hooker,
aad Mr. Ashford, all of the athletic
department left Tuesday afternoon
at 1:26 on the Sunbeam tor
Philadelphia via Dallas, St Louis
and Indianapolis. The party was
.to have arrived at Indianapolis this
afternoon, and Conch Norton will
give the Cadet team a good work
out under the lights Ot Butler
BewL home of the Butier Univer
sity Bulldogs.
The practice session will be the
first for the Aggies since Monday
and the enly one they will have
uptil they arrive in Philadelphia
Thursday afternoon October 4 and
work * out at Temple Stadium
Thursday night.
Th»- contest with Coach “Pop"
Warner’s Temple University • Red
Devils will be more than » teat
for Coach Norton’s Fighting Farm
ers. The Warner coached team ia
a strong aggregation The smart
boy* who predict a Mason’s out
come before it has begun rate the
Red Devils with the four best
teams of the East this ysar. Those
conclusions were not drawn from
watching the team go through
dummy practice because they
downed the Virginia Polly eleven
34 to 0 last Saturday. This V P I
school Is no setup either as it is
one of the strongest teams In the
Southern Conference.
Warner has a good institation
backing him and he has secured
football talent from the West coast
of California to the Quaker city.
The Aggies will go into the contest
a high favorite to looo, but the
charges of Norton and Hubbard
will be fighting for every break
that comes their way.
Temple has a heavy team and
the Warner system of football ia
based on power plays aad the Ag
gies will see plenty of rough and
tough football before the final gun
fires, but Norton has groomed his
club for this type of ball and it
wiD not come aa a surprise, to the
Cadets. Many of the thirty-four
WILL THESE BOVS TUB TEMPLE?
Intramural History
Here Covers Twenty-
Four School Seasons
Early in the history of A and M
Collage the value of Intramural
athletics was seen. A* early as 1910
____ __ each company had ia basketball,
men that go to Philadelphia will! football and baseball team. In or-
aee action, especially the men in fa for this to continue a fund
the line. Such stalwarts as Stumble ■ M “ *
Jordan, Pete Barber, John Crow.
Dog Eye" Conoley, Selmer Kirby,
Jack Roach and Jeremiah Merka
will clip the Warner coached clan
on even terms. In the backfiald
Muggins" Fowler will be flinging
those southpaw passes over the
Red Devil line. And look out for
little Bill Couser for he la capable
of gaining plenty of yardage oa a
half chance aad flipping a pass or
two by the Eastern powerhouse
When the Temple eleven gets too
noar the Aggie goal the Cadets
can rely on the punting of Randow,
Couaer and Fowler to pant them
out of danger.
The thirty four football phyers
who will make the trip to the Qua
ker City and their home towns are
M follow*:
Odell “Muggins” Fowler, Fort
Worth; W. L. “Bill” Couser, Breek-
enridge; John “Grandpa” Gregory,
Tyler; Sid Martin, Gilmer; Nash
Thompson, Fort Worth; Wilbert
‘‘Zimmie" RsndoW, HaDetoTille;
Homer "Doe" Pttner, Denton; W.
R. Kimbrough, Haskell; Percy
Reed, Corpus Christ!; Jack Walker,
Fort Worth; Room Newaome, Fort
Worth; Jack StringfeDow, Terrell;
Charley DeWars, Jr„ Brenham;
Cummings, Bryan; Jack
Roach, Decatur; Stanfield Such,
Cameron; Odd “Dog Eye" Cono
ley, Amanllo; John Crow, Milford;
Marion CriAr, Milford; Step Max-,
well Leonard; Harden “Babbitt”
McGrsdy, Abilene; Frank Merka,
Brayn; Charles “Pete" Barber,
Abilene; Jeremiah Merka, Whar
ton, “Stumble” Jordan, Ft. Worth;
Georg* Clark, Breekenridge; Nick
Willia, San Antonio; Charley
Swampy" Rollins, Gulfport, Miea-
■sippi; Taylor Wilkin*, Franklin;
R. E. “Bob” Conolley, Fort Worth;
W. E. “Bill" Stages, Fort Worth;
and Grady “Goldaa Toe” Godwin,
Sinpe 1927 the intetoet in Intra
mural athletics has been greatly
inered^ed. Hr. Penberthy has en
larged this interest by discarding
the qpe of battalion competition
and substituting company compe
tition instead. Each company, bat
tery, or troop, whatever the unit
may he, is allowed two teams In
each dport, a class A and class B
made up by the team* and awards 1 U * ra An Intramural manager is
chosen from each organisation to
Wall XT ^ ” w***
At first very littl* interest waa
taken in intramural sports and
moat anyone who wanted to play
waa eligible. As more companies
were formed the intramural plan
of competition was changed from
a company organiiation to battel-
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.M7 „b» W. I. P-k^th, .^.oll.vKn. Kr-ko.
... Dtraetor at I*****' kotta*. »«
Athletica. Mr. Penberthy changed P . Tgr ^ m tr * ck * n BW,m '
the battalion form of competition m **
to that of company competition
look after the interest of the unit
Another great advance the depart
ment made to create more in
terest is the Urge selection of
sport 4ctivities from which be has
to chodae. This year a student may
select .
according to bis liking: basketball,
tennia, specdbal!. rifle shooting.
BASKETBALL GETS
INTRAIMALSOFF
ID FLYING START
in order to give more students a
chance to compete. It is the aim of
intramural sports bate to provide
an opportunity for’drery student
to take part in athletic sports in
which he Is interested and to en
courage every student to take part
in m many sports
The department is primarily in
terested in those students who are
not good enough to (take part in
varsity competition, for this rea
son the intramural board has B-
dopted rules whereby
has competed in eith+r varsity or
freshman competition'U not eligi
ble to enter intramdral competi
tion in the sport In Which he par
ticipated
ft hr the hope of th* department
that the students will enter Into
the sports willingly and of their
own volition. Any kind of compul
sion is discouraged. All undergrad
uate students are eligible to par
ticipate In Intramural pthletie* and
no scholastic standing of sUgibiHty
is required in this department
since the idea is to enable man who
cannot make varsity learns to da-
rive the benefits of competitive
sporte. Men are allowed to com
pete in any number of different
activities, but may rfrrmmt only
one team in each
Intramural athletics were eff to
a flying start Monday as basket
ball, fifst of Intramural sports to
be run off, was being pUyed in
both gymnasiums. The teams are
divided into five leagues. Each
team in each league will pUy five
games except members of League
E who will play four gamas. The
champions of each league will be
t>ne or all of the following determined on a percentage basis,
ling to bis liking: basketball, ^ con t,.*ts will end November
8, according to schedule.
The scramble for the title this
year appears to be a tough one as
many strong clubs ar* entered.
Company B, under the efficient
management of R. G. Kirk, won
the title last year and has a
strong team back in the fight.
Company B, Engineers, managed
by M. M. Rocki was a runner up
last year and has a strong team
enrolled now.
PLEIimdH;
1U10,H
The Aggies ran into s' scrapping
group of football players Satur
day afternoon when they battled
over three and one half quarters
with Bud McCallum’s A and I Jav*
elinas from Kingsville, on Kyle
Field before they could make as
much as a draw out of the affair.
The battling Javelina* were the
first to score when McNabb ran
38 yards through the line on n
quick opening play for a touch
down Only eleven plays had pre
ceded McNabbs’ 38 yard jaunt.
( arson kicked the extra point to
make the score 7 to 0.
The second quarter started as
though the Aggies j were going
places. On the first play, Fowler
circled right end for seven yards.
Fowler passed to Stages for six
aaore. Fowler then dashed through
the Javelina line for 21 yards
and a touchdown. Nash Thompson
knotted the count by sailing the
ball between the poets in the try
for extra point The half ended
with the ball on the Javelina 26
yard line after Randow and Barns
had exchanged punts throughout
the latter part of the second quar
ter.
The third quarter was fought al
most entirely on A and I territory.
The visitor* were holding when the
Aggie* began to get In scoring ter
ritory.
The Farmers were gaining on
every play in the third quarter
when Lowell Ramsey grabbed an
Aggie pas* over the line and ran
63 yards for n touchdown. The Ca
det* immediately took to the air
in an attempt to tie the score. Cou-
ser passed to Fowler for 18 yank.
Couser ran right tackle for seven
yards. Randow almost got away
for a touchdown by picking op 21
yards around left end, bet McNabb
downed him on the Javelina 17
yard line. After a fumble and two
incomplete passes the ball went
46 the Visitors on the 20 yard
The Aggie line held and Barn
es punted 46 yards, but Randow-re
turned the punt bock to the Jave
lina 44 yard line. Two passes. Con
fer to Randow, placed the ball on
*h, two vard line and Randow
plunged the line for the remaining
two yard* Thompson kicked the
extra point
ming
In 1^27-t8j with 22 teams An
total participants in the events of
fered wax 2201 with 1160 indivi
duals participating, while ia 1933-
34 with 29 teams the total partici-
pants was 4539 with 1460 indivi
duals participating.
The Starting Liae-up
Aggies
Position
Javelina*
Wilkin*
j LE
Massey
Clark
LT
Holden (C)
Conoley
LG
Canon
Roach (C)
C
McCormick
J. Craw
RG
Harbes
Barber "V
RT
Ford
Callahan
, RE
Rader
Couser
j QB
McMillan
Fowler
LH -
McNabb
Reed
JujRH
Ramey
Cummings
i FB
Banw*
Score by period*:
Jvntam -
0
7 0 7—14
Aggies
.7 0 0
TEMPLE-THEN-CENTENARY
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SKILFULL TAILORING and PERSONAL
INTEREST are just a* important to a well
fitting uniform a* SKILFULL .'IkteBtlNG
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and BACKING are to a successful team.
YOU WILL FIND BOTH AT—
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