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I . a THp BATfALtQW Aggies Will ilBattle Arkansas On Kyle Field Saturday Afternoon 4 » ■ CVIBWINC TNB •AUCIK PARADE f /ECET/ EAI ALTON a QrUN A • • • COACHES DEVELOP NEW MATERIAL Fire SovAmmtm ver* in (Im starting lina-np w|i-n the Texas Aggies started their hostilities against the Baylor last Satnrday. They were: Lea Css*wings and Dec field, and Bill Stage*. Seiwer Kirby, and Charley DeW line. Wilkins. Wittia. M. Crew, and Thesspsen are Mittadaien who start od. leering only two lettermen to get the rail They were Bill Censer and John Crew. These wen all i>< riorim-d in great style'as the Aggies wen their first conference victory of the season and the first win in the last fire starts. • . It was in that gawe with new waterial for the west part that Coach Norton first saw any real ress ha of his teachings that he haa so earnestly been trying to get ever since he has taken ever the coach ing obligation here. Blocking is one of the chief weapons of a finish^ Norton coached teaw and he cooAd see the light oa his work in the Baylor gewa. • It is net perfect yet by any mean*, bet he is already reaping results. Another thing that brought swiles to the good natured Aggie wen tor was the way those Fighting Aggies were tackling tke opponents. Instead of one wan being responsible far the runner there were three and four wen on every Bear that started down the field. Both Norton and Hubbard are disregarding the fact that a waa has a reputation and are playing the wen that are hustling sad want to play good. hard, rengh and teagh football. No wad has a place cinched on this Aggie ball club, becaase the wsn that pat* out the west in his particular position the week of the gawe gets the call. It has been stated before in this coiawn that Norton <ri. \ . lupi play ers instead of getting the finished product. The stateweat was proved by pointing out the nuwber of AU-Awericaa and AJI-American wca tions that have rowe eat frow under his tutelage after being turned down by schools with nwoey. Aggie supporters are getting a first gliwpae of his work tkia year and can see the aam< production crop ping out frow kis coorhing. Les Cuwwings cawe U the varsity as a center and waa shifted te the beckfieid and has bees iwproving rapidly. It was Cawwiag* that kicked the field goal at Baylor that weaat the difference between a tie and a victory. In the line Cal Hubbard chose three oophowore* to start the gawe. They were Staged. Kirby, and lie Ware. DeWare waa the only one that had been chosen as a starter before, and his initial tiwe was agaWt T C U. October 17. A and M is not expected to have a chawpioaMup ball toaw this year. Nothing like ckawpionskip waterial is available and toe wuch should not be expected of the Aggie teow. No one should expect any outstanding stars to appear this year as this process ef developing stars coa^s out of developing toaws and that is a slow process. If the Aggie teaw gets ia sad puts up a good fight, whether it wins or loses, h should be looked upon as a success. Whetker or sot you terw tke Aggie situation to date a success (and nothing Justifies anyone to expect any wore), the Aggie coaching staff will have ta be given credit for gaining what success it has through its own labors, as it kas gone where it has through what it has developed and not wkat was donated. ,. j ^ ^ .... j AUSTIN SPORTS WRITER EXPLAINS HIMSELF Aggie ‘B’ Squad Loses to Lamar Gridders, 13-6 Cardinals Score First Touch down in Second Quarter; 63-yard Run by Merka Fea tures Aggie Offensive. With only n few days in which to practice as an organisod team, John Reid sent hb Aggie “B" squad against the Lamar Junior Collage Cardinab Friday afternoon , at Kyle Field and the strong Lnmar team, which went to the finals in the state last year i| junior col lege competition, defeated the Ag gies 19 to 6. > v T RAZORBACKS ARE UNBEATEN TEAM To Be First Visit of Grid Q Fanners ton to Alfgieland me in FourVe i Expectant of Next Saturday afternoon down on hbtoric Kyle field. Coaches Homer H. Norton and Cal Hub bard will line their maroon and white clad Aggie football players against the strong, undefeated aggregation compiled by Conch Frsd Thompson ns he piases the first University of Arkansas team to play on Kyle field in four years. Fresh from a glorious victory over the Baylor Golden Bears, the Aggies will be in there fighting to hand the Arkansas Rasorbacks The Cardinals startad right off their first conference defeat, of the I clipped the following article from Hop's column of the Sunday morning issul of the Austin Amer ican. The "Texas Aggie” is an ex student publication. The article should be of interest to Aggies on the campus as it shows that Ag gies on the outside are stil) sup porting the team and ran look far ther than the first few games or even the first season to see the success of Aggie teams. I “The Texas Aggie,” A and M student publication, in h recent is sue figuratively dragged us over the coals for commenting in this column over the failure of the "new football deal” at Collage Station. From time to time during the past few weeks w« pointed out that a chain of happenings indicat ed that “something was wrong” at Aggieland. Among these happen ings was the sodden resignation of Dean Kyie, chairman of the „ athletic council; criticism by warm - Aggie adherents of Coach Homer Norton's showing to date; and then the mysterious withdrawal from school of Pete Barber, tackle, who Line Coach Cal Hubbard, earlier in the season, had termed an all- American performer. „ The “Texas Aggie” stated in ef fect that we were laboring under ‘ an illusion; that Dean Kyle had decided to resign before the foot ball season had opened; that Bar ber was famed for “taking Dutch leave from school”that Aggie- k land was behind Coaches Norton and Hubbard 100 per cent, and paid its respect to us in NO un certain terms. >' We would call the attention of the “Texas Aggie” to the fact that we have never been laboring un der an illusion in r0ga.nl to the rituatiofidrf A and M. On thereon- trary we simply pointed out that circumstantial .svidence indicated there was “something wrong” at the school. Since then We have been informed from different soareea that everything b “lovely” at Ag- giebnd; and that the whole trou- big is lack of football material, particularly in the backfield. AU of which was most pleasing news to us, since we have the sehoi best interest at heart. F': S. Robbins, devout Aggie sup porter, writes to question the abii ity of Dana X. Bible and Matty Beil, former coaches tt A and M and then concludes by praising Homer Norton, present mentor, who he says will “show ’em some thing yet.” Says Mr. Robbins: * I 1 “I noticed in your alumn today that you said the Texyu-A and M game Thanksgiving would bo a ‘mere formality.* Last Monday you ■aid the Aggies wert “null and void” thb season because ‘they simply haven't got ft. 1 “I ask that you publish that miserable record A and M had un der Dana X. Bibb after he had been there a number ; of years. I believe it was in 1922 or 1929 and as I recall the only conference game A and M won wqs from Tex as U. It may or may not be the same thb year, but for compara tive purposes I wish you would publish that record for the foot ball fans’ benefit gaining and began to penetrate Aggie territory at will. After call ing time, the Aggies collected themselves and strengthened their defense and an exchange of punts began te feature the game. Through the entire first half, the B team was kept well on the de fensive end of the play but some good punting by Wilson cleared the Aggie cause a number of times. Wilson punted well every time he kicked and helped the Aggies out of some tough spots. In the line, Whitfield. Tohline. Zich and Wessendorf looked welL The starting lineup for the Ag gies was: .Goldsmith sad Tohline, ends; Whitfield and Zkh, tackles; Maxwell and Haynes, guards; Wes sendorf, center; Merka, Hull, Wil son, and Howard, backs. Reserves who pbyed were Johaaon, Kas- marek and Moore. AGGIE GAGERS TO BEGIN TR AIRING FOR ’35 SEASON Taking advantage of every avail able minute of time the Southwest Conference allows for basketball practice. Coach John Reid will start basketball practice Thursday at the gymnasium. Coach Reid’s The fact that the Razor backs are due to beat the Aggies will not take any of tke fight from the Cadets. The Hogs lost only one confer ence game bat year and that was to the then lowly Rice Owb »■ to 7. They have practically the same team back thb year that anoffi cblly won the Southwest Confer ence championship a year ago The only serious loos was Murphy, a quarterback. The Aggies and tks Hogs did not meet last season. Coach Thompson’s University of Arkansas eleven has won the only two conference games they! have pbyed thb season by defeating T C U and Baylor They live a riT" * ' very strong and heavy defensive club. In the gam# with Baylor, the Razorhacks completely smoth ered the Bear running attack. In the line they will have Rocker, end; Benton and Msasei, tackles; Bpiv+y, guard In the backfield will be La Forge and Biddle, both of whom were on All-Conference teams. The Hazorbacks boast • shifty and fast backfield that b vary capably handled by LaForge, rated as one of the best field gen- erab in the conference. Their prin cipal offensivy threat is composed >f Ralph LaForge, George Jordan And (ieftisr. The Aggies should be able to told the Rasorbacks on their pass ing offense at they held the Bay lor passing attack uitil the last ninute spurt which eras executed n extraordinary style by Joe Jack .’earce, who was performing over ob head in one of the Baylor’s f/r veil known last minute passing The Farmefs are stronger at ->nds than they were at the begin ning of the season. Wilkins has been improving and Stages, who started the gkme against Baylor, looked better. ; Selmer Kirby, from AaarfDa, mha, pbyed hb first game : as an Aggi* starter, made a good account of himaolf. The line will be much harder to make a gain dver that in previous games. The backfield 'recruits have shown the bq*t of ally combination thb season: The,game is due to be a battle when .the fitting Farmers de fend themselves against their much heavier opponents here Sat- ' ! ^ urdaj, November 9. The Hogs will bo fighting to raaain In the con ference race with Rice Institute Owb who have not boon defeated thb season and the Aggies will be battling for another conference win. 'i , Nearly 500,000 Texans depend on the oil industry for a living. The industry b second only to Agricul ture in the state. The first use of q five pointed ■tar as the emblem 4f Texas was in 1895 when a brass button, cut from an overcoat, was used aa a SEE OUR AGENT For CLEANING AND PRESSING , Beckwith’s Tailor Shop NASH THOMPSON AGENT 49 Milner This Side of Heaven j t- , lifck | \ I Lionel Barrymore I I * Saturday 6:45 and 8:30 i Finishing School •wttli Frances Dee and Ginger Rog ers P. M. Saturday 10:30 Sadie McKee ITT < Joan Crawford 4 ] T Wednesday, November 7 AGGIES Let’s Take the Razorhacks! LUKE S CHARLIE uU—Cai (igarett indy—Cigars Fruits. Vegetables, and Groceries Mitchel Bldg. i North Gate =E f Let Us Help You Supply Your School Needs New Shipment Just Received: Stetson Hats Regulation Caps 0. D. and Tan Shirts \ White Unionalls THE EXCHANGE STOEE REMINISCENCES OF AGGIE ATHLETES hich Aggieland b itill Although he pbyed ball at A and M during that glorious reign of Joel Hunt, who seemingly over shadowed other outstanding ath letes of these years, J. V. Sikes was making a reputation for him self at Aggieland that will long be remembered. Sikes was a foot ball, basketball, and baseball star and tetter three years in each ■port. In hb freshman year he also made numerals in ' those three •Porte. . . In football he made that power ful 1925 toaih hb sophomore year and was an All-Southweet Confer- M <«e mention at the end poaittei It was thb first year of varsity competition that he made a record of s ed. The Aggies were pbying the University of Texas Longhorns on Kyle Field on Thanksgiving Day. Sikes intercepted a Texas pass on the Aggies eight yard strip and ran 92 yards for a touchdown. The Aggies won the game 28 to 0. In hb junior year be eras All-South west Conference end. In Sikes’ last year of eligibility here he was a member of that strong 1927 Championship club and won hon ors as All-Conference I end. All- American mention and on that big West team that put the East in the hob 16 to 8. I * . Sikes was a star in basketball aa well In hb freshman year he eager* won second place in the conference bst year. The greatest problem of the season will be to fill the vacancy at ceater left by Joe Merka who has won Ail-Southwest Conference honors the past three years ia school as well as receiving All- American mention last year. Mer ka has been the most valuable man to the Aggie squad the past three years. Eight lettermen and a number of squad men and sophomores will be back. There srfll be a number of each group that will contest for the place left vacant by Merka. Those who start training Thurs day are: lettermen. Captain Brea- aeale, Crockett; Carmichael, Lam- kin; Hutto, Coahoma; Bbby. Houston; Davis, Amarillo; Stan- siL Gueyden. La.; Shands and Noelks, who were on the sqpul last year, will be back. Of the sophomores who will make a bid for the varsity are Hel- bing. Cox, Evans, Jones, Lee. Creighton, Black, Sckricwer and Button. Taylor Wilkina and Max Tohline will not take part in prac tice until after the football game with Michigan State aa San Anto nio, December 8. * made hb numeral at the center position, and eras captain of the fbh team. In the 1925-26 season he pbyed forward on the team that m eight of their games during the season. In hb junior year he waa shifted to the center position where he was recognised aa one of the leading centers in the con ference. The leadership shown by the bnky center caused hb mates to elect him captain of the ‘27-’28 team. In an attempt to build a bet ter defense for a team that was net any too successful, Sikes eras shifted to the guard position. Sikes pbyed baseball hb fresh- mao yuar and lettered in varsity baseball kb sophomore, junior, and senior years. The first year on the varsity he waa a regular first base man. In the bat two yean he was td both as a first Barker and a pitcher. 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