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ON KYLE FIELD By E. C. “JEEP” OATES Battalion Sports Editor Wired from San Francisco by E. C. “Jeep” Oates Battalion sports editor. October 6—the Aggies arrived in San Francisco Thursday night in the best of spirts, although “Cot ton” Price, Ed Robnett, and Joe Boyd are hurt bad, they will be able to go in Tyler fray. The trip was hard on everyone of the party of 55, but we had a day to recover before the game. In Yuma, Boyd fell in love with an Indian squaw some 100 years old. “Bodie” Pierce and I made a trip to Mexico when we came through El Paso. At Los Angeles, we went out to the Trocadero and Earl Carroll’s place. Bodie and I pulled on the stage at Carroll’s, and when the lipstick was wiped off the hanky looked like the tripes of the flag. The fair damsels then made for Coach Norton’s table and played “paddy hands” with him. Coach James, Bruce Layer, Norton’s daughter, Mrs. James, and the rest of the party to the tune of the Beer Barrel Polka. Work out in the largest stadium PALACE THEATER PREVIEW — 11 P. M. SAT. NIGHT BEERy^ Shown Sun.-Mon. COMING Wed. - Thurs. - Fri. - Sat. Oct. 11, 12, 13, 14 “The Women” Xntvr Woven rko. U. S. ■ rot. orr. sSovk*; Favorites everywhere ... snug-fitting, neat, dis tinctive. See our new Fall patterns in shorts, or regular styles. Aggie Regulation Socks. 350, 500 to $1.00 7 t r T"\, WIMBERLEY STONE DANSBY CiOCKlERS Conference Games Begin Saturday By Hub Johnson The first game of the 1939 Southwest Conference season goes on the record as the T.C.U. Horn- frogs face the Arkansas Razor- backs at Fayetteville Saturday in a game that will tell the stand ing of the two teams. Both teams have been favored by sports writers as the most likely teams to reach the top this year. Last week the Frogs fell to U.C. L.A. in California and with the trip back across the continent and another jump to the Ozarks they might be pretty well played out. Arkansas showed nothing in ‘their game last week, so this game could be pretty tight. Rice meets Centenary, last week’s losers to the Aggies. The Gents have an improving team and should give the Owls a game to remember, but it all depends on just how much improvements have been made and to the condition of the players injured here last week. This should fall to the Owls, but not as easy as expected. The S.M.U. Mustangs should have little trouble in downing the North Texas Teachers. The Mus tangs recovered from the Okla homa game last Saturday pretty well and should offer a brick wall for the Eagles. The Texas Longhorns travel north to face the Wisconsin Bad gers Saturday and should get the flat side of the tail. The Texans are undefeated this year, but the Big Ten team looks too strong for the green team. Baylor will test her strength a- gainst the Sooner Aggies in Okla homa this week-end, but it could hardly be called strength. The Sooners have a team that tries but it’s the marks that count. The Bears should mark up another vic tory in this one. The only other game in the Southwest of great interest is the one between the Hardin-Simmons Cowboys and Texas Mines. This one should be the closest of the day in this section. The Cowboys have a team that beat Centenary Gents but are rated as the underdogs in this tussle. It may be a draw. Battalion Sports PAGE 3 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS OCTOBER 7, 1939 Aggie Fish, Allen Ramblers To Tangle Monday Night Kimbrough Brothers this side of Soldier’s Field at Los Angeles. The players were so a- mazed they could hardly practice. Jinx Tucker and Andy Ander son are rooming together for be ing the worst-looking pair. I am rooming with Bruce “Rabbit Ears” Layer. The lights at Seal Park were terrible and footing not the best as it rained when we left the train on arrival. All the players are free to do as they please today. The party will see St. Mary’s game with California today after taking in the fair. Wesson cleared the way to the hotel for the bus with his siren-’ sounding mouth Thursday night putting many cars to the curb. We are leaving here tonight for home. The people are football-crazy here. Moser and Conatser are looking for some fair-looking damsels. Sports writers here are picking the Aggies for top-ranking this year. Several of the boys have bad colds from change in climate. c yt'zm b Jack (left) and John Kimbrough, brother Aggie Football Squad- men, are pictured above. Both are A. & M. Juniors. The Two Kimbrough Brothers-What More Could a Football Coach Ask For? RIFLE SHOOTING 1 BEGINS MONDAY Along with Basketball and foot ball, Rifle Shooting will lead the field of intramural sports this year. Intramural Rifle Shooting this year however will be carried on in a somewhat hurried manner. Through a notice from the Mili tary office rifle shooting must be carried on between Oct. 9th and Oct. 28th. This means that marks men must obtain their accuracy in a hurry. Each organization is to select seven men to represent their or ganization. Five of these men are to compete in actual firing com petition, thus eliminating two of the seven. However all seven men By JIMMIE COKINGS JOHN KIMBROUGH “Big John” Kimbrough last year as a sophomore broke into his first conference game against T. C. U. and proceeded to deal the T. C. U. tacklers plenty of misery whenever he carried the ball. After the game one of the Frog player’s remarked, “That Kimbrough is the toughest guy to bring down to the ground since Jimmie Lawrence.” That was the beginning of the new role “Big John” was to play for the Aggies. He turned out to be the bone-crushing, plunging fullback that the Aggies needed in their backfield. His smashes are nothing short of being graceful or spectacular. He just grabs the old pigskin and knows he has to go some place with it, and he does. Weighing 210 and standing 6 ft. 2 inches, he comes from a long line of a football playing family. The Kimbrough family has long been known in Aggieland for their family-style of football. His bro ther, Bill, starred here in 1934 as a back, another brother, Frank, is head coach at Hardin-Simmons, and Jack is on the team this year. Kimbrough played high school football at Abilene and at Haskell where he won All-State mention and all-district honors. However, he failed to make a freshman nu meral as a fish due to injuries, and little was known of the ’’Has kell Hurricane” when he reported for the squad last year. But his line driving in the latter confer ence games has brought many a rise from the crowd and this year he is counted upon by sport scribes to be one of the outstanding backs in the conference. In the Centenary game he crash ed over for the two touchdowns that the Aggies made. On his first touchdown after taking the ball within scoring distance by plunging over the center of the line, he re ceived the ball from center and started for the middle and decid ed to go around end instead. He out ran the men backing up the line and went over for the touch down without a hand being laid on him. On his second touchdown he hit the center of the line and crossed the goal line standing up. He literally tore the Centenary line to shreds whenever he ran with the ball. In the Oklahoma City game he had to put a splint over a leg that has been bothering him. As every time the opposing team had Bryan Coca-Cola Bottling Co. GEO. STEPHAN, Pres. can practice between the hours of 8 a. m. to 12 on Saturdays, be tween Oct. 9th and 19th. Winners of intramural Rifle Shooting are determined by total points scored by each of the con testants. Actual competition will be from Oct. 19th to 28th inclu sive. Intramural managers, how ever, must turn in a list of their men at the range before contest ants will be allowed to shoot. With F Coast Artillery holding last year’s victory and a wicked gleam in their eyes to again prove themselves, marksmen, the compe tition is likely to be hot. “Big John” on the ground, they would pounce on the encased leg and try twisting it, in the Cen tenary game he came out on the field wearing two splints, one over his good leg and one over his in jured leg. He did this so the tack lers wouldn’t know which leg was hurt in case any leg-twisting was in order. He looked like a big bay charger with the splints and ban dages over his legs and the way he was hitting the line the other team seemed to think the same. JACK KIMBROUGH Jack Kimbrough is the other half of the famous family of football Kimbroughs that is out for the Maroon and White this year. Al though he is not receiving as much publicity as his “little brother” he is showing some good play at the end position. In 1937 he was injured while practicing and had to leave school to receive treatment. He came back the next year and saw action as an end but not enough to win a letter. But this year he is included among the four best ends Norton has and is counted upon to play a lot for the Aggies. He weighs 186 pounds and his height is an even six feet. He at tended the Haskell high school and won four letters for playing foot ball and three letters while on the track team. He was the captain of the 1934 and 1935 football teams and won all-district honors the same years. He went out for the fish team when he entered A. & M. and received a freshman football numeral in 1936. -f- The Aggie Fish clash with Allen Academy Ramblers for their first game of the season at 8:00 o’clock Monday night on Forest Field in Bryan. With a longer workout than the freshman squad of last year, this year’s fish squad is ready for action. The Ramblers proved an easy victory for last year’s squad with a score of 33 to 12. Some of last year’s squad consisted of Moser, Robnett, Spivey, and Mansfield, all of who had the honor of carrying the pigskin across the golden strip, with Rogers and Kimbrough kick ing the extra points. Moser not only made the longest run of the game, some 77 yards, but played head up football and proved him self one of the best. Die, Dugger, and Wesson also showed they knew what the game was about and how to play it. This year’s squad is up against real competition, and they are real ly going to have to play ball to compete with the T.C.U. freshmen squad. The T.C.U. freshmen trod the Weatherford College Coyotes under foot for a 24 to 0 victory Thursday afternoon. Led by Thompson, Ramsey, and Bagley, the “Wogs” almost had the Coyotes on their knees. With a long workout and all in fit condition the squad is ready to play the high school stars, Pic kett and Zapalac making their de but. Mrs. Edna Elliott of New York, who died recently at the age of 80, left more than $100,000 to a head usher and a stage dancer, both of whom had been especially kind to her when she visited the theater. INTRAMURALS With Hub Johnson Monday is the day. The first crack of the rifles on the range, the first bounce of the basketballs on the two gym floors, and the first boot of the pig-skin will mark the opening of the current intramural season. The first basketball games sche duled for this year are of the Class A events. Troop “C” Cavalry holds the title from last year and boasts a strong team to reclaim the honors. The games scheduled for Mon day are as follows: 4:00 p. m. B Cavalry vs Artil lery Band. 4:45 p. m. B Infantry vs E Field Artillery. 7:45 p. m. 2 Hq. Field Artillery vs C Engineers. 8:00 p. m. A Coast Artillery vs F Field Artillery. 9:15 p. m. A Infantry vs B Field Artillery. The rifle shooting event will witness one week of practice on the part of all teams on the Mili tary Science range and record shooting will start October 16. Between the 9th and the 16th, sev en’ men from each organization may practice. After that date, the teams will be composed of five men. All organization managers are asked to turn in their fees as soon as possible so that schedules for the remaining leagues may be made. Footballs are also on sale for the units. $5.00 FREE $5.00 in Trade Will Be Given for the Best Name For the New Barber Shop in the New “Y” SERVING THE NEW DORMITORIES Everett Craddock, In Charge SWINGING I. E. S. LAMPS $3.85 STUDENT CO-OP Two Blocks East of North Gate Villanova Plays A. & M. For Its First Game With A Southwest Loop Team Wildcats Have Not Been Defeated In Two Seasons’ Play The Villanova Wildcats will at tempt to invade the deep South for their first time next Satur day, at Tyler’s Rose Festival. This will be Villanoya’s first game with a Southwest Conference team, and rumor has it that the Wildcats are confident of a win over the Aggies due to the fact that the Wildcats have been unde feated for the past two seasons with the exception of a 6-6 tie with North Carolina University. This game was played last year and blemished a perfect record. Besides this almost perfect record, Clipper Smith, Villanova’s coach, has another reason to be confident— he has sixteen lettermen returning from last year’s squad to shape his Wildcat eleven. However, Coach Norton is three up on the Villanova coach on this score as there are nineteen Aggie lettermen on the official roster. This will be the Aggies’ fifth game at Tyler and their third in A fool-proof way has been de vised to assure organizations that they will not have to share carry ing the flag next year if it so happens that another tie is in order. It is based on the number of forfeits and the number of men participating. ■The Rose Classic. The results of the Aggies’ first Rose Classic with Temple University was 14-0 in favor of the Red Devils. Last year the Rose Festival game resulted in a win for the Aggies with a 20-0 score over Tulsa University. This year, as usual, the game at Tyler Field in Tyler will be a feature of the East Texas Rose Festival where huge displays made from millions of roses may be found throughout the downtown district. The night before the game a colorful pageant is staged which usually draws a huge crowd from all over the state. The following morning, a Parade of Roses is held, succeeded by the game. Dr. Bonham Addresses Fish and Game Club Dr. K. 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