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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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For Its First Game With
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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. Bonham made an interest
ing talk on the results of fisheries
investigation in Kerr County this
summer at a meeting of the Fish
and Game Club held Monday night.
He stated that recent floods of
the Guadalupe River and its
branches were caused by over-
grazing and the subsequent lack
of vegetation on the river slopes.
Dr. Bonham also recommended the
abandonment of predatory fish
control in that these fish served to
help nature maintain a balance by
eating slow moving fish such as
Hickory Shad and suckers.
A dance to be given by the club
will be held in the Maggie Parker
Tea Room.
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