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ON KYLE FIELD By E. C. “JEEP” OATES Battalion Sports Editor Aggies Vanquish Santa Clara, 7 to 3 1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHillllllllll|[|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllll!lllllllllllllll Again substituting for the “Jeep”—Hub The Aggies come home today and start their training for the Rose Festival classic. This will be a hard team for fee Aggies to beat as the Wildcats will bring a strong team that holds a perfect record for the present season as well as for the past three years. Last week Williamson’s rating had the Aggies in 37th place and the Santa Clara broncs in 57th place. At the broadcast of his standings this week, he placed Texas A. & M. in 48th position un der Texas University and the Santa Clara team was raised to 55th. Williamson must have ex pected the Aggies to down the Broncs by a larger score but may be he should have made another guess. Duke is making its second suc cessive attempt for the Rose Bowl this year. Wallace Wade’s Colgate Blue Devils were held scoreless for the fourth time in as many years in a 37 to 0 defeat this past week-end. We received a wire from Jeep last Friday which was printed in his column saying that Cotton Price, Ed Robnett, and Joe Boyd were hurt bad. It seems that Joe played a good bit of the game Fri day night as well as did Ed, but Price should be ready to play by next Saturday’s game. Willie Zapalac, of Bellville, and Tom Pickett from Temple along with the rest of the fish team made their debut in Bryan last night against the Allen Academy team. The playing was good and their value in the next three years will be great. W. W. Scott, ’29, Is Successor to Aston As City Manager W. W. Scott, ’29, for the past two years city engineer and more recently acting city manager of Bryan, was recently elevated to the latter position by the City Com mission of Bryan. He succeeds James W. Aston, ’33. Prior to com ing to Bryan, Scott was in the Engineering Department of the City of Dallas and also in the en gineering services of both the WPA and PWA organizations in Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and their six children make their home in Bryan. Another consolation about begin ning at the bottom is that you have less distance to skid. Tearn To Arrive At 10 O’clock Victorious Aggies And Loyal Fans Will Get In This Morning The Texas Aggie football squad and the party of loyal followers arrive home this morning at 9:57 on train 15, the north-bound South ern Pacific. The return trip is being made through the northern part of West Texas rather than through El Paso as the trip out was made. The train passed through Stillwater yesterday evening and through Caldwell late last night. The man of the hour on this trip will be Marion Pugh. “Dookie”, for the first time other than at practice, hit his stride with the Aggie team and brought himself over onto the top side of the line. It was his pass to Thomason that relieved the strain on the 55 in the party in California and also some 6,000 Aggies who sat lis tening to the game over the air well into the middle of the night. Up until that time those three points looked big, and time passed on. But after the marking of the 7 to 3 on the scoreboard, time did n’t seem to pass fast enough, so Marion and “Big John” Kimbrough preceded to take things into hand and wasted what time possible so the Aggies could keep their lead. So the boy that got many a comment in the wrong way last year like “Why doesn’t he throw?” or “What’s he waiting for ? ” at last found a pass receiver and con tinued to find another and an other. Classes will not be excused to meet this train, but the band and as many as can should go down between classes, or see every one of the boys as soon as possible. THE ENTOMOLOGY CLUB met Thursday night during which the first business of the year was taken up. Most of the meeting con sisted of the discussion of the benefit show “Only Angels Have Wings” which will be held in the Assembly Hall on October 12th and the 13th. Additional business mentioned were the several inspection trips which will be made to various Texas cities and also several social functions which were left pending further discussion. « Let’s Go To Tyler In Grand Style CAMPUS CLEANERS Above Exchange Store As advertised in ESQUIRE It oro SHIRTS Now, Marlboro brings you the “wonder” white shirt. A fine broad cloth white shirt with a “Trubenized” collar that is GUARANTEED to wear as long as the body of the shirt wears. The ideal Regulation White Shirt that is guaranteed to wear. $1.65 T t T WIMBERLEY • STONE DANSBY V*s/*^_JTX/ r CI/OCKIERS Battalion Sports PAGE 3 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS OCTOBER 10, 1939 VUlanova Will Try To Remain Unbeaten cross-fhind them that is hard to beat. AGGIE ATTACK BUILT LARGELY AROUND PRICE By Jimmie Cokinos Walemon Price “Cotton” Price, the senior back from Newcastle, Texas, is the key- man in the Aggie backfield this year. He is the man who has charge of the team while on the field. Price plays at the quarter back position and is the number one man for that spot. Price is playing his last year for the Aggies and is making a strong bid for All-Conference hon ors this year. Coach Norton has built his plans of the 1939 Aggie eleven around him and the outcome of the Aggies will depend largely upon his showing. He will do the signal calling for the Cadets and above all he will be the mainstay of the Aggies’ passing attack. He is considered as one of the best passers on the squad and carries more than his share in this de partment. His average of last year’s passing shows that he toss ed 77 passes and completed 26 which gained 415 yards. Ten of his heaves were intercepted giving him a .338 percentage. Price can throw a pass with unerring ac curacy and is a past master at “leading” his receiver. The pass ing of Price has not been empha sized too greatly and he is not as yet regarded as a second Baugh, but the Aggies will depend largely on his passing to get in scoring position. In the kicking department he is not considered a long distance kick er but he has shown that he can punt if needed. Price is ia plunging ball carrier rather than a shifty one and is noted for his off-tackle smashes where he is able to gain yardage consistently. During the summer the Aggies’ stock took a turn for the worse when it was reported that Price was seriously burned in a gasoline explosion and would not be able to play football again. But later his condition turned out to be not as serious as first thought and his burns responded satisfactorily to medical attention, allowing him to start when A. & M. opened their season against the Oklahoma Ag gies. While at Newcastle high school he played football, basketball, track, and tennis. He won three letters each in these sports, except in tennis where he won two letters. He entered A. & M. after grad uating from Newcastle and won freshman numerals in football, basketball, and baseball. He re ceived his first “T” in football in 1937 and received his second letter in the same sport the following year. County Auditor Leonard Thayer of Columbus, Ind., cannot open his office safe. He wrote the combina tion on the side of the safe shortly before WPA workers assigned to clean the office came in and scrub bed it off. INTRAMURALS With Hub Johnson The first intramural games were run off yesterday evening as the football and basketball games got under way. Last year’s champions, 1st Hq Field Artillery, made another step to start the ball rolling by down ing A Engineers with one 40 yard penetration. It looks as though the Artillery crew means business a- gain this year but they will have to whip it up a bit as the looks of some of the other teams shows sure signs of competition. The first Class B games to be played this season will come off next Monday with the same sports, basketball and football, heading the card. Teams entered the military rifle range yesterday to start the prac tice week before the week of ac tual firing for record and many firers already seem to find out they didn’t shoot up to what they thought they would. More are planning to shoot this evening and Wednesday. Ex-Aggie Comdt. At Allen Academy Lieut. Nicholas Willis, better known as Nick Willis to Aggie football followers, has been added to the staff at Allen Academy in the official capacity of command ant of cadets. A graduate of A. & M. in the class of ’36, he was outstanding at A. & M. both in military work and in sports, being a varsity foot ball letterman for two years and serving as co-captain in 1935. He has been doing graduate work at A. & M. and the University of Wisconsin. When her baby carriage was caught in the rear bumper of an automobile, 18-month-old Eileen Lainsbury of Brimpton, Eng., was hauled six miles before police stop ped the driver. The child was un hurt. SOUTH HAS THE BEST SECTIONAL RECORD SO FAR By Paul B. Williamson Performance of Southern teams last week bore out an old William son theorem—that no section of the country holds a perennial mo nopoly on super-football. The Williamson system always has contended feat no section, since football became nationwide, has had a constant corner on win ning teams. One year, one sec tion or another has the best aver age seasonal record. The past week remarkably demonstrated in a very forcible way that this year the South may be very much in the saddle. The South here assumes the boundaries set by the United States statistical bureaus—from the Po tomac to the Rio Grande, including Oklahoma. The following results merit con sideration for the South’s ride on the football crest: Texas A. & M. 7, Santa Clara 3; Duke 37, Colgate 0; Alabama 7, Fordham 6; L. S. U. 26, Holy Cross 7; Oklahoma 23, Northwes tern 0; Texas 17, Wisconsin 7. And, because they were odds-on favor ites to small victory margins: Geor- gie Tech 14, Notre Dame 17; Vir ginia 12, Navy 14; Army 9, Cen tre 6. Notre Dame was prohibitive odds to literally swamp Georgia Tech. Army was expected to pile up many touchdowns against little Centre, a college that any team in the Southeastern conference could smother any day in the week. For submerging Colgate 37 to 0, Duke forged to the top of the na- THE STUDENT PUBLICA- tions Department is nearing com pletion of its publication of a student directory containing in formation as to students’ address es, names of home towns, and num ber of years of enrollment. That the directories will be obtainable soon was announced today by E. L. Angell, director of Student Pub lications. The Villanova Wildcats the Mason Dixon line with one of the strongest and best rated teams of the East to meet the Texas Ag gies at Tyler for the annual Texas Rose Festival football game this Saturday. Coach Clipper Smith, an ex-Notre Dame star, with his 18 lettermen, 7 regulars and 9 two year veterans, have a record be- tion’s teams with a rating of 97.1. That may be for the week, or longer. Who can tell? Perfect team 100.0 1 Duke 97.1 2 Pitt U 96.7 3 Mississippi U 96.6 4 Oklahoma TJ 95.3 5 North Carolina U 94.3 6 Ohio State 94.1 7 L. S. U 94.0 8 Nebraska U 93.1 9 Oregon U 93.1 10 Notre Dame 92.6 13 Mississippi State 92.1 14 Purdue 82.0 20 Alabama 91.0 23 S. M. U 90.4 28 U. C. L. A 89.6 30 Villanova 88.9 34 Georgia Tech 88.8 36 Arkansas 88.7 37 Vanderbilt 88.1 43 Baylor 87.6 45 T. C. U 87.1 47 Texas U 86.6 48 Texas A. & M 86.3 53 Kice 85.1 55 Santa Clara 84.7 61 Army 83.9 78 Hardin-Simmons 82.4 80 Florida U 82.4 101 Texas Mines 80.2 102 Texas Tech 80.2 126 Centenary 77.1 149 Oklahoma A. & M 73.7 227 Sam Houston Teachers 65.9 With 19 victories, 3 ties, and no defeats for three years, the Wild cats are certain to put up a good fight against the Aggies. Some of Villanova’s veterans of the field include Nowak, Kolenda, an ace pass receiver, Monaco, Dhue Kamen, Sterr Fillippo, an excel lent blocker, Pesecome, Casper, Carter, Ander, McClelland, Collins, and last, but not least, Chisick, ’38 star of the East, all of whom are in the line. In the backfield are Mezzie, Basca, Hewlett, Sha der, Neri, Gogolinski, McMalon, Ramanowski, and Sabrinsky. Basca without a doubt will see plenty of action and will show plenty of fight. In one game last year Bas ca averaged 7 yards a run and pass ed for a total of 245 yards in 9 passes. With three straight victories, the Aggies should be ready for the Villanova game. With a 20 to 0 victory at Tyler last year and a 14 to 0 victory the year before, the Aggie squad is set for a third victory in Tyler. With one of the strongest teams of this year’s sche dule to buck, the Aggies must play heads up ball every minute of Saturday’s game to win over the Wildcats. They Are Here Now $3.85 Book Covers, 3 for 50 STUDENT CO-OP Two Blocks East of North Gate IT PAYS TO LOOK WELL It pays to have your uniforms tailored by expert workmen. “TAILORED BY MENDL & HORNAK” A term that goes hand in hand with dependable service and ex pert workmanship. V*' ‘ . n-snr UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP Mendl & Hornak North Gate /O EXPERT REPAIRS CALL ON US WHEN YOU WANT A DEPENDABLE RADIO REPAIR JOB STUDENT CO-OP North Gate WIN $50.00 THE VARSITY FREE FOOTBALL CONTEST $50 will be awarded for picking all winners. The nearest perfect selection will receive $3.00 in mer chandise. 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