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AGGIE FORT WORTH CORPS TRIP SPECIAL Review Through Downtown Section Begins At 10:30 Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College Official Newspaper of the City of College Station Aggie-Frog Game At T. C. U. Stadium Beginning At 2:30 VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 21, 1939 Z752 NO. 13 Cadets Favored To Take G ante Today Aggies To Review At 10:30 Parade Features New Streamlined Formation of Army At 10:30 this morning the A. & M. Cadet Corps will move out from the Texas and Pacific Rail way Station on its biennial corps trip parade through the downtown section of Fort Worth. The parade will follow Main Street to 5th, turn left on 5th to Houston Street, and right on Houston to Weatherford. The var ious regiments will be dismissed upon their arrival between the in tersections of Commerce and Pecan on Weatherford. A. & M.’s 217 piece band will be divided into two sections, the In fantry band and the Artillery hand. The Infantry band will follow the Corps Commander and his staff to the reviewing stand at the head of the parade where they will counter-march until the Infantry, Field Artillery and Composite regi ments have passed in review. Then the Infantry Band will resume the march and the Field Artillery Band will march into position and coun ter-march at the reviewing stand until the Cavalry, Engineer, and Coast Artillery regiments have passed in review. The formation will be altogether different this year to those re views made in previous years. The new streamlined formation, inaugu rated recently into the United States Army, will be featured dur ing the parade. In the reviewing stand to be located at the intersection of 8th and Main streets will he Mayor Harrell of Fort Worth and mem bers of the city council; Dr. T. O. Walton, president of A. & M.; President E. M. Waits of T. C. U.; President L. H. Hubbard of T. S. C. W.; Colonel George F. Moore, P. M. S. & T. and Commandant of Cadets at A. & M.; Amon Carter, publisher and capitalist of Fort Worth; Fort Worth City Manager Bothwell; C. P. Dodson, president of the A. & M. Ex-Student Asso ciation; W. L. Pier, president of the Fort Worth Chamber of Com merce; N. H. Reveire, president of the Fort Worth A. & M. Club; Mrs. W. W. Sullivan, president of the Fort Worth A. & M. Mothers Club; and W. K. Stripling, former student of A. & M. FREE FEED FOR AGGIES AT T. C. U. GYM DURING NOON A feed with all the trimmings will be served A. & M. students in the T. C. U. basketball gymna sium today just following the pa rade through the downtown section of Fort Worth. The gymnasium is located di rectly in back of the T. C. U. Ad ministration Building on the T. C. U. Campus and only a short dis tance away from the T. C. U. Sta dium. The luncheon, to which every Aggie in Fort Worth is being in vited, is sponsored by the Admin istration of T. C. U. and is pri marily for the Aggies. All members of the T. C. U. student body with cars are arrang ing to pick up students after dis missal of the parade and carry them to the university. Local A. & M. organizations will also fur nish transportation as well as bus lines (fare 10 cents) and taxicabs may be secured for transportation. All rides will be gratis except those in busses and taxicabs. Following Tyler Game Clipper Smith, in center without hat, who is coach of the Villanova Wildcats, is shown above with Coach Homer Norton, right, of the Texas Aggies, just following the Tyler Rose Festival Game last Saturday when the Aggies handed the Pennsylvanians a 33 to 7 defeat, their first in two years. The Aggies are hoping Coach Norton will be wearing the same smile this afternoon following the Aggie- Frog tilt. Aggie Juniors Hold Yell Practice At T. S. C. W. Before Junior Prom Friday Last night the “Aggie War- Hymn” rang out over the campus of T.S.C.W. when the advance guard from Aggieland arrived in Denton late in the afternoon. A football yell practice, probably the first ever held in a woman’s college, set off the initital spark of enthusiasm over this afternoon’s game as over 300 junior Aggies became the guests of T.S.C.W.’s junior class for the evening. A steak fry was held in Lowry Woods. Two giant bonfires were lighted, and cadets and coeds com bined voices in yells and pep songs. Two boys’ tag dances were given, one in the Gymnasium and the other in the T.S.C.W. College Club. Music was furnished by the orches tras of Floyd Graham and Sid Hamilton. Plans for the annual entertain ment of the A. & M. juniors took on a more informal note this year. Last year’s dinner was re placed by the steak fry, and girls were permitted to wear socks and oxfords and sweaters and skirts to a dance for the first time in the history of the college. (Continued on page 3) All 3,500 Tickets Available For Aggies At School Are Sold Radio Station WSM Will Feature Aggies On School Broadcast Next Friday Night A radio program presenting ma-' terial regarding A. & M.’s tradi tions and school spirit will be fea tured next Friday night at 9:30 p. m. over radio station WSM, Nashville, Tennessee. The program will be entitled “The Twelfth Man” and will ob tain its interest from A. & M.’s football history. It will empha size such facts as the custom of A. & M.’s famous yelling section to stand continuously during a game and as the facility and pre cision with which the cadet corps, being of a military nature, can be handled when acting as a twelfth man. The program will dramatize the 1922 game between A. & M. and Centre College in which A. & M. was victorious by a score of 22-10. Ben B. Beesley, a player who helped both as an eleventh and a twelfth man, too, with the game, may be presented in person over station WSM. According to E. W. Hooker, tick et manager for athletic contests for A. & M., all of the 3,500 seats available at A. & M. and assigned to the Aggies on the south side of the T. C. U. stadium in Fort Worth, have been sold. Students may obtain tickets for $1.10 with coupon number 33 from the A. & M. Coupon Book at the gate of the stadium in Fort Worth, but these will be for the end zone only, he stated. The original sec tion for A. & M. students runs the length of the field, beginning at the 20 yard line and extending to the goal. Mr. Hooker also said that Aggie dates will not be admitted to the game on A. & M. student tickets, but it is probable that they will be allowed to sit in the A. & M. section if they so desire. The program was selected by WSM to be presented with stories regarding universities which were felt to have special interest in tra ditions as well as winning teams. Station WSM operates with 50,- 000-watts on a frequency of 650 kilocycles. THE ENTOMOLOGY CLUB had its bi-monthly meeting last Thursday night and plans were discussed for both the trip to the Valley during the month of Jan uary and the annual publication of the club. At the close of the business meeting Mr. Curtiss Hesse from the Museum gave a lecture on “Paleontology and Fossil In sects” and was ably assisted by Dr. F. E. Turner of the Geology .De partment. Specimens were exhib ited. Over2000 TSCWites Are Here Edna Clarke, Aggie Hay Sweetheart, Leads TSCW Girls Two thousand girls from Texas State College for Women arrived in Fort Worth this morning in cars, special trains and busses for the A. & M. - T. C. U. football game this afternoon in the Horned Frog Stadium. Led by Edna Clarke,’ sophomore from Coleman and Aggie Day Sweetheart, the girls are on their fourth annual football trip, tradi tionally set to coincide with Texas A. & M.’s upstate football game and corps trip each fall. This is the second time that the girls have taken their holiday trip to Fort Worth. The other two years they went to Dallas for the A. & M. - S. M. U. game. Special Fort Worth busses met them on their arrival at the train and bus stations and took them to the Fair Store, where a reception and Style Show were staged in their honor, and a date bureau is operating in charge of Nelle Bone Carter, T.S.C.W. student presi-' dent in 1936. Between halves at the football game this afternoon Miss Clarke will be escorted on the football field by T. A. Balmer, cadet major of the A. & M. Band, while the band forms the letters “TSCW” and plays the “Alma Mater” of the girls college. Following the football game there will be several student dances in Fort Worth, and the special MKT train will go back to Den ton at 1 a. b. Sunday. A Total Of 6,065 Enrolled In A. & M. During First Term The total enrollment for A. & M. during the 1939-40 session is 6,065, according to figures released by the Registrar’s office. This is the largest enrollment ever to have been reached here. Of this number 1,006 are seniors and five-year students, 1,124 jun iors, 1,623 Sophomores 2,103 freshmen and 8 special students. Approximately 4,600 students are living in the dormitories. This is the largest number of students that have ever lived in the halls at A. & M. Of the remainder, over- 700 are living in project houses on the campus, 200 in project houses off the campus and 240 in private homes off the campus. There are 170 graduate students, and 128 married students living off the campus. Two Aggie Dances Being Held Tonight Two official Aggie dances are being given in Fort Worth tonight, both honoring T. C. U., T. S. C. W., and A. & M. students. A regualr school dance is being held at Field Drom. at T. C. U. with Jimmy Petty’s orchestra, a well-known Fort Worth band, play ing. The tariff will be 65 cents. Tommy Littlejohn and his Ag gieland orchestra will play for the Aggie dance to be held at the Texas State Hotel. The tariff for the dance could not be secured, but it is expected to be around $1.00. The time the dances will begin was not available but it is expected to be around 10 p. m. -4 Aggie Sweetheart Edna Clarke, T. S. C. W. soph omore from Coleman, above, was chosen by popular vote , of the T. S. C. W. student body as Aggie Day Sweetheart during the A. & M.-T.S.C.W. corps trip to Fort Worth today. Miss Clarke was one of eight candidates whose names were submitted by petition. She will be featured during the be tween halves program of the A. & M. band. A. & M. Designated As Aeronautical Training School A. & M. has been designated as an aeronautical training base by the Civil Aeronautic’s Authority and the ground will be broken for the airport as soon as the C.A.A. grants an operator’s license to the college so. that it may operate the field, Dean Gibb Gilchrist of the School of Engineering has an nounced. Dean Gilchrist said today that no deadline has been set for fill ing out cards of application for taking the course. To date over 200 boys have filled out the ap plications. Dean Gilchrist plans to interview each of these boys in the near future. Only 50' of the applicants will be allowed to take the training. Requirements are that the stu dent be no less than 18 years of age and not over 25, and must have completed his freshman year. He must not have had any solo flying and must pass a rigid physi cal examination. Classes in the ground school will be held in the Mechanical Engineer ing building. AGGIES WILL MEET DATES AT THE FAIR TODAY So it’s a date you want! Well, Fair’s have got ’em. Adding to their usual merchandise of hard ware, cosmetics, furniture, etc., The Fair Department Store offers —for one day only—dates—for Ag gies only. It’s simple . . . Applicants for dates with T.S.C.W. girls will meet their dates at the Fort Worth store immediately after this morn ing’s parade. A special booth will be set up in the Sports Shop, and a public address system will bring (Continued on page 3) Aggies Defeat Frogs Once In Five Years T. C.U. Has Been Defeated By Temple U. C.L.A., Arkansas, By Few Points By E. C. “Jeep” Oates Battalion Sports Editors For four straight weeks the Aggies have been having a change in meals and they are out to see that today will be no exception. They started off with the Cowboys and then changed to Gentlemen and from there to Broncos and then among the roses they took wildcats. Today they are hungry for Horned Toads, meat that they have only been able to eat once since back in the days of around ’34. Today they meet the T. C. U. Frogs in Frog town and will endeavor to win for the first time in the present stadium. The Cadets are the favorites to cop the battle, but then they have been favored many times only to see a jinx turn them back. The Frogs do not have the team this year that they have boasted in the past. Gone are their Sammy Baughs, their O’Briens, their Aldrichs, their Halls, their Meyers and many others. Their Odle is out with a broken thumb. The Aggies do not have their same team either—they have a much better one, one without a star, but one with stars from end to end and from quarter to fullback. Until the turn of the past quarter-century the Cadets took this game as a warmup, but after that they have only been able to triumph once and that was at College Station on Kyle Field in 1936. There have been several ties, one in 1937 which coupled with one with Rice the same year kept them from winning the championship. That was the year when Rats Watson tied the Cadets for Rice and then when Rice won the championship, Ernie Lain pitched the Owls to a victory in the Cotton Bowl. Today the Frogs will have Cowart pitching passes for them and if some of them connect with Clark, Horner or some of the other lads it is liable to be too bad. As for the line ramming, well the Frogs may have an All-Confer ence fullback, but the Cadets have Jarrin’ John Kimbrough, the besfc^ fullback in the conference for two years now. Here is the way it will stack up today. At ends the Frogs have a little the edge, at tackles the Cadets have the best two in the confer ence, at guards the Aggies also get the nod with Robnett and Henke being much the better brace, at center the teams are almost equal with any edge at all going to the Frogs, at fullback we have to take Kimbrough over Sparks by a long way, at the blocking back we have to take Thomason, and at the halves the two teams are about on par. A. & M.’s passing should be equal to that of T. C. U. and the punting fully as good. Reserve strength favors the Cadets. The will to win is a toss-up, but we do know the Cadets want to win that ball game. Both teams will shoot the works to win for they have everything to win and nothing to lose. T. C. U. has been defeated by U. C. L. A., Arkansas and Temple, but only seven points have kept them from winning all three. They have outgained their opponents in every game except in points. They have pounded goal line after goal line, but they have needed that extra power that graduation took away from them last spring. The Aggies are still on the bound and the Frogs are on the rebound. The Cadets are happy and frisky while the Frogs are sore and sullen. When those two forces oppose each other it is hard to tell what will happen. Either coach would be willing to sell out for a one point win without having to play the game. A. & M. will be sorely missing the ace passer, Marion Pugh, a Fort Worth boy, as will the Frogs with Jack Odle out. These two teams have 32 games together behind them, 17 victories going to the Aggies and 11 to the Frogs, four games having ended in ties. Corps Trip Schedule ! The following - is a schedule of events, in chro nological order, for the Aggie Fort Worth Corps Trip. Special trains leave Missouri Pacific Station this morning at 4:10, 4:25, 4:40 and will arrive in Fort Worth at 9:35, 9:50, and 10:05 respectively. 1 Those students who have arrived early will assemble on the Texas & Pacific Reservation at 9:15 a. m. and assembly will be completed as the special trains arrive. Order of March: Corps Commander Infantry Band Field Artillery Regiment Composite Regiment Field Artillery Band Cavary Regiment Engineer Regiment Coast Artillery Regiment Barbecue at T. C. U. Gymnasium on the T. C. U. Campus just following the review. Transportation: Many cars belonging to Fort Worth people will be in the downtown section to pick up Aggies to transport them to the T. C. U. campus. Busses and taxi-cabs will also be available. A. & M.-T. C. U. football game at 2:30 p. m., T. C. U. Stadium. Dances: Texas Hotel with the Aggieland Or chestra and Field Hall, beginning around 10:00 p. m. Trains leaving Fort Worth for College Station at 9:00 p. m. and 11:15 p. m. Saturday night; and 10:00 a. m. Sunday morning and 11:15 p. m. Sunday night. Special train tickets will be good on all these trains.