ON KYLE FIELD
E. C. “Jeep” Oates
Battalion Sports Editor
Game of Games For Texas At Hand
T. C. U. Lass Addresses Letter To Registrar;
Has Forgotten Aggie Boy Friend’s Name
Following is a letter received at
the registrar’s office:
You Aggies don’t make much
of an impression.
To the Registrar,
A. & M. College,
College Station, Texas.
Dear Sir:
I went out with one of your
students last Saturday. I knew
his name but have forgotten it.
When I returned to my house, I
realized that I had left a pair
of glasses in his car. I am won
dering if you will do me ,a favor
by referring this to the proper
person who might ascertain if any
student has found a pair of glasses,
if so, you might forward them to
me at my address below.
Thanking you for any consider
ation shown, I am,
Very truly yours,
Irene Eckert
2242 Mistletoe, Blvd.,
Ft. Worth, Texas.
A person is liable to forget any
thing after being out with an Ag
gie after they have won a ball
game, especially in Fort Worth.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
OCTOBER 28, 1939
Aggie Polo Team, After Five Weeks Of
Practice, Rounding Into Shape For Year
Aggies, Rice and Villanova Picked Today;
S. M. U. Has A Week To Rest And Get Set
It looks like the Aggies are due
to win over the Bears today. They
have the best line and the best
backs. The Cadets should win by
10 points, but it is a lot of stuff
to give that many on a bet.
If Rice has a ball club at all
they will out-score Jack Crain.
After taking the beating they
have they should be ready to play
a ball game and the fray with
Texas is always their big game.
We pick the Owls to nose out the
Steers. If they don’t they won’t
win over one game during the
season. Rice will win 15 to 14.
Arkansas will lose to Villanova
after their long trip to Phila
delphia. The Wildcats have a bet
ter team than they showed against
the Cadets in Tyler when they
were trimmed 33 to 7. They
should get their power to working
again this week.
And so:
Aggies 20, Baylor 10.
Rice 15, Texas 14.
Villanova 20, Arkansas 13.
S.M.U. has an open date.
Bears Are Confident of Victory Today;
Team Writes Letter to Student Body
The Daily Lariat, student news
paper, at Baylor, is full of stuff
on how Baylor is going to beat
the Aggies today and if history
repeats they should do just that.
They have been on the short end
of the pickin’s for the past four
years yet they have not lost to
the Cadets yet.
The Baylor team wrote the fol
lowing letter to the Bruin student
body.
To the student body:
The Baylor football team real
izes that the student body feels
that we don’t have much of a
chance against A. & M. Saturday.
We say this knowing that there
is no more loyal group anywhere
but after our recent trip the feel
ing has grown.
We would like for it to be known
that we feel differently about it.
A. & M. may have a better team,
but they CAN’T have any more
determination. We can’t promise
to win, but we will be fighting all
the way Saturday.
Signed: The Baylor Team.
That is just another reason why
the Aggies should be out there
today giving their own ball club
all of the support they can.
Southwestern Greyhound Furnishes Buses;
Rating Systems Just A Lot Of Bunk
We have been informed that the
Southwestern Greyhound Bus Lines
provided all transportation of the
football team while they were in
Fort Worth free of charge.
The Athletic Council wrote to
them before the trip to get an
estimate on what they would
charge for this service and the
company offered the service free
of charge giving the reason that
so many of the A. & M. students
were users of the line that they
were doing this favor out of ap
preciation.
Rating systems are a lot of
bunk as can be seen from the fol
lowing “great” systems that were
released after last week’s games.
What’s What rates the Aggies in
the 23 slot, Williamson places
them in the same place, Dr. Baker,
who has been rating teams fox
five years or better and a man
with a system that carries much
weight, places the Cadets in sec
ond place while National Sports
Writers Poll places the Nortenmen
seventh.
None of the systems have the
same team as number one. Ten
nessee, Michigan, Ohio State, and
Notre Dame are all picked as the
number one team. Some of those
systems make better than good
money though. Who wants to
start a high school rating system
and pick up some of that “gravey” ?
It Could Happen Here
At the present time A. & M.,-fIf A. & M. and Baylor tie and
Texas and Baylor are tied for the
conference lead, but just think of
what could happen today.
Rice and Texas play at Austin
and Baylor and A. & M. play at
College.
If Rice and Baylor win they
will remain in the lead. If A. &
M. and Rice win they will lead.
Why Not Treat Your Friends
To A Nice
TURKEY DINNER
Young, fat, milk-fed turkeys
for sale at the
Texas A. & M. Poultry Plant
Rice wins it will leave Rice in
number one. If A. & M. and Bay
lor tie and Texas wins it will leave
the Brains in the lead.
If A. & M. wins and Rice and
Texas tie it will leave the Aggies
on top. If all four teams tie it
will leave A. & M., Texas, and
Baylor in a tie for the lead.
At any rate any one of the four
teams playing today has a chance,
at being the conference leader
when the sun sets in the west.
The third president of Fordham
University was a cousin of Mrs.
James Roosevelt, mother of the
President.
DINE AND DANCE
At
COLLEGE INN
Saturday After Corps Dance
MUSIC BY
AGGIELAND ORCHESTRA
12:30 — Till
Aggieland Orchestra Plays Each Evening At
College Inn 6:30 — 8:00
The Texas Aggie polo team is-<
rounding into shape after' five
weeks of intensive training which
includes preliminary hitting, train
ing of ponies and practice of team
play.
In the local tournament, which
will be carried on intermittently
for the cups which are up for com
petition, the honors are even. One
game for the faculty and one for
the varsity. However, . the last
game won by the maroon shirted
varsity indicated that it would be
tough sledding for the faculty un
less they receive reinforcement.
The first foxanal game of the
year will be played against Huis-
ache of Houston Sunday afternoon
at Jackson Field. Two years ago,
the Aggies were defeated by Huis-
ache in a hard fought touima-
ment in Houston.
The Aggie team will lineup with
Maloney at one, Jones at two, Mc
Donald at three and Culbertson
and Williams alterrating at four.
Sparked by the hardhitting of
team capatin, Asa Jones, and ably
assisted by the hard riding of Sid
McDonald and Dick Culbertson, the
Aggies are favored to win.
With the marked improvement of
several sophomores and the favor
able showing of the team as a
whole, Major Bui-nett, team coach,
says that he believes the team is
in for a very fine season.
The game tomorrow will start
at 2:30.
Swim Meet To Be
Held Next Week
The Field Artillery ran things
pretty much their own way last
ye^r in the Annual Intramural
Swimming Meet. Batteries of the
field carried off the first three
places in both the upperclassmen
and the freshmen classes. This
year it may be a different prop
osition with the large number of
last year’s fish entering in the
Class A events and with the large
turnout,at the afternoon practice
sessions. The meet this year will
be held next Saturday.
With the perfect teaming of
Deadati, Denny, Fox, Howe,
Heibler, Krampitz, Palmer,
Prowell, Rodgers, and O’Brien, 1
Hq. Field Artillery swam off with
the Class A meet with 30 points.
They were followed close behind
by Batteries E. and C.
In Class B, E Field Artillery
ran up 34 points to D’s 23 and C’s
16 to claim first place.
At the look of the material
which showed up in the top bracket
last year Battery E should have
the team to swim with the meet,
but the old saying holds time that
anything can happen and ususlly
does.
Bob Howe, 1 Hq. FA, will have
a bit of competition as last year’s
W. E. Gregoor, Class B champion,
joins the upper class in the diving
event. Gregoor is also an artil-.
lery boy, competing for Battery
D.
Both the “fish” and upperclass
men teams swam off with the 400
ft. relay events for Battery E
last year with C Field following in
the Class A section.
R. E. Evans should put in a
threat for the Infantry this year
in the 100 ft. free style as he
faces C. W. Whall, last year’s
first place claimer.
The 100 yd. medley relay will
be the open event. The artillery
teams boast good crews but last
year’s showings and those seen
this year point to a well balanced
race.
G. J. Palmer, C. W. Whall, and
L. J. McCarthy should be the fav
orites of the back stroke event.
Palmer holds the Class A title
and McCarthy claimed last year’s
fish title.
H. B. Allen of D. Cavalry and
Biggs of E. Field should swim the
finals for the breast stroke honors.
Hawe should retura to the pool
in the 100-yd. free style event to
try his hand against R. W. Snow
the ’38 fish winner.
The meet is scheduled for one
week from today. The preliminar
ies will be ran Saturday and the
finals Sunday evening.
Quarterback Club Meetings Overflow
Chem Lecture Room; Look For Room
Baylor End
Sherman Barnes, big 190 pound
senior end is expected to be one
of mainstays in the Good Old
Baylor line today when the
Bears go up against Texas A. &
M. in College Station in their
second conference game of the sea
son.
Aggie Fish Have
Been Ruifning Bruin
Plays In Practice
The Aggie fish, some fifty
strong, have been going through
some rough treatment the past
week. Monday and Tuesday they
ran Baylor plays through the first
and second strings of the regu
lars in scrimmage. The rest of the
week they have been going through
the plays but the rough stuff let
up a little]
During scrimmage Zapalac and
Pickett wore Baylor jersies to put
the real atmosphere in the work
out.
These fish fight each other for
all it’s worth to top their nearest
competitor but when it comes to
running aginst the varsity, they
stick as though they have been
playing together for a whole sea
son rather than just six weeks.
Allen Academy sent their best
team in years against the fish
three weeks ago but dropped back
under a score of 19 to 7. The
next game for the freshmen team
is the one against the Rice Slimes.
This game is scheduled for Friday,
November 17.
After the traditional Thanks
giving Day morning game between
the fish and the Shorthorns of
Texas, the underdogs will be on
their road to varsity football.
Changes Traditional
Enemy - It’s Rice Now
Again Thursday night the Quar
terbacks ovei'-flowed their meet
ing place, this time the chemis
try lecture room, when the pic-
tui’es of the A. & M.-T.C.U. game
were shown. Captain Jocko Rob
erts has announced that he is
looking for a larger meeting place
and thinks that probably Guion
Hall will be the site of the meet
ing in the future.
Pictures of the game disclose
the fact that the Cadets are block
ing and tackling harder than ever
and that tacklers are hitting their
men low.
John Kimbrough, Jim Thomason
and Derace Moser looked good on
pass defense.
One of the questions that was
brought up was: “Is it legal to
touch the ball to the ground and
then raise it up when attempting
extra points and field goals”? The
coaches decided that it is. In'
Thursday’s practice it was tried
and the boys had much better luck
at kicking the points. Byron
Winstead, publicity director and
great Aggie fan, brought the
question to the floor.
The ladies of Bryan and Col
lege Station have also organized a
“Quarterbacks sewing circle” and
will meet on Wednesday nights in
future. They are the ones who
have lots of questions to ask.
Thursday night Bill James call
ed the plays and Coach Norton
commented on the game as the
pictures were flashed.
Michigan State College students
pay but 12 per cent of the cost
of their tuition.
Here’s The Way To
Pronounce Some Ag
Tongue Twisters
For the benefit of the Texas
Aggie football followers here is'
the pronunciation of some of the
tongue twister names on the squad:
Roy Bucek Boo-check
Bill Conatser Konat-sir
Henry Hauser House-er
Charles Henke Hen-key
Leonard Joeris
Rhymnes with Roris
Derace Moser
Derace like terrace
Marshall Spivey Spy.-vee
Tommie Vaughn Von
Ed Robnett and Marshall Rob-
nett and Jack and John Kimbrough
are brothers. Ed Robnett is a
back and Marshall a guard. Jack
Kimbrough plays end and “Jer-
ring” John is a fullback.
Herb Smith and Earl Smith, end
and back, are no kin, nor are Joe
and Hugh Boyd, tackle and end,
nor Joe and Finis White, end and
back. Cullen Rogers is the broth
er of Owens Rogers who gradu
ated last June. He wears No. 26
jersey, the same as worn for three
years by Owen.
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Herb Smith Leads
Candidates For
Aggie End Hole
By Jimmie Cokinos
The best pound-foi’-pound foot
ball player on the Aggie squad
is the way one would start de
scribing Hei'bert Smith. Although
he tips the beam at 173 pounds he
is the leading
candidate for the
end post out of
the four lettermen
that retuimed for
the team this
year.
At present he
leading the
JrniYA
the best pass
is
ends in passes
caught for the
Aggies. He has
snagged 8 passes
and the confer
ence play is still
young. Smitty is
receiver on the
Cadet’s team and if you have seen
him in action you too will agree.
If the passer throws the pigskin
anywhere around Herb he will
catch it. Some of you will prob
ably remember a couple of years
back when the Aggies journeyed
to Fort Worth to take on the T.
C. U. Frogs. In this game the
Aggies went into the fourth
period trailing by the score of
7-0. A pass was called by the
Aggies quarterback and Smith
caught the desperate heave with
only a few minutes left to play.
“Cotton” Price came in and kicked
the extra point and the game end
ed in a 7-7 tie. Smith outdistanced
the secondary backs to pull in the
pass and in doing so saved the
day for the Aggies.
Smith is a good man to have
on defense as he has a knack for
“smelling plays” and keeps on tb>’
lookout for anything. He uses his
footwork to a good advantage by
fading back with the man that is
sent out to block him. He side
steps and feints with all the poise
of a champion boxer as he knifes
his way through the blockers in
order to get to the ball-carrier.
Smith is fast and is able to be in
position when a long pass is in
tended for him and whenever the
Aggies punt Smitty is among the
first downfield to make the tackle.
-f- Austin, Oct. 28— The game of
games for the Texas Longhorns is
at hand—Rice Institute at Memor
ial stadium here today.
Although Texas A. & M. is Tex
as U.’s ti'aditional enemy, circum
stances have shoved the Owls in
to that position as far as the play-
ei's themselves are concerned. Rea
son, of course, is to be found in
the five sti'aight defeats Rice has
plastered on the Longhoims, and
the fact that Owl elevens have
won seven of the last nine games
played.
This week in practice the Long-
hoi'ns have shown unusual deter
mination and eagerness to “get
ready,” and Coach D. X. Bible said
today he felt they would be mental
ly and physically right.
The shoe fits the other foot, too,
and Rice will be as x’eady as Texas.
It all adds up to the banner game
of the home season. If the wea
ther is clear by this afteimoon,
attendance may hit 25,000 or even
30,000. Advance ticket sales have
been heavy.
A mystery angle has been added
to pre-game publicity because of
Coach Jimmy Kitts’ “censorship”
of Owl practice news. Reporters
and all other outsiders have been
barred and the Owls have been
woi’king this week in strict sec
recy. Whether Kitts plans sweep
ing lineup or play changes will
not be revealed until the kickoff
at 2:30.
Some hope prevails here that
Texas’ one-cylinder attack will
start clicking on two in the Rice
game, i.e., that Pete Layden will
be in there chunking some passes
as a variation from Jack Crain’s
goal-threatening runs. Layden
has been out of action since the
Florida game and Crain has been
the big gun of the offense. He
has scored five of the Longhorns’
eight touchdowns on runs of 2, 35,
70, 71 and 69 yards, and he put
them in position for another with
an 83-yard punt return ag’ainst
Arkansas.
Coach Bible announced his prob
able lineup as follows: Neely and
McDonald, ends; Williams and
Myers, tackles; Dawson and Dan
iel, guards; Goodwin, center;
Grubbs, quarter; Crain and Puett,
halves; Patrick, fullback.
Eight students of Little Rock
Junior College are earning their
college expenses operating a pea
nut butter plant.
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