SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1939-
PAGE 3
KYLE FIELD
By
E. C. “Jeep” Oates
Battalion Sports Editor
By Hub Johnson, Sports Assistant^ pinch hitting for “Jeep”
To-day’s Game To Be Broadcast Over KXYZ;
Send-Off Was One Of Greatest In History
Today’s game will be broadcast
over KXYZ starting at 2:15 p. m.
It will be announced by Harry
Grier with the color being given
by Eddie Dunn. This game should
prove interesting on the air with
these two veteran broadcasters
giving it to us.
Thursday’s send off was one of
the biggest in the history of the
school. Some 5,000 students try
ing to tell all the players farewell
and wishing them luck looked
great. As a result of the solemn
way the train left the yards, with
“The Spirit of Aggieland” echo
ing through the creek bottoms, a
good number of students than had
previously planned hit the road
to the Ozarks.
Minor Sports Come To Light With Water
Sports and Boxing; Aggies Get Cheesy Deal
At long last minor sports have
come to life at A. & M. The box
ing club has received the services
of H. C. Spencer of the Engineer
ing Drawing Department as the
club sponsor. From now on the
team should find things a bit
easier. New equipment is the next
thing in order or should it be said
just equipment, for there is very
little anywhere on the campus.
Training schedules announced at
the meeting are from 3 to 5 daily.
The swimming team is rounding
into shape. That is, the individual
members are, for practice will not
begin until the first of December.
A breast stroke man is needed.
Coach Adamson is keeping his
eyes open at all times to find the
man to swim this race.
The water polo team, the only
thing A. & M. had to boast of
last year, is believed to be in
about as good shape as it was
last year although few players are
gone one way or another.
Aggie Poloist made their debut
last Sunday against the Army-
Faculty Freebooters and come to
the field again this week-end to
meet the New Mexico Military In
stitute, recent intercollegiate cham
pions. This ought to be good. It’s
at Jackson Field 2:00 p. m. Sat
urday and Sunday.
We heard that the “Aggie War
Hymn” was to be played and sung
on a well known program this past
week. It’s easy for rumors to
get started around this place but
one on such a thing as that seems
rather odd. Wonder if the Aggies
just got a cheesy deal. Another
team near the top in national
standing received the honor.
Armistice Day—Peace Or War? A, & M. vs
S. M. U.; Today’s Games In The Southwest
Peace 21 years ago, but next
Saturday the thud of leather and
leather, of bone and bone, and then
the show of bands by both sides
will be the program for the day.
The Mustangs hold an all time
record of 10 wins to the Aggies’
eight. So no matter how the out
come of the game might be, the
Cadet’s can not regain the lead but
they can sure satisfy a long want
ed desire to win from the Ponies.
It’s another jinx but it seems that
all the games are jinx games this
year.
At any rate the sport mentors
will probably have another name
for John Kimbrough. To the list
of “Jarrin’ Jawn,’ ‘the Aggie blus
tering fullback,’ and ‘the man who
four yards the enemy to death’
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S. M. U. meets Texas at home
today to start her way to the top.
Crain will again of course be the
star for the Texas eleven but the
S.M.U. team will boast more of an
all round team if they boast any
at all. They say Coach Matty Bell
is crying again, but we still say
it’s S. M. U. over Texas.
This is the Southwest Conference
and anything can happen and the
Baylor-T.C.U. game might be the
contest where it will. Nevertheless
the Baylor line looked good and
their attacks appeared stronger
than those of the Frogs. It’s Bay
lor over T.C.U.
Fordham marks up another game
with the Rice Owls on the bottom
side. The Houston team is hav
ing a tough time this year and
may get started later on but sure
ly not against Fordham.
In the rain or under light snow
fall it still says Aggies. The
A. & M. team has outpassed the
Ozark boys and have outgained
them running as well as held their
opponents to fewer yards, so even
though they’ll probably be playing
in heavy socks, A. & M. over
Arkansas.
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THE BATTALION
Three Conference Tilts Played Today
Lettermen
On Varsity
Swim Team
Regular Workouts
Not Started Yet
According to Coach Adamson the
swimming team has not started its
regular workout, howeve'V, those on
the team believe in keeping in con
dition and swim as often as possi
ble. With a large number of let
termen back, the swimming team
looks as if it might go places this
year.
When the team starts working
out around the 1st of December,
it should consist of Conway,
Japhet, Johnson, and McCarthy
as the backstroke men. Couch,
who is captain of this year’s team
and a letter man of last year,
Flynn, Hensley, also a letterman,
Loomis, Robertson, Rollins, Webb,
and Hall will show their merits
in swimming the free style.
“Nickey” Ponthieux will do his
best to take charge of the breast
stroke, however, Coach Adamson
feels that “Nickey” should not car
ry the full burden of the breast
stroke, and is now looking for a
man to keep “Nickey” company.
Paul Kettleson and Bubba
Reeves, who are quite at home on
the old spring board and who are
good divers, will do their best to
prove that diving is an accomp
lishment.
In general the swimming team
of this year promises to be as good
as last year. Coach Adamson is
keeping his eyes open for new tal
ent.
Intramurals
With Hub Johnson
Basketball should be a sport of
the past at the close of next week
as the leagues are just about at
the end of the road. The finals
should start about Friday or may
be the first of the next week.
The swimming meet was called
off due to the large number of
students leaving the campus, either
going to Arkansas or to various
points about Texas. The Class B
meet will be run sometime in
December but the upperclassmen
meet has not yet been set.
Thursday the newspapers all
over the country ran an article on
screwy football. The article by
Bill Boni reads as follows:
New York, Nov. 1.—(AP)—
Proving that there’s a bright
side to a goal-line pileup with
a cleat in your face, we pre
sent herewith the second is
sue of football’s “Screwy
News.”
They hit the high point of
confusion in a recent intra
mural game down at Texas A.
& M. with time for about two
plays, the ball in midfield and
the defensive team leading, 7-6.
The play was a pass, to the
left end, and completed on the
40-yard line. The boy high
tailed-down the field, until on
ly the safety man stood be
tween him and the goal line.
At that point he had a
change of heart, apparently
feeling he couldn’t get by that
last obstacle, he stopped dead
in his tracks and dropkicked
a perfect field goal. The game
broke up in an argument, the
officials made no ruling, and
there was no final score.
P. S.—Rules officials say
the play was" perfectly legal.
We’ve tried to trace this
game down and failed. The
question was brought up in a
recent meeting of the local
Quarterback Club and then sent
on to the Houston club after
a bit of discussion. South
west conference Officials pres
ent at the meetings declared
the play legal after a bit of
wondering and later it was de
clared the same by Harry
Viner.
At any rate it wasn’t an
intramural game but it was
a pretty good build up.
There will be a meeting of all
freshmen and upperclassmen in
tramural managers in the “Y”
Parlor immediately after yell prac
tice Tuesday night.
E>ATTALION
Arkansas’ Giant Ends
The boys to be stopped today will be these veteran wingmen.
“Tree Top” Frieberger is a letterman at both basketball and football;
Hickey, who is known as “Red Hoss” to teammates, is the greatest
defensive wingman of the Arkansas eleven; Britt, playing his second
year as a starter, averaged 19 yards last year out of 14 passes
PUNT RETURN LEADERS
(Returned at
least
7 punts)
Aver.
Player
School
Returns Tol. Yds.
Return
Crain
Texas
7
178
25.4
Moser
A. & M.
14
262
18.7
Conatser
A. & M.
16
268
16.8
Cordill
Rice
11
145 "
13.2
Witt
Baylor
11
137
12.5
Punt return
records are missing
on S. M.
U.-Notre
Dame;
Arkansas-Miss. State and Arkansas-Villanova
games.
KICKOFF RETURN
LEADERS
(Returned at least 4 kickoffs)
Aver.
Player
School
Returns Tol. Yds.
Return
*Hamberg
...Arkansas
5
104
20.8
* Eakin
Arkansas
5
92
18.4
Patrick
Texas
4
70
17.5
Kickoff return records are
still missing on
S. M. U.-Notre
Dame; Arkansas-Mississippi
State
and Arkansas-Villanova
Games.
Only 3 men
have returned as many as 4 kickoffs.
INTERCEPTED PASS LEADERS
(Intercepted at
least
3 passes)
Inter-
Yards
Aver.
Player
School
ceptions Returned
Return
Conatser
A. & M.
3
135
45.0
Doss
A. & M.
4
60
15.0
Moser
Texas
3
55
18.3
John Kimbrough A. & M.
3
26
8.67
Intercepted
pass return records still missing on S.
M. U.-
Notre Dame;
Arkansas-Mississippi
State and
ArkansaslVilla-
nova games.
Fred E. Lawton, 71, of Water-
town, N. Y., recently became the
father of a nine-pound son.
George Seifert, 83, of Bethle
hem, Pa., recently made from corn
shucks and American flag, five feet
six inches long, and three feet
six inches wide. He dyed the shucks
before weaving them together.
POLO
A. & M.
VS.
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Saturday - Sunday, 2:30
Grid Affairs In Southwest
Conference At Peak Today
T.C.U. Meets Baylor, S.M.U. Plays Texas,
Ag-gies Play Arkansas In Conference
For the first time this season Southwest Conference competition
will present three conference games in one day. Since that is the
maximum number of games that can be played with seven teams, it
would not be an overstatement to say that grid affairs in this section
are at the peak.
T. C. U. meets Baylor in Waco, S. M. U. plays Texas in Dallas
and Arkansas and A. & M. are matched at Fayetteville.
What can Arkansas do against
the Aggies? Many fans will an
swer this question promptly with,
“Take a licking!” Yet the Razor-
backs can’t be counted out that
easily. In top form, they’ve look
ed pretty good. Their line aver
aging 212 pounds could deal a bit
of misery if the game is played
on a wet field. It is a pretty
well experienced one, too, but the
question is, just how deep does
the experience go ?
Rice Owls
The Rice Owls make their
Broadway debut against Fordham’s
Rams in New York City. The
Rams have not been as invincible
as Coach Jim Crowley hoped they
would be, but they are still plenty
tough. Rice could gain back a
lot of lost prestige by taking the
Rams before the big-shot sports
writers of Gotham.
T. C. U. - Baylor
About the only one of the three
conference tilts that the fans will
predict with any degree of confi
dence will be the T. C. U.-Baylor
affair. The dope says the Bears;
but the Frogs, in spite of their
worst year in more than a decade,
cannot be counted out. The Frog-
Bear rivalry is one of the confer
ence’s oldest and most virulent,
and upsets are no stranger to the
record.
S. M. U. - Texas
S. M. U. and Texas ought to
stage the thriller of the day. Both
teams pack a surprising offense
which has a way of exploding up
on the enemy at most unexpected
moments. The Mustangs have had
an open date in their schedule and
the rest ought to leave them ready
to give the homefolks a thrill as
they attempt to find an antidote
for Dana Bible’s bright boy, Jack
Crain.
Aggies Have Another Passing Team
On Their Hands Today In Razorbacks
By Jimmie Cokinos
It was the Frogs one week, the
Bears last Saturday, and it will
be the Hogs this afternoon. Hogs,
Frogs or Bears, the teams all
look like the same animal to the
Farmers and will be treated ac
cordingly—slaughter house.
The Aggies have another pass
ing team on their collective hands.
The Arkansas Razorbacks were
known as the “passingest team in
the nation” last year and this year
boast of having another.
The Hogs’ outstanding star is
Kay Eakin, veteran back, who leads
them into battle with his bullet
like passes. His record this year
shows that he has attempted 57
heaves and completed 27, which
were good for 386 yards. He is
the conference’s second leading
punter with an average of 40.6
yards per try, having punted 31
times for 1,257 yards.
If the Aggies stop Eakin today
they will also top the Razorbacks
as he is their keyman, and if Eakin
is clicking the Hogs will click and
will be hard to stop.
The Hogs will go in the game
with the memory of the 13-7 de
feat plastered on them by the
Cadets last year. In this game it
looked as if the ole ball game was
going to the Hogs towards the
waning minutes of the fourth
quarter, but that Kimbrough lad
was yet to be reckoned with. He
started a one-man-drive towards
the Hogs’ goal line and didn’t
stop till he crashed over to save
the day for the Aggies.
The Aggies are in top shape for
the game and are meeting the Hogs
on their homecoming day. On
these occasions the Razorbacks
are plenty tough and if the Cadets
get by with a victory they will be
well on their way. So let’s all
stick by the radios today and help
pull the Aggies over.
The famous Aggie Band, 210-
strong, left last night and will be
on hand for the game. They will
put on an exhibition between the
halves and have some new and
clever formations to show the fans
at Fayetteville.
Many students were on the same
special with the band members and
some ventured the highways in or
der to be there for the game, mak
ing it possible that a smattering of
the “twelfthman” will be in the
stands to yell our boys to victory.
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