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ON KYLE FIELD By E. C. “Jeep” Oates Battalion Sports Editor Aggies, Bears, Frogs, Owls Favored Over Ponies, Steers, Tulsa, and Hogs In Tilts Coach Norton’s Aggies appear to have more reserve strength than Coach Bell’s Mustangs and for that reason we pick the Cadets to win. The Cadets have a better offensive team and the Ponies may have a better defensive team, but A. & M. has fair men almost three deep at most of the positions. The teams are well matched, but we take the Aggies to be three points better. Baylor has a very strong team as can be seen from the fact they stomped T. C. U. worse than the Aggies did and they also gave the Aggies a tough afternoon for thirty minutes. Nelson and the rest of the Bears will again stop Jack Crain and his Texas company. Tulsa has a strong team this season, but we think that the Frogs are out for victory this week. Their lone victory has been over poor little Centenary, but they have played some good ball at times this year. T. C. U. should win by seven points. And now two teams that have been defeated not once, but many times. The Rice Owls and the Arkansas Razorbacks. We are go ing to step out and pick Rice by two touchdowns. (Don’t ask us why!) Here they are: Aggies 13, Ponies 10. Baylor 10, Steers 0. T. C. U. 7, Tulsa 0. Rice 18, Porkers 6. People Yell and Yell About Old History; J. W. Amyx Turns In Poem “What’s This Son’ Many years ago A. & M. fired Matty Bell in mid-season and many are the opinions about doing it, but it was done and it is past. Why not forget it or if you don’t like it—what are you going to do about it? There are some people who men tion it once in a while over a can of beer or somewhere else and let it go at that, but there are many who make an issue of it every year. It looks like A. & M. is getting along well enough without him. and it looks as if S. M. U. is get ting along very well with him; so everyone is satisfied except a bunch of chronic critics. A. & M. has beaten Matty and Matty has beaten A. & M. and Buy That New Auto? Sure We will finance your new car. Lend money on your old car—or pay bal ance on your old car, while financing your new one. Try Our Easy Loan Service Titus-McCullough, Inc. Bryan, Texas — Phone 1310 Matty has been to the Rose Bowl, but that certainly doesn’t mean that Matty would have ever seen the Rose Bowl at A. & M. Following is a little verse sent in by J. W. Amyx and it really has the dope in it. What’s this, son? You wonder why you have to stand and yell. Why you have to sing like hell. Listen, son, listen— Hear the sound of marching feet; Hear the footfalls echoing through the street. Listen, youngster, listen— It’s those Mustangs you gotta beat; I’ll tell you now it’s quite a feat. Wait, don’t run, wait son— If you’ll fight, it can be done, Fight hard and the game is won. Listen, youngster, listen— Hear that twelfth man yell— Makes ya wanta fight like hell. Wait, son, wait— Hear an ex’s one last word— That’s the best yellin’ I ever heard. Listen, youngster, listen— It’s for the team they yell. The team that fights like hell. All Teams To See Action In Texas Aggie Polo Team Splits First Games The Texas Aggie polo season of ficially opened this past week, while the football team was in Arkansas, and the Cadet horsemen split a twin bill with New Mexico Military Academy, one of the strongest collegiate teams in the country. Major E. M. Burnett, Cav., U. S. A., the new coach who succeeded Capt. Tom Roberts, prophesies a great season for the Aggies and says that he sees no reason why they cannot finish the season in a high ranking spot in collegiate polo circles. Major Burnett now has approximately 60 men on his squad and from these he will fin ally dwindle down to about 15 players he considers the best. Asa Jones, who plays No. 2 post will captain this year’s four, and like his coach, he says he thinks the Aggies will follow the lead of the grid team to win national rec ognition in their sport for Texas A. & M. All games will be played at Col lege Station and the schedule for the first term of school is as fol lows: Sunday, Nov. 12—Buda Va- queros. Sunday, Nov. 26—San Angelo. Wednesday, Nov. 29—San An tonio. Friday, Dec. 1—Oklahoma Mili tary Academy. Sunday, Dec. 3—Oklahoma Mili tary Academy. Friday, Dec. 8—Oklahoma Uni versity. Sunday, Dec. 10. — Oklahoma University. Friday, Dec. 15—Lamesa Polo Club. PA IT A1 ION /I SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1939 PAGE 3 Mustang Captain Mustang Hurler Try Our BANANA SPLIT A FULL MEAL 10*? THE VARSITY North Gate LaSalle Barber Shop Stewart—O’Conner—Jones DINE AND DANCE At COLLEGE INN Saturday After Corps Dance MUSIC BY AGGIELAND ORCHESTRA 12:30 —Till 50*? COVER CHARGE Aggieland Orchestra Plays Each Evening At College Inn 6:30 — 8:00 Basketball Team Works Out Daily Although basketball coach H. R. McQuillan is tied up with football at the present time the Texas Ag gie cagers are working out daily under the guidance of Captain Woody Varner, and drilling on the work McQuillan lays out as their daily chores. Prospects are a little brighter at A. & M. than they were last year for the team will inherit Bill j (Jitterbug) Henderson, Charlie Stevenson, and Ray Adams, all star freshmen last season. Last year the team won but two South west Conference game but Capt. Varner hopes to see his team do better this year. Several other freshman numeral men are also expected to try out. Returning lettermen will include Varner; Bill Dawson, Harold Dun can, J. T. Lang, Jude Smith, and Thomas Tinker. Sam Dwyer, 1938- 39 captain and letterman, will be eligible at mid-term. Squadmen returning will include Billy Joe Adams and Edgar Seay. Sophomores Derace Moser, Wil lard Clark, and Cullen Rogers, are all expected to report for a try at making the team after the foot ball season closes. Bill Buchanan, Weatherford, jun ior college transfer, is another who' will report for the team when he finishes playing football. He was a star in junior college and is ex- FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE We Will Be Open Until 10 A. M. SATURDAY, NOV. 11 Luke’s Grocery Aggieland Grocery Charlie’s Food Market Heavy Action To Be Seen On All Conference Fronts Cutting loose for a long gain is Captain Chelsea “Chop-Chop” Crouch, senior from Plano, Texas, who calls the signals for the South ern Methodist University Mustang eleven this year. Taking aim for one of his long, accurate heaves is Raymond Mallouf, S. M. U.’s Syrian pass ing sensation, who is expected to be one of the nation’s great est passers this season. Aggies Have Advantage Today With Game On Kyle Field and “Twelfth Man” By Jimmie Cokinos The eyes of the nation’s football followers will once more turn to wards the Southwest Conference for the top game of the nation. Today’s game finds the S. M. U. Mustangs and the Texas Aggies pitted against each other on his toric Kyle Field. The Aggies have the advantage, if any, in this re spect—playing the Mustangs in their own backyard and having the famous “twelfth man” out in full force backing ’em up. The Mustangs will be led by their coach Matty Bell who is better known as “Moaning Matty” which is due to his way of “crying” over the showing of his team in prac tices during the week and when Saturday rolls around his players turn in an exhibition of football that any coach would be proud of. The Aggies have one of the best lines in the business and are paced into battle with Joe Boyd and Marshall Robnett rough and tum ble linesmen. A. & M.’s passing defense will be in for a strong test as the Mustangs will not be able to make much headway through the Aggie’s line and will be trying their chances via the air lanes. The winner of today’s game will easily be the team to beat for the Southwest Conference Champion ship. So ole Army, let’s all be in the stands for the opening kick off as the team will be needing that extra something to beat S. M. U. and that “twelfth man” is the only one that is able to supply that need. Intramurals With Hub Johnson Heavy action on all fronts is4- the Southwest Conference outlook, for the second consecutive week. For the first time since the ’39 grid campaign got under way, all seven conference teams will * see action in Texas. Fort Worth, Houston, Waco and College Sta tion will be scenes of the four close battles. S. M. U. and A. & M. meet at College Station in a game that for more than two weeks has had con ference fans a-jitter. Grid follow ers have chosen their teams and the argument waxes hot, but all agree on one thing—it will be a real football game! The T. C. U. Frogs will enter tain the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Both teams are well below par tty is year and are sparring for the un derdog position. Tulsa is one of two teams (the other Rice) to which a Meyer-coached team has not bowed in his five seasons at the 1 T. C. U. helm. The Arkansas Razorbacks, who have given a better account of themselves than the records indi cate, come out of the mountains to the land of the bayou to play the luckless Rice Owls. Few will even venture an opinion on this one. Baylor and Texas, playing in Waco, makd up the fourth pairing for the week-end. The Bears are not given too much of a chance to take the rejuvenated Longhorns, but the Bears have a way about them at home. This could be the surprise of the w^ek. The Armistice Day card (the contests are regularly scheduled for Saturday and are on Armis tice Day only accidentally) will put the end of the regular South west football season well in sight. Well, it seems as though every thing broke loose this week. The first tie game in Class A sports was played, the basketball leagues excepting one came to definite de cisions, and the old question of non-reg to mess halls came up again. UNIVERSITY TAKES CROSS COUNTRY MEET For 13 minutes 1.9 seconds they pounded the road steadily on to ward the finish line yesterday as thirteen cross country runners put their best into the first meet of the year. At the finish four Tex as University runners held the front. It was this way along the whole route. Harold Price, Texas, set the pace and crossed the finish line only a few yards ahead of fellow squadmen. It seemed a long way but the Texas boys seemed to pre fer the hills rather than the flat course. Following Price for Texas were Hafernick, Lostak, and Hart. Wilmeth was the first finisher for the Aggie squad, claiming fifth place. Next were Walker and Laney for A. & M. and then Odum for the university. Mickey Hogan, veteran track and cross country runner for the Aggies, was sand wiched between Odum and Worble. Following Worble was Graham and Owens for the Aggies. At the first mile the group was still bunched similar to the way they left the starting line but at the second, they began to scatter, this time in the way they finished. Many weeks of hard labor and con stant practice were displayed in the short time and the results give a brief pr-eview of the Southwest Conference meet to be run here November 24. A Engineers and 2nd Combat Train battled it out to a scoreless tie in touch football, with each team claiming two 40-yard pene trations and one 20-yard penetra tion. Fred Valentino seems to be the foundation of the Engineer team, with Ross Novelli and “Fatty” Smith running the back- field and “Sleepy” Sleeper the line for the train. Sleeper found a good bit of sleep later on. He re ported to the hospitial for head treatment. A Field Artillery is the only team that has completed its foot ball schedule. The same as last year, they have once more started to claim the points by winning the league title. Non-Reg Regulations It seems that some boys have not had enough time to make the evening formations after playing in intramural games. It is true and on one can say differently, that games scheduled at 4:45 seldom start on time, but even so those that are stopped at 5:30 do not Punt Return Leaders pected to help the Cadets a lot this (Returned at least 10 punts) year. Player - School Returns Total Yds. Aver. Yds Crain, Texas 11 228 20.7 THE AGGIELAND PHARMACY Moser, A. & M. 16 270 16.9 will remain open all day Saturday, Conatser, A. &M 18 299 16.7 Nov. 11. Through error in ad- *Cordill, Rice 11 145 13.2 vertisement, The Battalion had Davis, Texas 12 146 12.2 stated that it would close at 10 a. Witt, Baylor 13 153 11.8 m. *—Rice-Fordham individual records not reported. Kickoff Return Leaders (Returned at least 4 kickoffs) Player - School Hamburg, Arkansas Eakin, Arkansas Patrick, Texas Returns 5 7 4 S. Taylor, T. C. U 4 Cole, Arkansas 4 Total Yds. 104 130 70 64 61 Aver. Yds. 20.8 18.6 17.5 16.0 15.3 Intercepted Pass Leaders (Intercepted at least 3 passes) Player - School Interceptions Yds. Returned Avr. Ret. Conatser, A. & M 4 141 35.3 Witt, Baylor 3 84 28.0 Doss, Texas 3 55 18.3 Moser, A. & M 5 70 14.0 Crouch, S. M. U 3- 34 11.3 John Kimbrough, A. & M 3 26 8.7 *—Rice-Fordham individual records not reported. give ample time to bathe and dress before 5:45. It is a long walk to Walton Hall from the football fields and after a game, no one has any idea of running to make it. George Koetter, manager of A Engineers, offered the suggestion that no rest be taken between halves in the touch football games. This is a good idea, for the relax ation the players would get just in changing ends would be enough to send them back for 12 1-2 more minutes. If team man agers would talk it over with their players and then in turn disicuss it amongst themselves, maybe something could be done. Now it is just a choice of play, ‘ram,’ or eat. Apologies to D. Field Artillery. They downed the 1st Corps Hq rather than the other way. wr FLOWERS FOR THE Game and CORSAGES FOR THE Dance J. Coulter Smith Phone Bryan 672 P- Our Service Department Is The Hear Of Our Business BRYAN MOTOR COMPANY THE VICTORY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Takes pleasure in announcing 1 that S. J. (Joe) Marek of *A. & M. 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