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&.C.Jeep' OATES
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Substitute—Hub Johnson
TEXAS A. & M. AND TULANE
IN SUGAR BOWL CLASSIC
The Aggies are at last bound
for a bowl game. For twelve years
we’ve waited for a good team and
not only did we get this but also
the best, in many ways.
The Tennessee boys wouldn’t
come out of ambush so the Aggie
team closed the books and accept
ed the bid from New Orleans.
Last year the Athletic Council
agreed at the Banquet that to the
first Aggie team that won the
Southwest Conference a diamond
studded football would be awarded.
The team deserves this and much
more. The T. C. U. boys returned
from New Orleans last year with
watches, sweaters, and many other
worthwhile gifts.
With no cleaner bunch of boys
found on any other team in the
country there should be some suit
able and appropriate gift made pos
sible. They played rough and play
ed for keeps, but it was the clean
est of any that was seen.
-f-AGGIE SECTION AT GAME
Twelve thousand seats is a good
number of seats and the problem
might seemed solved, but it would
be a good idea for a block of the
large number to be reserved for the
twelfth man. The corps will other
wise be spread and the New Or
leans stand will be expecting some
what of a show from the Aggies
making the trip.
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In a prearranged agreement the
sports editor of the Daily Texan,
the University paper, offered a
spot for the Jeep’s writeup of the
game, if the Aggies won.
Above the story which was little
in the way of bragging about the
team, were the headlines, “A. &
M., Despite Struggle of Longhorns,
Looked Great, Aggie Declares.”
In other sections of the paper,
the Texas crew still claim the rain
as the toughest opponents. “Aggies
Not Twenty Points Better,” is an
other head in Don Patterson’s col
umn. It seems as though the score-
board showed it and the team show
ed it. At least the Aggies can
count up to eleven.
ALL-SOUTHWEST TEAM
Next Thursday will be the date
of the issuing of Jeep’s all-South-
west team. Nothing is known as
to who will be selected but it is
naturally presumed that some five
Aggies will dominate the mythical
team.
MINOR SPORTS
With football gone and basket
ball opening last night in Hunts
ville with the Sam Houston Bear-
kats and another game here to
morrow night, minor sports are
also beginning to make their ap
pearance.
Pistol and rifle shooting have
made their opening, the fencing
team is seen slashing away daily,
the tumbling team is going through
the workouts as well as the box
ing team which is making its first
real bid in many a year.
A meeting of representatives of
all minor sport teams has been
called for Friday night to discuss
ways and means of bettering their
pi’ograms. This meeting will be
held in dormitory 6, room 220. All
teams are asked to have at least
one representative present.
Aggie Basketball
feam Will Enter
Tulsa Cage Meet
The Texas Aggie’s basketball
team has accepted an invitation
to compete in an all-college basket
ball tournament in Tulsa, Okla
homa, December 20-22, according
to an announcement by Ronald
Capps, tourney director for the all
college contest.
Eleven colleges and universities
have accepted the invitations for
the meet and will join in the invi
tation tournament. Other schools
to be presented are Southwestern
college, Winfield, Kansas; Tulsa
university, Tulsa; East Central
State college, Ada, Oklahoma;
Southwestern State College, Weath
erford, Oklahoma; Oklahoma Bap
tist University, Shawnee; West
minster College, Fulton, Missouri;
Northwestern State College, Alva,
Oklahoma; Northwestern State Col
lege, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Drury
College, Springfield, Missouri; and
Southwest Missouri State Teachers
College also of Springfield.
Battalion Sports
DECEMBER 7, 1939
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
PAGE 2
A. & M., Despite Struggle
Of Longhorns, Looked
Great, Oates Declares
(Editor’s note: In a pre-game
arrangement between Battalion
sports editor Jeep Oates and Daily
Texan sports editor Clyde LaMotte,
it was agreed that if the Aggies
won, Oates could write the story
for the Texan, and vice versa.
Here’s Oates’ version of the game
—the same one that was printed
in the Texdn.)
INTRAMURAL
HIGHUGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
Football is a thing of the past,
at least until the first day of next
year. From here out, basketball
will be the sport of the season but
it will not hide the intramural
program as did the greatest of all
Aggie teams.
London—The war has produced
a new dance called the “blackout
stroll.”
It starts like the Lambeth Walk
and then lights are blacked out and
everybody changes partners.
The idea, a dancing master said
today, is to give shy girls a chance
to become acquainted with hand
some men in uniform.
Princeton University was the
first school to abolish rules re
quiring attendance at classes.
The last big game in the pro
gram was the basketball final
which was played Monday before
last. This was some time ago but
at the dead line of the last issue
the final outcome was not known.
If you recall, K Infantry defeat
ed 3rd Headquarters Field Artil
lery and I Infantry downed M
Company to claim positions in the
last game.
That Monday night, some six
giants from K Company with the
idea of i-unning over the I boys
were sent off at the half with fear-
in their minds that their oppon
ents had been misjudged. Scog
gins spurred the I team, made up
of Alsobrook, Stephens, and White,
and held Coffman, Watson, Shel
ton, and Dutton to a mere one
point lead. The final count, 14
to 13, K Company.
Again notice that swimming is
approaching the call. The Class B
swimming meet will be held the
weekend of December 16th and
17th. The premliminaries will be
run the first day with the finals
being held on Sunday, the 17th.
Last week I called another one
wrong. W. D. Lewis was the first
place wjnner of the Class A cross
country run. He represented F
Engineers, but the remainder of
the entrants for this organization
were too far down the line to claim
any points.
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COLLEGE STATION, Dec. 4.—
The scoreboard showed a “20” un
der AGGIES and a “0” under VIS
ITORS Thursday evening as the
40,000 rain-soaked fans slowly mill
ed their way out of the concrete
bowl at College Station and headed
for points far and near.
Texas partisans were not down
hearted, because they had seen
their team put up a great scrap
before bowing to the ranking team
of the nation.
The first half of the fray was
scoreless, but after a few minutes
of the first quarter, there was no
doubt as to the winner. Coach
Bible’s lads fought and fought and
held off the Aggies for thirty min
utes, but it was just like watch
ing a game fighter battling Joe
Louis. You knew it would be just
a matter of time until it would
all be over, except the shouting.
Great kicking by Gilly Davis
and Jack Crain and the fact that
the Aggies would take no chances
kept the Cadets from scoring in
the first half, although they played
most of the game in Texas ter
ritory.
A. & M. lost little time turning
on the heat in the second half.
Between the halves Coach Nor
ton stepped into his team’s dress
ing room and said, “Boys, let’s
take them now.” He turned and
left after those words, and that
was enough.
On a hide play after the Steers
kickod off, “Bama” Smith took a
pass for 46 yards. Conatser moved
the ball on down to the 16, and
then Price shot a pass to Sterling
in the end zone for the score. Jack
Crain was sucked out of position
on that play.
Conatser scored in the same
quarter. The Cadets started their
march on their own 46. Kim
brough, Price and Conatser drove
through the line for yardage, and
Price tossed one to H. Smith for
37 yards. Conatser smashed through
tackle for four yards and the score.
John Kimbrough regained and
clinched the scoring lead with 60
points when he crashed through
the 2-yard stripe in the last pe
riod. A foul gave the ball to the
Aggies on the Texas 14. Conatser
circled right end for seven and
left end for five. Then “Jarrin’
John” Kimbrough was called on,
and it was a score.
Gilly Davis was the star for
the Steers. He did everything.
Jack Crain was just another ball
player on the field, but then he
couldn’t have been much more
after taking some of the hardest
tackles that any man has ever
taken. Marshall Robnett, who
played the best game of any man
on the field, swapped ends with
Jack several times when he drove
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A. & M. Opens Home
Basketball Games
Here Friday Night
The A. & M. basketball team
will open its 1939-40 home sched
ule Friday night when they meet
the Bearkats of Sam Houston
State Teachers College in Me
morial Gym. The Aggies opened
their schedule for the season last
night when they . met the same
team in Huntsville—results of
which were not available at the
time the paper went to the press.
The Huntsville team coached by
Puny Wilson was outstanding last
year and although five members
of last year’s team were lost via
graduation which included such
stalwarts as Clifford Dotson, Jack
sonville; Gordon Cotton, Hunts
ville; Johnny Puckett, Houston;
Floyd Dotson, Jacksonville; and
Tom Williams, Tyler. Prospects of
the Bearkats team this season are
better than fair and promise
stiff fight for the Aggie team
captained by Woody Varner.
-through on the Mite.
A dry field would not have
changed the result. Crain or Davis
might have scored on a long run,
but the Cadets would probably
have scored a couple of times
more.
Texas did have the hardest
fighting team the Aggies have met
this season.
A MEETING FOR MINOR
sports represntatives will be held
! tomorrow night to discuss the bet
terment of the minor sports pro
gram.
Teams are asked to have at least
one representative at the meeting
so that all will have an equal voice.
The main topic for discussion will
be the financial plan for the var
ious teams.
The meeting will be'held in room
220 of dormitory 6, immediately
after supper.
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