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THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1939
Six Aggies
THE BATTALION
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Are Named On The Battalion’s All - Conference Team
Here’s the All-Conference Team Selected by Sports Editor Oates
Following is the All-Conference-
team that I have been promising
for some time. It is a team that
has weight, size, ability and ev
erything. The average weight is
201 pounds and the average height
is over six feet.
Here it is.
Howard Hickey, Ark LE^
Ernie Pannell, A. & M LT
Leonard Akin, Baylor G
Robert Nelson, Baylor C
Marshall Robnett, A.&M. .. RG
Her Smith, A. & M RE
Kay Eakin, Ark QB
Jim Thomason, A. & M. .. HB
Jack Wilson, Baylor HB
John Kimbrough, A. & M. .. FB
Hickey and Smith can play the
wings on both offense and defense.
They are both excellent pass re
ceivers. Smith has caught seven
-for 143 yards and Hickey has drug
in seven for 104 yards.
There is no question about Pan
nell and Boyd being the best tack
les. They both go over 200 pounds
and are very fast. They play ex
cellent offensive ball and are in
comparable at defense.
Sanders of S. M. U. has been
selected on many teams, but some
one doesn’t know a tackle from a
forward pass.
Robnett is the best guard in the
United States (at least in my opin
ion), so he gets on any All-Con
ference selection. Leonard Akin
gets the other position because of
his defensive work. The conference
had few outstanding guards this
year.
Nelson gets the center slot with
out a question. He is good both on
defense and offense. He has tallied
21 points with his educated toe this
year.
Origin of “30” Traced To Time When
Reporters Used xxx For Endings
What does ‘Thirty’ at the end't'
of your copy mean?” Is a question
that is always being asked re
porters. Recently ' the staff did
some research and found out the
origin of this term, which is used
in newspaper offices and at the
ends of radio broadcasts alike.
These are a few of the stories
as they found them:
When newspaper stories . were
written by hand and not on type
writers, ‘x’ indicated a period, ‘xx’
the end of a paragraph, and ‘xxx’
the end of a story.
One melodramatic tale is that
during a disaster information was
being wired to the outside world
by a telegrapher whose number
was thirty. One by one, his as
sistants left him, but he remained
at his telegraph key until he was
killed. The last thing he sent over
the wire was ‘thirty.’
One that sounds more logical is
that early telegraph operators had
a code of their own for sideline
conversation on the wire. The fig
ure ‘1’ meant ‘wait a minute,’ ‘13’
was ‘what’s the matter?,’ and ‘30’
meant the ‘end of item,’ Newspa
per men picked up ‘30’ for use in
their work.
And here’s the last: there was
a reporter who sent dispatches to
his office by messenger. The office
closed at 3 o’clock, so at the bot
tom of the last sheet he would
put ‘3 o’clock.’ It was gradually
shortened to ‘3 o,’ and finally to
‘30.’
The members of the staff have
grammar on the brain, but they
also have printers’ ink in their
veins, and they wouldn’t think of
finishing their copy without writ
ing “30”.
—30-
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McCracken Praises Aggies,
A. & M. System of Athletics
(Editor’s note: The following is
an excerpt from a column written
by Bob McCracken for the De
cember 7 issue of the Corpus
Christ! Caller.)
The Texas-A. & M. game was a
thriller. The Lookout enjoyed it
immensely, and reveled in the
Aggies victory. A. & M. is a great
institution, and in winning the
Southwestern Conference title this
year, it achieved more fame and
attention than had it hired the
brainiest professor in the world.
Perhaps it’s irony, but it’s also
true, and from every standpoint,
educational as well as athletic, the
Aggies deserved their well-earned
victory.
In scholastic achievement, prac
tical education and training and
on the playing field, A. & M., in
the Lookout’s opinion, is Texas’
most typically native school. The
courses it features return men to
the soil, to the great outdoors, and
none, the Lookout wagers, can
boast a better record of successful
graduates. Students there must
be adapted to their chosen pro
fessions to stick through the four
years, they know and practice a
constitutional equality and there
is a minimum of the gleam and
-glitter than so often fits square
pegs into round holes at the uni
versities. Perhaps it is merely
coincidence, but the Lookout has
never known an A. & M. graduate
who couldn’t make ends meet
somehow.
The Lookout, for one, is enjoy
ing the prospect of having the
football team from that institution
represent this truly individual
state on one of the limelighted
gridirons of the nation. In good
seasons and bad alike any oppon
ent is at a disadvantage against
the Texas Aggies; they must play,
not 11 men, but the entire cadet
corps. The school has spirit,
rough, ready and health.
Time was when the Lookout
viewed with alarm the alleged
over-emphasis of football in high
schools and colleges. Speedily, he
is losing that idea, particularly as
it may be applied to colleges such
as A. & M. where the team, its
play and record belong to every
one enrolled, not only the coach
and the boys he drills.
If sports, and particularly foot
ball, are overemphasized in this
country, there is excellent reason.
In what other branch of human
endeavor are ethics, the rules of
the game, so carefully enforced
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and abided by? A crooked politi
cian is unmasked, but few are
surprised by the big black head
lines; we take it as matter of fact,
to be expected. Thugs, bandits,
liars, cheats are known to every
branch of society and business;
terrible indeed must be their mis
deeds to get more than a shrug.
Not so on the football fields,
the baseball diamonds, the cinder
path and so on. There, a man
is submitted to the closest scrutiny,
praised for his good work, sym-
nathized with in his mistakes, if
he only plays fair.
A player throwing a game for
pay from the gambling gentry, one
who carries a blackjack onto the
field to maim his opponents, are
not tolerated. Crookedness, cruelty,
mean deceit on the more popular
fields of sport would result in a
real national scandal.
No, football in colleges and pub
lic schools is not over-emphasized.
All in all, its good points out
weigh the bad and the fault is not
in emphasis, but in concentration.
Develop it, spread it out so all
who are physically fit may partici
pate, such as is done at Texas
A. & M., and it ranks second to
none as a course of college train
ing. It teaches men how to win
and lose, and how to play the game.
Census Bureau “TCU”
Team Wins Title
FORT WORTH. — T. C. U. —
national champions for 1939!
This time it was a seven-man
team playing touch football, in
the nation’s capital, Washington, D.
C., playing as the “Horned Frogs”,
that won a championship.
In the Census Bureau of the
federal government, eight touch
football teams, orgamzed under the
direction of Eugene Huddleston, T.
C. U. ex-student, played the ban
ners of Columbia, Dartmouth,
Minnesota, Yale, Notre Dame,
Stanford, Missouri, and Texas
Christian.
The “Frogs” went throtigh the
season undefeated, and won the
league championship. They then
played the champions from the De
partment of Agriculture—and won
77 to 2.
Trophies were presented to the
winning players at a “victory ban
quet” by Sam Baugh and Ki Al
drich, with Phil Handler and Mel
vin Diggs, two other ex-Frog let-
termen, as honored guests.
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