Sports Galore In Store For Aggies At New Orleans
E-CCJeep' OATES
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Aggies Are Guests Of Pretty Sonja Henie
Who Is Sweetheart Of Champion Team
Last Saturday evening the Ag
gie football team, champions of
the nation, went to Houston as
honor guests of Sonja Henie whom
the Aggies have selected as sweet
heart of the team. They gave the
beautiful blonde skating star a “T”
blanket and a silver football.
Sonja, with a smile as big as
Texas on her face, shook hands
with every member of the party,
and just before she went back to
her dressing room Odel Herman
said, “Aren’t you going to kiss the
captain?” Sonja turned and asked,
“Who is the captain?” Herman
meekly replied, “I am,” whereupon
Sonja planted a big smack on the
side of his face. Herman has
sworn that he will not wash his
face until after Christmas. For
that matter I have seen none of
the bunch washing their hands
since that long to be remembered
night!
It was one of the most beautiful
shows that this writer has ever
witnessed. How that bunch can
skate! And if Miss Henie and
about half of her girls are looking
for someone to get in double har
ness with, the Aggie football team
is waiting.
Five Aggies Are Selected All-Conference
By Almost Every Guy Who Makes A Pick
John Kimbrough, Marshall Rob-
nett, Herb Smith, Joe Boyd and
James Thomason have been picked
on nearly every All-Conference
team that has come out. Ernie
Pannell has popped up and made
a few of the teams that are pick
ed on the basis of ability instead
of pre-season choice.
And so they fired Jimmy Kitts.
It must be hell on a man to
be flattered one night and then
fired the next morning, and all
by the same bunch of men.
It was pretty well known that
he would be let out after such a
deplorable season. Kitts made his
error by not beating them to the
draw and resigning when the as
sistant coach did. That is the life
of a football coach, however. There
are seven men in the Southwest
who are sitting on TNT and it is
liable to go off at any minute.
This Writer Wishes Every Aggie Best
Of Cheer During The Holiday Period
This is the last issue of this
paper until after the holidays and
this writer wishes to take this
means of wishing every student
and his friends a MERRY CHRIST
MAS AND A HAPPY NEW
YEAR.
I hope you will all be able to
follow the Aggies to New Orleans.
But wherever you are on the fijrst
day of the new year, be giving
the old Aggies all the support you
can.
“Hitler,” says an overseas dis
patch, “was beside himself.” We
can only say that a fellow is known
by the company he keeps.
After all, there are but two de
pendable ways to get a person to
do somethings he’d rather not do:
Pay him, or scare him.
WISHING ALL OF YOU A
MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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Bottom row, left to right: Herb Smith, Marland Jeffrey, Ed Robn ett, Walemon Price, Marion Pugh, Frank Wood, William Henderson,
and Joe Rothe.
Second row: Harris Browder, Finis White, Charles Henke, Marshall Robnett, Tommie Vaughn, Euel Wesson, James Thomason, John
Kimbrough, Henry Force.
Third row: William Conatser, Derace Moser, Odel Herman, William Miller, Hugh Boyd, Bill Buchanan, James Sterling, James
Williams, John Reeves.
Fourth row: Marshall Spivey, William Duncan, John Abbott, Zolus Motley, Bill Blessing, Leon Rahn, Harold Cowley, William Dawson.
Fifth row: Howard Shelton, Joe White, Jack Kimbrough, Chip Routt, Carl Geer, Chester Heimann, Joe Boyd, Gus Bates.
Sixth row (center): Roy Bucek, Henry Hauser, George Williams.
Top row: Backfield coach, Marty Karow; line coach. Bill James; assistant coach, H. R. McQuillan; head coach, Homer Norton;
assistant coach, Lilburn Dimmitt; assistant coach. Manning Smith; and assistant coach Harry Faulkner.
AGGIE P0L0ISTS
LOSE TO LAMESA
The Aggies lost their second
game to the Lamesa Polo Club
Sunday by the score of 9 to 4.
Outstanding members of the win
ning aggregation were Gus White
and Eri Barrom, each of whom
scored three goals while Carl Ma
loney and Sid McDonald of the
Aggies were scoring two each.
Last Friday this same team de
feated the Cadets by a score of 5
to 3 on Jackson Field.
Lamesa has one of the strongest
teams in this section of the coun
try. All of their players are vet
erans of many polo wars.
INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
Time to apply the brakes for
a short time. The Class B swim
ming meet is now on record, and
what a meet it was!
Four hundred and fifty boys in
the various events. That’s the
largest ever held. The preliminar
ies even ran over into Sunday.
This boy Taylor made the best
of his entries. Each boy was al
lowed to enter three events so he
proceeded to enter his quota and
set his team in fourth place with
his three first place wins. B Cav
alry owes five of its extra points
to him.
In the breast stroke, Eddie
Hedges and Tommy Reiner showed
the onlookers a bit of form as well
as speed.
And so it went; C Field Artillery
fish carried off 2nd place to stay
in the lead for the season stand
ing. They took the cross-country
meet earlier this year.
You can sure tell Christmas is
nearing around the Intramural Of
fice these days as everyone seems
to have a smile on his face and
is ready for the rest.
Spike is headed to the wide open
plains, Amarillo; “Mr. Penny” will
stick around the school a while;
“Mr. Dewey” will find it a relief
not to have to travel the 27 miles
from Navasota every morning be
fore eight; “Col. Andy” no doubt
will take a few more deer trips.
And speaking of deer trips, the
colonel’s eleven year old son, Rusty,
downed an eight point buck Sun
day. Here’s saying he’ll probably
get a new rifle for the day.
Well, the year has grown old
and needs a shave, so I will take
this opportunity to wish all of you
a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year. Hope I see you in New
Orleans.
BATTALIONA-
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1939
PAGE 3
Texas Junior College Conference
Chooses An All-Conference Eleven
Shortly after the close of the
1939 football season, the “Moun
taineer”, Schreiner Institute stu
dent newspaper, sent out invita
tions to all coaches in the Texas
Junior College Conference to name
their choices for an All-Conference
team. Five Texas junior college
coaches answered the call, and the
composite results of the coaches’
nominations are listed below:
(The Texas Junior College Con
ference now comprises all junior
college athletics in Texas, follow
ing a merger last year of the Cen
tral Texas Conference with the old
T.J.C.C. This year in football, Kil
gore won the state title by defeat
ing the Schreiner Mountaineers
13-0. Schreiner, although nominally
runner-up, was dropped to third
place because Paris Junior College
had played one more game than
Schreiner, and all standings were
computed on a percentage basis.)
FIRST TEAM
Leonard Dickey, Kilgore
James O’dell, Lon Morris
Hays, John Tarleton
C. Jungmichel, Kilgore
O. McKee, Paris
Loyce Baillio, Kilgore
Harold King, Schreiner
Charley Smith, Schreiner
Clyde Stone, Paris
Wallace Driskill, Schreiner
Dell Taylor, Kilgore
Position
end
tackle
guard
center
guard
tackle
end
QB
HB
HB
FB
F FIELD ART.
FRESHMEN WIN
CLASS B SWIM
Taylor Of B Cavalry
Is Standout Individual
The swimming fish of F Field
Artillery carried off the Class B
Swimming meet Sunday evening by
setting up 25 points to their
nearest competitors’ 20.
The preliminaries Saturday eve
ning attracted some 450 entries
with 150 boys swimming in the
100 ft. free style. This was a
big job for the officials and some
of the prelims were postponed un
til the next day.
The artillery team claimed both
the relay and the medley relay
to mark up 20 points and then car
ried off two individual places in
the races.
Robert Taylor of B Cavalry was
the individual star of the meet.
He alone captured fourth place
for his troop by winning three first
places and setting a total of 15
points.
Winners of the various events
are as follows:
400 ft. relay—F. FA; C. FA,
time 1:10.
100 ft. breast-stroke—Hedges, B
CWS; Reiner, 2 CT FA, time 20.4.
100 ft. back stroke—Taylor, B
Cav; Baird, F FA, time 18.4.
100 ft. free style—Taylor, B
Cav; McBride, C FA, time 16.
Diving—Hedges, B CWS; Higby,
B Eng.
100 yd. free style—Taylor, B
Cav; Rogers, C CWS, time 1 min
ute.
Medley relay—F FA; B CWS;
C FA; 1 Hq FA; Hq Cav.
Track, Tennis,
Basketball, Water
Events Featured
Program Gets Under
Way December 27; Aggie-
Tulane Game Is Climax
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 18.—An
nouncements by President Herbert
Benson of two water events com
pletes the annual Sugar Bowl pro
gram of sports festivities which
will be climaxed oh New Year’s
Day with a gridiron classic bring
ing together the undefeated, untied
Aggies of Texas A.&M. and the
undefeated Greenies of Tulane Uni
versity.
Although the gridiron battle, for
which 70,000 tickets have been
sold, will be the big event of the
entire affair, the Sugar Bowl pro
gram first gets under way on De
cember 27 with a basketball game.
In this the Wildcats of the Uni
versity of Kentucky, Southeastern
Conference champions, will be
pitted against Ohio State, cham
pions of the Big Ten.
From then until the whistle on
New Year’s Day it will be one
sports event after another. On
December 28, the annual invita
tional tennis tournament starts
and runs four days through De
cember 31. On the 29th a box
ing tournament, bringing together
amateurs from Philadelphia vs.
New Orleans Simon Pures, will be
staged.
On December 31 the big event
is the track meet. For this such
outstanding stars as Glenn Cun
ningham, Archie San Romani, Don
Lash of Indiana, Walter Mehal of
Wisconsin, Tom Dechard, Indiana,
Blaine and Wayne Rideout of
North Texas State, Charlie Beeth-
em of Ohio and Louis Zaperinio
of Southern California have en
tered.
The two water events announced
by President Benson are rowing
and yachting. The rowing race
will be held on December 30 and
will bring together Rollins College
vs. the Orleans Rowing Club.
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