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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
John Kimbrough was everything
that has been said about him in
the Sugar Bowl game, but most
writers overlooked most of the rest
of the team.
Jim Thomason, Ernie Pannell,
Herb Smith, Tommie Vaughn,
Henry Hauser, Walemon Price,
Marshall Robnett and James Ster
ling played the best games of their
careers.
Pannell was playing with one
All-American tackle and against
another, but big Ernie was the
best tackle on the field. One writ
er went so far as to pick an All-
Bowl team and he placed Dofour,
a sub tackle for the Green Wave
on it, leaving out Pannell, but
that writer must have been drunk
or else he was watching Ernie and
had Dofour’s name in mind.
The Rose Bowl offers a great
flower show, but they are having
to play second fiddle to the Sugar
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Texas vs. Aggie
Football Game
SATURDAY, JAN. 6.
6:30 8:30
Bowl as far as the ball games are
concerned. It is a shame that
Tennessee and Tulane did not get
to tangle in their own conference.
If they had, Tennessee would have
been able to stay at home with
their band because Tulane would
have murdered them.
This corner thinks that the best
two teams in the nation battled it
out in New Orleans in a fine ex
hibition of offensive power football
that also had enough deception.
. The Aggies lived up to their
promise that they would refuse
to be beaten.
We hope the conference does not
vote to pledge their champion foot
ball team to the Cotton Bowl. This
bowl business has gone far
enough. As it stands now the
Pacific Conference team is nailed
to the Rose Bowl. There is no
rule that makes the Southeast Con
ference Champion play in the
Sugar Bowl, but any time they do
come up with a team that is worth
playing it will certainly be invited
to be the host team in New Or
leans.
The Big Ten will not allow its
teams to play post-season games,
and Pitt and Notre Dame seem
headed for that conference. The
Ivy League will not permit its
teams to engage in bowl frays. So
with all of that, where are you
going to get three teams that are
worth playing to play in the bowls ?
The Orange Bowl is also still to
be considered.
Dallas has nothing to offer in
the way of a show and all that
would be there would be the ball
game. It is also true that prob
ably the greatest football is being
played in the Southwest now, but
where would they be able to get
teams that are worthy to play in
the Cotton Bowl?
The Sugar Bowl is going to be
enlarged before next year and will
Congratulations
TO THE
BEST FOOTBALL
TEAM OF ALL
May This New Year Be
A Prosperous One
For You
STUDENT CO-OP.
North Gate
Kimbrough
Scores Twice
AgainstTulane
73,000 Football Fans
Crowd Stadium for Game
By E. C. “Jeep” Oates
It was before some 73,000 yell
ing, bellowing, gayly dressed, foot
ball-hungry fans that the Texas
Aggies kept their undefeated and
untied record clean by defeating
a great Tulane team 14 to 13 in
the Sugar Bowl classic, the now
number one bowl game of the
world.
The victory left the Aggies with
undisputed possession of the title
“National Champions.”
It was John Kimbrough, the
greatest fullback that has ever
pulled on a cleated shoe, who
crossed the Tulane goal twice, and
it was Walemon Price, playing his
last and greatest game, who coolly
stood back and booted two perfect
extra points; but it was the entire
Aggie squad that helped make this
possible. It was little Herb Smith
who swept in and blocked the
last try for conversion by Tulane,
a fete that may have won the
game.
Tulane had a great team and a
worthy team. They played the
Aggies the best game of the year,
but they were playing a team that
be able to pay its teams around
$90,000, and the Rose Bowl pays
something like that. So with that
dough standing there it seems that
the Southwest Conference champ
would have to take the third best
team of what would be left to
play—or when you get down that
low maybe you would call it the
worst of what was left!
In a few days that Athletic
Council will meet and in that meet
ing the contract of Coach Norton
will be decided. We think that
Norton is a fine man and a swell
coach. We think that players would
like to have him retained. But
it sums up like this. He is due
at least a five-year contract with
a substantial raise.
The University of Texas pays
one D. X. Bible $15,000 a year,
and we won’t say that he does
not earn it. But if Texas is able
to pay that for Bible then A. &
M. should be able to pay Norton
some such figure. He certainly
has earned it.
We will have to give “Cotton”
Price a bucket of roses for the
outstanding work he did in his last
ball game for the Aggies. His
passing was tops, completing
eight out of 15 and three more of
them were perfect strikes that
were dropped or else something
else happened. His blocking for
Kimbrough and some of the other
backs was deadly. He played a
bang-up defensive game.
In 1937 he started his confer
ence career by kicking the extra
point that gave the cadets a 7 to
7 tie with T. C. U., and now he
has ended his career by kicking
the winning point against Tulane
in the greatest game of many sea
sons.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1939
PAGE 3
Dean Kyle To Resign as Chairman Of
A.&M. Athletic Committee This Month
When the football banquet is
held later on this month the play
ers and coaches will be very happy,
the players from winning and re
ceiving their deserved awards and
the coaches from winning and hav
ing a great ball club. But at the
same time, their hearts will feel
sorrow, the sorrow of losing a
great man, a man who has done
more for athletics at dear old
Aggieland than any other living
soul.
That man is Dean E. J. Kyle,
chairman of the Athletic Council,
whose resignation from the council
will become effective at that time.
Dean Kyle has been connected
with athletics at the school since
1903 when he first became chair
man. He resigned in 1911, but
came back as a member of the
council in 1925 and was made
chairman again in 1932. He re
signed in 1934 and then came
back again as chairman in 1937.
refused to be beaten and with that
they had two strikes against them
before they started.
Kimbrough scored in the first
quarter on a plunge after the
cadets had got the ball near the
Green Wave goal on a penalty.
Price added the conversion.
In the third quarter a quick-
kick went over Kellog’s head and
as he trotted back to get it, the
ball bounced into his arms and he
weaved to the left as he turned
around, Marshall Robnett strived
to get him, but he was too fast
and the rest of the Aggies were
blocked out. The point was added
after the little redhead completed
his 78-yard dash. In the fourth
period Tulane marched to the Ag
gie goal and Butler crashed over
for the counter to put the Wave
ahead 13 to 7. It was at this point
that Herb Smith broke through
and blocked the try for point.
The cadets took the ball after
this and marched 79 yards on
seven plays for the touchdown and
tying point just before Price stood
back and booted a perfect goal
while the other Aggies gave him
plenty of time as they held for
keeps.
Norton’s charges were headed
for another touch when the game
ended with them having the ball
on the Tulane seven yard line.
They could have had the other
touchdown, but they were satisfied
with just victory and took their
full 30 seconds in getting their
plays off on their last march, and
the clock beat them to the goal.
Though the game was played in
1940, it ended the greatest season
of football that the Aggies or
most any other team has ever had.
A new defensive record and the
third national title for the school
during the last year.
Dean Kyle has always been call
ed back to the council when the
going looks black and the grand
old Aggie has always been the man
for the task and has always
brought A. & M. athletics back to
the top.
He has given as his reasons for
resigning the fact that he has
too many other duties and we all
know that he does have many more
duties than a man can carry and
stand up under. Besides being
Dean of the School of Agricul
ture, he is a director of the Luling
Foundation, a director of the Farm
Credit Administration, and partici
pates in many other activities. He
is an authority on many phases of
agriculture and is called on many
times to make trips to far-away
places to advise and explain. He
is an authority on some phases of
tariff. His duties are too many
to number and some of them can
not even be named.
The Dean’s health will just not
permit, and he is forced to give
up his position on the council.
Few people know the long hours
that the Dean has put in and the
valuable work that he has done
in aiding in giving A. & M. its
national championship team.
He is not leaving just after our
winning a championship and leav
ing nothing for his successor, for
in 1940 the Aggies should be
stronger than they were this sea
son. If the man who takes his
place fills the job just half as well
as Dean Kyle everyone will be
more than happy.
The Dean is giving up a great
pleasure because he would rather
be with a bunch of boys than any
thing on earth.
INTRAMURAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
A new year, and what a year
it should be! Everyone seems to
be picking “All” teams but I’ve
decided to wait until the end of
the year before sticking my neck
out, that is, if I still have a neck
to stick out! Some of these foot
ball teams with the funny paper
characters might be pretty good.
The opening of the year in in
tramurals yesterday was marked
by a series of “first” games. Class
A speedball made its appearance,
as did Class B ping pong late in
the evening.
Speedball promises some good
games and maybe a few hot dis
cussions as to how it should be
played and how it was played.
As for pingpong, many of the
fish will get to loiter in the “Y”
for a few afternoons. Maybe there
will be some of these fast matches
where these boys stand about
twelve feet from the table.
There will be a meeting of all
intramural managers, freshman as
well as upperclassman, in the “Y”
parlor Monday night immediately
after supper, Mr. Penny said to
day. It must be important, so
mark it up.
In the next two weeks, upper
classman touch-football and water
polo should be brought to an end.
The play-offs start next week and
the fish play-offs will soon start
also.
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Aggies in 1st
Conference
Game Tonight
Play T.C.U. Frogs In
Gym Tonight at 7:30
Aggie cagers take to the floor
here tonight in Memorial Gym
against the T. C. U. Frogs in their
first Southwest Conference game
of the year. The game will start
at 7:30 p. m.
The Aggies have suffered de
feat during past month in pre
season games while the T. C. U.
team has made a much better
showing.
In their annual Christmas tour
the Aggies came out on the under
side of the half way mark, winning
only one of four games.
East Central Teachers College
of Ada, Oklahoma, was the first
to score on the A. & M. team and
handed them their first defeat, 38
to 32.
From Ada, the team went to
Tulsa to enter the Tulsa Cage
Tournament. The first match was
lost by a narrow three points to
Kansas Wesleyan 43 to 40.
Northwestern Teachers was the
only victim of the Aggies. The
win was in their first consolation
match and was done in an overtime
period with the final score, A. &
M. 46, Northwestern Teachers of
Oklahoma 43.
One point was the difference in
the score with Southwestern Teach
ers of Oklahoma.
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