Bears And Cadets In Cage Meet Here Tonight
E.CJcep' OATES
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Could Kyle’s Talk Have Been the Match
That Helped Set Off Championship Bomb?
Following is the talk that Dean
E. J. Kyle, Athletic Council chair
man, made to the football team
on September 8 when the team re
ported for early fall practice.
The boys went through the sea
son showing the same spirit that
is mentioned in his talk.
This column feels that it is fit
ting and proper to reprint this
at the present:
“I want to talk this morning
from the depth of my heart to the
members of the football squad
and the coaches about our athletic
situation.
“In 1903, I became Chairman of
the Athletic Council. I served un
til 1911, when I resigned. As a
matter of fact, I resigned in 1910
but agreed to remain an additional
year after the entire student body
had signed a petition making that
request.
“I went back on the Council in
1925 upon request of President
Bizzell and Ike Ashburn, primar
ily to assist in pacifying the form
er students on account of the few
unsuccessful seasons that Coach
Bible had had.
“I became Chairman of the
Council in 1932 and directed nego
tiations that brought Homer Nor
ton to this institution in 1934. I
resigned from the Council that
fall when I became a Director
in the Federal Land Bank.
“I again went back on the Coun
cil during the football season of
1937 over the bitter opposition of
the members of my family, not
that they were not interested in
athletics, but because they knew
of the heavy responsibilities that
rested on the Chairman of Athlet
ics, when he took his duties ser
iously.
“I came back on the Council
for one definite purpose—that was
to do my bit in helping bring to
this student body, this “Old Army,”
another championship team.
“I wonder if you men realize
what a championship team would
mean to the A. & M. College? It
would turn this Institution upside
down. There is nothing, in my
mind, that the college needs more
than a champion football team.
“Have you ever thought what a
championship team would mean to
you individually? It would give
you a thrill and a degree of sat
isfaction that would follow you
through life. You would never
reach a time that you would not
be proud of that accomplishment.
“What are the factors that make
a championship possible? Here
they are:
“1. You must have an exper
ienced, well balanced, efficient
coaching staff. I know we have
that.
“2. You must have an experi
enced, well balanced, high class
football squad. Everybody knows
that we have that.
“3. That isn’t all. Every mem
ber of the team and coaching staff
must have the desire and will to
win.
“4. Every member of this or
ganization must be willing to give
everything he has to accomplish
that end.
“5. In addition to all of this,
every member of this squad must
have complete faith and confidence
in the coaching staff.
“I attended a luncheon this
spring in Memphis, Tennessee,
given by the Shriners to the Mem
phis baseball team and Connie
Mack and his Athletics on their
way up North. Connie Mack was
called on for a talk and he gave
this experience that I will never
forget and which I hope will have
its influence on the members of
this club.
“He had won four world cham
pionships and his ambition was to
win his fifth. In the last game
of the season when it was decided
that his club would represent his
league in the World Series, Con-j
nie Mack decided that he would
not use any of his three great
pitchers. He walked into the
dressing room and told Howard
Empky, only an average pitcher
but a man who always gave every
thing he had when he was in the
box, that he wanted to see him in
the next room. When they were
alone, Connie Mack said: ‘Howard,
I am sorry, but it looks like we
have come to the parting of the
ways. I do not see how I can
use you after today.’'Empky’s face
fell for a moment, then he raised
his chin, looked Connie Mack
square in the face and said: ‘Mr.
Mack, I have been in the big league
for sixteen years. My one hope
and ambition has been to play in
a World Series’ game. I want you
to know that I still have a World
Series’ championship victory stor
ed away in my right arm and 1
dare you to give me a chance to
show it.’ Connie Mack replied:
‘Howard, that is what I wanted to
hear you say. You are going to
pitch the first game and no one is
to know that but you and I un
til the game starts.’
“On the day of the game, after
Connie Mack had called from the
bull pen the last of his three great
pitchers, one of his greatest play
ers who was sitting next to him
turned and said: ‘Connie, are you
going to pitch Howard Empky to
day?’ Connie Mack replied: ‘Yes.
Don’t you like it?’ This great
player then said: ‘Connie, if you
like it, I like it.’
“I want to say, in conclusion,
my young friends, that if that same
spirit can prevail on this club
this year, no team can stop you.”
Southwest Conference Has New Coach-
Jess Neely, Kitts’ Successor, at Rice
Jess Neely, Clemson head coach,
accepted the position of head foot
ball coach of Rice Institute last
Wednesday to succeed Jimmy Kitts.
Neely, whose Clemson Tigers
lost only one game all season and
climaxed their brilliant play by
a 6-3 victory over Boston College
in the Cotton Bowl, notified J. T.
McCants, chairman of the commit
tee on outdoor sports at Rice, of
his acceptance of the position by
telephone from South Carolina.
Although terms of the contract
have not been announced, it is
supposed that Neely will receive
a long-term contract with a larger
salary than Kitts’ $7,500 per
year.
Kitts had been head coach at
Rice for six years, and his teams
won the only two conference
championships that Rice has ever
gained in football. He was dis
charged this year after a disas
trous season, in which his team
won only one game.
Neely handed in his resignation
to Dr. Lee W. Milford, chairman
of the Clemson athletic council,
Wednesday. He had coached at
Clemson since 1931, having his
agreement to coach renewed each
year. It was this lack of a writ
ten contract which made it pos
sible for Neely to resign without
any difficulty.
Neely played football and grad
uated at Vanderbilt University
Since his graduation, he has
coached at the Murphreesboro,
Tenn., High School, University of
Alabama, and Clemson. This year
his team dropped a 7-6 decision
to Tulane for its only loss of the
year. The Tigers drubbed the
Navy, 15-7, in one of their major
triumphs of the year.
1940 A. & M. BASKETBALL CALENDAR
Jan. 13—Baylor University at.
College Station.
Jan. 18—Rice Institute at Col
lege Station.
Jan. 20—S. M. U. at College Sta
tion.
Jan. 23—Rice Institute at Hous
ton.
Jan. 30—Baylor University at
Waco.
. Feb. 16—University of Arkansas
at College Station.
Feb. 17—University of Arkansas
at College Station.
Feb. 21—University of Texas at
Austin.
Feb. 24—Texas Christian Univer
sity at Fort Worth.
Feb. 26—S. M. U. at Dallas.
Mar. 2—University of Texas at
College Station.
Jo-Jo White
Elected Prexy
Of ‘V Club
Bill Duncan, Durward
Varner, and Bill Dawson
Fill Other Club Offices
Thursday night at a meeting
of all athletes who have won the
coveted “T” in major sports, Jo-Jo
White was elected president, Bill
Duncan, vice president, Durward
Varner, secretary and treasurer,
and Bill Dawson, sergeant-at-arms
of the “T” Club for this year.
White, Duncan and Dawson are
football lettermen with Dawson
also having won his spurs in
basketball. Varner is from the
basketball team.
Plans for the annual “T” Club
dance and sports day were brought
up and the date set for the dance
is March 15 and it will be held in
the banquet room of the mess hall.
“This is conflicting with the Engi
neer’s ball, but the conflict will
hurt neither organization and
should aid in making the corps
dance better the following night,”
said Duncan.
Bowl Pictures Sunday
White announced that the techni
color pictures of the Sugar Bowl
game will be shown to the student
body Sunday afternoon at three
o’clock in the assembly hall. The
admission charge will be fifteen
cents. This film includes many
feet on the crowd, the bands, the
scenes from atop the stadium, and
the complete game.
The proceeds from this picture
will go to finance the “T” Club
dance.
White also announced that if
everyone could not get in to see
it at this time they will have an
other show.
M, INTRAMURAL
M HIGHLIGHTS
By HUB JOHNSON
A Signal Corps closed out C
Coast Artillery 8 to 0 in one of the
most impressive speedball games
of the season. They really seem
to mean business. A win in an
other sport and their past record
seems to be a fair warning that
they might be the surprise team
this year.
B Field Artillery and 1st Com
bat Train Field Artillery each won
a hand ball game in their series
Thursday and with time passing
rapidly decided to postpone the
last one. This leaves Brakebill
and Harris of the train and Shea
and Houston of Battery B kinda
on the spot. They’re the contest
ants to play the last match.
E Field Artillery received credit
for two handball games on the
same day recently. It all came
when B Coast Artillery forfeited
too many games and was dropped
from the league. The actual win
by playing for the Artillery team
was from the 2 to 1 defeat over
M Infantry.
Other winners in the closed room
game are A Infantry over F Engi
neers, 2 to 1; H Infantry by for
feit from the Milner Hall team;
A Field Artillery 3 to 0 over D
Infantry; and, 1 Hq. Field Artil
lery 3 to 0 over D Cavalry. It ap
pears that the F Engineer boys
are losing that winning spree. The
win by 1 Hq. Field gives them a
four win record with only ,one
game to go for the league title.
This seems to be the way they
slipped up on the rest last year.
Speedball wins were also regis
tered by 2nd Hq. Field Artillery
and the Hq. Signal Corps Com
pany. The Field team downed C
Coast Artillery 4 to 0 and the
Signal team also handed H Coast
Artillery a 4 to 0 defeat.
The freshmen are getting into
the heat of things now and a rath
er peculiar instance has arisen. In
one league of touch football con
taining five teams, three are tied
for second place with two wins and
two losses each. The other two
teams have yet to play their
fourth game. When it is played,
if C Infantry carried off the top
score over H Infantry, it will tie
the league up five-way. It stands
a pretty good chance to say that
it will be tied. Other teams of
this league are A Coast Artillery,
3rd Combat Train Field Artillery,
and B Engineers.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1940 PAGE 3
Baylor Cage Stars In Game Tonight
Three stars of the Bear basket
ball team who play the A. & M.
team here tonight are pictured
here. They are as follows: Happy
Shahan, (above), guard; Grady
Vaughn, (upper right), guard; and
Pete Creasy, (right), forward.
Expert Names
All-America
Sophomores
By C. L. Babcock
Football All-Americas may come
and go, but here is one that a
person can paste in his hat for
future reference. Dr. Baker, east
ern football expert who formerly
edited the Baker’s Weekly Foot
ball Tabloid, presents his All-
America sophomore stars whom he
asserts will be included in the big
All-Americas of the next year or
two. The selections were specially
prepared for the annual supple
ment of the weekly, What’s What
In Football, which was published
recently.
A quick glance at the first and
second teams of Dr. Baker’s nation
wide selection reveals that only
one Aggie earned a berth on the
squad. Jim Sterling was given a
wing post on the second team,
while Derace Moser and Harold
Cowley were placed on the honor
able mention list. These three Ag
gies were the only A. & M. play
ers to be mentioned, but Jack Crain
of Texas and Preston Johnston of
S. M. U. were placed on the first-
string backfield.
According to Dr. Baker’s fore
casts, the Southland will continue
to dominate in intersectional foot
ball for the next two years. This
prediction is based on the large
number of first-year varsity play
ers of exceptional promise from
these sections who are included in
POST OFFICE REPORTS
GAIN IN RECEIPTS
Mrs. R. F. Smith, postmaster of
College Station, reports a heavy
gain in postal receipts for Decem
ber. They ran 67 per cent above
those for the same month in 1938,
she states.
The gain for the final quarter
of 1939 was about 25 per cent over
the receipts for- the same period
the year before. The post office
has shown a steady gain each
month for the past five years,
according to Mrs. Smith.
In the early days at the Univer
sity of Arkansas, carrying conceal
ed weapons was such a common
practice that the faculty found it
necessary to make a special ruling
to force the students to leave their
shootin’ irons at home.
Dr. Baker’s survey of the coun
try’s topnotch football. This fore
cast should be exceptionally pleas
ing to the ears of the many Ag
gie followers, particularly if it
should be proved true next fall.
Aggies Lost to Baylor
Quint Twice Last Year
Bears Lose First Game of Season To
S. M. U.; Determined To Win Tonight
Still at home, the Aggies face the Baylor Bears tonight for both
teams’ second start. The game to be played in DeWare Field House,
will start at 7:30 p. m.
Last year the Aggies fell both times at the hands of the Waco
five. In the first game Dub Walters sunk four shots in the last nine
minutes to bring the Bears from behind and to eke out a 38 to 34 win.
The second game offered quite a"f
different story. The Aggies took
the lead, held it for five minutes,
and then fell behind never to see
the top again. This was the tilt
that showed the Aggies just what
to expect this year. Creasy, Gilbert,
Vaughn and others ran up a score
of 47 to 23 to hand the Aggies a
defeat that will long be remember
ed between the two schools. The
stars for Baylor in this game re
turn tonight to try again.
Pete Creasy, all-conference for
ward, will be the controller of speed
and deception for the Bears while
Grady Vaughn will offer his best
at guard position and yet mark
up a good number of the Bears’
tallies.
Eight lettermen compose the
squad with five sophomores al
ways pushing the experienced to
gain a spot. The Bears dropped
their opener to Southern Methodist
but are determined to regain their
foothold and give the best of teams
the toughest competition this year.
With last year’s remembrances,
the coaches extra special interest,
and the determination of each
team to be the dark horse of the
conference, the game will be the
one that might tell the position of
the two teams in the final standing.
PRICE ELECTED TO HEAD
POULTRY SCIENCE CLUB
Fred Price, junior poultry hus
bandry student, was recently elect
ed president of the Poultry Science
Club to succeed E. H. Roesner who
has served in that capacity during
the past year. Price is a native
of Cleburne. He was a member
of the Texas A. & M. Collegiate
Poultry Judging Team that rank
ed “Excellent” , at the World’s
Poultry Congress held in Cleve
land. Fred is 22 years of age
and is a member of E Company
Infantry. He will be a candidate
for the senior poultry judging team
next fall. Other officers elected
were M. A. Ellis, vice-president;
Donald Demke, secretary-treasur
er; and Jim Wilkerson, reporter.
Working with Roesner the past
year were Louis Jurcak, vice-pres
ident; Fred Swallow, secretary-
treasurer; and G. R. Davis, report
er.
The oil industry produces 40
per cent of all Texas’ manufactur
ed products.
Last Meeting Of
Quarterback Club
To Be Held Tuesday
The last meeting of the season
for the Quarterback Club has been
scheduled for Tuesday night at
7:30 in Guion Hall. Pictures of
the Sugar Bowl game will be
shown.
According to “Jacko” Roberts,
Captain of thei Quarterback Club, a
nominal charge of 25 cents will
be made for seeing the picture and
all proceeds therefrom will be giv
en to the “T” Club, an organiza
tion composed of Varsity letter-
men.
“The “T” Club has been granted
the privilege, by the Athletic De
partment, of showing the Sugar
Bowl pictures as a means of raising
money and the Quarterback Club
is glad to cooperate with the “T”
Club in helping that organization
to raise some much-needed money,”
Jocko said. “We have had the
privilege of seeing the picture free
of charge all season and we would
particularly like an expression
of appreciation by members of
the Quarterback Club for that
privilege by having a large crowd
of College and Bryan people on
hand Tuesday night.”
Dr. A. Benbow
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Austin Building — Bryan
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