THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940-
THE BATTALION
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Greatest Year In A. & M. Sports Predicted For ’40-’41
Football
Team Has
High Hopes
Tremendous Physical
Plant for Sports Is
Found at Aggieland
By E. C. “Jeep” Oates
Battalion Sports Editor
There is more to A. & M. than
math classes, petroleum labs, army
drilling, mess formations, banquets
and dances. One has only to look
at the many acres and the many
buildings, stadiums, swimming
pools, gyms, rifle and pistol rang
es, polo fields, intramural fields,
tennis courts, volleyball courts,
tracks, arenas, boxing and wrest
ling rings, etc., to see that the
Aggies have every kind of sport
for every kind of student.
In the last two years the Aggies
have had three national champion
ship teams, these being in football,
water polo, and pistolry. The pistol
team won two straight titles.
Last fall the Aggie football team
went through a 10-game schedule
undefeated and untied and then
defeated Tulane in the Sugar Bowl
classic to win the mythical na
tional title. Only three men were
lost from that great team and the
crew, led by All-American fullback
John Kimbrough, expect even a
greater year this fall. A. & M. has
had its share of All-Americans in
recent years. Joe Routt made it in
both 1936 and ’37 and then this
past year Joe Boyd and John Kim
brough took over banners. There
are four potential All-Americans
on the team for this fall: Kim
brough, Marshall Robnett who
made the second team last year at
guard, Ernie Pannell, the best tackle
in Aggie history, and Jim Thom
ason, blocking back.
Moving over to the basketball
team we find that the Aggies were
weak last season, but we are prom
ised a different looking picture for
the coming season. Coach Hub Mc
Quillan is rated as one of the out
standing basketball mentors in the
country. In the last couple of years
he has had little material but he
has surprised the rest of the con
ference by winning a goodly por
tion of the games.
The track outlook is bright. There
are five outstanding freshmen com
ing up and only two outstanding
varsity men are going out. Albert
Ricks of Houston is a potential
champion in the high jump and
pole vault. That sounds like the
end of the Rice-Texas supremacy.
In the last few years the Aggies
have been taking third behind Rice,
with a few specialty men, and Tex
as with a good array of track men.
The Cadets have beaten Rice in
dual and triangular meets consist
ently.
In baseball it appears that the
Aggies in ’41 will have the class
of the conference in pitching. Lefty
Bumpers, the ace left-hander this
season, will be back. Charlie Stev
enson of Austin and Walter Bass
of Houston will vie for the right-
hand twirling honors. Bill “Jitter
bug” Henderson, the high-scoring
basketball player from Houston,
will have the first-base slot filled
with his six foot four frame. Ma
rion “Dookie” Pugh of Fort Worth
will move to the outfield. Cecil
Ballow of Stephenville should set
the conference afire at shortstop
after his year of experience.
That takes care of the “Big
Four” sports, but looking across
the way we see a great swimming
team coming to the front. Bob Tay
lor, freshman star from Dallas this
past season, is ready to step out
and lay conference records on the
bank. As a freshman he bettered
several conference records every
time he stepped in the pool. His ad
dition to the rest of the veteran
swimming team should put the Ca
dets right with the top. Texas is
the only school that has ever beat
en them in a swimming meet in
the Southwest Conference.
The national champion pistol
team lost three of its members,
but will be back with another
strong team next year. There were
several squadmen and freshmen
who were ready to take the firing
line when the season closed.
The rifle team walked off with
the William Randolph Hearst tro
phy in the Eighth Corps Area.
Tennis, golf, polo and fencing
stand to be much stronger next
season. In golf the Aggies have one
of the outstanding men in the
game. Henry Hauser of Kerrville
is about tops in college golf circles
Looks Back Over Best Season
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Coach Homer Norton’s gridmen completed the most success
ful A. & M. football season in a score of years New Year’s Day when
they defeated Tulane in the Sugar Bowl. Norton came to A. & M.
in 1934 from Centenary College in Shreveport, La. He holds the
official title at A. & M. of Director of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Col. Ashburn Has Held Various Positions
At A. & M. College; Won Many Honors
One of the best-known persons'
on A. & M.’s campus is Colonel Ike
Ashburn, executive assistant to the
president. He has been at the col
lege for a number of years, off and
on. It was on Oct. 1, 1937, that he
returned to the college after a
ten-year absence. When he return
ed he took over the duties as as
sistant to President T. 0. Walton
and as director of publicity. The
latter position he relinquished in
September, 1936.
Colonel Ashburn first came, to A.
& M. College in 1913 from Fort
Worth, where he had been city edi
tor of the Fort Worth Record. He
was director of publicity then.
When the United States entered
the World War, he enlisted and
went overseas.
Following the war he returned to
the college as Commandant of ca
dets. He later was executive secre
tary of the Association of Former
Students, a post he held until he
resigned in 1927 to become general
manager of the Houston Chamber
of Commerce. He was manager of
the Texas Good Roads Association
and publisher of The Texas Parade,
a monthly magazine, for several
in the Southwest. He plastered de
feat on Buck Luce of Texas this
spring. Only once has he been beat
en on the college course.
Whatever a boy wants to do in
the way of sports, he need look no
place other than A. & M. to find
the coaches, the sports and the fa
cilities.
years before he returned to A. &
M.
Colonel Ashburn’s war record is
oustanding. He entered the first
Officers’ Training Camp at Leon
Springs, Texas, and graduated as
captain in the Infantry. He was
assigned as adjutant, 358th In
fantry, 90th Division, Camp Travis,
Texas, in August, 1917. He was
promoted to major, 2nd Battalion,
358th Infantry in December, 1917.
Overseas he was wounded in the
neck with a machine gun bullet,
remaining paralyzed for three
hours. This was September 12, 1918.
Two days later, he returned to com
mand and was wounded in the left
thigh by a sniper’s bullet. He then
remained in the hospital until Jan
uary, 1919, when he rejoined his
regiment as regimental executive
officer.
The colonel returned to the Unit
ed States in June, 1919.
As a result of his action over
seas, he was awarded the Distin
guished Service Cross; Order of the
Purple Heart by the United States;
Croix de Guerre, with palm (indi
cating two awards), and made a
chevalier of the Legion of Honor of
France.
ONLY STATE-OWNED HOTEL
The Aggieland Inn, which has
housed thousands of visitors to
Texas A. & M. College, is, believe
it or not, the only state-owned
hotel in the United States, although
the Federal government owns ho
tels located in national parks or
on other government property.
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Progressiveness, Versatility of Dean
Kyle Seen in Activities He Has Fostered
When it’s time for deer and quail
hunting, then Dean E. J. Kyle
is in his glory—that is, if he
takes time off to take part in these
sports. These two forms of hunt
ing are his favorites. You might
say they’re his hobbies. He likes
fishing too.
Dean Kyle takes a great interest
in his work, as might be gathered
from the number of years he has
been at A. & M. College and the
achievements he has made. He has
been an officer of the college since
1902. When the School of Agricul
ture was established in 1911 he was
made its dean. He helped build it
up, and for the past four years it
has been the largest agricultural
school in the world.
Kyle Field, the home of Aggie
athletes, bears this progressive
man’s name. It was he who organ
ized the Athletic Association at the
college. He encouraged sports at
the college and did his part when
ever he could.
His record shows how versatile
and progressive he is. It seems that
Dean Kyle has a knack for organ
izing and holding things together.
For twelve years he directed the
Farmers’ Short Course, which he
organized. He established the
Smith-Hughes Day at the College.
He conceived and developed the
idea of a memorial to the pioneer
stockmen of Texas which, after
sixteen years, took form in the
Animal Industries Building, dedi
cated in 1936.
DEAN E. J. KYLE
Since 1936 he has been a direc
tor in the Farm Credit Administra
tion. He has been a trustee of the
Ruling Foundation since its organi
zation in 1937. Dean Kyle is the
author of the state-adopted text on
elementary agriculture.
Anyone wanting a new project
organized would do well to see
Dean Kyle—he has the initiative
and will to put anything over.
An advertisement in a Boston
daily read: “Lazy, unattractive
girl seeking position; cannot type
write; cannot speak or translate
French, Italian, or Spanish; terri
ble with children; unable to drive
any car; no references.—Daunt
less.” Believe it or not, she got
a job!
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Still Religious, Say Most Students
A minority of students lose their,
religious faith when they come to
college, it was learned in a recent
poll of the nation’s colleges by the
Student Opinion Surveys of Amer
ica. In fact, 15 percent of the na
tion’s college students say that they
attend church more often at school
than when they are at home.
Thirty-nine percent attend with
about the same frequency as when
at home.
When asked if they went to
church regularly, occasionally, or
never, students of all faiths replied:
regularly, 40 percent; occasionally,
48 percent; never, 12 percent.
The poll, taken by personal in
terviewers from coast to coast,
provides an answer to the question
often asked: Do college students
lose some of their religiousness
when they leave home? A minor
ity, 46 percent, admit they attend
services less often than they did
before they arrived on the campus.
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