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HO."HUB" JOHMSON EATTALION SPORTS EDITOR College Night Tonight With Keeton and Bland in Driver’s Seat Texas A&I Trips San Jose 10 to 0 Tonight is College Night. This is one night long remembered in the passing events of all Aggies. It is the time at which just another freshman is introduced to the first bit of Aggie Spirit. Upperclassmen have long talked of the night as the years roll by. Freshmen have looked at their cal endar and often wondered as to the GREATER PALACE THURS. - FRI. - SAT. Rosalind Russell - Brian Ahearne —in— “HIRED WIFE^ with Virginia Bruce - Robert Benchley PREVUE 11 P. M. SAT. NIGHT “THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE” with Martha Raye - Allan Jones - Joe Penner Rosemary Lane Also Shown Sunday - Monday WELCOME AGGIES Our sincerest welcome to you all. For Expert and Economical Work SEE US. AMERICAN STEAM LAUNDRY BRYAN ses. STUDIO Knights of Columbus Hall Phone Bryan 536 JOSEPHINE ROVELLO Announces the Opening of Her SCHOOL OF DANCING WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18TH * Classes and Private Instruction in all forms of the Dance and Personality Singing. * Ballroom classes for Adults, College, High School and Junior High School students. * Special Working Girls and Ladys Exercise Clas- .. Jlcuwuisui,,. HOME AND BACK BY Railway Express! Direct as a "touchdown pass” is the campus-to*home laundry service offered by RAILWAY EXPRESS. We call for your laundry, take it home ... and then bring it back to you at your college address. It’s as quick and convenient as that! You may send your laundry prepaid or collect, as you prefer. Low rates include calling for and delivering in all cities and principal towns. Use RAILWAY EXPRESS, too,for swift shipment of all packages and luggage. Just phone SOUTHERN PACIFIC DEPOT Phone 9 College Station, Texas Rai lwa^^Expre s s agency Inc. San Jose Defeat Is the First In Over Forty Years For the fourth time in forty starters the San Jose eleven was dumb-founded last Monday as the Texas A. & I. Javelinas ran up a 10 to 0 score over the California eleven. After a long and tiresome trip to the West Coast by bus rather than by train as most squads travel these days, the Texas team was expected to be sort of a push over for the team that led the nation in running up the points last year. But reversing the tables, the Art and Industries’ team paid back the defeat of last year and added one point to boot. Last year the San Jose team won by 9 to 0. A 56 yard march set the ball in scoring position late in the second quarter and John Vargo crossed on a quarterback sneak. John Hilliard substituting for Sacks Mattingly converted for the seventh point and later in the third period kicked a field goal after line play failed to gain on the fifty yard line. What makes the Javelina victory so outstanding is that they defeated a team which was undefeated and untied for three years and has as its coach Ben Winkleman and Glenn (Pop) Warner, two of the nation’s renowned coaches. “I am looking for a lot of trouble BATTALION, Thursday, September 19 Page 5 Williamson Picks Duke As Nation’s Number One Team meaning. Probably the best words to the freshmen are those “Jeep” Oates offered last year. “You are all AGGIES. That word means something to most of us, football players and all. The ball club is part of the school and a part of us. We back the ball club, win, loose, or draw, and we expect you to do the same. We have a team made up of Aggies, not one of high-priced, highly-touted, out- of-state thugs.” The team to be introduced to you tonight is the team we are to boost this year and much the same as the one we boosted last year. It is your team if you are to be an AGGIE. In the drivers seat will be Buster Keeton and Foots Bland, senior yell leaders. These two men have talked the Aggie spirit from the “Brazos Bottoms” far into every part of the state and into many foreign states. This year they will take it to the West Coast as the squad faces the U. C. L. A. Bruins. Yesterday after a heated discus sion on the coming season, Foots Bland gave a bit of warning which is well worth repeating. “The twelfth man this year has the heaviest burden ever known by an A. & M. twelfth man of A. & M. College, and this should be realized by every member of the student body. “There is a tendency to look too far ahead by a great num ber of us and I sincerely hope that this will be forgotten and that our proceedings will be a bit more cautious for we are in a hot place. “All of the other teams are going to be after us and doing all in their power to knock us down. So please forget we were ever ‘No. 1’ team of the nation and stay behind the boys game for game, ’cause that is the way they are looking at it and are going to play it. And if we keep that good old fight up, we will be able to give every team a darn good fight.” NATION-WIDE RAIL-AIR SERVICE Quality Flowers QUICK DELIVERY We Wire Flowers Anywhere WYATT’S Flower Shop Phone Bryan 93 (Editor’s note — Beginning to-- day the Battalion will publish Paul B. Williamson’s weekly rating of football teams and his predictions of forthcoming games.) By Paul B. Williamson The Blue Devils of Duke Uni versity should win the mythical title of national football champions this season. The dazzling Dukes from Durham, N. C., brilliantly coached by Wallace Wade, are primed to wipe out that 14-13 smear by Pitt last year and punch through a tough schedule to top grid honors in 1940. If the pre-season dope I have gathered from more than 700 col leges run true, these fifteen teams in our game with them,” Norton said. “Coach Bud McCallum is mighty good at turning out a lot of trick offenses and particularly defense setups. That is what is worrying me. And on top of that they have a fine team down there this year. One of the best they have ever had,” he added. should end the 1940 season in this order: 1. Duke 2. Ohio State 3. Washington 4. Tulane 5. S. M. U. 6. Princeton 7. Oregon State 8. Nebraska 9. Georgia Tech 10. Cornell 11. Baylor 12. North Carolina 13. Penn State 14. Marquette 15. Oklahoma A. & M. The Mustangs are out to dupli cate their great ’35 season, and with the class A talent Coach Mat ty Bell has available, it looks as if they will. The pass flinging Texans have talent galore—capa ble, seasoned, and versatile. Watch backs like Johnston, Mullenweg, Mallouf, and Clement carry the Methodist to football glory this fall. The Baptists play in a tough league down Texas way, but this WELCOME AGGIES... For Years We Have Photographed Aggies and Our Work Speaks For Itself. AGGIELAND STUDIO North Gate year, reinforced by a crack ’39 frosh outfit, the boys from Waco hope to win the pennant—provided they knock off the mighty Texas Aggies. Coach Morley Jennings hasn’t toasted a conference cham pionship for sixteen years, but this is the year, say Baylor rooters. Predictions The first week-end for big-name football teams will be mostly prac- (Continued on Page 6) Welcome Back Aggies . . . We are ready to serve jyou with the best of foods . . . We Specialize in Mexican Foods, Mexican Dinners, Enchiladas . . . E-TEX CAFE Highway 6 - Bryan i j It’s Time ... ... to go and get our in-between-class | “Snak.” i MEET THE GANG ! at 4GGIELAND GROCERY Campus WELCOME AGGIES... Come up and spend your extra time, for you can have lots of fun. 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