HO."HUB" JOHNSON
BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR
Tuscon Meets Up With All Expectations;
Negro Football Players New to Aggies
Tuscon, Arizona is a bit better""
than was expected. The University
of Arizona is a nice college with a
beautiful campus and football
field. It looks old and has a spirit
that can only be formed and weld
ed with years. Here we got our
first touch of the Negroes in col
lege with white students.
On one of the high school teams
we were shown a negro star and
every once in a while you can see
the two colors walking across the
campus hand in hand. Marshall
Robnett still says he’ll kill Jack
Robinson or he can’t play foot
ball.
While in El Paso some of the
party crossed the border and
brought back some Mexican shoes
for the players. Pugh’s were a bit
too large and he has been trying
to sell them all day.
At the School of Mines Stadium,
which is surrounded by the school
buildings, Dog Dawson reached for
the man many a time instead of
the pass and pretty near reached
same.
As we draw near the coast the
spirit of the team grows.
Last night at supper, Foots
Bland began to sing in a cafe. The
waiter requested to be warned
when he had laid his egg.
Jinx Tucker is still faced with
the combination of Bruce Layer
and Dick Freeman.
Train time is drawing near and
everyone is ready to board—see
you in California.
Out on a Limb With Some Predictions;
Pick Texas University to Run Second
Southern Methodist should add
another to her list and override
the Pitt Panthers.
Baylor plays her first conference
game today and will be minus the
services of Jack Wilson in the
backfield. Still they get the call
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over the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Texas with the best team in
years will turn back the Sooners
and stay in the undefeated list.
The two real limb sitters are the
T.C.U.-North Carolina tilt and the
Rice-L.S.U. fray. Climbing far out,
both southwest teams get the nod.
They’ll be close, and if they do lose,
it won’t be by a big margin.
Before the conference race gets
too far under way, it might be a
good idea to list them the way
they look now and for the final
count. At the first of the year, all
the teams were matched up and
their strength and alertness com
pared. Now we’ll pick them all but
the Aggies and you can put them
in where you see fit.
Texas University
T.C.U. and S.M.U. tie up with
S.M.U. the favorite.
Baylor
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Starting Line-ups
Texas A. & M. will be going after
their third win of the season this
afternoon in the Coliseum at Los
Angeles when they tackle U. C. L.
A.’s Bruins. Both clubs boast a
wide array of stars in the line anr
backfield, and the tussle should
be rough and thrilling from the
start to the finish.
In the starting line-up for the
Aggies will be such magnificent
footballers as crashback John Kim
brough, guard Marshall Robnett,
end Jim Stering, and tackle Ernie
Pannell. Any one of these boys are
rated as All-American on the dif
ferent teams picked throughout
the nation. Even this group does
not finish the imposing list of Tex
as Aggies who have such men as
blocker Jim Thomason, half-hack
Marion Pugh, and center Tommie
Vaughn.
While sspinning and shifting
through every team on the Pacific
Coast, Jackie Robinson, colored
left-half for U.C.L.A. has become
the greatest offensive threat since
the mighty Kenny Washington. He
will be spending a busy afternoon
trying to take the spotlight away
from All-American “Jarrin’ John”
Kimbrough, and the rest of the Ag
gie team.
Jack Sommers, Bruin right tac
kle, is also putting in a bid for
national honors and will be out
there across the line from Pannell,
the 215- pounds of brawn that A.
& M. uses on the left side of the
line.
Smarting under two close de
feats that could have been victor
ies, U. C. L. A. seems ready to
bounce back into the win col
umn in a big way by bowling over
the fighting Aggies. Whether the
passing or running will be the dif
ference in a win or loss is prob
lematical, but both teams have the
power, deceptiveness, and all-
around play that should turn a fall
afternoon into an inferno of line-
smashes and swivel-hipped elusive-
some fifty other students were on
hand at the station to welcome the
Aggie football squad as they ar
rived at 9:00 a. m.
The train struck a truck between
Phoenix and Hollywood and cau
sed an hour’s delay.
Mary Martin met the train and
posed for pictures with everyone
on the team. On a tour through
the Fox Movie lot later in the
morning, the team witnessed the
shooting of scenes in Tin Can Al
ley. Betty Grable and Alice Faye
wished the team luck. Linda Dar
nell posed in formation picture.
They also went on a sightseeing
tour through Hollywood and Bev
erly Hills.
The afternoon saw the squad
working out and butting heads.
John Kimbrough joined the squad
for the practice. Norton figures to
use the same starting line-up as
was used against Tulsa.
There is a feeling here that John
won’t start tomorrow, but the
kickoff will se the same Kim
brough of old in the starting e-
leven.
The fans have made much to do
over the Aggies, but most parti
cularly Marion Pugh and Jim
Thomason. However, they all warn
that Robinson is due to give the
Aggies plenty of trouble.
This morning as we visited Fox,
Chip Routt could only stare at
Grable, but Coach Norton and Bill
Conatser went for Alice Faye.
Patt Patterson got a big hug from
Linda Darnell.
Robnett still vows and declares
he will ruin their Negro player,
Robinson.
Many signs on the lawns of stars
read, “Beware Big Dog.”
Alice Faye asked how everyone
was and Tammy Vaughn quipped,
“Just tollible. How’s yourself.”
Keeton, Bland, Patterson, Black
burn and I made four bits each
singing at the station last night.
Sibley was charged for two
breakfasts this morning.
Telegrams were welcomed from
the corps as the train pulled in.
Contrary to popular belief, the
use of snuff is not dying out.
Around 38 million pounds went to
market in 1939.
The successful farmer plans his
work and works his plan.
Two-thirds of all deaths due to
fires happen in the home.
Fires take a toll of around 10,000
deaths every year in the United
States.
BATTALION
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
PAGE 3
Intramurals
Season Gathers Speed
But Doghouse Also Grows
By Jack Hollimon
Intramurals gathered more speed
as the week passed, and several
class A basketball games and ten
nis matches were reeled off. Class
B gathered even more momentum
as football, basketball, and swim
ming came into the scene.
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F Infantry
G Infantry
E Coast
H Field Artillery, with “Iron
Man” Cokinos, ran over B CWS 24-
6 while C Cavalry swamped Ists
Hdq. Field Artilelry 12-3. A close
game saw C Engineers drop A Cav
alry 15-8 and I Field corral B Cav
alry 21-13. Other games were 2nd
Hdq. Field over L Infantry 12-9,
and A Signal Corps over C Coast
25-4.
In B Class basketball, the fish
played some close tilts and the
best was B Cavalry over L Infan
try 11-9, and C Field over MG Cav
alry 14-12. All of the hoop games
were tight as C CWS nosed out D
Cavalry 10-9. and A CWS tripped
H Field Artillery 21-19.
Class B swimming found a
close battle between E Infantry
and B Infantry with E winning out
22-19. H Coast mauled G Field
Artillery 27-18.
Fuller of B Infantry was also the
spark plug of his team in their
basketball fray with F Engineers.
•The final score was not in favor
of the strong “slip-stick” boys and
found them three points shy—
15-12.
Leaving basketball and going to
the three tennis games, we find
six evenly matched teams battling
it out with three of the organiza
tions coming out on top of 2-1
scores. G Coast over 3rd Hq. Field
Artillery, I Infantry taking B
Field Artillery, and Hq. Cavalry
winning from D Infantry.
Beal, Brown, Windrow, Landale,
and Hensley of H Coast combined
to win two handball matches from
Goodrich, Wright, Burnam, and
Duewall of B Engineers that prov
ed the deciding factors in spite of
the Engineers’ one win by Snyder
and Drumwright over Daniels and
Brunner.
G Infantry won a top heavy 3-0
game from the boys over in I Field
Artillery while A Engineers close
ly contested B Sig for a 2-1 game.
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TUESDAY NIGHT
A & M Freshmen Play First Game
Monday Night With Allen Academy
After more than three weeks of
practice, Coach H. R. McQuillan
has sifted eleven men out of his
ninety - four - man Texas Aggie
freshman football squad to make
up a starting team. The fresh
men’s initial game will be played
against Allen Academy under the
lights in Bryan Monday night,
Oct. 14, while the Aggie varsity is
on its way back from California.
McQuillan and his two aides,
Charlie DeWare and Dr. Virgil
Jones, two former Aggie greats,
have spent many sleepless nights
trying to segregate the boys into
the eight teams. This is not the
largest freshman team in the his
tory of the school because there
were some 200 on the squad in
1927, but it is the largest array of
capable players in uniform.
The team which will take the
field against the Ramblers Mon
day night will average 190 pounds
in weight and a little more than
six feet in height. From end to
end and from quarterback to full
back it will be an All-Star cast.
People interested in Aggie ath
letics will have their eyes on this
bunch of boys, trying to a line on
what the Aggie varsity will be like
after this season when nine men
on the starting eleven graduate.
A large portion of these vacan
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freshman ranks.
The young Aggies will wear a
set of the varsity uniforms in this
fray and the starters will wear
the same numbers as those used by
the starting varsity at the same
positions. Dennis Andricks, Bren-
ham, 23 pound fullback, draws the
famous number “39” which be
longs to All-America John Kim
brough.
The probable starting lineup is:
Truman Cox, left end, Donna; Ben
Johnson, left tackle, Perry ton; Joe
Pytell, left guard, Houston; A. J.
Mercer, center, Temple; Russell
Wilkins, right guard, Odessa;
James Montgomery, right tackle,
Moran; Leonard Dickey, right end,
Alto; Leo Daniels, quarterback,
Bryan; Lincoln Roman, left half,
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