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HO."HUB" JOHNSON BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR Largest Reception in History as Aggies Return From Coast; TCU Game Is Saturday “This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen,” stated Coach Homer Norton in refering to the welcome home given the team Tuesday ev ening. It was the greatest turn out in the history of the college and will long be remembered by those who were surprised by its occurence. The people of all Texas know of the incident and have already pro claimed it another worthwhile Ag gie tradition. With the new system, everyone has their chance to see the players and to yell their praises as they pass. This coming Saturday on Kyle Field the T. C. U. Horned Frogs who came here two years ago with the strongest team of the nation return to once again claim another tilt for their reclimb to the top. The Texas Christian game has always been one most enjoyed by both student bodies and at the same time the cleanest fought of all conference contests. On corps trips to “Cow Town” the people have willingly opened the doors to the cadets. On return engagements we should do all pos sible to make their stay here one that will invite only good will to the Aggies on their trips to Fort Worth. Sunny California Lives Up to Its Name, Stays Warm More Ways Than One; Game Good Hollywood is just like you hear.-f There are many places to go for enjoyment and entertainment, that is if you have a bit of money to spend. It’s not expensive unless you try to do everything in two nights the stars do in a life time. Ann Sheridan was not in Holly wood nor did she attend the game. In fact she was not even in the United States. It was all just a gag. Bette Grable, Alice Faye and Linda Darnell did, however, receive the team at the Fox Studio. Choc Kelley, an old Aggie grid star, was on hand to do whatever he could for the squad and the ac companying cadets. Choc is the one down in history for making the longest touchdown run in football. He ran 245 yards to score. It all came about as he crossed his field on the Aggie goal line three times and then took out down the hundred yards for a score. Telegrams sent by the corps while the team was en route were read and many laughs were raised from even the quiet travelers. Notes from a few read . . . F Field Artillery—“Note Marshall Robnett, Fighting F Battery will gladly donate $5 for the first gen uine nigger’s tooth that can be ex- .J. ■»<—*!■. DYERS _ _ HATTERS AMERICAN- STEAM A I TIVTTYTW^ 1^1 JL/ Jv I: DRY - - C LEANERSt^ PHONE 585 BRYAll Patronize Your Agent in Your Organization Telephone men know this piece of apparatus as the 108-A Amplifier. It is an "exploring amplifier,” developed by Bell System engineers to iden tify pairs of wires in telephone cables—some of which contain as many as 4242 wires. The cable man explores this mass of wires with the pencil-like probe. A tone sounding in the headphone tells him when he has found the right pair. Ingenuity— special equipment—attention to details—play an important part in mak ing your telephone service the clearest and fastest in the world. Why not report “All’s well" to the folks at home? Rates to most points are lowest any night after 7 P.M. and all day Sunday. BATTALIONA— THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 PAGE FIVE Intramurals CWS and Cavalry Play Overtime As Signal Corps Win; Doghouse Big Saturday’s Game With TCU Opens A & M Conference Season Aggie Fish Win First Game 18-0 Defeating Allen Sloshing and slipping through four quarters of drizzling rain, the Texas Aggie Fish came out on the long end of an 18 to 0 score over the Allen Academy Ramblers Mon day night at Foi-rest Field in Bry an. The downpour hampered both offensives, and most of the game featured a punting duel between the two teams. Coach Hub Mc- Quillen evidently uncovered a fu ture star in Bill Andrews, hard- driving back from Amarillo. An drews showed plenty of drive and deception to set up the Aggies’ se cond touchdown. In all McQuillen used 80 players. The first counter came in the opening period, when, after a punt exchange, Allen had the pigskin on their own 10. Cohn, back to punt, fumbled when hit hard by Leonard Dickey, end from Alto, and Pedigo, guard, covered behind the goal line. The second talley came when An drews paced the only real threat made by the Fish. Starting on his own 21, he drove on successive plunges to the Allen 3 yard line. From there, Ellis Hollis, back from Ft. Worth, broke through left tackle on a cutback and raced for a score. The final talley came in the fourth period, when Daniel Webb of Stinton fired a 33 yard pass to Hall Coleman, end from Brown- wood, who caught the ball on the Allen 20 and scampered the rest of the way for a touchdown, com pleting a total gain of 53 yards. Besides Andrews, Leo Daniels, back from Bryan; Darrel Pedigo, guard from McGregor and Marion Slaughter, end from Houston, played good ball. Score by Periods Fish 6 0 6 6 18 Allen 0 0 0 0 0 tracted and brought back. Extra if part of gum or jaw is attached.” . . . B Chem Warfare—“Put the black eight ball in the corner pocket.” . . . B Field Artillery— “Dead niggers are best niggers.” . . . Je Hayes of the Dallas News— “Best luck to you and the Aggies on bear hunt.” . . . B Engineers— “We’ll be holding the left one and eating with one hand while we listen.” ... A Engineers—“Mar shall Robnett be easy on Snowball Robinson. You would look funny in a California lethal gas chamber be ing executed for first degree mur der. Take care of the Bruins first, women later.” At the half the U.C.L.A. rooting section, as they call it, put on a beautiful show with colored cards as the Texas University section at tempted to do last year. To begin the display “Hi Texans” was spelled out across the section. Then a Texas Steer was formed. This brought a question to the minds of a few of us and then we took it as a salute to the longhorn state. The state of Texas was map ped with a large maroon “T” being set in it resting on the spot where would be located College Station. The state of California followed with “UCLA” stretching the length of the state. Following a few more scenes a short story was told. A Bruin cub attempted to steal a flower from a cactus. A farmer brings his gun and shoots at the cub, missing the first time but knocking the flower off the second. The Bruin picks up the flower and steals off and the re-coil throws the farmer back into another cactus patch. From here you were suppose to gather the rest. Manning Smith filmed the first half of the display in technicolor and will show it to the student body in the near future. Saturday night at the dinner- dance given in honor of the team, all players were introduced to the (Continued on Page 6) By Bob Myers Three overtime periods marked the basketball game between A CWS and Hq. Cavalry as the best of the season. Only after nine ex tra minutes of play did the “test- tubers” make the goal that decid ed the game. Lyons of B Sig paced his team to a 13-4 victory over D Cavalry when the horsemen took another losss. C Chemical Warfare mixed a powerful tubeful and took D In fantry way under by a 19-7 score. C-Company latched onto an early lead and added to it for an unques tioned victory. FORFEIT DOGHOUSE G Coast Artillery G Infantry B Field Artillery H Infantry C Chemical Warfare Headquarters Cavalry D Infantry On the handball courts Jack- son, Eckert, Oliver, Castleberry, Koenig, and Benish of A Signal Longhorns Return To Play Arkansas On Scene Of Loss Back to the scene of their most humiliating Southwest Conference defeat go the Texas Longhorns Saturday to meet the revived Ar kansas Razorbacks. At Little Rock two years ago, the Porkers slaughtered the Long horns, 42-6. That dismal afternoon University of Texas football stock hit an all-time low. Things looked their blackest for D. X. Bible and his publicized plan to restore Long horn prestige. That year Texas fin ished last for the fourth straight time. All this happened in 1938 B. C.— Before Crain. The flying feet of Cowboy Jack led the Longhorns on a comeback stampede last fall, and Crain and Company are well up in the parade this time. Sat urday’s game will be their first conference start, but they have behind them victories over three state university teams represent ing three conferences—Colorado of the Big Seven, Indiana of the Big Ten, and Oklahoma of the Big Six. The latest verdict, over Okla homa, was a narrow squeeze—19- 16, with Crain scoring the winning touchdown only three minutes be fore the gun. Meanwhile, Arkansas’ embattled Razorbacks were upsetting Bay lor, 12-6, making the experts won der how T. C. U. ever defeated them 20-0. Scout Clyde Littlefield solved the mystery to some extent by re porting that two different Arkan sas teams played the two games. The personnel was similar, he ex plained, but the performances, were in striking contrast. He particularly praised the work of Firman Bynub, 195-pound junior college transfer; the leader ship and end play of Co-Capt. Red Hickey, who calls the Arkansas signals; the passing of Harold Hamberg, 145 pound tiny mite of the Porker backfield; Harold Schm idt’s punting, and the all around (Continued on Page 6) Corps, won three matches to take the game from B Infantry by a score of 3-0. A Coast only won two of their matches with C Engineers and won the game 2-1. Stacey, Speia, Hub bard, and Farrow won their match es for the winners. Fifth CHQ took E Infantry in handball 2-1. Nester and Zerr won by forfeit for the losers but Car- oll, Matyear, Thompson and Thom son no. 2 couldn’t get over the hump and lost their matches to Cooper, Conway, Wakefield and Faust. One of those things happened on the Tennis court when C Cav alry and E Field Artillery each showed up with only two teams. The two matches were played, how ever and ended with a split. This game is to be rescheduled and play ed over. It is a good example to show that two additional men would have won the game even if they couldn’t play tennis—provided, of course, that both teams didn’t have the same idea. A combination of Burleson- Hooker, Brannon-Cordua, and Hood-Walmsley proved too much for D Field Artillery when C Chem ical Warfare dissolved them 3-0. Williamson Picks A&M, Rice, SMU, And Texas To Win % By Paul B. Williamson The biggest game of the week will be Alabama and Tennessee at Birmingham. And, in the biggest pick of the week the Williamson System rides the ratings with Ten nessee. Those teams are rated: Tennes see 97.5, Alabama 88.0 Maybe they’re not so wide a- part, but if Alabama has the goods it certainly can’t be computed from the Crimson Tide’s average of a- bout three touchdowns against such obvious pushovers as Springhill, Mercer and Howard College. However, the other side of the story is that Tennessee’s much higher rating resulted mainly from Irate Duke fans and North Caro lina sports writers have made a great point of the fact that Coach Wallace Wade made a fast train ride of 450 miles and 15 hours with his Blue Devils for that Tennessee game. The story goes that the Duke players arrived in Knoxville directly from Durham only two or three hours before game time. Anyway, the Devils appeared mus- clebound all during the game. Well, Duke—the System’s pre season choice for the national championship—got beat 13 to 0. We’re not trying to alibi now, but it is an interesting slant on the rise and fall of a great team. The rest of Tennessee’s per- (Continued on Page 6) QUARTERBACK CLUB The Faculty Quarter Back Club will hold its weekly meeting in Guion Hall tonight at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will start after the Singing Ca det practice. Looking forward to having the largest crowd of the 1940 home season, next Saturday, Oct. 19, the Texas Aggies meet the T. C. U. Horned Frogs on Kyle Field to open their first Southwest Confer ence gridiron battle. The Aggies are still astride of the Conference and the game with the Frogs will be one of the deciding factors in whether the Aggies will repeat and again take the Conference flag. Last week, the Horned Frogs were defeated by North Carolina to the tune of 21-14. Having cor rected their errors, the Frogs are ready for the Aggies. T. C. U.’s passing magic will be employed to try to stop the hard-hitting boys that live at College Station. While T. C. U. has always been famous for its passing, it seems that this year they are exceptionally good on pass offense. Head Mentor Dutch Meyer reports the team in fine physical shape and unless in juries during scrimmage this week incapacitate any member of the squad, the whole club will be ready to meet the Aggies. Included in the Frogs bag of tricks, according to “grape vine telegraph”, will be a system of si lent signaling calling. The work ings of this system are as follows: In the huddle, the boys agree upon the number that the ball is to be snapped. Then they go into formation count to themselves and when the number is reached the ball is snapped and the play is under way. If the opposing team is not on their toes they are liable to be Consolidated Hi Risks Undefeated Record Friday Nite Coach Nance Park’s undefeated A&M Consolidated Tigers take on their fifth opponent this week on Forest Field in Bryan. Normangee High School will be on hand Fri day night to provide plenty of competition for the highly tuoted team from A. & M.’s high school in their anual homecoming game. The Tigers, in district 26 B step ped out of their bracket to defeat Calvert, Dayton and Centerville, all Class A teams. Another close game with a Class A school end ed in a 0-0 tie after four quarters of hard fought ball game with Day- ton. Going into their own district play, the A&Mers brought home the bacon by taking Bedias High School into their bag of wins. Parks, hailing from Huntsville, is doing a swell job with the local boys and is getting the whole hearted cooperation of the players as well as the support of College Station. An effort is being made by the Lions Club to have the Bryan High School band on hand Friday for the game to provide background for the Tiger’s rooters. the stadium. Informal dedication ceremonies have been planned, with the Governor and other dignitaries planning to attend. SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE FOOTBALL STATISTICS (Through Games of October 12) (Compiled by E. C. Oates, Texas A. & M., from statistical summaries submitted by team representatives.) A&M -Opp Ark—Opp Bay—Opp TCU- -Opp Tex- ■Opp SMU-Opp Rice—Opp Games 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 First Downs 38 24 33 20 28 30 26 24 39 34 26 21 31 7 Net Gains Rushing 466 51 407 235 441 139 496 328 660 253 270 305 377 80 Net Gains Fwd. Pass. 400 264 290 146 244 504 279 262 829 405 307 150 185 98 Net Gains R and P 866 316 697 381 685 643 775 690 989 658 677 455 662 178 Fwd. Pass Att. 62 49 64 45 41 85 44 64 67 72 67 34 39 32 Fwd. Pass Comp. « 29 19 19 14 17 34 24 23 29 35 20 10 15 9 Percent Completed .658 .388 .297 .311 .415 .400 .545 .359 .509 .486 .351 .294 .385 .281 'Own Fwd. Pass Intcp. 4 10 4 8 4 5 1 8 7 10 6 4 1 6 Average Punt 39 41 31 39 36 31 85 35 39 35 25 36 34 38 Yards Lost Pen. 192 125 118 151 111 55 170 120 90 85 105 163 115 104 lett sitting on the ground. The Aggies will take this date to dedicate the new flagstaff which has been erected above the score board in the south end of POP SHAW at College Campus Sandwich Shop At it for a quarter of a century, we still maintain our reputation for mak ing the best and the cleanest sandwiches. AGGIES Let’s Take T.C.U. To a Real Cleaning CALDWELL’S JEWELRY STORE Diamonds - Watches Jewelry Bryan, Texas HMIDKEREHIEF TEST PROVES VUM ZOHE HUUBVS SP0TIE5S Always clean and free from goo no matter how often you smoke it. Challenging higher- priced pipes in briar qu ty and value.,* WM. DEMUTH & CO., NEW YORK . M W /: / « > v ija -V | «P J Jf f Good things to eat... and ice-cold Coca-Cola; You see it everywhere, be cause the life and sparkle and taste of ice-cold Coca-Cola add something to food that everybody likes. Try it yourself.. /> 4USE THAT REFRESHES Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Co. by BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., INC. ' Delicious and Refreshing