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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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