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ON KYLE FIELD With Mike Haikin Aggie Yell Section, Besides Being Largest In the World, Is Important Part of Team While the Aggie football squad worked out with vim and vigor on Kyle Field, another fall train ing season became a reality Thurs day night when the famous Aggie “12th man,” some 6,500 strong, started drilling for the coming sea.- son. Never has such spirit arisen as was the case Thursday. Led by Chief Yell Leader Skeen Staley and his assistant, J. 0. Alexander, plus the able guidance of the Jun ior Yell Leaders Jack Nagle and Chuck Chalmers, the corps proved that it is just as ready for the coming season as is the cadet grid iron team. No one really knows the import ance of the “12th man” more than the football team itself. The sup port that they get, the assurance that they have that all is well, win or lose, certainly tends to build up the morale of a team, and often has been the cause of quite a number of victories. There is nowhere to be found anything that even comes close to the Aggie yell section. While other schools have only meager attendance to support the football team at unimportant Galley 8 games, Coach Homer Norton’s Ag gies can always be assured of at least 6,500 cadets to yell at the top of their voices for the team. Southwest Conference Teams Depend Upon Key Men For Offense; Injuries May Hurt As the opening of the South west Conference race is only just around the corner, a noticeable factor has arisen among every team in the conference. That is, each team depends on one or a combination of key men. The Ag gies have . Moser on whom they cast all their hopes. Texas Uni- versitiy has Layden and Crain; Rice has Brumley and Dwelle, T. C. U. has Gillespie, S. M. U. has Johnson, and Baylor has Russell and Wilson. Should anything go wrong with these men, either by injury or other unforeseen circum stance, the team would suffer enough to be classed as just an Fish Week Specials LE.S. Lamps - Clocks A, & M. Stationery - Brooms Window Shades - Tennis Shoes School Supplies - Waste Baskets Electrical Supplies Military Shirts - Belts Tan Socks - School Supplies Campus Varietg Store NORTH GATE uimiiim There's Plenty Of Sizes Here! Both our College and Bryan Stores have good ranges of any uniform equipment you may need. Fast alteration service and fit guaranteed. CRADDOCK UNIFORMS CRADDOCK SLACKS CRADDOCK DRESS CAPS "STETSON" REG. HATS "ARROW" REG. SHIRTS AGGIE COVERALLS ARCHER TRENCH COATS ALLIGATOR TRENCH COATS ALLIGATOR RAIN COATS CRAMERTON COTTON SLACKS CRAMERTON COTTON BREECHES REG. INSIGNIA (All Kinds) SAM BROWNE BELTS REG. WEB BELTS CROSBY SQUARE REG. SHOES MANSFIELD REG. SHOES REG. LACE BOOTS ARMY BLANKETS, SHEETS THREAD, BUTTONS, BLITZ POLISH CLOTH, GRIFFIN SHOE POLISH SHINE KITS, AGGIE FISH PENNANTS AGGIE BELT BUCKLES, JEWELRY, STICKERS, ETC. Reg. Indirect Study Lamps with 100 Watt Bulbs A Real Value $2.49 COLLEGE T ♦ T . . V/IMBERLEY STONE DANSBY CiOCKlERS and BRYAN I Many Gridsters 1 Show Great Form In Practice Session Wayne Cure and Bob Tulis Among Gridsters Looking Especially Good in Drills Only a week has passed since the Texas Aggie varsity squad began fall training for the oncom ing football season. The team is beginning to shape up with a num ber of the boys showing up quite well in the early practice sessions. Punting, passing, and line-drills have been the major items thus far with only a few light scrim mages taking place. The sopho mores on the squad are putting out and show possibilities of being able replacements for a number of the stars lost by graduation. Jake Webster, an able place- kicker, is showing uncanny skill in placing the pigskin between the uprights. Webster should be able to provide the Aggies a place- kicker with the skill of Marion Pugh. Derace Moser, Tom Pickett, Jake Webster, and Leo Daniels have been getting off some long kicks in punting practice. The pass chunkers and receivers have been getting in some smooth practice and a majority of the passes have been clicking. Moser and Webster have been throwing most of the passes. The ends have been doing a nice job in pass-receiving. “Jitterbug” Henderson, Jim Sterling, and Harold Cowley have been snagging the balls with deadly accuracy. Fuel Wesson, probable starting tackle, has a worthy understudy in the person of Bob Tulis who has been doing some great work under fire. Wayne Cure, a junior college transfer, who is out for a guard berth has been showing lots of hustle on the practice field, and giving the first string guards plen ty of competition. ordinary team. For example, if both Layden and Crain were in jured, the Longhorns would lose all their offensive effect, and be nothing but an ordinary team. The same can be said for the rest. So before picking Texas, S. M. U., Rice, or the Aggies for the crown, one should always consider these frivolities as a vital point in any setup. SPORT SQUIBS FROM HERE AND THERE Bob (Bloody) Tulis, big husky tackle, and Wayne Cure, former All-Conference Junior College guard, are really going great guns at practice, and are giving the oth er linemen plenty of competition . . . DIDJA KNOW . . . that this year the Texas Aggies will play their first Saturday night football game in Texas when they meet the Texas A. & I. Javelinas in the Ala mo Stadium at San Antonio, Sat urday, October 4. . . that Reveille, the Texas Aggie black and white cur mascot is the only female re gistered in the college . VICTOR and BLUEBIRD RECORDS Latest Records “Jim”—Dinah Shore “I Guess I’ll Have To Dream the rest”—Tommy Dorsey “Time Was”—Wayne King “You and I”—Glenn Miller “The Cowboy Serenade”— Glenn Miller “Let Me Off Uptown”—Lar ry Clinton HASSELL’S Bryan Going Great Guns! ^ r \ cAfoser BATTALIO SEPTEMBER 13, 1941 Page 3 INTRAMDRALS By DUB OXFORD The hustle and bustle of regis tration has everybody in a dither and so far as the intramural activ ities go, intramurals are very bare right now. But things will begin to pick up soon. E Battery Field Artillery will be defending their class A champion ship crown this next year and ac cording to the lat est dope they are Oxford hard hit by the reorganization of their battery. And by the token, E Battery fresh men will be a very determined bunch of players this year. They too, won their class and will have a pretty hard time keeping all other hands off the fish flag. Departmental Managers Meeting All of last year’s freshman unit intramural managers, or any oth er sophomores interested in becom ing sophomore departmental man agers, please come by the intra mural office. A distinction will be made in the naming of the managers, unit managers being members of their respective or- —BACKWASH— (Continued from page 2) stage at 20th Century-Fox and presented Miss Barbara Golding of Houston the finger band which sig nifies marital intentions. Quoth. Kimbrough: “I would have done this in private, but I had just bought the ring and it was burning a hole in my pocket.” Quoth Golding: “The wedding will probably be some time after Christmas.” Following the ring ceremony, Kimbrough returned to the sound stage and Miss Golding hurried preparations to return to her alma mater, Marymount College, Tarry- town, New York. • • • Can’t Beat ’Em And College Night proved it! Aggies are doing things bigger and better than ever this year. With Skeen, J. O., Jack, and Chuck in the driver’s seat, A. & M. was away to a flying start Thursday night with an initial yell practice that rocked the Aggieland acoustics . Certainly A. & M. is big. For the first time in the history of the College Night tradition, freshmen were lined from the rear of the band all around the block of the YMCA until the tail-end of the fish line touched the leading squad of the marching Aggie band. ganizations while departmental managers will work strictly out of the intramural office. Incidentally it proposed that each organization is to have an athletic and recrea tion officer instead of the pre vious organization manager. This will give the cadet officers a chance to better learn how to exercise their duties. Every student who has enrolled in P. E. 101, whether taking class, intramural, or out for a major or minor sport to receive credit for P. E., is to report to the As sembly Hall for their first classes. Here are the winners of class A and class B intramural sports last year. This will let you know the teams that were top on the cam pus in intramurals: Class A Winner — Basketball, M Infantry,; handball, B Field Ar tillery; cross country, F Engineers; rifle, E HeadquartersField; tennis, B - C.W.S.; touch football, Head quarters; Water polo, E Field Ar tillery; speedball, 5 C.H.Q.; vol leyball, F Engineers; horseshoes, Headquarters Cavalry; boxing, E Coast Artillery; wrestling, G Field Artillery; softball, A Engineers; swimming, E Field Artillery; ping pong, 3 C.H.Q.; track, F Artillery. Class B winner—basketball, K Infantry; handball, B Field Artil lery; cross country, B Engineers; touch football, F Field Artillery; water polo, B Coast Artillery; volleyball, B Field Artillery; horse shoes, E Field Artillery; boxing, E Coast Artillery; wrestling, I Field Artillery; softball, B Infan try; swimming, H Coast Artillery; ping pong, A - C.W.S. track, E Field Artillery. Freshmen Practice Opens With 76 Fish Reporting Out Seventy-six husky and powerful Fish answered the call of Coach Manning Smith and Coach Char lie Deware for freshmen football players Thursday afternoon. In fact, so many boys answered the call that it was necessary to ask that some of them wait until next week to start actual drill. The group was so large that the num ber of suits available was not suf ficient to care for the demand. The first afternoon was spent mostly in covering the main funda mentals of the game and then put ting them into use. After a few setting up exercises, the boys went through some passing drills and then followed this with some block ing practice. The quarterbacks and the ends under Coach Smith went through a few plays and practiced signal calling. The entire squad showed plenty of enthusiasm and lots of that good old Aggie fight spirit as they went through each of their assigned duties. There was a constant chat ter and talk on that field all Thurs day afternoon and it all indicated but one thing—those boys are ready to give their all for the Ma roon and White of Aggieland. With the backing of the cadet corps those boys will comprise a team that will be worth while to watch. There were sentries on duty on the A. & M. campus in 1908 . PRESENTING COMPLETE STOCKS OF FOLLOWING NECESSARY ITEMS FOR AGGIES REGULATION ANKLETS GLENGARRIE POPLIN 4 pr. for $1.00 Regulation Shirts Compare with 3/100 Patches attached free • $2.25 BOMBAY SLACKS Form fitting, fast colors Polo back, zipper fly • $3.25 PENNEY’S FAMOUS BURTONS IRISH POPLIN Original Army Cloth Regulation Shirts • Patches Free TEXAS AGGIE $2.50 FOOTBALL BLANKET 9 Every Aggie needs one AGGIE DRILL SHOES $5.00 Cord sole, moccasin toe Aggie action scenes soft and comfortable on border $3.98 J.C.PENNEYCO “Aggie Economy Center” BRYAN, TEXAS FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH In Bryan Wm. H. ANDREW, D.D., Pastor Main Building and Bible Annex Home of Dan Russell A. & M. Sunday School Class Invites old members back and new students to attend first meeting of new year tomorrow. Free busses leave both Y’s and Project House area at 9:20. Back to campus by dinner. REVIVAL MEETING SEPTEMBER 14-21 Dr. W. Douglas Hudgins, Preacher Euell Porter, Song Leader Services daily, 10:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. AGGIES BOTH OLD AND NEW BEFORE YOU BOY SEE LAVTERSTEim FOR YOUR UHIFORM HEEDS North Gate Let Us Do Your Cleaning Too.