The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 13, 1941, Image 3

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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
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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
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Going Great Guns!
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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
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GLENGARRIE POPLIN
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Regulation Shirts
Compare with 3/100
Patches attached free
•
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Form fitting, fast colors
Polo back, zipper fly
•
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•
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$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
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“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
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