CORPS TRIP SPECIAL
DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOLUME 41 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 18, 1941
Z275 NUMBER 18
Aerial Duel Looms for Aggie-Horned Frog Clash Today
TSCW Juniors Entertain
Aggies With Food; Dancing
Steak Fry, Dance ‘
Featured by Juniors
Feasted with a tasty steak fry
and entertained with an informal
dance, it would have been an un
usual case to have found a jun
ior Aggie who did not experience
one of the greatest times of his
life Friday night when the Junior
Class of T. S. C. W. played the
xole of hostess for another tradi
tional pre-corps trip party.
Although they were a banquet
in themselves, the broiled steaks
merely served as an appetizer to
the group of Aggies and TSCW-ites
as they whipped through a spirited
yell practice under the direction
of junior yell leaders, Jack Nagle
and Chunk Chalmers.
Following the vocal festivities,
the scene of entertainment shifted
to the college gymnasium where
an informal prom held sway un
til midnight.
Toppy Pearce Will
Play For Aggies At
Texas Hotel Tonight
Aggies of all ages will descend
on the Texas Hotel tonight when
Toppy Pearce and his Aggieland
Orchestra get started at 9 o’clock
with the official Aggie dance.
This year the Aggieland is fea
turing the vocals of lovely Norma
Jean Jahn from Houston. She has
been popular with the cadets at all
previous appearances of the or
chestra at College Station.
The dance is being sponsored by
the Fort Worth A. & M. Former
Students club.
The entertainment will last un
til 1 o’clock. The Aggie Hit Pa
rade will probably start function
ing at tonight’s ball, and the re
sults will be published later.
Corps Moves
Thru Cowtown
At 10:30 Today
Traditional Corps
Trip Parade Will
Be Led by Tom Gillis
The traditional corps trip parade,
promising to be one of the best in
the history of A. & M., will get
into motion at 10:30 today. Sched
uled to begin promptly after the
special trains arrive, the parade
will include the entire corps.
Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis and
his staff will lead the corps
through the streets of his home
town, the first cadet colonel to
have this distinction.
Colonel E. A. Keyes, Cavalry,
Civilian Components Officer, 8th
Corps Area, will receive the re
view from the stand before the
Texas Hotel. Keyes is the head
of all R. 0. T. C. work in the
Eighth Corps Area.
Bond Bids For
JTAC Dormitories
Come Before Board
A special meeting of the board
of directors of A. & M. College
for the purpose of discussing bids
on bonds for the building of two
new dormitories at John Tarle-
ton Agricultural College will be
held in Fort Worth Saturday.
The meeting will take place at
9 o’clock in the Texas Hotel.
Building of the JTAC dormitories
at a cost of $625,000 will be the
only important item of business
the board is expected to discuss
at this time.; other items will not
be brought up due to lack of time
at the special meeting.
Aggies
Aggie-Day Sweetheart
Moser, Gillespie, Expected
To Carry Brunt of Offense
Teams Enter Fracas in Crippled
Condition; Game Time Is Set For 2:30
By Mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
It’s corps trip time at Aggieland, and with that theme
in mind, the cadet corps of 6700 and Coach Homer Norton’s
Texas Aggies “invade” Fort Worth this afternoon to meet
the challenge of the highly touted Texas Christian Horned
Ffogs. Game time is 2:30, and a capacity crowd of 25,000
fans are expected to witness the question-mark teams of
the conference fight it out for supremacy on the Frogs’ soil.
Moser vs. Gillespie
Too, the fans will witness one of the greatest individual
duels that the conference has ever put on when T. C. U.’s Kyle
Gillespie meets the Aggies’ Derace Moser in a contest for passing,
running, and kicking honors. At this stage Gillespie leads the cadet
triple-threat flash in only one department—kicking. Moser has the'
advantage in passing and running, being one of the leading passers in
the nation. Both are considered as key men of their respective offenses,
and are expected to open up with every trick imaginable.
Teams Crippled
The Aggies and Frogs enter this game with some of their stars
Cadets Will
Occupy East Side
Of T C U Stadium
Class sections that will be ob
served for today’s game have been
announced by Cadet Colonel Tom
Gillis. The cadet corps will occupy
the entire east side of the stadium.
The senior section will extend
on both sides of the 50-yard line
to approximately the 35-yard line.
The junior section will be on both
sides of the senior section to the
15-yard line.
All remaining seats in the Aggie
section will be occupied by sopho
mores and freshmen. Sections V
and W will be rserved for the sen
iors and sections U and X will be
reserved for juniors.
The senior section will be main
tained throughout the game, but
after the first quarter, sophomores
and freshmen will be allowed to
take unoccupied seats in the jun
ior section.
The same regulations that ap
ply to seating in Kyle Field will be
in effect at today’s game.
on the sidelines. For the Aggies,
Wayne Cure, guard; Jim Sterling,
All-Conference end; Dub Sibley,
Tom Pickett and Willie Zapalac,
were injured in last week’s game
with N.Y.U. and are not expected
to be in the peak of condition. How
ever, Sterling, Sibley, and Zapalac
are expected to start the game.
Ready to give aid if necessary to
the injured will be Boots Simmons
and Harold Cowley, aggressive
ends, A. J. Mercer, Cotton Wil
liams, and Leonard Holder.
Big Billy Blackstone, first-string
center, and Gus Bierman, reserve
back, are the Frog injuries who
will be on the sidelines most of the
time. Both sustained injuries in
the Indiana fracas last weekend,
and are not expected to be in the
thick of the fight today. However,
Blackstone may still get to start
at the pivot post, but all indica
tions point to A. G. Odell, a bril
liant up and coming center, but
one who needs game experience.
Same Lineup
Latest indications are that Nor
ton will start the same lineup that
has clicked so well in the past
three games. Moser, leading pass-
er in the conference, will be at
(See, AGGIE-FROG, Page 4)
1941 TEXAS AGGIE ROSTER
No. Player
10 Spivey, Marshall
12 Pickett, Tom
14 Rogers, Cullen
16 Smith, Earl
18 Porter, Sam
20 Skarke, Dick
22 Zapalac, Willie
24 Roman, Lincoln
26 Turner, Oscar
30 Webster, Jake
31 Andricks, Dennis
32 Andrews, Bill
40 Williams, Bob
42 Moser, Derace
44 Daniels, Leo
45 Wade, Fount
50 Sibley, Bill
51 Holder, Leonard
52 Mercer, Arthur
53 Williams, Maurice
60 Richardson, Lester
61 Mulhollan, Ray
62 Maples, Weldon
63 Bucek, Roy '
64 Bucek, Felix
65 Miller, Charles
66 Wagner, Shelton
67 Cure, Wayne
68 Motley, Zolus
69 Knight, Jimmy
72 Dickey, Leonard
73 Tubs, Bob
74 Ruby, Martin
75 Wesson, Euel
76 Montgomery, Jim
78 Swank, Jack
81 Sterling, Jim
82 Simmons, Elvis
83 Cowley, Harold
84 Levy, Daniel
85 Cox, Truman
86 Slaughter, Pete
87 Dawson, Jamie
88 Henderson, Bill
89 Wolters, Freddy
Home Town
Pos.
Wt.
Lufkin
WB
177
Temple
WB
180
Mart
WB
185
Frisco City, Ala.
WB
170
Cleburne
WB
180
Schulenburg
BB
195
Bellville
BB
200
Houston
BB
185
Ysleta
BB
175
Sweetwater
FB
185
Houston
FB
203
Amarillo
FB
204
Eldorado
TB
170
Stephenville
TB
185
Bryan
TB
170
Lexington
TB
185
Abilene
C
185
San Antonio
C
173
Temple
C
191
Marlin
E
194
Houston
G
195
Belton
G
195
Fort Worth
G-C
195
Schulenburg
G
200
Schulenburg
G
193
Belton
G
190
Yoakum
G
191
Gilliland
G
197
Abilene
G
200
LaGrange
G
180
Alto
T
210
Fort Worth
T
210
Waco
T
215
Temple
T
215
Moran
T
210
Dallas
T
210
Panhandle
LH
192
Somerville
E
205
Freer
E
190
Corsicana
E
193
Donna
E
180
Houston
E
175
Crockett
E
200
Houston
E
205
Lewisville
E
172
Ht.
6.0
6.0
6.0
5.11
5.10
6.0
6.0
6.0
5.8
5.11
6.3
6.3
5.9
6.0
5.11
5.11
5.10
6.1
6.0
6.2
5.11
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
5.9
6.0
6.3
6.1
6.0
6.2
5.10
6.3
6.4
6.4
6.3
5.11
6.3
6.2
6.2
6.3
6.2
6.6
6.4
6.2
Anna Ruth Ashe, Sophomore at TSCW and Aggie-Day Sweetheart who will be escorted to the field
this afternoon while the Aggie Band plays “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”. She will be escorted by Bob
Russell, cadet Major of the band. As Russell presents Miss Ashe a bouquet of flowers the band will
play the Alma Mater of T. S. C. W. This is Anna Ruth’s second year at T. S. C. W. She was chosen
from a bevy of 12 beautiful girls by a party of Aggie judges and became known as the Aggie
Sweetheart after her introduction during the corps dance at Sbisa Hall last week.
First US Student Financed Fellowship
Honors Hensel of Landscape Department
Fund Allots $500
Annually for One
Deserving Senior
By Tom Leland
At the Landscape Art Banquet
held last night, the new F. W.
Hensel fellowship was announced.
This fellowship will consist of a
sum of $500 which will be given
each year to some deserving senior
in the landscape art department.
The fellowship is named after
F. W. Hensel, head of the land
scape art department at A. & M.
Hensel graduated from A. & M.
in 1907; from here he attended
Cornell University where he re
ceived his master’s degree. From
Cornell he returned to A. & M.
to teach in the horticulture depart
ment, where he was a professor
until he founded the landscape art
department here.
Hensel is directly responsible for
the many attractive shrubs, flower
beds, and all landscaping on the
campus. He is in charge of the up
keep of the campus grounds, and
through his efforts, the campus
of A. & M. has been made one
of the most attractive in the state.
The senior who receives this
money will be chosen each year by
vote of the other seniors in the
landscape department on the basis
of his personality, scholarship, and
Honored
F. W. Hensel
his general character. This selec
tion will be subject to the ap
proval of the faculty of the land
scape department and a proposed
Money Obtained
From Concession
For Flower Sales
board of other college officials.
This fellowship is the only one
of its kind in any college in the
nation in which the money is rais
ed entirely by the students them
selves. The fund will be raised
from profits of the student flower
concessions. In the past, these
concessions were held by individ
ual students for their own bene
fit. Now, the concessions will be
taken over by the landscape club.
This new arrangement will not
only raise money for the Hensel
Fund, but also will give more
landscape students experience in
commercial flower arrangement and
m the selling of flowers. A cer
tain percentage of the money earn
ed will go to the club members
themselves and the rest will be
contributed to the fund.
Present at the banquet in Hen-
sel’s honor were Dr. and Mrs. T.
O. Walton, Dean and Mrs. Gibb
Gilchrist, Dean and Mrs. D. W.
Williams, professors of the land
scape department, and students ma
joring in landscape.
Frogs
1941 T. C. U. ROSTER
No.
Player
Home Town
Pos.
Wt.
HL
10
Frank Medanich
Pecos
RH
193
6.2
12
Charles Conway
Fort Worth
RH
176
6.1
14
Bill Ramsey
Breckenridge
RH
184
5.11
17
Don Ezell
Wink
RH
178
5.10
21
Owen Cobb
Dallas
LH
173
6.0
22
Van Hall
Kaufman
LH
188
6.2
24
Nolan Sparks
Panhandle
LH
182
5.11
26
Gus Bierman
Handley
LH
182
5.11
30
Frank Kring
Fort Worth
F
188
6.0
32
Fred Taylor
Denison
F
185
6.0
34
John Bond
McLean
F
199
6.4
38
Bob McCollum
Waco
F
177
5.10
40
Kyle Gillespie
Paris
Q
175
5.10
42
Beecher Montgomery
Ozona
Q
163
5.9
44
Dean Bagley
San Saba
Q
154
5.7
45
J. T. Webb
Big Lake
Q
169
6.2
48
Emery Nix
Corpus Christi
Q
182
5.10
50
Billy Blackstone
Hearne
C
198
6.0
54
A. C. Odell
Hico
c
196
6.0
56
James Woodfin
Crane
c
195
6.0
58
Eugene Williford
Houston
C
199
6.4
60
Leonard Pugh
Fort Worth
RG
601
6.2
61
Bill Crawford (Capt.)
Fort Worth
LG
191
6.1
62
Mike Harter
Fort Worth
RG
201
6.2
63
Bob Moss
Belton
LG
196
6.2
64
Allan Pike
San Angelo
RG
180
6.1
65
Joe Rogers
New London
LG
192
6.0
67
Dee Ezell
Wink
LG
186
5.10
70
Woodrow Adams
Midland
RT
227
6.1
71
Derrell Palmer
Albany
LT
221
6.2
72
Clyde Flowers
Perryton
RT
198
5.11
73
Jim Hampton
Hope, Ark.
LT
209
5.11
74
A. D. Hogue
Mangum, Okla.
RT
175
6.2
75
Sam Malloy
Eden
LT
187
5.11
80
Phil Roach
Fort Worth
RE
186
5.11
81
Ronnie Brumbaugh
Fort Worth
LE
172
6.0
82
Drummond Slover
Lufkin
RE
166
5.10
83
Bruce Alford
Waco
LE
183
6.0
84
Jim Pritchett
Waco
RE
187
6.0
85
Trotter Adams
Panhandle
LE
187
6.1
86
J. E. Clark
Dublin
RE
179
6.2
87
Bob Looney
Dublin
LE
185
5.11