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TU, A&M LEADERS SIGN PACT HERE
Goodwill Mission Results In
Furtherance of Friendship
Kyle Urges Texas’ Leading Schools Have
Rivalry on Field, But Always be Sportsmen
Student leaders from Texas University and A. & M. met
yesterday in College Station with the directors of the athletic
councils of the two schools to draw up plans for the fur
therance of friendly relations and the promotion of higher
standards of sportsmanship between the two leading educa
tional institutions in Texas.
After luncheon in the committee room of Sbisa hall.
Dean E. J. Kyle, chairman of the A. & M. Athletic Council
opened the discussion with this remark, “Let us have the
keenest possible rivalry on the field, but let’s be true sports
men at all times.”
It was the consensus of opinion that Texas University
and A. & M. should at all times demonstrate a spirit of true
sportsmanship and friendliness. True, each student body is
loyal to its own team, but “ . . . settle the issue on the field,”
said Dr. J. C. Dolley, head of the athletic council of Texas.
Kyle prepared a basic statement of the proposals which
he submitted to the meeting for ratification. This proposal
was accepted with modifications and set up as a criterion for
the two schools.
Often there is a small minority within large schools
wdiich strives to cause friction with rival institutions. Using
mob psychology as their tool, this element often takes ad
vantage of a moment of excitement to start trouble, it was
concluded. The purpose of yesterday’s meeting was to avoid
such action because of the possibility of serious injury to
spectators.
Texas university representatives at the luncheon were
Fred Nieman, president of the student body; John Seaman,
foreman of the Cowboys, a boys’ service and pep group;
James Newman, president of the Longhorn band; Jack
Howard, editor of the Daily Texan; Richard Winn, assistant
cheer leader, and Dr. Dolley.
A. & M. was represented by Kyle, Cadet Colonel Tom
Gillis, Battalion Editor Don Gabriel, Band Major Bob Russel,
Senior Class President Dick Hervey, Head Yell Leader Skeen
Staley, and Cadet Lieut. Colonel “Toppy” Pearce.
All those present signed the following resolution in
behalf of the students whom they represented.
SPORTSMANSHIP AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF
TEXAS AND THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
COLLEGE OF TEXAS
November 17, 1941
College Station, Texas
The University of Texas and the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas, in order to promote a higher standard of sportsman
ship between the two institutions, arranged a conference between the
Faculty Chairman of the respective Athletic Councils and certain
leaders of the two student bodies, at which the following action was
unanimously taken:
1. The faculty and student representatives of the University of
Texas and of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas recog
nize the fact that we are state-supported institutions of higher learning
and definitely believe that we should not only set the standard for
higher sportsmanship in our own Conference, but we hope to lead the
nation in close and friendly relations with each other.
2. We realize that in order to accomplish this we must have the
full cooperation and support of the student bodies and of the former
students of the two institutions. We therefore call on every member of
these organizations and also citizens who might be partisans of either
to render every possible assistance toward maintaining better and
closer relations.
3. We pledge ourselves to be charitable and friendly in statements
made in our student publications, and we ask that the same attitude be
shown in our ex-student publications. We also pledge ourselves to
use our influence in having our local press assume a friendly attitude
at all times.
4. We realize that there is always the danger that a few individ
uals may lose their heads during moments of great excitement. We
therefore urge everyone to refrain from unsportsmanlike action at all
times and to use his influence in seeing that all others do likewise.
5. We ask that the responsible members of the two student bodies,
especially upper classmen, pledge themselves to prevent and correct
all acts of poor sportsmanship coming to their attention.
6. Athletic contests should be settled by the keenest possible
competition between the teams on the field and not by persons in the
bleachers or on the street corners.
7. We hope and trust that this agreement will serve on in
definitely to improve athletic relations between the two institutions.
U S Can Serve as Arsenal For
Economic War on Axis Nations
By Ken Bresnen
President Roosevelt has declar
ed the United States to be the “Ars
enal of Democracy.” The national
policy is that we shall arm all
forces of the world that will op
pose the axis powers. Undoubted
ly then the United States is in
a diplomatic and economic war
against Hitler and all that he
stands for. Yet while we are op
posing Nazism, a small but power
ful minority is working night and
day in South and Central America
to further the cause of the axis
powers.
Until recently Pan-American un
ity was taken as a mater for
arm chair discussion and theorizing.
Nazi diplomats are constantly mak
ing efforts to sabotage every de
vice of inter—American solidarity.
Hitler seems to consider American
unity a primary danger to his plan
for world supremacy. Why don’t
we take his tip, and use Pan-
Americansim as a weapon in our
undeclared war on dictatorships?
In the past South American
prosperity was measured in terms
of exports, but although the bal
ance of trade was perennially “fav
orable,” living conditions among
the working classes did not im
prove. This was due in part to
ownership of enterprises by Euro
pean capitalists who reaped the
profits. The working classes re
mained underpaid, and South Amer
ican currency was highly inflated.
Latin America is no longer satis
fied with a status of colonial econ
omy. Through educational ad-
(See U. S. SERVES, Page 4)
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122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 18, 1941 Z275 NUMBER 21
Aggies Cinch Tie for SW Conference
Championship in Packed Rice Stadium
Series of Employment Programs Now Being Presented To
Juniors and Seniors Under Auspices of Former Students
Shelton Presented
As Initial Speaker
On Monday Program
A group of Texas’ outstanding
personnel men and employees are
presenting a series of lectures on
the campus this week to which jun
ior and senior students are invited.
The program is sponsored by the
Placement Office of the Associa
tion of Former Students.
The first lecture in the series
was offered last night in the
chemistry lecture room for men in
terested in agriculture. Dean E. J.
Kyle introduced the first speaker,
Jack Shelton, who is General Agent
for the Farm Credit Administra
tion in Houston. The second man
to speak on the program was
James E. Renolds, personnel man
ager of the Soil Conservation Ser
vice in Fort Worth.
The next program will be held
Ex-Aggies to See
Films of Rice And
SMU Games Tonight
Movies of the Aggie-S.M.U.
game and probably of the Aggie-
Rice game played last Saturday will
be shown tonight at 7:30 in the
chemistry lecture room under the
sponsorship of the Brazos county
A. & M. club and football fans of
the county are invited to attend.
The S. M. U. game films are al
ready here, and Manning Smith,
who is in charge of the pictures, said
that the pictures of the Rice
game in Houston will also be here
by that time.
These showings are given by ar
rangement of the othletic commit
tee of the Brazos County Club of
which S. A. (Doc) Lipscomb is
chairman. The date of the meet
ings has been changed from Mon
day night to Tuesday night this
week.
Water Works Short
Course Scheduled For
February 9 Through 13
The annual water works and
sewage short course will be held
at A. & M. February 9-13, 1942,
according to an announcement made
here this week by E. L. Angell,
executive assistant to the president.
Professor E. W. Steel, head of
the college department of munici
pal and sanitary engineering, will
be chairman of the five-day course
which is expected to attract ap
proximately 250 municipal engi
neers.
tonight at 7:30 in the chemistry
lecture room with J. Wheeler Bar
ger as acting chairman. The first
lecture will be “How To Make
Yourself A Better Prospect For
Employment,” by A. Y. Wilson,
branch manager for the Burroughs
Adding Machine Company in Hous
ton. “What An Employer Looks
For In An Applicant,” is the sub
ject of W. N. Blanton, Vice Presi
dent of the Houston Chamber of
Commerce.
Ashton to Give
Illustrated Talk
On Nicaragua Life
Dr. John Ashton will lecture
Wednesday night in the Chemistry
lecture room on “Nicaragua and
To Lecture
Dr. John Ashton
Central America.” Ashton’s lecture
will be illustrated with a two-reel
motion picture sound film, “Pic
turesque Guatemala,” showing
some of the strange and wonderful
scenes connected with the life of
the Mayan Indian. This picture is
a portrayal of the characteristic
Guatemalan rural life, customs, and
economy.
Dean E. J. Kyle, who has just
returned from an extensive tour
of Latin America, will introduce
Ashton. For the past year, Ash
ton has been in Nicaragua as an
exchange professor under a pro
gram instituted by the Convention
for the Promotion of Inter-Ameri
can relations.
The meeting is open to the pub
lic and faculty members are invited
to bring their families.
Lectures Designed
To Attract Students
From Various Schools
An Engineering Personnel Lec
ture will be given Wednesday, No
vember 19, in the Assembly hall.
R. T. Shiels of General Electric
Company, Dallas, and R. N. Dyer,
personnel supervisor of the Hum
ble Oil and Refining Company,
Houston, will speak to men inter
ested in engineering fields.
The final lecture of the series
will be held at the chemistry lec
ture room Thursday evening for
men interested in the general lib
eral arts and teaching fields. L.
V. Stockard, assistant superintend
ent of the Dallas school system
and James R. D. Eddy, chairman,
division of vocational education of
Austin, will be the visiting lec
turers.
Tate Chosen To
Represent Ex-4H
At National Meet
“Bugs” Tate, D Infantry senior
from Waxahachie, will represent
the Ex 4H Club at the National
4H Club Congress at Chicago. He
was selected by members of the
club at a special meeting Thurs
day night.
Tate, who is president of the
college club, was very active in
4H club work before entering A.
& M. and has been a leader in the
club’s work here for the past three
years. His expenses will be paid
with money received from the Stu
dent Activities committee.
The National Congress is held in
connection with the International
Livestock Show. Tate will make the
trip to Chicago with several other
representtatives from Texas 4H
clubs.
Erode is Guest
Speaker at Yearly
Meet of Chem Society
Outstanding chemists from Am
erican colleges gathered in Col
lege Station last night for the six
teenth meeting of the Texas A. &
M. section of the American Chem
ical Society. Dr. W. R. Erode of
Ohio State University, the chief
speaker of the evening, delivered
an address on “Spectrometric An
alysis.” Dr. and Mrs. Erode were
guests at an informal dinner at
the Aggieland Inn.
Plans have been made for future
meetings of the society to be held
this year. On December 12, Alexis
Voorhies, Associate Director, Esso
Laboratories, Standard Oil Com
pany, will be the guest speaker.
Twice-Beaten Texas Christian Team
Shatters Rose Bowl Dreams of Texas
By Mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
Swamping the Rice Institute Owls, 19-6, before 30,000 screaming
fans in Houston Saturday afternoon, Coach Homer Norton’s Texas
Aggies clinched at least a tie for the conference flag and remained
one of the four undefeated, untied major teams in the nation.
The Cadet’s win over the Owls went a long way toward clinching
their third consecutive title, but Coach Dutch Meyer’s surprising Horned
Frogs must be credited with a big"
assist. For the second straight
week the once mighty Texas Long
horns bit the dust when an insur
gent Horned Frog team found
themselves to take away a 14-7
victory.
The battle now is between the
Aggies and the Frogs. T. C. U.
still has a chance to tie for the
title if they can win their remain
ing games with Rice and S. M. U.
and if Texas beats the Aggies.
Should the Frogs lose or tie a.
game, the Cadets receive the title
outright.
Ags Prep for T. U.
However, Coach Homer Norton’s
Aggies are not thinking of any
conference championships or bowl
bids. They’re concentrating all their
attention on the Texas Longhorns
whom they meet here Thanksgiv
ing. It was a defeat by these same
Steers last year that prevented the
Cadets from winning their second
consecutive crown and receiving a
certain Rose Bowl bid.
The Aggies were rewarded with
an off day yesterday but it’s back
to work today. Derace Moser, Leo
Daniels, Willie Zapalac, Dub Sib
ley, Jim Sterling, Martin Ruby, and
Marshall Spivey all suffered slight
injuries against the Owls, but are
expected to be in the peak of con
dition by Thanksgiving.
Coach Homer Norton and his
aides certainly are not taking the
Texas game lightly. “Texas still
has a great team and certainly
should not be underrated,” Coach
Norton said. Norton also plans
extensive drills for his gridsters on
running, passing, and blocking.
Played Since 1894
The Aggies and Longhorns have
The Aggies and Longhorns have
been playing each other since 1894
and have met twice in some years.
There was a gap after 1894 to 1898
and from the 1911 game until the
1915 tilt, when the relations were
resumed. In the years that Texas
and A. and M. have played each
other many interesting and thrill
ing contests have been reeled off. It
was many a year that an underdog
Aggie team bowled over great
Longhorn elevens, and vice versa.
However, neither has beaten the
other on its home field since 1923.
Texas A. & M. has won three
games in Austin, racking up wins
in 1902, 1909, and in 1922 in the
modern series of home and home
schedules. The Longhorns won at
(See CHAMPIONS, Page 4)
Brazos Exes To
Honor Kyle With
Banquet on Friday
Like a Surging Wave of Water They Rolled On
Riot Squads and Tear Gas Fail to Break up Aggie Formations as Cadet Corps
Moves Into Houston to Beat Rice and Celebrate Defeat of Texas University
By Mike Mann
Senior Sports Assistant
“They beat our team; kick us a-
round; steal our girls; and take
our town—BAH! Such was the
general expression of the Rice In
stitute Owls after the Texas Ag
gies returned to Aggieland from a
victorious corps trip to Houston.
And 6,500-strong the Aggie cadet
corps moved into the Bayou City
all day Friday and Saturday morn
ing. A large number of cadets up
held the tradition of leaving early
for the corps trips and some few
entered Houston as early as Wed
nesday morning.
Friday night found all nite spots,
honky tonks and drive ins filled
to capacity with Aggies and their
dates. Many popular amusement
centers were forced to turn away
customers by the dozens because
of the overflow crowds.
The high-point of the pre-game
festivities was the customary mid
night yell practice held Friday
night at the Rice Hotel in down
town Houston. Shortly before mid
night thousands of Aggies, their
dates, and followers, gathered in
the street in front of the hotel. The
streets were filled and all traffic
was blocked, causing the local po
lice to call out all available reserves
and squad cars. The lawmen asser
ted they misinterpreted the Aggie
meeting for a riot of no small
consequence, claiming that they
knew nothing of the yell practice.
With the arrival of the riot
squads, the Aggie resentment at
the interference arose and tem
pers were at a high pitch. The
police set off at least six tear gas
bombs at intervals along the sides
of the street. A number of cadets
suffered from the effects of the
gas and a mother of a Houston Ag
gie suffered minor eye injuries
from the gas.
One of the policemen kicked a
gas bomb in the midst of the mass
ed Aggies. A freshman retaliated
by picking up the missle and tossing
it back at the officer.
An ex-Aggie who was present at
the fracas phoned Police Chief Ash
worth who arose from bed and
came down town to give the police
men present instructions that the
Aggies were not to be further mo
lested.
The yell practice proceeded with
out further interruption under the
direction of yell leaders Skeen Sta
ley, J. O. Alexander, Chuck Chalm
ers, and -Jack Nagle. After the
conclusion of the session, the Ag
gies retired from the downtown
streets to resume the festivities
they had temporarily abandoned
for yell practice.
Saturday morning the Cadet
Corps paraded the Houston streets
in a full-dress parade. The side
walks were crammed with specta
tors who turned out to watch the
corps pass in parade, marching to
the stirring, pulse-quickening mu
sic of the famed Aggie bands. The
corps was reviewed by Colonel
Maurice D. Welty, A. & M. com
mandant, and Mayor Neal Pickett,
standing in the reviewing stand at
in front of the Rice Hotel.
Later in the day, the Aggie
“Twelfth Man” proceeded out South
Main to Rice Stadium for the main
event of the corps trip. The Cadet
section was filled an hour before
game time and from across the
field one could see a large mass of
white—the heat having forced the
Aggies to shed their blouses. The
corps was in top condition and were
“all out” in their aid to their team
on the gridiron. From the time the
Aggie gridsters entered the stadium
for the pre-game warmup until af
ter the game was over, the corps
(See TEAR GAS, Page 4)
The Brazos County Texas A. &
M. club will sponsor a testimonial
banquet Friday night at 7 o’clock
in Sbisa Hall for Dean E. J. Kyle,
who has recently returned from a
20,000 mile air inspection tour of
South and Central America, Club
President P. L. Downs, Jr., has
announced.
The banquet will be open to the
general public including men and
women. Banquet Chairman George
A. Long announced that tickets
will be made available in Bryan and
College Station. No tickets will
be sold at the door so advance re
servations will be necessary, Long
said.
Dean Kyle took over 2,500 feet
of colored film on his trip and
these pictures will be shown at the
banquet.
Kyle is a graduate of A. & M.
of the class of ’99. He has been
dean of the School of Agriculture
since 1911 and a member of the
faculty since 1902.
This past fall he left on the
tour for the purpose of studying
agriculture and agricultural edu
cation methods in the several coun
tries visited. The trip was made
under the sponsorship of Nelson
Rockfeller, coordinator of the Coun
cil of National Defense, the Stand
ard Oil Co., and the Anderson-
Clayton Co. of Houston.
While away, he visited Mexico,
Guatemala, Coasta Rica, Canal
Zone, Venezuela, Trinidad, Brazil,
Argentina, Chili, Peru, and Colum
bia. While there, he visited all of
the major colleges and large
ranches in each of those countries.
He gathered a wealth of material
for his report to his sponsors and
will relate some of his experiences
at the testimonial to be held in
Sbisa hall.
Symphony Group To
Rehearse Tomorrow
The College Station Community
Symphony Orchestra will hold an
other of its regular rehearsals to
morrow night at 7:00 in the music
room of the A. & M. Consolidated
School. Students living in the old
area are invited to meet at the
bugle stand where there will be
cars to take them to the rehearsal
and back.
String instrument players are
still the greatest need of the orch
estra. The system of furnishing
rides to rehearsals has been start
ed to boost the attendance of
students or any other persons who
have no way to attend the rehears
al.
ROA Meeting Will
Be Tonight at 7:30
The Brazos county Reserve Of
ficers Association will meet tonight
at 7:30 p.m. in the Petroleum lec
ture room. The map problem hand
ed out at the last meeting will be
discussed.
Captain W. S. McCulley, presi
dent of the Brazos county Reserve
Officers Association, especially
asks that all Reserve Officers be
present. An invitation is also ex
tended to all seniors to attend the
meeting.
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