THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1941-
Basketball
Team Opens
Season Dec 8
Six States to Be
Covered During The
Christmas Holidays
The Texas Aggie basketball
team will be the “travelingest”
squad in the conference. Playing
Sam Houston State Teachers here
Monday, December 8, as an open
er, they take to the road eight days
later and play the Phillips 66 Oil
ers in Houston. After that the team
will cover six states in maintaining
their playing schedule.
The team will be gone from the
state of Texas all during the
Christmas holidays and will play
such northern teams as Purdue
University, Kentucky University,
Bradley Polytechnic Institute,
Washington University and Ore
gon State College.
This will be the first time an Ag
gie basketball team has made such
a long trip and Coach Marty Kar-
«ow has indicated that he will carry
about fifteen men with him. Such
a trip will give the Aggie cagers a
chance to see how the game is
played by top northern teams. At
Purdue, winning the Big Ten
championship is almost a tradition
and the Aggies will have a chance
to see how they stack up against
the nation’s finest basketball team.
THE BATTALION
University of North Carolina’s
original 1795 faculty of two mem
bers waited almost a month until
the first student, Hinton James,
walked 200 miles to enroll.
BEAT TEXAS!
After The Game, Come
By And Let Us Check
Your Car For That Trip
Home.
Best Of Service
AT THE
HUMBLE STATION
Paul Gregg, Prop.
East Gate
Aggie Nemesis
-Page 5
Dana X Bible, Present Texas Coach,
Guided Destiny of A&M for Twelve Years
By Chick Hurst
(Junior Sports Editor)
Dana Xenophon Bible, known to
most people affectionately as D.X.,
brings his Texas Longhorns to
College Station today in an attempt
to shatter a tradition which he at
one time fought valiantly to up
hold. For the bald, silent Texas
mentor was at one time the brains
behind those “Fighting Texas Ag
gies.” From 1917 through 1928,
with time out one year for service
with “Uncle Sam,” he guided the
Brooks, TU Sports Editor
Gives Texas Edge Over Ags
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Peter John Layden, the lad who was a thorn in the Cadets’ side
all year, will start as fullback for the Steers this afternoon. Layden
scored the lone touchdown last Thanksgiving at Memorial Stadium
in Austin which throttled the Texas Aggies, 7-0. He also beat the
Aggies out for the baseball championship when he hit a home-
run to give the Steers a win.
ore Ag-Longhorn Statistics
Figures intended to be used to dope out the winner of the Texas
Aggie-Texas Longhorn game here on Kyle Field Thanksgiving after
noon, November 27, don’t mean a thing except to provide fuel for
settling arguments. So, for the benefit, of those who figure they can
figure the victory from comparative figures—here is the complete
season records of all players handling the ball on both the Aggie and
Longhorn teams this season:
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Player
Sibley
Rogers
Spivey
Roberts
Moser
Holder
F. Bucek
Doss
Kutner
Sanders
Matthews
J. Crain
McKay
Mayne
Heap
Daniels
R. parkins
Roman
M. Williams
Pickett
Gill
Webster
Jungmichel
Martin
Sweeny
TEAM TOTALS:
School
A. & M.
A. & M.
A. & M.
Texas
A. & M.
A. & M.
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
Texas
A. & M.
A. & M.
A. & M.
Texas
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
Editor’s Note: At the request of The Bat
talion Sports editor, L. W. (Babblin’)
Brooks, sports editor of The Daily Texan
wrote the following article for the
Thanksgiving issue of The Battalion.
By L. W. Brooks
Daily Texan Sports Editor
What a short year it has been
since last Thanksgiving Day?
The scene has been changed.
The prop men are clearing the
stage of earlier season engage
ments. The audience is filing back
in to witness another TEXAS-TEX-
AS A. & M. football game.
Speaking of changes, there is a
definite change in what the sports
experts of the nation predicted for
this Thanksgiving Day in College
Station. Yes, the tables have been
turned over and a couple of sup
posedly weak Southwest Confer
ence sisters dusted the underside
off in a heartbreaking manner.
“Dream Team”
The “dream team” of The Uni
versity of Texas comes to College
Station with an amazing record.
The first six games saw the Long
horns rise to heights never be
fore achieved by a Steer squad
and then fall before the ax in two
swift successive Saturdays. The
Longhorns fell as many others
have done—they fell before indig
nant conference members who re
fused to be outfought. Yes, the
members of the Southwest Con
ference refuse to concede victory
to anybody, whether it is a squad
of American all-stars or one of
Hitler’s panzer divisions.
It’s not new this year or last
year, but much goings-ons have
been happening long before pres
ent college students ever started
to kindergarten. The Southwest
Conference underdog is the most
dangerous and most likely winner
in modern football.
Dana’ Bible bring to College Sta
tion a defeated football team on
the record books, but not a defeat
ed team in spirit and determina
tion. These thirty-seven Long
horns have resigned themselves to
one purpose and that is to make
an impressive finish. Those men
have taken setbacks that you Ag
gies can easily understand. They’re
human beings just like you were
last Thanksgiving.
On the Spot
The Steers are on the spot. They
MUST redeem themselves for the
sake of an aroused student spirit
—something that the old-timers of
Austin shake their heads at and
laye
pive:
Pla
vey
Henderson
Sterling
Rogers
Sanders
J. Crain
Simmons
Kutner
Sweeny
Scott
Doss
Heap
Minor
Pickett
Schwarting
Roberts
Zapalac
West
Cowley
Webster
E. Smith
R. Williams
Andrews
Slaughter
Parker
Flanagan
Layden
Martin
Roman
Field
TEAM TOTALS:
PASS RECEIVERS
School
A. & M.
A. & M.
A. & M.
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
Texas
A. & M.
A. & M. •
A. & M.
A. & M.
A. & M.
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
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KICKOFF RETURNS
Team
E. Smith
J. Crain
Matthews
Doss
Webster
Andricks
McKay
Lobpries
Moser
Martin
Henderson
Layden
TEAM TOTALS:
School
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
Texas
A. & M.
Texas
Texas
A. & M.
Kicks Returned
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
Tarda
28
65
26
61
25
22
22
43
S8
16
13
22
235
126
762
1354
Average
28.0
27.5
26.0
25.6
25.0
22.0
22.0
21.5
19.0
16.0
13.0
11.0
21.3
21.0
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say, “never before in the histoiy
of the school has a student body
worshiped a Texas football team
like they do the Longhorns of
1941.”
The University is proud to pre
sent its Texas Longhorns of 1941
on the same field with the Texas
Aggies of 1941 because the wear
ers of the Maroon and White have
put on one of the greatest come
backs in modern football. Start
ing from scratch, Texas A. & M.
has built its 1941 team into a well-
deserved place, high in the national
ratings.
But, in the game of football,
there must be a winner—especial
ly in a Longhorn-Aggie game. A
tie would be hard on both schools.
People try to settle ties off the
field and that is what is com
monly known as the impossible.
The Texas Longhorns are com
ing to College Station with one
purpose, as we said before, and
that is to prove their worth be
fore the students and ex-students
of The University of Texas. It
has not been the policy of this
writer to pick scores and we shy
at predicting outcomes of games,
but as the sports writers must
do, we will step out on that well-
known limb. (And I do mean limb
after what happened at Waco and
Austin recently.)
The University of Texas will
return to Austin Thursday night
and see a brilliantly lit Orange
and White Library Tower signi
fying victory—victory won by 87
men who, packed with spirit, de
termination, and ability, represent
ed the never-say-die attitude of
Texas students, ex-students, and
their coach—Dana Xenephon Bible.
football destinies of this institu
tion. During that 12-year span,
D.X. coached the Aggies to five
conference championships, still an
all time record for any southwest
conference school or coach.
Born in Jefferson City, Tenn.,
he attended high school there and
after graduation went to. Carson-
Newman College. At Carson-New-
man he was an outstanding ath
lete and served as captain of foot
ball, basketball, and baseball dur
ing his attendence there.
Bible’s first coaching job was at
Brandon Prep, Shelbyville, Tennes-
hee, where as was the custom in
those days, he played on the team
he coached. From here he went to
Mississippi college for three years
and then coached a year at L.S.U.
From L.S.U. he came to A. & M.
where he entered upon the 12 year
reign which made his name synon-
mous with southwest conference
football. After leaving A. & M. in
1929 he went to Nebraska, where
his teams won six conference cham
pionships during his eight years
as head coach there.
Throughout all his long career
as a coach one fact stands out
above all others. Every team that
has ever taken the field coached
by D. X. Bible has always had in
stilled into it above all else the
spirit of fair play and sportsman
ship. There is no better example to
this effect than the tribute to him
which appeared in the 1929 A. & M.
Longhorn.
“We of the present student body
have at least one great advantage
over all Aggies of the future—we
have known D. X. Bible, who leaves
the college with the class of 1929.
For twelve years he has been giv
ing to our athletics the tone of his
own personality and for twelve
years, therefore, our athletics have
been improving.
“In the first place, we have won
under D. X. a far greater number
of championships than in any sim
ilar period in the past. That is well.
We like championships. In the sec
ond place, our athletics have to
some extent come during these
twelve years to be considered as
existing for the development of
every student as well as for the
production of winning teams. That
is better. We like democracy in
athletics as well as in politics.
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Gang
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CASEY’S
HISTORICAL THANKSGIVING
Many scenes have been written into American History
since the first Thanksgiving. Styles and laws have
changed. Science, Industry and Mechanization have
made great strides in every phase of business and life.
Much has been changed, but people remain the same—
and today, as generations ago, we need to protect our
loved ones against the unforseen future. To us in Amer
ica there is still much to be thankful for—the American
way of life and the Institution of Life Insurance.
Seab oar d
LIFE ll\SURAI\CE COMPAMY
HOUSTON, TEXAS
FORD MUNNERLYN, ’26, Dist. Mgr.
College Station Agency
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