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Texas Longhorns May Boast of Aggie
Defeat But Cadets Are Still SWC Champs
From every little nook or cor
ner, the question, “What happen
ed to the Texas Aggies this past
Thanksgiving day?” pops up. This
is not hard to answer. The Ags
were simply beaten by a better
team—a team that had great block
ing, tackling, and offensive abil
ity. Undoubtedly, that was the
greatest team to come out of the
State Institution, and it will be
many a year before Coach Dana X.
Bible can boast of such an array
of players.
Yes, everyone will admit that
Texas has the best material in the
conference, but, after all is said
and done, who’s the champs? It’s
not the Longhorns, T. C. U., Rice,
S. M. U., Baylor, or Arkansas. It’s
the Texas Aggies! And the Long
horns or any other Southwest Con
ference team cannot claim that
they are better than the Aggies
through the season. Hustle, spir
it, and the will to win got the crown
for Coach Homer Norton’s fight
ing eleven, and even in defeat, no
one can say that the Aggies did
not fight to the last second of
play.
Yes sir,x Texas beat the Aggies,
but. we certainly can come back
with the answer that we won the
consolation prize (and a mighty
good one at that)—the SOUTH
WEST CONFERENCE FOOT
BALL CHAMPIONSHIP! You
can’t laugh that off!
Wash State Cougars, Slow Starters, Have
Become the Terror Of Pacific Conference
With the Texas memory safely
laid away to rest for another year,
Coach Homer Norton’s Aggies pre
pare themselves for another tough
foe when they clash with the Wash
ington State Cougars Saturday
afternoon before a reported capac
ity crowd. The Cougars are a
team that had a slow start but
have come along in their past
three games to become the terror
of the Pacific Coast. Since losing
their last game to the Washington
Huskies, 23-13, Coach Babe Holling-
berry’s eleven have swamped such
favorites as Stanford, Oregon, and
Oregon State, the West Coast’s
Rose Bowl nominee. Had Oregon
State been defeated last Saturday
by Oregon, Washington State, in
all probability would have received
the Rose Bowl nomination.
Sparked by their brilliant half
back, the Cougars employ a single
wing punt formation. They have
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a great running attack while their
passing, led by Sewell, is one of
the best on the Coast. Since the
Aggies themselves are primarily
a passing team, be set to see plen
ty of aerials floating through the
air at the sandy Tacoma stadium,
with Derace Moser and Leo Dan
iels on one side for the Cadets,
and Sewell on the throwing end
for the Coast team.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Wash
State Game to be Broadcast Saturday at 4
The game between the Aggies
and Washington State will be
broadcast by the Humble Oil and
Refining Company, starting at 4
o’clock. . . . Kern Tips is the prob
able announcer . . . Speaking of
loyalty to a team, whether it’s
winning or losing, here are some
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excerpts from a letter depicting the
attitude of so many loyal Aggie
fans . . . Dear Mr. Norton and
team ... We want you and the
boys to know, that in spite of
what happened Thanksgiving, peo
ple are still for you every min
ute, particularly 133 girls here at
Stephens College at Columbia, Mis
souri ... We know that a lot was
lost Thanksgiving, but just as
much was gained ... no matter
how any team beats the Aggies,
they can never touch the Aggie
spirit ... it will live as long as
there is an A. & M. . . . Here is a
poem written by me, entitled “The
Spirit of Aggieland.” ... It isn’t
much, but here goes . . .
“You have won the SW Con
ference three years in a row,
Texas U. has beaten you, all
this we know,
But, you, you Texas Aggies,
have a spirit tried and true.
And, we, your loyal suporters,
will always stick by you.”
Your most ardent supporter,
Mary Evelyn Martin
Box 785, Stephens College
Columbia, Missouri.
. . . Just goes to show that the
Spirit of Aggieland” is spread all
over the country . . . Bill Hender
son, Jim Sterling, and Derace
Moser are the Aggies that have
been prominently mentioned on sev
eral All-American selections . . .
Moser made first string halfback
on the NEA All-American team
... Sterling was first string end
on the New York Sun selection . . .
(See KYLE FIELD, Page 4)
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CONGRATULATIONS
AGGIES-
For winning for the third time the
Southwest Conference Crown
We Are Proud Of You!
LAUTERSTEIN’S
North Gate
Aggies Work Out at Sacramento Today
Wash State And
Cadets Meet For
First Time Sat
After a short workout yesterday
in Los Angeles, the Texas Aggies
journeyed on to Sacramento where
they will go through a long drill
today in prepartion for their game
with the Washington State
Cougars Saturday in Tacoma.
The Aggies will arrive in Tacoma
tomorrow in time for a short work
out in the Tacoma high school
stadium where the game is to be
played. The Cougars home town
is across the state at Pullman,
Wash., but the game is being play
ed in Tacoma on account of it be
ing as the Evergreen Bowl.
This will be the first meeting
in history between the Aggies and
the Cougars, and is attracting quite
a bit of attention over the na
tion. Coach Orin “Babe” Holling-
berry of the Washington State
club has built his defense around
two stellar ends, Dale Gentry and
Nick Suesoff. These boys specialty
is rushing the opponents passer,
and as everyone knows, the Aggies
main offensive threat is the pass
ing of Derace Moser and Leo
Daniels. It is well known that a
pair of good hard-charging ends
can deal a passer plenty of misery,
and therein lies the thought which
troubles the Aggies’ Homer Nor
ton.
The Washington State Cougars
are admitted by all so-called ex
perts to have had the hottest team
in the West in recent weeks, and
the Aggies are spending long hours
studying ways to halt their well
rounded offense as scouted by
“Dough” Rollins.
The Aggies will be handicapped
when they step out on the field
Saturday by the fact that they will
have had but a scant five hours of
actual practice for this game. In
addition to this, the trip is the
longest one ever made by any Ca
det team in history, and the boys
are expected to be a bit train
weary by the time they reach
Tacoma.
To add to the Aggie misery, the
game is to be played not on a well
turfed field as they are accus
tomed to, but on a gridiron made
of dirt. However, this is expected
to work to Washington State’s
disadvantage also.
Advance information received
from Tacoma has it that the fans
up there are calling this the game
which should have been played in
the Rose Bowl. All of the 25,000
seats have been sold and thous
ands more of the West Coast peo
ple are clamoring for tickets. The
game is expected to be one of the
most colorful and hard fought af
fairs the Pacific Coast has seen
this year or any year.
TCU’s Three-Year
Cycle Pays Off As
Frogs Go to Bowl
Texas Christian’s three-year
cycle has paid off again, for the
Horned Frogs are once more in a
bowl game, meeting the University
of Georgia in the Orange Bowl in
Miami, Florida, January 1, 1942.
Five consecutive times now the
Frogs have climbed to gridiron
heigts at intervals of three years.
It all started back in 1929, when
T. C. U., with Mike Brumbelow
(now line coach) as captain and
Howard Grubbs (now athletic di
rector) as quarterback, won its
first Southwest Conference cham
pionship.
Three years later, in 1932, the
Frogs were undefeated and tied
once (by L. S. U., 3 to 3) in win
ning the conference flag. That
team was the first in conference
history to win from all other mem
ber schools.
Another three years passed, and
in 1935 the Horned Frogs, with
Sammy Baugh passing, went to
the Sugar Bowl and won from L.
S. U. 3 to 2, though they drop
ped one game, to finish second
in the conference standings. *
Again three years passed, and
this time the cycle paid off in a
big way. With Davey O’Brien
pitching and Ki Aldrich and I. B.
Hale headlining a mighty line, the
1938 Frogs earned the title of No.
1 team of the nation. Again they
made a Sugar Bowl appearance,
defeating Carnegie Tech 15 to 7.
What the experts overlooked is
the fact that this is 1941 and that
three years had passed since T. C.
U. last had a good season. A three-
year cycle that put them into the
Orange Bowl in spite of everything!
And remember that three-year
business when the 1944 season rolls
around!
BATTALIONA-
DECEMBER 4, 1941 Page 3
Power for Washington State!
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INTRAMURALS
Another organization on the cam
pus has forfeited a game because
they played a man under an as
sumed name. Such practice can
not be too strongly condemned,
and it ought to
stop. As mention
ed in a previous
column, the P. E.
department does
not look for such
gross infractions
of the sports
man’s code, but
when flagrant
violations are
Oxford thrown in their
face they cannot overlook it. The
team who committed such a breach
of ethics is now chalked up with
a forfeit. And I hope there will be
no further recurrences of the above
mentioned breach.
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A:
C Field Artillery, Basketball
Class B:
D CAC, Volleyball
E Engineers, Ping Pong
A Replacement Center, Vol
leyball
the forfeit list last year, has won
2 CHQ, the organization that led
all their football games by at least
one touchdown and has advanced
to the semi-finals in one other
sport this season. If I were handing
out orchids they would go to the
men on the 2 CHQ intramural team.
Class B ping pong is going
(See INTRAMURALS, Page 4)
Fame of Aggies Spread
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Aggie followers are scattered
throughout the entire world—this
fact is proven by letters that pile
into Aggieland day by day from
all points of the globe, letters
from men, women, and children
praising and hailing A. & M. and
the Aggie spirit.
Of particular interest is a letter
received last week by J. F. Casey.
The letter was written from Sum
mit, New Jersey, by a woman
after she and her son had heard
the Bonfire broadcast Wednesday
night.
The letter was written in order
to obtain information as to how
to obtain a copy of the “Spirit of
Aggieland”—the music to be used
as a Christmas present for her
Agggie-worshipping 15 year old
son.
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By Paul B. Williamson
Except for the bowl games, the
1942 football season has been al
most completely closed. With only
15 games remaining on the 1941
schedule, a fair estimate can be
drawn of the relative standings of
the leading teams.
Coach Dana X. Bible’s Texas
Longhorns loosed their full power
at College Station last Thursday to
overwhelm those Texas Aggies 23
to 0. The Aggies won the champ
ionship of the Southwestern Con
ference on a percentage basis of
games lost, won, and tied in the
circuit but dropped from the na
tional championship.
This is one particular instance
wherein it seems odd that the cir
cuit champion has been badly beat
en by the runner-up. The explana
tion is simple enough. Each team
was beaten once, but Texas had
also been tied once. So, the cham
pionship goes to the Texas Aggies,
and Texas—rating just slightly
lower by virtue of the additional
tie game—is runner up.
The biggest upsets of the week
included Louisiana State over Tu-
lane 19-0, California over Stan
ford by 16-0, and Arkansas over
Tulsa 13-6.
In 84 games reported, including
stragglers from the previous week,
the system won 62, and had one
upsetting tie. That gave a record
(See WILLIAMSON. Page 4)
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