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Football Season Just Around the Corner; 1942 Battles Promise to be Greatest Ever By Chick Hurst It won’t be long now, just six weeks to be exact, until “King Football” will once more rule the sports pages of America, and al ready signs of his approach are appearing. The Saturday morning quarterbacks have forgotten the wounds of last seasons terrific batch of upsets and are once more beginning to cast their eyes on this years crop of potential All-Amer icans. Several excellent pre-season con tests are slated to be reeled off the latter part of this month, clashes between various profes sional outfits and the All-Star ser vice teams. In spite of the war, tire shortage, draft, and in some sections gasoline rationing, the 1942 football season bids fair to be as good or better than any in history. True, attendance will probably fall off at games held some dis tance from metropolitan areas, but in the larger cities in the opinion of this writer, the games will draw larger crowds than ever. For one thing, thousands of people who last year couldn’t afford to pay the freight for the big attractions are Xtttttrtoevgtt SHORT SOCKS “Hi” Enough to “COVER UP” “Lo” Enough for COMFORT 3 pair $1.25 up Regulation KHAKI SOCKS 35^ - 3 pr. $1.00 CJLMJO&fcS College and Bryan now holding down lucrative war jobs and are ready, willing and eager to plank down the necessary cash outlay. Another factor which will aid football this year is the heavy em phasis which both the Army and Navy are placing on it. Football develops team spirit, and the de sire to get out there and win, and that’s the kind of spirit that the people of the U.S.A. need at the present time. The draft has hurt some of the smaller colleges in regard to play er losses, but most of the larger schools will still be able to field some plenty potent outfits. In ad dition to these the fans will have a chance to see some star spangled service teams in action which in former years would have been im passible outside of the professional loops. A good example of this is right here in the Southwest. Lt. Marty Karow’s Corpus Christi Naval Air Station team will have no less than six former All-Americans in the starting lineup, and the fans of the southwest will have plenty of opportunities to watch them in ac tion. All in all it looks like a great season ahead, and barring unfore seen events of the war, this cor ner still sticks to its prediction that 1942 will see a greater interest in football than ever before. Sports Squibs From Here and There; Jake Webster Holds Record Jake Webster, Aggie fullback, holds the modern all-time record for points after touchdowns ac cording to the latest issue of the Football Guide Book just released. Jake’s record was set last season when he converted 29 points in 32 attempts. . . Not bad!!! . . . Modem all time scoring record is held by the ’41 Longhorns who racked up a total of 338 points last year. . . H. B. McElroy of the publicity de partment has news of farmer Ag gie footballer Felly Dittman. . . Felly is now a Captain stationed at Gowan Field, Iowa. . . McElroy says Felly writes “would sure like to get back to Australia, the beer is swell, and the natives don’t know how to shoot craps” . . . Roy P. Gates, assistant to McElroy in the publicity department has just fin- inshed compiling a book of sta tistics covering every game in every sport which A. & M. teams have taken part in since the school was founded. . . Hats off to Roy for doing a swell job on a long and tedious task of digging through the record books. . . Incidentally, (See KYLE FIELD, Page 4) ATTENTION All 2nd In Commands 1 Pick out your Captain’s watch while there are plenty to choose from. All stocks are limited. i SEE HAINES (423 No. 16) for details of our plan to help you to be able to select one now. CALDWELL’S Bryan . BARGAINS New and Used Radios Liberal Trade Ins STUDENT CO-OP STORE 1 Block East of North Gate Phone 4-4114 Tankers Go To Southern A A U Meet Swimmers Leave For New Orleans Thurs To Enter 2-Day Meet The Texas Aggie Varsity swim ming team will leave here Thurs day morning for New Orleans where they will take part in the Southern AAU Swimming champ ionships, which will be held in that city this week-end. The team memoers who will make the trip are: Dannie Green, Everett Brown, Bob Cowling,. Bob bie Taylor, and George Haney. They will be accompained by Art Adamson Aggie swimming coach. This swimming meet will include swimmers from Texas, Lousiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. A field of excellent swim mers are expected to be in attend ance at the meet and a superior display of swimming ability will be given for the spectators. The four man relay event will be taken care of by Green, Haney, Taylor, and Cowling. The other events to be participated in by Aggie aquamen are: 100-yard free tsyle, Greene and Taylor; 220-yard free style, Green, Taylor, and Cow ling; 440-yard free style, Greene, Haney, and Taylor. Backstroke, Haney and Brown; breast stroke, Cowling. BATTALION Tuesday, August 18, 1942 Page 3 Twilight League Standings W L T Pet. GB Campus Cleaners 15 5 0 .789 0 Loupot’s 13 6 0 .684 . 2 Lipscomb’s Pharmacy 12 7 0 .631 3 Campus Theatre 11 8 0 .579 4 Holick’s Cleaners 9 10 0 .474 6 Aggie Cleaners 5 12 2 .363 9% Faculty 4 12 3 .289 10 Madeley’s Pharmacy 4 13 2 .263 10% Monday’s Results Campus Cleaners 6; Aggie Cleaners 5 Loupot’s 5; Madeley’s Pharmacy 1 Lipscomb’s Pharmacy 13; Faculty 1 Campus Theatre 9; Holick’s Cleaners 5 Campus Cleaners Come From Behind To Edge Aggie Cleaners In 6-5 Clash The Campus Cleaner’s came from behind to defeat the Aggie Clean ers 6-5 Monday evening to keep their two game lead over Loupot’s who edged Madeley’s Pharmacy by the score of 5-1. In the other games, the Campus Theatre re tained their hold on fourth place by turning back Holick’s 9-5 and Liscomb’s Pharmacy trounced the INTRAM URALS By Mike Mann Scarcely over four weeks re main in the current semester at the end of which the Intramural flags will be awarded to the champ ionship outfits of both Class A and B eompetition. It will be recalled that the Intramural program has been revised to coincide with the year round college term. Under the new plan Intramural champ ions will be crowned at the end of each semester instead of at the FORFEIT DOGHOUSE CLASS A C Replacement Center, soft- ball A Signal Corps, softball H Infantry, volleyball L Infantry, volleyball B Ordnance, volleyball end of each two semesters as has been done in the past. There is still time for outfits in the upper brackets to take the crown in their respective sports. A last-minute “splurt” may be just what is needed to decide the college champ. Now is the time to go out and win the games and take a league championship. A Class B softball game saw I Field Artillery nose out A In- came forth with a last-inning rally but the best they could do was to net a lone tally. Behind R. L. Liles stellar hur ling, B Field Artillery walloped E Engineers to the tune of 21-4 in^another Class B softball match. Intramural Scores CLASS A Softball A Inf. 15, E R.C. 3 4th St. QMC 11, C Cav. 2 I F.A. 9, A F.A. 6 D F.A. 10, B S.C. 6 Volleyball E Inf. 2, F CAC 0 F F.A. 2, 3rd Hdq. F.A. 1 C CWS 2, I Inf. 1 Amer. Leg. 2, D CAC 0 CLASS B Softball C R.C. 4, Amer. Leg. 2 K Inf. 14, C. Eng. 3 A F.A. 6, G F.A. 3 A CAC 19, Hdq. Cav. 4 Faculty 13-1. For a while Monday evening it looked like the Aggie , Cleaners were going to pull another upset and win over the league leaders. The Aggie Cleaners collected a tally in the first inning an added another run in the third. Theif they pushed two more runs across the platter in the fourth to take a 4-0 lead. However in the last of the fourth the Campus Cleaners came to life and got back in the game by scoring two runs on hits by Gillette, Jennings, and Daniels. Then in the fifth the. Campus Cleaners really went to work on Sarge Brown, who had held them pretty well in check up to this point, and took the lead by push ing four more tallies across the plate. The Aggie Cleaners threat ened in the last two innings but the best they could do was to score once more to bring the final score 6-5. The Loupot-Madeley’s Pharmacy tilt was a scoreless affair for the three frames. In the fourth Lou pot’s boys rallied for three runs on hits by Martin, Newberry, and Miller. In the next frame they ad ded two more runs as Martin pushed Reese and Shaw across with his second hit of the game. Madeley’s Pharmacy scored their lone run in the sixth inning on bungles by Foster and Pollan. Liscomb’s led by Sharper’s and Selman’s hitting slugged the Facul ty under the tune of 13-1. Up to the fifth frame it was a pitcher’s battle between Cokinos of Lip scomb’s and Terrell of the Profs with the Pharmacy boys enjoying a 3-1 lead. However, in the fifth Liscomb’s cinched the game by scoring seven runs. The Phar macy boys continued their slug- Football’s Origin Hidden in Dust of Centuries Former Game of Death Now Nation’s Top Outdoor Sport By John Holman Perhaps it is a little to soon to start gridiron talk, but when foot ball season does start, there will be too many more important things to fill these columns with than the highlights of the history of the game. But with A. & M. so definitely in the football passing parade, it might be of interest to some of the corps to know how this king of collegiate games began. Football is perhaps the oldest outdoor game known to man. No one knows just how or where or when the game really began, be cause history is limited to the few thousand of years back to the Egyptian and prehistoric civiliza tions. One thing is certain, though, that where there is recorded his tory, there has always been some reference to a game which when modified slightly looks a whole lot like the skull-busting that goes on down Kyle Field way on fall Saturday afternoons. Basketball was purposely invent ed in 1892; volleyball was also de vised in 1895; baseball goes a lit tle farther back and might be con sidered a by-product of the men who developed football from the crude game it once was to the polished and scientic contest we know today. Early Greece, in her prime around 400 B. C., had a game they called Harpaston, which when translated means “forward throw game”. We don’t know just what they “threw”, but because when Rome took over the job of ruling the world from Greece about a hundred years later, they also took over “Harpastum” and “Follis”, both names applying to the same game. Augustus Caesar, about the year 5 A. D., demanded that the rules of the game be revised be cause he felt that it was too sim ple and childish for his soldiers. When the modifications were completed, he called the game Cal cic. This game was really just a bloody battle, and usually ended in the death of the losing team. Caesar allowed twenty-seven men on each side, and didn’t care how a player took the “ball” from an opposing player. After the downfall of Rome, the Celts, Teutons, Eskimos, the Aztecs, and other Dark Ages tribes, all contributed to the de velopment of the game. The Celts used it as a means of worshipping their son gods, while the warlike Teutons used the skulls of con quered enemies for a ball. The Eskimos used a ball made of moss, and the Aztecs used bound grass and moss. From the continent of Europe and the New World, there was no way for the game to get across the Channel to England except through the Roman soldiers who raided the islands about 40 A. D. When the Romans left, the game stuck, and even today many anc ient laws pertaining to the game can be found in English court rec ords. So varied were the ways in which the game was played, England be came confused as to its value as a sport. Many players were in jured, even killed, while others looked upon it as a mild game suit able for childen. However, in 1314 football became prohibited in the British Isle by an act of Parli- ment and their King—mostly the King. For nearly two hundred years, the game was forgotten, then it again came into the light. By the middle of the seventieth century football was regarded as a recognized sport, and was even played in the ancient colleges of Britian. * Football, as we know it today, had its beginning in these great schools—Rugby, Eton, and Win chester. A real Ball was used and rules were formulated to regulate the, game. The gentlemen from Winchester first considered it an offense to use hands on the of fensive, and they also originated the “off-sides” rule. Eton was the first school in the history of the game to use but eleven players on a team, and Rugby indirectly made Knute Rockne famous was back in the 1700’s by running with the ball. How that affected Rockne you shall see in moment. On November 6, 1869, the first intercollegiate football game ever played in America was played be tween Princeton and Rutgers Uni versities. Since that time, the game has very unsteadily grown to the great American institution that it is to- (See FOOTBALL Page 4) Intramural Open Tourneys Rapidly Drawing to Close Open Swimming Meet Held Saturday Night Draws Well Matched Field Of Contestants The big Open Intramural Tourn ament draws rapidly to a close as only the tennis singles and ping- pong singles championships were left undecided. The tennis doubles championship was won by Allen and Stanley of A Sig. when they defeated Witacre and Elliston of D FA. The pingpong title was an nexed by DuBose and Meyer of C CAC when they beat Armstrong and Howard of B Inf. The big Open Swimming Tourney which was held Saturday evening in the P. L. Downs Natatorium, drew forty contestants. The 200 ft. breast stroke and the relay the most popular events. The entries were as follows: 220 foot free style—R. Baus, J. B. Pettit, J. M. Pyler, G. W. Ram sey, H. P. Harwood, G. C. West- ervelt. \ 300 foot free style—J. B. Pettit, C. D. Nash, G. C. Westervelt. 600 foot free style—E. S. Harold- son, C. D. Nash, A. C. Holbrook, J. Gerrity. 200 foot back stroke—J. M. Ply- ler, B. Richardson, A. C. Hol brook, E. S. Haroldson. 200 foot breast stroke—J. Russell*, A. T. Pankey, G. W. Ramsey, H. M. Gree, J. Danaher, W. S. Pot ter, C. O. Butch. Diving—J. Plyler, J. R. Russell, G. W. Ramsey, H. M. Gree, and W. S. Potter. 4 man realy—W. S. Potter, B. Richardson, J. Gerrity, R. Baus, W. Warren, Sells, J. Danaher, J. B. Pettit, C. D. Nash, H. P. Harwood, Clark, and A. C. Hol brook. The tourney was a big success, affording excitement and enter tainment for one and all. The re sults of the meet with the winners in their order are: 220 foot free style—R. Baus, H. P. Harwood, J. B. Petit. 300 foot free syle—J. B. Pettit, G. C. Westervelt, and C. D. Nash. 600 foot free style—E. S. Harld- son, C. D. Nash. 200 foot back stroke—E. S. Harld- son, J. M. Plyler and Butch Richardson. 200 foot breast stroke—W. S. Pot ter, H. M. Cree, and G. W. Ram sey. Diving—W. S. Potter, H. M. Cree, and G. W. Ramsey. 4 man relay—The team of Potter, Richardson, Gerrity, and Baus was first, Second place was. the team of Warren, Sells, Clark, and Danaher. ThomasonAcceptedAs Naval Flying Cadet Rawle Buckner Thomason, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hendon Thom ason of Huntsville, Texas, has been selected for training as a Naval Aviation cadet and will be ordered to active duty shortly. Graduated from Orange High School. Received B. S. degree from Texas A. & M. College, June, 1942. When ordered to active duty, he will report to the U. S. Navy Pre- Flight School, University of Geor gia, Athens, Georgia, for three months of physical conditioning, instructions in naval essentials, military drill and ground school subjects. After completing this course, he will be sent to one of the Navy’s numerous reserve bases for primary flight training. ging in the next two frames to make the final count 13-1 in their favor. The Campus Theatre practically cinched a position in the play-offs by turning back Holick’s 9-5. Art Hogge’s pitching was no mystery to the Theatre boys and they tal lied eight runs in the first three innings. Meanwhile, Holicks was also slugging the ball but faulty base running kept them from over coming the Theatre boys. Willie Zapalac took over the mound dut ies in the fourth from Bud Rideout who developed a sore arm and had to retire from the game. Although Zapalac was wild in spots he held Holick’s well in check for the rest of the game. Press Club Will Meet Tomorrow The Press Club will meet Wed nesday evening after supper at 7 o’clock in the Battalion office in the Administration building. Plans will be discussed at this time for a dance to be held in the near future. All members of the different publications staffs are urged to attend. Any member of the Bat talion, Engineer, Agriculturist, or Longhorn staffs should come to the meeting. Also all men on the advertising or circulation staffs of these publications should come. According to Ed Gordon, presi dent of the club, important plans will be discussed at this meeting, and he asks that everybody turn out for the meeting. The rathskeller of the Univer sity of Wisconsin Memorial union, long “for men only” has recently been opened to women students. Sophomores! You owe it to yourself to look over our uniform Made by Lilly-Ames America’s Leading Uniform Manufacturers LOUPOT’S Lou Brings 'Em Back Famous Lilley - Ames Uniforms were sold on the A. & M. Cam pus long before even Loupot’s time . . . and they are still going strong. That can mean only one thing—“The tailors to the Army” as the Lilley-Ames people are known, must make a uniform the Aggies want. If you’re in the market for a uniform—all old Lou asks is that you see a Lilley-Ames be fore you buy. Blouse strictly latest regu lation, including new regu lation cloth belt. THE FINEST IN UNIFORMS J. E. Loupot, ’32 North Gate