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-SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1943
Physical Training Program Required For All
Schedule Shows One Hour
Intramural, 2 2-Hour Labs
Special Physical Training Will Include
Commando Course, Football, Calisthenics
W. L. Penberthy, head of the Physical Education De
partment, has disclosed tentative plans for the most exten
sive physical fitness program ever to be developed in the
history of A. & M. The program, which will have its initial
inauguration as soon as the semester gets under way, is desig
nated to give intensive physical training to every member
of the corps.
The training for each Aggie will-
consist of two, two-hour periods
each week and a participation in
at least one intramural gam6
per week. There will be three
two-hour classes each day all
through the week including Sat
urday. The hours for these classes
will be from 8-10 a.m., from 10
a.m.-12 noon, and from 1-3 p.m.
Each student will sign up for one
of the classes in the fore part of
the week (Monday, Tuesday, or
Wednesday), and one in the latter
part of the week (Thursday, Fri
day, or Saturday). “Every stu
dent must sign up in these class
es,” Mr. Pentberthy said, “There
will be no exceptions.”
Members of each class will re
port not later than 15 minutes
after the hour in old play clothes
and tennis shoes, if possible. That
will give them times enough to go
from the previous class to the
dormitory and change. Upon re
porting the class will be given
about 20 minutes of mass calis
thenics under one instructor.
Following the mass calisthenics
in which everyone will take part,
the class will be divided. Those
who cannot swim or cannot pass
the swimming requirements will
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be sent to swimming class until
they can pass. Upon their passing
of the swimming requirements
they will join , the rest of the
class.
Those of the class that are left
after the swimming group has
been taken out will then engage
in some form of extensive exer
cise. The class will be divided into
four or five groups and the forms
of exercise will be rotated. Some
of the things that will be engaged
in are cross country, commando
course running, gymnastics, mass
boxing, swimming, tumbling, and
speed ball. This will take up over
a quarter of hour of class time.
Following that, the classes will
taper off with about 30 minutes
of some vigorous game. Foremost
of these will probably be volley
ball, basketball, badminton, etc.
Students will be dismissed at
least twenty or thirty minutes be
fore the next class in time to re
turn to their respective dorms,
bathe, and dress themselves in
time.
A sample class session might
run something like this—twenty
minutes of calisthenics to start,
followed by a couple of miles
of cross country and some run
ning of the commando course; then
a quick vigorous game of volley
ball before time to go in.
Mr. Pentberthy stated that this
sort of intensive physical program
would continue until the class was
in pretty good shape; then the
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’Mural Program
Remains the Same
For Coming Season
Class B Intramurals May Be
Discontinued; Nothing Sure
As Yet, Says Penberthy
Despite the installment of the
new physical fitness program in
the school for this semester, Mi*.
W. L. Penberthy, head of intra
murals, stated that the intramural
program would remain basically
the same. There is a possibility
that Class B intramurals may be
cut out, but nothing definite has
been decided on that issue.
Penberthy said, “This se
mester, more than ever before in
the history of this school, we need
a good all-round intramural pro
gram”. That is exactly what is
being planned. In spite of the
fact that physical education classes
are to be emphasized to a greater
extent, nothing will be cut out of
intramurals. All efforts are being
made to make this semester's pro
gram even bigger and better than
ever before.
IntramUrals will have a far more
important place in the activities
of the student this term than pre
viously, due to the intensified scho
lastic strain the corps will be un
der. Penberthy also states
that the Intramural Department
would attempt to do everything in
its power to provide wholesome
recreation for the student body.
Even though the possibility re
mains that Class B leagues may
be discontinued, sports are being
planned for both Classes A & B.
Class A sports will be horseshoes,
volleyball, table tennis, boxing,
wrestling, softball, and track.
Those sports tentatively scheduled
for Class B are horseshoes, tennis,
handball, boxing, wrestling, soft
ball, and track. The Intramural
Department will also try to spon
sor several tournaments which will
be campus-wide for both Classes
A & B.
For the intramural race this
semester the Class A defending
champion will be A Company Chem
Warfare, managed by J. H. Bar
rett. The Class A runner-up is
C Infantry managed by W. V.
Crozier.
The race for Class B honors last
semester ended in a tie with K
Infantry and F Field Artillery
each having 305 points. However,
the Intramural crown was awarded
to the Infantry team due to their
superiority in number of extra
points gathered. The K Infantry
squad was managed by Claude Lov
ett. His Junior assistant, who was
really in charge of the Class B
squad, was John Robinson. The
Field Artillery team had Max Roth-
olz as Senior manager with Jack
Kuhn as Junior assistant. I Battery
Coast came in third in this race
with a totaj of 300 points.
Even if the Class B leagues are
disbanded there will still be a race
for the flag and the intramural
championship. However, there will
be no night intramural play what
soever due to the strict enforce
ment of C Q on the cadet corps.
Swimming Team Has Big Hopes
For 1943 SW Conference Crown
procedure will be changed. Plans
for that will be worked out later,
however.
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With the opening of the new
spring semester, the 1943 edition
of Coach Art Adamson’s Texas
Aggie swimming team will launch
their bid for the Southwest Con
ference crown. They open their
season with a dual meet with
Texas University sometime early
in February. This year the Aggie
tankers boast a strong team, es
pecially in dual meets, led by Cap
tain Jimmy Keil and Bob Cowl
ing, ace breaststroker.
Despite the loss of Bobby Tay
lor,, who won the conference in
the 100, 220, and 400-yard dashes
last spring, by an early graduation
due to the speed-up program, the
Aggies will still have on hand a
number of experienced swimmers.
Besides Keil and Cowling, the re
turning lettermen include Dick
Winters, Herb Evans, Herb Deyer,
Ben Looney, and “Shrimp” Lap-
ham. Also present are several new
freshman stars and squadmen.
Backbone of the squad will prob
ably be Bob Cowling who was a
mainstay of the team last year.
He is definitely conference champ
ion in the breaststroke and the in
dividual medley. Last summer he
added to his great record the
breaststroke championsjhips of
Gulf, Southwestern and Southern
A.A.U.’s.
Captain Jimmy Kiel and Dick
Winters also carried off quite a
few places in the conference meet
themselves.
Another boy who is returning
is “Shrimp” Lapham, a little guy
who is plenty good when it comes
to either swimming or water polo.
This will be his last year with
the varsity, and he should make
a valuable man. He was on the
undefeated State Champion Aggie
water polo team of last season.
New additions to the squad since
last year are a couple of star
freshmen who may easily become
the sensations of the conference.
They are Danny fereen from Dal
las and George Heaney of El Paso.
These two fish carried off enough
swimming honors for half a dozen
men, when they made nearly a
clean sweep of their events in
summer meets.
Green, who was a star for the
Dallas Athletic Club before com
ing to Aggieland, took top honors
in almost every race in which he
participated. He was 220 and 440
champion in the Southwest A.A.U.
meet in Dallas, and 440 champ
in both the Gulf A.A.U. and
Southern A.A.U. meets. In addi
tion he won the 220 yard dash in
the Southern meet. To top off
all his past performances he came
in third in the National A.A.U.
meet in the 880 and the mile. He
has really made a sensational
record so far this year and is ex
pected to continue to be a star
in conference competition this
spring.
George Heaney, the other haTF
of this great freshman combina
tion, was state backstroke champ
ion back in his high school days
in Austin High School of El Paso.
He won his specialty—the back-
stroke—in the three meets last
Summer and is favored to carry
off the backstroke crown in the
conference meet late in March.
Two other freshmen who have
made fine records are Phil Grif
fin and Everett Brown. Brown is
Junior Southwest A.A.U. back-
stroke champion, while Griffin is
Junior National A.A.U. breast
stroke king.
The team this year is poten-
tually stronger than the one that
finished close behind Texas for
the title last season. They have
not lost a single dual meet this
year. However, according to Coach
Adamson, most of the competition
this spring will have to be con
fined to teams in the near vicin
ity. The only meets that are
scheduled besides the conference
meet are three with T.U. Usually
the squad makes a trip to the
Midwest or the Southeast, but
this' year transportation difficult
ies will make that impossible.
Coach Adamson does plan, how
ever, to take a few of his best
boys to the Intercollegiate meet
held at Ohio State late in March.
The presence of several champ
ions on the squad this season
makes the Aggies exceptionally
strong in dual meets, where only
the first two places are counted;
but due to the shortage of men
to take the second and third places,
the team may be weaker in con
ference competition where all five
places count. Adamson issued a
call to the corps for boys who are
interested in swimming to come
out for the squad. Unless men are
found to get points the Aggies
wil have a hard time beating out
Texas for the crown.
A complete list of the squad in
cludes swimmers Cowling, Keil,
Lapham, Griffin, Winters, Hean
ey, Green, Meyer, Evans, Looney,
Klein, Schofield, Everett Brown,
L. D. Brown, Barrois, Scott, Blake-
lock, and Haraldson; and divers
Puls and Tips.
Iron Men Stay Intact;
Cokinos Returns A&M
The Aggie Cagers, known to
some as the “iron men”, will still
be intact for the remaining basket
ball race, with the announcement
of fire-ball hustler, Mike Cokinos,
returning to school.
Conflicting some earlier reports,
Mike will continue in school and
finish his pre-med work in June
and then go to a medical college.
Mike resigned his contract, and
then turned to the draft board who
put him in 2-A.
The remaining “iron men,” Les
Peden, Pete Watkins, Lee Huff
man, and Jamie Dawson, are still
in school and have much to do with
the outcome of the conference, it is
believed. Last night the team got
some practice in preparation for
the Baylor game Monday night.
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