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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 56
Unbeaten Aggies-Frogs Clash in Nation’s Top Game
Aggies Will Play
NTAC On Kyle
Field Saturday
Junior College Part
Of A. & M. System; Have
Strong V-12 Team
Arlington, Texas, Oct. 16.—For
the first time in history, two
teams representing the A. & M.
system of colleges, will meet each
other in a grid battle this week.
On Saturday afternoon at Kyle
Field, the North Texas Aggies,
little brothers of the famed Texas
Aggies, will collide in a game that
will see two of the state’s strong
est grid clubs in action.
Thanks to the Naval V-12 pro
gram which established a unit at
NTAC last summer, the North
Texas Aggies have one of the
strongest football aggregations in
the state. They have 12 members
of last year’s TCU squad, 4 former
Ponies from SMU, 4 outstanding
players from Texas Tech and sev
eral from East Texas State Teach
ers College and universities and
junior colleges in the far west.
Starting line against the Ag
gies Friday night will average
more than 200 potJnds. Available for
center duty will be Jim Sid
Wright, 205 pounds former SMU
guard and James “Baldy Jim”
Woodfin, TCU’s great center of
last season who weighs 200 pounds.
Probable starting guards will
be a couple of three-year veterans
from Texas Tech: Doyle Caraway,
chosen on last year’s Little All-
America team, and James Reed
who is considered by many to be
equally as good.
(See NTAC, Page 4)
Adriance To Speak
At Conference
Dr. Guy W. Adriance, head of
the Department of Horticulture of
A. & M. will present the first ad
dress at a dehydration conference
to be held at Longview October
20 according to an announcement
made today by the Horticulture
department.
Projects that are being carried
on by various agencies of the A.
& M. College in relation to dehy
dration of vegetables will be sum
marized by Dr. Adriance as the
opening address of the three-state
meeting Dehydration work for the
most part has been sponsored by
Department of Horticulture food
products laboratory of the college,
but work done at the Angelton
Experiment Station number three
will also be reviewed by Dr. Ad
riance at the conference.
Vitamin Analysis work carried
on in the nutrition laboratory of
the College Animal Husbandry De
partment and the Division of
Chemistry of the Experiment Sta
tion will also be brought out by
Dr. Adriance.
BOB LEE (BUTCH) BUTCHOFSKY from Ysleta, weighs 170
pounds, and bears No. 33 in Aggie backfield. You can get your bot
tom dollar that the Frogs won’t get very far if they come his way.
JAMES L. (BABE) HALLMARK comes from Kilgore and weighs
160 pounds. Babe can be from under No. 12, and he can be expected
to cause the Frogs plenty of misery during those sixty minutes.
MARION D. (DON) FLANAGAN, from Sweetwater, he weighs
173 pounds, and will wear No. 44 to run through the Frogs line.
Flanagan is a flashy wingback and can be expected to give the Frogs
plenty of trouble.
Frog Field at Fort Worth
To Be Scene of Thriller
Both Teams Seek to Remain Undefeated;
Aggies Are Slight Favorites Over Frogs
By Harold Borofsky
Eyes of the fotball fans of the nation are directed upon
Fort Worth today, for it is here that the 1943 “glorified
high School” Texas Aggies are playing the yet unbeaten
Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University. Perhaps the
most amazing' aspect of the game
Press Organization
Selects Officers
The A. & M. Press Club held its
initial meeting of the semester
Wednesday night to select officers
and to make plans for the year’s
work. Andy Matula was named as
the new president of the organiza
tion and Charles Murray selected
as vice president. Archie Broodo
was named the organization’s sec
retary and Dave Seligman treasur
er. H. Sylvester Boone retiring
president was selected as the
club’s parliamentarian.
The club was organized this se
mester with a membership of twen
ty, majple up of the members of
the Battalion staff. Representatives
from each of the services will be
tendered membership in the club,
it was stated. *
Objectives for the year’s work
were set up by the organization
and plans were made for the club
social activities. A committee con
sisting of Steele Nixon, David Sel
igman and Archie Broodo was ap
pointed by the president to study
the constitution of the organiza
tion and its original charter and
to make recommendation for
amendments. The club was origin
ally chartered on the campus and
the constiution set up in 1915.
The club will meet twice month
ly it was decided, with called
meetings as often as necessary to
carry on the work.
STANLEY S. (BING) TURNER has established a good punting
record and he will cause those Frogs plenty of worry when the
Aggies start to kick those extra points. Bing is from Beaumont,
weighs 200 pounds carries No. 24 for the Aggies.
Parnell Represents
College at Dallas
E. D. Parnell, of the Poultry
Husbandry Department of A. &
M., will represent the College in
a regional meeting of Food Dis
tribution Administration officials
at Dallas October 18, according to
an announcement made by the
Poultry Husbandry Department.
Primary purpose of the meet
attended by egg dryers and freez
ers, extension and college poultry
specialists from six states in the
Southwestern region, is to discuss
egg drying, freezing and storage
problems facing the industry dur
ing the coming year. The confer
ence is being caled by L. J. Cap-
pelman. Regional Director of the
FDA
is that the preseason poll placed
the Aggies near the bottom of
the Southwest Conference list and
most of the sports writers that
cared to look the Cadet team over
allowed them a maximum of two
or three games in the win column.
Yet, to this date Coach Homer Nor
ton’s aggregation of high school
boys has remain undefeated and
untied in three games and has pil
ed up a total of 89 points to their
opponents 19, the last of these vic
tories being over the highly tout
ed Tigers of Louisiana State Uni
versity who, until they played the
Aggies were untied and undefeat
ed and held a victory over the
mighty Georgia eleven. The Aggies
have made most of the smart boys
tear their hair and wonder just
what was going on down at Col
lege Station when they began to
prepare for this season.
The Aggies owe their success to
a number of things, but to really
understand just why they are doing
so well one must know the whole
story from start to finish, so here
it is. When the summer of 1943
rolled around, Coach Homer Norton
end his assistants, Lil Dimmit, Bill
James, and Manning Smith were
fairly glum about football pros
pects for this fall. There were no
returning lettermen and no re
turning squadman from last year’s
team and all they had to work
with was a few boys from the
Freshman team of 1942. Then the
influx of high school boys started.
One by one they came to Aggie-
land; some at the beginning of
this summer season and some in
the middle of the season, but they
did come. When September rolled
around the team had been doing
fairly well in their light scrim
mage, but the prospects still look
ed dim. But all this time the Ag
gie coaches were not idle. They
made contacts with many of the
outstanding high school stars who
had been working during the sum
mer and offered them the prospect
of coming to A. and M. and play
ing on the Cadet team while get
ting that valuable schooling that
will be of so much importance to
them later on.
And so, slowly out surely, the
team that was to represent the
“Fighting Texas Aggies” came in
to being. It was only after all the
boys were assembled that the real
task began; the task of molding
boys from all sections in the area
who had never seen each other
(See AGGIES, Page 4)