TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1943
THE BATTALION
PAGE S
Aggies Take Ponies, 22-0, In Saturday
Football Classic On Kyle Field Here
Crowd of 7,500 Witness Game; Many Ags
And Exes Watch Aggies Prep for T. U.
The fighting Texas Aggies served notice to the football
critics in the Southwest that they were not to be counted
out before they meet the University of Texas Longhorns,
as they blasted the Southeern Methodist University Mus
tangs by a score of 22 to 0.
The Mustangs fought the Ag
gies all the way but the Cadets
just had too much manpower and
too much speed for them.
At half-time the Aggies had
only a 2 to 0 lead over SMU. These
points came as the result of a 61
yard kick off of the toe of Tur
ner which was declared dead 6
inches from the SMU goal line.
On the next play when Lloyd Par
ker failed to get his kick away
because of a bad pass from cen
ter, Marion Settegast, Aggie end,
crashed through and brought Par
ker down in the end zone and
scored two points for the Aggies.
The Aggies pushed into scoring
position twice during the first
half, but the Mustangs, stubborn
defense tightened and broke the
threats up.
At the beginning of the second
quarter, Hallmark passed to Flan
agan for a first down on the
SMU 36. A pass from Halmark
to Turner made another first down
on the 24 yard line. On the next
play, McClintock intercepted an
Aggie pass and broke up the
scoring threat.
Just before the half the Aggies
moved deep in Mustang territory
when Marion Flanagan returned
an SMU punt from the 50 all the
way to the Mustang 25 yard line.
Burditt took a pass from Earl
Beesley on the nine yard line to
make a first down. The Aggies
drew three 5 yard penalties for
delaying the game and after sev
eral incomplete passes by Beesley
and Hallmark, SMU took over on
their own 24 as the half ended.
The only SMU scoring threat
came early in the first quarter.
After an exchange of punts, SMU
recovered an Aggie fumble on the
fifty yard line. From that point,
David Hedman passed to C. D.
Allen for a first down on the Ag
gie 19 yard line. On a reverse
around end, Walling made anoth-
ed first down on the Aggie 7.
The Mustangs attack bogged down
and the Aggies took over on the
20 after Babe Hallmark intercept
ed a fourth down pass behind his
own goal line.
Jt was during this series of
plays that Allen had to leave the
game as the result of an arm in
jury.
The first A. and M. touchdown
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came in the third quarter when
Dick Overly, Aggie guard, block
ed Cox’s punt. Cox recovered the
ball but was tackled back on his
own 5 where the Aggies took over
on downs. Turner picked up two
yards over center and then Babe
Hallmark swept around his own
right end to go over standing up.
Turner converted and the Aggies
led 9 to 0.
For the rest of the quarter the
Mustangs threw up the same stub
born defense that they had dis
played during the first half and
the Aggies were unabel to get
moving again.
About five minutes had gone by
in the final period wfyen the next
Aggie score came. After an ex
change of punts on which they
had made yardage, the Aggies had
a first down on the SMU 39. Af
ter an off tackle gain which was
nullified by a five yard offside
penalty, Jessie Burditt took the
ball from Earl Beesley on a modi
fied statue of liberty and went
around right end forty yards for
a touchdown. Shira converted and
the Agiges led 16 to 0.
At this stage of the game Coach
Norton substituted freely and now
it was nearly all third and fourth
stringers who were playing. Bur
ditt was the one exception.
Following the Aggie touchdown
SMU received and after failing
to make a first down they kicked
out of bounds on the Aggie 40.
From that point Burditt carried
to the Aggie 47 and on the next
play Callendar made a first down
on the Mustang 44. Following that,
McAllister carried the ball but
lacked 6 inches of making a first
down on the 34. Callendar carrying
the ball again, made another first
down on the SMU 25. It was on
the next play that Burditt cli
maxed the sixty yard march by go
ing wide around his right end for
the final Aggie score. Turley’s
conversion attempt was blocked
and the score remained A. & M.
22, SMU 0.
The final Aggie touchdown was
by far the outstanding feat of the
day. Thi zip and fire which the
boys who had been sitting on the
bench performed was a beautiful
sight to watch. They did in five
plays what the other boys had
failed to do in three quartres and
that was to make a concentrated
drive for a touchdown. It should
be remembered though that the
regulars had worn the SMU team
down before the wonder boys got
into the game. Nevertheless, due
credit should go to Bobby Callen
dar, Bob Gary, William Gun,
Charlie Hohn, J. C. Barnett, Sparky
Eberle, Otto Granzin, James Wil
ey, Long, Gibson, and C. Wright.
They deserve It.
Credit for the win goes else
where though. Bing Tume^ great
kicking toe again proved to be one
of the Aggies’ big guns. Hall
mark, Flanagan, Butchofsky, and
Beesley again turned in good per
formances, but it was that for
ward wall of the Agiges which
time and again crashed through the
SMU line and brought down the
Mustang ball carriers before they
could get started.
For SMU, Allen looked good for
the short time he played. Parker
and Walling also made a good
showing and in the line Wolt, Pool,
and Vinsant stood out.
Aggie-Pony Statistics
A&M
First downs 10
Yards gained
Yds. gained rush, (net) 186
Forward pass, attempt. 25
Forward Pass. com. 7
Yds. by forward pass. 102
Forward pass, inter, by 3
Yds. gain, runb’k int. pas. 16
Punt ave. from scrim. 37
Tot. yds. all kicks return. 85
Op. fumbles rec.
Yds. lost by pen.
0
45
SMU
6
11
15
6
83
2
14
31
89
2
45
Courses in war economics, eco
nomic geography, transportation,
income tax procedure, general ac
counting and international econo
mic policies are but a few of the
studies to be presented this fall
by the University of Kentucky col
lege of commerce, which have a di
rect bearing on the war effort.
“In the first four weeks of fight
ing in Italy there were 8,307 ca
sualties. Of these, 611 husbands,
brothers, or sweethearts rest be
neath little white crosses. Have
you bought your bonds this week?”
—From the Daily Texan.
Consolidated Team
Plays Fairfield For
District Champions
Tigers Play Thursday
Afternoon; Team in
Good Shape For Tussle
The Consolidated High Tigers
play Fairfield High for the dis
trict championship at 2:30 Thurs
day afternoon at Fairfield.
The Tigers are in good shape
for the tussle and will give their
opponents a good battle even if
they lose. The Tigers now have
a coach, Cecil Nabors, who is put
ting the boys through rough work
outs in readiness for the game.
By competitive score system, the
Tigers have the edge. This does not
mean, however, that the Tigers
will have a push-over. The Tigers
will have a battle on their hands
until the last whistle.
Just An M. E.
By KAFF
Everyone else will be writing
of the change in size of ASTP, the
return of the “natives” from leave,
and the happenings during the time
spent on furlough. That being the
case, we will be our usual op
timistic selves and talk of the fu
ture, and of course also about us.
We’ll just say that that we never
for a moment believed those rum
ors of a month off would come
true, and that it was so perfect, we
still do not believe it happened
to us.
Now that we are back to Kine
matics, Infernal Congestion En
gines, Vibrations, and the like,
it will probably mean even cutting
down on that “Dear Mom” Am
Fine, Love” postcard once a week,
but then there are only 71 more
school-days this term. We have the
refreshing Town Hall series of
concerts to look forward to, com
mencing with that “female blow
torch”, that “Package of primi
tive passions,” that “Human Ves-
uvious,” Carmen Amaya. An
ASTP basketball league will most
probably take the limelight that
softball occupied during last se
mester, and the Aggie baseketball
team will also be starting its climb
to fame soon again. Then too, we
have the Kadet Korps to watch
with much interest and anxiety, as
it marches on toward the comple
tion of the ’43 season. They cer
tainly have come a long way since
they trounced, but in high school
looking fashion, that Bryan Field
team in September.
This “Reveille at seven” has
been unique and indeed pleasant,
but tomorrow we go back into the
Army again, as we have known it.
For 1st Co., Cohn has replaced
Blimp” Cornell at Editor, and we
can look forward to some interest
ing new “Sympathy Slips”. To the
Chaplain, as he goes forth to win
the Congressional Medal of Honor,
we wish loads of good luck, and
loads of good liquor. While won
dering where we can secure even a
little of that good “stuff”, we will
take our leave for today.
‘Bye Now.
It is wisest to let the cat out of
the bag yourself. If you don't the
neighbors will. And by then it
may have kittens.
GIs to Receive
College Credit
’‘While no definite arrange
ments have as yet been made it
is the considered opinion of most
educators that full college credit
will be allowed those soldiers com
pleting ASTP courses.”
This matter which has caused
wonderment among many of the
new trainees was cleared by V.
M. Faires, Director of the ASTP
Engineering program under Dean
Gilchrist.
Director Faires continued that
he believed that with so many
soldiers taking ASTP courses the
Colleges throughout the country
would in all probability set up
special courses so that the return
ing soldiers might complete the
necessary college requirements for
a degree in engineering.
—f
BUT THAT BLICH OF VICTO
RY TODAY III
LOUPOT’S
An Aggie Institution
-A.S.T.U. NEWS-
PUBLISHED BY THE ARMY SPECIALIZED TRAINING UNIT STUDENTS
Editor-in-Chlef
Pat Bradley Managing Editor
Lea Sot too Press Club Rep.
Marvin Kaff
Engineers Return To Campus
Editorial...
A Little Yellow Man Puts Me Through School
A little yellow man is putting me through this school.
I call him my Jap. He is sitting in the Mikado’s training
school some twelve thousands miles away but he exerts a
beneficial influence on me all through school. He is the
little man who keeps me working at top speed, and never lets
me think of slacking off.
My Jap is a young almond-eyed Engineer Trainee who
came into the army about the time I did. He is a dogged
persistent little oriental who spends all his time studying
like a fiend. In his mind is one goal ... to kill me. Some
day he knows we will meet in mortal combat on some lus
cious South Sea isle, and he doesn’t want to be missing any
piece of information. So he never misses an assignment,
never skims through a lesson, and his notebooks are com
plete and immaculate. He reviews everything he has learned
frequently, so that he will have the information at his fin
ger tips when he tries to bump me off. Don’t ask me how
I know about him, I had a vision of him early in the course
and it has never left me.
When I am tired of studying the Route Surveying and
feel I would like to knock off for awhile to look at the pic
tures in “Life”, I suddenly see my Jap. He is sitting on a
mat in a dormitory, his glasses perched on his orange pekos
nose, grimly absorbing the same assignment I am inclined
to skip. I go back to my book, and I never do find out how
drum majorettes are training in Texas high school.
Sometimes a bull session down the hall gives off a mel
low sussuration which floats to my ears with the same en
chantment the songs of the lorelei are said to have had on
sailors. My Calculus text droops in my hands. Then I see
my Jap again. His agile hands have completed a dozen prob
lems. Up comes my Text and the bull session sings siren
songs no more.
Does my Jap sound like a little super-man? Not at all.
He just hasn’t got the devil-may-care spirit which is Ameri
ca’s great blessing and its failing. You see, ever since he
can remember he knew he was going to be called upon to
eliminate the white devil, and he never forgets what he is
doing. We, on the other hand, are so unused to the idea of
battle that we rarely correlate some dull Mechanics chore
with the fateful moment when we must all meet our Japs.
We tend to get a false perspective and we forget our en
emies, the Axis, not the drill department.
So on the whole, I am grateful for my Jap. He gives me
no rest and he works me to death, but he keeps reminding
me what this whole part of my life means. If I can help it
he will not get ahead of me, I have better facilities, better
teachers, and what is more, I am fighting for true freedom,
which gives me a tremendous edge on that little yellow
weevil. When we do meet out there on that South isle, I am
pretty sure I am going to knock the living daylights out of
my Jap. And I won’t be sorry. For only then will he let me
rest.
Still agog over their crazed
twenty-eight day flight into fan
tasy, the Army's furloughed A. &
M. engineers wearily streamed last
week on to the College campus to
once again run amok on the twist
ed tortures of thermodynamics,
calculus, and the humdrums of re
volving turbine rotors.
With the classwork routine once
again getting underway, a com
pletely overwhelming change has
been apparent. From the small
groups of engineers reenrolled in
last semester’s basic and advanced
phases. ASTP personnel has been
expanded to the proportions of
three battalions and eleven com
panies. There is the possibility of
an additional twelfth unit to ac
count for the overflow of engineers.
The consequence of the College’s
expansion has been a scurrying dis
tribution of men over the present
ASTP and Sbisa Hall area. The en-
rollement problem has necessitated
various companies being split into
tentative groups of two and three
buildings.
Engineering arrivals have found
solace in their commanding offi
cers' statements that the housing
difficulties are temporary and will
be cared for at the expedient mo
ment.
Added to the nettlesome troubles
of room assignments, schedule lists,
and the drawing of text books, the
tremendously-increased basic en-
The returning ASTP Trainees
are very sorry to find that their
favorite Regimental Commander
and very good friend Lt. Col.
Richard H. Buvens is seriously
ill and all wish for his most
speedy recovery.
gineering unit may look forward
to the irking pain of undertaking
“guides” to a more sophisticated
English and the absorption or hu
mid mesothermal climate aprecia-
tion found in Finch’s “elements of
Geography.”
Physics, chemistry, history, trig
onometry, and algebra round out
the basic 1 curriculum. Economic
geography and analytical geome
try have been substituted for sev
eral other subjects in the basic 2
course.
The advanced engineering phases
now assuming the role of more con
cern at the College has been bro
ken down into civil, mechanical, and
electrical classifications with the
courses varying from boiler pres
sure twisters to snaking road prob
lems.
Under the existing arrangement,
enrollees will pursue their engineer
ing courses for a three month
term with a seven day furlough be
ing granted as a rest between se
mesters. The system will then al
low the A. & M. College group and
the ASTP unit to inaugurate their
respective February terms at the
same time in order to reduce a du
plication of effort and to allow the
instructing staff a needed rest.
Despite the increased personnel
there is a strong likelihood of finer
sports competition than had ap
peared during the last semester
and a more outstanding opportunity
to have a recreational outlet on
the campus.
A larger number of basketball
and track teams may be organized
with the promise of keener league
competition. Whereas softball hed
suffered from a loss in contenders
and a lack of spectator support, a
group of three battalions should
certainly keep sporting activity at
a peak during recreational hours.
And—as the cooler, damp wea
ther falls on the formerly sun-
swept campus the College may of
fer its welcome to an enlarged en
gineer group now rested from a
twenty-eight sojourn and looking
forward to another semester of
sliderule strut with theorme and
formula.
Eagle to Fly On
Cadet Shoulder
With the expansion of the ASTP
3800 to three Battalions the Cadet
system wil now rate a cadet colonel
as well as several Lt. Col. So an
nounced Adjutant Lt. W. R. Wil
liams this week. Each Battalion
will have a Lt. Col. Cadet Com
mander with the regimental Cadet
Comander being a full colonel.
Jnst Ramblin'
Round
By PRITCHARD
Say, wasn’t it great to be back
home again I mean the furlough
of course. Some may suppose that
I should say isn’t it great to be
back at A. & M. again. Well, may
be so, but at the moment, I can’t
bring myself to be that hypocriti
cal. It’s swell to renew all our old
acquaintances but—AH — those
beautiful furlough days! Many
weary days and nights will be
spent in blissful retrospect.
I made a very interesting dis
covery while I was at home. No
doubt most of you fellows made
the same discovery, but I’d like
to mention it anyway. It was the
first time I’d been home in a year.
Well, nearly every fellow I know
feels that things are changing
back home and so it was with
some feeling of foreboding that I
took off. None of us want to find
anything any different than it was
when we left. They are the things
which are very near and dear to
all of us. Well, they haven’t chang
ed a bit. Oh, there are a few in
significant changes, but they are
not the real or important things.
Five minutes at home proved that.
It seemed as though I had never
been away; and within a very
short, all the long months pass
ed away into the dim background.
I wish the boys overseas could
know that. It would do them a lot
of good. Any of you chaps who
have friends or relatives on the
other side might just pass the
word along to them. They’d sure
appreciate it.
Haven’t reached the stage of
being back in the groove as yet,
so I’d better close before I bore
you to death. Just want to say
hello to all the new fellows and
hello again to all the old timers.
Be seeing you.
ARMY MEN
Let Us Do Yonr Altering
LAUTERSTEIN’S
GIs May Attend
Town Hall Series
Trainees attached to ASTU 3800
will be allowed to attend the Town
Hall Series this fall and winter.
This announcement from the regi
mental commanders office should
find many purchasers of season
tickets. The series include Smith
notables as Carmen Amaya, The
Singing Cadets, Metropolitan Opera
star, Richard Crooks, mystic mas
ter oJseph Dunninger, the Phil
adelphia Opera, World famed vio
linist Zino Francesatti and the
Houston Symphony. While individ
ual performance tickets would cost
eleven dollars local GI may secure
a season ticket from Special Serv
ice Officer Lt. Pickett for two
dollars. If the trainee is shipped
from A- & M. before ist four
performances he will receive a re
fund on his season ticket.
Notices
A1 men interested in forming
a ASTU Band and Dance Band will
meet Wednesday, November 10,
1943 in Band Room, 4th Floor,
Dorm 11, New Area. Time 1930,
Band Sgt. Arthur Parks will be
in charge.
All men interested in writing
for the Battalion, will meet Thurs
day November 11, 1943, in Band
Room, 4th floor, dorm 11. Time
1930. Press Club Representative
Marvin Kaff will be in charge.
All men interested in attending
the performance of Carmen Amaya
and her Gypsy Ensemble, Novem
ber 18, 1943 at Guion Hall see
Special Service Officer Lt. Pick
ett at room 38, Ross Hall. Service
men’s admission price is fifty cents.
Book Review
By BRAD
Suggested reading for those long
winter evenings ahead.
De Calculus . . . This is a series
of short mysteries written around
three major characters namely X,
Y, and Z. McKelvey puts his char
acters through a rigorous routine
and gives them unusual ability to
disguse themselves. While the
author is most liberal with clues
as to proper solution we bylieve
that many readers will be mysti
fied. Reading time: 12 weeks.
Principles of E. E.: ... A mod
em shocker having to do with
the family of Electric Current.
Readers will be shocked at the ex
pose of High Voltage but will re
ceive a pleasant thrill with Gal
vanic Action Current, a minor
character. The story revolves
around two brothers Alternating
and Direct Current who have a
great deal of harmless fun hid
ing behind buttons and switches
until some unsuspecting person
throws the switch whereupon they
rush about lighting lights, heating
irons, running motors, knocking
trainees on their bottoms and oth
er such stuff as electricity is most
fond of doing. Reading Time: You
probably will not be able to- lay
this down for months.
Rubey’s Plane Surveying: . . .
Written in a very modem manner
giving the readers a glimpse of
life through a transit.
Mechanics: ... Funster Fairies
has collected a number of choice
games and presented them to the
public in a clever book which we
guarantee will keep you guessing.
Trainees wishing to- play any or
all of these games will be wise
to provide themselves with a
rolling sphere, several incline
planes, a few freight cars with
engines attached, several automo
biles, one airplane, and an assort
ment of rifles and cannons with
accompaning projectiles. Optional
through desirable equipment includ
es a river of varying currents and
several types of bridges.
Joseph Cohn.
Replaces Cornell
Joseph Gohn will replace former
1st Company editor and Chaplain
Johnny Gomel! who has moved on
to have' a slap at a Jap. Cohn was
editor of his class year book prior
to entering the Army and has had
much writing experience.
It’s easier to show up people, or
to- blow them up, than it is to
build them up. But not nearly so
effective.
if it’s . . .
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