The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 09, 1943, Image 3
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 VALUE IHONTONE Suits packed full el style, finality AND VALUE... economical price. »y re BOUND to be , . Botany Mills omed the fabrics . . . they're tailored by famed Style-Mart Clothes. And, Men! We can really fit you] Come in for a cour- tesy try-on soon. 7 TJLX wT^tBTRt-EV-STbdi VS/.xJ ^CLOTKIERS ^College and Bryan -rr 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 . . . DRINKS SMOKES SANDWICHES You are wanting ' COMB TO . GEORGE’S AT NEW “Y”