THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1943
THE BATTALION
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By Harold Boro&ky Battalion Sports Editor
Thirty-Two Aggies Will Travel to Miami
For Orange Bowl Classic on New Year’s Day
Coach Homer Norton has re
leased the list of players who are
to mhke the trip to Miami for the
Orange Bowl classic. The list
totals thirty-two and will include
the following men: Backs—Hall
mark, Beesley, McAllister, Turner,
Callender, Gunn, Muelhause, Butch-
ofsky, Flanagan, Burditt, and
Deere. Ends—McCurry, Wiley,
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zin, and Shira. Guards—Turley,
Hohn, Overly, Brown, Neville, and
Tassos. Centers—Wright R., and
Gary.
The Aggies will not begin actual
workouts until next week, but once
they start it’s going to be plenty
rough. One reason the Cadets
were able to beat L. S. U. earlier
in the year was that the Tigers
were taken by surprise. This time,
however, will be a different story.
The Tigers’ great back, Steve
Van Buren, will be in top condi
tion for the game, and he and his
teammates will be out for revenge.
L.S.U. will be ready for the Ags
and the game may turn into tight
defensive game instead of the
brilliant offensive one that is ex
pected.
One question that is on every
one’s lips is the one about Marion
Flanagan, star back. Just how well
Marion has recovered from his
knee injury in the query, but there
is no doubt that he will see ac
tion against the Tigers. Hallmark
will be in good form as will Bill
Gunn, ^ top-notch back who has
not seen service because of a pre
season injury, but who has plenty
on the ball.
The Tigers will also be harassed
by fleet-footed Jess Burditt, who
is shown in the cut above as he
made more yardage after snag
ging a pass against the Longhorns.
Red will be in perfect condition at
Miami and you can bet your boots
he’ll be in there.
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BATTALION
“Twelfth Man” Has Come
Long Way Since It’s Birth
Twenty-Two Years Ago
Readiness for personal service, a desire to support and
devotion each for the other and all for their school have
embued all Texas A. & M. College students with a spirit of
unity that is almost sacred. And the reverence due it, as
expressed in the tradition of the-t
“Twelfth Man,” has grown more
venerable from year to year.
Bom in a rock-em and sock-em
intersectional football game 22
years ago, this living and breathing
spirit is expressed in a football
term—the twelfth man on the
team, for each student gets on his
feet at the opening kick off and re
mains standing through the final
whistle or gun as a symbol of
readiness for duty should the ele
ven men on the gridiron need as
sistance and replacement.
At the start of preparations for
the 1943 football season, head
coach Homer Norton invoked the
plea for the Twelfth Man for the
fourth time of the existence of
this tradition.
In the face of pressure at home
and from other schools, Norton
took the position that Texas A. &
M. would have a football team
and would play out its schedule
“unless the government says it
does not want college football.”
Last June he handed the editor
of The Battalion, Texas A. & M.
College student paper, a call for
football candidates, saying:
“In September we will have a
fotball team to represent A. & M.
College, and never will a boy have
a better c^0nce of making the
Aggie^flfeven than during the
•UPhiing season.”
Here was the situation: Gone to
the armed services were all the
fine playing sophomores and juni
ors of the 1942 team; gone like
wise were all the backs and line
men from the freshman team of
the preceding year. Remaining in
school were just four boys who
had reported for practice in the
spring of 1943—not one boy in
school who ever had worn the
maroon and white of Texas A. &
M. in an intercollegiate football
contest-
The Battalion, as spokesman for
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mission, we shall scatter the laur
els as the occasion warrants.
Our local scene is still the same,
with slight variations. The lin
guists are wailing the now trite
refrain “When Are We Going to
Ship” and the tune scores a Dou
ble Fortissimo as more and more
Engineers come and go. The
traditional Aggie “Howdy” has
taken a new form in our own area.
Stagnation seems to be the key
note and one language man will
greet another thusly, “Greetings,
Frater Fungus,”—and walk on.
This is all promoted by a keen
desire to tackle what lies ahead—
nothing more.
It is quite coincidental indeed
that the date atop this epestle
marks the second anniversary of
“that day of infamy.” Like a herd
of elephants, we won’t and can’t
forget. If you get to the Hon. Jap
Swine before we do, make sure
they don’t forget. It’s ‘Joes’ like us,
who have to show them what all-
American “blood and guts” are.
Don’t look now, Tokyo, but you’re
fated for a black and blue Christ
mas!!!
Journalistically yours,
The Jackson.
P.S.—3801 Sparkles shall not
perish from the earth, so help us
God!
the student body, added its com
ment editorially three days after
Norton’s call was published:
“It is time for the traditional
‘Twelfth Man’ to rise from the
student body and offer his services
to the corps .... Some schools
are abandoning intercollegiate
sports; but that should not be the
case here at A. & M. And it will
not be the case if Coach Norton
can have the cooperation of the
corps now .... We have the
men necessary to make another
good Aggie team, among the
corps, if only they would let
themselves be know .... We
must have a team next fall. All the
other members of the Southwest
Conference may not continue foot
ball, but A. & M- will have a team,
even if we have to play among
ourselves.”
The twelfth man heard the call
and responded; how well i^ a mat
ter of gridiron history. It suffices
to say that 135 boys were present
at Coach Norton’s first meeting
with football candidates.
The Twelfth Man tradition was
born in Dallas, Texas, on January
2, 1922. The Praying Colonels of
Centre College had electrified the
football world in the 1921 season
by turning up a wonder team.
They had surprised the nation’s
sports lovers by licking one of the
greatest Harvard football teams
6 to 0. On the Centre team were
several boys who had begun their
football careers at North Side
High School in Fort Worth, Texas.
These boys not only were ready
but eager to show their prowess be
fore Texas home-folks. Talk grew
and grew of matching a game be
tween Centre College and a team
from the Southwest Conference.
That meant Texas A. & M. College
as the host team, as A. & M. had
won the Conference title in the
1921 season.
As the game went on, A. & M.
Coach Dana Bible saw his light
but fast backs one by one being
carried off the field. With a good
ly portion of the game yet to be
played, Bible was down to one
backfield substitute. Then he re
membered a sophomore back who
had been working out with the
squad all season, a boy named
King Gill with plenty of dash and
fire but without the weight and ex
perience of other backs. Gill had
not ben taken to Dallas with the
team but he had told Bible he
would go at his own expense and
would be in the stands if needed.
Bible sent a yell leader into the
stands to find Gill and tell him to
suit up and join the squad on the
bench. King Gill was the first
Twelfth Man.
The records of the game do not
show Gill got to see any action in
A. & M.’s 22 to 14 defeat of the
Praying Colonels but he did letter
in football, basketball and baseball
his remaining years at A. & M.
Eight years were to go by be
fore the Twelfth Man was called
upon again. The A. & M coach in
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1930 was Matty Bell, a great end
on the Centre College team that
memorable day in Dallas. Bell
needed another center and called
upon the student body to produce
him. Joe Love, a former freshman
center, responded. Love did not
letter in 1930 but he did letter
each of the next two years de
spite the fact that he weighed but
155 pounds and stood only five
feet, nine inches-
Again several years were to go
by before the next Twelfth Man
was made.
In 1941 Coach Norton found
himself in the same dilemma as
Matty Bell had faced in 1930—he
needed another center. Nine candi
dates from the student body re
ported, but a shift of a husky end
to center solved the problem and
none of the nine boys was used.
Nn the same year, 1941, Mrs.
Ford Munnerlyn, wife of a former
Texas Aggie, wrote the words and
music to a song, “The Twelfth
Man,” which the corps accepted as
a school song.
This is why the students stand
throughout a football game in
which Texas A. & M. is playing.
And spectators hear the strains of
the “Twelfth Man” roar across
the field—an encouragement to the
coaches and to the team and a
warning to the opposition:
“When we’re down, the goin’s
rough and tough—
We just grin and yell, ‘We’ve got
the; stuff’
To fight together for the Aggie
dream,
We’re the Twelfth Man on that
fightin’ Aggie team!”
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Squadron III
Back again with drips and drops
from here and there and every
where .... Did you get a load
of Squadron V’s second column ?
They have been here about a week
and already their columnist is
screaming “Iss ve not der Super-
Race?” Take it easy, youngsters,
those G. I. hats run only to size
7%, and a big head is a detriment
around here John “Call
me Frankenstein” Miller, claims
that the blow he received will im
prove his already handsome fea-
his chariot to cheer him along. Do
yourself a Gentlemen by passing
this incident off like a True Bea
ver.
An Open Letter to Mr. Mahon:
We are not sending this to the
wrong party as your true love did.
This staff thinks it advisable that
you inform her to write to you and
not mix her men in the future. Evi
dently you are fighting a losing
race for the fair maiden’s love.
Tell her to X-ray her mail before
sending it so she will not create
a disturbance such as we have wit
nessed Here is the answer
to one of the questions being asked
by all of us: Mr. Shock will walk
his tours off and serve his con
finement this Saturday. Let’s all
hope that Apollo will be out riding
his chariot to cheer him along- Do
not worry Mr. Shock some one will
be glad to escort your girl friend
to the KC for a quiet game of
chess .... Gentlemen, we wish
to take this chance to take off
our collective hats to our Squadron
Commander, Mr. Roy Smith. Up to
the present in this column we have
laid it on thick and heavy, and
haven’t ben too choosy about where
our blows landed. He took it all
with a smile (though a little weak
at times) and we’ve objected. For
two months we dished it out and
now we think it is about time to
stop. In our estimation the man
proved he was a good sport. This
change of policy is a result of the
poor sportsmanship of a certain
party who had his tail twisted just
a little bit. He griped no end
about something that was meant
for fun. Looking back, we can see
just how Mister Smith must have
felt, and we really have to hand
it to him . . . • See you again
Saturday with a little poem about
Squadron V. So Long—Big Dog.
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advance in admission price will
be made. The program will be pre
sented between the first and sec
ond Sunday matinee performance
of the screen attraction.
These Sunday shows are writ
ten, directed and produced ;by men
of the armed forces on the/campus
and the entire cast, personnel and
talent presented are selected from
the men in uniform. They are pro
duced through the co-operation of
the post special service officer^
and the Student Activities office,
working with the managements of
WTAW and Guion Hall Theatre.
HELP BRING VICTORY . . .
BUY WAR BONDS TODAY!
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fo rthis school district, and he
spoke on “Waste Fats and Grease
in the War Effort.” In his speech
he stated that the branches of the
armed forces stationed near-by sal
vaged, on an average every month,
more than one pound per person.
It was distinctly emphasized that
more should participate in the
saving of waste fats in order to
help supply the necessary ammu
nition needed at this time, now
that the more offensive measures
are being taken by our armed for
ces on all fronts. In connection with
this speech, the Home Economics
Club will sponsor a campaign for
the collection of waste fats. The
members of the homemaking de
partment at the Consolidated school
will form a victory campaign to
become active in the school dis
trict immediately- This committee
will be headed by Martha Little,
Mary Munnerlyn, and Sue Scofield,
with Mrs. Landiss acting as ad
visor.
terminates. The rebuilding and re
organization of that country is
one of the Allies’ major postwar
problems.
This country has been the resi
dence of Bauer since his ousting
from China. He has made innumer
able talks on the German situa
tion about the nation. A very pop
ular lecturer, he is in great de
mand for speeches at programs.
Few men are better qualified to
discuss the postwar problems.
HELP BRING VICTORY
BUY WAR BONDS TODW!
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of Nations as advisor on muniicipal
and provincial government. How
ever, the Nazis forced him to
leave China by threatening to
recognize Manchukuo if he were
not expelled.
Bauer’s life gives him a good
background for his talk and a
great knowledge of what is needed
in post-war Germany. For eleven
years Germany has been enslaved
by the Nazis, living under war
conditions the entire time. Ger
man’s mental and moral senses
have been utterly destroyed. Bauer
will discuss the possibilities of a
better Germany when this war
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