SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1943
THE BATTALION
Page 3
By Harold Boro&ky
Battalion Sports
Norton Says Spirit to
Win Mode Ags Click
Coach Homer Hill Norton of the Texas Aggies, who play
Louisiana State’s Tigers in Miami’s Orange Bowl classic New
Year’s Day, was a wise old sage last September when he
sized up the 1943 football season.
How well his predictions came to'ftem prevented some of the new
fruition, and how true were his
pre-season observations of the Ka-
det Kiddie Korps are best demon
strated by the record of seven
wins, one loss and one tie-game
racked up by his youngsters in a
season of wartime football.
It was on September 15 that
Norton told his boys:
“Your running game at this
stage of training is very pleasing
to me. You can win some ball
games with a little more improve
ment. Now we’ll start in on the
passing game, and if you' do half
as well with it as you have with
the running plays, we’ll give some
body a good football game every
Saturday.
“You boys seem to realize the
responsibilty that is on your shoul
ders to play the high class of
football that fans have come to
expect from all teams wearing the
Maroon and White of Aggieland.
“We must admit that there is a
lack of experience on the squad but
by the same token, other schools
are facing just as serious prob
lems in having to mould a team
out of boys who never have play
ed together before this season.
“Some of the Southwest Con
ference teams have boys who have
played a little bit of college foot
ball, but they all are strangers to
the various systems of play em
ployed at the different schools.
“Of course if I had my choice,
I’d take experienced boys; but let
me tell you right now that I’ve
never before seen such determina
tion, such willingness to learn,
such eagerness to fill the shoes and
jerseys of the regulars on the'
Aggie teams of years gone by.
“When the new numbering sys-
Gifts he’ll
Handkerchiefs-
Pajamas-
Scarfs-
Ties-
Sox
Buy a Gift
Certificate
for Him—
He can select
he wants after
Christmas.
Bryan, Texas
boys from getting the jerseys of
the Routts, Kimbrough, Thomason,
Robnett, Boyd, Pugh and our other
fine boys, the newcomers were
heart-broken. They came out for
football with a single purpose
to carry on for the fellows they
had seen play and had read about—
and I may be less optimistic after
a couple of games, but I firmly
believe these boys we have here
will give any team on our schedule
the battle of their lives.
“Sure they’re green. They’ll be
trapped, sucked in, boxed out and
run-over. I know that. But the
team that does too much of it is
going to know it hasn’t been play
ing checkers or parchesi.
“I’m really agreeably surprised
with my 1943 team. They may not
play the best football in the world,
but they’ll be trying to win every
game. They’ll make! mistakes, and
those mistakes will roll off and
be forgotten when they show the
spirit I know is in them—and
come back after a let-down with
fire in their eyes and the old
jinniger in their play.
“I look for a fine football sea
son, and a type of football that
will surprise the skeptics. The very
lack of experience in the players
is going to cause them to do things
on the playing field that older
boys would not even dare attempt.
Some miscues will be made, there’ll
be back-fires galore; but every
play will be a thriller. These boys
are determined to play their hearts
out, and from the grandstand it
will be a spectacular season.
“From the players’ bench, I’m
going to have the time of my life
Win or lose the boys are going
to be playing football for the les
sons it teaches in cooperation,
teamwork, good sportsmanship and
fine physical fitness. I’m going to
play a lot of boys, make frequent
substitutions by teams so the
youngsters will not stay in there
and get hurt because they are too
tired to protect themselves at all
times.
“Anybody who stays away from
football this season if they possibly
can get to a stadium is going to
pass up the greatest entertainment
bargain ever offered by the South
west Conference.
“‘We have found that the Aggies
of 1943 have had good high school
coaching. They know the fundamen
tals and more too. They have been
practicing hard, and they have
mastered our style of play. They
realize no freshmen ever had the
same opportunity to letter on a
college team, and every minute
of practice sees them playing like
they are in a regular game.
“Most of the boys had spring
training in their high schools. The
varsity coaches have been able to
devote all their time to the single
squad in school at this time, where
as in other years the varsity coach
es worked with the older boys and
the freshman coaching staff
handled the great mass of novices.
This year there is no separate
freshman squad, they’re all varsity.
“The serious, hard-working at
titude of the boys shows a deter
mination on their part to give Tex
as A. & M. College a team to re
member.”
Now that the season is almost
over it is clear that these boys
did represnt a true Aggie team.
They will be out there with the
same spirit to win on New Year’s
Day in Miami, when the Orange
will will paced with people who
want to see a real Aggie team.
We won’t disappoint them.
PUBLISHED BY THE ARMY SPECIALIZED TRAINING UNIT STUDENTS
Editor-in-Chief Pat Bradley Managing Editcr Len Sutton Press Club Rep Marvin Kaff
Colonel Welty Reorganizes A.S.T.U.
Editorial.
“Do You Remember ... ?”
All of us can relate numerous experience which have
served as boosters to keep us aware of the fact that we are
soldiers doing our individual duties, whatever they may be,
to the best of our abilities so that this war will be brought
to an early termination with the least possible destruction
of constructive civilized objects, thoughts and ideals. One
such incident which recently sparked our spirits and has
repeatedly worked its way into our thoughts whenever we
felt like idling along for awhile, occurred on the Houston-
bound Sunbeam some time ago.
While engaged in conversation with several friends we
heard a voice “Do you remember what daddy looks like? Do
you think you will recognize daddy?” This was the wistful
expression of a war-mother who was talking to her young
son whom she was taking to visit his father in the Air
Corps. The little fellow could only look back at his mother
with an inquisitive wrinkle lining his little forehead. Yes!
Your child, your brother’s child, your neighbor’s child, and
even your own mother’s youngest child is growing up some
where in these United States to be a total stranger to your
presence.
What are we thinking of now? There is only one thing
that should be in our mind. Let us resolve to act along those
lines which will help bring back all those fathers and brothers
and sons and daughters as soon as possible. When things
look difficult for us here let us think “Do you remember
what daddy look like?”
HELP BRING VICTORY . . .
BUY WAR BONDS TODAY!
LOUPOT’S
An Aggie Institution
STUDENT CO-OP
Bicycle and Radio Repair
Phone 4-4114
Local ASTU To
Play Baylor ASTU
G I Quintet Heads
Waco Way Tonight
Building his team around a group
of 8th company basketballers who
have been playing for the past
month, Captain Jack Kimbrough,
Regimental Special Service Officer
states that they are now ready for
real action.
About a month ago Trainees,
Gibbs, Barrick, Stream, Coleman,
Manker, Mullaney, Taft, Swank,
Goeppinger and Buck all of the
8th company started a basket ball
squad. To former footballer and
basketballer Captain Kimbrough
they looked mighty good. With the
help of A. & M. Head Basket ball
coach Manning Smith, he organized
a fast stepping team who will show
their wares tonight at Baylor Uni
versity. Their opponents will be the
Baylor U. ASTP team and the two
service teams will be a part of a
double header featuring Baylor U
and the WACO Army Flying
School.
This will be the first inter ASTU
game for the Trainees and there
will be a large turnout of local
G'Is who plan on taking in the
affair.
Other members of the quintet
are Dawson, 11th Co; Huffman,
1st Co; Frye, 4th Co; Coleman, 4th
Co; and Foreman, 7th Co.
Gardiner, Powers,
Cohen, Asso. Editors
Because of their exceptional
handling of their Company’s news
as well as their untiring efforts
in making this ACTU NEWS sec
tion more enjoyable to the local
Trainees, Editor in Chief, Pat
Bradley and Press Club Represen
tative, Marvin Kaff this week ap
pointed Doug Powers and Rex
Gardiner both of the 4th Co., as
well as John Cohen of the 3rd Co.,
Associate Editors.
Powers and Cohen will assist
the Editor in making up the paper
at the same time continuing with
their company newscasting while
Gardiner starts next week on a
series of “Know Your Campus” ar
ticles. This series will acquaint
the new Trainees with the spots of
interest and recreation around the
A. & M. Campus.
Dining Halls To
Have Xmas Trees
A bit of the Holiday spirit will
prevail in the dining halls of Sbisa
and Duncan with Christmas trees
giving the pleasant seasonal at
mosphere. According to Lt. How
ard Picket former Special Service
Officer, now assigned to the 5th
Co., “this will be the first Christ
mas away from home for many
trainees and the familiar sight of
a Christmas tree may make them
feel they have not been altogether
forgotten.”
Lt. Callahan
8th Company C. 0.
Lt. Charles Callahan formerly
M. T. instructor of the 1st Co. and
lately with the 5th Co. has been
appointed Commanding Officer of
the 8th Student Training Company,
ASTU 3800, according to announce
ment from the Commandant's of
fice.
Lt. Callahan has been a very
popular officer with all the com
panies who have come in contact
with him and his many Trainee
friends wish him the best.
ODE TO A FLUNK
Owen D. Baker
Of all the weeping and wailing
As the flunked ones heard of their
fate.
They cried to the profs and the
teachers;
Some prayed, but their prayers
were too late.
The questions were there all un
answered.
The papers, with ink, were blood
red.
“Oh why didn’t I study last week
end
Instead of just staying in bed?”
They cried to the profs to have
reason;
“I can’t flunk this course don’t you
see?
I never will make enough grade
points;
Oh what’s going to happen to me?”
The profs curve the grades in wild
fashion,
But they can’t pass them all you
can see.
‘Cause passing a course without
study
Is something that never shall be!
^Announces Captain
Hopkins as Adjutant
ASTU 3800 Regimental Com
mander, Colonel M. D. Welty this
week announced that the 1st to
8th companies will be the 1st Bat
talion and under the command of
Lt. Col. Perkins while the remain
ing companies will be the 2nd
Battalion and commanded by Lt.
Col. Horne. At the same time Cap
tain Robert Hopkins will be Regi
mental Adjutant.
Colonel Welty P. M. S. & T. and
Post Commandant prior to the
ASTU Unit coming to A. & M. now
has several thousand ASTP train
ees stationed here under his com
mand as well.
The Colonel came to A. & M.
from Newfoundland where he was
stationed at an Infantry base. He
was born in Greensburg, Pennsyl
vania. He entered West Point in
1906. Graduating from the school
of Infantry, he was commissioned
a 2nd Lieutenant and assigned to
the 3rd Infantry division. Imme
diately after receiving his com
mission, he was stationed at Jolo,
Philippine Islands.
July 1. 1916, Coloney Welty was
promoted to the rank of 1st Lieut
enant and made aide-de-camp to
Brigadier General Henry A. Greene.
In 1917 he was promoted to the
rank of captain. In the \same year
he accompanied General Greene to
Camp Lewis, Washington, as his
aide in the 91st division. On May
8, 1918, the Colonel was appointed
as a temporary colonel and from
the summer of 1918 until the sum
mer of 1919 he served with the
A. E. F. in France. He returned to
the United States in 1919 and in
November of that year was made a
Lieutenant Colonel.
During the 1920s he served as
P. M. S. & T. at Penn State, and
as instructor in -the Minnesota
National Guard. He was commis
sioned as Colonel of Infantry du
ring this period. He was a student
at the Army War College in 1928-
29. Following War College he com
manded at various posts through
out the country and in 1940 was
assigned to command the impor
tant Newfoundland Base Command
with headquarters at St. John,
4th Company Plan New Year’s Eve Ball
Call to Quarters at seven o’clock
on New Years Eve may have its
consolation after all! For, on New
Year’s Night Old Sbisa Hall, be
decked in her holiday finery, will
be the scene of the Fourth Student
Training Company Ball.
Distinctive music for the occa
sion will be furnished by the
ASTP-ORCHESTRA.
Through various campus organi
zations at several neighboring col
leges and universities arrange
ments are being made to have
dates for the dance. Among other
places, there will be girls present
from Rice, Southern Methodist Uni-
vehsity, Texas U., Baylor Univer
sity, and Texas State College for
Women.
Sgt. Myron Greenberg is Chair
man of the Dance Committee; Pfc.
Oscar Wolf heads the Finance Com
mittee; Len Michelman is Secreta
ry; and Doug Powers is Publicity
Directolr.
Some fortunate fellow in the
Fourth Company will receive gra
tis a set of tickets to the Ball. The
Dance Committee is eager to find
an appropriate name for the fro
lic, and requests any member of
the Fourth Company to place his
suggestion in an envelope addressed
to Sgt., Myron Greenberg, Chair
man of the Dance Committee, Post
Office Box 4296, South Station,
College Station. A committee will
judge the names submitted and the
fellow whose suggestion is chosen
will receive the set of tickets.
Deadline for entries is Saturday
night, December 11.
Each Sunday at welve noon
WTAW will present Sgt. Myron
Greenberg, baritone of the Fourth
Student Training Company, in a
fifteen minute program of popular
songs. He 1 will be accompanied by
Will Eisner at the piano.
Sgt. Greenberg is from New
York University, and has had con
siderable experience in radio. Eis
ner is a LeHigh University man;
he had his own band while an un
dergraduate at LeHigh and is now
playing with the ASTP-ORCHES
TRA.
A.V.M.A. Meeting
Thanks a million Lichte and
anyone else who helped get Dr.
Hall for the AVMA meeting Wed
nesday night. Men who missed the
lecture lost out on some stuff you
don’t get in books .... Correction,
Bob Kokernot may or may not take
the fatal step Christmas ....
These letter exams are coming
thick and fast these last few days.
Guess that’s better than putting
them off ’til right after Christ
mas. Men we have a poet in our
midst as you probably already
know. It is O. D. Baker .... Our
basketball team made a nice show
ing Thursday nght . . . Get Don
Williams to tell you about the time
he took that airplane ride—the
time he broke his shoulder in the
process ... No trips to Nacog
doches lately? Shucks our morale,
will be torn down if we don’t do
something. Ah, but there is Christ
mas to consider. Wouldn’t it be
nice to hang up a G. I. sock the
night before and find it chuck full
of 3 day passes the next morning
.... We have a couple of Singing
Cadets in our outfit who will help
put on a good program Dec. 14.
Let’s turn out that night and show
them we appreciate good singing.
I see in the Batt, in the “Looking
Back” column, that the college hos
pital was packed to accomodate
the numerous cases of flu in an
epidemic in progress here at that
time. Ha! we had a three weeks
vacation that year. What a Christ
mas, what a ball game in the Cot
ton Bowl. Penny (South Akard
Street) said the Fordham boys
were sure rough. The column must
be short tonight as our guest wri
ter just stepped out for a short—
drink of water. Let’s keep on the
ball around here and convince the
officers of the organization that
we can get militarv. Don’t e-ot the
idea that we have to be flying
carbureters.
Two Day Pass
For Christmas
Trainees with homes within tra
veling distance and men who have
friends near the campus will be
given passes from Friday evening
December 24 till 2030 Sunday, De
cember 26. So announced Regimen
tal Adjutant Capt. R. Hopkins. He
warned that traveling conditions
would be very overcrowded during
the holiday season and Trainees
should allow themselves plenty of
time to get back to A. & M. before
their pass was up.
Newfoundland.
He came to A. & M. College of
Texas in 1941 as P. M. S. & T. May
of 1943 saw Colonel Welty pre
sented with the Distinguished Ser
vice Medal for work done in found
ing bases in Newfoundland.
The new Regimental Commander
will be assisted by Captain Robert
Hopkins, Adjutant; Captain Jack
Kimbrough, Speical Service Office,
Lt. Otis Cardwell, Personnel Offi
cer and Lt. Wm. Williams, assist
ance Personnel Officer.
HELP BRING VICTORY . . .
BUY WAR BONDS TODAY!
12th Horticulture
An annual affair that draws the
attention of both young and old,
military personnel and civilians,
agricultural students and engineers
will begin Monday, December 13,
j at one o’clock, and will continue
I through Tuesday. Needless to say,
| by now vou know that a. treat of
natural beauty under the title of
THE TWELFTH ANNUAL HOR
TICULTURAL SHOW is in store
for you.
Though this year’s wartime show
is to be stripped of some of the
finery of non-ration days, it will
be the first show to include the de
hydration of fruits and vegetables
as well as the various machines
used in processing them—this to
culture in war. Just to keep in line
culture in war. Just tokeep in line
with what everyone likes to see,
there will be tropical fruits, sub
tropical fruits, apples of all vari
eties, pecans, and a host of other
delicacies.
So gather your pennies and buy
a healthy body and rosy cheeks
through the medium of fruits in
the products laboratory of the
Agricultural Engineering building.
A pleasant hour can be spent there
observing Nature’s gifts to health,
happiness and contentment through
horticultural products; and a real
ization can be attained of what
ahey are doing to keep our fight
ing men alive—through dehydra
tion.
E&BEyggaa asaEsaaEgii aa—as
HIltDi
Every
One
AGGIES and SERVICEMEN
Plan your Christmas Gifts now before leaving for the
holidays and avoid the last minute rush.
—We have a large assortment of Gifts for everyone—
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