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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1944)
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1944 THE BATTALION PAGE S By S. L. “Slim” Inzer Battalion Sports Editor Shown above are the unsung heroes of the gridiron sport—the line men. These are the boys who pave the way for the backs. First row, left to right: Thomas League, Grant Darnell, Arthur Abrahams, Joseph Sacra, Bob Gary, and Bill Gray. Second row: Walter Higgins, Pete Odoms, Herbert Ellis, Sammie Brice, Eharles Shira, and Eldon Long. Third row: Otto Granzin, Vernon Schmidt, William Walker, Alan Sparkman, Bryan Flippo, D. M. Denton, Clarence Howell, James Allen, Milton Cherno, and James Mitchell. Linemen who are not pictured here include Monte Moncrief, “Sparky” Eberle, Damon Tassos, and Morton Shefts. Here are the backfield men who will represent Aggieland during the coming football campaign. Of this group, only three men, Butchofsky, McAllister, and Matthews, are not freshmen. First row, left to right, Don Kingery, Bob Goff, James Cashion, Donald Nicholas, Gene Spires, and Mason Matthews. Second row: Tom Daniel, Frank Torno, Bob Butchofsky, Paul Yates, Mann Scott, and George McAllister. Saturday afternoon Coach H'omer Norton will put his charges through another intrasquad game down at Kyle Field. Those of you who wit nessed the game last Saturday saw some interesting football, and this week’s game promises to be even more interesting. The Aggies have been working out for three weeks, and they have come a long way in those short weeks. When you take a group of young boys just out of high school and try to weld them together, you have a job on your hands. Coach Norton was fortunate in having nine lettermen and six squadmen back from last year’s team, but he also had about thirty freshmen that had to be moulded in with the veterans. The Aggie mentor seems to have made a good headway in getting that job accom plished. Out of those nine returning let termen, probably only four or five will be in the starting lineup when the Aggies take the field against the Bryan Army Air Field Septem ber 23. This means that the new comers will have to come through if the Aggies are to be contenders for the Southwest Conference crown again. If you have been watching the team work out these last three- weeks, you will notice that they have shown a great deal of im provement. When fall workouts were begun, the squad was ragged and had no unity. The plays were not clicking as they were sup posed to for the simple reason the boys had never worked to gether. Coach Norton and his assistants have worked tirelessly trying to find a combination of boys that can play and work together. If LOUPOT’S Watch Dog of the Aggies you drop down to the practice field any afternoon and watch the boys, I think you will see that they have, gotten off to a good start on this problem. We admit there is still a lot of room for improvement, but the first hurdle has been cleared. The squad today does not look like the same one we saw three weeks ago. They have smoothed out consider ably, and are beginning to run the plays the way they were meant to be run. They have a fine spirit and the will to win, and if they continue to improve, as I believe they wil, the Aggies will cause a lot of trouble to their opponents this fall. The Corps should profit by the example set by the gridders. If the boys who are going to repre sent the school on the football field this fall can become united in three weeks, then surely the corps can unite behind our yell leaders. Tuesday’s yell practice showed that there is still a great deal of work to bo done before we can say the Corps is really the Twelfth Man. Of course, only three yell prac tices have been held this semester, and it would be too much to ex pect the corp& to sound like the Aggies of old. Nevertheless, the first game of the season is just two weeks away, and if the foot ball team is going to receive the backing it deserves, the corps must get busy. Not enough Aggies are down at Kyle Field each afternoon watch ing the boys workout. The coaches and the boys appreciate the interest shown when large groups of stu dents turn out for the drills. The team works out from 5 to 7. If you leave at six o’clock you will still have plenty of time to make the evening meal formation. Saturday afternoon’s game will start about 2:30. Nothing would help the spirit of the team more than for all of the students to come down and witness the work out. I believe it would help the spirit of the boys watching as well. Local Swimmers Place Second In San Antonio Meet A team from College Station took second place in the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation State Swimming Meet in San An tonio Sunday with a score of 51 points. A team from Austin led with a score of 73 points, and Foster Field came in third with 36 points. College Station swim mers topped the boys’ division with 31 points. Dick Prater took first in boys’ diving, J. P. Westervelt won first place in boys’ 50-yard free style, and S. A. Self, made the best time in boys’ 50-yard back stroke. Also competing in the men’s di vision, the College Station 400- yard relay team finished second; F. A. Eastman was third in the 400-yard free style; Dick prater was fourth in the 100-yard back stroke; Manual Escobar was third in the 200-yard Free style. F. A. Eastman finished second in the boys’ 100-yard free style, and S. A. Self was second in the boys’ 200-yard free style. Of the points scored by Austin, 45 were in the women’s classes in which College Station had no en tries, and all of 36 points scored by Foster Field were in the men’s : classes. —Attend San Antonio Agrgie Dance— The first crossing of the Eng- | lish Channel by air was made in 11785 by balloon. Chemical Engineers Meet September 12 E. B. Claunch, president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, has announced a meet ing of the club to be held Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 7:15 p.m. in the lecture room of the Petroleum Engineering building. A show, “Magnesium-Metal From the Sea,” will be shown at this time. This picture was made by the Dow Chemical Company at its plant in Shreveport, La. —Attend San Antonio Aggie Dance— —BANQUET— (Continued from page 1) his time properly. Dean F. Q. Bolton presented the awards to various members of the Battalion staff. Those who received the certificates of commendable service, awarded for satisfactory completion of oae semester’s work \V.ere S. L. Inzer, Eli Barker, D. V. Hudson, Dick Osterholm, Jim mie Demopulos, and Renyard W. Canis. The bronze key, given for satis factory completion of two semes ters’ work, went to Dick Goad, Al fred Jefferson, Robert Gold, and J. W. Bell. Calvin Brumley received a cer tificate for the completion of five semesters’ work. Special awards, presented in rec ognition and appreciation of out standing work during the past se mester, were given to Dick Goad, Alfred Jefferson, and Calvin Brum ley. Misses Lillian Hornak and Betty Goodman supplied the musical fea tures of the evening’s program. Get Your Photography Where Photography Is Known EXPERIENCED EMPLOYEES The Home of Beautiful Portraits Amateur Supplies oA. & M. PHOTO SHOP North Gate — Tele. 4-8844 — Next to A.&M. 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