TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OTOCBER 24, 1944
THE BATTALION
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Ags Sloppy Play Gives Frogs Victory In Conference Upset
Seven A. & M. Fumbles Recovered by
Frogs; Aggies Lead in Statistics
Playing heads-up football and
taking advantage of their oppon
ents’ mistakes, the Texas Chris
tian Horned Frogs kicked the dope
bucket over Saturday and upset
the favored Aggies 13-7.
The Frogs brought a well
coached organization to Kyle Field
and left with their first conference
win, while the Aggies suffered
their first conference setback. If
statistics won ball games, the Ag
gies would be victors, for they
led in all departments of play.
Aggie backs were guilty of nine
fumbles, seven of which were re
covered by T.C.U. Five times in
the first quarter the Frogs took
the ball in this way, thus halting
whatever scoring threat the Ag
gies could muster.
T.C.U. took the lead in the sec
ond quarter, when they recovered
an Aggie fumble on the Farmers’
30-yard line. Norman Cox, full
back, plunged over from the two
yard line for the score, Harry Mul
lins converting.
In the third quarter, the Chris
tians scored what proved to be the
winning score when Joe Kucera
passed to Merle Gibson who went
over untouched. This play originat
ed from the Aggie 41-yard line.
Mullins’ try for extra point was
no good.
Don’t “Shiver”
These Crisp
Fall Mornings!
Taking the ball on their own 35
after T.C.U. had kicked off out of
bounds, the Aggies marched for
their only touchdown of the after
noon. Bubba Yates crashed through
center for the last 12 yards, and
Abe Abraham’s kick for the extra
point was good.
The game was nip and tuck up
to the final gun, as the Aggies
were fighting back until the last.
On the last play of the game, Jim
my Cashion’s pass to Bobby Goff
was incomplete in the end zone.
Statistics:
Aggies
T.C.U.
First Downs 16
9
Yards gained rushing 216
83
Yards gained passing 118
109
Passes attempted 15
19
Passes completed 6
10
Passes intercepted by 2
1
Punting average 63
22
Fumbles 9
2
Ball lost fumbles 7
0
Penalties 7
6
Yards lost penalties.. 35
25
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tion and increase of this interesting
animal, which has been referred
to as the most beautiful and grace
ful of America’s big-game animals,
for up to a short time back the
antelope was almost a vanishing
species. Some Texas sportsmen
feared that it would never be pos
sible to permit hunting of the
animal.
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is one of the most interesting and
■unusual of game animals. It is not
a deer, for it does not shed the
hard bony portion of its horns;
nor is it a goat, for every
year it does shed the corneous
cover of its horns. In truth the
antelope is a creature peculiar to
the North American continent.
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By S. L. “Slim” Inzer
Battalion Sports Editor
Aggies Just Didn’t Have It Saturday
We beat ourselves.
That, in three short words is the
story of the game Saturday after
noon. T. C. U. had a hustling ball
team that fought for all they were
worth, but the fact remains that
the Aggies simply gave the game
away.
A. & M. displayed a sloppy brand
of football, fumbling nine times
during the game, losing the ball
on seven of these occasions. What
ever scoring opportunities the Ag
gies might have had, they were
ruined by these fumbles. If the
Nortonmen had played football
against the Frogs like they played
against L. S. U., the outcome of
the game might have been a dif
ferent story.
It just wasn’t in the books for
the Aggies to win that game Sat
urday. Everytime someone did
something right, something would
go wrong. The biggest blunder of
the game occurred when an Aggie
lineman killed Bobby Goff’s quick
kick on the Frog’s one yard line.
The ball had stopped rolling and
had it not been touched by an Ag
gie it would have remained there.
As it was, the ball was brought out
to the 20 yard line.
Sumarizing it all, the Aggies just
had an off day. They got off to
a bad start and were not able to
recover in time to have the game.
Junior Aggies Next on Schedule
Next Saturday afternoon the Jun
ior Aggies from N. T. A. C. will
invade Kyle Field for a non-con
ference tilt. Last year, the Little
Aggies bi’ought an experienced
eleven made up of Navy and Ma
rine Trainees to Aggieland. The
famed “Kiddie Korps” held this
powerful team to a 0-0 tie in a
game played on this same gridiron.
This year, however, it is the
Nortonmen who have the size and
experience. The trainees at the
Northern outpost are not' as big
and rough as they were a year
ago. The Maroon and White will
be heavy favorites, but they should
not count on this after last week’s
showing against T. C. U.
N. T. A. C. has played four games
thus far, winning only one, a
15-0 victory over the South Plains
Army Air Field eleven. In the
other three games, the Junior Ag
gies have been beaten by top-
heavy scores. Tulsa romped over
them, 47-6; Southern Methodist
slaughtered them, 49-0; and last
week they fell before Southwestern
39-7.
One member of the N. T. A. C.
squad who will feel right at home
is Jesse “Red” Burditt. Red was
a member of the Maroon and White
last year, and is now one of the
outstanding halfbacks for the Jun
ior Aggies.
Review of Saturday’s Conference Games
Looking over the results of the
Southwest Conference games last
week, I find my predictions were
about as usual—wrong. I missed
two out of three which is not so
hot in anybody’s league.
The only team to come through
as expected was Texas u. which
defeated Arkansas, 19-0. The
Razoi-backs made a pretty good
show of it before going down in
defeat.
I am not going to mention the
Aggie-Frog game, except to say
that I hope I never have to sit
through another one like it.
The Aggies are a much better
club than they looked like Satur
day, an we all hope they had just
one bad game in them and to get
it out of their system.
The Rice-S.M.U. game was quite
a battle, and as usual the team
I picked to lose, won. The Owls
may be the surprise team of the
conference this year and will bear
watching next Saturday when they
tangled with the Longhorns.
Junior Aggies Practicing Hard For
Coining Grid Tilt With Big Brothers
Arlington, Texas, October 23.—
The North Texas Aggies are prac
ticing hard this week for their
game next Saturday aftemoon at
College Station with their big
brothers, the Texas Aggies. Wal
loped last week by the Second
Army Air Force of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, by a score of
69-0, and previously beaten 47-6
by Tulsa, 49-0 by SMU, and 39-7
by Southwestern University, the
little Aggies have only a hope to
give the Texas Aggies an interest
ing afternoon before receiving
another drubbing.
With the exception of G. J.
Blackwood, 165-pound end from
San Angelo* and H. O. Robinson,
175-pound end from Edinburg, the
Arlington squad is in good physi
cal condition.
Another encouraging factor for
NTAC this week is the fact that
several sailors in the Navy V-12
unit stationed here will become
eligible for intercollegiate football
by Saturday. The exact personnel
of this group wil not be known un
til Wednesday when V-12 scholas
tic grades will be tuned in here,
must complete one semester of col-
Under a Navy ruling freshmen
lege work before participating in
intercollegiate sports.
Coach J. G. “Klepto” Holmes is
giving out some new running and
passing plays in practice sessions
this week. The NTAC offensive will
depend upon the running of Jesse
“Red” Burditt who played with the
big Aggies last year, and the pass
ing of J. B. Rogers, a graceful Hur
ler from Austin and J. D. Rogers,
a fine chunker from Waxahachie.
The Arlington squad will arrive
in College Station Friday.
wolves of America have close re
latives in Enrope or in Asia, the
antelope is peculiarly American,
having no close relatives in any
foreign country.
In a recent magazine article, Dr.
Victor E. Shelford of the Univer
sity of Chicago pointed out that
when Lewis and Clark crossed the
Great Plains the antelope was an
important game animal, with a to
tal population at 30,000,000 indi
viduals, 8,000,000 of them on the
Great Plains. Through various
causes, including overshooting and
the spread of the ranching business
these numbers became so seriously
reduced that in 1925 Dr. E. W.
Nelson of the Biological Survey
estimated the total antelope popu
lation at no more than 26,604 in the
entire United States.
Enlightened policies of careful
conservation have brought the an
telope back to a slight extent, so
that hunting seasons have been
held at least in Wyoming, Oregon,
New Mexico, and now Texas. In
our State the numbers of antelope
are trending forward, as a result
of the efforts of the Texas Game
Fish and Oyster Commission, in
cooperation with progressive Tex
as ranchmen and with the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service Federal
Air Program. But a still greater
expansion of the antelope’s range
and numbers in Texas is desirable
and possible.
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have found that vegetable shorten
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digestible as butterfat. Most
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Aggie Harriers
Win From Okla.
In Saturday’s Race
In a prelude to the A. & M.-
T.C.U. football game on Kyle Field
Saturday, Texas Aggie harriers
won a cross-country race with the
University of Oklahoma team by
a score of 30 to 25. This was the
second victory of the Aggies over
the Sooners this season and the
score was identical to the one
between halves of the A&M-Okla-
homa football game at Oklahoma
City on Oct. 7.
Again Vicklund of Oklahoma
came in first with time of 10 min
utes 26 seconds for the two-mile
course. Hampton of A. & M. was
second and Bradford of A. & M.
third. Other Aggie placings were
Holbrook, fifth, Bell, seventh and
Hargis, eighth. For the Sooners,
Osborne was fourth, Ferguson,
sixth, Evans, ninth and Hudson,
tenth.
The Aggies have won all three
cross-country races in which they
have engaged this season, also de
feating the University of Texas
at College Station, on Oct. 18.
BEAT N. T. A. C.
—SICK CALL—
(Continued From Page 1)
es that colds are easy to contract
through coughing, using other
people’s drinking glasses and com
ing in contact with people who
have colds. He added that one of
the main causes is that students
take showers at night and fail to
dry their hair, and when the wind
blows on their heads, they con
tract a cold. He also said that the
students should be careful about
going swimming when they have a
cold.
The hospital only too glad to ex
cuse a student from cross-country
if he has a cold because the run
ning and perspiring will cause the
student to contract a fever, said
Marsh. He explained that after the
first cold an imunity will develop
which will last a certain length
of time, varying with the patient.
So far only one case of pneumon
ia has developed and it has been
cured. There are about fifteen pa
tients in the hopsital now, but
the sick call for colds has been
heavy for the past two weeks, he
added.
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—FRESHMEN—
(Continued From Page 1)
tary and treasurer respectively.
The fish were nominated in a
special meeting held on Monday
night whereas the frogs were nom
inated Saturday morning. It is
necessary that class officers have
a 1.5 grade point average, and the
president and vice president were
able to qualify, but as no grades
have gone in on the frogs as yet,
and it will be some time before
they can be checked on.
The four men elected to the
positions will hold office during the
1944-45 school year.
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—DANCE—
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Oates and Wharton Kindred are
on the orchestra committee.
Music will be furnished by the
Aggieland Orchestra as it was for
the Junior Prom and the Corps Ball
of the past weekend. Natalie Lane
will again handle the vocalist dut
ies for the organization. The or
chestra is under the direction of
W. M. Turner and is comprised of
14 members, all of whom are Ag
gies. Fifteen members of the col
lege faculty are to be the honored
guests at the ball Friday night.
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