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OFFICUL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
Texas A«M
The B
College
alion
SEMI-WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M.
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 10, 1944
NUMBER 43
AGGIES BATTLE MUSTANGS SATURDAY
Corps Leadership Revamped For Fall Term
Butchofsky Replaces Strickhausen;
Alley, Hightower, Palmer Promoted
Full Promotion List Issued by Commandant’s
Office; Order to Be Effective Immediately
R. L. Butchofsky, ace blocker and defensive man on the
Aggie football team, has been promoted to cadet colonel to
replace George Strickhausen who served from June this
year until Wednesday as leader of the A. & M. Cadet Corps.
Tom Alley, president of the senior class will succeed
Calvin Brumley, editor of the Battalion, as executive officer
of the corps and assistant to the-f-
cadet colonel. Dan Hightower has
been named to replace Mason Mat
hews as commander of first regi
ment and Jack Palmer takes over
the duties of commander of the
second regiment which were left
open when Paul Olschner resigned.
The corps officer and the command
ers of both regiments hold com
missions as cadet lieutenant colo
nels.
Farm-Industry
Conference to Be
Held Nov. 16-17
A. & M. Professors
Will Alternate
As Session Chairman
The Famous Texas Aggie Band
Further promotions' include a
shakeup in the band with James
Jarrett replacing John Veien as
cade't major of the band, Stanley
Knight takes over Butchofsky’s old
commission as commander of the
2nd battalion in the 1st regiment,
Roy Riddels succeeds H. Q. Sibley
as commander of the 1st battalion
2nd regiment, and Wayne Kincan-
non takes command of the 2nd
battalion 2nd regiment from A. C.
Jones. Harold Daily retains com
mand of the 1st battalion 1st regi
ment as does Charles Haenisch of
the 3rd battalion 2nd regiment.
Preceeding this shakeup in
cadet commissions Andy Jones and
(See CORPS, Page 4)
RIDE THE MUSTANGS
President To Speak
At Exes Meeting
In Dallas Friday
Friday at 7 p.m. the Dallas A.
& Ivi. Club will honor President
Gibb Gilchrist in the Lone Star
Gas Auditorium in Dallas.
President of the Ex-Students
Association, Rufus Peebles, will
bring greetings to Gilchrist. He
will also head the movement of
many Aggies who will start pre
paring Friday afternoon for the
A. & M.-S.M.U. football game in
Dallas. Aggies from all over the
state will attend the game Satur
day.
Present to speax on oehalf of
the student body will be Tom Al
ley, president of the A. & M. Sen
ior Class. Greetings from former
students now serving in the armed
forces will be brought by H. E.
Cunningham, ex-student, now sta
tioned at McClosky General Hos
pital in Temple.
President Gilchrist will speak
and J. L. Pratt, president of the
Dallas A. & M. Club will preside
at the meeting.
At the Hotel Adolphus, preced
ing the dinner, Gilchrist and other
A. & M. leaders will be guests of
the Bonehead Club luncheon.
RIDE THE MUSTANGS
Geology Club Forms;
Elects New Officers
Wednesday night the A. & M.
Geology Club met in room 115 of
the Petroleum Building to reor
ganize, elect officers, and discuss
the original constitution and by
laws, A. 0. Hamon, reporter, said.
He added that Ambrose Lyth
was elected president; Tommy
Penn, vice-president; Don Flanna-
gan, secretary-treasurer; H. E.
Wendt, social chairman; and him
self reporter.
Professor F. A. Burt served re
freshments to the large number
present. Lyth, the president, urged
all those majoring in geology or
petroleum and those interested
otherwise to attend the next meet
ing to be announced later. He de
clared that an interesting program
will be presented.
A farm-industry conference to
discuss common interests each
business has in many current and
prospective economic problems will
be held at the Texas A. & M. Col
lege, Nov. 16-17 in cooperation with
the National Association of Manu
facturers, Dean E. J. Kyle has
announced.
This is one of a series of tget-
together meetings between agri
culturists and businessmen which is
expected to cover all 48 states with
in the next four years. It is the sec
ond to be held under this sponsor
ship in this State, the first meet
ing having been staged in 1939.
Similar conferences which have
been held in other states this year
have been hailed as outstandingly
successful in the understanding and
appreciation of common problems
each group has learned from the
other, Dean Kyle said. There has
been agreement that a higher
standard of living based on more
jobs and higher production offers
the best solution to special prob
lems of Southern States, as well
as the foundation for a better
America in postwar days, Dean
Kyle reported.
Under the established plan for
these conferences, each session will
have a general chairman and a spe-
(See CONFERENCE, Page 4)
THESE BOYS WILL WEAR
THE COLORS and carry the hopes
of the Texas Aggies • through a
gruelling 11-game football season
this fall, meeting TCU, Arkansas,
SMU, Rice and Texas, fellow mem
bers of the Southwest Conference,
and also having games with Bryan
Army Air Field, Texas Tech, Uni
versity of Oklahoma, Louisiana
State University, North Texas
Agricultural College, and the Uni
versity of Miami.
FRONT ROW, left to right: El
don Long, San Benito; Bill Walker,
Stephenville; Monte Moncrief, Dal
las; Abe Abraham, El Paso; Bob
Gary, Dallas; Bullet Gray, Gar
land; Chas. Shira, Hamlin; Joe
Sacra, Denison.
SECOND ROW: Geo. McAllister,
Wool Uniforms Are
Regulation From
Friday at Retreat
Friday ni^lit the A. & M. Cadet
Corps stood Retreat in wool uni
forms for the first time this se
mester. Woolen OD uniforms will
be the regulation wear until the
spring of 1945 when increasing
temperatures will again necessi
tate the shift into cotton clothing.
The Exchange Store issued wool
en uniforms Thursday afternoon
and all day Friday in order that
the corps might have complete OD
clothing for the trip of the corps
to Dallas for the football game be
tween the Aggies and the Mustangs
of S. M. U.
Prescribed for campus wear is
the cap, either garrison or service,
a woolen shirt, woolen trousers,
and khaki tie. Wearing of the field
jacket is optional but the field
jacket may not be vorn with a
cotton shirt. The regulation uni
form coat may be worn with either
a cotton shirt or a woolen shirt
the order from the Commandant’s
(See WOOL, Page 4)
Eden; Paul Yates, Fort Worth;
Gene Spires, Abilene; Don Kingery,
Lake Charles, La.; Jim Parmer,
Mangum, Okla.; Bob Butchofsky,
Ysleta; Jimmy Cashion, College
Station; Mann Scott, Athens; Da
mon Tassos, San Antonio.
THIRD ROW: Sleepy League,
Hamilton; Sparky Eberle, Sweet
water; Sammie Brice, San Anto
nio; Buddy Allen, El Paso; Mike
Demetrios, Galveston; Hub Ellis,
Kilgore; Don Nicholas, Mineral
Wells; Bobby Goff, Kenedy; Dean
Denton, Harlingen; Jim Mitchell,
Ranger.
FOURTH ROW: Dusty Daniel,
Kerrville; Stubby Matthews, San
Antonio; Stubby Stalsby, Crosby;
Jim Mizell, Conroe; Walter Hig
gins, Galveston; Milton Cherno,
Longhorn
Sales Rate
Must Rise
Only 1100 Copies
Ordered; 1500
Must Be Sold
Sales of the 1945-46 Longhorn
are lagging, according to the editor,
Marc Smith, who states that only
1100 have been purchased to date,
whereas 1500 paid subscriptions
will be required to meet the costs
of publication.
The annual now in the process of
being formed will be the first to
appear since May, 1943. It will al
so mark the 50th anniversary of
the Longhorn, which was first
published in 1894. Although short
ages have presented problems, they
are being successfully overcome as
they arise. The annual will con
tain the customary sections, nine
of them in all, which cover every
(See LONGHORN, Page 4)
El Paso; Vernon Schmidt, Troy;
Morton Shefts, San Antonio; Tiny
Sparkman, San Antonio; Pete
Odoms, McAllen; cotton Howell,
Nacogdoches; Ray Fincher, Bur
ton.
FIFTH ROW: Jim. Voss, Jones
boro; Red Ewald, Maxwell; Wid
Crawford, Eastland; Blackie
Haynes, Vidor; Frank Bless, Hon
do; Bob Koenig, Ingleside; Henry
Lewis, New Waverly; Harry
Uthoff, Celina; A1 Rettig, Came
ron; Scooter Yeargain, Dallas;
Jimmy Mortensen, Winter Haven;
Roger Brown, Dayton; Dan Burch,
Donna; Claude Richey, Austin;
Harold Buckner, Cleburne.
TOP ROW: Homer H. Norton,
head coach; Bill James, line coach;
Pete Suderman, assistant student
Distinguished
Student List
Is Announced
According to a list released by
the Academic Council, eighty-five
tnen designated “Distinguished
Students” for last summer’s semes
ter. These men are those who
averaged 2.25 grade points for
each semester hour of a course with
the usual load.
Of this number, 3 were graduate
students; 8 seniors; 5 juniors; 18
sophomores, and 51 freshmen. The
School of Engineering had 58 dis
tinguished students; the Veterina
ry Medicine and Agriculture
Schools, 10 each, and the School
of Arts and Sciences, 7.
One underclassman and one
graduate student averaged 3.00,
the highest possible grade. Mal
colm A. Horton, a freshman taking
Mechanical Engineering was the
only undergraduate to make all
A’s, and William K. Anderson,
taking Doctor’s work in Chemis
try, was the only graduate student
to do so.
High man for the Senior Class
(See DISTINGUISHED. Page 4)
manager; Malcolm Fluitt, Marble
Falls; Herb Carter, Stamford;
Bob Horne, Plainview; John Wil
liams, Ozona; Bob Reagan, Kerr
ville; Manning Smith, backfield
coach; Tommy Mumane, student
manager; Pete Jones, business man
ager of athletics and assistant
coach; Lil Dimmitt, trainer and
assistant coach.
The squad includes nine letter-
men from the 1943 team: Bob
Butchofsky and Geo. McAllister,
backs; Gary and Tassos, centers;
Eberle, Moncrief and Shira, tack
les, and Darnell (not in picture)
and Long, ends. Five squadman
from the 1943 team also are back:
League, Mizell, Sacra, Uthoff, and
Yeargain.
Texas Aggie Football Team
Entire Student Body Goes
To Dallas To Attend Game
Reg-ular Lineup to Start For Aggies;
Kickoff at 2:30 In Ownby Stadium
Anything goes Saturday afternoon in Ownby Stadium
at Dallas when the Aggies of Texas A. & M. tangle with the
Mustangs of S. M. U.. This game will have no bearing on
the outcome of the conference race, but prospects are bright
that one of the most thrilling games of the year will be
reeled off.
; f
Valentine Vicki
Presented Sat. As
Aggie Sweetheart
Saturday Vicki Moran, the girl
with valentines in her eyes, will
be presented to the crowd at the
Aggie-S.M.U. football game as the
Aggie Sweetheart of 1944. She was
selected on October 8 but not until
tomorrow will she officially be the
Aggie Sweetheart when Tom Alley,
president of the senior class, gives
to her two dozen living-red sweet
heart roses at halftime.
George Strickhausen will escort
her on the field and the eleven
remaining nominees from TSCW,
from which the sweetheart was se
lected, will form a court of honor
which will be escorted by 11 senior
Aggie judges who selected the
sweetheart originally from the
group of 12 nominees from the
senior, junior, and sophomore
classes at TSCW. Miss Moran will
precede the court of honor onto
the field while the Aggie Band
plays “Let Me Call You Sweet
heart.”
Following the march onto the
field the entire procession will halt
while the Aggie corps gives “La
dies” in honor of the visiting girls
from TSCW. Immediately follow
ing this the band will play the
“Spirit of Aggieland” upon the
completion of which Tom Alley
will present the flowers. The group
will march from the field as the
band plays the symbolic Aggie
song, “The Twelfth Man.”
This will complete the ceremony
of presentation but throughout the
remainder of the year Miss Moran
will be the Aggie Sweetheart and
represent them wherever there is
an occasion demanding the appear
ance of a girl to represent the Ag
gies.
Last year the Aggies chose “Cis-
(See VICKI, Page 4)
Saturday’s classes were made up
during the last week in order that
the whole Corps could make the
trip to Dallas for the game. It is
expected that nearly two-thousand
Aggies will invade the Mustang’s
territory on Saturday, in order to
give the team backing' of the
famous Twelfth Man. Numerous
methods of transportation are ex
pected to be in use, including auto
mobile, wagon, cart, and even air
planes. The general drift north
ward started about Wednesday
night when those who were able to
cut their classes began to leave.
In years pa:st the annual clash
between these two schools has been
one of the best drawing cards in
the Southwest, and although both
teams are out of the conference
race this year, none of the color
-is expected to be extracted.
This will be homecoming day for
the Mustangs and a crowd of about
18,000 is due to witness the con
test. According to all reports, the
Methodists have been pointing to
this game all season, and are
anxious to give a good account
of themselves before the home
coming crowd.
Not since 1938 have the Mus
tangs been able to win from A. &
M. , and that year a field goal gave
them a 10-7 victory. The Aggie’s
victory march has been unbroken
for the past five seasons, last
year’s “Kiddie Korps” winning
22-10.
The Ponies have failed to com
pile a very impressive record thus
far in 19.44, winning only two
games while losing four. The Mus
tangs hold victories over the weak
N. T.A.C. eleven and Southwestern,
while they have fallen before Ran
dolph Field, Rice, Tulane, and Tex
as. The Aggies’ record is only
slightly more impressive as they
hold victories over Bryan Field,
Texas Tech, L.S.U., and N.T.A.C.
while losing to Oklahoma, T.C.U.,
and Arkansas.
(Continued on Page 3)
Twelfth Man Returns To Dallas
Where It Was Born 23 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 sa
cred. And the reverence due it, as
expressed in the “Twelfth Man”,
has grown more vererable from
year to year.
Born in a rock-em and sock-em
intersectional football game in Dal
las 23 years ago, this living and
pulsing 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 remains standing through the
game until the final whistle or gun
as a symbol of readiness for duty
should the eleven men on the
gridiron need assistance and re
placement.
Since the start of the war A. &
M. has sent a call for the twelfth
man at the beginning of every
football season apd each time the
corps has responded mightily. The
famed “Kiddie Korps” of 1943,
who lost only to Texas university
in regular season competition, was
made up in a large part of men
who responded to Coach Homer
Norton’s plea to the twelfth man.
This season the football team is
again made up in a measure by
men who responded to the spirit
of the twelfth man. Only nine men
returned from last season who
had ever worn an college football
uniform.
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 with 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 before Tex
as home-folks. Talk grew and grew
of matching a game between Cen
tre 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 sea
son.
As the game went on A. & M.
Coach Dana Bible saw his light but
fast backs one by one being car
ried off the field. With a goodly
portion of the game yet to be
played, Bible was down to one
backfield substitute. Then he re-
. (See TWELFTH, Page 2)