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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 10, 1944 THE BATTALION Page 3 Cadets At Full Strength For Saturday’s Tilt (Continued From Page 1) The Mustangs’ chances for victory may be dimmed con siderably if their star back, Ralph Ruthstrom remains on the injured list. Ruthstrom, who has been been the big gun in the early season games, was injured in the Texas game last Saturday and was absent from" workouts during the early part of this week. End Joe Dyer and tackle Pete Kotlarict are also on the prob able list, both boys still suffering from injuries sustained in the Tu- lane game. Most of the Mustangs’ power seems to be in their backfield this year, their backs rated the best foursome in the conference. Eu gene McClintlock, Ralph Ruth strom, Ivan Cunningham, and C. D. Allen comprising a first class department of ball luggers in any body’s league. Wayne “Red” Shaw and L. B. Cox are letterman backs who have seen .considerable serv ice during the season. Other Pony lettermen are Gene Wilson and James Meltio, Wilson being ap end and Melitio playing tackle. A. & M. will probably enter this game in the best physical condi tion they have been in all year. Not a single man will be on the in jured list Saturday, although Jim my Parmer is not expected to be in top condition. Parmer has been out of action during the early part Albert Richards LEATHER COATS and JACKETS New Leather Coats and Jackets . . . Jackets of wool or weather-processed in wind- proof poplins and gabardines. A smart selection of jackets you’ll need for service and comforti Warm Gloves Wool Socks Cotton Socks 7 t v i~\ WIMBERlEY • STONE • DANS BY w*o;x7 CLOCKIERS College and Bryan STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair PHONE 4-4114 "of the season due to a bad leg, but Coach Homer Norton said Thurs day the big fullback would play. Coach Norton has indicated he will start his r*egular lineup which consists of Cotton Howell, left end; Charlie Shira, left tackle; Bill Gray, left guard; Bob Gary, center; Greek Tassos, right guard; Monte Moncrief, right tackle; and Norton Higgins, right end. The backfield wall be composed of Jimmy Cushion at quarterback, Bobby Goff at left half, Bob Butchofsky at right half, and Paul Yates at fullback. Coach James Stewart of the Mustangs will probably start the following lineup: Wilson, left end; Dean, left tackle; Melitio, left guard; McWilliams, center; Roll- wage, right guard; Cook, right tackle; Folsom, right end; Mc Clintlock, quarterback; Ruthstrom, left half; Cunningham, right half; and Allen, fullback. ■■RIDE THE MUSTANGS— Aggie Reserves Lose to Galveston Air Field, 14-2 Coach Lil Dimmitt’s boys, bet ter known as the Aggie B team, suffered their first defeat of the season Monday night when they fell before the Galveston Army Air Field Bombers, 14-2. Dale O’Connell, Galveston half back, broke loose on the second play of the game and raced 79 yards for the initial score. He also set up the other Flyer touchdown in the third quarter, this time Lu- ongo plunged over for the marker. Voss converted after the first touchdown and Mernik after the second. The Aggies counted a safety in the first quarter when a blocked punt bounded out of the field of play. The starting lineup for the Ag gies was composed of Yeargain and 'Darnell, ends; Denton and Schmidt, ends; Mizell and Carter, guards; Lane, center; Nicholas, quarterback; Voss, right half, Bless, left half; and Ewald, full back. Galveston starters were Holland and Banowicz, ends; Voss and De- Francesca, tackles; Mueler and Gburzynsky, guards; Zeller, cen ter; Mernik, quarterback; O’Con nell, left half; Dusek, right half; and Luongo, fullback. RIDE THE MUSTANGS Ex-Student Dies At McCloskey Frank Edward Phenicie, ’44, died at the United States Veterans Ad ministration Hospital, Legion, Tex as, at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday eve ning, October 31, 1944. Phenicie was graduated from the Sealy High School. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Phenicie of Sealy. He entered A. and M. College in the fall of 1940, becoming a major in Fish and Game. Phenicie was in the E.R.C. and completed the fall semester in 1942, entering the armed forces as a senior in May, 1943. He was a cadet second lieu tenant in his senior year in college. In the spring of ’44 Phenicie was given an honorable discharge from the United States Army. While at the Veterans Administration Facil ity at Legion, Texas, he was as sistant editor of The Grapevine, a newspaper at the Veterans Hos pital and sergeant-at-arms for American Legion Post 379. RIDE THE MUSTANGS DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS There will never be an AGGIE who is broke as long as LOUPOT’S Loan Fund has a balance. No security, no interest, no obligation. There is now past due $200—Pay it back so it can be used by someone else. Don’t let it be said of you —“If you want to lose a friend, loan him money.” LOUPOT’S TRADING POST Here I Go Again . . . Last week’s guessing was just about as near right as could be expected by this brainstorm', I only missed two out of five. This brings my average for the season to something less than the number of electoral votes polled by Dewey. I am not one to quit in the mid dle of a job so I will continue to give out with my fearless predic tions. I don’t have to worry about one thing: I can’t get any worse. A. & M. over S. M. U.—The Ag gies can’t be as bad as they looked against T.C.U. and Arkansas and they are bound to have a good day sometime. I will string along with them until that happy day arrives. Hold That Ball The Aggies have a golden op portunity Saturday to partly re deem themselves for the dismal showing made in their two previ ous conference games. S.M.U. will probably be stronger than either T.C.U. or Arkansas, and by de feating the Mustangs, the Aggies can prove to their critics that the “Whiz Kids” still have some whiz left in them. When the Cadets do start click ing they are going to be hard to stop, for football talent is abund ant at Aggieland this year. Such gridders as Bob Butchofsky, Monte Moncrief, Greek Tassos, Bobby Goff, Paul Yates, and Cotton How ell are above the average for the conference this year. These boys RICE over Arkansas.—The Owls are due to bounce back from their defeat at the hands of Texas Tech last week and should be hard to handle. I can’t see the Razorbacks doing much scoring on anyone. TEXAS over Oklahoma A. & M. —This may be the best game of the afternoon, but it looks like the Longhorns will have too much line for the boys from the Sooner state. TEXAS TECH over T.C.U.— Dutch Meyer has lost too many of his players through Navy trans fers for the Frogs to be counted as a dangerous team. The Tech out fit seems to have found itself in the past few weeks. could form the nucleus for a great team, and the Aggies of 1944 are just short of having just such team. They lack that little some thing which makes the difference between a great ball team and an ordinary team. When the Cadets do settle down and find that extra something, they are going to make someone look-silly. These present Aggies are a very unpredictable group. They can look like a million dollars one game and not look worth a wooden nick el in another. They can even look good one part of \a game, and then play sloppy football the remainder of the game. When they learn how to keep from fumbling and play the football they are capable of playing—watdh out. 1944 Marks End of Half Century Of Football for Fighting Aggies Incomplete records show the Texas Aggies in 49 seasons of gridiron play have met 71 teams from 20 states for an all-time rec ord of 259 games won, 113 games lost, and 28 games ended in ties. In these 400 games the Aggies scored 7,001 points to 2,534 for .the opponents. In Southwest Con ference competition, the Aggies have garnered 105 victories, met defeat 75 times, and there have been 20 ties. A. & M. has made 2,380 points against other Confer ence teams, to 1,584 points made against the Maroon and White. Football at College Station had its beginning in 1893 when two or three cadet teams were formed to play against each other. They then were known as the “Farmers.” At least two games with outside teams were played in 1894, one at Austin with the University of Texas Long horns, then called the “Varsity.” It was after the turn of the cen tury that the designations “Ag gies” and “Longhorns” came into general use. The year 1895 was another of intrasquad play, and the first invasion of North Texas was in 1897 when the Aggies went to Sherman for a game with Aus tin College. The second game with the Longhorns was in 1898 and since that time, with the exception of the three years, 1912-14, these two old rivals have met at least once each year. This is the oldest gridiron rivalry in the Southwest. The late Charles Puryear, dean emeritus, was one of those re sponsible for football being estab lished at the Texas A. & M. Col lege. He was manager of the first several teams. F. D. Perkins of McKinney was captain of the first team in 1893 and also was one of a trio of co-coaches the first three years. In 1897, the first paid coach, C. W. Taylor, was employed. Texas A. & M. College was a charter member of the present Southwest Conference, organized in 1914, with 1915 the first year of Conference play. With seven Conference championships and a tie for another, the Aggies are out in front in Conference history. Texas, with five titles, is in sec ond place. The Aggies were vic torious in 1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1939, 1941, and tied with S.M.U. in 1940. A. & M.’s first undefeated team was in 1902, but it played two tie games. The Aggies were State champions in 1909 and 1910, but suffered a tie and an out-of-state defeat respectively. A similar loss marred the record of 1912, but the team that year was hailed as Champions of the South. In 1917 and 1919, the Maroon and White was unbeaten, untied and unscored upon. A defeat was pasted upon the 1925 champions and a tie in 1927. The 1939 team was recognized as National Cham pions, unbeated and untied,' and licked Tulane in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day following. The once-beaten 1940 team defeated Fordham in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas. But the once-beaten teams of 1941 and 1943 lost to Alabama and Louisiana State in the Cotton and Orange Bowls respectively. RIDE THE MUSTANGS ***** Patronize Battalion Advertisers. * * * * * DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS Student Brings Lava From Mexico Paul Campos-Lynch, graduate of A. & M. College student in Mu nicipal and Sanitary Engineering imd part-time instructor in that department, has given some lava and ash from the famous Paricutin Volcano in Mexico to the Geology Department. These specimins may be seen in the show window oppo site the main entrance in the Geol ogy-Petroleum Engineering build ing. Mr. Campos-Lynch secured these specimins recently while on a visit to his home in Mexico City. He tells some interesting data about the world’s newest volcano, said to be the first volcano to come under scientific observation from its birth. Paricutin stands today on the high plains of Mexico about 200 miles west of the capitol city. The story of its origin and devel opment sounds almost like a fairy tale. On the night of Feb. 19, 1943 gases piled debris several feet deep in a theretofore level corn field owned and operated by a native of the village of Paricutin. A few days later the volcanic cone was 120 feet high and the corn field was buried underneath. The cone grew rapidly and in six weeks the dust column recahed a height of over 20,000 feet, the falling ashes covering over a square mile of land. By July 1944 the cone was over 1,500 feet high and the ashes had completely buried all buildings for many miles around. Only the steeple of the church at Paricutin remained to mark the spot where the village had stood. The lava spreading from the volcano’s side flowed at a rate of about 10 feet per hour and the lava column was 15 feet high. Pari cutin lava crusts over the surface, but the liquid interior and pressure from above breaks the crust into large irregular blocks, making a very rough appearing mass. The sample of lava which Mr. Campos-Lynch brought to Texas A. & M. College was taken from the lava wall when it was hot. The ashes was collected from a nearby locality. Mr. Campos-Lynch says that Paricutin makes a continuous roar which is deafening. In the day time a dense cloud four miles high can be seen. At night there is a glow from the golden caldron, the crater, and the lava field below sparkles with myriad lights like a fairyland. RIDE THE MUSTANGS HELP BRING VICTORY BUY WAR BONDS LOUPOT’S A Little Place - - - - - - A Big Saving! West Texas Club Meets Second Time Members of the West Texas Club met for the second time in Room 107 of the Academic Building last Monday night at 7:15. Plans were made for the Long horn picture, and the club decided to have a full page. A Christmas party was also discussed. Regular meetings will be held on the first and third Wednesday of each month, and Gene Alley, the president, urges that all men from West Texas be present. RIDE THE MUSTANGS DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS LOUPOT’S A Little Place - - - - - - A Big Saving! NEW RADIO RELAY LINK FOR TELEPHONE AND TELEVISION Tiny radio waves, shorter than any used before in commercial telephony, will link New York and Boston in a new experi mental "jump-jump” relay system for the transmission of telephone speech and television programs. These waves travel in straight lines like beams of light. Because of the earth’s curvature, the distance will be spanned in a series of straight-line jumps between transmitting and receiving stations about 30 miles apart. The Bell System plans post-war improvements in ways like this, to extend its nation-wide service by providing more Long Distance telephone facilities for peacetime needs. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM "Service to the Nation in Peace and War 9 * PATCHES and ALTERATIONS AT -