THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 7, 1945
THE BATTALION
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Summer Football Practice To Begin Monday
MAY 7 1947 ^ ‘ ^
Lil Dimmitt, Pete Jones, Botchey Koch
Will Coach During Absence of Norton
Texas Aggie summer football
practice 'will start Monday, accord
ing to an announcement by Coach
Lil Dimmitt, who will direct prac
tice sessions during the illness of
Head Coach Homer Norton. Dim
mitt will be assisted by Pete Jones,
We have Brown Rubber
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Holick’s Boot Shop
business manager af athletics, and
Botchey Koch, former All-Ameri
can guard from Baylor, who joined
the coaching staff June 1.
All students who intend trying
out for the football team are re
quested by Coach Dimmitt to re
port to the gymnasium at Kyle
Field at 5:00 p.m. Monday. After
an organization meeting football
candidates will be dismissed to re
port each afternoon for two weeks
in shorts, and tennis, or other light
shoes. This two-weeks session will
be followed by a week of rest,
Come in and let us help you in selecting what you’ll
need in
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Uniforms and Equipment
See our selection in cool furnishings for the
summer days ahead.
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Battalion Sports
Athletic Council Awards Varsity Letters
in Baseball, Track, Golf, and Tennis
Strickhausen, Tassos,
Holbrook, and Penn
Elected ’45 Captains
The Texas Aggies closed out
their 1944-45 sports season last
week when the Athletic Council
voted 15 varsity letters in baseball
and 19 in track, and minor letters
to 6 members of the golf team and
4 of the tennis squad.
George Strickhausen of Galves
ton, first baseman, was elected
captain of the baseball team for
the second consecutive year. The
track men choose co-captains, Da
mon Tassos of San Antonio, who
specialized in the weights and
Javelin, and Ray Holbrook of Goose
Creek, crack quarter and half-mil-
er. Tom W. Penn of Houston, was
elected captain of the tennis team.
No golf captain has been elected
up to this time.
Baseball letters were awarded:
Arthur Abraham, Grant Darnell,
Floyd DeLafosse/ Hub Ellis, Ray
mond Katt, Jim Kucera, Jim Love,
Stubby Matthews, R. E. Prince, El
mer Purtle, Charles Smith, Zeke
Strange, George Strickhausen, Jim
Winkler, and Tommy Murnane,
student manager.
Lettering in track and field
events were: Tom Alley, Joe W.
Green, J. W. Hargis, A. B. Haws,
J. B. Henderson, C. R. Holbrook,
J. T. Jones, H. E. McDowell, W.
D. McFarlane, J. E. Mortensen, Da
mon Tassos, L. B. Tate, J. P. Tay
lor, Henry Wallace, Oscar White,
L. C. Williams, W. A. Wilson, Har
old Zeitman, ^nd R. E. Burch, stu
dent manager.
Minor sports letters in golf went
to Jerry Fesperman, Charles Hen
ning, Johnny Henry, Walter Juliff,
J. W. Nichols and Mac Stewart.
In tennis minor sports letters
were awarded Guillermo Elizon
do, Wm. A. Gilbert, James B. Kille-
brew and Tom W. Penn.
UNDERGOES OPERATION
then two more weeks of practice,
and continue in this order until
August 20.
Pads, headgear, shoes and other
heavy equipment will be issued
August 20 and head-knocking prac
tice will begin at that time, Dim
mitt said.
These summer practice sessions
will enable the coaching staff to
get a line on who will be out for
the team this fall, and to know
in general what each boy can do,
Dimmitt, said. There are several
good boys the Texas Aggies are
counting on who will work during
the summer and enter school in
September.
“We don’t want any ooy with
football ability to hold back with
the mistaken idea that any posi
tions on next year’s team are
cinched,” Dimmitt said. “We do
have several boys in school who
played for the Aggies last fall, but
if we can field a team that will
keep all these boys on the bench
when the whistle blows, then that
is the team we want to represent
our school.
“A boy never knows what he can
do until he tries. Some of the best
football players A&M ever had
were observed on company teams
and then persuaded to come out
for the varsity team.
“Even if a boy just makes the
Catfish squad, he will be serving
his school by helping train the first
string. Each year we match sev
eral games for the Catfish and they
will get some nice trips.”
The Aggies have matched an
ambitious football schedule which
calls for eleven games, four at Col
lege Station and seven on the road,
With the return of Baylor to foot
ball play this fall, all seven South
west Conference teams will be in
the running.
The season opens at College
Station on Sept. 22 against the
North Texas Aggies of Arlington.
Other home games are Oct. 27,
Baylor; Nov. 10, SMU; and Nov.
29, Texas. Road games are Sept.
29, Texas Tech in San Antonio;
Oct. 6, Oklahoma in Norman; Oct.
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The Texas A. & M. Research
Foundation soon will have the only
alternating current network cal
culator in the Southern and West
ern States, and the largest in the
Western Hemisphere, Howard W.
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The alternating current network
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in Texas and the Westinghouse
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tion of M. C. Hughes, department
head.
On a rental basis the alternating
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available to other public utility
companies, and to industrial or
ganizations and individuals having
problems that can be set up as
an equivalent electric current, Dean
Barlow said.
Contributing to the purchase of
the alternating current network
calculator were the Central Power
and Light Company of San An
tonio, Community Public Service
Company of Fort Worth; Dallas
Power and Light Company; El Paso
Electric Company; Gulf States
Utilities Company of Reaumont;
Southwest Gas and Electric of
Shreveport, La., Texas Electric
Service Company of Fort Worth,
Texas Power and Light Company
of Dallas and West Texas Utilities
Company of Abilene.
Former ME Professor
Receives Bronze Star
Major Clifford M. Simmang, on
leave from the Mechanical En
gineering Department of the Tex
as A&M College, has recently been
awarded the Bronze Star for “me
ritorious achievement in connection
with the Philippine Islands from
November 17, 1944 to March 23,
1945.
The citation read:
“He served as a battalion exe
cutive officer and S-l during the
Leyte campaign, and under his ex
pert supervision the battalion fired
13, Louisiana State in Baton
Rouge; Oct. 29, TCU in Ft. Worth;
Nov. 3, Arkansas in Fayeteville;
Nov. 17, Rice in Houston, and Dec.
7, Miami in Miami. The Texas
Tech, Louisiana State and Miami
games will be played at night.
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WHERE YOU ALWAYS GET
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more than 10,000 rounds of ammu
nition with excellent results, in
spite of the difficulties caused by
changing positions and the supply
of ammunition over all but im
passable roads. Major Simmang
was, for a period, the immediate
commander of the battalion pos
itions, while the battalion com
mander accompanied the Supported
unit. His excellent judgement, calm
leadership, and faithfulness to the
policies of his battalion command
er in the latter’s absence con
tributed greatly to the effective
support of the infantry. Major
Simmang’s forcefulness, great
energy, and coolness under fire
were an inspiring example to all
subordinate officers and men, and
these qualities were generally re
flected in the performance of the
unit.”
He is the husband of Mrs. Clif
ford M. Simmang, secretary in the
Mechanical Engineering Depart
ment. Major Simmang was original
ly from San Antonio.
Fire burns the food of animals
and birds.
Ueatf&acA JfomerAor/on
Norton Reported
Doing Well
After Operation
Homer H. Norton, head football
coach and director of athletics for
the Texas A&M College, was oper
ated on Monday at the Mayo
clinic in Rochester, Minn., and is
coming through in fine shape, ac
cording to word received here by
friends and associates.
Coach Norton underwent a maj
or operation that prevented his
making a trip to Europe to lecture
on football to the army of occupa
tion. He had been chosen by the
War Department as a member of
a staff of instructors and would
have sailed May 25.
The trouble Norton has is of long
standing and he went to Dallas
some time ago to have the opera
tion performed. Due to a report
ed difference of opinion among his
doctors, Coach Norton returned to
College Station, then went to
Birmingham, Ala., to consult a
brother who is a doctor. Norton
then went on to Mayo Bros.
Less fire in the
wood in the tree.
forest, more
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