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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 3, 1946
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The Price of Victory!
After the victory over NTSC, Agtfie Yell Leaders take a welcome ducking from the fish. Let’s have
many more.
Williamson Ratings Are Back
The Battalion is again bringing
to its readers the Paul B. William
son national football ratings and
predictions of forthcoming games.
The Williamson system has been
featured in newspapers for more
than 14 year's and boasts an over
all record of 86 in picking
winners over that period. In short,
the Williamson system has picked
the winners of more than 30,000
games.
In 1942, 1943 ,and 1944 William
son broke all existing records in
picking football winners. The win
or lose percentages for the system
were 87.7 and 89.
Although .there are numerous
football rating systems and num
erous experts who do the picking,
none have been quite so consistent
as the Williamson system.
In an early prediction the Wil
liamson system is picking Texas to
win the Southwest Conference with
Rice the runner up. The Aggies
and Baylor listed as dark horses
in the upper brackets.
SHEPARDSON SPEAKER
AT FRENCH LICK MEET
C. N. Shepardson, Dean of Ag-.
riculture at Texas A. & M. Col
lege, will discuss relationships be
tween colleges and industry at the
53rd Annual Meeting of the Farm
Equipment Institute to be held in
French Lick, Ind., September 30
to October 2.
Aggie-ex Selected
For Ft. Sill School
Captain Charles D. Trail, of
Kaufman, Texas, has been select
ed to attend the Officers’ Com
munication Course of the nations
only Field Artillery School at Fort
Sill for instruction in the latest
communications procedures.
Commissioned into the Officers’
Reserve Corps in May, 1939 at A.
& M. College, Captain Trail re
ceived his Regular Army commis
sion in July, 1946. Prior to call
to active duty, Captain Trail was
employed as a surveyor with the
Department of Agriculture. Mrs.
Trail, daughter of B. D. Mar-
burger, resides in College Station
with their two children.
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Football Signs Have Emblazoned
Aggie Spirit for Thirty-one Years
Just before the annual bonfire
preceding the A&M-Texas Thanks
giving Day clash* in 1915, the first
football sign was put up on the
campus. Since that time football
signs have become more or less
a tradition of the school, and dur
ing the 1939 football season, this
practice became a standardized
project of all military organiza
tions.
Today the signs are made ac
cording to the rules and regula
tions of the Dean of Men, with
each sign having specific measure
ments to follow. The material,
paint, and other equipment for
making signs are obtained by the
freshmen, thus bringing forth hid
den talent among the first-year
cadets. Since cost of sign material
is limited, the placards are kept in
expensive. Before a price limit was
set, some signs were known to
cost as much as $75.00.
The illustrative signs add much
color to the football spirit of A.
& M. Though the good points of
signs are many, there are also
several bad features. Fights have
been started at games due to the
public showing of signs, and as a
result a number of Aggies, as well
as members of the opponent stu
dent body, have found themselves
in jail.
For the last few years these
football signs have created so
much interest that each week
judges select the best sign and
award $5 to the cadet organization.
This practice started heated inter-
organizational competition. The
judges are usually the Cadet Col.
for the current year and his staff,
with J. E. Loupot furnishing the
prize winning money. A n addition
al bonus prize of $25 is given for
the best sign of the year which has
so far been for the A&M-Texas
University game.
With the football season just
getting underway, the signs should
be improving week by week, caus
ing the judges more serious
thought as well as increasing com
petition between the military or
ganizations.
Aggie Track Team Begins Practice;
Coaches Hope For Successful Season
F. G. Anderson, head track coach
and. Ray Putnam, his assistant,
have begun running their thinly
clads through the paces in prepara
tion for what might be A. & M.’s
best season in track next spring.
Mr. Putnam, a professor in the
Economics Dept., has exerted his
efforts to coach the boys. He has
developed not only four 440 men
required to run on a mile relay but
now has thirteen, all of whom are
capable of running fifty flat or
better.
The squad is sparked by such
men as Art Harnden who placed
first in the Texas AAU, first in
the Southwest Conference, third in
the National Collegiate meet and
fifth in the National AAU; Don
Frye, former state champion and
Southwest conference champion;
Ray Holbrook, 1944 Southwest con
ference champion and “E” Bilder-
back, another ace quarter man.
The mile relay quartet of 1946
composed of “L” Benson. William
Napier, “Pat” Fischer and Art
Harnden, should better their best
time of 3:21 and perhaps come
within the sphere of breaking the
3:16 S. W. C. record set by Texas
University. Amiong other quarter
men there are: Benton Terry, Rus
sell Neff, Joe Sturdevant, Charles
Clark, Connally Ludwick, and “D”
Williamson. In the field events
there are such men as George Ka-
dera, who won State honors in the
discuss and shot putt; Leonard
Dickey and Franklin Young, letter-
men in the same event. In the pole
vault, Leroy Vodeman, Jack Quir-
ey and Johnny Davis all have clear
ed HVz or 12 feet. The Aggies
hope to build a fast sprint relay
team with “Web” Jay, “GA” Cole,
Jennings Anderson, Robert Hall
and Robert Sykes. James R. Hill,
a letterman will endeavor to better
his 3rd place position in the low
hurdles. Robert Goode, conference
champion in the javelin event will
be in there defending his title.
Henry Hook, Aggie tackle, will begin his first football season
at A. & M. with a lot more experience than most freshmen.
After lettering for three years at John Reagan High School,
Houston, including making the second string on the All-State team
in ’42, he lettered at Rice in ’43 while attending school as a Navy
trainee. He also won a letter at Texas U. in ’44 after being transferred
there.
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The Opening of the
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Six Points for the Aggies
Welch goes over the goal line to start the scoring in the North
Texas vs. Aggie game. This was the second of three TD’s scored by
Barney Welch as he took the lead in scoring in the Southwest Con
ference.
Intramurals For
Married Students
The married G. I. students, as
well as the singles, and regular
corps students all will have a fling
in the intramural sports program,
according to an announcement
made by “Spike” White, director
of intramural athletics at Texas
A. & M. College.
Director “Spike” White said that
lack of organization among the
trailer camp; project house apart
ments; campus apartments and off-*
the-campus students, has been iron
ed out and he looks fox-ward to
teams entering from all those sec
tors.
This semester, competition will be
held in basketball, volleyball, flag
football, handball, cross country
and table tennis. All it takes to
get a team in the competition is
to appoint a representative to get
in touch with White at his office
in the Southwest corner of the
DeWax-e Field House.
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Rev. R. L. Brown, Pastor
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