Four Aggies Play For Last Time Thursday
Two Linemen and Two Backs
Leave at Close of This Season
' When the Aggies move into Me
morial Stadium on Thursday for
the annual Thanksgiving game,
four of their members will be
wearing the colors of the Maroon
and White for the last time. They
are Willie Zapalac, fullback, Leo
Daniels, quarterback, Monte Mon-
crief, tackle and Leonard Dickey,
also a tackle.
Willie Zapalac, the big line
crusher in the Aggie backfield,
hails from Bellville and is wearing
number 39 made famous by a full
back of bygone years, John Kim
brough. There are times when
Willie looks exactly the counter
part of his predecessor. Zapalac
lettered in 1941 and 1942 and then
joined the Army Air Forces. Af
ter the fight was over he returned
to Aggieland to earn his third
letter. There have been few Ag
gie games played this season in
which Zapalac wasn’t injured. He
has been troubled with a bad knee
all year. To add insult to injury,
he suffered a broken hand in the
Baylor game and has been playing
with his hand in a cast. In spite
of injuries that would have dis
couraged the average college play
er, Zapalac has carried on in a
manner befitting a true champion.
No player on the Aggie squad has
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consistently exhibited more hus
tle, more spirit and more fight
than has Zapalac.
The big gun of the Aggie ground
attack, there is no question in the
minds of Aggie supporters that
many games might have turned
out differently had the Maroon &
White been able to utilize Zapalac’s
running ability.
Although a terror on the of-
ense, Zapalac has no peer in the
Southwest Conference in backing
up a line. He tackles and blocks
cleanly but viciously.
For. the first time since the
opening game of the season, he
will be in top shape, barring pos
sible last minute injuries. His
presence could be a deciding factor
in Thursday’s game.
Leo Daniels, quarterback from
Bryan, who will also make his
last gridiron appearance as a
member of the Aggie team, has
two letters to his credit. This
year’s letter will be his third. In
1942 he made the All-Conference
dream team and shortly after the
season he entered the Army and
served 47 months. He was dis
charged with the rank of captain.
Monte Moncrief, the backbone
of the Aggie line, will be playing
his last game for the Maroon and
White also. He has three letters
to his credit, making the All-Con
ference eleven for three successive
years. He also received honorable
mention for the All America elev
en in ’43 and ’44. Moncrief made
the second string All America
eleven in ’45. Moncrief, who holds
down the tackle slot, also calls
defensive signal for the Aggies.
Monte has held down his position
so well that few teams have been
foolish enough to attempt running
over him. He is steady and de
pendable and keeps that Aggie
line on its toes.
Leonard Dickey, the other mem
ber of the pair of Aggie tackles,
has two letters from A&M and is
out for his third season. He missed
being picked on the All-Conference
tackle in 1945 by only one vote.
Dickey played on the West Army
team, coached by Wallace Wade, in
1942. He served 43 months in the
Army Air Forces.
Dickey is one of the roughest
tackles in the country. He is
often too rough for his own physi
cal well being. A fighter at heart,
he has been plagued with injuries
all season and in some games has
played very little. Dickey is 29
years of age. To watch him play
tackle, you would think him much
younger. Dickey is once more
rounding into top flight physical
condition and can be expected to
give a good account of himself in
Thursday’s game.
Although every member of the
Aggie squad has been pointing to
this game as the one, Zapalac,
Daniels, Moncrief and Dickey have
probably been pointing for it just
a little stronger, if such is pos
sible. They know that this is
the last chance and they are out to
avail themselves of this golden op
portunity.
Coach Norton and the Aggies
have nothing but bitter memories
from the past six year’s engage
ments. The first blow came in
1940 when the Aggies were still
undefeated. The second, and prob
ably the most humiliating of all,
was the 1941 defeat when the Ag
gies were slaughtered in their own
backyard by a top heavy score.
The war years told the same
story with the Aggies team being
continually depleted by player los
ses to the army, navy and marines.
For the first time since 1941, the
Aggies have something of a break
in material and are once more
battling on even terms.
Aggies Begin Trek to Austin for Turkey Day Game
Let’s Be Good Sports ...
It looks as though our Aggie team will beat the Long
horns in their own pasture Thursday, and the prospect has
the good people of Austin dreadfully upset. Not just §bout
losing the game; but because of the reputation of “poor
sportsmen” that has been pasted on us lately. Bluntly, the
people of Austin believe that we will be coming over in the
mood of shanty laborers out for a Saturday night brawl.
The Daily Texan has been warning its readers this
week that the Aggies are “spoiling for a fight,” that we
will deliberately start a riot Thursday. The incident last
week, when Littlefield Fountain was painted up immediately
after a “peace-pact” had been signed between the two
schools, gave us a black-eye all over the state.
If the game Thursday results in a riot, the monkey
will be on our back. It has been predicted that way suffi
ciently often that even if T. U. students struck the first
blow, the blame would fall on A. & M., which means that
we will have to be unusually careful.
A serious disturbance in Austin Thursday would pro
bably result in a severance of relations between the two
schools. Either it would break up the Southwest Conference
or put A. & M. outside the pale. Newspaper stories would
be sent all over the country to the effect that the present
generation of A. & M. students is composed of juvenile de
linquents who ought to be in reform school. Would you want
that to happen?
By the way we behave Thursday, we’ve got to prove
that the people of Austin are wrong—absolutely wrong—that
Aggies are still the best sports in the state, not the worst;
that we can take either defeat or victory in our stride (vic
tory being the more difficult).
Four-Day Vacation Plans
Include Football Victory
Parade Down Congress Avenue Thursday
Morning; Bands to Perform at Halftime
Overcrowded Aggieland will look strangely deserted to
morrow afternoon when the Corps, veterans, and people of
the College Station-Bryan area begin the trek to Austin for
what promises to be the “Battle of the Century.” The Tur
key Day tangle is a sell-out according to returns from the
ticket sales booths in the YMCA.
Banker Addresses
Economics Club on
Money and Banking
Col. Maroney Denies
Country Is Heading
For Big Depression
“We are headed for a Recession,
but not a Depression in the very
near future, “declared Col. T. J.
Moroney of the Republic National
Bank of Dallas. Col. Moroney,
speaking before 170 members of
the Economics Club and their
guests, Tuesday night, went on to
say, “We, as citizens, have a fear
psychology and consequently un
certainty is the mode of today;
however, I believe that the people
as a whole will take the necessary
action with the stabilization for
ces at their disposal to control
this so-called Recession period at
hand. The time calls for caution.”
Representing the money and bank
ing field, he spoke on the “Trust
Function of Banking.”
Col. Moroney was the first in a
series of outstanding speakers in
the various fields of economics to
be presented by the Economics
Club. Bill Murphy, president of
the organization, presented the
speaker and presided at the busi
ness meeting which followed the
talk by Moroney. Murphy prom
ised a nationally known speaker
representing the field of Govern
mental Economy will be presented
at the club’s next meeting De
cember 17.
Words of “Lizzie”
Personified This
Week by Freshman
“—Is my hat on straight,
Lend me your powder puff,
Sweet cherry phosphate—”
The words of the Aggie yell
“Lizzie” are quite in evidence this
week about the campus as the
freshmen break out the lipstick
and powder so common to T.u. in
mockery of the Aggies’ traditional
rivals. Along with the warpaint,
all the fish go about their busi
ness in the little schoolgirl “skip-
step.”
This rather colorful and inter
esting tradition will continue the
rest of the week until the Corps
departs for the forty acres, there
to observe the correct wearing of
such feminine makeup.
This traditional action gives the
student body and football team a
chance to see their rivals in a
lighter vein. With this induce
ment in mind, the Aggies should
really get on their mule and plow
up the forty acres.
AIAeS NOT TO MEET
TILL DECEMBER 3RD
The Institute of Aeronautical
Sciences will not hold their regu
larly scheduled meeting tonight as
planned because of the bonfire and
yell practice. The group, however,
plans to meet with the all of the
engineering societies on Decem
ber 3rd to hear W. W. Finlay
speak on “National Preparedness.”
Saddle and Sirloin
Club Arranges For
Barbecue & Dance
Committee Appointed
To Choose Orchestra,
Refreshments, Decors
A barbecue picnic will be held
by the Saddle and Sirloin Club
Wednesday December 11 at Hen-
sel Park and a committee has
been appointed to begin plans for
the Cattlemen’s Ball which is
March 14, 1947 These are results
of a meeting last Tuesday night
in the Animal Industries Building.
Morty Mertz, president of the
club, will be in charge of the pic
nic and will appoint members to
assist him. This barbecue is an
annual affair the last one being
held in the spring of this year.
The committee selected to ar
range the Cattlemen’s Ball this
spring includes Louie Hardy, Cor
ky Eckert, James Kunkel and Hap
Conning. They will choose the
orchestra, decorations and re
freshments.
A “Western Band” consisting of
two guitars and one fiddle furnish-
(See BARBECUE on Page4)
No 'Official' Extra
Holdiay Monday
Sorry, boys—no holiday Mon
day if we beat Texas, according
to r, decision by Dean Bolton. Ac
cording to him, we have already
reached the limit of holidays al
lowed by the different accrediting
institutions of the nation.
Dunn Awards Bucy
Borden Scholarship
«
The Junior AVMA held a meet
ing last Tuesday night at the Vet
erinary Hospital at which Dr.
R. C. Dunn, acting dean of the
Veterinary Medicine School, pre
sented the Borden Award to Char
lie B. Bucy, who has the highest
scholastic standing in the present
senior veterinary class.
After the presentation, the so
ciety heard a panel discussion be
tween Dr. E. A. Griest, ’37, Ex
tension Service Veterinarian, I. W.
Ruppell, Dairy Husbandry Head,
Mrs. F. I. Dahlberg, acting Head
of the Animal Husbandry dept.
Results of Slide
Rule Contest Show
EE’s Are the Best
Myre and Behrens
Win Top Two Spots
To Receive Plaques
Two electrical engineering stu
dents, W. C. Myre of El Paso and
Hugh Behrens of East Bernard,
were top scorers in the annual
freshman slide rule contest at
Texas A&M College, and as a re
sult were awarded new Dietzgen
slide rules and special plaques at
a ceremony held this morning at
Guion Hall.
Myre was high among the regu
lar freshmen beginning engineer
ing work, while Behrens led in a
special contest for those with pre
vious college work although they
are engineering freshmen. Each
received, in addition to a slide rule,
a bronze plaque bearing the A&M
seal.
Second-place scorers in each
contest were awarded vest-pocket
slide-rules and large aluminum
plaques bearing the seal, while
(See CONTEST on Page 4)
The holiday festivities will begin
with the serving'of turkey in the
mess halls this evening. Then the
bonfire will go up in smoke at 7:30
amidst the cheers of all Aggies.
That Aggie spirit will be aimed
very accurately at the “forty ac
res” that the Maroon and White
are going to plow up.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad
found it impossible to run a spe
cial train to Austin, so better
warm up the old thumb and hurry
out the the hiway, if you want to
get to the midnight yell practice
to be held Wednesday night in
front of the S. F. Austin Hotel.
Thanksgiving morning at 10:00
the Corps will parade down Con
gress Avenue starting at» the
bridge and ending at the capitol.
The presidents of both schools,
state officials and A&M staff of
ficers will be in the reviewing
stand in front of the Stephen F.
Austin Hotel.
The students of A&M and Tex
as who lost their lives in the war
will be honored in a pregame cer-
Mess Hall Might
Feature Singing
Waiters in Future
Something new has been added
recently to relieve the monotony
of evening meals among the stu
dent waiters, according to the men
who work there. Each night at
mess, cowboy tunes can be heard,
played and sung by Robert Wil
liams, more commonly known as
“Fish” Williams, who hails from
Waco. The favorite song of the
waiters is, “Swing Blues Number
Two”. WTien Bob puts his foot
on the chair and puts the guitar
on his knee, he gets the undivided
attention of all present.
This is by no means Bob’s first
public appearance. In the past he
has sung and played over station
W-A-C-0 in Waco. Bob sang
for a band and also had a radio
program of his own. Bob has
made several appearances here on
the campus, one of which was at
the Saddle and Sirloin Club’s
Western dance, and at one of Bill
Turner’s Jamborees. The general
opinion of the waiters seems to be
that “Fish” Williams is on the
beam and that they would like
to hear him sing at some more
dances and jamborees.
emony featuring the bands of both
schools. Kickoff time is set at
2:00 p. m.
It is important that all Aggies
take their coupon books to Tealand
with them, because they will be re
quired to show them when they go
in the gate. Don’t get' sore —
the Teahounds have to do the same
thing.
The half time ceremony will
consist of that big Aggie band
covering the field with intricate
maneuvers.
The Tu. band will also partici
pate in the half time activities.
Finney Leaves To
Do Private Work
C. J. Finney, professor of ar
chitecture at A&M will leave the
college on December 1 to become
chief architectural designer for
Addis Noonan Associates of S a n
Antonio.
The announcement came from
Ernest Langford, head of the ar
chitecture department. Finney
has been "with the college staff
since 1925, except for occasional
work in New York, Dallas, and
San Antonio during his summer
leave. He also served on the staff
of the University of Florida as an
instructor during the year 1926-27.
Finney graduated from A&M
in 1922 and has studied at the
University of Mexico and in Fon-
tainelbeau, France. He also taught
at the American University at
Biarritz, France teaching army
personel during 1944-45.
JANUARY 1ST LAST DATE
TO REENLIST IN USMC
Former officers and NCO’s of
the United States Marine Corps
who wish to reenlist, have until
January 1, 1947 to do so and keep
their rank at the time of their dis
charge.
This only applies to Marines
honorably separated from service.
After the first of the year, persons
enlisting in the regular Marine
Corps, who have been in active
duty before and discharged for
more than thirty days, will be
allowed to reenlist at the rate of
private, first class. Complete in-
firmation may be obtained from
the Marine Corps recruiting sta
tion in Bryan.
A Second 'Williamson' In Our Midst!
Associate Editor Charles Murray presents two tickets to the T. u. game to A. G. Odom. Odom pick
ed the largest number of football winners for thi’ee consecutive weeks in the “Pick the Winner” contest
sponsored by the Battalion. Only two games stumped prognosticator Odom. He was completely baffled
by the Rice-Arkansas contest and T.C.U.’s upset of Texas. He hit the Aggie games on the head every
time. He hasn’t been consulted concerning the T.u. game.