The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 11, 1948, Image 3
By DO Starting hja'i: f- of the A&M W. R. “Bill’f gie ex from Carmichael as Athletic i when : he such llins, _ whc that -tim er in lieu arch of isii' At the meat Carm c: secretary 01 School C principal Oi High Kyle Field and Aggie! YeBs Adds Color to A&M History el Starts 2nd Year partrhent i, 1NGELKING ond year as etic del rmichael; an class of ’28. sumed his 4 tor ilast sinni ed J W. “ as acting di s.;|Rollin8 had^ .Hpmer Norton of kis appoin el was execntr e Texas Hi Association tephen F. Aus ' yan; . i' ' I •j f 4 Carmichael’s experience as Jfij coach started npbn his graduatii from A&M: in. (1928. That year i took his first j&b as assistant foo ball and he^d basketball coach it many changes in the Athletic de- Athletic Timpspn. After . two successful years there he moved to Panhandle and iml931 came to Bryan where he was assistant football coach and head cage coach until 1939. Dicing that time his cage teams went to the State meet twice and won the district title five times. In tbci fall of 1939 he became principal of the Lamar Jtfpior high school and in 1946 he/ifka promoted to the principalshipj at the senior high.! school. r Carmichael’s active coach i n g days ended in 1939 but he has con tinned to be associated with the coaching business as is evident by the fact that he was secretary of the Texas High School Coaches Association from 194T*to 1947. During Carmichael’sj fir?t year at A&M| there has been a great r- ir ' MS ‘: V ' r i ’ 1 - ■ i-i ctor --r - v " 1 ra te BATTALION SPOR TS □ nKW '-st# Jt- u 4 * n— 11 ; SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, 1948 /' ! f] ILL % CARMICHAEL^ J f 4. >‘ x ' 14-iU •-i' ■A M Your during ' •- - - 1 •fi. _ .• •/! • • 'v. ... 1- ,,4--j-7 ■ 1*7 l"' ■- 7 has made some plans summer . . . V. plans designed to gibe you real service in top quality foods and fi The Campus Corner 7 . THE / 4- ^ ! ' *. 4 u J.' r r imntain specialties. ve partment. Although most of the: big changes during the past year were not due directly to Carmich ael’^ actions he has nevertheless had a hand in making the improve- 'm«m. !, i Daring the past year Aggie hopes for victory in the near fn- ture in all major sports have increased considerably. An out standing collection of high school football players have been given scholarships to Aggieland. Also basketball and track stars from high schools all over the state !wul be here for registration this }week»L i Credit for the addition of these Athletes to A&M may not all be due to Carmichael’s efforts but he indefinitely the man behind it all. : Carmichael resides in Bryan with his wife and son. Carmichael continued his education after he received his bachelor’s degree by completing v the work for a mas ter’s degree here at A&M in 1936. After getting his master’s de gree in education he took a year of work on a debtor’s degree at Colorado Teachers College in Gree- ly, Colorado. • The building of Aggie Athletic teams can not be .accomplished over night but it is hoped that Carnjiichael’s efforts along with the effoifts of others will pay-off with- n the next year or two. Ag Runners May Take SWC Crown ^ t ! i ’ ■ * In Cross Country 'I Aggie distance runners have al ready started preparing for the 1948 Cross ; Country session by working out daily on the cross country course in back,, of the creamery., • The first meet for the Aggie team wil be some time in October. The Conference meet will tie held 'November 15. T Cross Country is one of the four minor sports in the Southwest Conference. The Conference Champ is determined each year at the conference meet. , Aggies who will be trying for a place on the team are; Webster Stone, Jerry Bonnen, J. D. Hamp ton, Carrol Hahn, Royce Raven, Mark Geeslin, and Jim McMahon. Only five men are needed for a team. -The length of the ~Cross Country course is 2.7 miles, r This yepr should be one ofr the beat for the Aggies in this sport. Texas University, the defending champions, will not be as strong as last year duetto the loss of Jerry Thompson, their number one man.: ! >: - , /'pilot pi. ^ Student K/--little fact bow gre; fT- li ►” for your future Inter, have had a lifting^-lots of el and a dab of paint Here ahd there—and are ready to give you the best yet during tffie comili^ year. L- 2 - [4 :: C 0 F F E E !?< ? ? elye been doing some research on that too. I|ope ymi/agree that it has improved. WM 7—r - / fMM ilil =■ 4;,-': -'4 First Gi Held Only \ Uy BILL 44 »'l. In preparation to A&M campus, much d Battalion and Longhorh ing sports oddities were There is 1 much speculslti the Aggie yell and descended from others-contend Those that do "v ,: W. f >1 l&U I WP' m 1 7 ‘ - ■ V ' 1 M * 7T 4; i' : II A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF KYLE with standing room only. This picture shows DeWare Field House In the background and the hand ball courts in the upper left corner. The score board of the baseball field can be seen in the lower left corner. This picture was taken before the erection of the new score board at the south end of Kyle Field. Kyle Field’s Concrete Stadium 17 Years Old; New Dressing Rooms First Addition Since ’31 Kyle Field Stadium, around which all Aggies interest begins centering about this time every year, is the culmination of many years work of a great number of people. It repre- vsents to the present and ex-studenle of A&M, all that is great in sports in the Southwest Conference. • \ J < . When interest in football began building up at A&M around the last decade of the 18th\entury, intra-squad games f^^ 1 ' ** — 1 Dallas Fans Honor Coacli Matty Bell Early this fall Dallas folks will honor one of the greatest figures in football. ; > f Madison Bell, the moanin’ Mat ty ofi some of the game's finest moments, is going to have tribute paid him fdr the distinction of be ing the dean of head football coaches in the Southwest Confer ence. j ! ■ : i j ’ ' No other mentor has been head coach ot more than two Southwest Conference schools. Bell started at Texas Christian in 1923, went to Texas A. and M. in 1929 and came to Southern Methodist in 1934. In that span he was head coach all except one yea|r—1934 whep he wajs line mentor at SMU. He be came head coach in 1933 and ex cept for thrie years spent in the Navy has been directing Southern Metshodist’s grid teams ever since. i - y, r I " -4! Here is the place antS 1 : '■< I [i-.n ELCOME When y er restocking your pantry, think of the ... JTHSIDE FOOD MARKET A BACK AC >' • -v ' j jl r 4 V GIES tr - T . toj restock your canned goods, ipr we aw conducting REDUCTION SALE, during which we will meet the lowest any retail grocery store in the county on all canned fruits, juices, vegetable juices, canned meats, fish, canned baby foods, soups, and i atsup. Having been consistently competitive on most the^other cost-bf-living commodities, it will pay ybu to buy your entire One convenient stop. | 4 grocery ■M: • ■ r 1 I TT SIDE FOOD MARKET COLLEGE 7 J ■ V : : | / .. , • ■ 7 V . i : .1 It • . • > i. /• , L -i -I were held on the ground in front of Ross \Hall where the YMCA now stam‘ Later, games were held at the Brazos County Fair Grounds which was situated where Kaz- meiers Chicken Farm is now on College Avenue. ItNwas there in 1902 that the Aggies .were given the title of “football champions of the south” after they had de feated Tulane.' J '"’X In 1905, a new football stadium was opened and named Kyle Field :in honor of various members of the Kyle family that were active in promoting athletics at A&M. The pew field ran eastl and west instead of north and south as it does now. The college bought the wooden randstands that had been at the trazos County Fair Grounds and had them moved to the hew field on the campus. At different times during the first few y^ars, addi tions were made to the stands un til their capacity was well over 2000. 7 In 1908, the Battalion spon sored an election for the student body so that it could choose a name for the field w’hich was hailed as the “finest in the state.” The name Kyle was se lected and ceremonies were held to dedicate the area which in cludes Kyle Field Stadium, De- Ware Field House, P. L. Downs Natatorium, and the Baseball Stadium. “ The modern concrete stadium now stands crosswise on the ap proximate position where the old wooden stands were.. This modern stadium was built in sections and the last was fin ished in 1931; built in a horseshoe shape,.the south end was left open. The most tireless worker on this project was James Sullivan, business manager of the Athle tic Department from 1919 to 1931. When he was mjjide busi ness manager in 1919, there was/ no concrete stadium on Kyle Field. When he left the depart ment in 1931, the stadium had been built at a cost of $340,- 967.75. _i: ? This accomplishment, according to the 1931 Longhorn, was a direct result of James Sullivan's zeal and foresight in business management Sullivan lived to see the stadium completely paid for.after the big football season of 1941. A recent addition to the facili ties of Kyle Field are the new dressing rooms built under the west stands of the stadium. Containing offices for all the coached of the staff, a large class room, a dressing room for - the varsity football squad, one for the fre8hman r football squad, and a training room complete with all necessary physical ther apy equipment la the most modern in the southwest. 1 The name Kyle Field has be come synonymous with Aggie ath letic teams and is a revered name in any Aggie’s memory. It has be come one of the traditional places to which exes return When they come to visit the campus. Its fame 7s known throughout the southwest as a place where bet; the Aggies are tough* and many teams arrive Aggies here, confident will win, only to find ou Field is too tough for an inspiration to all A& There are many ing around about Kyle the many teams that their doom on it, bat to whip to play the that they that Kyle em. It is men. float- and ve met of the best is connected with the 1939 A&M-Texas University game. It seems that A bunch of the boys from the “forty acres" load ed a.-load of dirt from Memorial Stadium on a truck m\d trans ported it to Aggieland. They spread the Austin ^il on Kyle- Field the night bbtore Thanksgiving Day and went home with the assurance that their be> loved Longhorns would win the game with ease because A&M had never been able, to' overcome the Memorial Stadium jinx. The TU boys’ efforts went 111 vain because the next day the Aggies smashed Texas 20-0, on Kyle Field and the transported Memorial Stadium dirt.. \ ! Incidentally, that ivas the last time that the Aggie football team k, beat the Longhorns. P. L Downs Natatorium Built Injl932 for Eighty Thousand jV 7.' By LEON SOMER \ ; A&M students breathed a sigh of relief when coHege contractors, started construction. in 1932 of P. L\ Downs Natatorium\ 1 - / i' ‘ •. A&M’s fihst swimming pool was located in the baseijvent of the YMCA hut was found to-4—■ 7" be inadequate for the needs of the originated from the old Co tifi derate j Iconi infer fil is fo tljat a.rejw class of men to thje be eh going op in the old ini ojrmation. The follow- nearthfed and are being passed op. today ginatqd. elf yell •• ! Imong; A&M students as to how Seiie claim that they are both . j>f tile Civil War period while m i com ectioh whatsoever. ^ T . p . .7 these ti iditrtrial ventings of enthusiasm ‘11 a *6 just os adamnantfih sa; riothin : liko the one which veterans tp sea e tie devil out of the "Damn '■!! ing that the yell today sm a the Confederate armies..us Yankees." , '7 j . t The A&M yell Is diffene called a yell instead of a ch in front of the student bod it leaders” but y&l leaders. The oldest yells in ute today ai e the two preserved as part of the words of the Agfi< Wajr Hy nn: “Chlg-ga-raa-gsr-em” and “Hullabaloo caneck canecjk.’j h not Nf r <> n * ' H "Farmers Fight/’ also jndi rom tjther school’s cheers in that it is tr.j Also tho ie men in white that will be tiri fall ruio ie men in wiuu? wuu win ^ t football games are! riot “cheer- ’/ Yh. i le the lest yells in of the! Ag| -ittuied: can ... _ _ ...... also included in the War Hjmi!, whi h dates back to the time when A&M studenta were callel jparlmers rather than Aggies. ( if lilidT ? v n any introd is well fceveilb **»nt(* Started T. Most of the familidfr yejls of to lay were created shortly before 1916. Yell Leader W. K. ’Rbnt” Hai son (pfobably started more, A4M traditions than any -ptheij. 4gg|ie, e\j^n more than Sully Ross. For - < game was played at the Avenue where Kazmeier’s North-South field. 1A wjoAdi of 500 (that’s right, 50( f) Extensions, in the form ol added. But students weit a gymnasium or field hqu ie Despite the acquistor they Aggies. For seven years But the ’09 A&M tekiij Haskell Indians—a feat comparable but it walked over TU twice in or Is Aggies beat Texas 23-fl. fLqter, iji victory by virtue 'of a si n down in those days.) j f That same year the / & an exhibition game, and p: what the Giants wprfe in th >se days InljlOll the A&M-Terksi game a a Ty ^in. students here. x In the original plaris $70,000 was set aside for the construc tion of a pool adjoining DeWare Field House. 4, f \ To complete the work A&M "pick ed men who were, at that tmje, workirig for the school. These irv- eluded Dr. F. E. Giesecke who was' college architect and W. A. 4 - Orth The pool has one of the best filtration plants of any pool in the nation. It. is drained every two years and the bottom of the pool is cleared of any sediment when ever necessary. The present seating capacity of the Natatorium is 600 and each year several swimming ^ meets are held in the pool. When the pool was first opened ?”! BuM - i»V to be used only by Aggie. ing and College Utilities. The pool was opened on March 15, 1933 and was named in honor of P. j L. "Pinky” Downs, Jr. who was largely responsible for A&M’s gettinjg its first swimming pool. At first it was planned to make the pool 100x50 feet but before construction was started the size was changed to a lOOx 60 feet. This change was made because standard pools for col lege swimming meets were lOOx 60 feet. The final cost of the pool was $80,000. but with the increasing need for a place to swim by Cbljege Station residents, the pool wim also opened to them,' . Presently in charge of the Na tatorium is Art Adamson. Adam son is coach of the Aggie swim ming team. He came to A&M in 1934 and since then Aggie Swim ming teams haviF piled up an impressive record in Southwest Conference competiti Adamson has done 'much for swimming in College Station and largely 1 through his efforts- have many Aggies learned to swhn. - v - WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL AGGlES!! \ Kelley’s Coffee Shop is still serving the best food in town. Our daily menu in- - 5 - cludes a wide assortment of fine foods ex pertly prepared and cqurteously served. Our moderate prices will please you. ‘ KELLEY’S COFFEE SHOP : 77’ 7- K i ~ r 'V I ^ It 7- -THAT ALL” y, Owner letics go so far .backTl^ AJ&M 1 they started or who starred them arid company teams we je followed the company athletjics. A&M the, next* yea(* and jb<|k <j> ver Welcome I masc >t, w The old football field! fan Easli-West, crosswise field. A ‘ S<veu 'tears Hoifisjton broke up in a rioff after Relations weri* t|ro|cen oflt fori some years as a result. Ipp-j I -iL . if i liVtramun Is j* While intercollegiat4 ifa liti rities __ never lacked general-pai tiqipajtion : thletic activities. hp not pnly wore a blanket c pirn e during the season of 1915, 17 •. j 1 . r t ,■ . j It became quite 0 colorful one thing, he introduced, 11-1 but trousers as well! Th s years before Reveille app«ar Hanson originated the ft formation, spectacle, for each cadet liijriel a n arooh handkerchief in one hand, white handkerchief in the otpei. As signals were given, the T would suddenly become all marednj a 1 whi e, or white on one side, maroon on'the other. J j ' , | Lj 7 ■ | ,* / |.' Another touch of color jin Hans n’s day was the creation Of the . letters A M C in the star ds| ’ Vhite shirts were worn under the blue blouses as regulation at thjkt time. Cadets seated at certain spots in the stands took off tieiif coats, 1 tting their white shirts show— and there was A M C in Hi in ; leth rs. 7 ' | v 5 I • j. | -r* T j jfi j Still another touch b clblor at : jotb ill games is remembered by students still on the car iPriS-1 Carr pafcg i [ hats used to contain red linings, and when hats wprq fjashed | durfug certain yells, the stands became brilliantly red. ahacity 50$ j Before football becajirie Imiortan at A&M, squads scrimmaged in front of Ross Hall, wheie th§ YM< A in now. The Aggies'became football "champions of Jtl|e joi th” h ^ be rting Tulane in 1902. IThat Hra: os G untj Fair Grounds, (6n College chic cen fi rm s nqw. 1 L 1 • * ^ • | *' .j. ■ .b III. •, In 1905 a new athldio f eld was opened,-called bgfle Field in honor of several members|of the 1 yle-Ifsmily, many of Vholh had been prominent in A&M affa rs. u- "5 y- * y-i ,'d 41 's • an tasti-west, crosswise of the present I rand- itand with the enormous capacity wss hai ed as /'the finest in the state." b eacht -s wilhqut sun-shade, were soon appyj evepjso, because of the laick of Ky were lea was difjfere to Bad I Luck I ;• .4 d, luck went Against by Tekas University, teams. Not only did it beat the ting Notre Dame today— yelaS. Playing in Houston the ; Austin, th* Aggies got a 5-0 ouch<j|own! (Only 5 points for a touch- tasebi tnly 0 7—not bad, when you remember iiin faced the N. Y. Giants in V , were being built up, the college ly ath- Company stoijyjthat no one knows'when 3y 1903 they were in full swing, Eagerly as the “big" teams. 1927, the.present iptianiural >rograpi was begun, incorporatin W.jL. Penh rthy, now deftn of ana the begun, incorporating men, came to foment of the program. 'i!l r ' d ' /-M ■ I r ■:!' 1: ,■ v ■ 7 lew StHdents . LAUNDER IN : lu ll ■' ' I OPEN SATURD -if: T Last washes receive^ ’ [ • j ( " 5:30 For your convenienc \ Washes are DO YOU HA THE AUTOKL A 30c Per Mac I comp: Owned and :: , iV i -! V ' LEISURE AT THE R 0 M A T DA ■ ■* AV+-T:3 3:30 rMived V AT 7:30 A. M. TO 4:00 P.M. rr<. .7" . J j '-h " . J-l 6 ’til! 7:30 Mondays . • I MAKESTARCH? ’.Ju !' I_ furikishi all the starch ’ll n:ed with Satina Added *'* : ]i! : j R I Z C O MCfST COMPLETE RY COMPLETE GEAND r T-: HALF^I : • I 7- • } I block west of P • • ■ L ■ DRY • MO.TUDI mail Old Sulphur Springs Rd. 12 6 2 I Ik fi 1 1. **,• ■ : I- A, ■