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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1949)
! • ! - 8 93BJ THE BATTALION 6WTVaaaN3AON ‘xvasm | ; ' — 8 Freshmati if- ■ • ■'I ■ ' ,1 -’Vi • v r.:.J [tonal s 4 I What About Other 98 Percent? . .. Last Thursday night at yell practice, a group of so-called Aggies joined in the cry, "Drown out the two percenters," when themselves were doing almost as bad, if not worse. The Freshman Batt will never defend the bookworm, the two percenter, who can’t give less than an hour each Week to yell and sing for his school. But almost equally as bad, in our eyes, are the freshmen who do go to yell practice, but yell weakly, keep up a constant chatter, disobey the yell leaders, and in addition, maHe a' nuisance ^f/themselves. - The Aggie yell practice is one of the oldest, most loved traditions pf Aggieland. Let’s all pull together, and improve our class by mak ing the sessions “the best what ever wuz." 1 ^ , ^ ^ j. E. J. McKinney. -j' Joel Austin.:...!. A. K. Pengelly, Kjenneth Williams, Kenneth Monroe. Stanley Wood, ' LeBlanc, E. Thomas Lewis, J|r., John Kelley, Schmidt, Blanchette. Acting Editor ....Acting Assistant Editor Reporters ! . ■ ’ . £ ! ; . ! f | • "! " [ ! • :|r ; ,■ 4 I • • ; . 1 - j - • . I ' • . • ;, Fish-Shorthorn I Footba . •{ !i ! ■, Not r Official Frtes . f ijorthorn Annex Regiment Not Scheduled To March Saturday 1 1 :!i 'i Corps trip, according to $att today, iroved the Fish Band, •epresentat Drill of Strong Teams Throw Weight Dance Scheduled in Annex Gym Around in Intramu irt - i ' '| : | I ' By Schmidt and LeBtanc i. •TV- The stronger teams in each in tramural league threw their weight around last w;eek and gave indica tions of their power. There were however, two;upsets. League leading Company 8 Kept its winning Ways as it subdued a fighting Company 4 line, 7-0. Behind a stout Co. 8 line, Tur ney, Moore, and Donaldson con sistently ate up yardage both on the ground and through the air lanes. Early in the first quarter, a Tur ney to. Moore aerial netted the first penetration on T the 19 yard line. Woody through left tackle, lugged the pigskin to th£ 10. Tur ney faded back deep and fired]an accurate heave to Muller in the end zone, j - j On the extra;, point Co. 8 drew a 15-yard penalty and' Donaldson calmly stepped back to the 17 and booted the ball through the up rights. The game might have ended in a tie if Garcia’s long 40 yard run of an offside infraction. Co. 4 had not been called back because netted a penetration on a pass from Hargett to Dtlramee. Tlusee unsuccessful passes and a line buck bogged the C'u. 4 attack: 9 yards from the double stripe. Donaldson, Moore, Woody, Mul ler^ and Turney stood out for the winners. Co. 4 receiVed fine play from Love. Garcia, \ j Marget, Allie - L “Darn It Smudley, '] f ' • ^ I told You Not to Sneew*.” — t T* Col. R. L. Melcher announced this week that the Fieshman Regi ment would not manh in the pre- SMU game parade on Kyle Field Saturday. The cause for such ac tion is due to insufficient transpor tation, he said. In a statement to the Freshmen Batt, Melcher said, “With five busses carrying forty in each bus, 200 students going by car, 100 by hitch-hiking or other means; 500 freshmen would still have no way to get to the stadium in time to fall dut at 12:35 fdr the parade." and Company 7 Upset Company 3 made its initial ap pearance of the season by upset- ing the first place Company 7 of league A, 0-0, 2-1 penetrations. A ground attack with Trahan) and Snyder alternating in the ball handling for Co. 7, carried to the Co. 3’s 15 yard line. An intercep tion by Lively stopped the thrust. Co. 3 started its march op the 40, with Ledlow flinging success ful passes to Peacock and Sjterns. The attack bogged down on the 18. Lively interecepted a Bristol pass, which had been partially blocked by Lindsay, and carried to the 5. Co. 7 dug in and held for four plays. Waggoner); Ledlow, M a 1 q o 1 nil, Stearns, Petile, and Pedon stood out for the victors. Co. 7 got out standing plaiy from Snyder, Purvis, Trahan, Harmon, Minturn, a n'd Dunn. Flight 10 Wins Flight 10 powered a 12-0 vic tory over a punchless Fit. 12 nine. Fit. 10 started its drive on an end run by Hanson who carried 18 yards to the 5. Fletcher took the pighide over for a score. On a statue of liberty play, Fletcher took a hand off from Hanson and slipped 25 yards for Fit. 10’s second touchdown. | 1 Play mi J* minS UKETHIS PolHol"”' Usu°l B° de " :* Little, Tanner, Raymond, Reed, tyarkey, Noyes, and Doty stood ut for Fit. 12. The winners got aggressive play from Helms, Flet- tier, Hanson, Johnson, and Ed- wards. f J : Vets Surprise Co. 8 . In one of the week’s upsets, the \|ets surprsied 1st place Co. 8 in 6-6, 2-1 penertation battle. Co. 8 scored first on Moore’s ejnd run from the 10. The veterans matched the score on a freak punt. Kicking from behind his goal, rmey of Co. 8 booted an end ver end that hit on the 35 and [ook a crazy bounce back to the 0. The vets took possession at his point with Flores throwing to eehan in the end zone. Walker,! Reeves, McDonald, Jones, Holt, Skeen, and Collins were the outstanding veterans. The losers of Co. 8 got good sup port from Pruett, Welch, Wooden, Muller, Viclf, and Mdore. 4 Wins 25-0 Company 4 raked Co. 2 with an isasy 25-0 victory. Hargett tossed o Fosseh early in the game to get he scoring parade underway. 01- ;en and Bums carried the ball to ;he 15 from which point Olsen ; an it over. Bell added to the mis ery of Co. 2 when he collected a itray pass and ran for a touch- lown. ' He also converted. Co. 2 was further stymied by Johnson’s interception of a pass off he arm of Drenen. The final counter was made by Olsen when he took a pass from riargett and ran the remaining distance. j Olsen, Hargett, Bell, Johnson, ind Jackson were the Co. 4 big guns. Co. 2 depended on Clark, Drenen, and Sexton to block the Do. 4’s efforts. Co. 7 Makes Amends Co. 7 made amends for their earlier upset by completely dom inating the game against Fit. 13. Bristol passed to Trahan, then to Gorman and Co. 7 had six points. Snyder ran over the conversion try. The scoring ^for the after noon had ended but t-he score does not nearly indicate the superiority of Co. 7. The airmen tried but they were up against too much class. Time and again Snyder ran the ends on reverse plays or Bristol pitched to Trahan, Goetz, or Min- tunr, keeping the Fit. 13 second ary back on its heels. Whenever Co. 7 came too close to its goal line, Fit. 13 managed to tighten or Co. 7 had difficulty finding the handles on balls drop ped into their hands. The game ended with Snyder taking a hand off from Trahan and scooting to the 5 before he was stopped. Fit. 13 found its greatest diffi culty was securing possession of the ball. They had it for only 10 plays. E. A. Scott, Ritter, Sikes, Robin, The Fish-, vember 19 will not be a Freshman have ajpp: earn, and Color Guard only asi le College on the trip. .] Plans for the affair were completed 'at a meeting of college officials and representatives of the 'Ben Hur Shrine Temple in Austin this week. 1 The. Band, drill team and color guard were extended an invitation to attehd at the meeting. Saturday that ' !. f For Night Before Turke; Day and Wilson were Fit. 13’s main stays. p y . ; I Co. 7 “Hot” Snyder, Trahan, Minturn, Ham- mon, Goetz, tand Haddad sparked the hot Co. 7 boys. Fit. 9 utilized two papses from Eaton, ione to Barber and the sec ond to Barnard for their first touchdown. Rigney’s pass to Bar nard aiccounted for the second TD. Early in the second half he gave am qncore performance and the score was 18-0. Barnard then took charge as he intercepted Holbrook’s pass, com pleted a throw to Carlisle, and tossedj a touchdown pass to Bog- gie in quick succession. Gillan caught Eaton’s pass fqr the con- Yfezskml- , ' ■ ' Eaton, Barber, Barnard, and Brookhiiller carried the load for Fit. 9. Fit 11 stood behind Holt, Dit- mer, Holbrook, and Rigney in their losing; effort. Co, S Loses Co. i 3 succumber 7-6 to a late scoring thrust by Co. 1 and a con- versiejn by Co. 1. / 1 Co. 3 got the jufmp when Hol land made an outstanding 65 yd. winding run for a score. They kept Little Aggieland’s Social calendar will be opened this season by an all Frqshman dahe^ to be heid November 23, afte^ the Thanks giving Day bonfire. J. C. Wallace, regimental com mander, has announced that this dance will parallel t{he dance being Hall on the main and main campus held in Sbisa campus. Home games, co^ps trips, name bands on ,thf have delayed the dance up to this time. Another main reason for not having it sooner is that no one was interested enough in having a dance to inquire about getting one under way, “Little Aggieland dances have never been put on by the faculty, but by the students themselves,” stated Mrs. -Ann Hilliard, Direc tor of the Student Center. Mrs. Hilliard added, however, that she is always avjailable to as sist students in making prepara tions for such affairs. The Bonfire Dance will be held in the gymnasium from 10:30 p. m. until 1:30 a. m. 4 Housing accom modations will be for the dates in thfe Found It, Phoned It made available hospital area, Plans for serving dinner at 11 a. m. had been discussed by the ad ministration at the Annex, but it was finally decided that even such a thing was done, the cade could not be transported into Col lege Station in time to fall out. | Last year the problem of getting the fish into the main campus wasn’t so great. Twelve army trucks were used along with the busses and other means of trans portation, but such a practice has been deemed impracticable due to the amount of responsibility placed upon the army. Game time is also thirty minutes earlier this year, adding to the hardship of getting the fish to Kyle Field in time for the parade. “With approximately 1,700 more corps members on the roster than were here last year, it is imperi-’ live the parade begins at 12:40 p. m. in order to clear the field in time for the teams to warm up,” Melcher added. Abbott, Gibbs Talk To Santone Moms college, Antonio Dr. J. P. Abbott, assistant to the dean of the coll spoke to the San A&M Mother’s Club Tuesday in their first meeting of the year. In speaking to the organization, which has been dubbed one of the most active clubs of its kind in the state, Dr. Abbott told about the work of the freshman students at the annex and the problems that’ confront them as they proceed through school. Accompanying Dr. Abbott on the trip was Robert Gibbs, winner of the opportunity award spon sored by the mothers of San An^ tonio. Gibbs, who an outstanding stu dent at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio last year, is the second opportunity award student sponsored by this club, i i , • r / Aggie Billfold Returned By Honest Milano Citizens Austin Named I As Editor 0! I Freshman Page Joel Austin 18-year-old bus iness major from Alice was chosen editor of The Battal ion freshman page, John D. McQuigg business major from. San Antonio, was chosen associate editor, and Allen ! Pengelly was named feature editor last night by a four-man selection group repre senting student publications ami the Journalism Department. Other freshman page staff mem bers, named by the newly selected editor and his associate, are sports editor Pat LeBlanc, managing edi tor' Edmun McKinney,, copy pditqr Bob Williams, news editor Stanley Wood, and assistant ^sports editor Joe Blanchette. Selection of Austin and McQuigg was made by the five man corap mittee of C. C. Munroe and Bill Billingsley, co-editors: of The Bat talion; Roland Bing, | manager of student publications, (Sam South-- well, annex faculty sponsor of fhq Freshman page; and D. E. New som, of the Journalism depart ment. With the selection of a perma nent staff, all of the work of ediU ing the Freshman page tyill be shifted to the annex group, the co editor said. While the , present advertising schedules prevail, they 1 ; added, the Freshman page will be published in Friday's Battalion. j ■ . Following the custom ojf past years, the freshman editor and as sociate editor were nahied :by the selection board and the two work ed jointly to name their staff. ~ — • The Toronto Maple ; Leafs, by winning their third straight Stan ley Cup in 1948-49, becaine the first hockey team ever to do so. Nels Stewart of the Montreal Maroons scored two gcials in four seconds against the Boston Bruins in 1931 in Montreal. iuled, the the freshman crippled qhi|dren’s fund, j promises to make the) event Oris year one of •Y expected! to take part in build- le bonfire which is due to ednesday night, November ■«. ir.ose Istudents having free periods iate <|>n the Saturday mom- of th^ game will be able to at- ndjif they,obtain approved passes from Colonel Melcher. I The Ben Hur Shrine Temple, d Which signed a three-year contract with the twb schools in I94[7 as a means of rqising money for, their the most colorful and exerting per formances t|ie freshman Of the two schools haye displayed in the Shriner’s three years of\ sponsor ship, ] \ Disappointment The announcement will probab ly ibe a disappointment to most freshmen who have been looking forward to (the occasion as a pc But in a ptatement to The FFes- map Batt, pr. Abbot, assistant to the dean of the college j reminded the students, "We have t\ivo obllga- tiohs to ffii on the same jiate. Jt IS fitting, therefore, that the band and drill tepm represent the fresh man class at the ball game and the rest of the fish help gather wood for the traditional bonfire which is to be held the night before the Thanksgiving game. The ban<jl, drill team, and color guard will make the, trip to Aus tin in chartered busses. 9 Fish Tumblers Headed by Sims # The freshman tumbling team got off to a flying start this week with thp election of Officers. Bob Sims wis made! president with Sheet Cimeron to hold the vice-presi dent’s chair. ‘ N. A. Ppnthieux, whojis sponsor, iplans to coach the teain through ;two meets. One is to pe held ip Ahstin, arid the other i|r an A. A. ;Ui meet In Dallas. The dates of ;these are I unknown, noW but the :eyents wiljl probably take place 'during the latter part of this- )y4ar. ■ ’ ' ; jPresiderit Sims said the boys were starting from scratch and Would woij-k out every Monday and Wednesday , \ | BY JOEL AUSTIN Stories are still being told about some of the exerting experiences Aggiqs had on the Fort Worth corps trip, but Jerry Nickerson from Baytown is jusit a little leery about whether or not his discour aging, yet heartening experience is a reality. / Like most Aggies, Jerry Was quite worried about how he was going to get to the “Cowtown" for the big parade and game. He was eager enough when the op portunity came to ride on the back of a pi c k- u P truck, as most Aggies who had sweated out a long wait in the “Aggie-Line” would be. Jeny proceeded on his merry way, unaware of the fact that, as he i passed through the outskirts of Milona, his wallet, containing all hiS money, identification, and otheP important papers, found its way out of his pocket and down to the side of the road. Upon arriving in Fort Worth, Jerry discovered his loss and it was all he and his buddies could do to foot the expenses that/arose while they were there. Back in Milano, the wallet, which was nestled in ths grass on the xie of the highway, was found y several negro children playing in that vicinity. Like most child ren, they thought they had struck |t rich as they glanced through the pocket book and siw all the mon ey it contained. Realizing the importance of their discovery, the youpgsters were at a loss as to what to do with the wallet. Finally thky decided that it might be best to take their find ing home and sjee what “papa” would have to sayj Their father, whose name is John Williams, looked over the pocket book and decided that it must be returned to its rightful owner. The only way in which Wil liams knew to get in touch with the unfortunate Ipser was to call him. , Try Ne* pal * 0X ° Node*- AUt u« * G^nd w an- tfotlo* Either ol^ ySil ^des * ver : f> r hedge ; la# 0 ***^ Olt SI NGt COMP*** 20*' ]0f°rW THt If sW**-• ■ blades? IHO* .a*** 1 ? mm* •siSK": . —-i, ■ ; J J EAT AT .. . U ! | ; , ■ , v ! Ridgeway’s CREAMLAND North Gate College Station , Delirious . . . • Breakfasts • Lunches • Supper j • • T j • Fountain Service ■ I /■. | * p • Short Orders 1 Not knowing how to operate a telephone, he went to the local telephone office, showed the op erator what his children had found, and told her that he didn't know how to use a 'phone. Would she please call the person to whom it belonged? he asked, j After calling several places, the operator finally traced Nickerson to the Annex and left a message for him which he found upon his arl- rival back at the annex. Nickerson called immediately, and the wallet was mailed to him. Jerry was plenty happy as he went about the task of writing a letter of thanks to John Williams. Included in the letter was also a handsome reward for the outstand ing bit of honesty displayed by Williams. So impressed -was Col, R. L. Melcher from this little incident, that he wrote a letter of thanka and congratulations to Williams for his small but helpful and deserv ing act. 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