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Hunt Led Cadets in ’27 Football Team of 1901 Thursday, November 9, 1950 THE BATTALION Page 7 (Continued from Page 1) ♦ end; Sikes, end; Watts, center; and Woodman, halfback. Aggie hopes were high before the Turkey Day game with Texas U., and the Farmers turned these hopes into the realization of vic tory as they overpowered their Longhorn friends 28-0. Cadets Tromp Steers College Station, Thanksgiving Day, 1927—Joel Hunt was in great form today as he lead the Texas Aggies to the Southwestern Con ference Championship by defeating the Texas Longhorns 28 to 7 on Kyle Field. The first score came when the game was hardly five minutes old, and the Longhorns were unable to master D. X. Bible’s genius on the gridiron through the rest of the game. Midway in the second quarter the Longhorns, lead by Joe King and Bill Ford, managed to pierce the invincible Aggie line and shove across the loan Texas tally, but oth er than this surge of superhuman power the Longhorns showed noth ing to compare with Joel Hunt and CONGRATULATIONS To President Harrington on his Inauguration and To Texas A&M on Its 75th Anniversary BRUVT MORRIS MOTORS DeSoto — Plymouth BRYAN, TEXAS 75th 9 • • • Any establishment grows through its achievements. A&M has done just this. So has your A&M Grill. We have progressed ARM in ARM with the College. Everything is done to please you. See for your self by dropping by today. A&M Grill his aggregation of CHAMPIONS. When the final gun echoed the Longhorns emerged from under orange colored blanket to congrat ulate the Fighting Texas Aggies, 1927 Conference Champions. __ A&M Edges SMU College Station, Nov. 14, 1939— Two of the greatest teams in the history of the Southwest Confer ence battled for a full 60 minutes here Saturday afternoon on a wat erlogged field under the dripping skies before 30,000 spectators, the largest non-Thanksgiving crowd in history, as the Aggies rang up vic tory number eight, this time against the fast stepping Southern Methodist Mustangs. The final score on the board was Aggies 6, SMU 2, as most of the crowd swarmed the soggy field. For 56 minutes the ball game be longed to the Aggies, but at this point Marshall Robnett, who play ed an outstanding game, intercept ed a Pony pass and after zigging across the field a few times, lat- eraled, but the officials called it a foi-ward pass and penalized, the Aggies to the shadow of their goal. Conatser went back to punt out but was rushed fast by Goss, the Pony left end, and Conatser had to fall on the blocked kick to give the Ponies a safety. From there on out the Mustangs kept the Ag gie team in the air with their pass ing. The Ponies ran four plays in 45 seconds three in eight and one in one. The Cadets scored their touch- down in the second period after Vaughn had recovered a Pony fum ble deep in Mustang territory. John Kimbrough, on two playsi, put the ball on the Pony two yard stripe and on the third play he scored. TU Beaten, Again College Station, Dec. 4, 1939—The scoreboard showed a “20” under AGGIES and a “0” under VISIT ORS Thursday evening as the 40,- 000 rain-soaked fans slowly milled their way out of the concrete bowl at College Station and headed for points far and near. Great kicking by Gilly Davis and Jack Crain and the fact the Aggies would take no chances kept the Cadets from scoring ip the first half, although they played most of the game in Texas territory. SWC Title in ’41 Nov. 25, 1941—The Texas Aggies have been declared Southwest champions for the 1941 season even before the season has been officially closed. For the third consecutive year the Cadets have finished not lower than first place in the South west Conference race. The Rice Owls, by battling Texas Christian to a scoreless tie last Saturday, clinched the champion ship for the Aggies. As the clash with the Longhorns is the only remaining conference game, the Aggies have an undis puted hold on top honors, regard less of the outcome of the Turkey Day battle. Hand-in-hand with the championship comes the automatic invitation to participate as the Southwest Conference representa tive in the New Year’s Day Cotton Bowl classic. The director of this annual affair invite the conference champs to be the host team every year. f4o comment has been made by A&M officials on this invitation and none is expected until after Thursday’s game. Conference champions in 1939, co-champions with SMU in 1940, and repeating their 1939 feat this year, the ten seniors on the Aggie squad have never experienced any thing lower than a tie for top hon ors in their entire college football career. Congratulations • To Texas A & M on its 75th Anniversary • To President Harrington on his inauguration MIT LEE & CO, Inc- Your Friendly Nash Dealer 27th and Bryan BRYAN, TEXAS LIQUID ANHYDROUS AMMONIA FERTILIZER 82% NITROGEN Your Cheapest Source of Nitrogen Fertilizer MIDTEX LIQUID FERTILIZER CO. WACO, TEXAS Tackling Dummy Arrives; Tickles All Oct. 10, 1906—The new tacking dummy has arrived and has been erected. It furnishes great sport for the small boys and onlookers. It will be painted yellow and black. All the company teams are out running signals and trying a little scrimmage w'ork now and then for excitement. The captains and man agers will meet this week to ar range a schedule and to discuss the advisability of awarding- the win ning team with jerseys as was done this spring to the winning baseball team. It is a little early to mention baseball; but, as the team must be selected from those who enter this term, some idea of what we will have in the way of a team may be formed. Capt. Smith expresses himself as very much pleased with the opt- Iqok, and ad he already'knows' many of the new players, we can do no better than to accept his word that our baseball team is going to be a hummer. The senior class has the thanks of everyone interested in the suc cess of the team. There is no doubt that their posters were responsible for the corps remaining on the side lines during Saturday’s game. Now why not issue a “proc” relative to cheering. Hardly a play during the whole game was rewarded with even a murmur. Let’s get busy, fellows. “Keep on the side lines,” and cheer the players every time they deserve it—and that means all the time. October 17, 1906—During these talks it was developed that the A&M College would be compelled to put out a track team this year if she expects to remain a member of the College Athletic League. Since a rule of this league demands that its members be represented by a track team in a meet as often as once in three years, it is up to us to do something in this line this year. Our track teams ranked well in the past; why should they not rank equally well this year and in future years? We have a number of cadets who can run, jump, and throw. Also, there are other boys here who can, with proper training, become adepts in other exercises. So if A&M loses out this year in the league she will have to charge her humiliation to her students’ slowness. In order that the teams may be prepared for effective work, the students should know the yells and be on the side lines, not on the field, cheering the boys whenever they make f a, : good play, .Wher. a player ; makes a good play his' move' should be noticed in some manner by the students, who are the ones to encourage the lads trying for a team. Because we have good ma terial for a football team we should make great efforts to show the boys that we appi-eciate what they are doing and what they expect to do. TIME IS ETERNAL but we can preserve it for you .... ^/E ARE PROUD to be able to be part of this great - institution, and on this 75th anniversary we want to pay tribute to the great service done by A&M College and all Keep those memories with a picture from Studios Member of P.P. Association of America of thd. people-associated with it. And when you think of A.&M. — think of Aggieland Studios. Comeback Tie, ’48 Memorial Stadium, Nov. 30, 1948 — A confident Texas University football team ran all over Memo rial Stadium before 68,000 fans last Thursday, but when the smoke had cleared, the Aggies had won a 14- 14 tie game. That night the Orange of vic tory and the White of defeat shone on the Memorial Tower, but as far as the Aggies were concerned, their team had defeated the highly-fa vored Longhorns and broken the jinx of Memorial Stadium. A&M, winless in nine starts, stopped the vaunted Steer ground attack except for the running of Ray Borneman. Texas owed its orange lights to Borneman, and its white lights to quarterback Paul Campbell, who connected with Farmer interceptors three crucial times. But the real difference in the game was the perfonnance of the A&M line when the chips were down. Spearheaded by Jim Win kler, Carl Molberg and Jimmy Flowers, it stopped the Steel's six times inside the Aggie twenty- yard line. Beat TU, 20 - 3 (Continued from Page 6) were not even in the game. When the final gun sounded the Farmers were out in front by a score of 20 to 8 enabling them to retain the Championship of the Southwest for the third straight year. Bested TU Twice (Continued from Page 6) by Baylor, the Aggies finished sec- year, although the Farmers bested the Steers in a two out of three game series. The last game of the season proved to be the heartbreaker for the Aggies as Lefty Golden of the Bears held the Farmer hitting at tack down for five innings to de feat the favored Cadets. At the end of the season Lefty Bumpers was voted Most-Valuable player and J. D. Scoggins was elected next year’s captain. Both Scoggins and Bumpers were named to the All-Conference team, 1 Our Hats are off to Dr. M. T. Harrington, New President of A&M College. May he continue to do the splendid work that he has done to make A&M the best. 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