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Page 3 THE BATTALION Thursday, September 10, 1953 Farmers Have Met 3 Kentucky Teams Although the Texas Aggies and University of Kentucky Wildcats have met but once previously in football, the Cadets have faced other Kentucky teams three times —in 1905, 1910 and 1922. The Wildcats defeated the Ca rets' in 1952 at College Station, 10-7, and the two schools will .meet again this Sept. 19 at Lex ington. The Aggies played Kentucky (Christian) University in 1905, losing 0-29, and then played the same college at Transylvania in 1910, winning 33-0. A&M also defeated Centre Col lege’s Praying Colonels in 1922 at the Dixie Classic in Dallas, 22-14, for the Championship of the South. Baseball Umpire Centre coach in 1922 was Charles B. “Uncle Charlie” Moran, famed National league baseball umpire and coach of the Texas Aggies from 1909 to 1914. Aggie coach at that time was Dana X. Bible, later to become head coach and athletic director at the University of Texas. Playing on that Centre team among other immortals was Matty Bell, A&M coaith from 1929 to H. Schaffer Is Named to Coach At Consolidated Horace/ -Schaffer will be assist ant football coach, tennis coach, and £5 team basketball coach at A&M Consolidated high school this y/itir. Schaffer is a College Station product who was graduated from Consolidated in 1945 and from A&M in 1950 with a bachelor of science degree in physical educa tion. He will teach mathematics. T. K. Niland, former Aggie foot ball tackle, will teach in the Con solidated elementary grades and will handle the elementary foot- iall program. One of A&M’s all-time great coaches, Dana X. Bible led the Ag gies to five conference titles in 1917, ’19, ’21, ’25 and ’27. After transferring to the University of Texas, Bible’s Longhorns blasted the Farmers in 1943, winning the game which would have otherwise won A&M the SWC crown. 1933 and now athletic director at Southern Methodist University. Records at A&M show that Transylvania, formerly known as Kentucky University of Lexington, defeated the Aggies 29-G at Col lege Station and then lost to the Cadets in College Station, 0-33, in 1910. There’s some interesting journal ism attached to those early-day games. The San Antonio Express of 1905 reported that after the game the Aggie officials charged that “Kentucky U. had used pros from Chicago and Cornell” and that “the players were old men— averaging 30 years or more.” Kentucky Lineup The Express also listed the Ken tucky lineup for that 1905 win over A&M: Simpson (Capt.) and Pyle, ends; Nichol and Wallace, tackles; Dutt and Gillespie, guards and Hrust, center. Kelley, qb; Bell and Varnell, hbs and Robinson, fb. The Express noted that Bell, and Var nell, each scored two touchdowns on long runs. Then, in the. Longhorn, the Ag gie annual of 1911, is found the following bit of editorializing by a Cadet student: “On Oct. 20, 1910, A&M faced a team practically unknown. In making up the schedule a letter was sent to Manager, Football Team^ Kentucky University, Lex ington. Instead of the real Ken tucky team receiving the letter, it was given to Transylvania Uni versity, who claimed to have re cently changed their name. The mistake was not discovei’ed until too late to get another game, and although the contract called for a $700 guarantee, Transylvania was allowed to come, in the hope they would put up a good game. They proved to be a joke and A&M won 33-0.” Texas Championship Moi-an coached those 1910 Ag gies to the championship of Texas, the only loss coming, 0-6, to Ar kansas. When Moran’s Centre team startled the football world in 1921 with the 6-0 w T in over Harvard, and Bible’s 1921 Aggies won the Southwest conference, the two southern powers were matched in Dallas, Jan. 2, 1922. Bell, Weaver, Roberts, McMillan, etc/, Centre players who were all natives of Fort Worth, were said to have celebrated McMillan’s wed ding a little too much and also were out of shape to the extent that the Aggies won themselves a 22-14 game. Duncan Coaches Ends The ends on the A&M football team are the responsibility of Wil liam M. “Bill” Duncan, now start ing his second year as end coach. Duncan played c'nd for A&M in 1938 and 1939. The Aggies were National Champions in his senior year. He came to A&M last year from French High School in Beaumont, Where he was head football coach and ahletic director. Duncan played one year of pro fessional football with the Long Island Indians before entering the army in February of 1941. After leaving the service, he spent a year as assistant coach at Wichita Falls. Then he became head football coach and athletic director at Belton. He left Belton to go to Beau mont in August of 1948. spsp |j LITTLE BUT LIVELY—Marvin Tate, 176 pound guard from Abilene, will team up with Sidney Theriot, 190 pound er from Gibson, La., to give the Aggies plenty of offensive and defensive strength in the middle of the line. Ray George Only Preaches What He Practiced-Football The 'way Coach Ray George learned about football is the only way to really learn it—he played the game. A graduate of the University of Southern California, he was an All Pacific Coast Conference tackle in 1938-9, the same year he was named outstanding athlete at USC. That was the year USC defeated Notre Dame, the national cham pions, 13-0; and Duke in the Rose Bowl, 7-3. George played professional foot ball for one year each with the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles. He returned to California and took a high school coaching job. In 1941 he had an undefeated team at Porterville, Calif., high school. The Navy interrupted in 1942, and he served aboard the carrier Midw-ay during the Saipan-Guam campaign in 1942 as an ensign. Back in the states in 1944, he returned to football, playing with the Iowa pi'e-flight team. He com pleted his tour of duty aboard the USS Princeton, being released in 1945 as a lieutenant commander. After one more year of pro football, with the Los Angeles Bulldogs, George joined the USC coaching staff as a line coach. During the five years he coached on the fine there, USC won the Pacific Coast title once, and fin ished no lower than third in three other seasons. George came to A&M as a line coach in January of 1951. He was elevated to the top slot in April of that year. He has won the admiration of the sports writers by the custom, new to the Southwest Conference, of coming, up to press box after each game for an interview, win or lose. He. says it spares ‘his boys’ the turmoil of reporters in the dressing rooms, and the writ ers say it gives them a chance to get his opinions of the game first hand. The Aggies haven’t won every game since George came, but they have fought hard in each of them. And if a coach can make them do that, he must be good. Dayton Starts 5th Year As Trainer William (Bill) Dayton is start ing his fifth year as Aggie Trainer at A&M. He ha§ served in the same posi tion at Tulane and the University of Miami. While in the navy, Day- ton was at Georgia Pre-Flight for three years. Born in New York City in 1914, he was graduated from the Swed ish Institute of Physio-therapy in 1937. In 1938, he was graduated from the Eastern School of Physio-ther- apy. TCU Soph Ends Look Good Promising work by three sopho mores through the first few days of Work has somewhat eased the tension on the TCU practice plot over the Horned Frogs’ end posi tions. Coach Abe Martin had high praise for Guy Thompson of Kauf man, Bryan Engram of Dumas and big Don Sanford of Beaumont. They have looked so good, in fact, that the new Christian skipper is now confident he’ll have two top hands on either terminal. The loss of four three-lettered stars—Ted Vaught, Charles Rog ers, Wayne Martin and Bob Blair —made the end posts questionable from the start. Then when three top prospects, including the No. 1 and No. 3 men on the left side aft er spring training, became ineli gible in June the prospect Avas dim indeed. Only Johnny Crouch, defensive star of 1952, w T as back at the wing. To meet the emergency, the Frog staff decided to try several backs at the slots in early work. Their list included Sanford, 205-pound fullback from the freshman team, and lanky Bill Curtis, the hurdler AA-ho sparkled at halfback for the Wogs. Now things look better. Thomp son, a 6-4, 190-pounder who was ineligible last year, has shown new ability to catch the ball. 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