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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 129: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1953 Price Five Cents .OCKER FROG// ^ Aggie Corps Heads for Cow town And SWC Grid Tilt With TCU Gosney, Powell Added To Cadet Injured List Coach Ray George and 39 players left by bus at 9:30 this morning for Fort Worth, and the vanguard of the corps began to abandon the campus at about the same time as interest centered on Cowtown and the conference opener with TCU. With 4,000 Aggies preparing for the morning corps par ade through the business district and the football game in the afternoon, morning classrooms began to take on that empty look. As the team left, Coach George added Bob Gosney and Jack Powell to the list of doubtful players. Gosney, guard, and Powell,♦ tackle, both have bruises ers Face Waller Bulldogs In Annual Homecoming Game Riding high atop a five game Winning streak with a spectacular scoring record, the Tigers of A&M Consolidated high school tonight climax the school’s annual home coming when they meet the Waller Bulldogs. Kickoff time is 8 p. m. at Tiger Field. {An overflow crowd is expected for the game between the highest (scoring high school team in central Texas and a hard-fighting under dog. ! “They’re pointing for us. 1 think We’ll win but we’i’e not expecting eriy pushover,” said Tiger coach Jim Bevans. He pointed out that the Sealey-Bellville game tonight will go a long way toward deciding tlie district title. Bevans believes that winner will be the Tigers’ chief threat for the championship. ;j : Point-a-Minute Tigers The Tigers will be out to main tain their point-a-minute opponents for a 48 points per game average in ;their five games. End Bobby Jackson and tackle Pete Hickman are still out with injuries. Jerry Oden will again re place Jackson at offensive left end, with Jimmy Richards subbing on defense. ; Charles Johnson will again hand- U Hickman's offensive tackle post, shifting to guard on defense. The cast of Hickman’s broken hand will be removed next week. Fullback David Bonnen and half backs Bobby Joe Wade and Wil liam Arnold are the team’s scor ing leaders. Bonnen has 48 points on eight touchdowns, Wade has accounted for 42 points on seven scores and Arnold has counted 30 points on five touchdowns. Rushing Big Weapon The Tigers primary offensive weapon is a ground - consuming rushing attack that gained 345 and 329 yards in two games and has gained at least 200 yards in every game. Directed by quarterback Fred Anderson, it has speed out side tackle and round end and power up the middle. A special section for form er A&M Consolidated high school students will be reserv ed at the homecoming game with Waller tonight. High school Principal J. J. Skrivanek said that since some of the ex-students might want to sit together, a special sec tion will be reserved for them. Anderson’s ball handling and play-calling have been a big factor in the Consolidated victory string. He is a smooth ball handler, a sharp passer and knows how to mix his plays well. He has enough speed to run the vital keeper play well and is a big threat to go all the way on every punt return. Bonnen’s hard-charging bucks up the middle keep the defense tight, setting, up Anderson’s passes and the end runs of Arnold and Wade. Bonnen has outstanding power for a 160 pounder and his speed makes him deadly on pitchouts. Hard-blocking Jimmy Bond and George Sousares are a couple of fine pint-sized offensive guards. (See TIGERS, Page 4) Joint Budget Hearings Set Budget hearings for the A&M College - College Sta tion Community chest will be held at 7 p. m. Tuesday in room 2B of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Chest Committee Chairman Fred Benson asked groups that want to request money from the chest to be present at this meeting. “Those groups who do not attend the meeting will be con sidered as not wanting money from the chest this year,” he said. which may keep them side lined along with Joe Boring and Charlie Hall, halfbacks; Cooper Robbins, center, and Ronald Robbins, end. George also announces plans to call on the same lineup which started the Aggie-Texas Tech game last week. Backfield starters will be Don Ellis, quarterback; Elwood Kettler, left halfback; Billy Huddleston, right halfback, and Bob Easley, fullback. Ellis, second in the nation Jn passing with 35 completions in 70 attempts, has a better completion percentage then Zeke Bratowski, Georgia, who has connected on 37 out of 76 tosses, but Bratkowski has a mark of 529 yards gained passing to 384 for Ellis. Bratkow ski has had interceptions, whileAhe opposition has grabbed 4 Ellis passes. Huddleston and Kettler give the Aggies a tremendous amount of speed at the halfback positions, and Bob Easley, who is also very fast, furnishes the power for plays up the middle. Easley does the Aggie punting and has a 42.o average for 6 punts. However, TCU’s Sammy Morrow leads the nation’s punters with a 50.1 average for 8 punts. The Aggie line, which has held jopponents to a per game average ^of 186.1 yards, will have Bill Schroeder and Bennie Sinclair a ends; Durwood Scott and Lawrenci Winkler at tackles; Marvin Tati and Sid Theriot at guards; and Fred Broussard at center. Phillips Named Campus Chest Drive ( Chairman Carroll Phillips, a senior student senator, was named chairman of the 1953 Campus Chest Drive of the Student Senate meeting last night. Phillips is himself recipient of the 12th Man scholarship, one of the Campus Chest benefits. Other members of the committee "are Charlie Seeley, T. B. Field, By ron (Scotty) Parham, Ted Upt more, Frank Ford, Seymour Smith and Bill Reed. The traffic committee, the Kyle field seating committee, the com mittee to encourage yell practice attendance and the committee to investigate the problem of Reveille II made reports. Under new business, the Senate appointed a committee to investi gate the mess hall. Two requests from non-military students were aired last night. One was from veterinary stu dents who desired to have a bloc of rooms in a dormitory. Many of them formerly lived in one or two ramps of Law and Puryear, This year, freshmen are housed in Law and Puryear. The vets also object to the mus ical noise coming from the Music hall during the early evening. Non-Regs To Wear Sealing II) Cards Non-military juniors and seniors who have paid student activity fees will be required to wear identifica tion tickets at the next home foot ball game. Those who haven’t paid will not be allowed to sit in the student sec tion. The Student Senate seating com mittee made this ruling, which was approved by the Senate last night. Purpose of the move, said com mittee chairman Seymour Smith, is to provide better seating accommo dations for both corps and non military juniors and seniors. The plan will keep high school students, local citizens other than guests of cadets, and ex-students out of the senior and junior sec tions. “It’s not that we want to be in hospitable toward former stu dents,” Smith said, “but we feel the present situation is not fair to the students.” Engineers Have Cards Door Cards Vanish As Students Sleep Burning Spirit Bonfire Commences CHS Hornecom ing Festivities The traditional symbol of a Ernest J. Redman, class of ’24 dent, and why the students now burning spirt, the bonfire, began and secretary of the school board, should be proud of their school, homecoming festivities for A&M commenced the speeches with a “It was great when I was here, Consolidated high school last night, short run-down of CHS football and I know that you think it is Speeches from former students history. great now,” he said, of classes as far back as 1924 gave The most impressive talk of the Mrs. Henry Englebrecht, who the assembled group of students, night was given by A. M. (Heeter) was a cheerleader before she was parents and ex-students glimpses Winder, ’45. After taking off his graduated in 1950, gave a short of the ‘good old days.’ Each speak- coat and tie he was termed by one talk and led a yell. After giving er gave his best wishes to the team of the crowd as being the. “Pinky the yell she said, “I’ll never make in the game against Waller to- Downs of Consolidated.” it to work in the morning.” night, and hopes for a successful He told the group what CHS had Coach Jim Bevans, reluctant to season. meant to him while he was a stu- Bryan Man Loses Auto And Money Some people never have a lucky day. Take for instance a Bryan man who found himself on foot and minus nearly $2,000 because he didn’t check his automobile title closely enough. The Bryanite traded his 1951 Ford and paid a cash dif ference of $950 for a 1951 olds- cobile a year ago. And in surance company and two highway patrolmen repossesed the car recently. It had been stolen in Dal las. A title from a wrecked car was used to sell the stolen car. Charles Arnold Fund Collected Thursday $303.73 Total to date $303.73 Corps and non-military ushers will make sure the seating rulhs are followed at future home games. Their duties will include roping off tbe senior and junior sections, placing signs over the entrances to the senior and junior sections, pa trol the borders of the rope to make sure no unauthorized persons enter the upperclassmen section. Check on athletic tickets, student identification cards and the new seating cards; and finally, they will take down the names of all stu dents who do not cooperate with the new plan and turn them in to the Dean of Men’s office. Wear On Lapel Nori-military students will wear seating identification cards on th^ right lapel of their outermost gar ment until the game starts. The seating cards are nomtrans- ferable and will only be issued once this year. To be used for the re maining home games, the cards will be white for seniors and blu$ for juniors. Students’ guests should wear their guest ticket stub pinned to their right lapels also, said Smith. The purpose of this is to makh sure only students’ guests get into the student section and not other per sons. Non-military students who live in the following dorms may obtain their seating cards from these stu dents: Dormitory 2 — William Griggs, room 317 Dormitory 4 — Donald Sheffield, room 105 Dormitory 5 — Wendell Tarver, room 117 Mitchell Hall — Rodney Heath, room 301 Bizzell Hall—S. J. Smith, roorp 301 Postgraduate hall — Bill Roach, room 28 Day students, College View stu dents and all other non military students not liv ing in college dormitories —Housing office, Goodwin hall. The cards should be picked up as soon as possible, Smith said. Non - military students should present their identification cards and athletic tickets when applying for their seating cards. After By BOB HENDRY Battalion Feature Editor Most of the student body awoke Thursday morning to find their door cards in a box carrying the sign, “Free Door Cards, Courtesy of A Engineers.” The box containing door cards of army and air force cadets as well as those of non-military stu dents was found at the base of the flagpole in front of Duncan Mess hall. This type of card carries the name, rank, organization, home town, major subject and class schedule of a student, and is placed on the door of each student’s room. Two juniors from corps staff carried the box into Duncan hall. The commanding officer and first sergeant of A Engineers were called by Kert Goode, corps execu tive officer, who told them to re distribute the cards. After returning from Texas State College for Women around noon, Fred Mitchell, corps com mander, also told these men to car ry out Goode’s instruction. He also told them to send a man, after the redistribution, to put the cards back on the doors of each unit in the same manner and con dition they were in before they were taken. The cards were returned to each unit during the evening meal yes terday—but with a big, red A En gineer’s insignia stamped on them. The insignia covered most of the card’s class schedule. “These cards were returned to A Engineers, and the first sergeant was again reminded of the original order,” Mitchell said. A Engineers now has around 2,000 door cards to replace. “Ev ery card that was taken has been stamped,” said Melroy Brandt, the unit’s commander. “We plan to replace them,” he said, “by getting them from the (See DOOR CARDS, Page 4) Before Film Society Plans To Screen 15 Movies The A&M Film Society plans to show 15 movies during the school year. Four will be foreign lan guage films. Jerry Bennett, pi’esident of t h e film club, said seven movies have been scheduled. The others will be announced later. Movies include “Across the Pa cific,” “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “The Fan,” “A Message to Garcia,” “They Died with Their Boots On,” “Sergeant York,” and “Kiss of Death.” Tickets are on sale at the MSC main desk and the Office of Stu dent Activities. make any predictions on the game tonight, said, “Instead of talking tonight, we’ll talk on the field to morrow night.” Other speakers at the rally were Henry Englebrecht, L. S. Richard son, J. J. Skrivanek, Mrs. Edsel Jones, Mrs. Charles McCullough, Royce Rogers, Billy Blakely, Mai’- garet Arnold, David Bonnen and Fred Anderson. Today’s activities include a special recognition of former stu dents at 2 p. m. in the gymnasium and the crowning of the homecom ing queen at halftime tonight. Following the game, the home coming dance will be held in the gym. All students from Bryan have been invited by the student council to the dance. Civvies Approved For MSC Dance Students taking dancing lessons in the MSC can wear civilian clothes to a dance there Oct. 20. Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, has approved not wearing uniforms to the dance. The Aggieland com bo will supply the music. Games also will be played. The dance is only for students enrolled in the MSC dancing classes. Manning Smith is dancing in structor. John Matush is chairman of the dancing classes and Oscar Garcia is chairman of the MSC Dance committee.