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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1953)
D. E. COI COLLEGE 1 ESC, PE 3 COPIES , Cfreiilafed Daily To 90 Per Cent ' Of Local Residents -f # Piiblislied Ry A&M St ndents For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number J51: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1953 Price Five Ceuta © & mm ala i ■mL . T 1® , / ! v '!1* . . . , < SkkS?(S BPK«R»j THE FIRST—W. A. Tolson sits by the equipment he and his associates used to broad cast the 1919 A&M-UT football game. This was the first broadcast of an A&M-UT game, and is believed to be one of the first game broadcasts in history. Two UT Men Caught I Here Monday Might Two University of Texas stu dents were caught on the A&M campus Monday night, but were released unharmed, according to Fred Mitchell, colonel of the corps. The two Texas students were stopped about 11:30 p.m. at the West Cate. They said they had come to visit two friends here, juniors. Campus Security patrolmen took them to Goodwin Hall. Their car was searched and nothing was found that would indicate that they intended to damage college prop erty. Mitchell and V. M. (Monty) Montgomery, head yell leader, were called to Goodwin Hall to take the Texas students to see their friends. They were conducted on a tour of the campus by Mitchell, Pat Wood, senior class president, and Carrol Phillips, student senator. They were escorted from the campus at 2:30 h.m. Their car was not damaged in any way. One student’s hair was cut slightly, Mitchell said. The tires on the UT students’ car, deflated by West Gate guards, were pumped up by several Aggie seniors. A&M-UT Football Game First Broadcast of Its ?ers Could Lose SWC Crown Here Bizzell Ags Show Spirit Nine Ways The foreign students in Biz zell hall showed their feelings about the A&M-Texas foot ball game by saying “Beat the hell outa TU” nine different ways. Signs on the front of the dormitory, overlooking the bonfire, are written in nine languages, including German, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and English. Jose Del Rio originated the idea. Other students took it up, and now the Whole front of the dormitory is coveied with the signs. One of the first play-by-play ra dio broadcasts in history was made at A&M in 1919 at the annual A&M-Texas football game. When people learned of the prac tically unpi-eccdented event, a trowd nearly rioted a set erected Sn Waco in order to hear the broad cast. Football radio fans would hardly understand the broadcast if they were to hear it today. It consisted mostly of a series of abbreviations. A bbrevi at Ions Used • “TB A 45Y; " T FI > 8Y L,’ ’ the announ cpr said. This meant “ ‘Tex- as’ 1ml i 1 on the Aggie 45-yard 1 imq Texas attempts a. 1 forward p:iss but is thrown for an eight- -yard loss.” A bbreviated signal Is for b road- casting a game, and people practi cally rioting to be able tp hear a play-by-play radio broadcast is un heard of today. Only 34 Years Ago But it was only 34 years ago that both of these situations oc curred—when a handful of A&M students and faculty members pro vided the first A&M-Texas foot ball game broadcast. A group of men headed by. Dr. F. C. Bolton, pr esident emeritusPof A&M,. worked with “ham” radio transmission and reception in order to present the' historical broadcast. Members of the group had been operating a ham relay‘station hail ed “f>YA,” now WTAW. “We received so many requests from stations throughout the Southwest to give them informa tion on results of the game,” said W. A. Tolson, group member, “that we thought it would be better to give them a play-by-play account.” . Borrow From Army A homemade “rock-crusher ham transmitter” and a high-speed con tractor, borrowed from the U. S. army signal corps, were obtained by the group. They'then planned to run a pair of twisted lines from the Electrical Engineering building to Kyle Field-. The group faced two main difficult ties. They'would have to handle a pi# mary circuit on the pair of twisted lines, and { speed-up the usually slow receiving and sending of Morse code, the main method used at that time. The high speed contractor solved the first problem, and abbrevia tions for different situations took care of the second. Although out dated now, the methods were con sidered revolutionary at the time. Received in Waco W. P. Clarke, operator of station 5Z&P in Waco, installed a receiver in one of } tbe local newspaper of fices in AVaco. Amazingly clear reception was received, he said. The crew’s broadcast was far ahead of the Associated Press’ ac count of the game, Clarke said. The near-riot occurred at the Waco set. By BOB BORISKIE Battalion Sports Editor Before the largest crowd in Kyle field history, the Texas Aggies Thursday Avill try to knock the University of Texas Longhorns out of Southwest conference title conten tion. All seats for the 41,778 capacity stadium have been sold for the contest which pits the one win and four loss Aggie conference record against the Longhorn mark of four wins and one loss in league play. An Aggie victory over the Steers, always a standard by which a successful football season is judged, would not only remove the Longhorns from the SWC title race, but would also scratch them from the remaining bowl lists. ♦ With a win over A&M, Tex as would be conference co- •champions with the winner of Saturday’s Rice-Baylor game. Only in case of a tie between Owls and the Bears could the Steel's emerge as sole occupants of first place in the conference race and host in the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day. A Baylor victory would leave the Bears and the Steers tied for first and Texas would probably repre sent the conference in the Cotton Bowl because of its win over the Bears. Victory for the Owls over the Bears would make Texas and Rice co-champions with Rice mgking the Cotton Bowl trip on the strength of a league win over Tex as. The Longhorns, however, would still have the inside track for a Sugar Bowl invitation with a 7-3 sepson record. Depends on Win All this speculation depends on a Longhorn win Thanksgiving Day. If the Aggies upset the Long horns, the Texas football squad can pack its football uniforms away in mothballs until next season. With 10 days of rest behind them, the Cadets will be physically and mentally ready for the contest with all the players who have been nursing bruises ready for action. Leading the Aggies into the Turkey Day clash will be Durwood Scott, senior tackle and captain of the team. Of a total of nine seniors on the Aggie squad, two besides Scott, figure to be listed among the starters. Wind Up Careers Connie Magouirk, halfback, and Don Ellis, quarterback, wdnd up their college football careers in Thursday’s game. (See FOOTBALL, Page 2) News Briefs Fish Slave Open House Thursday THE FRESHMAN area dorm itories will have an open ho us* from. 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Thursday. Dormitories included are 14, 15, 16, 17, Walton, Puryear, Law and Mil ner. Aggie Band Will Do ‘Confusion’ Stunt The 200 - piece A&M band will feature their “mass confusion” drill at the Thanksgiving game. The band will use five different types of marching formations for this drill, beginning with a semi countermarch entrance, and then going into two double minstrel turns, a double delayed march, two more double turns, and a continous march. After the continious counter march, the letters “Longhorns” and “Tex Aggies” will be formed. From the letter formation the band will go into the Aggie “T’. counter minstrel counter- THE PAINTS now on display in the main lounge of the MSC are by Frederick Sisson, Providence, R. L, art reviewer. The water colors will remain on display until Dec. 4. * * * RAY V. JAKV1 left A&M Mon day for his new position with the Calumet Mining company of Michi gan. He was a professor of engin eering mechanics and metallurgy here. J. THE RESULTS of the air force officer qualifying tests taken by AFROTC seniors have been post ed on the second floor of the mili tary science building. The standard passing grade has not been an nounced yet. * * THE AIR FORCE Specialty Classification Numbers (AFSC) have not been awarded yet. The air science department is working on the assignments now and will release them at a later date, says a spokesman for the air science de partment. :Jc * :Jc THE HOUSTON hometown club will have a dance at 8 p. m. Thurs day at the Bill Marz Dance Hall at 835 W. 34th street in Houston. FORTY-SIX childi-en from the Wee Aggieland- kindergarden class made their annual inspection trip to the bonfire yesterday. This is the 10th year the class has made the trip. Mrs. R. R. Lyle is the teacher of the class. THE MSC COUNCIL meeting has been changed to 4:30 p. m. Dec. 7 to prevent conflict with other meetings. The regular meeting was scheduled for Dec. 14. % :1c * :’r- j MONTY MONAGHAN, the Cam- | pus Merchandising Bureau’s re- j presentitive for Chesterfield ciga- j rettes will be here Wednesday to ' talk to Steve Nall and Joe Lloyd. LAST FOOTBALL GAME FOR A&M ///1 CONI A. O f ' /MAQOUIK-VC m fk M < ■m? ' cc ^m^0 iu»- o.4 y Du CL WOOD SCO T T £>ILl_ N/V-- MAUAU JOW kl DALY U-SL a 0—4 fY fc-A , "N- _ UYL L); \ j I < • ' \\ii yJ f J -—' >
