Page 2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, September 22, 1954
DramaGroupGives
Satire for AAUW
Cadet Slouch
by James Earle
A one-act play, a satire on the
companiohate marriage idea of the
20’s, was presented by the drama
group for the American Associa
tion of University Women Monday
AAUP Will Meet
Tonight At MSC
The local chapter of the Ameri
can Association of University Pro
fessors will hold its annual open
1 rouse fellowship tonight in the
ball x-oom of the Memorial Student
Center at 7:30.
Dr. David H. Morgan, president
of A&M College, will be speaker.
Tonight’s informal meeting is
the first of the 1954-55 school year
for the faculty members and re
search workers of the chapter.
W. F. Adams is president.
Social Whirl
Thursday
9 a.m. Group leadership course
for new leaders of Girl Scout and
Brownie troops will begin at the
Girl Scout little house. New lead
ers are needed for beginning troops
at Ben Milam and Bowie schools.
Friday
3 p.m. College Women’s Social
Club honors new members with a
tea in the ball room of the Memo
rial Student Center.
night at the organization’s first
meeting of the season.
The meeting was held at the Me
morial Student Center.
Cast for the play included Mrs.
F. E. McFarland, Mrs. Arthur
Melloh, Mrs. J. B. Page, Mrs. Tom
King, and Mrs. George Huebner.
Mrs. MiltOn Nance was musician.
The play was under the direction
of Mrs. R. V. Andrews.
Mrs. James Potter, membership
chairman, introduced 11 new mem
bers. They are Mrs. Morris Gar
ber, Mrs. Eula J. Newman, Mrs.
Floyd Beanblossom, Mrs. R. L. At
kinson, Mrs. Arthur Prince, Mrs.
Thomas Ferguson, Mrs. J. M. Pres
cott, Mrs. Allan Madeley, Mrs. D.
O. Skovlin, Miss Inez Brentner,
Mrs. William Elliott.
Hostesses for the meeting were
Mrs. R. O. Berry, chairman, Mrs.
W. L. Russell, Mrs. George Potter,
Mrs. A. D. Folweiler, Mrs. C. W.
Simmons, Mrs. I. V. Boughton and
Mrs. O. E. Sperry.
Mrs. Eugene Rush, president,
presided over the meeting.
What’s Cooking
WEDNESDAY
7:15—The Aggie Christian Fel
lowship will meet in the YMCA
cabinet room.
7:30—Opening meeting for new
and old members of Hillel Founda
tion will be held in the MSC, rooms
2-3 and 2-D.
THURSDAY
7:00—The Grayson County home
tdwn club meets in room 3C of the
MSC to organize for this year.
8:00—The Table Tennis club will
meet in the MSC game room.
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Bridge Club
Plans Formation
A meeting of local persons in
terested in forming a bridge club
will be held in room 2-D of the
Memorial Student Center at 7:30
p.m. Thursday.
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III. SCHOOL
By BETSY BURCHARD
Battalion Correspondent
(Editor’s Note: Miss Burch-
ard, who is editor of A&M Con
solidated’s Round-Up, will be
The Battalion’s CHS correspon
dent this year. She will write
this weekly column, and other
stories about the school.)
Two former employees of A&M
have joined their wives on the
teaching staff of A&M Consolidat
ed high school.
A. R. Orr, who was with the
mechanical engineering department
for 11 years, is now teaching phy
sics and algebra and also sponsors
the Slide Rule club.
A dormitory counselor for three
years, C. L. Byrd is initiating a
vocational agriculture course and
FFA chapter.
Two other new faculty members
are F. A. Knapp, who teaches Eng
lish and directs the Public Speak
ing and Sharpshooters clubs, and
W. R. Miller, who sponsors the
school paper in addition to in
structing history and typing.
A half day holiday and a handful
of nickles rewarded homeroom 11-2
for collecting the most money in
activity ticket sales. The students
sold $141 worth edging out the
sophomores in 10-1 who had $131.
Seven hundred seventy-two dol
lars have been turned in but all
the tickets ax^e not accouxxted for
yet.
Sale of the 1955 community
birthday calendars was begun this
week by Consolidated students axxd
members of the Band Boosters
club, undejr the dii'ection of Mrs.
Walter A. Vaxwel. Pi-oceeds fi-om
this sale will be used for new band
uniforms.
The junior class sponsored a vic
tory dance after the Madisonville
football game last Friday night.
The dance was held in the gymna
sium and about 75 pei’sons attend
ed.
Consolidated students have been
invited to visit Bryan air force
base this Saturday for a tour
sponsox-ed by the Kiwanis club.
Sharon Patterson was eelcted
juxxior yell leader for the Kitten
team. She x-eplaces Bonnie Wat
son who moved out of town.
On Campus
faith .
MixShuImaJi
{Author of “Barefoot Boy With Cheek,'* etc.)
U.S. Seeks
For 2 Red
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Sept.
22—7 (A 5 ) —American authorities in
Washington and Germany were
negotiating today for the x’elease
of two U. S. soldiers seized by
Communist Czech guax-ds with
snarling dogs along the Czech-
German border Friday.
The Army identified the Ameri
cans as 1st Lt. Richai'd H. Dries,
30, son of Mi - , and Mi’s. Henry E.
Dries of St. Albany, Long Island,
N. Y., and Pfc. George Pisk,' 22,
son of Dr. and Mrs, Paul A. Pisk,
of Austin, Tex. Di\ Pisk is a pro
fessor of musicology at the Uni
versity of Texas and an interna
tionally known composer.
The Army said Di’ies and Pisk
REGISTRATIONS BEING
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The Oaks Nursery School
601 Maryem St. — College Station
BALANCED PROGRAM
Qualified Teachers — Transportation Available
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LARGE SHADED PLAY AREA
Hours 9-12 — 8-5
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Release
Prisoners
were cruising along the boi’der un
officially to “see what they could
see’ and wei’e grabbed by the
Czechs on West German territoxy..
The Red Czech government deliv-
ei’ed a protest last night to the
U. S. Embassy in Pi’ague, chax-ging
the Americans were taken on Czech
territoxy “while photographing
military installations and carxying
out obsexwations with f i eld
glasses.” The Army denied the
two werq spying.
In Austin, Pisk’s mother said he
wrote x'eccntly he had been trans
ferred to a place near the bordei’.
“I’m too upset to talk about it,”
she added.
Girl Scout Board
Meets on Tuesday
Directors board meeting of the
Bxyan-College Station Gix’l Scout
area Was held Tuesday morning at
the Gill Scout little house, Mrs.
R. E. Patterson, presiding.
New members who wei’e pi’esent
wex-e Mi’s. Geox-ge Adams, chair-
man of the program committee;
Mrs. Clifton C. Cai’tei’, chairman
of the organization committee,
Mrs. Henry Miller chairman of the
staff and office committee, and
Mrs. Archie Kahan, chairman of
public relations committee.
This year gii’l scouts in Bryan
and College Station will participate
in the United Fund drive x’ather
than making a separate drive fox-
money as in the past it was decid
ed.
The Battalion
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BOB BORtSKIE, HARRI BAKER. Co-Editors
Jon Kinslow.. Managing Editor
Jei’i'y Wizig Sports Editor
Ralph Cole, Don Shepard-.. News Editox-s
Noi’a Bui’ge j Woman’s Editor
Kerstin Ekfelt Assistant Woman’s Editor
Betsy Burchard ... A&M Consolidated Correspondent
Maurice Olian A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent
John Huber Advertising Manager
Larry Lightfoot .Circulation Manager
Tom Syler, Russell Reed, Ken Livingston Circulation Staff
Morg
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dents was their ability to accept
responsibility, and that the x’espon-
sibility of x-unning the coi’ps was
on the cadet officers.
“Any group that can perform the
magnificant engineering feat of
building the world’s biggest bon-
fix-e can certainly build the world’s
best corps,” he said.
Yesterday’s ceremony, at which
the cadet officers foimally took
their officei’’s oath, was the first
of its type held.
It will be an annual affair from
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FOOTBALL THROUGH THE AGES
The football frenzy is upon us. But let us, in the midst of this
pandemonium, call time. Let us pause for a moment of tranquil
reflection. What is this game called football? What is its history?
Its origins? Its traditions? These are not idle questions, for when
we have the answers we will appreciate even more fully, enjoy even
more deeply, this great American game of football.
First of all, to call football an American game is somewhat mis
leading. True, the game is now played almost exclusively in America,
but it comes to us from a land far away and a civilization long dead.
Football was first played in ancient Rome. Introduced by Julius ..
Caesar, it became one of the most popular Roman sports by the time f
of Nero’s reign. The eminent historian Sigafoos reports a crowd of
MMCLDDXVIII people at the Colosseum one Saturday afternoon
to see the Christians play the Lions.
With the decline of the Roman empire football fell into disuse.
The barbaric Huns axxd Goths preferred canasta. However, by the
Twelfth Century A.D. football had emerged from its twilight and
risen to its rightfxxl place in the firmament of European pastimes.
The eminent historian Sigafoos reports that the whole continent
was in the grip of wild excitement in the year 1192 when the
Crusaders, under Freddie Barbarossa, journeyed all the way to
Damascus to play the Saracens in the Fig Bowl game. The Crusaders
squeaked through, 23 to 21, on a field goal by Dick Coeur de Lion
in the closing seconds of the game.
October 21, 1512, will ever remain a red letter day in the history
of football. On that day Leonardo da Vinci, who has often been called
“The Renaissance Man” because of his proficiency in a hundred arts
and sciences, was painting a picture of a Florentine lady named
Mona Lisa Schultz. “Listen, Mona baby,” he said as she struck a
pose for her portrait, “I keep telling you—don’t smile. Just relax and
look natural.”
“But I’m not smiling,” she replied.
“Well, what do you call it?” he said.
“Gee, I don’t know,” said Mrs. Schultz. “It’s just an expression, ,
kind of.”
“Well, cut it out,” said The Renaissance Man.
“I’ll try,” she promised.
And try she did, but without success, for a moment later the artist
was saying to her, “Look, Mona kid, I’m not gonna ask you again. *
Wipe that silly grin off your face.” t
“Honest to goodness, The Renaissance Man,” said she to him, “it’s
no grin. It’s just the way I look.”
“Well, just stop it,” said Leonard testily and turned away to mix
his pigments.
When he turned back to Mona Lisa and saw the smile still on
her face, he became so enraged that he seized the nearest object —
a casava melon, as it happened — gnd hurled it at her with all his
strength. Showing great presence of mind, she caught the melon and
ran with it from the studio until The Renaissance Man’s tempex
should cool.
This was, of course, the first completed forward pass.
Another date dear to the hearts of all football fans is September 29,
1442. It was on this date, accoi’ding to the eminent historian Sigafoos,
that a sixteen year old lad named Christopher Columbus tried out
for the football team at Genoa Tech. He failed to make the team
because he was too light. (He weighed at that time only 12 pounds.)
And why, you ask, is this date — September 29, 1442 — so dear to
the hearts of all football fans? Because young Columbus was so
heartbroken at not making the team that he ran away to sea. And
if that hadn’t happened, he never would have discovered America.
And if Columbus hadn’t discovered America, the world never would
have discovered tobacco. And if the world hadn’t discovered tobacco,
football fans never would have discovered Philip Morris — which, as
evei'y fan knows, is the perfect coxnpanion to football. As Sigafoos,
the eminent historian, says, “Land’s sakes, I can’t even imagine
football without Philip Morris. I’d sooner go to a game without my
raccoon coat than without my neat, rich tobacco-brown snap-open
pack of mild vintage Philip Morris Cigarettes which come in regular
or king-size at prices young and old can afford. Land’s sakes!”
The end of football in Europe came with the notorious “Black ToX
Scandal” of 1587, in which Ed Machiavelli, one of the Pisa mob,
paid off the University of Heidelberg Sabres to throw the champion
ship ganxe to the Chartres A. and M. Gophers. It was a mortal blow
to football on the continent.
But the game took hold in the American colonies and thrived as it
had never thrived before. Which brings us to another date that
remains evergreen in the hearts of football lovers: December 16,1771.
On that date a British packet loaded with tea sailed into Boston -
harbor. The colonies had long been smarting under the English king’s "
tax on tea. “Taxation without representation,” they called it, and
feelings ran high.
When on December 16, 1771, the British ship docked at Boston, a
semi-pro football team called the Nonpareil Tigers, coached by
Samuel (Swifty) Adams, was scrimmaging near the harbor. “Come,
lads,” cried Swifty, seeing the ship.“Let’s dump the tea in the ocean!”
With many a laugh and cheer the Nonpareil Tigers followed Swifty
aboard and proceeded to dump the cai’go overboard in a wild, dis
organized and abandoned manner. “Hex-e now!” called Swifty
sharply. “That’s no way to dump tea overboard. Let’s get into some
kind of formation.”
And that, fans, is how the “T” formation was born.
©Max Shultnan. 1954
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Church Is Holding
Saturday Services
Special sei’vices are being held
each Saturday duxing September at
7:30 p.m. at the Rock Pi’aii’ie Bap
tist Chui’ch.
The Rev. Claude Allen, pastor
of the church conducts the sei’vices.
Hubers’ Child Born
A 7-pound 5-ounce baby boy was
born Tuesday night to Mi’, and
Mi’s. John Hubei', Battalion advex*-
tising manager, at St. Joseph’s
hospital. Mi’s. Huber and the ba
by, Joseph Bernard, were both do
ing well Tuesday night.
LI’L ABNER
By A1 Capp
P O G O
By Walt Kelly