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ILY TEXANPKone 2-2473piI/Twelfth Man/Again CalledBaseball CoAt AggielandTo Aid DesCOLLEGE STATION, Sept. 18Coach Homer Norton of the TexasAggies, invoked the traditionalprerogative of Aggie coaches Wed-BY L. W. BROOKSTexan Sporte EditorAbout this time every,---- m---- w VVWVUVO TT ^u--..j... , , ., in* the town in search of jobsnesnay noon when he went on the .year,the coaches of Texas begin scour-w01dining hall speaker system andfor athletes who did not receiveIfasked the 5325 students in thejobs through the athletic counhalls to produce experienced footed.g i ball centers who are eligible forSome of these lads are prospec-nSIavarsity team competition. His mess'sage also was carried in the Bat-tive greats in their fields, hut. because of the heavy considerationtalion, student newspaper, so as‘Xp. *to reach the other 1200 studentsi •MFV 1 **outside the ransre of his voice.What happened wa» that earlier in the day Sam Rankin,shown for football, the other jobscrado not last long1 when they aredealt out.second string center and heldout squadman last year, wasdeclared ineligible when he wasfound to be two hours workshort of Southwest ConferenceHence, comes our plea—we are only echoing the words of that grand old man of the University, “Uncle Billy” Disch and his assistant, Bibh Falk. In some of the cases Coach Disch outlined to us, it will he necessary for several of his hoys to get jobs so they can stay in school.1 btoCiIotlIraquir. manta. On t.p .{ that j J-foy /\ren'f froucJLeonard Holder, senior but el*igible for the first time, haaf.been called by his draft boardfor examination Saturday and, unless deferred because of his being an advanced student in military science leading to a commission, the Aggies will have only Bill Sibley, squad-man, and Arthur Mercer, sophomore, left for pivotmen.These hoys aren't too proud to wait on tables, sweep rooms,oISouthwestjFINorton’s S. 0. S. brought to mind the “twelfth man” tradition at T exas A. M. which says that all Aggies shall stand at ail football games so that they will be ready should the coach call upon any of them to suit up and be ready to enter the game.Bible Started It . . .This first happened, and established the tradition, when Coach D. X: Bible, then mentor at A. M., sent into the stands for E. King Gill, now a practicing physician in Corpus Christi, and had him suit up to go into the postseason gam# against Centre in Dallas on New Year’s Day of 1922, after all his reserve backs had been crippled against the Pray, ing folonels, and had another been injured, he would have had no one to send in.ConferencepaHSIaCamp NotesDALLAS, Sept. 18— (INS)Coach Matty Bell might find gooduse for the new unlimited substitution rule during the coming S. M. U. football season. A surprise scrimmage yesterday showed that the first-stringers were better on defense than the second-stringers, but it was just the other way around from the standpoint of offense.HOUSTON. Sept. 18— (INS)Rice Coach Jess Neely continuedhis program of developing a pa=s-attack to balance his powerful running attack today. Starring in current pass practice is Dickson.Stoop* IRecords fail to show that Gill played in that game but he did suit up and was ready. He had been a squadman all year and hadnot been taken on the trip but,like all Aggies, he made it at hisown expense and was on handwhen needed. He later won twrofootball letters and added fivemore in basketball and baseballto become a seven-letter man andone of the few such greats at the college.FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Sept18 (INS)—A little thing like a leg injury doesn’t stop Chick Forte of the Arkansas Razor-backs. Despite the injury, he galloped 55 yards for a touchdown in practice scrimmage yesterday.The Second Call . . .The “twelfth man jot hit next call in 1930 when Coach Matty Bell, then at Texat A. A M., found himself in thetame predicament that Norton found himself Wednesday short of a center.help and unless it. is forthcoming with candidates who can stack up to varsity type of play, then he will be faced with the task of changing a back into a center and with only about two weeks offfrom hjR opening game. Maurice Williams, squadman end, has been j moved over temporarily and Norton is hoping he can come throughHe is inexperienced at the job,hut has the build deemed necessary for a center.•SBThe Third CallNorton is the third Coach to call on the “twelfth man’’ for such
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Austin Daily Texan
Austin, Texas, US
Fri, Sep 19, 1941
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