The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 15, 1916 Page: 5 of 6
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THE THRESHER, NOVEMBER 15, 1916
He was just a common Freshman, but
he hailed from BilMngB City, the place
that aH the hicks come from, which is
more or less a pity. His Haming tie and
Freshman cap were the shade of Christ-
mas hoiiy, his speech was trite, his head
was light, and he was off his troiley;
but these things did not worry him, he
giided on serenely, he knew two hun-
dred other fish were acting just as
greeniy. And when the Camivai con-
vened, he did iike any other—Hsh and
dived into the smother. With confetti
in his right hand and a tickier in his
ieft, he iaid about with might and main
as though of mind bereft; with glad-
some whoops he onward swoops, nor
hears his victims mutter, tiii they rise
in wrath and block his path and dump
him in the gutter. A sorry sight in
piteous plight, he is a poor pariah; his
battered pride is sorely tried, he hears
the "Black Maria."
I WAS
THLLINO Susie
* * *
ABOUT THAT swell affair
* * a
THHM BAPTISTS gave us
a 4 *
WHKHM we listened
a a *
TO THHM folks sing .
a a a
THIXHS we couldn't
PRONOUNCE
a a a
AX!) SOME we could,
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WHERE we met a
* * *
LOT OF pretty girls
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AND got red
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IN THE face trying
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TO SAY polite
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NOTHINGS
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TO THE ONE who served
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rs CHERRIES out of
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THE PUNCH bowl and
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THE other one who
a a a
(<AVE US Something Else
a a a
WE CAN'T name.
AND then
a a a
JUST as I was about
a a a
TO DESCRIBE
THE DINNER them^waiters
a a a
BROUGHT us
a a a
I HEARD an awful
a a a
SILENCE
a a a
AND I had a feeling
* * *
HE HAD called on me,
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BUT I couldn't stop.
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I SAID, "Chicken salad,
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OLIVES and lemon
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PIE."
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AND then they
* * *
ROARED.
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HE HAD asked
* * *
"WHAT IS the diet of
a a a
THE FROG?"
We maintain that while a few Biology
students make their laboratory draw-
ings on paper, the majority draw on
their imagination.
—Adam Fish.
Alas for little Willie,
He walks with us no more,
For what he thought was H20,
Was H2S04.
A Freshman once to Hades went
A few more things to learn;
They sent him back to earth again—
He was too green to burn!
—Cornell Widow.
Heard in dining room between shifts:
Mitchell: "Who wants a clean wait
er?"
Delia Valle: "Well, when did you
take a bath?"
Prof, (interrupted in his lecture by
persistent conversation in the rear of the
room): "If you remove the brain from
a frog.-Miss W.,-reflex action,-Patten,-
will still continue."
4 RICE VETERANS SAY
FAREWELL TO A. & M.
The Rice-A. & M. game was very in-
teresting from several viewpoints.
It was the last game in which Brown
(Captain), Fendiey, Fuiweiler and Kalb
wili be allowed to p!ay against the Far-
mers; this season completing their al-
lotted time as collegiate athletes. It
served as a means of comparing the rela-
tive strength of A. & M. and Texas,
however comparative scores usually
prove to be very deceptive, and are con-
sidered an uncertain way of arriving at
the strength of respective teams. The
game was interesting in so far as its
outcome played havoc with the dope
sheet and cast a different light on the
race for the State honors. And again
that it was a real exhibition of "pure-
dee" football and not a sham.
In ins last game against the Farmers,
Captain Brown did great work and made
his presence in the game so impressive
to the wearers of the red and white that
his name will long be remembered by
them after he has retired from college
life. For the second time in two years
he proved to be the greatest factor in
defeating the A. & M. aggregation,
thereby both times placing himself as a
stumbling block between them and the
State championship.
In last Friday's game Brown's of-
fensive work was little less than mar-
velous. Several times he broke loose
for 20 and 30-yard runs off end and
three times such runs carried the bail
within easy striking distance of the vis-
itors' goal. Two of the three touch-
downs that were registered by the Owts
were carried over the line by Brown,
both times the fieet halfback plunging
through the line for the necessary gains.
Of course, there were other men that
played good bail, but when we consider
that the A. & M. squad had been taking
a course of "Brown's do and dont's"
for the last few weeks from Coachs
Harlan and Graves, and had been toid
innumerable times to watch "that fel-
ler Brown," it must be remembered that
the Owls' captain was playing against
great odds, and then for him to show
up better than any other man proves
beyond a doubt that he did some won-
derful work. It wiil suffice to say that
if Coach Arbuckle is successful in get-
ting a man next year that can fill the
place of Brown, one would be safe in
predicting the champion of next year's
football season.
Not only did "Mick" finish his football
years against A. & M. in a glorious man-
ner, but Frances Tarrant Fendiey, the
well-known Rice fullback, for the second
time in his career at Rice Institute sa-
tiated his heartfelt desire for a smoth-
ering victory over the Aggies.
Even though Fendiey was taken from
the Friday's game before the finai blow
of the whistle, yet while in the mixup
"he gave them aii he had."
Last year Fendiey was one of the
starring backs for Rice against A. & M.
and his line plunging was one of the
factors that figured materially in the
Rice victory. His line drives were
great and probably they would have
proved quite as beneficial to the Owls'
eleven in the late A. & M. game had the
injury he received not necessitated his
removal from the game.
And there is- Fuiweiler, probably not
the biggest nor the fastest man in Tex-
as, but there is always enough of him
around to chug up the biggest hoie any
football player in Texas would try to
come through.
Last Friday's game marked his finai
appearance in Texas footbaii, and his
loss will be keenly felt by the Owls'
squad when the attempt is made to find
a man that can what he has done. He
also was a veteran of the 1915 Rice-A. &
G. game. Though at that time playing
at end, the little red headed man was
seen several times to be bobbing up in
proper places and at proper times.
In the last game against the Aggies,
"Piggie" was forced to retire from the
game before the finish, but at that his
effective work in the line prior to his
retirement was good and had telling re-
sults.
And then Kalb, the big tackle, who
has meant so much to the Owl eleven
for this season, will never meet the Ag-
gie aggregation upon the gridiron again.
He, as the other retiring Rice warriors,
is a veteran of last season's game with
A. & M., and it is useless to say that he
did much to bring about an Owl victory
when it is remembered that he played
all last season as he has been playing
this year.
The Thanksgiving game will mark
"Tiny's" fareweil to the national col-
legiate game of football, and in so do-
ing it closes the career of a mighty foot-
ball player, one who has proved himself
of such strength that it will be quite
a while before Rice will be abie to Ml
his place at tackle.
In looking forward to the A. & M.-
Texas annual game, which is to be
staged at Austin on Thanksgiving Day
the result of the Rice-A. & M. game has
a very interesting bearing. If compara
five score should count, (he conclusion
should readily be drawn that Texas will
defeat A. & since the Longhorns were
able to win over the Owls by a fair
score and in view of the one-sided score
piled up by the Rice eleven over the
Farmers on October 4. But comparative
score is a treacherous foundation for
speculation. Last year Rice defeated
In S. U.; L. S. U. defeated Virginia, and
Virginia on the other hand defeated
Princeton, and yet it could hardly have
been wisely said that Rice had a strong-
er machine than Princeton. It would be
well to remember that the Rice-Texas
game was played in the early season, be-
fore the Owls began to show their form;
hence this game cannot be considered as
much benefit in throwing light on the
outcome of the Texas-A. & M. game.
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Get 'em where they've got em, and got em right
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 15, 1916, newspaper, November 15, 1916; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229790/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.