Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-08
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New Coach Has Squad
Working Hard For
First Game

COLLEGE STATION. Texas. Dec
s.-With the release 81 players who
have been claimed BY football, the
real work Of organizing the 1929
Texas Aggie basketball quintet has
begun and practice is being con
Quoted every night by Coach Chuck
Bassett, new Aggie basketball mentor
r4sslng, ~drIDDIIng, guarding anu
goal shooting have made up the larg.
or part Of the squads practice since
the opening Of training Nov. Z, and
the men are rapidly rounding into
fine physical condition. Now that
basseJt has complete squad to worE
with, team work will be developed.
Only four lettermen, j. v. Skies
W. l.. DAVIS, n. A. Webster, and :
j. Petty, returned this year from
the Aggle basketball squad Of last
season, the remainder OF the candi.
dates being freshmen numeral men
IL Is around the four lettermeI
named that Bassett Will build hi.
quintet Tor the coming conference
basketball race.
Skies, a veteran gridiron and dia'
n.ond star, Is captain Of the team
n is playing has third year. The
Leonard player will be remembered
BY basketball fans who have seen
him play In previous seasons a.
stellar center and a guard who Is
hard 10 beat. Petty, OF Decatur, who
played an end opposite Skies TINS
Year on the Aggie eleven. viii also
be remembered Tor his brilliant play
ing at forward last season. DAVIS
another gridiron star is from Steph-
enviile, and was a prominent memDeI
OF the quintet last year. II is likely
that he will handle one OF the for
wards. The other lcttermen, MeD-
ster, Is from T~exarkana. his work At
center and forward last year made .
lasting impression on the . who
saw nim IN action.
frosn There
Outstanding among the candidates
Tor forward among the freshmen
mineral men arc Al. y. kecton, Fort
Worth, VINO made his mineral as a
star on the AggIe freshman team IN
20, and NJ. Darby, OF Houston, iron.
the freshman team last year. Darby
IS also a center OF meria. Brooks
Lonover, Of Dallas, a member OF the
Aggie football backfieid this year, is
another candidate for forward but
IT Is rot likely that the injury to
his hand, hurt during the last few
weeks Of the gridir0n season, will be
healed before the Christmas holidays
are over.
Ii IL with material from which 10
select the guards that Bassett Is es-
pecially favored. Besides Skies,
there are: Il. Varnell, Barry, a
smashing back on the 1927 gridiron
team; X. X. Dorsey, Fort Worth, an
ether fleetfooted sta from the Argie
football backfield: II. Broiles, Fort
Worth, captain Of the BASKETBALL
team and a basketball player Of IN
usual merit: X. j. Blount. a long
rangy candidate from Gainesville
who Is showing promise at both
guard and center; r. ScOyell, OF
Dallas, who was a member OF the
Aggic eleven until he Was forced out
by injuries the latter part OF the
season.
No Worry at Center
With Skies and Webster to fall
back upon Hassett will not have Ia
worry about centers for IN addition
e these regulars, who may be need
ed elsewhere, he has j. T.. Brown, OF
Alvord, who was reserve center on
the gridiron team. and who was an
outstanding member of the fresh
ma quintet last year. Blount also
plays center.
The Aggies' first conference game
will be with tie Rice Owls in Hous-
ton January q. but they have four
preseason games, two with the sam
Houston Teachers in Huntsville, Dec,
Is and Is. and two with the Houston
Y. NJ. c. A.. one in Houston Dec. IL
and the other at College Station
Ian. a.