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Thursday November 7 1940
YELLOW JACKET
&
KEATONMEN WIN OVER RAMS
FOR FIRST TIME
Texas Conference Lead
Held Solely By H. P. C.
Those seven other Texas Con-
ference clubs who have vowed
these many years ugalnst Howard
Payne's perennial string of cham-
pionships this week cast their
lot with Abilene Christian and
Tiinlly University their last re-
maining hopes as the Brownwood
Yellow Jackets again dominated
the circuit's play with the only
undefeated record.
Thundering down the home-
stretch with four conference tri-
umphs and no defeats Howard
Payne enteted the final lap of the
hectic Texas Conference with 14-10
thrlllcr-ktller victory over Texas
Wesleyan another challenger that
had boasted a perfect circuit rec-
ord until its meeting with the Yel-
low Jackets.
Next hurdle for the Brownwood
Baptists Is a Friday night clash
here against Trinity a dangerous
team that has not failed to score
in a game this season. Last week
the Trinity Tigers downed South-
western to the tunc of 12-7. If the
Jackets should fall before the
Waxahachie aggregation It would
put Texas Wesleyan and Abilene
Christian back in the thick of the
title scramble. And since Trinity
plays seven league contests to the
remaining teams' six a Tiger tri-
umph would also give the Waxa-
hachie boys a chance of winning
undisputed championship of the
conference.
So there you have the reuson
that so many eyes will be turned
toward the Trinity-Howard Payne
brawl this week-end.
Still in the championship run-
ning but with their colors thrown
to the dirt with an amazing 6-7
upset at the hands of Austin Col-
lege's Kangaroos Abilene Chris-
tian is expected to add another
notch to its victory belt Friday
night in Abilene when they are
hosts to the win-starved Daniel
Baker Hill Billies.
The other league game of the
week throws the McMurry Indians
against Southwestern in Abilene
Saturday at the Indians homecom-
ing. However since the McMurry
gridders ended their fifteen game
Trinity's Passes Win
Over Pirates 12-7
Trinity University Tigers pro-
tecting their slim but definite
chance at the Texas Conference
crown used a swift passing at-
tack backed by steady defensive
line play to bring Southwestern's
total of straight losses for the
season to four with a 12-7 defeat.
If the Tigers defeat Howard Payne
this Friday night they will have
more than an outside chance at
the title.
The Pirates held a 7-6 lead at
the end of the third quarter but
were unable to hold back the Ti-
gers In the fourth. The winning
touchdown came on Tiger Quar-
terback Kunkel's short pass over
the line to Wilson who carried the
ball over. Previous to this play
Wilson had taken Kunkel's pass
from the Tiger 40 aTid carried the
ball to the Pirate 23. On the sec-
ond play after this Kunkel again
passed to Waller on the 12. The
next pass to Wilson was Incom-
plete und the following play saw
the touchdown. -Nolan failed to
convert.
Cornell Is Nation's
Top Team; Aggies 4th
The fifth of the weekly Asso-
ciated Press ranking football polls
with 178 grid experts throughout
the country participating finds
Cornell as the nation's top team as
the Big Red team has been all
season.
Minneslta displaced Notre
Dame's Irish as the number two
team and Michigan Wolverines
rest irr third place. Texas A&M
rising from fifth to fourth place
risks its string of 17 straight vic-
tories this week against Southern
Methodist fourteenth team.
Texas Tech Is the only other
Texas team mentioned in this
week's poll.
Eagles Continue To
Set Lone Star Pace
After two weeks of top-notch
play Lone Star conference teams
will have a lull this week to get
ready for tho home stretch drive
the following week. One confer-
ence game bringing together East
Texas State und Southwest Texas
State at San Marcos and three
nonconference engagements make
up the Lone Star schedule.
Tho defending champion and
only undefeated team in loop play
this season North Texas will take
on Austin College of the Texas
conference Friday.
Sam Houston got back into the
thick of the race last week when
the Bearkata upset tho East Texas
Lions 10-9. North Texas romped
over San Marcos 22-0.
losing streak last week with a
20-0 win over Daniel Baker South-
western will be In for more than
just an ordinary tussle.
Austin College although the
Kangaroos have come back from
their 51-0 thumping at the hands
of Howard Payne with victories
over Oklahoma City and Abilene
Christian will be expected to meet
up with too much power when they
ulush with the proved power of the
Lone Star's North Texas Eagles
Friday at Denton.
Fort Woith's Texas Wesleyan Is
the only Texas Conference club
that docs not see action this week
coming back in the melee on the
following weekend with a skirmish
with Daniel Baker.
THIS WEEK'S GAMES
FRIDAY. Nov. 8 Trinity vs.
Howard Payne at Brownwood (x);
Austin College vs. North Texas
Teachers at Denton; Daniel Baker
vs. A. C. C. at Abilene (x).
SATURDAY Nov. 9 South-
western vs. McMurry at Abilene
(X).
LAST WEEK'S RESULTS
Austin College 7 A. C. C. 6 (x);
Howard Payne 14 Texas Wesley-
an 10 (x); McMurty 20 Daniel
Baker 0 (x); Trinity 12 South-
western 7 (XI.
(x) Denotes conference games.
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Team W. L. T. Pet.
Howard Payne 4 0 1 1.000
Texas Wesleyan 3 1 0 .750
Trinity 3 1 0 .750
ACC 2 1 0 .667
Austin College 2 2 0 .500
McMuiry 1 3 0 .250
Daniel Baker 0 3 0 .000
Southwestern 0 4 0 .000
FULL SEASON STANDINGS
Team-- W. L. T. Pet.
Howard Payne 5 2 0 .714
Texas Wesleyan ... 5 2 0 .714
ACC 4 2 0 .667
Trinity 3 3 0 .500
Austin College 3 3 0 .000
Southwestern 2 5 0 .286
McMurry 1 5 0 .167
Daniel Baker 0 8 0 .000
Cowboys Trounce
Buffaloes 28-7
Hardin - Simmons University
sporting a linely polished run-
ning attack overwhelmed a jit-
tery West Texas State team at
Canyon Saturday with a score of
28-7. Early in the first quarter
the Cowboys pushed over three
(jirlck touchdowns and added an-
other counter In the second period
bogged down In the second half
and yielded a touchdown In the
fln'il period.
Moon Mulllns and L. B. Russell
big Cowboy fullback and fleet
HSU quarterback furnished the
offensive thrill with their ball car-
rying. Mulllns scored the first
touchdown orr line plunges and
Evans converted. Shortly after-
ward Russell sot up another touch-
down on a 33 yard gallop and
again Mulllns rammed over and
Evans converted.
The third HSU score wns made
by a new Cowboy eleven with
Goodnight and Bryson plunging.
Bryson bucked over from the
four-yard line and then kicked the
point.
Russell In the second quarter
scored on a thrilling 30 yard run
and Goodnight ran for the extra
point after picking up a placeklck
blocked by Morrison. The Buffalo
team then tightened up and the
half ended with the score 28-0.
The third quarter was scoreless
and in the fourth quarter the Buf-
faloes scored when Ben Collins
broke through the right side of
his line and raced 33 yards through
the Cowboy secondary to score.
Collins placeklcked the goal. The
Cowboys ran up a total of 14
first downs to their opponents'
five and led In all other statistics.
Gridders: Co-eds To
Be Guests of BSU
The Howard Payne football
squad and the Jacket Co-eds will
he special guests Sunday at the
regular evening meeting of the
Baptist Training Union of the
First Baptist church.
Tho following special program
has been planned by Verna Frlz-
zell student director of the union:
Vocal: That Good Olo Howard
Pay no Line -Howard Payne Trio;
congregational singing led by
Chorister James Stanley; Inspi-
rational address: How Tall Are
You; and The Line-up with special
music by tho Howard Payno Trio.
Members of tho church union arc
anxious that each football rnember
and co-ed bo present Sunday night.
It is reported that 80 per cent
or 2380406 of tho 2075165 fac-
tory sales made in the United
States and Canada were made in
the $501-760 wholesale price class.
He's Versatile
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Versatile Is the word that de-
scribes Charlie Lawrence 180
pound senior of Dawson; he plays
center and end and ranks with the
loop's best at both positions. A
transfer last year from Hlllsboro
Junior College Lawrence Is play-
ing his second year for the Yellow
Jackets.
ACC Jones Still
In Scoring Lead
Tugboat Jones sparkplug of
the Abilene Christian College
Wildcats still holds the Texas Con-
ference scoring lead after counting
six points against Austin College
last Friday. Jones missed the
attempted conversion after his
score and the Kangaroos won 7-6.
Garland Terrell nil-conference
half and Herman Nolen from
Trinity are neck and neck for the
pole positions along with Texas
Wesleyan's Ruel Hoffman. Ter-
rell and Nolen will clash this
week when the Jackets are hosts
to the Waxahachie Bengals Frl-
dikht. Leading scorers
Player Team Td. Ep. Fg. To.
Jones ACC 9 8 0 62
Nolen Trinity 5 4 1 37
Terrell HPC 6 0 0 36
Hoffman TWC 6 0 0 36
O'Nell S'western 3 0 0 18
Warren HPC 3 0 0 18
Fisher HPC 3 0 0 18
Samuels HPC 3 0 0 18
Wheeler Trinity 3 0 0 18
Hlllery TWC 3 0 0 18
Hunter TWC 1 4 2 16
Lions To Meet Bucks
In Armistice Feature
All action in the Oil Belt Dis-
trict 9-AA race will be quieted this
week until Armistice Day Mon-
day when the heralded clash be-
tween the Breckenrldge Bucka-
roos and the Brownwood Lions
takes place on the Lions' home
field.
Coach Pat Cagle's Lions were
victorious last week over Cisco
20-0. Chill Rice stole Individual
honors of district ball carriers as
the small quarterback scored all
the points In the Cats' fifth vic-
tory of the year.
Stephenvlllc's Yellow Jackets
led by all-state candidate Barney
Welch and coached by Howard
Payne's Jimmy Marshall are lead-
ing the current race with four
loop victories arrd no losses. The
Jackets are undefeated In full sea-
son standings ulso. Brownwood
meets Stephenvllle November 21.
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Vol". XXVII.
Two jinxes were broken last Sat-
urday In Howard Paync'B game
with the TWC Rams . . . Until now
the Rams had never scored a point
against the Jackets and they had
never been beaten on Farrlngton
Field . . . With less than 60 sec-
onds to play the Rams took the
lead with a field goal but the
Jackets came back to sew up the
ball game with five whole seconds
to spare . . .
Between halves eight bands
flashing green and white blue and
red orange and black maroon and
white and purple and white staged
one of tire most beautiful spec-
tacles ever witnessed by the crowd
of 15000 who attended the game
. . . Also thirty baton wlelders
strutted their stuff along with an
equal number of high school yell
leaders . . .
Big Jack Hardaway who came
through the game unscratched and
with all bones Intact nearly ruined
one of his hands when leaving by
slamming the bus door on It . . .
Incidentally Osmosis played a
whale of a game at his tackle post
. . . Bob Stokes junior from Buck-
ner Orphan's home turned In a
sensational display of passing to
Jumes Vanderveer . . . Tommy
Dependable Pivot
Out of the line-up last week be-
cause of Injuries Amos Eggen is
expected to round back into shape
boon to play more of the type of
ball that has stamped the blond-
headed 175-poundcr as one of the
most consistent and dependable
players on the Yellow Jacket
squad. Hailing from Clifton Eg-
gen la playing his third and final
year at center for Howard Payne.
Baker Drops Eighth
Contest To McMurry
Spoiling the homecoming ac-
tivities for Daniel Baker McMur-
ry broke an eleven-game winning
streak by scoring a 20-0 victory
over the Hill Billies Saturday night
in Brownwood.
Prior to the ganre both teams
shared the cellar position of the
Texas Conference and the setback
was the eighth irr a row this sea-
son for DBC.
Johnny Walker broke the Ice
with his 91 yard scoring return
of the opening kick-off. The oth-
er two scores came In the fourth
quarter on passes.
The Billies produced only one
serious scoring threat during the
tilt marching to the one-yard line
in the second period only to lost
the ball on downs.
few
Rulova
rap
IN FINAL 25 SECONDS
JACKETS
Hrownwood Texas Thursduy November 7 1910
Out
me
With PETE OWENS
Samuels injured his passing hand
last week so Stokes was drafted to
the backfleld to do passing chores
. . . Tossirr' Tommy did not let his
sore harrd hinder him when he
tossed the 25 yard touchdown pass
irr the second quarter to Slim
Warren who carried the ball the
remaining 30 yards to pay dirt.
"Big Jawn" Kinrbrough is still
one of the top candidates for All-
American honors and his perform-
ance last Saturday at College
Station did not hurt his chances
any by scoring the first touchdown
and then halted two distinct Ar-
kansas threats by stunning inter-
ceptions and runbacks of 47 and
38 yards . . . Bob Brumley put
Rice out ahead of Texas A&I 9-6
with -a field goal in the last two
seconds of play in a ganre that
rivaled Howard Payne's last min-
ute victory for a thrilling climax
. . . The Owls were outplayed most
of the ganre by the Javellnas . . .
Tommy Harmon although Idle
this week still holds national
scoring honors by a one point mar-
gin over Walter Dorrriua who by
virtue of Iris 86 points has replaced
Penn's Frank Reagan as high
scorer of the East.
Aggie-SMU Tilt
S'west Feature
Southern Methodist's Mustangs
are the next hurdle for the Texas
Aggies to surmount in their quest
for the second consecutive South-
west conference title. Last year
the Ponies lost to the Aggies by
the narrow margin of 6-2 and are
again the underdogs but urc sure
to make a good game of it and
with good breaks may upset the
dope
Rice still shaking from her nar-
row escape from the hands of A&J
invades Fayettevrlle to play an
Arkansas team that was gieat -x-it'pt
for cosily fumbling against
the Aggies.
Frankly befuddled for the first
half in their Saturday meeting
with Arkansas the Aggies came
confidently buck to punch the
Razorbacks groggy with vicious
tackling cunning passing and run-
ning to win 17-0.
The Methodists who work on
the play-them-as-they-comu the-
ory as do the Aggies showed they
weren't forgetting their knitting
and looking too far ahead when
they shackled Jack Craln and
Texas 21-13. They made the
Aggies quiver a trifle by getting
15 first downs to Texas' two.
Texas its dreams of a confer-
ence championship melting after-
two straight defeats meets a good
Baylor team at Austin a Baylor
team that caught Texas Christian
with Kyle Gellespie at full blast
for the first time this season nnd
lost a tough 12-14 decision last
week.
The Christians expected to come
back after the Tulsa beating and
still far1 from out of the confer-
ence scramble with Gellespie ready
to go goes East for an lntersec-
tional date with Detroit loser of
.s only game thin season lust
Saturday to Tulsa.
NEXT SATURDAY'S GAMES
At Dallus: Texas A&M vs. South-
ern Methodist.
At Austin: Baylor vs. Texas.
At Fayettevllle: Rice vs. Ar-
kansas. At Detroit: Texas Christian vs.
Detroit.
FULL SEASON
Team G.
Texas A&M 6
SMU 5
Rico Institute 5
Texas 6
TCU 6
Baylor 6
Arkansas 6
CONFERENCE STAN
W. L. T.
6 0 0
4 0 1
4 10
4 2 0
3 3 0
3 3 0
3 3 0
DING
W. L. T.
3 0 0
10 0
10 0
2 10
12 0
I 3 0
0 3 0
Team-
G.
Texas A&M 3
Rice Institute 1
SMU 1
TCU 3
Texas 3
Arkansas 4
Baylor 3
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G. C. GRA VES
Little G. C. (Gar) Graves 160
pounder is one of the standout
guards In Texas conference lino
play this season. Not only a top-
notch defensive rrrarr this stocky
Big Spring senior is one of the
Yellow Jacket squad's best block-
ers. Playing his third year with
the Blue and Gold gridders Graves
will be starting at his right grrard
slot Friday night agnlnst the Trin-
ity Tigers.
Kangaroos Win Upset
Victory Over ACC
Irr the first stunning upset of
the current Texas Corrference race
plucky little Austin College fought
the favored Abilene Christian Col-
lege Wildcats to a standstill Fri-
day night in Shurrnun and emerged
the 7-6 victors of a hard-fought
tut.
By virtue of this victory the
Kangaroos successfully protected
their record of never having lost
a game to the Abilene squad in
Sherman.
Midway In the third period Joe
Coomer and James Richards
crashed through to block Buster
Dixorr's punt nnd Austin took over
on the ACC 30. Doc Floyd plung-
ed across In five plays and then
pruvidtd the game's winning mar-
gin by successfully converting
u;r iim.1 back rrr the final pi-
nod tn mi. hi its Touchdown on a
76-yaril march Tugboat Jones
rammed ever froirr the rive bin the
Kangaroos blocked his attempted
placeklck.
Austin exhibited fine defensive
play and showed a stout defense
in fighting off three scoring at-
tempts of the visitors. The de-
feat was the first suffered by the
Wildcats in conference play this
heason.
ACC Wins Over A&M
In Cross-Country Dual
COLLEGE STATION Texas
Nov. 2 Abilene Christian College
cross country runners defeated
the Texas Aggies today captur-
ing the first three places in the
dual meet.
The Aggies placed the next
three men missed seventh place
but got eighth and ninth placings.
ACC took tenth place for u total
of 23 points to the Aggies' 32
(low score wins in cross country
racing).
Elmer Wornnck Horace Temple-
ton nnd Gene Stanford of Abilene
Christian finished withlrr arm dis-
tance of each other The time was
11:2.0.
Pro Title Rests With
Redskins and Bears
The professional football season
was just about over this week for
everybody except the Washington
Redskins and the Chicago Bears
Unless a miracle happens those
two clubs will meet at Wa.shington
Dec. S for the world's champion-
ship. The Redskins unbeaten and un-
tied needed only two more vic-
tories in four games to clinch the
eastern division title. The Bears
victorious in six out of seven
games need two more wins in
their four-game schedule to clinch
a tie for the western division title.
The prospects of either club
losing a game between now and
the regular season's end are slim
except when they get together in
a regularly scheduled game at
Washington a week from Sunday.
That'll be a preview of the cham-
pionship game to follow.
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Triumph Is HPC's
Fifth Consecutive
By BLACKIE SHERROD
A team that couldn't be whipped
one that would not quit in the face
of almost certain defeat was per-
sonified Saturday night in the
form of a fighting Yellow Jacket
eleven from Howard Payne who
literally brought story-book foot-
ball back to life with a breath-taking
thrilling 14-10 triumph over
the highly-touted Texas Wesleyan
Rams of Fort Worth In the Inst 25
seconds of play on the green turf
of Cowtown's beautiful Farrlngton
Field.
The contest played before a col-
orful homecoming crowd of 15000
saw the lead change twice In tho
last 75 seconds of play.
GAME IN BRIEF
HPC TWC
0 First Dowrrs 8
103.. Yards gained rushing.. 55
42.... Yards lost rushing. .. .17
132. .Yards gained passing. .131
103 Net yardage scrimmage 169
8 of 15 Passes completed 14 of 31
2 ...Passes Intercepted by... 0
12 for 389. . Punts . .11 for 407
2 for 30 ..Penalties.. 5 for 35
After playing three quarters
with the count at 7-all Coach Gua
Miller's gridders drew Ilrst blood
in the llnal scoring melee with
Johnny Hunter's 21-ynrd field goal
with 65 seconds left In the gome.
It was then that the Jackets
showed championship timber and
ironically enough it was two sub-
stitutes who pulled the game from
the fire for Howard Payne.
Operating from u spread for-
mation from the HPC 35-yard
stripe big Bob Stokes took tho
snap back faded a few steps and
shot n perfect strike to James
Vanderveer squarely over the cen-
ter and the rugged end picked up
several blockers and smashed to
the Ram 15. Cyclone Jones picked
rrp four more on a screen pass and
the Jackets drew a five yard
penalty for excessive time outs.
Then came the game's high
point. Stokes passing for the first
time this year whipped a sure-
fin toss to VaUUWtl 'I -.1
TWC foui ind tin int; 'vugii'dL
raced arm's the hi'lt itnpe for
six point" and Uu o i tfrruo a
the hugf crowd wont jnmiU'telv
boserk Cri-t'ftptinn Syi Ri-m
kick from placement split the
nriddlc. It was a fitting climax
to one of the most thrilling tilts
in Texas conference history.
Early in the initial quarter HPC
took over on the TWC 35 after a
bad punt and staked their first
scoring threat of the game. How-
ard Swann nnd Garland Terrell
drove to the 23 before the Rams
tightened up. The Cowtowners be-
gan their scoring drive in this
same period. Starting from hla
own 24 Ruel Hoffman tossed to
Wayne Hillery for a first down on
the HPC 49 then scampered
through the middle for 10 yards.
The little tailback passed to Har-
old Coon to the HPC 14 and raced
behind powerful blocking to the
four. Snow picked up two aB the
quarter ended.
On the second play of the second
frame Coon smashed over right
guard for the Rams' first score in
the five-year rivalry between the
two schools. Joe Turner con-
verted. The Jackets retaliated some five
minutes later. Jones scooped up
n Ram pass in midficld. Tossin'
Tommy Samuels trotted on the
field and on the first play jumped
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