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VOLUME VII
MCE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, OCTOBER 21, 1921
NUMBER 6
SOUTHWESTERN
TO INVADE OWL
ROOST SATURDAY
R!CE!S READY
FOR BIG CLASH
WITH PIRATES
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Seven Letter Men Back for
Southwestern. Dyer Out
of Game Temporarily
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The Southwestern Pirates from
Georgetown will be the opponents of
the Rice Owls on the gridiron tomor-
row. The Pirates are not to be un-
derrated despite their two defeats in
their Arst two games. They have
always put up a good Aght against
Rice and can be counted on to cause
the Owls some trouble tomorrow.
The Southwestern team this year
was built around seven or eight letter
men from last year and will, no doubt,
get better as the season advances. The
Pirates will be remembered as the
team that after a bad start last year
defeated Baylor in mid-season. This
goes to show that no s et up is to be
expected. Coach Yerges is taking no
chances of any slip and the Varsity
has undergone a week of stiff practice.
The Texas game is only a week oif
now and Coach is priming his men
for the hardest fight of the year.
Eddie Dyer wil probably be out for
some time. He may get to play in
the A. & M. game but it is not certain.
Several muscles were torn and liga-
ments strained in his knee during the
first quarter of last Saturday's game
and it takes time for such things to
heal. He will be greatly missed in the
Texas game and will weaken the Owls.
Swartz is being primed to take his
place and will do a lot to All the hole
left by our captain.
Southwestern has the services of a
splendid coach. Gardner played four
years with Carlisle and was an ail
American end—one of the greatest
the game has produced. He was also
given a place on the all-service end
which shows that his football know!
edge has improved with years. He
has been coach at Sewanee and Ken
tucky and is expected to put South
western on the map when he has a
little more time to develop good ma
terial. His e xperience behind South
western teams promises to make the
Pirates a factor in Texas football.
RICE OWLETS
CLASH WITH
RUSK TODAY
REPRESENTATIVE
PARADE GREETS
TULANE TEAM
Largest One Ever Staged
By Rice Student
Body
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The parade before the Tulane game
was the greatest in Rice history, gen-
eral opinion agreed. At least six hun-
dred students participated, the town
men turning out very nearly in full
force. The co-ed representation was
also high. Headed by the band and
eight feet of "Bloody" Meyer the pro-
cession jigged and whooped from La-
mat* down Main street to Preston,
across to Fannin, up Fannin to
Prairie, back to Main and up to the
Rice Hotel. Enough pep was unloosed
to supply Mexico for ten years. After
treating the downtown crowds to a
%ew minutes of real Rice yells the
parade crossed Texas to Travis, made
a loop to Main and disbanded at La-
mar.
The football men and the yell lead-
ers say that the exhibition of spirit
was the most grattifying thing that
has happened since the dorm students
welcomed the defeated team home
from Baylor.
It is probable that another parade
will be held tonight, at which "Shorty"
plans to unloose something new.
Second Game for Freshies
Promises to Be a
Hard One
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The Rice Owlets will meet with
strong oposition in their second game
of the season on Rice Held this after-
noon. Rusk Junior College is rated as
one of the best preparatory schools
in the state. Last year, on a muddy
field, this same aggregation held the
Freshmen '24 to a 0-0 tie. Their team
is practically intact and is expected to
show a good brand of football.
Their coach is an experienced hand-
ler of football teams. Mosely was
coach for Baylor for several years and
is rated as a first-class coach with
lot of practical knowledge at his Anger
tips.
Coach Arbuckle has spared no effort
to bring his charges to the height of
perfection.
The freshman squad is blessed with
an assortment of stars that has rarely
been seen on a Rice freshman team
McCoy, Heflin, Colley, Smith, Ken
dricks, Thomas, Hale, Wilford, Irvin
and Starling are first-rate players
with football experience far beyond
the ordinary. There are numerous
others on the squad who have good
stuff in them and wil make the com
petition for Varsity next year very
keen.
The freshman squad is in good con
dition with the exception of Starling,
who is out temporarily with a sprained
ankle.
Admission to students is 26c; out-
siders at 80c.
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St?/,n
TULANE DEFEATS
RICE OWLS BY A
NARROW MARGIN
RICE REPRESENTED
IN TRACK EVENTS
AT HOUSTON FAIR
PHYSICAL TRAIN-
ING CLASSES TO
START MONDAY
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Mr. Mann Makes Improve-
ments Over Course
of Last Year
Classes in physical education will
begin n ext week, it was announced by
Coach Leslie Mann oMnday. This
work is compulsory for freshmen and
for second-year freshmen who did not
receive credit for it last year and vol-
untary for upperclassmen. Mr. Mann
stated that the work would be very
much the same as that of last year.
There will be such framing as
jumping, running, hurdling, pole
vaulting, fence vaulting, rope climb-
ing, chinning, snapping under the bar,
weight exercises, medicine ball, punt-
ing an d passing the football, games
of basketball, volley ball and baseball,
goal practice, boxing and wrestling
and almost any free exercise one may
wish to take.
Students are required to have an
examination card, which may be< se-
cured from Mr. Mann at the Held
house,fitted out bya physician before
entering the classes. These cards are
kept on Ale and improvements noted
from time to time. This system is a
very satisfactory one and proved its
worth last year. Under it, a student
with a weak heart, for instance, is not
aHowed to participate in work which
woutd overtax his heart. Another
very commendable feature of the
course is the provision which places
students of equal physical prowess to-
gether in the various contests which
are held from time to time.
AH of the classes were well attended
last year, not only bythe Freshmen,
but by many upperclassmen who
wished to derive the beneAts offered
by the course.
At the end of the year, students
are graded on the number of exer-
cises they can do successfuMy and
Ywarded insignia according to their
rank. Plans for these contest will not
be announced until later.
The classes for girls, which are also
quite popular, will probably be started
after Thanksgiving. These too will be
under the instructorship of Mr. Mann.
Much good material was brought to
light by the gym work last year and
it is hoped that such will be the case
this year.
On the day of November 11 of the
Houston Fair the Rice Institute wit!
be represented in the track events
which take place at 11 o'clock. The
races to be staged are the 100 yard
dash, the quarter mile, and a Ave mite
run and the events are. open to at!.
In the 100 yard dash Rice will have
its two old faithful sprinters in
Preacher Lindsey of Beaumont and
Frank Goss of Abilene. Lindsey is
one of the fastest men on the cinder
path in the South and has been timed
to run this distance in many meets
at 9 4-5 seconds and one time iast
spring the ofAciats' watches caught
him at 9 3-5 seconds. Lindsey also
had a chance to spread his fame on
the track throughout the North this
last summer participating in the Illi-
nois Collegiate Meet last June and
atso in several other track meets
around Chicago.
In the 440 the Owls witl have Cole-
man of Corpus Christi, Goss and
Thomas, both of Abilene. Coleman
was a star half-miter for Rice last
year and also ran in the quarter mile
in several meets. Frank Goss is an
old Rice Star in the 220-yard dash,
winning many points for the Owls in
that event. He has been in the 440
many times taking Arst or second
ptace as the case might have war-
ranted. Thomas was a Freshman last
year and was unabte to show his true
skitt on the cinder path for Rice, but
he has got a good high school record
behind him.
"Littte" W. H. Winn of Temple and
C. A. Lowman of Staples will Ay the
grey and blue cotors in the Ave mite
run. Winn ran in the two mile run
at Rice his Freshman year but was
unable to do eo last year on account
of the probation ruling. He will be
seen on the track this spring. In Low-
man the Owts have another miler from
last year's Freshmen. Lowman took
many Arsts in his track career at high
school and is aiming to do so at Rice.
The men have already started pre-
liminary training but will work out in
earnest from Monday unto the day of
the meet. They witt be at a handicap
by not being abte to use the entire
track on the account of the bteacher
seats recently constructed for the foot-
ball games but the men witt make the
best of their opportunity.
The Arst three men in each event
wilt receive prizes; first prize being a
gold medat; second, a sitver medal;
third, a bronze medat.
NOTED ARCTIC
EXPLORER TO
GIVE LECTURE
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Stef ansson to Address Hous-
ton Audience at City
Auditorium
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The announcement that Vilhjalmur
Stefansson, the noted Arctic explorer,
will be in Houston for a lecture, has
been received with much interest by
Rice students. This lecture will be
given under the auspices of the
Woman's Ctub of Houston in the city
auditorium on the evening of Wed-
nesday, October 26, at 8:15. The lec-
ture wit be interesting as well as in-
structive and the management is ex-
pecting a targe attendance by Rice
students.
Stefansson is acknowledged as one
of the foremost scientist-explorers of
the world, and it is after a wide ex-
perience in the Arctic Zone that he is
making a tour of lectures. His Ave
years in the Arctic served to do away
withtfiffany otd theories concerning
that country. He had onty food
enough for one year with him but
managed to subsist Ave years in the
cotd regions, living off of the land and,
using seal blubber for fuel. He had
onty one sled and six dogs for his
party, instead of taking a regiment of
dogs and a long sted train as his pre-
decessors had done.
The subject of the lecture hv Mr.,
Stefansson will be "My Five Years
in the Arctic.' This lecture is one of
the best that witt come to Houston this I
season, and it is one that is welt
TOOL SHED OF
TENNIS COURT
IS DESTROYED
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Fire Friday destroyed the shed ad-
joining the tennis courts, used to
house the nets, tools and liming appa-
ratus. The loss was rather a serious
one to the sport at Rice, as all the old
nets were consumed along with sev-
eral of the new ones and there are
now only three nets available for use.
A grass Are engineered by Tony to
clear the campus and burn out a few
of the weaker mosquitos caused the
blaze. The Are crept up after the
force of Mexicans had left the scene,
and had reached the shed before
ptayers on the courts noticed the
smoke issuing from the cracks. At-
tempts to put the Are out were
laughable.
STADIUM AT
STANFORD NEAR
COMPLETION
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Stanford University, Oct. 10.—An-
other tier of seats witt be erected in
the Stanford stadium if it is necessary
to provide for more than 60,000 spec-
tators for this year's big game. Steel
shafts sunk into the slope of the solid
embankment will support this addi-
tional structure. Work on the wooden
seats is practicalty Anished and ex-
cept for the playing Aeld itsetf the
arena is ready for the big game.
The early completion of the stadium
which was started onty three and a
half months ago has caused a great
deat of comment among professional
architects. Concrete work will be put
in at a tater date.
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CALENDAR
Friday, October 21.
11:30 a. m.—Lecture for Fresh-
men Engineers In 212 P. L.
4:00 p. m.—Writing Club In
Autry House.
Saturday, October 22.
3:30 p. m.—Rice-Southwestern
Footba!! Game.
8:30 p. m.—Dance 1 n Autry
House.
Sunday, October 23.
9:00 a. m.—Services in Autry
House.
Monday, October 24.
12:30 p. m.—E. B. L. S. Meets
in Girls' Club Room.
Tuesday, October 25.
12:30 p. m.—P. A. L. S. Meets
m Girls' Club Room.
in
4:30 p. m.—Band Practice
Debating Room.
8:00 p. m.—Forum In Autry
House.
Wednesday, October 26.
4:30 to 6 p. m.—Dance in Autry
House.
7:30 p. m.—Lecture to Engin-
eers in Physics Amphi-
theatre.
Thursday, October 27.
4:30 p. m.—Band Practice in
Debating Room.
12:30 p. m.—Y. W. C. A. In
Girls' Club Room.
8:00 p. m.—Y. M. C. A. Cabi-
net in Debating Room.
7:30 p. m.—"The Porcelain
Lamp" for Engineers in
. Physics Amphitheatre.
-
worth the attention of Rice students.
POUND SPEAKS
TO SLIME MEN
AT MEETING
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The Arst of the series of freshman
engineering tectures was delivered
tast Saturday morning, when Mr. J.
H. Pound of the Mechanical Engineer-
ing Department, delivered his lecture
on "The Training of an Engineer."
The purpose of this series of lec-
tures is to decrease the number of
failures among the freshman engin-
eers, and to heip the freshman to se-
tect his tife work intelligently.
"The essential equipment of an en-
gineer consists of an excetlent knowl-
edge of the theory of the sciences
underlying his work, a knowledge of
modem practical methods of applica-
tion of this theory, and the ability to
actuaty use this knowtedge efAciently
and logically, meanwhile directing and
organizing human efforts to this end,"
said Mr. Pound.
"These essentials may be sccured in
varying degrees through practical ex-
perience atone, practical work com-
bined with correspondence or night-
school instruction, or by a broad sys-
tematic course in a technical schoot
with a small amount of practice. Tech-
nical schooling is too valuable a short-
cut to success to be abandoned under
less than four years work except for
imperative reasons. The opportunities
for the student working his way, and
the attitude toward him, are excellent
at Rice."
Mr. Pound closed his remarks by
recommending that all engineers 4arly
acquire the habit of checking results
and completing work. The summer
work will give valuable engineering
experience, especially in dealing with
men. The freshmen are particularly
warned to pass all freshman courses,
for it is difAcult to graduate in four
years after failing some freshman
courses.
The next freshman lecture will be
delivered Saturday, October 22, at
11:30 a. m.^in room 212, Physics buitd-
ing. This lecture will deal with "How
to Keep Off Probaiton," a general dis-
cussion of the Institute rules govern-
ing scholarship, with suggestions as
to the best way to maintain a respect-
able scholarship record. Mr. H. K.
Humphrey, of the B^ctricals, witl be
' the lecturer.
GREAT FINISH
BY OWLS MAKES
SCORE AT 7 TO 6
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McGee Makes Touchdown
After Great Run. Dyer
Is Injured
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Reputsed by the goddess of fortune
untit the iast minute of Saturday's
ptay, Rite hopes reached the zenith
when McGee sprinted across the Tu-
iane goat after a 30-yard pass front
Kennedy, onty to fail again when the
weary Owt fulback was unabte to ho;it
the oval through the posts for the
tone point which woutd have tied the
score.
Tutane's touchdown, made in the
second quarter when Tatbot recov-
ered a Rice punt, btocked by LeGendre,
and rotted across the Owl goat tine
with it, was sufficient to wiwtbe game.
7-6. Matoney kicked goat.
It was evident that the Greenbacks
were outctasscd by the Rice bteven
throughout the game. Their tine,
somewhat huskier than the Owts',
gave way time after time, white their
backs were unabte to make headway.
It was LeGendre's punting which held
the Yerges men back and uttiniatety
won the game for Tutane. Scverat
times, after fighting her way dowti
the fietd the Btue and Gray was mo-
mentarily checked, LeGendre was
catted upon to kick and the baii went
saiiit^T*t)aek with'the wh/tle dr39
march to make over again.
Rice made eleven first downs, in-
cluding McGee's ftnat gain, for a totat
of 270 yards. The Greenbacks made
onty one first down, in their own terri-
tory.
On the other hand Tuiane kicked
thirteen times for a totai distance of
560 yards, an average of 45 yards.
Rice punted ten times for 325 yards.
The Owts took the fietd in the first
quarter with the wind at their backs.
Nevertheless, Tutane etected to stage
a punting duet and was abie to keep
the honors even. The speedy Dyer
ran these punts back, however, with
such success that ptay was forced
graduatty into Tutane teritory. Fi-
nally, receiving a punt in midfictd.
Rice carried the batt by tine ptays to
within a few yards of the Tutane
goat, the quarter ending with scrim-
mage on the 4-yard tine. The Owts
made four first downs in this period
The Owt captain on the next ptay
ptunged through right guard tor three
yards. Again the batt was snapped to
him for a brush of right end; he jug-
gted it a moment and Tutane's fast
end, Miske, broke through and stopped
him for a 3-yard toss. Rice tosing the
bait.
A 65-yard spirat from LeGendre's
toe in the second quarter proved the
undoing of the Owls. The batt rotted
over the tine for a touchback and was
put in ptay on t he 20-yard iine. Rice
was penalized 15 yards for hotding.
and when Chambers tried to punt from
beneath his own goat posts his effort
went for onty 20 yards. With Tutane
in possesion of th e batt. the Rice de-
fense tightened however a n d the
Greenies were forced back, tosing on
nearty e very ptay, and surrendering
the pigskin on d o w n s. Kennedy
slashed through right tackte for 5
yards, but Swartz was thrown for
tosses and Kennedy punted.
LeGendre got through and btocked
the kick, the bat! bounding back to-
ward Rice's goal with severat Tutane
men after it. Talbot, 200-pound
guard, felt on the bal and his impetus
carried him over the line. Neither
team made a first down in the quarter.
Neither goal was threatened in the
third quarter, which atso witnessed
some tengthy punting. A Rice attack
launched from her 20-yard tine was
hatted in midAeld.
The final quarter opened on the Rice
30-yard line, where the Owls had ad-
vanced it by line gains. McGee, sent
j in as a substitute, was started around
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