The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1924 Page: 5 of 6
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THE THRESHER
HOUSTON, TEXAS
6*^
SOUTHWESTERN CONFERENCE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE, '24
BICE
TEXAS U.
TEXAS A. ft M.
BAYLOR
8. M U.
T. C. U.
ARK. U.
OKLA. A. ft M.
SEPT. 20
John Tarleton
College Station
_
SEPT. 37
OCT. 4
Southwestern
Austin
(Sept. 24)
Phillips
A untin
Trinity U.
College Station
Simmons
Abilene
N. Texas Teachers
Dallas
E. Texas Teachers
Fort Worth
Southwestern Teach.
Stillwater
Kansas U.
Lawrence, Kan.
T C. U.
FORT WORTH
Sam Ho. Normal
Houston
Southwestern
College Station
Sewanee
Dallas
N. Texas Teachers
Waco
Trinity U.
Dallas
Daniel Baker
Fort Worth
(Oct. 3)
Springfield Normal
Fayettevllle
llendrix College
Fayetteville
OCT. U
OCT IS
OCT. 2S
NOV. 1
NOV. 8
NOV. 15
NOV. 22
NOV. 27
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Southwestern
Houston
Howard Payne
Urownwood
Ok Cent. TeacherA
Dallas (Oct. 10)
Austin College
Dallas (Oct 10)
OKLA. A ft M.
FORT WORTH
L. S. V.
Houston
S. M. U.
DALLAS
Arkansas Assies
College Station
(Oct. 17)
ARK. U.
WACO
TEXAS U,
DALLAS
Simmons
Abilene (Oct. 17)
BAYLOR U.
WACO
Mo. School of Mines
Stillwater
Phillips
Stillwater
Ok la. U,
Stillwater
Crefefhton U.
Omaha
T. C. U
FORT WORTH
Florida U.
Austin ( ?)
S. M. U.
DALLAS
Austin College
Waco
TEX. A. & M.
WACO
TEXAS U.
WACO
S. M. U.
DALLAS
St. Kdwards College
Waco (Nov. 21)
TEX. A. & M.
DALLAS
RICE
FORT WORTH
U. of Miss.
Little Hock
TEXAS U.
HOUSTON
Austin College
Houston
(Nov. 7)
RICE
HOSTON
BAYLOR
WACO
BAYLOR
WACO
T. C. U.
FORT WORTH
ARKANSAS U.
FAYETTEVILLE
S. M. U.
FORT WORTH
L. S U.
Shreveport
S. M. U.
FAYETTEVILLE
Phillips U.
Fort Smith
OKLA. A. & M.
STILLWATER
T. C. U.
COLLEGE STATION
TEXAS A. & M.
COLLEGE STATION
TEXAS U.
FORT WORTH
ARKANSAS U.
FAYETTEVILLE
TEX. A. & M.
COLLEGE STATION
(NOV. 14)
T. C U.
FORT WORTH
RICE
COLLEGE STATION
(NOV. 14)
BAYLOR
DALLAS
OKLA. A. & M.
DALLAS
ARKANSAS U.
STILLWATER
8. M. U.
DALLAS
BAYLOR
HOUSTON
TEXAS A. & M.
AUSTIN
TEXAS U.
AUSTIN
RICE
HOUSTON
T. C. U.
FAYETTEVILLE
Games that have bearing on Conference championship are set in black face type. Save this schedule for future reference.
HWL SPORT
HOOTS
The grid squad weighs around 6,500
pounds. Not so Lilliputianish, is it?
Weight is a bigger factor in football
than any other sport. Coach Bedenk
says he was next to the lightest man
on the Penn team last year, and he
weighs 193. Rice's heaviest weighs
235, her lightest weighs 135.
BEE DINK
* * *
Beee-DINK!
Coach Bedenk is no namby-pamby.
Warning—if you go to shake hands
with him, get your feet firmly plant-
ed, and try to get the protective grip.
He can squeeze. Accent his name on
the last syllable, thus—Bee-DINK^
He's an All-American, and that's an
honor for any man. And co-eds, this
is still Leap Year!
♦ * *
EX-WHIZ.
Roy Chambers, athletic business
manager, has been in a sweat because
he can't be in a uniform. He has
acute grid fever, contracted from
watching Heisman & Co. at work on
the Owl squad. You see, Roy himself
is an old football horse, and whenever
the bell rings he wants to go to the
fire. He was a whiz in the backl'ield
in past seasons.
♦ *
THE NICKS
Don't get the Nicks mixed up,
Freshmen. NicholSON is the new
man; NichoLAS is the old timer here.
The jlew one is the bigger; he's a
track and basketball man par excel-
lence. Little Nick's specialty is foot-
ball.
* * *
AUDACITY.
A couple of Texas U. hams, named
Burns and Moore, came out to take
a slant at signal practice. Dr. Heis-
man greeted them and said, "Boys,
we're glad to have you, but " etc.
Unless you are a Gray and Blue boos-
ter, you can't see the Owls in action
until October 4.
* * *
ANXIETY.
Every school in the Conference is
looking at Rice with anxious eyes.
The six coaches have them scared stiff.
They don't know what to expect. Well,
the anxiety is justified; we may not
tear up the earth this year, but be-
fore this year's Freshmen graduate-
look out!
* * *
"SNIFF, SNIFF" (TEARS).
Texas U. probably will omit foot-
ball altogether next year, prospects
are so poor. Likewise Baylor. Doc
Stewart and Frank Bridges hang more
false crepe than an undertaker. To
hear them tell it, neither has mate-
rial enough for a mah jongg team,
and such material as may come out
later is all broken up and sick.
♦ * *
WILL IT BE S. M. U.?
Judging from the dope in news-
papers, which is a hard task, S. M.
U. looks like a topnotcher this fall.
Bible at A. and M. is waxing opti-
mistic, and not without reason. His
Waterloo comes from Houston, tho.
Texas and Baylor and S. M. U. look
best, not mentioning, of course, Rice's
own prospects.
* ♦ *
"TRY AND DO IT."
Slimes don uniforms Monday. Last
year the Slime eleven smeared the
varsity on several occasions. Think
you can do it this fall, Freshmen?
Seven Good Slimes
Report Early For
Football Practice
Grid practice began Wednedsay
morning for seven Freshmen, under
the tutelage of an entirely new coach
—"Heavy" Underwood of the varsity.
Heavy was giving a game shoulder a
rest for a few hours, and Heisman put
him in charge of the Slimes.
One of the Freshmen in football
uniform was "Buss" Nevinger of
Greenville, Illinois, all-state basket-
ball man and a handler of the weights
during track season. He has never
seen a football game, had never before
worn a football uniform. Nevertheless
he is learning the game rapidly and
is one of the most promising men on
the list. He weighs around ISO. He
had some earlier workouts with the
varsity. Ashcraft is responsible for
bringing him to Rice, he says, and
for that he believes he will always be
grateful.
"Slunkie" Hart, Heights High star
of past seasons, was doing good work
in first practice. He is a 170 pounder.
"Punk" Cummings, Central High,
needs no introduction at Rice. This is
one of the fastest men in the State on
a football field. He was out Wednes-
day.
"Boots" Harding, lineman from Tex-
arkana, Ark., is another Slime pros-
pect. He has a good rep.
George Appling, former El Campo
end, was snatching passes with agility
in first workout. He will offer a
strong bid for the '28 team.
"Dusty" Boone of Navasota is a
backfield man, registering today. He
appeared in a uniform Wednesday and
received favorable comment.
Likewise John Henry, from Galves-
ton, a suburb of Houston. Henry
plays a mean game of football, as a
guard * or tackle. He weighs 170
pounds, and is one of the best bets
.for the Freshman team.
Regular daily practice will be held
from now on by the Freshmen, under
the direction of Coach Nicholson, for-
mer Montreal and Sewanee coach and
coach of the Olympic teams from Can-
ada this summer.
One of the best Freshmen teams in
the history of the school is predicted.
©
Autry House Ready
For Autumn Rush;
Freshmen Welcomed
Autry House, properly deemed the
"Fireside of Rice," has opened for the
year's business on an elaborate style.
The stock in both the canteen and
cafeteria has been added to materially
and many things can now be had there
that were formerly impossible to get
except by a long trip to town.
The club rooms have been opened
to the use of the various clubs that
will start functioning in the new year's
business, and the dance floor will be
available to the various "hops" that
will be held there during the year.
Mr. Masterson's beaming face is
gracing the place and Mrs. Blake's
mothering smile has returned to take
in all the boys, especially the new ones
she does not as yet know by name.
The place will be attractive, espe-
cially to the Freshman this year as in
every year, on account of the comfort
and luxury that the place affords the
idle.
HEISMAN-
John Nicholson. he;id coach of track
at Rice, was coach of (he Canadian
Olympic teams this year. He also was
at one time world's champion in the
high hurdles. He is shown here clear-
ing a hurdle on a track at Montreal.
CAMPANILE UNDER
WAY
STEWART AND ABERCROMB1E
PROMISE BEST YEARBOOK
Work was begun on the Campanile
for 1925 by the new staff, headed by
Chauncey Stewart and Lovett Aber-
crombic as editor and business man-
ager, respectively, during the summer.
The book promises to be the best in j
the history of Rice with such a bright i I
outlook in athletic and other lines.
The staff intends to have the book j
out at the close of school as it was last j
year. Many new students have been j
and will be put to work on the book.
Miss' Ruth Young not be back
to do the art work and arrangements
are being made to try and have alum-
ni artists aid in doing the art work.
John Clark Tidden will do a good bit
of the work as usual.
®-
Charity, and enclosed cars, cover ;i
multitude of sins.
(Continued from Page 1.)
work harder or more cheerfully than
has this one during the agonizing first
week under an all but tropical sun.
From the very start they ALL went
at their work not only in a business-
like way, but With highly evident de-
termination to get somewhere, to make
something of themselves if it was at
all "in the wood." They figure that
the coaches know their business and
will do their best, and so they seem
to realize that if a satisfactory team
is to appear it will be up to them to
keep up with the pace set by tin-
coaches.
And this is most pleasing to the
coaches. We are all njosi favorably
impressed with the obvious fine spirit
of the men, with their persistency and
grit, and with the earnest manner in
which they are training and coming
to the scratch in full and hearty re-
sponse to the strict rules of discipline
laid down by the coaches from the
very beginning. More than that they
are keeping their mouths shut and
their ears and eyes wide open. They
are trying hard to understand and to
learn this intricate game. They are
having not merely two practices a
day, but two prolonged lecture periods
daily as well, and to their credit be
it said they are promptly on hand for
each, giving their best attention, ask-
ing sensible questions, making endless
notes, AND—THEY ARK LEARNING
Welcome!
We are mighty glad to
have you back again.
Houston without you
Rice boys is like a car
without gas.
HEROIC.
She: "The man who marries me
must be hold and daring."
He: '"Yes, he must."
A Welcome
To New Faces and Old
Dover is glad to have
you fellows back again
—and to extend a wel-
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VERY RAPIDLY. About this there
can be no manner of doubt.
To me it is perfectly apparent they
have remembered much the most of
what I expounded to them about the
game last spring, and it is now evi-
dent that we had a most beneficial
spring workout. They remember
things from day to day because they
are in deadly earnest.
In a word, considering their com-
parative greenness and their human
limitations, we are all very well
pleased, indeed, with the way the en-
tire squad has buckled down to its
stern work and with the rapid prog-
ress they are showing.
For myself, I am equally delighted
with the staff of coaches I have or-
ganized. I do not hesitate to say that
1 have never been surrounded by a
more harmonious set of assistants or
one with whom it was a greater pleas- '
ure or satisfaction to discuss the dif-
ficult problems that arise in every
football camp. The real, downright, sci-
entific epirit pervades the staff. They j
all know football, they are all ener-
getic and ambitious to turn out a good ,
team and, above all, they are loyal—- i
of that I am convinced.
And so. for the present at least, 1
am more than satisfied. A GREAT
team it would be absurd to expect
for this year yet; but for a better
team than Rice has been presenting
there is much good ground for
strong hope. That should be enough
for me to say for one week, and it
should decide everybody to roll up his
sleeves and get right behind the team
and coaches and figure out just when
and where and how he can do his bit
toward helping to turn out a team that
shall be even more than fairly good.
Next week I'm going to tell you of
some of the ways in which you can
help.
Riceonians, the eyes of the South-
west are upon us. Heads up!
J. W. HEISMAN,
Head C'oach.
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