The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1929 Page: 4 of 6
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Greetings.
Tls bard to find a better word, bo
we'll let It bo at that. Another hectic
year putters to the starting mark this
morning, with 400 additional young
men and women of destiny here to
make the Institute safe for green ties
and overalls.
Of course, the Owls are coming aaid
should arrive by 1930. Meanwhile,
cock a weather eye for Coach Jack
Meagher's gridsters. . • they
may give you a thrill or two yet.
There will now be a brief pause
for station announcements.
HOW'S YOUR INGENUITY
We notice with much inward trepi-
dation the new "passing" football that
Condi llay Morrison of the S. M. U.
MustiifiiKH has Invented.
The ball is elongated, tapering t.o
the emR with a greatly reduced mid-
riir. This makes II Ideally suited for
passing, sine- (he added length and
slendenn ss iilTords a linnet* grip.
Thus, on Hi" slightest pretext, Mr.
Mirrison's young men can now clutch
the pigskin and hurl it from here to j
Harper's Kerry
Astounding accuracy, 'tis said, may
be expected of ibis new "passing"
footbal. Keaits such as related In the
preecding paragraph will becortlt' com-
monplare, and no hack will be conshv
ert'd a good passor unless lu? « an non-
clialanlly hliudfoUl himseil and send
the ball spiunins through the loop
in the tail of an alley-eat live mile
away.
Mr. Morrison has ordered a number
of these footballs and ru'oposes t,o try
them out on .other .Southwest confer-
ence teams. A splendid opportunity
is opening for these teams to be mar-
tyrs In the cause of science.
A mental picture comes to mind of
some coach next December, just, prior
to the time he hits for tall timber.
The bloodthirsty alumni are gathered
about him in a pack, as he says with
fervor in his voice and fever in his
eyes
"Who said <56? Navv, it. was fir,... M
to 0 they beat. us. Ha! ha! ha! What
does a little thing like that matter"
Especially when we was trying out,
(Ills new yasslng football.
"Martyrs, that's what we was
martyrs in the cause of science! Sci-
ence rules the world today. We sac-
rificed ourselves lor the glory of sci-
ence Can't you gents tjuit growling
and hi biz enough to see the tremen-
dous cost of our sacrifice, us scien-
tific martyrs?"
About this time the massacre be-
gins. Thi' police find the mangled
body nexi day and announce thai a
new "ax" maniac is at large. The dis-
trict alinrney. when Interviewed, says
he ex peels a gigantic crime ring to be
unearthed in the near future.
If seems to us that with the corn
lug of Mr. Morrison's football the field
for linenfivo young gentlemen will be
increased enormously. Opportunity
seems unlimited'for the right man.
No longer.'then, will football games
he won on the gridiron. Instead, the
gridsters will retreat to the labora-
tory and figure out devious ways of
thwarting the scientific counter charge
boasted by the opposition.
For Instance, another Merlin might
come forth with ii "fumble" football.
This ball_ might be slipped- in play
••when' 1 In"opposing team is on (he of
onsive.
Then, wi'-h lime the opposing backs
start off with the bull, they will fum
bio Ingeniously. Our hero can stand
on the other side of the line and at,
each fumble, say, "Come hither, little
pigskin! The ball then bounds into
our hero's arms, who runs lui yawls
for the touchdown thai wins the game
Or, another Lindbergh might Intro-
duce a flying" football, equipped
with an intricate parachute device* Af-
ter reae img the proper height, after
a kick or pass, the parachute would
open and the ball would soar on over
thtf opposition's goal
Our hero could then say, "Descend
Info my arms, flying leather," and
leave the opposition dumbfounded.
We seem to recall an instance of
the "kicking" football last fall. The
ball had been made very corpulent
about the center section by one coach,
who had gone to much palus to secure
the permission of the opposing coach
*for its use In their game.
The coach who had invented this lit-
tle labor saving device wa quite sure
that the other coach's kicker would
profit by it little for lie was hardly
more thaii an average kicker.
Imagine Ills perturbation, then, when
this average kicker developed over-
night Into a combination of Coy, Eck-
ersall und O'Dea. all melted together
In one lump. The coach saw kicking
that afternoon that he had never seen
before.
"How did you do 1t?" he asked the
opposing coach,, who happened to be
his friend.
"Oh, him?" his friend Inquired.
"We Just had him practice with one
of these here ""kicking" footballs,
that's all."
"Jumping gollyklns," salfli the coach.
"I never thought of that."
Which Just goes to show that gen-
ius rune along parallel lines, another
war of saying two can play the same
As Southwestern Squads
Prepare for Season's Play
Owls Counted Out of Picture
With Very Weak
Eleven
King Football Is making the rounds.
The staid old gentleman with the oval
tummy for eight days now has made
the welkin ring In seven Southwest
Conference grid campB. Even the rah-
rah boys are chasing moths for the
glory of dear old Punxsutawney.
With all of the limbering up work
finished and flrBt week track togs re
placed by bulky moleskins, coaches
who guide gridiron Oesttnles In tbe
Southwest eagerly look forward to
opening games a bare few days away.
Baylor and Southern Methodist steal
a lap on other conference elevens
when their warriors step out, 011 the
field of action this Saturday.
Six out of seven teams with a fight-
ing chance for the title. That is the
ine-up for the Southwest Conference
in this year of grace i!)2S). The prai-
ries of Texas should resound this sea-
son with the lusty cheers of thou-
sands as the tide of pigskin fortune
| ebbs and flows.
Morlev Jennings' fiaylor Hears rule
as prime favorites for the champion-
fhip. with Clyde Littlefield's Texas
J.onghorns, 1K2h champions, nipping at
their heels.
Then follow Southern Methodist,
Texas A. it M„ Texas Christian, and
Arkansas, with any man's pick as safe
as that of the next idiot. Rice, picked
lor lust, should run trno to form.
The problem at Kice in '29 seems
perplexing to say the least. Although
tie material hi fli<■ Institute In past
years has been far below the par of
other Texas schools, a ray of hope al-
ways flickered among the gay sopho-
more lances who came up from the
treshman ranks to mako the Owls
feared in the football world.
Coach Jack Meagher this year has
only a handful of sophomore recruits
to work with, In addition to hardly a
half dozen lettermen who have tem-
pered their mettle under the fire of
conflict. Captain Hush Jones, a scrap-
ping guard from the ground up, Is
the only man of outstanding ability on
the squad.
.rust what the Owls will do In 1929
seems nothing to paint pictures about.
Rice has everything to gain antl noth-
ing to lose Meagher and Ills assist-
ants, Durrenberger, Daugherty, Schultz
and Colightly, are plunging indomit-
ably into thf! task of preparing a
young, inexperienced squad for the
numerous conference pitfalls.
Among the veterans of the forward
wall are "Gorilla" McCarble, "Dub"
Harder and Frank Power, ends; Cap-
tain Rush Jones, "Tiny" Williams, and
Rilly Morgan, guards and tackles;
"Red" Thomas, center; while Paul
Smith, Ross Kennedy, Joe Stoppel, and
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game or the mice will caper when pa-
pa's away.
We hqve a notion that other South-
west Conference schools are not yet
amenable to be cast In the role of sci-
entific martyrs for Mr. Morrison's
hoys. And if they are, they will be
well prepared, else Nicholas WAS a
ciar and not Santa Claus after all.
COACH MEAGHER
Joe Allen form a nucleus for the back-
field.
Of the sophomores who give prom-
ise are Theron Green and "Red" Minis,
tackles; Pete Wolf, Jack Scott, and
Scotty" Sawyer, ends; Tommy Hen-
derson, center; Harry Norman, Ralph
Jones. Nelson Russell, Kenneth Lee
und Gene Chambers, backs.
The only thing wrong with that Bay-
lor Bear crew is there are Just too
many good footbatl players at tbe
Waco institution. Each position 'has
at least three stellar performers fight-
ing it out for a starting place. Here's
some of the Rears it will be hard to
stop:
Jake Wilson. Virgil Gilltland, Mc-
Elreath, Kathcart, Alforrt1, Glover,
Klersky, Walter, Smith, Pierce, Mc-
Clelland, backs; Koch and Witcher,
guards; Paradeaux, center; Captain
Weldon Lucas, Albert Lewter and
Blackle Reynolds, ends.
Conference experts are already pol-
ishing up their pencils in a vain at-
tempt to devise a method to keep the
whole Baylor first string off the all
conference eleven
Coach Clyde Littlefleld at Texas
should have a back field second to
none, but the line—ah, that is the
question. Around Captalu "Gordy
Brown, that rip-tearing, bald-headed
tackle, a new line must be fashioned.
If "Big Tn" Rose, end, and MacBur-
nett, slender, vicious tackling center,
come through for the Austin school,
somebody is going to get. trampled in
the rush.
Coach Matty Bell at Texas A. and
M. looks at his line, and wonders. So
does the rest of the conference. A
wealth of fast, elusive backs is one
of Ma'itty's assets, but that Aggie for-
ward wall is his puzzle. If Jack Chris-
tian and Dawson, two great prospects,
bear out their promise, it will be a
hard winter for six other conference
schools.
' Coach Ray Morrison of S. M. U.
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Oat. 8—Centenary at Austin.
Oct. it—Arkansas at MurettevlUe.
Oct. It—Oklahoma at DiiUw.
Oct. M—Rloe at Austin.
Nov. 2—S. M. U. at Dallas.
Nov. 9—Baylor at Austin,
Nov. 1(—T. C. U. at Austin.
Nov. 18—Texas A. and >1 at College
Station.
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIV.
Sept. 81—North Texas Teachers at
Dallas.
Sept. 88—Howard Payne, at Dallas.
oot? 8—Nebraska at Lincoln.
Oct. 11—Austin at Dallas.
Oct. 18—S. M. U. Freshmen at Dallas.
Oct. 26—Mississippi at Dallas.
Nov. 2—Texas at Dallas.
Nov. 8—Texas A. and M. at College
Station.
Nov. 16—Baylor at Dallas.
Nov. 23—Rloe at Pallas.
Nov. 30—T. C. U. at Fort Worth.
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TEXAS A. AND M. COLLEGE
Sept. 28—Southern at College Station.
Oct. 5—Tulane at New Orleans.
Oct. 12—Kansas Aggies at Dallas.
Oct. 19—T. C, U. at Fort Worth.
Got. 26—Arkansas at College Station.
Nov. 2—Stephen Austin at College
Station.
Nov. 9—S. M. U. at College Station.
Nov. 16—nice at Houston.
Nov. 28—Texas at College Station.
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
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Sept. 21—Stephen Austin at Waco.
"North Texas Teachers at
Sept.
Waco.
Oct. 5—Trinity at Waco.
Oct. 12—St. Edward's at Waco.
Oct. 19—Arkansas at Waco.
Oct. 20—Centenary at Shreveport.
Nov. 2—Texas at Austin.
Nov. 10—S. M. U. at Dallas.
Nov. 23—T. C. U. at Waco.
Nov. 30—Rice at Houston.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIV.
Sept. 28—Daniel Baker at Fort Worth.
Oct. 5—Simmons at Breckenrldge.
Oct. 12—Centenary at Shreveport.
Oct. 19—Texas A. and M. at Ft. Worth.
Oct. 26—Texas Tech at Lubbock.
Nov. 2—North Texas Teachers at Ft.
Worth.
Nov. 9—Rloe at Ft. Worth.
Nov. 16—Texas at Austin.
Nov. 23—Baylor at Waco.
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at Ft. Worth.
Nov. 30—S.
ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY
Sept. 28—College of Ozarks at
Oct. 5-
Fayettevllle.
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-Henderson-Brown at '
Fayettevllle.
Oct. 12—Texas at Fayettevllle.
Oct. 18—Baylor at Waco.
Oct. 26—Texas a. and M. at College
Station.
Nov. 2—Louisiana State at Shreveport,
Nov. 9—East Central Oklahoma Teach-
ers at Fayettevllle.
Nov. 16—Centenary at Fayettevllle.
Nov. 28—Oklahoma A. and M. at
Stillwater.
Note—By a ruling of the conference
board of directors, Arkansas University's
games with Oklahoma A. and M. College
and with Louisiana State will be ac-
counted Southwest Conference games and
will count In the Razorback's fight for
the championship.
Owl Ceach in Tip-Top Shape;
Coaching fftliftl Ji
hffmt
Jack Meagher has fully recovered
from a minor operation on his nose
and is tn excellent condition to take
up his duties again with the Owl toot,
ball team. Tbe operation was not so*
rious and will In no way hamper Jack
In tbe coaching of the Rice eleven.
W. h. Gollghtly, of Cisco, will assist
Meagher with tbe coaching of tbe
backfield this season and with these
two skilled tutors, tbe Institute may
be able to overcome the material
handicap under which it has been
forced to labor.
The coaching school, under the di-
rection of Meagher, got away to a
flying start on July 22, and continued
at the same fast pace for a whole
week. Many coaches from Houston
and surrounding towns turned out in
the hopes ot learning something new
about the pigskin art that would help
their team at the outset of the 1929
football campaign.
Among the coaches attending were
our own Arnold Krlchamer, ot John
Reagan High at Houston; Lamar
Camp, Houston; W. L. Oolightly,
Cisco; George Blair, Sherman; "Red"
Dickey, Sherman; J. D. Head, Mar-
shal; Henry Fraka, Lubbock; Buddy
Savage, Belton, and Coy Perkins,
Shamrock. It 1b hoped that these men
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1929, newspaper, September 19, 1929; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230142/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.