The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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Even the lowliest freshman engi-
neer is probably by now aware of
tKa fact that' our Owl footballers
suffered their first defeat of the
at the hands of the unpre-
Tulane Green Wave last
Saturday in New Orleans but we
still feel that a few remarks about
the game would not be too much
out of place.
Despite this column's sage predic-
tion of a Tulane victory, Mr, Neely's
boys were favored to do what Au-
burn had done the week before and
plaster a pretty convincing defeat
on the Greenies. However, much to
everyone's surprise but our own
they ran into a real football team
down there in New Orleans that
took advantage of every break and
made our Qwls look anything but
good.
Tulane has a very big and very
tough forward wall that completely
stopped the vaunted Institute run-
ning game. And then they had a
whole slew of fast, hard-running
backs who never seemed to tire of
ripping thru the holes that the Tu-
lane linemen were opening up. As
for our passing, well, it's never
been very good but last Saturday it
was worse than ever. Those Tulane
ends were almost beating the ball
back to Eikenberg and when he did
have a little time our receivers were
invariably eovered by several of the
Tulane boys.
Our blocking was sadly off and
this may in large part be attributed
to the loss of Stone Quillian, who
broke a bone in his leg during the
pre-game workout. On the bright
side of the picture was the con-
tinued fine play of Blackburn,
Malmberg, Brannon and Humble,
the latter of whom played around
65 minutes of very rough football.
Pete Sultis did a fine job of back-
ing up the line and Bob Perkins
looked good running back what
• punts he could get his hand on be-
fore the deluge of Greenie linemen
descended upon him.
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We feel that a prime considera-
tion in any newspaper story should
be accuracy and have always prided
ourselves on the complete authen-
ticity and factuality of any and all
statements appearing under our
names. Therefore^it appalled us no
end to pick up not only the New
Orleans but the Houston papers and
find them describing (in vivid detail
"Eikenberg's" sensational touch-
down pass to Windell Williams.
It was for the sole convenience
of. the run of the mill, unobserving,
disinterested sports writers who
contaminate the average journal-
istic enterprises that the system, of
numbering football players was de-
vised and put into effect last year.
Yet despite this standardization
and simplification of the former
haphazard methods of tagging the
players the entire contingent of
Houston and New Orleans writers
emerged from Tulane stadium firm
in their convictions that Eikenberg
had thrown a touchdown pass to
Williams. Honest, folks, it wasn't
Ike, it was Dwelle.
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Bill, Tom Closs, captain of the
baKitetball team, went out for foot-
ball Wednesday, lit is rumored that
among other things*Closs will be
useful in the defense against field
goals. He could stand between the
uprights and bat down any attempts
for points by way of a kick from
placement. This column sincerely
hopes that Coach Neely will point
out tq Bill Tom some of the minor
differences between football and
basketball. For instance, it would
be considerably detrimental to
Rice's chances if Bill would snag a
pass in the clear and try to dribble
down the sideline for a touchdown.
A football doesn't dribble so well.
Furthermore, it should be explained
to Bill that in 'case he happened to
be offside four times in an after-
noon it would not necessitate his
leaving the game. And also if he
happened to be clipped he will not
get a free try at the opposition's
goal line.
# * *
This year is different. Ever since
1934 when Rice beat Purdue and
Texas beat Notre Dame on the same
day, our conference has always had
one or two teams among the top
five of the nation. Since 1938 we
have had the best team in the na-
tion, eastern and midwestern scribes
to the contrary notwithstanding.
But after Saturdays like the past
two, even the most rabid Southwest
Conference fan can hardly claim
grid leadership for this section.
Look at last Saturday. The Owls
lost to an in and out Tulane team.
Once proud Texas barely nosed out
twice beaten Oklahoma. And taps
were sounded at College Station as
the Aggies (God bless 'em) wenit
down before George Franck and the
Corpus Christi boys 18-7 at Corpus.
As for SMU, it is reported that due
to their poor showing three co-eds
will be dropped from the Pony back-
field. Peruna will take over Ihe
empty positions. Hardin-Simmons 7,
SMU 6. Congratulations must go to
the Horned Frogs for their splen-
did six touchdown win over Kan-
sas, the one bright spot on the
conference calendar. In the only
conference game "that good ole
Baylor line" stood firm and the
Bears trounced Arkansas 20-7. This
incidentally is the only game we
missed on.
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This week's predictions:
TCU 20; Aggies 7. "
Baylor 7, Texas Tech 0.
Texas 27, Arkansas 6.
Temple 13, SMU 6.
LSU 20, Ole Miss 7.
Iowa Hawks 14, Notre Dame 0.
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Standings
Season's Standings
Team— W. L. Pet. Pts. Ops.
T. C. U
3
0
1.000
61
18
Texas
3
1
.750
111
3
Baylor
3
1
.750
112
32
Rice
2
1
.6(67
'52
39
S. M. U
1
2
.333
39
34
Arkansas
1
2
.333
40
33
A. & M
1
2
.333
33
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This Week's Games
(With Last Vear'a Scores)
Oct. 16
S.M.U. vs. Temple University,
(night).
Oct. 17
Texas A. & M. (14) vs. T.C.U. (0), Col-
lege Station.
Arkansas (14) vs. Texas (48), Little Rock.
Baylor vs. Texas Tech, Lubbock (night).
(Rice vs. North Carolina, canceled.)
Leading Conference Scorers
Player, Team, Pos;— TD PAT TP
Field, Texas, hb 4 5 89
Coleman, Baylor, hb 8 4 22
Crain, Baylor, hb r 8 0 18
^$hrter, 'Baylor, fb 8 0 18
Eikenberg, Rice, hb 8 0 18
JktcKay, Texas, fb g, 2 14
Manually, Baylor, fb 2 1 18
Montgomery, T.C.U., qb 2 1 18
Petrovitch, Texas, fb 2 1 18
Roberts, Texas, qb 2 1 18
With Jimmy Winters crossing pay
dirt twice during the first half, the
Rocks turned back the Wolves 18 to
0 in the first round of the Pacific
League last Friday. The Rocks,
rated among the first four teams in
the five leagues in pre-season dope,
turned on the speed to keep the
Wolves from threatening their goal
line. The first downs for the game
were three to two in the Rocks' fa-
vor.
Tallying in the late minutes of the
first half, the U.S.S. Portland reg-
istered a 6 to 0 victory over the
U.S.S. Honolulu aggregation Tues-
day afternoon. One sustained touch-
down drive from the Portland's own
25-yard marker paved the way for
the victory. As a result of the vic-
tory, the Portland team is now rest-
ing on top of the Cruiser league
with two wins against no defeats.
The U.S.S. Omaha was given a
2 to 0 forfeit when the U.S.S. Chi-
cago failed, to make their appear-
ance for their game Wednesday
afternoon. The forfeit gave the
Omaha one win and one lost in two
games played.
The closest game played this year
was turned in last Friday when the
Rally Club I and the Slimy Slimes
were forced to count first downs to
receive a decision. At the close of
the regular game, the score stood at
12 to 12 after Buckley had tallied
twice for the Rally Clubbers and
Toan and Andrew had marked for
the slimes. Penetrations for the
two teams stood at three each and
the Rally Club was awarded the
game on the basis of seven first
downs to three for the Slimes.
Other games played during the
week saw the USS Mahan turn back
the USS Porter two -penetrations to
none and'the USS Dewey slaughter
the USS Farragut 24 to 0 in the
Pacific League.
The favored East Hall Wildcats
met disaster in the shape of the
Senior Engineers when Sandow
broke loose twice to give the Engi-
neers a 12 to 0 victory. The Studs,
famous West Hall aggregation, had
to be content with a 2 to 0 forfeit
when the Fighting Irish failed to
show up for the contest. The Rice-
men, holdovers from last year,
showed plenty of class as they reg
istered a 12 to 0 win over the Slip
pery Slimes.
With the varsity having an off
week tomorrow, ten intramural
games have been scheduled. The
schedule for this week follows:
Destroyers—Friday, Oct. 16, 5
p.m.
- Marblehead vs. Mahan.
Farragut vs. Porter.
Atlantic League—Friday, Oct. 16,
5 p.m.
Slimy Slimes vs. East Hall
Wildcats.
Rally Club I vs. Senior Engi-
neers.
Cruisers—Saturday, Oct. 17.
Portland vs. Chicago, 2 p.m.
Honolulu vs. Omaha, 2 p.m.
Southwest League—Sat., Oct. 171
Rally Club II vs. The Studs, 2
p.m.
Pacific League—Sat., Oct. 17.
Ricemen vs. Wolves, 3 p.m.
Slippery Slimes vs. Rocks, 3
p.m.
Destroyers—Sat., Oct. 17.
Marblehead vs. Porter, 3 p.m.
Mahan vs. Farragut, 4 p.m.
Atlantic League—Sat., Oct. 17.
Slimy Slimes vs. Senior Engi-
neers, 4 p.m.
Rally Club' I vs. East Hall
Wildcats, 1:30 p.m.
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Reverend Rufus Biven will speak
on the topic, "Falling in Love in
Wartifhe" at 12:30 Tuesday at
Autry House at the regular meeting
of the Methodist Student Union.
Fort Worth, Oct. 16.—Two conference football games will
be played next Saturday—a sure sign that the 1942 season is
getting well under way in the Southwest.
Headliner of the day is probably the T.C.U.-Aggie contest
at College Station. These two
teams have been rivals for
many a^year, and in the last
decade have managed, between
them, to win five conference cham-
pionships in the 10 years—Frogs
two and Aggies three (although the
1940 Aggie title was shared with
S.M.U.). The Aggies took last year's
affair in Fort Worth by a 14-to-0
count.
Texas and Arkansas, in the sec-
ond conference tilt of the week
meet on a neutral gridiron at Little
Rock. The Longhorns slaughtered
the Razorbacks 48 to 14 last year.
Texas appears to be a first division
team, Arkansas a second, so there
is not much pre-game argument as
to the probable outcome.
Baylor and Texas Tech meet un-
der the lights in Lubbock Saturday
night. This will be the second of
Tech's four-game Southwest Con-
ference schedule. The Raiders
dropped the first one to Texas
A. & M., 0 to 19, but are rated a
better chance in the Bear go.
Not since 1934 have the Bears and
the Raiders met on the gridiron,
when the Lubbock eleven won 14
to 7. Morley Jennings, former Bay-
lor coach, now is director of ath-
letics at Texas Tech, thus setting
the stage for a colorful rivalry.
S.M.U. plays Temple University
Arnold Advances
In Tennis Duel
Jack Arnold turned back M. Ligon
Wednesday afternoon to advance to
the quarter-finals in the intramural
singles tennis tournament. Arnold,
a dark horse in the seedings, will
meet the winner of the Roberson-
Rabson match for the right to play
Lawrence Chapman in the semi-
finals in the upper bracket.
In the lower bracket, Witte will
meet Nponan with the winner ad-
vancing to play M. Francis in the
semi-finals. Francis reached the
semi-final bracket by turning back
J. Ligon in straight sets, 11-9, 6-4.
The finals in the tournament will be
played next Thursday afternoon on
the varsity courts.
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Last Week's Scores
T.C.U. 41, Kansas 6, Fort Worth.
Hardin-Simmons 7, S.M.U. 6, San Antonio
(night).
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station 18,
Texas A. & M. 7, Corpus Christi.
Tulane 18, Rice 7, New Orleans.
Texas 7, Oklahoma 0, Dallas.
Baylor 20, Arkansas 7, Fayettcville.
in Dallas Friday night, in the first
engagement between the two
schools. The Mustangs have already
dropped one to another Pennsyl-
vania outfit—Pittsburgh, 7 to 20.
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