The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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OFFICIAt All-Southwest
Conference Football Tern* u se-
lictod by us at the conclusion of
season. Well, we will keep you
e no longer, so here it is.
% we would like" to
explain that our team is not based
on reputations, publicity, baUyhoo,
• or the opinions of our fellow scrib-
blers but solely on how the boys
performed in the games we saw,
which ipeans how they played
against the Institute.
At left end we place Joe Schwart-
ing of the University of Texas. He
'<9 completely throttled all Owl efforts
to gain around his end of the line
and made a miraculous catch of
McKay's pass into the end zone to
> provide his mates with the margin
of victory and the conference cham-
pionship. At the other terminal we
Without hesitation place our own
Ted Scruggs. Buzzo, while not the
league's best offensive end, was a
tower of strength on" defense. He
was mainly responsible for our im-
proved pass defense, as he spent
most of his time hanging around
the necks of opposing passers.
At left tackle we will do the con-
ventional thing and select TU's Stan
Mauldin. Mauldin is generally con-
sidered to be the only player of ail-
American caliber in the conference
and his play against the Institute
did anything but detract from this
reputation. To be brief, he played
tJiell with our usually powerful run-'
ning game. At the other tackle post
we put Jay Lawhon of Arkansas.
Lawhon, a big 220-pounder, was all
that kept the Razorback defense
from total collapse and was the
only reason Mr. Neely's charges
were held scoreless0 during the first
quarter.
At left guard we had a difficult
selection. Both Jack - Freeman * of
Texas and the Aggies' Felix Bucek
played superbly against us and the
added weight of Bucek's almost
Unanimous selection of other all-
star teams almost caused him to
make ours; but tty as we would we
couldn't get away from the hard-
charging, fierce-blocking Freeman
who joined Mauldin in wrecking the
Owl running game and led the way
for McKay and Field in their first
half marches. At right guard our
selection was considerably easier
because it just so happens that Wei-
don Humble plays right ftuard knd
is the very best right guard in this
here part of the country.
Now comes the Blackburn-Gate-
wood debate, only with us i$ is no
debate cause there just naturally
isn't any center.in the conference
who even approaches Blackburn
when it comes to passing the ball
back and backing up the line. After
all, there aren't many centers any-
where who can either pass, roll, or
bounce the ball to their ball-toting
cohorts.
At blocking back we feel that
Spot Collins of Texas is in a class
by himself. Time and again Collins
would block two or three men on
the same play as his speedy mates
ripped through the Owl forward
wall for substantial gains.
.■ The best fullback was Roy Dale
McKay, also of the championship
Longhorns. McKay was a real triple
threater, running, passing and kick-
ing with equal skill, and around him
was constructed the whole Longhorn
offensive, as was proved in the TCU
game when with McKay badly
slowed by an ankle injury, they
bowed to the none-too-strong Frog-
gies from Fort Worth.
At wingback we have Cullen Rog-
ers of the Aggies. Rogers was the
league's leading pass snatcher and
was mainly responsible for whdt
success the Aggies achieved. --
At tailback we are proud to select
Dick Dwelle. Dwelle spent at least
half of 'his time at fullback this
year, but it was at tailback that he
was outstanding as he ran and
passed the Owls to second place in
the conference. Never a brilliant
player, Dick played as consistently
fine ball as has ever been exhibited
on a Rice team, and his signal call-
ing <,and defensive work was at all
times flawless.
As player at large we would like
to name Windell Williams. Williams
played both end and. tailback for the
Owls, where he showed to much ad-
vantage as a phenomenal pass
catcher and brijliant ball carrier.
Big, fast, and tough, it just wouldn't
be right to leave him off any selec-
tion of this kind, but since he wasn't
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with a 51-44 victory over Stephen
P. Austin Teachers College in Na-
Led by Co-Captains Harold Lam-
rt and Bill Tom Closs, each of
whom tallied 14 points, the Owls
bert
built up a commanding lead in the
first few minutes only to see the
Lumberjacks whittle away at it
until they went ahead 36-35, mid-
way in the second half. However,
Coach Joe Davis' charges stormed
back with some accurate shooting
and fancy ball handling to recapture
the lead and pull away at the finish.
- Coach Davis started a team that
included Closs, Lambert, John Mc-
Donald, Rusty Darling, and * Bill
Cummins, the latter two seeing their
first service on the varsity.
The two teams were to meet
again Thursday night.
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YWCA-PALS
- To Bowl Today
The champions of the girls' bowl-
ing league will be determined this
afternoon when the YWCA five
tangles with the PALS, and the Pin
Busters go against the OWLS.-Three
teams are tied for the lead, each
having 13 wins against eight de-
feats, and the games today will
serve to break ,$he tie and bring the
league play to a close. ,
An OWLS victory could, give them
almost a.ce.rtain championship while
a Pin Buster victory would give the
championship to either the YWCA
or the PALS with no strings at-
tached.
M. Sullivan holds the high indi-
vidual game with a 192, while M.
McColluhi has the high individual
series of 470 pins. The OWLS hold
the high team game with a 700
game and the high team series with
2022 pins. -
one of the best ends nor ofine of the
best tailbacks and since he didn't
play anywhere else, we decided to
name him as player at large.
* * *
Dwelle has asked uj| to say that
he did not set a record for having
forward passes intercepted last
year. A closer study of motion pic-
tures has revealed that Dick threw
them so wildly that not e'ven the
opposition could get their hands on
them.
* * *
Stoop Dickson has been hounding
the authors of this column about
"his" all-conference team consist-
ing of J. E. Dickson, Joe Dickson,
Stoop Dickson and eight other guys
whom we never heard of. We'd print
it if we had more room and if we
weren't so fond of Stoop.
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Texas
Rice
TCU
Baylor .
A&M
SMU
Arkansas
Final Conference Standings
W L X Pet. Pts. Ops.
.833 119
.750 106
.667 54
.583 42
.417 76
.250 60
0 6 0 .000 34 175
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Nosing out the Guttersnipes by
four pins, the 81ipstiek Slickers an-
nexed the boys' bowling champion-
Ship Tuesday night by taking two
out of the three-game series, 841-
763, 856-887, and 861-847. The Gut-
tersnipes died hard, winning the
second game and dropping the third
by only'four pins. A Guttersnipe
victory would have given them the
championship or they could have tied
for the league lead by winning two
of the three games. Ted Scrugg# of
the Slickers turned in the high game
Tuesday afternoon with a 236 game
and a series of 628. The high man
for the Guttersnipes was Bill Han-
num with a 495 series.
The Slickers took all of the hon-
ors of the league, having four out
of the first six high average men.
The other two places went to the
Guttersnipes. John Fox had the
high individual game with a 265
game, and the high individual series
of 613 pins. The Slickers had the
high team series of 2650 pins.
Other results for the final week
of play saw the North Carolinans
take three straight from the Dal-
lasites, the Alley Aces swept their
series with the Slimy Sots, the Jr.
Engineers blanked the Killer Dillers,
and the USS Texas whitewashedf
the Wolves.
The final standings in the league:
Won Lost
Slickers 22
Guttersnipes 20
USS Texas 17 «
Engineers 13
Dallasites 12
Alley Aces 11
Carolina 9
Slimy Sots 9
Wolves
Killer Dillers 0
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STANDINGS .
Pinal Season's Standings
W L T Pet. Pts. Ops.
2 0 .800 230 42
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Leading; Conference Scorers
Player, Team, Pos.—
Jackie Field, Texas, hb
Bill Coleman, Baylor, qb
Roy McKay, Texas, fb
Windell Williams, Rice, e ...
Cullen Rogers, A&M, hb....
Willie Zapalac, A&M, hb...
Hardy Miller, SMU, hb...
Virgil Eikenberg-, Rice, hb
Lindsay Bowen, Rice, e
Milton Crain, Baylor, fb
Dick Dwelle, Rice, hb
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