The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1949 Page: 7 of 8
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THE THRESHER
Seven
Freshmen enjoyed themselves at Guidance Committee Tea
Party in the Senior Commons, Monday night.
Four SWC Teams Unbeaten
After Week - End Meeles
Southwest Conference elevens en-
joyed a full weekend of activity,
with S.M.U., Texas, Baylor and Ark-
ansas continuing undefeated. The re-
sults :
SMU 28, Missouri 27
Baylor 14, Mississippi State 6
Oklahoma 33, Texas A&M 13
Texas 54, Idaho 7
Arkansas 27, TCU 7
Arkansas showed surprising
strength in overpowering T. C. U. in
the Conference curtain raiser. The
Hogs played an opportunist type of
ball, and it paid off. The Horned
Frogs got only two plays from
scrimmage, a run for no gain, and
an intercepted pass, before they
were trailing 13-0. The Razorbacks
intercepted four of Berry's tosses
all told. Arkansas had a fast back-
field, paced by hard-running Muscles
Campbell (who picked up 90-odd
yards, even with a 65-yard scoring
jaunt called back), and man-under
Don Logue. The boys from the Oz-
arks meet their big test with Bay-
lor's Bears tomorrow at Waco.
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Rice To Play
New Mexico
The Owls play host to the New
Mexico University Lobos, coached
by Bert Huffman, tomorrow night
at Rice Stadium. Game time is 8:15.
New Mexico runs from a modi-
fied T, with Milton Price, a trans-
fer from Texas U., slated to direct
it. A three year letterman, Joe Stell,
is back at half; Bob Cooke, big
fullback, Chuck Hill, and Bucky
Brandenbury lead the candidates for
the other backfield posts.
Ramon Martinez and Harold Hill,
two big tackles, both over 230, an-
chor the line, with Carl Swan, at
center, and Reno Moffa, and "Red
Neal fill in the middle of the line.
Dan Peterson and Alvin Pettine hold
an edge for the end posts. Twenty-
one lettermen return from last
year's. squad—a squad Texas whip<
ped 47-0, and Texas Tech beat, 14-7.
This year's squad broke into the
win column last Friday night at Los
Cruses, N.M., home of New Mexico
A&M, with a 14-13 win. The Wyo-
ming Cowboys made the Lobos op-
ening at Albuquerque, their home
town, a rather dissasterous one,
beating them, 41-14, on the night of
September 24th.
Last year New Mexico won two,
a 61-0 triumph over N.M. A&M and
a 9-6 win over Colorado, and lost
nine. The Lobos tallied 146 points to
their opponents 217, and are keep-
ing their 2 T.JX's per game ave-
rage up this year so far.
New Mexico, although not rated
to give the Owls too much of a
battle, may decide, that if L.S.U.
can do it, they can do it, too. It
might be a better game than the
Lobos past record indicates.
The
Owlook
MARTIN and LOCKHART
We're out on our limb again. Yep, with this Issue, the
Thresher sports department starts predicting the results of
Southwest football games. Last year, the team of Mliler and
Martin crystal-balled the outcome of all battles involving South-
west Conference teams, with the following amazing results;
games picked right wrng ties pet
49 36 9 4 .800
This year, Martin and Lockhart
will attempt to maintain that .800
average in a Conference where any-
thing can happen, and usually does.
Rice vs. New Mexico. The Owls
should rebound from the Tiger lash-
ing, and take this one in stride. The
Lobos have a veteran team, but the
Blue and Gray should outclass them.
Make it: Rice 40, New Mexico 14.
Texas vs. Oklahoma. The picnic
is over for the Longhorns. After big
scores against Texas Tech, Temple,
and Idaho, Texas has finally got to
show what it's got. The split T Soon-
ers, fresh from a win over fired-up
Texas A&M, provide a little too for-
midable opposition on their way to a
possible national championship. Ok-
lahoma 20, Texas 14.
T.C.U. vs. Indiana. Lindy Berry
and Co., battered from an Ozark
trip, should have enough bounce to
take this one; the tally, 20-7.
Texas A&M vs. L.S.U. Both teams
should be off after excellent per-
formances last week. The Aggies
are tough, and getting tougher, but
the Tigers, with another Van Buren
in the fold, look like the victors
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Arkansas vs. Baylor. The two dark
horses of the Conference race meet
at Waco in what should be a whale
of a battle. The Hogs looked very,
very sharp in defeating T.C.U., but
we'll string along with Adrian
Bulk's passing. Baylor 21, Arkansas
14.
The seventh member of the Con-
ference, S.M.U., is enjoying an off
week to rest up for their important
game at Dallas with a team from
Houston, the Rice Institute Owls.
One of the disadvantages of hav-
ing so much education tha; one
knows how to read is that :v:n
times an innocent you: „• -tu-
dent like me might he h i astray
by what he reads ir. th newspapers.
A sports edittr :: a downtown
newspaper recer.tiy gently hinted
that Rice Institute's football team
might be "had" on future Satur-
days. We are not going to be so
foolish to say that. Rice will posit-
ively go through the season like a
Kansas cyclone, but just because
they were defeated once doesn't
necessarily mean that they would
have to hustle to beat some hick
school caliber team out of the Na-
tion's football cellar. In this part of
the country an undefeated team is
the exception, and not the rule.
Furthermore, that editor went on
to say that Rice had been "had" and
"had good" this last Saturday night.
He said that Rice was outplayed,
and from the drift of the article one
could get the idea that quite possibly
he was bitter toward the Owls. He
must have given LSU nineteen
points on a football card.
However, by just glancing at the
statistics one could get the idea that
the game was fairly close. In total
yardage gained from the line of
scrimmage LSU had the "mons-
trous" edge of 298 yards to 289 for
Rice. LSU recovered two fumbles,
scored on one and the other recov-
ery set up a Tiger TD. on the Rice
17. We were surprised that the edi-
tor admitted that LSU had a "little
luck" in scoring their touchdowns.
We might say, just to ease the
editor's mind, that I would imagine
Mr. Neely noticed that quite a few
yards were being gained from the
tackles out against Rice. Don't be
too surprised if this weakness isn't
strengthened a little.
He was complaining that he was
getting a lot of mail, stating that
the readers didn't think he was
doing their teams justice. Grant
from us one liberty: when a team
is down for a week, don't .stomp on
it. As an admirer of the truth we
don't think Rice played a brilliant
game on Saturday, but we have
seen much worse affairs under like
circumstances, too. Couldn't the edi-
tor have printed a clear picture of
the game, and yet not gone out of
his way to say Rice played a pretty
poor game? After all, some of his
readers are probably Rice fans. We
can read a little.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1949, newspaper, October 7, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230817/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.