The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1953 Page: 6 of 8
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, IMS
By J. FRED DUCKETT
Monday the Rice gridders will return to the practice field
to prepare for their Jan. 1 Cotton Bowl appearance. In ready-
ing for the Alabama Crimson Tide, Coach Neely will have to
set up for a team whose line is equal to Rice in weight, but is
perhaps a little faster.
Leading 'Bama lad is right half-
hack Corky Tharp who has been
the Tide's leading ground gainer
for the past two seasons. A rugged
170 pounder, Tharp is exceptionally
powerful for his size.
The Red Elephant passing attack,
like Rice's, has been secondary to
their ground game, though quarter-
back Bart Starr is an accurate pass-
er. Starr, incidentally, shifts to
tailback when Alabama shifts from
present incumbents Gordon Kel-
logg and Sam Burk are both ready.
With all the All-American and
All-Conference teams selected the
Thresher wants to point out one
player the All-star pickers definite-
ly missed. He is Max Scheubel,
Rice's senior right tackle. Big Max,
a two year letterman on the defen-
sive platoon was rated 2nd string
when practice began in August, but
he soon showed through his hustle
and determination, that he belonged
the split T to Coach Red Drew's in the starting lineups.
version of the Notre Dame Box. j The burly Houstonian has per-
Starr, executes the split T option j formed more than ably all year,
play very well, as well as the run j His blocking, figured to be a weak
■1 pass play on a single wing and ! point, has come around very well,
yv.-eep. However, Starr is not quite J and his defense, good for two years
a« good as Kentucky's quarterback, j has been even better this year.
Rice will enter the Bowl at their And don't forget Swivel Hips
best strength since the Cornell
game. Only halfback Morris Stone,
injured all season, will be unable to
play. Knee injuries to Carl John-
son, Don Costa, Buddy Grantham
and Ed Rayburn are cleared up, and
Lew Harpold's damaged ear should
not keep him from action.
With the return to full speed of
Carl Johnson, Rice will again have
& bevy of right halfbacks. The
Scheubel has became quite a ball-
carrier too. He has the best average
on the team with 15 yards in one
carry.. Heads up play of that type
not only gave Scheubel the ball
carrying chance, but helped him re-
cover six fumbles during the sea-
son. A pretty good average for any-
one. The Thresher takes its hat off
to Max Scheubel, the most unsung
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Rice Hosts Third
Annual SWC Cage
Tourney, Dec 28-30
Houston and Gulf Coast basket-
ball fans will get a special treat
this month as the third annual
Southwest Conference tournament
will be held in the Rice Gym on De-
cember 28, 29, and 30. In addition
to the seven conference teams, the
Crimson Tide of Alabama will send
their quintet to Houston to try and
humble the SWC basketball as well
as football.
The schedule is arranged so that
while the championship will be de-
termined by single elimination, the
losers will set up a consolation brac-
ket so that every team will play one
game each day of the tourney.
Twelve games in all will be played.
The meet will open Monday aft-
ernoon, December 28 with a dou-
ble header,. followed by another
in the evening.
The Rice Owls will play in the
first afternoon game against SMU.
On Tuesday the four first round
losers will play an afternoon dou-
bleheader, while Monday's victors
tangle in the semi-finals that eve-
ning. On Wednesday, the consola-
tion game losers will play for sev-
enth place, and the consolation win-
ners will play for fifth place in the
afternoon. Wednesday night the
semi-final losers will play for third
place in the opener and the final
game of the twin bill will be for the
championship.
Tickets for this excellent lineup
of college basketball are available
for Rice students at the Rice Gym.
As the Southwest Conference and
not Rice is the host for this tour-
ney, Rice students will have to buy
tickets. Blanket taxes are no good
for the tournament Rice is only let-
ting the conference hold the meet in
the Rice Gym.
Admission for a single session
(each session will present a dou-
bleheader) is $1.20 for the after-
noon and' $1.80 for night games.
A tournament pass good for all
twelve games may be bought for
$5.00.
Last year's tournament held in
Dallas saw SMU defeat Rice in a
thriller to take the championship.
TCU, who Rice crushed 68-49 in
the first round, went on to win the
league championship later in the
year. TCU and Rice are co-favor-
ites for the Conference crown this
year, and the^ two veteran clubs
should meet in the finals of the
tournament.
f V
IN THE VILLAGE IT'S
Rice Team, Individuals, Dominate
Final SHII Conference Statistics
•Rice's Cotton Bowl bound Owls
and their "bread and butter" two-
some, Kosse Johnson and Dicky
Moegle, have dominated the final
statistics of the Southwest Confer-
ence. The Blue team was tops on
eleven counts while individuals
copped top honors in another half-
dozen departments.
The Rice firsts were:
most points for season (267
most points for conference games
(166)
least points for season for oppon-
ents (99)
least points for conference games
for opponents (57)
most yardage gained rushing (2735)
most yardage total offense (3586)
most yards per game rushing
(273.5)
most yards per "game total offense
358.6)
least gain rushing by opponents
(1265)
least gain per game rushing by op-
ponents (126.5)
most opponents passes intercepted
(24)
The Owls acquired the rushing
defense leadership Saturday thanks
to the "luck of the Irish!" The luck,
in the form of Johnny Latter & Co.,
pushed the Mustangs' season rush-
ing defense total to 1269 yards, 4
more than that given up by the
Houstonians.
Individually Kosse Johnson sad
Dicky Moegle wound up first and
second respectively in rushing and
points seored. Kosse tallied 62
points, just one more than Moegle's
total, while the senior from Bay-
town picked up 944 yards to 833
for the junior halfback.
These totals were also good
enough to place the two Owl backs
fourth and fifth in total offense,
although they passed for only a
combined total of nine yards.
Kosse was also first in kickoff
returns with an average of 28 yards
per try, and Dicky led the rushers
in effectiveness with an average of
7.3 yards per carry.
In other departments Pinky Nis-
bet returned intercepted passes far-
ther than any other played in the
conference, 94 yards, and Leroy
Fenstemaker had the best PAT av-
erage with 21 kicks in 26 tries for
an 80.8% average.
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