The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1973 Page: 4 of 8
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Football season opens with new/old UH rivalry
by T. G. KAHUNA
A dead owl hung on Con-
over's door ? Ex-lax f6r Shasta's
pre-game meal ? Another at-
tempt to kidnap Bevo? The
Aggie band ? Drunken, lewd
behavior in front of thousands?
Yes, all this and football, too.
At last the Rice football sea-
son is upon us. It's just what
we've all been waiting for since
last December's exciting loss to
whoever it was we played in
Waco. Actually, to a true Rice
fail, the Saturdays spent
watching Big Al's charges do
battle against the likes of .Notre
Dame and Montana are some
of the great times that make
autumn in the Bayou City bear-
able. Where else but in Rice
Stadium can you test your met-
tle by sneaking in your room-
mates' girlfriends, a case of
beer, a cooler of Harvey Wall-
bangers, and two hip flasks, all
wrapped up in an overcoat when
it's 90 degress outside? Where
else can you experience elation
and acute depression in less
than 30 seconds? Where else
can you see Norman Hacker-
man, the Montana marching
drill team, and hear scathing
obscenities directed at Shorty
Lowson? In the words of Chris
Schenkel, "What better way to
spend an autumn afternoon?"
Fun and games
Unfortunately, this year's
opening game is not in Rice
Stadium, so you have to wait
an extra week to experience all
these good times, when we take
on Montana in a game that
will be as exciting as a spring-
time lecture in Sewall Hall 309.
But, back to this week's game,
Saturday evening the Owls re-
new the ancient, three-year old
rivalry with the University of
Houston, in the Astrodome.
Yes, and in Judge R-oy's sports
palace, where a Rice student
can pay $3.50 for a ticket en-
titling him to a seat from which
he'll be lucky to see the score-
board, much less the action.
Nonetheless, undaunted, the
Rice faithful will be present to
try to see what well may lie
the most exciting game of the
season. Ancient rivalries have
a way of always being excit-
ing.
Chicken Cougars
This one could have begun
many, many years ago, but UH
was really Cougar High then,
and afraid to play a big-time
outfit coached by Jess Neely.
Gradually things changed, and
by the 1960's we were afraid
to play them. But finally, in
1971, during the one-year reign
of Rice's Football Saviour of
the '70's, Bill Peterson, we
heartily consented to appear on
the same field with the cross-
town dullards, but only be-
cause we sort of needed the
money. A brilliant visionary
down at the west end of cam-
pus, while meditating on the
virtues of the R Room, realized
in a single stroke of brilliance,
that although Texas, Arkansas,
and LSU always beat the hell
out of us, they always fill our
stadium. Following this reason-
ing to its fullest extent he saw
that UH, and maybe even Notre
Dame, could beat hell out of us
and fill up our stadium, too!
Thus it was decided.
After many pats on the back
and much ballyhoo in the local
press, the day finally came. Un-
der the direction of Coach
Bete the Owis shocked the
cocky Cougars and the better
part of Houston, before finally
succumbing 23-21. Even so, it
was a victory for those of us
behind the hedges, for either
UH was vulnerable, or the
visionary had performed a
miracle and deserved his R
Room.
Chop, chop
One year ago, we found out
for certain. In Conover's debut
the Owls clipped Cougar High
14-13, thanks to some fantastic
goal line defense in the last
minute of play, and the stupid-
ity of Bill Yeoman, who thought
he had no placekicker. For the
second straight year the fans
were treated to a great foot-
ball game and two TD snares
Intramurals start soon, but without a bang
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it is time for the opening
new year of intramurals
the first football con-
si heduled for this week.
The new season sees a decline
oi the number of teams with
only 28 teams entered as com-
pared to 30 last year. The teams
are divided into 5 leagues with
Tuesday open and the freshman
league playing on Saturdays.
It may be a little early this
season to delve into predic-
tions. But following the mania
for prognostication in vogue,
this peerless seer will share his
startling foreknowledge: The
Bang Gang will not win the
intramural football champion-
ship for the fourth straight
year. (The fact that the Bang
Gang graduated last year is
my prime consideration.)
More seriously, for the first
time in modern history, the
Bang Gang's absence leaves
the field fairly wide open. The
preseason favorite this year has
got to be the oft-frustrated
Knickeritmockers who lost in
the finals two years ago and
in the semifinals one year ago.
The big reason for their pre-
mier position is the fact that
Frank Allen is the only proven
quarterback returning this year.
The other teams that should
share the spotlight are the Ter-
tium Quids (remnants of last
year's 12 Angry Weiners),
Dynasty, captained by Paul
Inman, and the Tubesteaks,
QB'd by Eliot Shapleigh.
The Monday league is a pot-
pourri of 4 graduate teams and
two relatively weak undergrad-
uate teams—Army ROTC and
Seamen. The favorite in the
league should be the Dynamic
Oligos who won the grad league
last year. This year, however,
the graduate teams will com-
pete in the regular playoffs,
which should prove interesting.
Tuesday's free, but Wednesday
league boast three of the more
powerful teams—I£nickerknock-
ers, Claw-D-Balls and Tertium
Quids. With the addition of Bill
Shadrack and John Jacobson to
a solid nucleus, the Knicker-
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club. The Tertium Quids will
go with converted receiver Ernie
Janik at quarterback. If they
can find him receivers to
match the quality of center
Mike Macha and a generally
superb defense, the Quids can
win it all.
The Thursday league has no
clear-cut favorite right now but
the nod here goes tentatively to
NROTC, basically because they
have one-man team Dan Frazier.
Leftover bangers
Friday league will also boast
•three strong teams: Dynasty,
Tubesteaks, and the Blue Oyster
Cult. The Tubesteaks have the
most established quarterback in
Eliot Shapleigh, plus the rem-
nants of the Bang Gang, and
should dominate the league.
Dynasty also has a good res-
ervoir of talent and will boast
an outstanding defense, but un-
til the quarterback slot is set-
tled they rank second to the
Tubesteaks. The Blue Oyster
Cult is basically the same
Baker team that beat Lovett
in the college playoffs last
year.
Most of the strong appear to
be in the Wednesday and Fri-
day leagues. Fortunately, how-
ever, Mr. Barker has scheduled
the Knickerknockers vs. Ter-
tium Quids .*and the Tubesteak
vs. Dynasty contests until the
last week, so the playoffs will
not appear too anticlijaactic.
by Rice's Edwin Collins. Last
year two TD's were enough.
This year don't count on it.
Saturday night the Owls will
be facing almost the same team
they met one year ago. Hous-
ton returns eighteen starters,
eight on offense, and ten de-
fensively. Junior quarterback
D. C. Nobles has a year of ex-
perience under his belt, and
will not even resemble the D. C.
Nobles that led UH in a losing
cause last year. Yeoman's
famous Veer-T will feature the
running of outstanding Marshall
Johnson SStt'" a host of other
big, quick running backs. They
will undoubtedly prove a stern
test for Conover's revamped
Oklahoma 5-2 defense. Fred
Geisler will lead the potent Owl
attack into a defense which has
played together for a year.
They know each other, and will
be tough to score on.
In addition to the wealth of
talent that will appear on the
Astro-turf dressed in putrid red
and white, the Coogs have
something else going for them
this week. Revenge. Not only
wall they meet the Owls on
their own home field, but
they'll be higher than a kite
just as we were last year. Two
losses in a row to lowly Rice
would be too much for mighty
Cougar High to bear. Not only
will the team be ready, but the
students are already getting
into the act. Yes, a dead owl
did appear at Conover's door,
and EAT RICE signs are ap-
pearing all over their campus.
One UH freshman was bold
enough to say that after the
game this year we'll be known
as "The Rice Day-Care Cen-
ter".
At- Rice there is the- usual
talk of kidnaping Shasta, or
whoever, but nothing usually
comes of such things. The foot-
ball players are guardedly op-
timistic. In the words of one
Ric-e jock, "We're gonna beat
the hell outta UH if we sur-
vive practice without too many
injuries." It is very much within
the realm of possibility. But no
one knows just how good we
are. Playboy said we might
break into the Top 20; the
Houston Post picked us last in
the SWC. More people read
Playboy.
Rice has to be the underdog,
but that's not unusual. If we
don't lose our poise and get
blown out early, or choke in
the 4th quarter as UH did a
year ago, we can win. There
will be a lot of scoring, but it
should be close. Our predic-
tion: 30-24, Rice.
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