Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 3, August 24, 1946 Page: 10
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You Bring the Ducks
The old wheeze about a duck dinner-
"you bring the ducks"'-may have to be
revived in North Texas this hunting
season. By the time shooting is legal
on the Panhandle ponds and Caddo Lake,
most mallards and redheads will have
pulled pinfeathers for the South Texas
rice fields and other coastal Shangri-
las.
So claim North Texas sportsmen, with
more than a touch of indignation.
Chances are their protests will go un-
heeded.
Here's the picture: Last year's duck
season started November 2, lasted 80
days. This year's will open November 23
and end 45 days later. The bag limit
has been slashed from 10 to seven and
possession limit from 20 to 14, but that
is not what the boys are grumbling
about.
Short Crop Expected
It isn't even the 45-day season.
Sportsmen's guns took an unexpectedly
heavy toll last year. In addition, coRdi-
tions in the Canadian breeding grounds
were unfavorable. Experts expect a
short crop-hence the tightened restric-
tions.
But Texas is such a vast state that
no 45-day duck season could be equitableto all sections. In the Panhandle an
North Texas. .early November is th
best duck-nunting time. On the Gul
Coast, superior shooting comes thre
weeks to a month later. Early-arrivin,
birds are lean and stringy. By lat
November, stuffed with rice and othe
regional delicacies, they are fat an(
flavorous. The November 23-JanuaryI
season will be satisfactory in the coas
country.
North Texans are clamoring to share
in Oklahoma's shooting dates, which ar
October 26-December 9. This is th
intermediate zone season set by th
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
There are also North and South zon
seasons, and all Texas is in the Souti
zone (except for the Lake Texom
shoreline which falls into the Oklahomi
zone.)
Two States Complain
Only Texas and Louisiana among th
South zone states have registered com
plaints, Game Commission Secretar
Howard Dodgien believes. - The Texa
commission is sympathetic but helpless
Theoretically it s e t s T e x a s duck
shooting dates; practically it canno
vary from the federal dates, otherwis
it would be encouraging violation o
U.S. law and getting a lot of Texa
hunters in dutch with the federals.
For administrative reasons (anothe
way of saying "too much trouble") th
Fish and Wildlife Service would be re
luctant to split a state between zones
Dodgen holds small hope for such relief
or for any relief from the present plightd
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a ing, the line logically would follow ap-
a proximately the mourning dove dividing
line which starts on the Rio Grande
above Laredo and zig-zags in a north-
easterly direction until it 'hits Louisiana
about halfway between Texarkana and
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s. More Speed and Flash
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t Each winter certain greying and bald-
e ing football professors repair to some
f suitable workshop, such as the Waldorf-
S Astoria or the Camelback Inn at Palm
Springs, and give the rules a going-
r over.
e These would be the 10 members of
the rules committee appointed by the
- National Collegiate Athletic Association.
With advice from various sources but
- eventually at their own discretion, they
make or change college football law.
(Texas high schools also follow the
NCAA rulebook.)
46 Game to be Faster
Rulemakers can revolutionize a sport
and football is no exception. Most
drastic change in football's history came
with the introduction of the forward
pass in 1906. Subsequent important
revisions included: 1912, four downs al-
lowed instead of three to advance the
ball 10 yards; 1927, goal posts set 10
yards back of the goal line; 1929, defen-
sive team forbidden to run with a re-
covered fumble; 1941, free substitution
allowed.
Last winter the rules committee set
up no milestones. Even so, the 1946
game will be a little faster and the at-
tack a little flashier.
T Formation Teams Benefit
Of major interest to T-formation
coaches is the new liberty granted their
quarterbacks. These key operatives of
the backfield habitually crouch behind
the center, less than the previously pre-
scribed yard back of the line of scrim-
mage. Hitherto the rulemakers have
dictated that the quarterback, because
of his irregular position, had to take the
center pass. If he wanted some other
back to have the ball, the quarterback
had to hand or flip it to him.
This fall the center will be allowed
to pass the ball between the quarter-24 AUGUST 46
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Old rule prescribed a one-yard break
between lines and backfieldWHERE DUCKS
DUCK-IN - - -
HOW GOOD IS TEXAS HUNTING? -"
EXCELLENT
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777710 TEXAS WEEK
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