The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 9, 1929 Page: 3 of 4
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November 9, 1929
THE RATTLER
Page 3
26-6^ Rattlers Ride on Crest of Victory Wave=26-0
St. Mary’s Kans.
Loses Great Game
Barrage of Passes Wilts
Knights’ Defense
Displaying the “punch” that it
takes to make a football team,
the St. Mary’s Rattlers passed and
bucked the St. Mary’s College of
Kansas team into submission by a
score of 26-6, Sunday, October 27.
This victory marked the fifth win
in six starts.
Early in the game the Rattlers
recovered a fumble in mid-field
and attempted a pass. This pass
was intercepted by C. Werth of the
Kansas team, who ran with It to
the Rattler 6 yard line where he
was caught from behind by Black-
burn. After the Knights made 3
yards, they were penalized 5 yards
for offsides. Klenck took the ball
to the Rattler 1 yard line and again
the Knights were penalized 5
yards. The Kansans attempted a
field goal but the kick went wild.
The ball then went over to the Rat-
tlers. Blackburn tried to punt
from the 20 yard line but the ball
hit Askey and was recovered by
the Knights. A few line plays took
the ball over, but the try-for-point
failed. Score: Knights 6, Rattlers
0.
The Rattlers then woke up and
began to play real football. Roper
recovered a fumble. “Unk” Young
passed to Mayo on the visitors’ 28
yard line as the quarter ended.
After play had been resumed,
Young passed to “Chief” Manny
on the Knights’ 12 yard line.
Blackburn then received a for-
ward pass from Young and ran 10
yards for the first Rattler touch-
down. He also kicked the point,
making the score 7-6 in the Rat-
tlers’ favor. After an exchange of
punts and a few plays by each
team, the half ended with the San
Antonio St. Mary’s on the longer
end of the 7-6 score.
When “Dutch” Daehne entered
the game at the beginning of the
second half, it was the signal for
the Rattlers to open up, and open
up they did. Daehne, the “Flying
Dutchman”, snatched a short pass
from Blackburn and then ran 60
yards through a broken field for
a touchdown. In this play “Dutch”
made one of the best broken-field
runs seen in many a day on any
local field. He was not touched in
his squirming, dodging, side-step-
ping journey over the chalk marks.
Blackburn again kicked the extra
point that made the score 14-6 in
favor of the Snakes. “Unk” Young
then added a pair of touchdowns.
His first came when he intercepted
a pass and dashed 40 yards to
score. The extra point was missed.
(No, “Blackie” did not attempt it).
Young’s second score was made
when he crossed up the opposing
team by faking a pass and then
scurrying 25 yards around right
end behind splendid interference
to cross the goal line untouched.
Askey again missed the try-for-
point and the score stood 26-6,
Thus it remained for the rest of
the contest.
The Rattlers made 11 first
downs to the .Knights’ 5, and com-
pleted 14 out of 23 forward passes.
Daehne, Young and Blackburn
featured on the Serpent offense,
while “Leepo” Roper, “Hog” Nel-
son, Higginbotham, and Askey
sparkled on the defense for the
Rattlers.
Klenck lived up to advance no-
tices that he is a real triple threat
man. He scored the visitors’ only
touchdown and played a nice game
aided by C. Werth and Smith. The
Kansans were every bit of 5 to 6
pounds heavier than the locals but
could not match the drive and fight
of the Rambling Rattlers.
The line-up:
Mayo . . .
Left End
.1. Worth
Harzke (C)..........
Left Tackle
McCarthy
Higginbotham .......
Left Guard
Nelson . .
......... (C) Stringer
Center
Bergmann
Right Guard
.. . Staab
Roper . . .
Right Tackle
. Hawkins
Manny . .
Right End
. . Colona
Askey . . .
Quarterback
. . . Smith
Blackburn
Right Half
. . Klenck
Young . . .
Left Half
C. Worth
Smith . . .
Fullback
. . . Burns
Substitutions:
Rattlers: Daehne, Adams, Dikes,
O’Toole, Neumann, Hempel, Grif-
fin, Gilliland, Lamb, Aurich, Chris-
ty, Malone, Stein, and Cheatham.
Knights: Bell, Hickey, Slay-
baugh, McMindes, Lynch, and
Tamski.
Officials: Ettlinger (Washing-
ton), referee; Frazier (Baylor),
umpire; Gene Seng (St. Mary’s),
head linesman; and Joe Fink (Vir-
ginia), field judge.
ST. MARY’S STUDENT
WINS BOXING MATCH
Earl Lowe Shows Stuff
Earl Lowe, pugilistic representa-
tive of St. Mary’s University,
fought and defeated Jack Rowe of
San Antonio at San Pedro Park,
Thursday night, Oct. 10.
Lowe, managed by “Chief” Man-
ny, weighed in at 155 pounds while
Jack Rowe tipped the scales at 152.
Lowe had a small advantage in
reach.
The first round was slow and
could have been given to either
man. Clinches were plentiful and
the referee called a foul on Earl
for striking Rowe as he broke the
clinch. The crowd booed and Rowe
said he was willing to continue. A
new referee was chosen and the
fight continued.
The second round found Earl
taking the offensive. Time and
again he rushed Rowe to the ropes
only to see a snappy comeback on
the latter’s part. Lowe’s offensive
tactics gained the second round for
him.
The third round found Lowe
rushing from his corner refreshed
and full of pep while Rowe was be-
ginning to weaken. A driving
right from Earl’s glove sent Jack
Rowe sprawling for a count of
nine. The kid was game and
retaliated as soon as he rose to his
feet, with several body blows, but
the superior tactics of Lowe were
too much for him and he was again
floored and was saved from a
knockout only by the gong.
Lowe fought cooly throughout
the entire fight and from start to
finish he proved to be the more
polished fighter. Earl is looking
for more opponents in the fighting
game and says he will take all
comers.
BETWEEN THE GOAL POSTS
What would happen: If “Dutch”
Daehne came to History 301 on
time? If “Hog” Nelson failed to
have his lesson prepared? If “Unk”
Young didn’t grin? If Blackburn
missed a try-for-point?
They may be Broncos , in Edin-
burg, but they’re saddle horses in
San Antonio.
In the Rattler-Knight game, Joe
Fink, timer, slipped in the mud
while marking the place where the
ball went out of bounds. He faw
down and go-aw, why bring
that up?
It was recently said that conver-
sation is a lost art. If one would
park around and wait a turn at the
’phone in Chaminade Hall on Sat-
urdays, they would heartily dis-
agree. Athletes not suspected.
Well known cry heard about
11:00 A. M.: “Mail come yet?”
Figure this one out: The Rat-
tlers beat Kingsville, 34-0; Schrein-
er defeated the Rattlers, 21-7; and
Kingsville tied Schreiner, 7-7.
It seems that the Rattlers are up
in the air and yet they are playing
over their opponents’ heads. How
come? Well, 14 out of 23 passes
in the St. Mary’s-Kansas game and
11 out of 25 in the Edinburg game.
Illinois had “Red” Grange, the
University of New York had
Strong, the Army has Cagle, Yale
has Booth, Dartmouth has Mar-
sters, Georgia Tech has Thomason,
Notre Dame had the. Four Horse-
men, and St. Mary’s University of
San Antonio has Young, Askey,
and Daehne.
The other day Cartwright was
stuck up about something. Per-
haps the reason was that he was
fixing the adhesive tape.
Some of these broken-field run-
ners would make good hula-hula
dancers judging from the way they
move their hips.
When “Bones” Irvin shifted Jim
Crow to the backfield, it was one
of those master moves. Jim cer-
tainly is a menace to any coach’s
line.
The St. Mary’s-Edinburg game
was broadcast over WOAI. Hope
DePaul was listening in.
Robert Brown broke into the
line-up in the Edinburg game and
after seeing him snare one of
Young’s passes and then running
10 yard with it, it is wondered
where he has been all this time.
Last week our editor in a scath-
ing article denounced the ineffici-
ency of our police department,
stating among other things, that
there were entirely too many bur-
glaries in our city. Might we ask
the honorable gentleman what he
would consider to be the ideal num-
ber?
You may delay, but time won’t.
Edinburg Passes
To No Avail
Serpents’ Aerials Triumph
Revenge is sweet!
The Rattlers avenged themselves
for their defeat at the hands of the
Edinburg Broncs last season by
taking the valley team “into camp”
at League Park to the tune of 26
to 0. Coach Irvin’s charges scored
two touchdowns in the first period
and two in the last, adding a couple
of extra points to account for the
total of 26.
The Rattlers looked good as they
ripped the line, skirted the ends,
and hurled passes throughout the
contest. The Serpents outshone
the Bucking Broncs in every de-
partment of the game. Only one
time did Edinburg threaten to
score. This was in the third quar-
ter. A series of passes carried the
ball deep into Rattler territory, but
the Blue and Gold held, and halted
the only appreciable advance of the
Broncs.
St. Mary’s started the scoring
early in the initial period. Line
bucks and passes carried the ball
from the Rattlers’ 30 yard line to
the opponents’ 40 yard line.
Blackburn tossed a short pass to
“Dutch” Daehne, who proceeded to
gallop the remaining 40 yards to
the goal line. Blackburn kicked
goal.
A few minutes after, with the
ball in the Rattlers’ possession in
the middle of the field, another
Blackburn-Daehne pass placed the
ball on the Broncs’ 5 yard line. On
the next play, “Chief” Manny, Rat-
tler end, raced back through the
backfield, took the ball from Ad-
ams, and circled left end for a
touchdown. Blackburn again kick-
ed goal, making the score 14 to 0.
The Rattlers failed to chalk up
more markers until the final per-
iod. Daehne snatched another pass,
this time from “Unk” Young, and
ran 52 yards to a touchdown. All
through the game “Dutch” was a
thorn in the side of the Edinburg
defense with his pass-snatching
and broken-field running. Anoth-
er pass was responsible for the
fourth and last score of the day.
Young heaved the oval far down
the field into the waiting arms of
O’Toole, Rattler end.
Coffman and McCauley, quarter-
back and fullback, respectively,
were the whole show for Edinburg,
together with Garrett, left end.
The passing combination of Coff-
man and McCauley was the chief
offensive threat of the visitors.
The game marked the inaugura-
tion of broadcast of Rattler con-
tests, through the courtesy of the
San Antonio Express and radio
station WOAI.
St. Mary’s (26) Edinburg (0)
Hempel.......L. E.......Garrett
Harzke.......L. T........Smith
Higginbotham. L. G......Duncan
Nelson........C.......Hetrick
Bergmann.....R. G.. A. Errington
Roper. ...... .R. T.. F. Errington
Manny.......R. E.........Keen
Adams........Q. B.....Coffman
Daehne........R. H.... Lawrence
Young........L. H......Hughes
Blackburn.....F. B.....McCauley
Substitutions:
St. Mary’s: The entire squad.
Edinburg: Ewing, Coffman,
Hutphen, Day, Trolinger, Magee,
Hamme, McCauley.
Officials: Frazier, Hart, and
Seng.
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