The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 1949 Page: 4 of 4
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THE THBESHER
Coach Joe Davis Gets His Defense: Rice, 45; Texas, 37
Owls Hold Steers to 13 Points in First Half;
Bill Tom Leads Team as He Scores 16 Points
Coach Joe Davis wanted a defense and he got it last
Saturday night when the Owls came through with a great 45-37
victory over the Texas Longhorns.
It was defense—defense—defense as the Owls held the
high scoring Steers to 13 points in the second half. Rice
practically froze the ball for 18
minutes after they took a 26-
25 lead 2 minutes deep in the
second half, maintained a stea-
dy four to seven point lead un-
til the last minute when they
stretched it to eight.
No player can be singled out as
the whole team combined to give
Rice another great victory over
Texas University. Dave Cook was
superb on defense, holding the
Steers' All America candidate, Sla-
ter Martin, to a mere 4 points; Bob
Foley's one hand set shots kept the
Owls in the game early in the con-
test before the lanky Baytowner,
who was guarding the infamous A1
Madsen, fouled out; Warren Switzer
played his usual brilliant floor game :
and <1 id invaluable service on the
backboards; Joe McDermott did
great work on the backboards and
tallied 1 points; Bill Tom did like-
wise, scoring 16 points; Paul Vahl-
diek did yeoman service after Folev
fouled out, bringing the ball up
court with the Longhorns checking
quite closely; and Jim Gerhardt
helped out on rebounds.
Control of the backboards was of
vita] importance in this contest and
ail of the boys came through. They
dominated play at either end of the
court permitting Rice to control the
ball a majority of the time, a fac-
tor vevy necessary to beating Texas.
Rice scoring
plete season:
Tom
Switzer
McDermott
Cook
Foley
Vahldiek
Tighe
Gerha rdt
ITudgens
Wolcott
Proctor
White
Rice Totals
Opponents
In other games of the conference,
Baylor cooled off Julius Dolnics
enough for a 46-39 win over Texas
Christian, with Jamie Owens hit-
ting 16 points for the winners, and
Arkansas employed accuracy at the
free throw line to hand Southern
Methodist its fourth league setback,
54-45.
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Purposes —
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But let's consider every angle of
this grammar situation—suppose a
student gets to college without
knowing grammar. Will he be more
likely to learn it by starting a new
language, going all the way back to
nouns, adjectives and adverbs, or
by furthering his study of Latin or
Spanish, moving into the more dif-
ficult constructions and idioms ?
The question is of course
rhetorical, and the latter answer
seems preferable.
A conclusive indication of the
truth of what i have said, that a
student should be permitted to con-
tinue study of his high school lan-
guage, is the fact that those few
who have had French in secondary
schools invariably sign up for
French at Rice, and do well at it,
whereas those who have taken
Spanish invent all sorts of excuses
for substituting Spanish 200 for
French 200.
This other purpose of teaching
foreign language, to enhance under-
standing of grammar and vocabu-
lary, admits of the possibility of an
alternative to the plan of offering
further studies in high school lan-
guages.
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When Texas did get the ball, there
was always an Owl hanging on the
ball handler like a leecb. Play like
this for the vest of the season should
bring the conference championship
to Houston this year.
O
SAGA BRING-
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to the days of "Mr. Bones and the
end-man."
Of the can-can this be said—"my,
my, can these be Rice girls?" The
leg art of this group of girls, while
not reminding one of the "Rock-
ettes," was very satisfying!
In all, those who attended the
"Saga of the Sawmill" can certainly
say "I got my six-bits worth"—and
that they did.
Letters to the Editoi
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not turn a completely deaf ear. At
least, a number of Negro graduate
students could be admitted.
Wouldn't it be a great advance,
for the South, for Texas, for the
Rice Institute, when finally—85
years late—but, finally, a group of'
intelligent peopfe, largely Southern-
ers, show some initiative, and break
through the senseless curtain of seg-
regation ? Instead of having it forc-
ed upon us, as in Arkansas or Okla-
homa, voluntarily admit Negroes to
equal education? Wouldn't it?
ALFRED GRONER.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 1949, newspaper, January 19, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230785/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.