Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 265, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1927 Page: 6 of 8
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THE BOttOER DAILY TTERAT.D
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SYSTEMS OF PLAY SHIFTED IN SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2f), lf 27.
TONIGHT'S THt I WHAT'S WHAT
NIGHT FOR BIG
MAT BATTLE
Maniell Versus Chick; Who
Will Win? is Big
Question
AT COLISEUM
Much Interest in Return
Meeting of Wrestling
Masters
Mnnfell ov Chick?
Tonight's crucial battle at the
Coliseum will decide whether or
not due town In the' t* ill tod States
ill lie large <• iuin{-,li to hold ,i
pair ol wlldinen for even one day
without jeopardizing its citizens.
Iiuieli Mantell of .-.marllo, after
boating Boliliv Chick three limes in
!t row, is laking the Borger hoy on
upain tonight. either to openly
"give him another chance," or lo
Many Changes in Regulations
ol Football For the
Year
GOALS SET BACK
Fans Will Be Shocked at
Changed Appearance
? Field
o
NEW YORK (API- Football
fans resorting to early autumn
practice to familiarize themselves
villi the nnv rules mint lie pre-
pared lor
feerald Mann, (left I
University this full.
Hunt (.right I one of
All-American quarterback ill l!)2(i, returns in
1 Higgins iceuler), is one «of the chief factors in
outstanding players of the conference, is back ;
the Mustangs cf Southern Methodist
the Texas Longhonis' defense. Joel
again with the Texas Aggies.
Texas (AP)
Conference
at
for
the
— Seven
football
their res-
tile most
history of
ir fall found the
DALLAS,
Southwest
quads are training
peetive institutions
Strenuous season in
the circuit.
The first tinge o
1 f 27 season promising the highest
class football ever seen in the con-
ference. Last year a low ranking
team, Texas Christian I'niversity.
'defeated the Oklahoma A a XI.
eleven, mythical Missouri Valley
x Conference champions.
Announcement of different sys-
tems of play, numerous changes
.In players and other innovations
have come from the Southwestern
Schools. Several chugea in coach-
ing staffs were partly responsible
for this, but the development of
the game scientifically in the south-
west was the principal reason.
'Southern Methodist
Mustangs, under the
Ceach Kay Morrison.
tablish a precedent by
successive
the loss of
r:
I'niverslt v's
direction of
plan to es-
wlnning two
championships despite
Chris Cortemegliu. Lo-
gan Ford and Howard Wade, bit!
warks of defense and projectiles
on offense in l! 2<! when the team
Was undefeated.
Gerald Mann, third all-Americnn
quarter back in lf)28, and co-cap-
tain Robert Tatum, sturdy guard,
with 'Dog'' Dawson, all-conference
end. and 12 other letter men re-
turned to the Mustang corral this
fall. Some promising material,
yet untried, also is avalable.
Coach Clyde Littletleld. who suc-
ceeded iv J. (Doleful Doc I Stewart
at the University of Texas this
summer, has appealed for "spirit
ith new materials, and with the
assistance of Marty Kurow. new
line coach from Ohio State l iiiver-
sity, he expects to lay the founda-
tion for the championship in lliliS
"Ox" Hggins, giant lineman and
co-captain of the Longhorns ith
Rufus King, halfback, is one of
the chiel factors in the Longhorn
defense. Nine lettermen reported
at the initial practice, but Littie-
ti >ld is sill short on dependable
punters, place-kickers and passers.
From Rice institute at Houston
(oines the report that Coach John
\V. Heisman will use unusual for-
mations anil plays. His new line
coach, ('laud Itothgeh, is to develop
an unbalanced line, using Captain
i Merle Comstock and Big Kd llerf-
liiii,, two big men, as ends. With
i live other letter men of last year,
and seven fleet graduates of the
! 1920 Freshmen squad, an attempt
! will he made to develop a swift
i candidates are light.
With the exi/ption of Gerald
S. M. I'. last vear, Texas
college has the most out-
player in the conference
Hum, captain- Hunt was
off-tackle-ground
spectacular broken
[t'niversity Rears at Waco will lie
compelled to depend largely on
. new material. Coach M or ley Jen-
j nines must 1111 live berths that were
' occupied by all-conference men.
i Abe Kellev, an all-conference man.
and Rob Hailey. a star, were killed
out of the
enters the ring
backed by :t
Borger fans, is
outsmart the
by hook or
whether it be by
Mann of
A. & M.
standing
in Joel
a sensational
gainer and a
with eight other Baylor students in
I a it automobile wreck.
c op eh Mat tie Reli at Texas
Christian University, Fort Worth,
ui.io must seek new materials, his
stars having been graduated this
spring.
Arkansas University, only out-of-
state conference member, has only
three conference games scheduled.
The most Important intersec-
tion a I games this year 4 iclude
! Texas U. and Vanderbilt I'. at
i Dallas, October 1:1: Texas l?. and
the Kansas Aggies at Austin, .N'o-
j veinlier 11: S. M. and Missouri!.
t . at Dallas. October 2H. and
| Texas Aggies and Sewanee r. at i
Dallas. October S.
Good Shows at the
Rex and Rig Theatres
secretly put Bobby
spotlight for good-
Retting odds were obviously in
Mantell's favor here last night and
it is thought the Amarillo "rough-
neck" will he a sronger favorite
than ever when Ik
tonight.
Chick, however,
strong crowd of
I determined to
I tricky Dutchman
I ( rook, no matter
j Police Gazette rules or Back Al-
I ley rules. At any rate a movie
! camera man attending the match
j tonight might get some nifty bar-
iroom amosphere.
Elmer Guthrie, promoter, this
| morning said he did not beleve
| the Coliseum will be anywhere near
j large enough to hold the enormous
Iciowd which is certain to crash
• the doors and jam the building
'early t hills evening.
From the looks of the reserved
jseat hoard at the Anderson drug
I store, where ringside seats have
j been on sale for several days, a
! sell-out can be expected - at any
hour today.
Tonight's show promises many
: interesting mat features, opening
| with a program of good prelimin-
aries.
Tin
Laughng
company is
field runner. Coach Dana X.
Rible will have Hunt back again,
with Rurgess and Colgin, to form
the nucleus of his backlield. Lack
of heavy men and experienced ma-
terial in the line will he the
Aggie problem that Charles S. Ras-
sett. new line coach from the Uni-
versity of Michigan will have to
solve. He will he assisted by It. S-
I ligginbcfct ham
gridiron fame,
of old A. iV-
who recently
M
wa -
and support." Littlefreld, many ! signed.
years track coach at the unlversit'- i Although Uunnerup in the con
wtll revamp the depleted squad Terence race last year, the Baylor
presenting Ranch Romance today,
at the Rex Theater, with the two
"black boys" playing dai'ktown
cowboys. Tommie and Cotton
"brought down the house" again
last night with their witty re-
j marks, and responded to the en-
I cores of the audience with clever
it,its that appealed to everyone.
"Tin Stolen Rrlde," Rillie
Dove's latest starring vehicle, is
i showing again t oday at the Rig
Theater. Rillie is screendom's lat-
est star, and with her personality
land wealth of beauty, will soon
j be one of moviedoni's biggest fa-
i t orite \
English Have Various
Names for Huckleberry
LONDON (AIM Huckleberry
Finn would have been Whortleberry
j Finn if he had been born in Devon
or Somerset. In Surrey
have been
Finn would have
Hampshire. Up i:t
have been Whinli
The little blue
■: Finn,
been his
Scotland
erry Fin
berry,
ic would
Bilberry
name in
he would
j so much relished in pies
'ever, changes its name
ich is
world
111 its
one shock as soon as
it hey reach the field for the first
|game. The goal posts will not he 1
j In their accustonied places.
The posts have been ordered
back roni the goal lines to the end
lines, a difference of ten ye:t;ds. j
j This will make the try for point
after touchdown more difficult In;
j the opnion of the rule- t ommiiteo i
; it will avoid possible injuries and i
j interference with plays on the goal'
i line.
Under the new setting of the
posts it will not be so easy t > t ;ko |
the three points offered by a fii 1.1 j
goal when the six of seven points
resulting rfom a touchdown se in
a remote possibility. Now with
the hall on the 15-yard line a drop
or placement kick must travel 2n '
yards rfom the line of scrimmage. '
Under the rules of 10 2 7 t'te -e !
must ho no "beating the ball" j
from shift or Buddie plays. In all
such plays the players must e.iin"
i lo an absolute stop and remain mo-
tionless in ther new positions with-
I out movement of the feet or
, swaying of the body for approxi-
mately one second.
The rules committee suggest <
that a convenient way to niensur-
] this period is to count rapidly "one
two-three-four." It tells officia's
| that in case of doubt the p-naltv ,
shall be enforced. Ret'ere as, um-
pires and linesmen are .liars d
i with responsibility for enforcing
- the "slop" rule. The penalty for
violation will be 15 yards-
111 an effort to speed the game j
the rules on "delay of the game"
have been amended. Each captain
will now he permitted to aslc that j
time he called three times in < ii< 1 i
half instead of four as b'fore. The
I penalty of live yards for each aci-
jditional "time out" when the phr
or for whose benefit time was call-!
ed remains the same.
The amended rules construe as
i "unreasonable delay" a lapse of
j more than 30 seconds in putting
i tho ball in play alter1 i. „ re-idv
or the continuance of a
for more than 1 •">
Violatiol will cost live
snapper-back, if incompleted, Will
be dead. The ball shall belong to
the passing side at the point It
struck the ground or went out ot:
bounds, and the play shall coluit
as a down On the fourth down
the ball shall go to the oppon-
ent at ttint point.
IT a backward pass, made by a
I'layet of the side which did not
put the ball in play, strike the
ground or gos out of bounds be-
low passing into possession of a
player, the ball is dead and shall
belong to the passing side at the
point wheiv it struck the ground
or went out of bounds. The down
slial be llrst with tort yards to
gain.
A far-reaching rule which will
pr vent picking up fumbled kicks
uki exciting dasliei to touchdowns
Inni! gains, ha been incorpora-
ted in the revised regulations.
Nov. when a hall is' kicked from
scri.outage and touched or tnul'l'od
l.y o player of the receiving side
Fed ore it has. come into actual n.is-
session an,7 control of the
ii may be recovered by a
of the kicking side who was
on side when his opponent !
the ball, but it may not he
(ed beyond the point of ro( ove.-.i.
The bail will be declared dead at
the point of recovery.
The game will he made safer
from players' feet under a
in th£ rules making mow* jjotlnite
the restrictions oni-^l]f|piMnt to
be ad inch ill diftnat«| ir«ihUirig
worn. Conical cleats, file "points
f which are less than three->|ght:<
cjoats which measure less than
(in'e-fOur!h by three-fourths of an
Inch on Hie surface are forbidt^li.
The rules specifically bap bicycle
or electric tape in hand o'' v.rlst
protectors. The penalty for viola-
tion yf the rules as to proper
equipment remains as suspension
unless the evils are corrected'With-
in two minutes.
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Caufield, T. E. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 265, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1927, newspaper, September 29, 1927; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth209267/m1/6/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.