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Friday, October 30, 1942
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Letdown?
Tech Encounter Will
urate New Rivalry
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A new football rivalry will be inaugurated at the stadium
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 when Coach Dell Morgan sends his
Texas Tech Red Raiders against the Owls in what will be the
Neelymen's last non-conference
game.
For the thrice beaten Lubbock
boys it will be more or less of a do
or die proposition as they desperate
ly attempt to prove that they are of
Southwest conference caliber. Tech
has for years been trying to gain
admission to the Southwest confer-
ence and laid the groundwork the
year before last when they lured
Morley Jennings away from Baylor
and Dell Morgan away from the In-
stitute to make them athletic direc-
tor and head football coach, respec-
tively. With the aid of these men,
who are well known and well liked
around the circuit, Tech was able to
schedule games with four confer-
ence schools for the 1942 season.
Thus far they have met two of
these schools and have suffered two
defeats, losing to the Aggies 19-0
and Baylor 14-7. If they are to re-
tain much hope of achieving their
goal victories "over Rice and TCU
would seem to be in order so the
Owls will undoubtedly be up against
an inspired bunch of boys tomorrow
afternoon.
Tealn in Shape
The Red Raiders have been badly
crippled most of the season but
lately the injured boys have been
rounding back into shape and for
the first time Morgan expects to be
able to start his strongest combina-
tion. Tech has a sturdy line averag-
ing about 195 pounds and an excep-
tionally fast backfield that special-
izes in end sweeps and quick off-
tackle thrusts. The backs average
about 180.
Morgan employs the Notre Dame
system, the team coming out of the
huddle into the T from which they
may either run direct or shift very
quickly into a box or single wing.
In the quarterback or ball handling
spot for Tech will be Captain Ken-
neth Bobbins, senior from Dallas,
and behind him will be three very
speedy boys in Don Austin, Walter
Schlinkman and J. R. Callahan. All
three of these boys are capable
passers but with their best receiv-
ers, Ray and Crossen, out of the
lineup the Tech passing attack has
been anything but a success.
Many Passes
However, they will both be ready
to go tomorrow and Owl coaches
are expecting a lot of passes to be
thrown in the direction of these two
ends. Tech has been getting good
kicking from left halfbacks Calla-
han and Standefer and tomorrow's
battle may well develop into a punt-
ing duel between them and our own
Stoop Dickson and Edgar Cain^who
averaged almost 50 yards per try
against Texas.
Out at the Field house the biggest
problem has been how to get the
team on edge and avoid the letdown
so common after the playing of a
traditional rival for whom they had
been pointing all season. Neely will
probably start the same team which
took the field against the Long-
horns with the exception of block-
ing back Jake Nail who is out with
a badly bruised knee. Pete Sultis is
slated to start in his place with end
Ted Scruggs, who has been work-
ing out at this position all week,
backing him up. Captain Bob Tresch
who has been out all year with a
bad knee is reputed to be ready to
go again and. „may get the starting
call at left end.
Ousting their second team
many days, the Rally Club
continued their winning streak by
romping over the Ricemen 12 to 0
in a contest played Wednesday
afternoon. The loss was the second
straight for the Ricemen and elim-
inated them from the tournament.
The victory placed the Rally Club 1
in a tie with the Slipstick Slickers
and the U.S.S. Dewey for the league
lead. After being held scoreless the
first half, the Rally Clubbers went
to town in the second half, taking
to tHe air to turn back the Ricemen.
The Slipstick Slickers turned back
the U.S.S. Portland 6 to 0 Tuesday
afternoon in the last 30 seconds of
the game. Running the ball from
their own 18-yard line, the Slickers
uncorked a 35-yard pass from Wal-
lace Sherwitz to Perry Martin, who
crossed the goal line standing up.
The Portland's safety man received
a hard jolt as Tommy Raub cleared
the way for the only marker of the
game. The defeat was the first to be
suffered by the Portland while the
victory left the Slickers with a
clean slate.
In the only other game played
Tuesday afternoon, John Tom-
fohrde's passing spelled the big dif-
ference as the Rally Club I over-
whelmed the Studs, 24 to 12. The
defeat spelled disaster to Simon's
crew, who were preseason favorites
to take the crown. The loss elim-
inated the Studs from the tourna-
ment.
The Slimy Slimes showed real
class in defeating the Ricemen last
Friday afternoon, 12 to 0. It was
the first defeat for the Ricemen in
four starts while the Slimes en-
joyed their third victory in four
games. Both teams remained in the
tournament as a result of the game
but either team can be eliminated
by the loss of only one game.
Standings
W. L. T.
Slipstick Slickers 5 0
Dewey 3 0
Rally Club I 4
U.S.S. Portland A
Slimy Slimes .... 3
U.S.S. Honolulu 3
1_0
Standings
CONFERENCE
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T.C.U 2
Baylor 2
Texas 2
Rice 0
A. M 0
Arkansas 0
STANDINGS
L T Pet. Pts. Ops.
1000
1000
1000
.000
.000
.000
20
26
59
7
2
19
of distinction
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and up
Men's Shop
Main Floor
SEASON'S STANDINGS
W L T Pet. Pts. Ops.
T.C.U 5
Baylor B
Texas 5
S.M.U 2
Rice 2
Arkansas 2
A. & M 1
1000 89
.833 132
.833 170
.500 66
.500 59
.400 53
.200 35
LAST WEEK'S SCORES
T.C.U. 21, Pensacola Naval Air Station 0.
Pensacola, Fla.
Baylor 6, Texas, A. & M. 0, Waco.
Arkansas 7, University of Mississippi 6,
Memphis, Tenn. (night).
Texas 12, Rice 7 .Houston.
S.M.U. 21, Corpus Christi Naval Air Sta-
tion 6, Dallas.
THIS WEEK'S GAMES
(With Last Year's Scores)
T.C.U. (23) vs. Baylor (12, Fort Worth.
Tex^s A. & M. (7) vs. Arkansas (0), Col-
lege Station.
Texas (34) vs. S.M.U. (0), Austin.
Rice vs. Texas Tech., Houston.
LEADING CONFERENCE SCORERS
Player, Team, Pos.-
G TD PAT TP
Field, Texas, hb
6
4
8
32
Coleman, Baylor, hb
6
4
5
2!)
Roberts. Texas, qb
6
4
1
25
Crain, Baylor, fb
6
4
0
24
McKay, Texas, fb
6
3
4
22
Eikenberg, Rice, fb
4
3
0
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Williams, Rice, e
4
3
0
18
Minor, Texas, hb
6
3
0
18
Jones, Texas, qb
6
3
0
18
Carter, Baylor, fb
6
3
0
18
According to some guy named
Bishop who writes sports for some
publication in Austin, Coach Jess
Neely broke all rules of ethical be-
havior by obtaining pictures of the
Texas-Arkansas game and using
them for scouting purposes.
This sounded like excellent column
material to us so we immediately
tricycled over to the amiable coach's
domicile and roused him out of bed
by banging on his door with a beer
bottle and singing "Darktown Strut-
ters Ball" in our best and loudest
voice. Although a bit surprised to
see us, Mr. Neely invited us in and
put a pot of tea on the stove.
Upon hearing of the cause of our
visit Mr. Neely sank back into his
easy chair and gave us the whole
story.
It seems that he And Cecile B. De-
Mille are buddies from way back
and just for "Auld Lang Syne" Cecil
thought that he would do Jess a
favor and photograph the TU-AU
game for him in true DeMille fash-
ion.
DeMille then hired out eight spe-
cial trains to bring all his equip-
ment and players to Little Rock. A
large crowd of extras was needed,
since to add color to the epic Cecil
thought that after each Texas
touchdown at lesfst 100 Arkansas
rooters should commit suicide, and
seven times 100 equals 700. At least
a thousand gorgeous chorus girls
were needed to keep the audience
from getting bored during the time
outs, and naturally the great pro-
ducer brought along Hedy in a lu-
rong and Dotty in a sarong.
Of course, all of these added at-
tractions did not keep the Owl staff
from gathering vital data from the
film. Most helpful to Neely was t|e
fact that DeMille had the game
filmed in technicolor which enabled
him to distinguish between the two
teams, so when a red jersey tackled
an orange one the coach would know
that one of the Arkansas man had
tackled one of the Texas players.
But when an orange jersey, tackled
one of the same color, Neely would
know that there was a fifth col-
umnist in the Longhom pasture and
by ascertaining the culprit's number
and promptly communicating with
him, he could secure his services for
the following Saturday.
Certainly Mr. Bishop does not
consider such tactics below the Owl
mentor and we wonder why he
didn't go into the matter more
deeply. Perhaps he recovered from
his hangover too soon.
What this column wants to know
i« why do people in this state put
up with such people as this Bishop
individual. In other states they put
them in institutions.
* * •
Never did the words "Rice fight
never dies" have more meaning than
last Saturday when the Owls bat-
tled desperately to stay in the game
for three quarters and then scared
the hell out of Texas with a valiant
last period surge that carried them
to within six points of victory. The
boys gave all they had against the
strong Texas outfit and might have
won if they had had another quar-
ter. It had been said that our great-
est weakness was in reserves. That
if? probably true and so when the
regulars got tired they knew that
they just had to stick it out because
any relief they got would be brief.
It took a whole lot of guts and a
whole lot of spirit to play the way
they did. The varsity is a credit to
the whole school and win, lose, or
draw,J;he-student body can feel just-
ly proud of them.
* * *
Southwest conference prestige
Continued on page 4
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