The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1943 Page: 3 of 4
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By Mildred McCall
At this point the news that Rice
definitely did not win the opening-
game last Saturday night has prob-
ably even penetrated the wilds of
the backwoods country around Ba-
ton Rouge; therefore, any attempt
to conceal the fact would only make
the Bayou Bengals laugh. It seems
that in spite of this writer's opti-
mism last week, we came out on the
wrong end of the score. Well, I only
said I was looking for a Rice victory
—and I still am! One Glenn Dobbs
just kicked our team into the hole
once too often, and the less said
about that matter the better. Enough'
post mortems have already been held
this week.
LSU, fresh from a game won in the
closing seconds of play, will be
tough, no two ways about it. We can
expect lots of stiff opposition Sat-
urday when our Owls meet the Ti-
gers over on their own home field.
Nonetheless, I feel that Rice should
win the coming game. For one thing',
Mr. Neely and the boys will have
had a week to iron out the rough
spots which showed up in the last
game. For another, there were not
too many of those rough spots in
evidence." The running attack, though
sometimes slow In starting, looked
good, as did the defense against Ran-
dolph's attempts to carry the ball.
On the bright side of the ledger, also,
is the way our team was in the
game all 60 minutes. Never has
there been a Rice team more worthy
of support by reason of gameness.
We have no reason to feel anything
but pride in the first showing of the
1943 Owls.
The Rice vs. LSU series affords
plenty of interesting facts to look
back on, for never has there been
a really dull game in the lot. Upsets
and freak plays dot the history of
the rivalry like nuts in a fruit cake.
Still rankling in the bosoms of many
Owl rooters of long-standing is the
1937 defeat at the hands of Ken
Kavanaugh and company. Kava-
naugh, in case your memory does
not reach that far back, scooped up
a fumble out of the hands of Red
Vickers and raced from his own one-
yard line to score six of the points
that cooked our goose that'yeax*, 13-
0. The next year, we were treated
to an exhibition of place-kicking
when Milner of LSU booted the pig-
skin between the • uprights in the
last minute of play to send us home
in defeat to the tune of 3-0. In the
entire series, dating from 1915, only
three games have ended with the
score tied, all of which goes to show
just how well the Owls and .the Ti-
gers have liked each other in the
past. Neither team has ever been
satisfied by a draw, and probably
neither one will ever be. So—there
ought to be a pretty interesting-
struggle over in Baton Rouge next
Saturday night.
Last week's prediction from this
corner seems to have been ignored
by Randolph Field and Tulsa, who
went right ahead and did unpleasant
things to Rice and SMU respective-
ly, but the other three guesses
panned out pretty well—so—here
goes again.
Rice 13, LSU 7.
Texas 0, Southwestern 14.
TCU 7, Arkansas 6.
A&M 10, Texas Tech 7. .
SMU 6, North Texas Aggies 0.
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STANDINGS
SEASON'S STANDINGS
Team— W. L. Pet. Pts. Ops.
Arkansas 1 0 1.000 59 0
Texas 1 0 1.000 65 6
A&M 1 0 1.000 48 6
SMU 0 1 .000 7 20
Rice 0 1 .000 0 6
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LAST WEEK'S RESULTS
Arkansas 59, Missouri Mines 0 (Fay-
etteville).
Texas 65, Blackland Army Air Field
6 (Austin).
A & M 48, Bryan Air Field 6 (Col-
lege Station).
Randolph Field 6, Rice 0 (Houston—
night).
Tulsa 20, SMU-7 (Dallas).
THIS WEEK'S GAMES
(With Last Year's Scores)
TCU (13) vs. Arkansas (6), Little
Rock.
A & M (19) vs. Texas Tech (0), San
Antonio—night.
SMU vs. NTAC, Dallas.
Texas vs. Southwestern, Austin.
Rice (27) vs. LSU (14) Baton Rouge
LEADING SCORERS
Flayer Team, Pos. TD PAT TP
Lee Texas, fb 3 5 23
Park Texas, hb 3 0 18
Rados Texas, hb 3 0 18
Turner A&M, fb" 2 4 16
Jones Arkansas, hb 2 0 12
Baldwin Arkansas, e 2 0 12
Thompson Ark., qb 1 1 7
McAllister A&M, fb 1 1 7
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Notices, Schedules
Fine blocking back on the '43 Owl |
squad is Frank Lawrence, transfer j
from A & M where he did not
for football.
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Owls Defeated By
In Closing Minutes
Ramblers, 6-0
of Initial Game
In the initial game of the football
season, the Rice Owls suffered a 6-0
defeat at the hands of the Randolph
Field Ramblers from San Antonio.
The game, played under the lights
and in a drizzling rain, was hard-
fought and spirited from beginning
to end.
Charlie Malmberg, acting captain
for Rice, won the toss and elected
to receive the kickoff. When the ref-
eree's whistle opened the game,
Glenn Dobbs, All-American from
Tulsa, sunk his toe in the pigskin
and sent a beautiful end over end
boot far down the field. For 58 min-
utes thereafter the game was a see-
saw affair which 'saw the Owls
stronger on the ground and the Ram-
blers more potent in the air. This
very air power became the turning-
point of the game, for when Dobbs
and Parker opened their bag of
ground tricks and found the Rice
line a match for all of them, they
were forced to try the aerial route
to pay-dirt. The lone tally came with
two minutes to go in the closing pe-
riod, when Dobbs unlimbered his
pitchin' arm and heaved one to
Crowther over the goal line. The
try for conversion failed.
The kicking honors were about
even until Buck Sheffield was in-
jured early in the second half. Up
to that time he and Dobbs had waged
a kicking duel which left little to be
desired on both sides. Sheffield end-
ed with an average of 45.4 on six
tries, slightly edging out Dobbs who
finished with an average of 41.5 on
as many attempts.
Highlights of the game as far as
Rice is concerned were the stellar
running of Buck Sheffield, the fine
blocking by Frank Lawrence and
Larry Mills in the backfield, and the
great defensive play of the Owl line
against all attempts to gain on the
ground. Also doing excellent work
in the backfield were Bill Scruggs,
the lightest man on the field, and
Jimmy gotten, in the game for only
a short time because of an injury
received in summer practice. The en-
tire Rice forward wall played good.
football throughout the game, fight-
ing hard and opening large holes in
the Randolph line frequently. The
jarring tackles of Charlie Malmberg*
and defensive play of Leonard Kil-
gore, as well as heads-up ball play-
ing by Cotton Simms, until he was
carried off the field with a broken
leg which will keep him out of ac-
tion for at least six weeks, made
Owl supporters hope for better
scores in the future. From the Rice
point of view the game was fairly
encouraging, and much credit for
the fine showing Saturday night is j
due our team and coaches. Accord-
ing to indications the improved Owls
may bring back a win from LSU the
end of this week.
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Presbyterians Meet Thursday j
The Presbyterian Student Associ- j
ation will hold its regular meeting
Thursday, 12:15, at Autry House.
All Presbyterians are invited.
The Student Religious Council
held a meeting yesterday to work on
plans for the meeting in November.
Touch Football
The intramural touch football
elimination tournament started off
with a bang on Saturday afternoon
with 16 teams entered, comprising
165 boys. Four games were played
at the same time, with 12 games
completed before the afternoon drew
to a close.
The pairings and scores are as fol-
lows: ,
Carters 14, Red Devils 0; Rangers
0, USSFO 12; Hells Rangers 0,
Aces 6; Tars 6, West Hall 18; Dev-
astators 6, Rally Club I 6"; Soph
('hems 24, Scuttles 0; Soph Engi-
neers 6, Rally Club II 0; Grease
Monkeys 0, The Smooth Six 0*; Car-
ters 0, USSFO 18; Devastators 18,
Soph Chems 18*; West Hall 30,
USSFO 18; Soph Engineers 20,
Crease Monkeys 0.
("Winners are the Devastators, 2
penetrations to 1; the Grease Mon-
keys. 4 to 3; the Soph Chems, 3 to 1)
Games for Next Saturday
At 2 p.m. Saturday, October 2, in
the semi-finals, the USSFO will play
West Hall and the Soph Chems will
play the Soph Engineers. At 3 p.m.,
the winners of the semi-finals will
meet in the finals to decide the first:
and second place teams. The losers
in the semi-finals will play for third
place in the tournament.
Volleyball
The intramural volleyball tourna-
ment had four entries, involving 42
hoys. Playing a double elimination
tournament, the Stud-Buddies lost
to the Spiking Six and to the Slip-
pery Slimes. In the third game, the
Rally Club and the Slippery Slimes
finished in a tie with one game each.
The schedule for Saturday, Octo-
ber 2, starting at 2 p.m. will find
the Rally Club playing the Slippery
Slimes (one game to play off the
tie) followed by the Spiking Six
playing the Rally Club. Another
game to determine the winner will
be necessary, the playing teams de-
pending on the outcome of the sched-
uled games.
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