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The College Star
Published Weekly During the School Year by the Students of the Southwest Texas State Teachers College
VOLUME XII. SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1923 NUMBER 8
Bobcats Victors Over Hillbillies With 31-0 Score
EAGLE-BOBCAT CUSH TO BE THE UST
IN FOOTBALL PROGRAM FOR THE YEAR
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Coach Strahan’s Men Determined to
Even Count With Strong North Texas
Teachers College Team; Large
Crowd Expected to Witness Game;
Many Homecomers Reported to Be
On' Hand Thanksgiving.
Both Elevens Are Ready For
Premier Gridiron Contest
of the Season.
NEXT THURSDAY, Turkey
Day, promises to rival and even
surpass the eventful day in 1921
when the Denton Eagles last
came down for the annual clash
with the Bobcats from the
Southwest Texas Teachers Col-
lege. Although there has been
no definite plans set for a great
Home-Coming, there will be
hosts of old students back to
witness the football classic. It is
reported that there will be a
banquet for the home-comers
and other entertainments but
beyond a shadow, of a doubt
all attention will be centered on
Evens field at 3:00 that after-
noon. That date is just five
days away and both teams are
pointing to the game.
The last time the Denton Eagles in-
vaded the Bobcat den, they were taken
under cover by the score of 14-0. The
Cats outplayed the fast Denton team
in every department of the game, thus
winning the tilt by hard fought foot-
ball. It was that glorious climax of
the 1921 grid season that Jack Horton
won a place in the hearts of Bobcat
adherents. The big Bobcat wing man
made both the counters; one by receiv-
ing a perfect pass from Shands and
the other coming as a result of a 65-
yard run around Denton’s left end.
The interference that enabled Horton
to make this spectacular runu was per-
fect. So much for that year. The ques-
tion in the minds of the followers of
the Bobcat aggregation is whether or
not the team will receive the moral
support they had in 1921. It is true
the team is made up largely of new
men, but they have shown their
strength. Lowman, Kallina and Brown
are the only men on the present Bob-
cat-machine who took part in the 1921
tilt. They are far better this year than
ever before and the new men are
equally as great as the memorable
stars on that impregnable machine.
The battle to take place next Thurs-
day will not be won solely by the ele-
ven that takes the field at 3:00, but
every student in School has an impor-
tant part to fulfill. The pep ralies
are forerunners of victory. East night
the student body was summoned out
to a rally in preparation for the
Thanksgiving. The spirit displayed
by these students will determine the
fighting spirit of the Bobcat squad. If
you attended the rally as all loyal
backers of the Maroon and Gold
should have, if you will carry out your
part of the program by your earnest
effort, then your part of the victory
is well taken care of. On the other
hand, you cannot expect your team to
show their best when their own fellow
students are not backing them as they
should.
The Denton Eagles won from the
Bobcats last year on the Denton grid-
iron by a score og 15-13. As the score
would indicate, the game was some-
what of a toss-up. This year the Bob-
cats have a stronger aggregation than
last, but the Eagles also claim a
strengthened squad. It has always been
a safe bet to say that the Eagles will
use a system of open football. Until
this year ithe Bobcats have resorted to
compact formations of straight foot-
ball, but now their style includes a
dependable overhead attack as well as
a role .of versatile running plays.
In the five games that have been
played between Denton and the Bob-
cats, two have resulted in scoreless
ties, two were wins for the Eagles, one
for the Bobcats. This shows that they
have a slight edge on us which will
make Coach Strahan’s men fight the
harder.
The season record of the Bobcats is
glightly better than that boasted by
the Eagles. The Bobcats have won
three games and lost three, while the
Denton team has lost four and won
two. The following, is the Bobcats’ re-
cord for the season:
Bobcats 47, Nacogdoches 6.
Bobcats 0, Southwestern 18.
Bobcats 0, Huntsville 6.
Bobcats 19, Rice 6.
Bobcats 40, Commerce 0.
Bobcats 13, Howard Payne 25.
Bobcats’ total 119; opponents 61.
Denton has played six games and
lost two. They lost to S-M.U. early
in the season by a decisive score. Next
they took on the strong Baylor ele-
ven and lost 33-7, scoring a touch-
down, something no Conference team
except Texas, has been able to accom-
FEE RALLY PROVES
A SNAPPY SUCCESS
Students Organize Yelling Capacity
For the Denton Tie-Up On
Turkey Day.
What was probably the first real
night pep rally ever held by the root-
ers for the Bobcat fighters was held
Thursday night in the auditorium and
talk about raising the roof off of the
house, that bunch certainly did do it.
It seemed from the editor’s office that
not only was the roof being raised
but also the floor was almost to the
point of caving in from the noise of
those ear-splitting yells coming from
above.
It was no trouble to tell from the
enthusiasm of the rooters that the foot-
ball team was not the only bunch that
plans to give Denton the warmest re-
ception of its career. When that bunch
trot out on the-field they will think
that this Normal bunch has hired a
brass band from the city and a bunch
of professional noise-makers from A.
& M. for the occasion. If support from
the school will mean anything, we’ll
beat that Denton bunch so bad that
they’ll never want to ride a train that
runs through San Marcos.
The “Howlers” were very much in
evidence Thursday night and contri-
buted their part to making the rally
an ear-splitting success. This crowd
has the right spirit and is growing in
popularity and efficiency. It corres-
ponds to the “Cowboys” of Texas and
the pep squads of other colleges and
it is a privilege to belong to it. The
Howlers will be in evidence at the
garqe Thanksgiving in unmistakable
terms—watch for them.
All of the students that missed the
rally Thursday night will see next
Thursday that they really did miss
something. The students learned some
new yells and “organized their racket.”
Its never too late to do good though,
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plish. The Grubbs Vocational School
took them into camp 26-13. From the
records it Would seem that the Eagles
had not hit their stride in the 'first
four games for they have since come
out of the slump and won from the
Huntsville Bearcats, 18-6, and also
from the strong Canyon Buffaloes, 14-
7. These last two games have been
against formidable opponents and the
real strength of the Eagles has been
displayed. The Huntsville team man-
aged to slip one over on the Bobcats
in a listless affair on the Bearcats’
home grounds only for the Bobcats to
come back and prove the upset by de-
feating the Rice Owls who had prev-
iously beaten the Bearcats. Since the
Eagles have proven victors over the
Bearcats, they have the dope on the
Bobcats. This fact will prove in fa-
vor of the San Marcos eleven for they
can scrap much harder when they know
the dope is against them. The Bob-
cats, by virtue of their decisive win
over the Owls, have blotted out the
deefats at the hands of the Pirates and
Bearcats for both teams fell before
the Rice gridmen.
In figuring the comparative strength
oi the two elevens, all dope must be
taken with a pinch of salt, for the
only place to really determine the best
team is on the field. The two teams
will take the field on an equal foot-
ing. The contests in the past have
not been decided until the last whistle.
Only last year the score was 13-12 in
favor of the Bobcats until the last few
minutes of play, when the Eagles
emerged victors due to a well directed
droplcick.
The absence of many regulars from
the Bobcat lineup will of course, en-
danger their probability of winning,
although it is not the custom of the
Southwest Texas Teachers College to
offer alibis. Able men have taken the
places of the injured players and the
team is still in top form but it has
often been said that a team is no stron-
ger than its reserve power. Since the
reserve men have become regulars,
there is hardly the desired strength left
to be called on in case many misfor-
tunes befall the Bobcats.
From now through Thursday, our
hopes are with and for the Bobcats.
Playing to make their last contest of
the 1923 football. season a success,
they shall not lose!
Let every act be done with the
thought of winning that game; let ev-
ery song be sung with the spirit of
the Bobcat and let every conversation
embody that one thing. Beat Denton.
Live for that one thing and let the
visiting Alumni know that the spirit
of the College is now greater than in
the past.
SCHOLARSHIP
SOCIETY IS TO
BE FORMED
Local Chapter of Scholaship Societies
of Texas Will Be Charter
Member.
The coming week will witness the
launching of a scholarship society at
the Southwest Texas State Teachers
College. The society—yet to be more
definitely named—will constitute the
local chapter of the Scholarship So-
cieties of Texas, of which it will con-
stitute a charter member.
In the words of the constitution “the
object of the Scholarship Societies of
Texas shall be the promotion of schol-
arship among undergraduate students
in the academic division of Texas
Colelges.” This general association is
the outgrowth of a movement started
at Southwestern University in April,
1915, when an undergraduate scholar-
ship society was first established there.
Because of its markedly beneficial in-
fluence on scholarship at Southwestern,
the organization there attracted the
attention of Dean H. Y. Benedict of
the University of Texas. He and Prof.
John C. Granberry of Southwestern in
consequence, called • informal gather-
ings of representatives of several Tex-
as colleges at Georgetown February
22, 1922, and at Austin April 21 of the
same year to formulate plans for a
general scholarship association to
which all first class colleges of Texas
were to be eligible.
The first meeting of the authorized
representatives of such colleges to con-
sider the official organization of what
is now known as the Scholarship So-
cieties of Texas was held at the Uni-
versity of Texas on Washington’s
birthday of this year. Dean Nolle re-
presented this college on that occa-
sion. The Southwest Texas State
Teachers College therefore stands with
the vanguard in this movement to
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PLANS LAI F§1 BIGGER
AND BETTER PEDAGOS
Students Pay Visit to Prexy’s Office
And Things Are Put In Motion
For the Year Book.
There has been much delay in the
beginning of the Pedagogue this year
but at last things are' humming for the
biggest and best annual that the school
has ever put out. The lack of cooper-
ation of the students last year in con-
nection with the annual caused it to
not come out financially, and the school
waited this year for the students to
make the initial move in the direction
of a year book.
A group- of students, mostly Seniors,
started the ball to rolling by going to
see the President. President Evans
was heartily in favor of the annual,
as he has always been, but had been
waiting until a plan could be worked
out whereby the students could get the
annual at the lowest possible figure
and also the largest number possible
buy the annual. Dr. Evans suggested
a plan that will probably be followed
when the drive to put over the sale
of the annual is launched.
The matter of an annual was finally
turned over to the Student’s Council
for disposition and the council has al-
ready practically perfected plans that
will permanently take care of the
question of financing the annual that
bobs up every year. The plan of other
state institutions will probably be
used. It is hoped that hereafter the
price of the Pedagogue will be in-
cluded in the student activities fee
that the student has to pay on enter-
ing the school so that the staff of the
annual each year will know just how
much money that it can depend on.
The selling of the Pedagogue this
year will be launched in a different
way from the way that it was last
year and the Council *has a plan to
present to the students whereby they
can get the annual at the end of the
year by paying a very small sum. It
will enable every student to own a re-
cord of his or her school days that can
be treasured in future years without
working a hardship on them to get it.
Students, you all want a Pedagogue,
so watch for the drive and be the first ,
to lend your cooperation, and above
all your subscription to putting this
year’s annual over.
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Miss Lillie IMundene spent the week
end irf Taylor.
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Miss Brogdon made a recent visit to
Austin to visit friends.
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Misses Eva Hawkes and Alma Jung-
mann spent Sunday and Monday in La
Coste.
CRITERION MALE
QUARTET IN CON-
CERT NO. TONIGHT
Third Number on Lyceum Course
Promises to Be Best One; Each
Member of Quartet a Dis-
tinguished Soloist.
Tonight, November 24, at 8 o’clock,
the Criterion Male Quartet of New
York City will appear before a large
San Marcos' audience at the college
auditorium. This quartet is recognized
as America’s greatest. Their popular-
ity extends largely into the phonograph
field where they made a long list of
records for the Edison, Brunswick and
Victor, which is in itself an out-
standing testimonial as (to their musi-
cal value and popularity.
Their programs are intensely inter-
esting; composed as they are of quar-
tet, trios, duets, and solos among which
are some of the old favorites that are
always in demand and are rendered in
purely criterion style which is all that
the name implies.
Everyone loves a good quartet so
this is an opportunity for the lovers
of such entertainment to experience
another treat in that line. The fact
that they have a return engagement
wherever they appeared last year at-
tests to the merits of the quartet, aside
from the fact that it is an expensive
number.
The personnel of the quartet is as
follows: John Young, 1st tenor; Frank
Mellor, 2nd tenor; George Reardon,
baritone; Donald Chalmers, bass.
Mr. Young has had three appear-
ances with New7 York Oratorio So-
ciety. Mr. Frank Mellor won a schol-
arship at the Peabody Conservatory of
Music at Baltimore, Miff Pie was tenor
soloist at the “Old First Church”, on
Fifth Avenue, where William C. Carl
is the organist. Mr. George Reardon
was soloist with the Musical Art So-
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ENTIRE THOUSAND IN
CASH RECEIVED BY
COOPERATION OF CITY
Students and Merchants Cash in
Pledges for Grand Total of Over
the Thousand Mark For
Gym Fund.
The campaign for the funds with
which to build the new gym ended
Friday with the most complete success
that has characterized any undertak-
ing of the student body in some years.
It was managed splendidly and much
credit for its success is due to the ef-
forts of Mr. Woodson, Council advisor,
and Mr. Martin, president of the Stu-
dent’s Welfare Council.
The response of the students and
the town people also was hearty and
attests to their willingness to assist in
any move for the furtherance of the
good interests of the school. The stu-
dents were very prompt in paying their
pledges and there are only a very few
that have not paid their dollar to the
secretary of the fund.
We want to thank the merchants for
their splendid support. They gave, and
gave freely, and the quickness with
which the fund was raised is largely
due to their contributions. Below is
the list of the merchants and the
amounts which they gave and we
strongly recommend their houses as
the best places to trade:
Mutual Mercantile Company___$50
B. Dailey______________________25
Brevard Company______________25
State Bank & Trust Co________ 25
First National Bank ____________25
Agnew Grocery Company_____15
Talmadge Hardware Co.______15
Williams Drug Company_____ 10
Bass Drug Store -------- 10
A. B. Rogers Furniture Co____ 10
San Marcos Record ___________ 5
Parlor Meat Market ___________ 5
Mayhall Taylor Company______5
Covert Auto Company _________ 5
L. J. Dailey --------------------5
King’s Confectionery __________ 5
Cooper’s Bakery _______________ 5
Post Office Cafe______________ 5
Dobbins Transfer Company____5
Brown’s Studio ________________ 5
Kash-Karry____________________ 5
Ford’s Variety Store_________2.50
Norwood Tailor Shop________2.00
Samuels Hardware Company— 1.00
Moore’s Jewelry Store_______ 1.00
Waldrip & Son______________2.50
Promised.
Chesebro Bakery___________$10.00
• Cold Storage Market--------2.50
lR. D. Fourqurean___________10.00
A-rensteins __________________ 10.00
Service Grocery Company____5.00
Duke and Ayres______$5.00 or $10
Sutton’s Garage_______don’t know
Jennings Drug Store___don’t know
Piper Grocery Co.____don’t know
LOBOS to PLA Y
DEVINE HER E
THIS EVENING
The Game Will Be a Contest Between
Two Bobcat Systems.
The Lobos are to play Devine on
Evans field this afternoon. This will
be one of their hardest games of the
year and much of the success of the
season depends upon its outcome. The
Lobos up to date have won games
from San Marcos Academy, Lutheran
College and Gonzales; tied a game
with Lutheran College arid lost to San
Antonio Academy after holding the lead
until the last six minutes of play. The
players are in fairly good condition
for the fray this afternoon. Everyone
will be able to participate with the ex-
ception of Blansett, who is scholasti-
cally ineligible and Teddy Brown who
hurt his hip in the Academy game.
However, it is possible that the past
mentioned will take part in at least a
few quarters of the contest if he has
sufficiently recuperated by then.
Devine also has a very strong team.
They have been making quite a record
in South Texas and have lost only two
games. They came out with the short
end of close scores against Sabina!
and Pearsall. Main Avenue beat them,
6-0. However this last game ought to
have been Devine’s because the Main
touchdown came as a bad ruling by
the referee, who seemed to know little
of the rules.
The game will be a clash of Bobcat
systems. In other words it will be
“Hosscollar” Horton versus “Warhoss”
Tate. Both of these are former foot-
ball men of the Teachers College. Jack
Horton played end on the team for
three years and made a very impres-
sive record. During that time Coach
Strahan’s system became thoroughly
instilled into him and he is using it
with a great deal of success this sea-
son. Cy Tate played football here for
several years although he failed to let-
ter in that sport. Nevertheless, he was
one of the- best scrubs that we have
ever had and he deserves a great deal
of credit for helping the Teachers Col-
lege in the herculean task of putting
o.ut a winning team. He learned the
Bobcat system and is having much
luck with it this year. Cy was one
of the best pitchers the College has
ever put out and made four letters in
that sport. He is aided in putting out
a winning eleven this year by the fact
that Erwin Soyars, another Bobcat,
coached there last year. He has had
good material and has done much with
it. %
The probable lineups :
Lobos
Devine
Travis
’ Left End
_ J. Vance
Stroman
Left Tackle
Cadenhead
Gibbs ___
Left Guard
T. Vance
Woodson
or Brown ___
Center
Taylor (c)
Elder ___
Right Guard
Morris
Krumnow
Right Tackle
_ _ Redus
Brannum
Right End
_ Sims
Dain
Quarterback
-- Howard
Arnold, Gause or C. Horton____Bailey
Left Half
Carrol or
Dixon _ .—
Right Half
Martin _
Fullback
- Thompson
We feel that the versatile attack
worked out by Coach Horton will be
strong enough to break through the
superb defense of Warhoss Tate’s pro-
teges. This style of play has swept
all defense before it in the games play-
ed thus far. The Lobos have some
good, line plungers and several very
fast men for end runs. If the running
style of play fails to gain, they have
several wonderful passes. Every back-
field and wing man is very competent
at snatching the oval from the atmos-
phere and this system has been work-
ing successfully. The defense of the
Lobos is excellent. No punter is safe
when Teddy Brown is coming through
to block his kick. In the last three
games played by this young center, the
first opposing punt has been blocked
and the. ball covered. It was this that
won the Academy game. The tacklers
are so dangerous that they are terrors
to the other would-be runners of the
ball. If Cy expects to win this game
he will have to uncover something
that the Lobos have failed to face as
yet. If he doesn’t, well, we have stopp-
ed prohesying the results of gridiron
battles long ago.
The last game of the season for our
high school team is the last of the
contest for city championship. This is
to take place next Wednesday when
they face 'the hard hitting boys from
DANIEL BAKER FALLS
BEFORE SMASHING AT-
TACK OF BOBCATS
Captain Lowman and Willace Star For
San Marcos; Hopson’s Drop-
Kicking Feature.
Hillbillies Only Make One First Down
Against Impregnable Cat Line.
The Bobcats journeyed to Brown-
wood again yesterday and this time
turned in a different story, by defeat-
ing the Daniel Baker Hillbillies by the
decisive score of 31-0. The Bobcats
goal was never in danger from the
Brownwood team which only succeed-
ed in making one first down through-
out the entire game.
The entire team, played good ball and
Coach Strahan’s line was never pierced
by the Daniel Baker backs. Captain
Terry Lowman and Willys were the
outstanding stars of the Cat offense
yet the entire team was characterized
by the same fight that it will take to
win from Denton Thursday. Vance’s-
line plunging resulted in a touchdown
and a pretty end run bp Shelton re-
sulted in the first counter of the game.
Hopson’s toe was “right” and his drop-
kicking was easily a feature of the day.
Cavness and Hopson both generaled
a good game from fullback, Cavness
running the team the first half and
Hopson the second half.
•First Quarter: The Bobcats got the
jump on the Hillbillies at the start and
flayed them off their feet by smashing
line bucks and end runs. Shelton got
away in this period for a long end run
and carried the ball over for the first
marker of the game. The attempt at
goal failed. The ball was given to
Hopson on the 40 yard line at a diffi-
cult angle and his unerring boot sent
the oval between the posts fo ra per-
fect field goal.
Second quarter: The Cat offense con-
tinued to batter, the Daniel Baker de-
fense by hard line bucks and again
marched down the gridiron to the goal.
Vance was given the ball and bucked
it over for the second touchdown. The
half ended with the score 16.0.
Third quarter: Hopson running the
team. The CaG played the steady ad-
vancing game of the first half and
gained on the Hillbillies at will. This
quarter was featured by end runs by
Lowman and Wilson. Lowman carry-
ing the ball scored the third touch-
down of the game and Brown soon
followed him across for the final
touchdown.-
' Fourth quarter: Hopson again got
right with that boot and kicked his
second field goal. The game ended with
the score 31-0 for the Cats.
Everyone on the team played good
ball. The team was penalized three
times: Kallina holding, but -the big
tackle made up for this loss by making
the Hillbillies line look like a high
school defense. There were no in-
juries to any of Strahan’s proteges
and thus they were not crippled for
the Turkey day clash.
The lineup :
Teachers College Daniel Baker
Willace ---------------------- Tabor
Right End
Kallina --------------------- Stringer
Right Tackle
Allenson -------------------- Mclnnes
Right Guard
Cole ------- Cook
Center
M. Brown ------------------Hoffman
Left Guard
Lowman ----------------------- Lane
Left Tackle
Dailey ------------------------ Dennis
Left End
Brown, Hopson________________Flack
Quarterback
Vance, Conner _______________ Haynes
Right Half
Cavness, Hopson ____________ Brown
Fullback
Shelton, Wilson _______________ Merritt
Left Half
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LIBERTY CHORUS JOUR-
NEYS TO STUART LODGE
The members of the Liberty Chorus
journeyed to Stuart Lodge at Wimber-
ly Saturday evening, November 17, for
a moonlight picnic, which was enjoyed
by everyone after th estroll over the
beautiful hills. After the feast all
gathered for a joyous sing-song. How-
ever, the remainder of the time was
not spent in singing. But there were
various games played in the moonlight.
The members enjoyed themselves to
the extent that they are all looking
forward to a similar trip.
--
Inez McKinney spent Sunday in
Austin.
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Jewell Reams visited her home in
Bartlett the past week-end.
San Marcos High. If the Lobos come
out with the winning score in this con-
test, we may well say that they have
passed through a successful season,
and Jack Horton’s success as a coach
will be assured.
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