RANKING STATE ELEVENS.
Farmers Tasy Winners in Intercolle
giate Conference With Baylor
and Texas Close.
With Thursday’s games the football
season in the state closed, winding
up the last doubts as to the standing
of the nine colleges belonging to the
Texas intercollegiate. And there is
naturally joy at College Station ever
the fact that the Farmer elecen comes
out triumphantly as winner of the
state championship. The nine confer
ence institutions are the most import
ant in the state, and outside of them,
there is little athletic rank. To make
a long story short, the ranking of the
colleges in the Lone Star State this
season is as followes: 1, A. and M.
2, Texas; 3, Baylor; 4, Southwestern
5, Trinity; 6, Austin; 7, Polytechnic
8, Daniel Baker; 9, T. C. U.
There is but one dark cloud on the
horizon, the uncertainty of Baylor’s
position. That the Baptists have a
great football team is recognized, and,
as a matter of fast, it stands unde
feated. But the Farmer slate is ab-
soulutely clean, while Baylor has the
smirch of the much-discussed and al
together unfortunate forfeit to Texas.
But the only way that the situation
can be taken is obvious. Baylor played
the game on her own field and of her
own volition quit the game, protesting
over the decision of the referee. With
out taking up the rights of the mat
ter or considering the diverse claim
as to the team which played best in
the game, the only way possible to
settle the matter is to consider that
Texas eliminated Baylor by the for
feit. The score stood tied at the time
-Glaze took his men off the field. As
a result, Baylor must pay the penalty
and accept third place in the Texas
intercollegiate by her own act. The
ranking of Trinity and Poly is obvious,
as Poly’s defeat of the Waxahachie
team was in early season, while the
latter showed vastly greater form af
terward.
The ranking of nine colleges is
based on actual scores. A. and M.
comes into the arena without a single
state defeat recorded against her.
Texas lost but to A. and M. in the 1
state. Baylor did not play A. and M.
but forfeited to Texas, being assigned
third place in consequence. All of
these colleges defeated the smaller
ones in easy fashion. Southwestern’s
checkered career included a tie with
Austin and defeats by Texas, A. and
M. and Baylor. S. W. U. is given pre
cedence over Trinity because of a har
der schedule and great form displayed.
The Georgetown boys played great
football, though luck broke against
them. Trinity lost to Poly too early
in the season to count. They won
from Austin. Daniel Baker twice.
Forth Worth an won and lost to T.
C. U. After pushing Poly out of the
way, Austin lost a brilliant chance to
finish by losing to Trinity in the last
game of the season. Poly is easily
next to Austin. It is almost a toss-
up between Daniel Baker and T. C. U. State university and the Thanksgiving on the schedule. But the 1910 record
for last place, the Brownwood team loss to Oklahoma. is good indeed. The fast little team
having won, tied one and lost four ^ Tlie Longhorns were practically a had enough sense to play in their own
during the season while T C U tied ' veteran ' eleVien w it h a sufficient seas- class. aAn early defeat by Poly had
oning of young blood to improve. From little effect on the record, as the team
one, won one and lost seven. It was
the beginning of the year to the Wa- was not then in real form. T. C. U.
co game, the team steadily improved was the only other eleven to win
: under the able tutelage of Wasmund. from the Waxahachie bunch and they
i After that it declined and even against came back at the Christians for a re-
| Louisiana State university much of a turn victory. Trinity did not play
A. and M. had a most successful lethargic spirit was evidenced. Num- brilliant fotball, but was steady and
season in 1910, marred by but one j bering on the roster such men as showed improvement all the way
defeat, a victory achieved by Arkan- | Kirkpatrick, Estill, Woodhull, Massin- | through. The best game of the year
Daniel Baker’s 0 to 0 with Baylor that
gave them the precedence.
The A. and M. Season.
sas at Fayetville without making a
touchdown. Moran’s squad opened the
year with a decisive defeat of Marsh
all Training School and followed with
an easy victory over Austin College.
In the next two games, T. C. U. and
Kentucky were annihilated. ' A field
goal and safety by the Razorbacks
won from the husky College Station
team. Returning by way of Fort
Worth, Moran captured captured an
other game from T. C. U. and then
came the decisive game of November
14 at Houston, when the Farmers de
feated Texas in a great victory. The
next game was with Southwestern at
College Station, played on a muddy
field. Just how important it was that
the Farmers should win is clearly
demonstrated by the fact that if they
had not, A. and M., Texas and South
western would have claimed the state
champioship and Baylor would fought
and A. and M. barely won, 6 to 0.
The sason ended with a victory over
Tulane at Houston.
Longhorns a Disappointment.
With one of the strongest teams
that has represented Texas in recent
years, the Longhorns were much of
a disappointment, owing to the losses
to A. and M. and Oklahoma. The team
opened brilliantly and swept on the
Houston game in a series of victories
that left on doubt in any one’s mind
that they would gfo through an unde
feated season. Instead, at Houston,
they far from played in the form they
were capable of.
In the game Texas was clearly out
played and it was a bitter crowd of
rooters that went back to Austin after
the battle. With a great team they
colud not but feel that it was a sad
blow to lose to their bitterest rivals.
The Texas schedule was the best
in the state, easily. It was well bal
anced and included games with the
foremost teams in the state. South and
Southwest. It was a great tribute to
Manager Stark, as never before had
such a schedule ben given to any
Texas college.
fought victory over South westerns HR
The season opened with a hard
fought victory over Southwestern. This
gail and Moore, Texas, should have | was probably that won from Austin
had a far better year. | by a field goal on Thanksgiving. Big
— | Edmundson, the Trinity captain, is
Baylor, a Great Team.
Baylor undoubtedly had as strong
a team as any college in the state.
It, too, was veteran. With a magnif
icent back field, a fleet pair of ends
and a fair line, the Waco men had
much to look forward to.
The season opened disastrously
when the Baptists were outplayed and
held to a tie by Daniel Baker. But
from the ashes of that game rose a
great eleven. After that their status
was never in question. Glaze kept
his men on their toes and brilliant
victories over Austin, Poly and T. C.
U. came in rapid succession. Baylor
honestly expected to win the state
championship and looked to the game
with Texas at Waco to give it to
them. But fate intervened. There is
to need to discuss that famous dis
pute—it has been dwelt upon thorough
ly by those most, interested. But in
leavyig the field Glaze gave up his
claiins to the state leadership. At any
rate, however, Baylor has one record
that no one lese has. The team went
through the entire season without a
single actual defeat. The tie with
Daniel Baker and the forfeit to Texas
mar the record, but there can be no
assertion that the team was actually
defeated at any time.
With Pouts, Robinson, Moist and
others, Glaze had ready material to
work with and of it he evolved a
goo strong team.
S. W. U. Was Unfortunate.
Arbuckle had a good team at South
western, but luck ran against it a
great deal and its hardest games were
played on foreign fields. The George
town eleven began by losing to Texas
and, at the close of the season had
beaten nothing but the smaller state
colleges. They had a one-point loss
to Arkansas that really hurt. South
western played a close game with
Texas and A. and M„ but lost over
whelmingly to Baylor.
The S. W. U. team was light and
fast and had to have a fast field to
! one of the best backs in the state.
Austin Had Hard Luck.
The early illness of Coach Rix at a
critical poin in the development of
his team started Austin in wrong. The
team was badly beaten by Baylor and
Agricultural and Mechanical college at
first, but rallied in form when Rix
again took charge and tied Southwes
tern and Trinity. Two victories fol
lowed over Poly and an Oklahoma nor
mal. The Poly game was a great one,
as Rix’s team, playing on foreign soil
won out in spite of facing a thirteen
point lead by their opponents. It was
a display of sheer nerve and a good
one. A defeat, but a strongly con
tested one, ended the season. Had
Austin won the Trinity game, it would
probably have ranked above South
western university in state standing.
Rix patiently developed his team,
handicapped, of course by lack of
weight.
Poly Played Good Ball.
Fort Worth Polytechnic had a com
paratively good team and played sev
eral interesting games. The team
was coached by Chester Johnson and
played consistent ball. As a ember
of the riumvirate of the Panther City,
naturally most of the games were lo
cal, but Johnson’s warriors had several
state battles on their hands. The big
fellows walloped them, but they held
their own with their own size.—Hous
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was followed by two easy conquests, play well. They handled both the for-
Haskell and Transylvania. Then came ward pass and the onside kick with
the game with Auburn, one of the ease. In the back field McHenry
strongest elevens in the South. It
was bitterly battled to the end and
the Longhorns were victorious by a
touchdown and a field goal. The
game won by forfeit from Baylor was
next. Afterward came tbp defeat by
the Agricultural and Mecahnical, the
Headrick and Snipes starred, while
Voight and a few other good line
men helped make Arbuckle’s team.
Trinity’s Excellent Record.
The Trinity eleven failed to cut a
hig splurge in the state intercollegi-
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