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lion Sports Editor Peers At The Southwest Conference Situation
Football critics
outcome of tile S<|
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ntaterial of Itftiv
ho were so anxious tapredict the
thwest Conference football race
an are now watching their chance
isions as Rice Institute placed a
in the way Saturday afternoon
he S M C Ponies ‘I to 0 in the first
season for each team. Sports
('on fere nee schools had the
'lag f oating beautifully over the S M l*
»efor jthe season l>egan. Fhe seasonetl
M jrrison. dt*an of passing coaclu^s.
and Matty Befe, ont pt the 1 H*s|t defensive coaches In
I he conference c<»uh not Ik* mastered on paper, but
the Rice ()wls• engit 4ered the problem in grand style
Iwhen they drubbed ^e favorites at Rice Stadium Sat-
urday and cormplete ji stopped the shifty jtob NV’ilson
on running plaks. r " >
As the doiH* we lt. S M t’ was rated first on the
ladder with Ar)<ansai< and T C C slated to fight it lout
lor the other top Ik*!* hs. Since the season started, how-
t ver. the Texai* Uni rersitV Steers h^ve loomed up as
a strong contender e' en though they have not played a
conference garfce. Texas la^at the strong Notre Dame
team 7 to 6 anil in t irn the Irish trounced the Purdue
Boilermakers, who ad suffered a 14 to 0 defeat; by
Rice, 18 to 7
Arkansas
(|e*feat»*el I
One disadvant
Texas. A and
Iforkc
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and Te.«^as lined The
attack, and the only
a hard team to beat, as they have
r T and Baylor in conference tilts,
he Razor backs is that they play
S M U away from home. The
tlanced team, but they lack bloik-
len they run into the strong Rice
;ice line held the S M U running
cay the Ponies could hope to gain
Was by the aerial route. Arkansas showed plenty of
* power at T (’ U in tlie opening game of the conference
itriving hard oil running plays and mixing some timelv
tKissing along. tVhenjthcy met the Baylor crew in I f it :
^tk* Rtick last Saturday, it was all the Razorbacks could
^db to eke out a ib to 0 victory over them.
Rice has a' trio of gocnl backs in John McCauley,
BUI Wallace, arid Doc Metzler. The Owls can count on
them for speed and -plenty of power. Bill Wallace is
capable of punting to the disaster of any team in the
Southwest Conlerenci;. Wallace l>ooted the ball for an
1 average of .‘14 yards punt in the Rice-S M U tushie
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and showed a lot of power on line drives. The only, decis-,*
ive weakness that could l>e seen from the game with the
Mustangs was that! they could not pass.. The Owls
stopped tossing passes the first half when they failed
to gain on every try‘of the afternoon.
TCI* and the Aggies hold the center of tJhe foot-
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ball Stage in tht* Southwest Conference thik week as
the Cadets entertain-the Homed Toads at College Sta
tion. T C U went to Tulsa and defeated the University
of Tulsa 14 to 12 in a heated battle there. It; was the
second time the Tulsa team had been defeated in two
years. The Frogs coihe to A and M heavy favorites to
win, but the Aggies!are equal to anything the Frogs,
can offer. At Beaumont Saturday the game looked as fi
nothing short of a scoreless tie was in store for either
team until the Centenary back grabbed a pass thrown
by Couser to give them their first counter v An Aggie
victory would mean that the Aggies would be one of
the strong contenders. Too, the Aggies will 1h* hearing
down with all they have to give their coaches, Homer
Norton and Cal Hubl»prd, a g<XHl start in the Southwest
conference as they make their debuts in the conference
Saturday at Kyle field.
Last year the Cadets went to Fort Worth after a
thrilling l.’l to (I victory over the Green Wave as heavy
favorites to win the game and also the Southwest Con-
lerence championship. The Frogs won the game and
put the Aggies out of the race. This year when most
of the critics think the Aggies will he An also ran. the
victory thirsty Cadets have an even chance lf> make
the 13 to 0 loss inspire them to a victory over the same
team that defeated them last year. The Frogs showed
a mixture of power plays and passing in both the last
twrtgames, but in neither game did they show an out
standing defense. The Aggie hacks are likely to show
more aggressiveness than has Ikkoi shown this season
against the Frog defense. Nash Thompson, who has
lH*en kicking with considerable accuracy, showed up
well in Beaumont and drove through for some^neat
broken field running.
In the games for this week Rice goes to Omaha,
Nebraska for a game w ith Creighton. It will be a r^ight
game: Arkansas playH Louisana State at Shreveport.
The University of Texas Longhorns play Centenary at
Austin. S M l* will entertain the Oklahoma Aggies in
Dallas, and Baylor will go over to Abilene for a game
with Hardin-Simmons.