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?e Owls Begin 'Start Over 9 Year By BILL WHITMORE Sports News Director Rice Institute Houston (Special)—It is a “start over” year for the Owls ?ince 21 iettermen are gone from last year’s great Southwest Conference anil Cotton Bowl championship team, perhaps the best team in a color ful Rice grid history. Despite heavy losses from the senior-dominated ’49 Owl aggrega tion, the ’50 Owls do not want folks feeling sorry for them. They figure to be one of the nation’s better teams this fall, although to expect a repetition of 1949 would be too much. The big problem for Head Coach •less Neely and his aids will be the development of capable reserves. Manpower was a major asset for the ’49 champions, v/ill be a major debit for ’50, with or without inter national complications. The standard T formation first string offense looked quite sharp in spring drills, and there were sev eral top notch replacements who THE B A T T A L I 0 N Page 8 THURS., SEPT. 7, 1950 -BAYLOR- (Continued from Page 2) criterion, Baylor’s backfield, head ed by Boydstun, and Jim Jeffrey may be surprising, should one of the signal-callers develop precision. Baylor’s bestbet on line is end Stanley Williams, who holds some support for All-American as a junior. Tackle prospects become more solid as the season progresses. Lettermen returning who will lead the hefties include Steve Dowden, Ken Casrier, and Walter Still. Still is the only senior. Guards seem to be on the same level as the tackles with the four lettermen returning. Walt Bates appears to be a likely choice to re peat as an offensive guard, but will have stern competition from lettermen Weldon Forren and soph Bill Athey. Jim Jeffrey and Buddy Parker started in the halfback slots of some of the games last year, and along with lettermen James Mott and Johnny Curtis will be hustling for the starting positions. The fullback spot, of course, is well taken care of by Team Captain Boydstun, who with two seasons of offensive plunging and line backing experience is more than certain to start. YOU WANT IT? SHAFFER’S G O T IT! The Best Buy in College Station • COLLEGE SOUVENIRS • ROOKS • SUPPLIES • RECORDS SHAFFER’S Book Store “Across from Post Office” N. Gate College Station showed up well. The front line de fense appeared quite adequate but relief may be a headache because those defensive reserves are in experienced, and head man Neely likes his defenders to have that savvy that comes only from ex perience. On the basis of spring training, and prior to the pre-season fall drills, here is the way the Rice line picture shapes up. Senior let- terman Frank Allen and junior letterman Bill Howton slated to scrap it out for the left end post, while senior squadman A. L. Houghton and junior letterman Sonny McCurry will battle for the right end honors. Three lettermen will handle the heavy duty at vital posts, At right tackle huge Paul Giroski is slated for iron man duty, both offense and defense. If he shows as well as in spring training and as a de fensive specialist last fall, Giroski will be a candidate for national honors. Walls—A “Find” Letterman Glenn Walls, a “find” on last year’s squad, should be the left tackle offensive starter, while “R” man Bob Winship specializes on defense at left tackle. Beyond these three men, Rice’s tackle sit uation is shaky, with squadmen Charles Bittner, Lynn Preston, and Ted Watson and sophs Buddy Ed wards, John Boswell, A. J. Loth, and Bill Crockett out to prove their worth. Tri-captain Ike Neumann switch ed from fullback to guard last fall with great success, but he’ll have to play both offense and de fense to give the Owls experience at right guard. A promising soph omore, Gene Little at 210, won the starting left guard role in the spring but will have a battle in !he fall to hold it from souadmen Ed McLeaish and Charley Stearns, and soph Fred Curry. Lack of experience is the danger ot the center post of the B'ue and Gray forward wall. The only let- terman is Lee Stonestreet, a very capable player and a team tri captain. Backing up Stonestreet will be junior . squadman Jack Day and soph Donnie Rhoden, who was a Fnebacking demon with the fresh men. Plans call for Stonestreet to get first call on offense, and the three—Stonestreet, Day, and Rho den—to alternate around in filling I he line-backer positions. Soph Weldon Wersterfer may see some action. The vital quarterback post will he controlled by Vernon Glass, who for two year’s played in Die shad ow of Tobin Rote. Tri-Tnptain Chass is a leader, as he showed by picking the team off the floor to beat Texas last yea)'. He is a very ■Rarp passer, and his ball handling has improved. Senior squadman Harmon Cars well is waiting his chance after being hampered by a knee injury two years. Sophs Dan Drake and Billy Frazier will get experience spelling Glass. Half Position—Split At left half, it seems to be an offensive split between Sonny Wyatt and Rex Proctor with squad- men Teddy Riggs, Gone Silver and sophs Billy Ed Daniel making this one of the best manned posts on the team. Billy Burkhalter will be bidding for national honors at right half back, in his junior year, backed bv letterman Braden. Senior squad man Don Campbell and soph Dickie Fob Haddox furnish good insur ance. Fullback George Clause;, senior letterman, may be the surprise of I he year. The booting will be adequate, the defense will be worked out in the fall, and Burkhalter will probably take over Froggie’s job of extra points while with Watson gone. Hardy Dean and Stonestreet will be the kick off specialists. - VMI- (Continued from Page 2) and A. J. Marchand, top runner among the Q-B’s. “At this stage,” says Nugent, “the outlook is good. We have very few problems compared with what we had in ’49. If we can work these problems out, we de finitely are headed in the right direction.” Welcome Aggies. .. Let Us Serve Your . . . GROCERY & MARKET NEEDS Charlie’s Food Market North Gate Arkansas By BOB CHEYNE Sports Publicity Director University of Arkansas Fayetteville, A,rk. (Special)— The 1950 Arkansas Razorbacks, once again switching to a new type of offense, the split-T, will be a speedy, offensive-minded, well-drilled team that on a given Saturday afternoon will be able to rise to a very high calibre of play. On the other hand, however, the Porkers will be generaled by a still somewhat inexperienced array of quarterbacks; will be found lack ing in depth in several positions; and will take some hard-knocking before they work into the great offensive unit Otis Douglas de mands of them. “. . . Move That Ball. . .” With the pro minded Douglas at the helm, the chant “Move that ball” has become fixed in the minds of every player from the eager soph to the hardened senior. Douglas thinks in terms of offense. “Our idea is to move that ball forward, and though we’ll be er ratic early in the season, 1 think we’ll do plenty of scoring,” he said. On the defense, Douglas says his Hogs will give no quarter. “I think Arkansas will have as good a defense as any team in the loop,” he declared. “On de fense,” he went on, “our deepest safety man will be six feet be hind the line of scrimmage. I want every man in the game. I don’t want any spectators on the field.” “. . . Have to Outrun IJs. . . .” “On quick-kicks,” Douglas con tinued anticipating the question, “they’ll have to outrun us to get the ball and I don’t think anybody is going to outrun our boys.” In a position by position analysis, Douglas rates speed as the number one requirement. He regards Bob Griffin at center as potentionally great, but he’ll be pushed by jun ior letterman Jimmie Smith, a 205-nound veteran. The guard situation on the other hand has Otis worried. “We might be all right in 1950, but with the seniors this year we’ll probably be using all sophomores in 1951,” he said. The tackles will have to get their blocking down solidly, es pecially on defense, but otherwise they look okay to Douglas. A for mer pro tackle himself, he labels some of the big players as “quite adequate” for the coming season. Of all the players on the team that will get a workout under Douglas, the ends rank the high est. Speed is so essential to Doug las’ passing game that he won’t look at an end without it. A half back or two may be used to get the best out of the 1950 Porker pass ing* parade. Ten or more fast halfbacks fill the bill quite well in the backfield as far as Douglas is concerned. Most of the men are sprinters in track where Douglas pays parti cular attention to their timings. With Geno Mazzanti and Leon “Muscles” Campbell gone from fullback, you’d thing a coach would giveup at that position, but Doug las thinks both Joe Baldridge and Lewis Carpenter will be good enough to handle the split-T. Schaufele will be used primarily on the defense. When he came to talking about the quarterback slot, there was a note of hesitancy in Douglas’ voice. “We don’t have any great quarterbacks,” he said “but we have several boys who’ll do the job, and I promise you,” he added, “that they’ll make no serious mis takes.” Where Aggies Dine . . . . .. in an Interesting Atmosphere! 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