?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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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By BOB CHEYNE
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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.”
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