The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-17

champions of North and South Texas meet
and decide the State championship and
close tho season a la Yaie-Prlnceton on
Thanksgiving day In the North.
1t is believed such an organization VIII
push the game to the front and will Ger
tainly give 1t the following it deserves.
TOuchdOwns.
Don't make excuses. II you make mis-
take try and make up for 1t on the next
play.
, The Dallas lightweight team wants to
meet another light weight team that does
not average over l40 pounds.
Let your captain do all the arguing
this season. There is hardly anything
so unpleasant as to hear Twenty-Five
players trying to tell the officials all about
it at the same time.
The st. Edwards college team Of Austin
wants to meeb a light weight team that
doee not average over lao pounds The
st. Edwards team has probably made more
| progress than any other team in Texas
| since last season
| The unfayorablo reports and hard luck
stories are coming from the larger col
I leges with regularity again this year. The
only way to tell anything about them is
| to see them play with your open eyes.
| IL Captain Druesedow returns to college
next year as he hopes to do, Houston will
suffer greatly for the want of a man who
| will work as zealously for the teams
welfare as he has worked. The captains
| all right
! In the report of the game beteeen the
st. Edwards team and the University of
| Texas scrub" the 'Varsity's weight Is
| given at $50 pounds AS the scrub gem
| orally means one half the regular team,
| It does not seem probable that the Uni
vcrsity is going to do much on the grid
iron this year
| The coaches and captains will do we'll
to coach their men In playing low and
tacklng low also. The tackle In which
the shoulder is used to such good adyan-
tage, as played by Donald OF Harvard,
should be especially drilled.
The University OF Texas meets Dallas
at Cycle Oval In Dallas the 23d and re-
ports seem to show that Pop Mercwcther
and his big fellows will more than make
up for the defeat In Austin last Thanks.
giving day. The University OF Texas
averages 150 pounds and is without a
coach. while Dallas averages ia and IL
coached by tie beat all around player In
the West
II is said that many Of the fairer sex
have been trying to Obtain Charlie Cranes
photograph In his football suit, AS this
department reproduces the photograph In
| question the picture trainers will doubtless
do n rushing business this week.
Several OF the Houston players have
been laid up with the dengue fever the
past week, but the practice last night
at the park did not look like 1t from the
way those fellows played
University of Texas is without the fol-
lowing PLAYERS this year; Caperton and
Brady at Dallas, also Julius House. who
is not playing; AGREE at San Atnonio and
Homer and Ralston at Galveston. In other
words six OF the best players on last years
tef m are not back.
: Proctor is playing hard at his old position
Of guard and longs to wind his fingers
In the flowing locks OF a Galveston player
Proctor is not has been, and will play
In the pink OF condition this season.
l., y. Smith. who has been allied with
aquatlcs and cycling for some years has
become football enthusiast and is be.
coming wonder as an inventor of plays
He has evolved two that are really scienti.
iic yolps. They will appear In the BLACK
board talk ere long.
Place Kick From Field.
One of the most successful plays OF las
! season was the place kick from field. in
: vented by young man in Kansas who wal
captain Ct his team Desiring to bring i
, forwarded a diagram OF the play, together
! with the instructions to players to Walter
Camp, who pronounced II as mot practi
, CAL"
The young man in question replied to thi
/ by proving that IL was practical and citet
, two instances where his team had woi
games with It.
Mr., Camp finally put the Yale team
through the play and 1t was QUE al tn
strongest plays during 1896.
} The center takes the ball and linss up a
3 usual, quarter taking position for receiving
, 1t. Quarter says wait a minute" an,
walks back to full back as though to speal
/, with him, when the bail Is tossed back b,
center and placed down by quarter, full
s back trying for goal
e Nine times out of ten you will catch you
a opponents off their guard en- this play, 70
$ the moment player says wait minute
d every one who Is not In the secret will re
y lax his vigilance
e Do net work this toa often Don't forge
to give the signal the moment the bali 4
J. down. Use this play only inside tn
: twenty five-yard tine.
Dutteso playen-Of Offensive: Lett end.