El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-02

T-STTN. Tex, Nov. From this
a date until Thanksgiving The
L A 'Longhorn" football squad is go
ing to receive the longest and hadest
grind that a Texas team has ever been
subjected to on the Monday after the
SeWanee game, coach AllerdIce took hlS
men in hand at Clark field. announce"
that there would be no holiday IN Cele~
bratiOn of the victory over SeWanee
and started the mill RAIN nam, sleet
and snow will not deter practice IN Ihe
least. II is going to be as regular as
classes. And not man IS kicking Over
the prospect, because Texas mas me
material this year for an unusually
good team. one that should give an &C
count of itself against NOtre Dame, the
game which every student, as wei as
the team and coach, is looking forward
to.
Play Monday at austin.
The Southwestern game Monday at
Austin viii fit in nicely with the
I4OnghOrns' preparation for the Okla-
hOma game at Houston on NoVemper y
and the Kansas State Agricultural col
1ege contest November Is Texas ap-
pears a sure winner, but the game VIII
afford some real scrimmaSe and be
decided aid in rounding the team INTO
shape for the bigger games Of the sea
son The I,OnghOrns do not expect to
pile up such an enormous score as was
recorded against Baylor They are mop
ing for a dry field in order TO try some
of the speed which coach Allerdlce IS
trying to instu into the team
Getting Ready for Game
Houston is already making prepare
tons for the reception of Texas ana
Oklahoma a week from Monday, when
the LOnghorns and SOOners clash in the
game that will decide the champion
ship of the southwest. Texas has al
ready eliminated SeWanee and Okla
hOma is the only team standing pc
a
Kansas Aggies should prove a surprise.
There will be no game with the Texas
Aggies this year, but by comparative
scores. Texas stands head and should
ers above the A and NJ aggregation
The Aggies, however, have been show
ing constant Improvement and by
the end of the season may be able
to show some real class Coach Moran
is working hard with his material and
the students are backing their team
with the usual spirit. Much fumDllnS
marred A. & NJ game with Fort Worth
Polytechnic college last week, which
the Aggies won, 10 TO g. me smal4
score was Disappointing but Poly eNl-
IDENTIFY has a strong team, having held
Texas to a comparatively low score
early in the season
VIII Watch Field Conditions
The condition of the playing field at
Houston for the Oklahoma game IS
going to be carefully looked after by
the Texas athletic authorities, after the
experience at Dallas last week InOSe
in charge of arrangements neglected
to inquire into the kind of field the
state fair officials intended to furnish
and were forced to accept a gridirOn
resembling hard street pavement a
REPETITION of this experience will De
guarded against at Houston
Good Material for 1914.
It is early in the season to be talk
ing of the prospects for next year. but
Texas has some freshmen who will be
available in 1914 and look like the best
material on hand in years Two OF
them, Dittmar and Bass, were given
chance against Sewanee. which per-
mits freshmen TO play on the varsity
Dittmar proved a whale at center, and
viii be worthy successor to Big BilI'
Murray when that veteran retireS- Bass
was placed at tackle and more than
held his own against DObbins, his Saw
anee opponent Another first year man
whose appearance on the football field
created a sensation and reminded coach
Allerdice of some of AIichigan's foot
bah giants was Holiday, said to be
the heaviest football player in the