The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-10-14
AQQie Attack WaHed
by Heot;; TEXANS WIN
Six thousand See LOnghOrnS
Beat Oklahoma Farmers by
Score of "A to 6; Passing
Game Effective.

SAN ANTONIO. Texas, oct u tSpe-
cil) Fighting against both tho UnlNer-
sity NJ Texas football eleven and tenn
pcraturo of more than 90 degrees, okla.
homa A. n N college gridstcrs lost hy
10 II points In the first Interstate game
" tho season between Southwest Inter
collegiate Athletic conference teams here
Yesterday
All three touchdowus resulted from for.
ward passes the two longhoru scores
dir"tNly and the Aggic's one score indi-
r"ctlv when Walters carried the bail
for twenty five Yards after receiving u
through the mir from Briscoe and was
tackled ON the Texas Courtyard line.
Hriscoc, Aggie fullhdck. rammed through
for the touchdown Walters failed nj
difficult goal Kicking attempt
Texans Count early.
Both Texas touChdowus came I'm tina
last six minutes Of play In the first
quarter Hart Loughorn end scored
both touchdowus for his eleven and Penn
lrftgunrd Kicked both goals II was on
exactly IN" same play that the university
counted twice. Each time n was n Criss-
cross run by The left end 10 the right end
of the limo where he received the pass
from Fullhack Waltcs and dodgcd almost
unhindcred across the chalk line and he.
hind the posts The Aggie count was
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rlod
Throughout the affair the punting game
prrduWlnhtcd II was evident that tho
TEXANS were doing offensive punting.
while the \ and NJ eleven was booting
on the defensive The Iungh0ruS worked
for the breaks" iu the toe play and
uahhed the only chances 10 tally. out of
twenty three punts, Lang Texas right
/ halfhHCk, averaged forty-onc wards
and VI puntcd sixteen timeH. Scott boot
. itp all httt Ia .,It,O,
handled by Gallagher. The AgEte aver
age was thlrty-oiGht yards Scott out.
stripping Gallagher one Uf Briscoe .
splrals covered seventy yards OF space
pnd then rolled ten Yards being easily
. the longest boot NJ the day
Agpes Use Most Passes
oklahoma openrd up with forward
passes and used fiftrcn during the game.
Five Of them we've successful totAling
] sixty four Yards Texas resorte ed TO
straight football tnctlcs when not punt
ing, using but five passes Two of tho
five were successful In scrimmages
. Texas lead with first downs. making ak
/ 10 Oklahoma i've
The oppressive heat to which the ok
. lahomi Aggics were unuCCust Omed Rt this
time of the wear proved the real undo
ing II was patent that Coach Griffith '
men were not displaying their regular
form They were witrd In the first ten
minutes Of ia" fight, but stuck to the
scrnppiug doggcdly. Against thirteen sub
I stituti0ns by IA" Texans the Oklahomans
used hut three. There were twenty ono
/ different players Gent In by Coach Van
Gent and only two 10y Coach Griffith. ny
more than fifteen pounds the Longhorns
outweighed the Aggies, Even though
the sou,herutrs were Injured to the heat
they called for time out three times
in each OF the first three quarters and
were pennliZ"d for taking thine" four
times In tho last period ana VI did
| not ask for cessation of play. although
| they profted greatly by the Texans rest.
Gallagher Cut Down From Behind.
= only once did the Accies have m OPP
, pOrtunity to count when they did not.
That was when Gallagher, lcftend
grabbed "A forward pass from BrisCoe and
raced toward the goal He was past all
but one tackler In dodglng him. however
Gallagher was hit from behind by a
rnugy Longhorn.
In line nttntks neither team could get
n noticeable advantage Brlscoe Cal
gle liuc PLAYED stellar football with Dit
Texans
The attendance was more than 5000
hundreds VI soldier boys from Fort Sam
Houston and camp Wilson being present
. Two special trains from Austin brought
, nearly the cutir" university student body
Coach Van Gent Of the Texans In an old
Wisconsin university player. A WisCon-
sin regiment. including It's band. oCCu,
pied section Of the stands and Mt in,
, tcryals between the halves. paraded or
/ the grdiron. cheering for Van Gent II
was the first real collegiate culhcr foot,
bail game san Antonio had ever pen.