San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-12

of San Antonio, Hale of Mayfield, Ky,
all letter men. and Lamb of Houston
Heights and +. NJ. Campbell of Tenn
pie. The end positions undoubtedly
will be well taken care of by these men
who will average close to 10 pounds.
For the other linemen Arbuckle and
Yerges have an unusually large and
promising group of eligible candidates,
most of whom are experienced foot
ball players although many are new
in college football. Among ,..ese may
be mentioned Ulrich of Crosby, Ken
drick of Houston Heights. Helm of
Temple and Womack of MeXia (these
two will average about $50 Pounds
DuBose of San Antonio, Bodet of Gal
weston. Willis of Hydro. =; Ray of
Rosenberg. Grossman of Houston. Nor
gan of Denison, Lawrence of Edna,
Klotz of Mexia. Goorich of Browns
Vile, Prather of Texarkana, Riess OF
Mercedes and Glover of Brentwood.
not to ment OH number of lesser
lights. From this group of candidates
the coaches should have no difficulty
in making up first-class Inc, aver
aging from end to end about 1I3
pounds. Most of these men are not
only heavy and strong. but capable o.
handling themselves with speed and ac-
curacy. Tie great weakness of last
years team should not be so evident ir
the one of this fall.
In the backfield, Rice suffered prac,
tically no losses except that Irish
McGee has finished his three years OF
football and will be in evidence only
in the grandstand. Chambers of Port
Arthur probably will play quarter with
Calvin. promising sophomore OF
Houston, Penix of Mineral Wells, and
Francis Miller of Palestine as other
good candidates. Behind these will he
| Charlie Swartz of San Antonio, cap
tain OF the team and All-Southwestern
halfback of last year. MILFORD OF May
field. KY, who will make Swartz step
| for his laurels this year: Big BIZ
Simpson of Denison, Sullivan OF Mac
ogdoches, Harvey SMITH of Temple,
Jack Hopkins of Galveston, Rich OF
Louise and quite few other aspirants
of more or less improved calibre. This
lineup shows not only prospect OF
strong first team but also prosper
often unknown at Rice of an excellent
array of strong substitutes. WINE
the coaches are maintaining gloomy
ply siognomies and predicting nothing'
| Rice supporters cannot see at ms
range how a team coming out OF TINS
squad should not cause quite a little
excitement at least in the Conference
and quite a little worry for opposing
coaches and players.
The Institute gins registration
September 81 and, in view of the I'M
portant and hard game with Arkansas
at the first of the season, the Rice
team will be in practice on the very
first date allowed by conference rules.
Most of the men are working under
special instructions during the summer
at jobs calculated to produce the de'
sired Drawn. The first game OF tne
season played on the Rice field the
usual practice game with the eleven
from the Sam Houston Normal lnsti,
tute. October 9. The second game WIZ
be played at the Arkansas State ram
| in Little Rock October IL with the ha
zorbacks. The Owls next taxi on III
Houston the heavy Oklahoma A. ana
pM. team, which scattered all too many
of the Owls feathers last year. oe-
tober 81 brings the Southwest Texas
Normal team to Houston for a game
the plan being to slow up little be-
fore the team takes on the Iexas
Longhorns in Austin November 3. On
November 10 Southwestern journeys
to Houston for her annual game with
Rice and on November IL, Armistice
Day, is the big game in Houston WITH
the Texas Aggies. A. and Nj. hasn't
defeated Rice often in Houston and
though the best of friends off the atr
letic field, Rice has always fought her
hardest against the Farmers. The sea-
son closes on Rice's Annual Homecom-
ing Day, also Thanksgiving Day. with
] n battle in Houston between the Owls
and the eleven from Texas Christian
| University. L. c. U. is the infant OF
the Conference in the sense OF having
beef, admitted to the fold only last
spring but this team of modern Sam
sons is a strong bunch end will force
the Owls to their limit to win.
! Not Surprising.