The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 21.-(Special.) The king is dead, and the teams of the southwestern conference must now set about the problem of selecting his sue cessor. The situation is further com plicated by the fact that the fallen mon arch again holds the center of the stage this week in repelling a foreign aggressor. The Texas Longhorns, al ways the swaggering rulers of the con ference and yielding only to Texas A. & M., went down last Saturday before the $. NJ. U. Mustangs, 10 to 6, and this week are billed for game which all the conference is watching, that with the Gators of Florida, who invade Austin Saturday for an outstanding in tersectiOnal conflict.
 The Longhorns, with poorer material than they have had in five years, went into their game with the Mustangs as the underdogs. In 1923. when both went through an undefeated season because they did not play each other, the cham pionship went by award to the Mus tangs, and bitter rivalry developed, which was not settled until last week. The Longhorns came off the field crip- pied with injuries, and the lineup which they will present against the Gators will be woefully weak indeed.
 Three Unbeaten Teams
 But three teams in the conference now have q clean slate as a result Of the weeks play, and only two ot these have shown enough strength to carry them much further. s. NJ. U.. Texas Christian university and Texas A. X NJ have been beaten by nobody. Baylor and Rice are still undefeated in the conference, but both have lost to out siders. Texas, Oklahoma A. & NJ. and Arkansas are out of 1t. Living up to early predictions, the Texas Aggies went blissfully on down the road last week, trimming the rela lively strong Aggies of Arkansas by the appalling count of 40 to o. Already the Aggies have played five opponents and have scored 174 points, while their owT goal line is uncrossed and unsullied But this week they are billed for q game which in local interest ranks as hlgl as the Florida-Texas settO. Saturday they play <. NJ. U., and the conse uuerors of the LonghOrns will find a much harder problem in spilling the Aggies than they had in dumping the Steers. A. & NJ. is all set for con ference championship. and the game coming after the hard-won victory O | last week, will be strain on the Mus tangs.
 T. c. U. Wins Again
 The audacious infant of the confer ence. T. c. Us Horned Frogs, wen safely through another week by beating Simmons college, to o. The lOser were about as strong as the Frogs, ant credit for the victory goes only to th' fact that the Frogs repeated the wOrl which won from Oklahoma A. & M week before. But the perfect recor' of T. c. II. seems certain to be sorel, stained, as from now until Thanksgiv ing they play only conference teams meeting five in quick succession.
 Rice, their opponent for this week end, bowed to l.. $. U. last week, l2 t o, but it was the breaks of the gam that brought victory to the Tigers. Il holding the cOnquerors of Indiana t. so small score, Rice demonstrates that the new coaching system insti tuted by John Heisman, former mentO of Georgia Tech and Penn State, is hay ing q wholesome effect, Figures shOy that they gained more ynrdage thaI l.. <. U and on the whole gave d cred itable account of themselves.
 Oklahoma Goes Good
 Meanwhile Oklahoma's Aggies wer again proving that they can beat any hing except conference competition by