The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
SOUTHWEST'S TEAMS
 ALL BADLY JUMBLED
Texas A. & M And Baylor Look Strongest;
 Heisman, Aided By Bedenk, Coaches Rice

ease Texas weary breast than anything else that could happen. In addition to $. M. U., Texas must dispose of T. c. U., Rice, Texas, Aggies. Baylor, Phil lips and Florida, as well as smaller fry. The Longhorns will dedicate a new $500,000 stadium Thanksgiving and Doc Stewart, imported last year from South Carolina, will probably get it as gift if he can go through another undefeated season.
 Oklahoma A. & M., isn't accustomed to winning conference games, and she seems to be in no danger of being rudeuly jared this year. Maulbetsch has fairly good group of men left over from 1923,- but they were not up to standard then and there seems no reason for expecting change. The Aggies played their best game against Kansas and Oklahoma last year and ought to do SIS we'll this season. Tn addition they have Creighton, Missouri Mines and three conference games.
 Baylor has most of her old men back The Bears were green last year but developed wonderful attack, at length becoming almost unbeatable. The Bay. Tor Aggies smoe should decide the con- ference title, if all runs true to form, They play everybody except T. 0. U. and Oklahoma Aggies, but aside from that they have a set-up schedule. The most interesting of their outside games IS with St. Edwards, a small school now developing strong teams through religious adherence to the coaching standards of Knute Pockne of Notre Dame. Bridges, Bear coach, can be de. pended on to turn out more from poorer material than anyone in the southwest.
 T. c. U. Erratic
 T. c. U., the baby of the conference, seems due to run it's usual course to disaster. Early in the year the Horned Frogs whip everything in sight and look like the best below the Mason. Dlxon line. Then comes some power. tul team. The Frogs get a lacing, blow up, get demoralized for good and drop every other game on the schedule. They are taking on six conference teams and will have outside trouble in Simmons college. T. c. U. is really fighting out or It's class in the conference being the smallest school of the group. Rum. ors are already floating around that it plans to withdraw.
 ArhdhSas, With team made up chiefly of veterans, is taking on the most ambitious schedule of any of them. The Razorbacks play Mississippi. Louisiana state, T. c. U., s. M. t. Oklahoma A. & M., Baylor and a string Of small but powerful schools. Ar. kansas hasn't been overly successful during the past in rounding up south western honors, but she has her best chance to make showing this year.
 Rice institute has been the most con sistent performer of recent years. Each year they start the season looking like million dollars, and each year they finish looking like 30 cents. For 1923 they have little material. But they have imported John Heisman, formerly or Pennsylvania, and Joe Bedenk. an All'American man from Penn State. in try to make something out of the Owls and hope is again booming. The nadir Of poor playing was reached in 1929 when teachers college beat them, ana they know that things can't get any worse. The Owls are unfortunate enough to have l.. S. U. on their sched. ule. On top of this they have fonr conference games, and the road ahead looks stony.