San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-09
FIELD NARROWS
IN STATE HI
TOURNEY
Four Teams Will Remain
After Games Of
This Week.

AUSTIN, Tex, Dec. 9-P)-When
Wednesdays games have been played,
the number of schools left in the race
for the state high school football cham
pionship will have been reduced to
five. Waco will meet Itasca and Dali
las Forest Avenue will take on Mar
shall at Marshall, the winning teams
entering the semi-final round.
On Friday, Cisco and Cleburne will
play for the privilege of entering the
semi-finals. Beaumont is assured of
place in the semi-finals, as this school
win play the winner of the Waco
Itasca struggle for the honor of rep
resenting South Texas in the finals.
More than 300 schools started two
months ago in the arduous chase for
the state pigskin title. and by the end
of the week the number will be re-
duced to four.
PICK SEMI-FINALISTS.
Many of the dopesters figure Waco.
beaumont, Dallas Forest Avenue and
Cisco will be the t,ams to win their
way to the snmi-finals; while there
is plenty of "dope" to justify such
prediction, high school football is just
as much subjected to upsets as the
college variety.
The winner Of the Forest Avenue
Marshall contest will play the victor
Of the Cisco-C leburne battle, the win
ner going into the finals and playing
the victor in tho clash between Beau
mont and the victor of the Waco-Itas-
ca fracas.
One Of the most colorful teams in
the state is the combination known
as the Cisco "Big Dam" Loboes,
coached by Chapman. former Austin
College football player.
TWO BIG STARS.
Chapman's team boasts a mighty
forward wall. and speedy, stalwart
backs. The linemen are as heavy as
the forwards of the average college
team. In "Honk" Irwin, veteran tack
lie and Grist, center. the Loboes have
two of the outstanding high school for
wards in the state. Both are husky
and love football. If they show against
Cleburne the form they displayed in
the game against the Amarillo Golden
Standstc rm, Irwin and Grist should
receive many votes for all-state berths.
The Cisco backfield is just as strong
rs the line. Alsabrook. hard plung-
ing fullback, is the offensive ace
about whom the back of the line quar-
ter is built. Alsabrook is one of the
most dangerous offensive players in
the state, opposing lines finding him
exceedingly hard to stop on his vicious
off-tackle dashes. Petty, quarterback,
and Murphy ard Huestis, halfbacks,
are other regulars of the backfield.
BLEW UP LAST YEAR.
Three of the most popular members
of the husky Lobo squad are Garland
Reyes, Curley Kellogg and Jock Moss,
who are known as the Uobo pup
backs. Each Of these three lads
weighs less than 100 pounds.
Last year the Loboes played sensa-
tional football until they went up
against the powerful Dallas Oak Cliff
Leopards, who subsequently won the
state championship. Led by Hopper
and Lynch, the Dallas team complete
" outplayed the lads from West
IeXas, winning Dy lOp-nedfy mir
gin. Coach Chapman's team Of this
season, however, has a large enough
number Of seasoned veterans TO pre-
vent his machine from blowing up
in a critical contest.
There may be some doubt as to
whether Cisco boasts the most colorful
team, but there can be no question
that Paul Tyson Of the Waco High
Tigers boasts the most successful rec
ord Of any high school coach in the
state. Tyson's eleven won the state
title in 1922; lost in the 1928 finals
TO Abilene by a 80 margin; lost in
the finals of 1924 to Dallas Oak Cliff.
This season he has welded n splendid
combination. one that has many back
crs to win the championship.