San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-11
SMILES
ON TEXAS
RIVALS
s'Doc" Stewards Eleven
Gets one Of Breaks
in Hard Game.

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Oct. 10
Fate, that uncomfortable clement of
any athletic contest, dealt the Texas
Longhorns an msind blow here to.
day. Perhaps it would be better to
make it plural. for Fate struck the
Lone Star football team several blows.
With the breaks" coming to them
in almost every department of the
great gridiron clash. the Vanderbilt
CommodoreS trouaccd upon the luck
less Texans, winning spectacular
battle before 10000 shivering fans.
They sent the Orange and White war
riors back to Austin with the smaller
end of O 15-to-6 score.
The final gunshot of the heated pig
skin argument was a signal for pro-
longed and uproarious cheering on the
part OF the Commodore followers. who
throngcd Parker Stadium with the di
vine hope of seeing their prides make
Texas pay" for the defe"- handed to
their greatest eleven back in 1926,
when Oscar Eckhardt almost single
handed ran over and through Nandy
for two touchdowns.
JUST OUT OF LUCK.
Texas was not outplaycd. They
were certainly not outfousht and had
the hand that guides the fortunes of
the battlefield beC.l more to their fa-
vor, the Texans would have carried
home great victory.
To begin with, Captain Wright of
Texas fumbled punt early in the sec
ond quarter.
McKibbon, the fighting Vandy line
man. who today was the greatest de-
fensive player on the field, scooped
up the pesky pigsk:n and raced
through the open field % yards for n
touchdown. The charging Texans
blocked the try for point after touch
down.
In ordinary football the team that
gets the first break always scars high
in spirit while. on the other hand, the
unfortunates drop in their morale. Not
so today. Stewards Steers stampeded
following this. They took the bali
after the kickoff and by the best
timed defense that has been seen on
Parker Field in years they marched
straight down the field for a touch
down.
luc NTlNt DIbuS1l OuI lut NtISdlii-
ity of the visitors offense, and it also
brought out Observation-Disclosures. Up
here Nashville fans had heard moth.
ing but Mack Saxon. and they had ex-
pcctcd TO see nothing but short.
stumpy lad running through them
with relentless abandon.
Today Rufus King, former cap
tain of the Austin High Maroons.
plunged and lunged. dived and dashed
through even the strongest points Of
Vandy's forward defense. He did some
thing no other fullback has done
against Vanderbilt i'll years-plunge
four wards through the center of Van
derbilt's maSscd defense for touch
down. 1t was a mighty crash, sup
ported by maddened charge of the
famous thin orange line that took Ru
fus-the-Rammcr over for the touch
down thar cyeEed the score at siX-all.
Coach Stewards strategy, wise it
were, failed by the margin of few
inches following Kings mighty crash.
Fred Thompson. usually the most de-
pendable pinch hitting" place-kicker
on the Longhorn squad. was ushered
into the contest TO kick goal. His
ulItUlDl was Nlut W
CREDIT TO WRIGHT
Although the Texas rooters were
loudly acclaiming the feat of the big
fullback. the Nashville scribes went
to give the credit to Stud Wright, cap
tain and quarterback of the invaders.
1t was the accurate forward pass at,
tack manipulated by Wright that
placed Texas in scoring distance. Us
ing the aerial game both as q gamer
of yardage and swept the Vandy Of
Tense aside in as a threat the Lone
Star staters their triumphant march
down the field.
The opening pass was from Saxon
TO Baldwin. a true toss that placed
Texas in Vanderbilt territory.
Texas lost the ball ON an intercept
ton Of a forward pass, but they re-
covered it a moment later when Rufus
King pounced ON a tumble by Young,
Vandy quarter. But here the Vandy
secondary defense stiffened against
Texas air line. With fourth down
and ten yards TO go and the ball on
Vanderbilt's 40-yard line, the Steers
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