Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
GENTLEMEN TO
PLAY ACCIES
ON SATURDAY
Centenary Undefeated
Last Year, Downing
7. c. u, S. M. u,
Baylor and Rice

One of the most colorful battles of
the 1928 Southwest Conference grid
season is expected to take place on
Kyle Field, Saturday, Oct. Is, when
Coach Dana X. Bibles Texas Aggie
gridsters, winners Of the Southwest
title last season, and Coach Homer
Norton's Centenary Gentlemen, cham
pions of the s. !. A. A. last fall, meet
in one of the hardest games on both
teams schedules for this year.
Last year both the Aggies and Gen.
tenary had teams which won praise
from national sports critics, members
of both teams being chosen among
the outstanding college players Of
the nation. Coach Norton's eleven
was one of the few major teams to
go through the season without a loss
or a tie in the ten games played.
While the Aggies went through the
season undefeated, they were held to
a scoreless tie by the T. c. U. Horned
Frogs at Fort Worth. The Horned
Frogs also held the Gentlemen to
their lowest score of the season. the
Louisianans barely nosing through
with a 7 to 3 victory.
Besides winning from T. c. U. the
Gentlemen defeated three other
Southwest Conference ~elevens last
fall, beginning with the S. Nj. u. Mus
tangs, whom they downed with a 81
to IL score. Baylor was defeated Q
to 6 and the Rice Owls went down
under a 80 to 7 score. The Centenary
eleven finished the season with n to-
tai or 259 points to their opponents
81. Only four teams crossed the
Centenary goal line during the sea
son. This year the Gentlemen have
turned in two victories in as many
starts.
The Louisiana school this year has
virtually the same team which swept
its way to victory over all corners
last year, since they lost only three
lettermen because of graduation. The
same backfield combination with
Charlie Smith at quarter, Jake Han
ma and Bear Allday on the halves
and Ted Jefferies at full is back in
Centenary harness and reports from
Aggie scouts and others who have
seen this backfield working indicate
that il is as strong this year as it
was when it outpointed all opponents
last season. Coach Frank Anderson,
who secuted the Centenary eleven in
its first game, say that in Allday
and Hanna the Gentlemen have two
OF the best running backs that he
has seen in the years he has been
allied with the game.
Besides this brilliant backfield.
the Centenary coaches have a line
which is reputed to be one Of the
heaviest and most scrappy in the
South. The three lettermen whom
the Centenary eleven lost were all
linesmen but an imposing array Of
matrial from the reserves OF last
year and from the freshman squad is
expected to more than even the &C
count. Captain Leon 1.-TWO Gun"
Price was n Of the outstanding
tackles in the S. I. A. A. last year
and il has been reported that even
he is being crowded to hold his place
among the heavy squad Of candidates
trying for line positions.
Aggie coaches are expecting an
open game from the Centenary elev-
en- with a great part of the game be
ing played in the air, and it is likely
that the Aggies will open up with q
similar style Of play. The Allday.
Hanna-Jefferies-Smith combination
OF the Gentlemen was among the best
IN the passing game last season n
although they have not been forced
to open up with anything but
straight football thus far in the sea
son, il is quite likely that Coach
Bibles Aggies have a powerful aerial
affark raaAy a. - ---L -
the occasion arises.
Early in the season the Centenary
eleven adopted Beat the Texas Ag-
gies" as their slogan for their 1925
grid campaign and they have been
pointing for the Aggies since the
opening of training early in Septem-
Der. Centenary scouts have seen ev-
cry game that the Aggies have played
and the coaches Of both teams are
making every effort to perfect their
teams for the battle, all Of which
indicates that both schools consider
It one of the most important games
on their 1928 schedule.
The Aggies have been working be-
hind closed gates since their return
from Dallas, where they overwhlem-
ed the Sewanee Tigers, and are
drilling hard to perfect an offense
which will BATTLE the alert defensive
tam which Centenary is reported to
have rs well as TO develop defensive
formations to be used against the
Gtneiemen. Scrimmages against the
freshman charges Of Coach Roswell
Higginbotham who have been drill
ing on Centenary plays and forma-
tIons will constitute a large part of
the Aggies' work.