Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-14

SCORE TWICE
lSTQ QUARTER
Longhorns Comeback
With Passing Attack
That Nearly Gets
Victory

tied each other today with all the
bitterness of the traditional foes
they are, and when darkness settled
on Fair Park stadium and the ca
pacity crowd Of $4,000 moved out
of the exits, the Vanderbilt Commo-
dores had raised their Orange and
Black standard in victory over a
hsrd-fighting Texas eleven.
The ~narrowest of margins, one
point. was all that separated the
teams. Vanderbilt won, 10 to ~,
because Rufus King. Texas captain,
and Cowley failed at both tries for
the extra point.
Two attempts made by Jimmy Ar
mistead also failed, but after the
Commodore captain had passed 10
Texas was offside, giving the Ten
nessee team the point that enabled
them to svenge Texas victory last
year.
II was a determined and seemingly
inspired Texas team that came back
after Vanderbilt had scored two
~touchdowns in the opening quarter,
the second occurring when Baldwin
punt was blocked and Hawkins fell
on the ball over the Longhorn goal
line. and all but snatched victory
from the opponents.
After Coach Clyde Littlefield re-
placed his battered Orange eleven
with reinforcements early in the
second quarter, the Texans uncork-
ed a dazzling aerial offense that
actually accounted for n touch
down and was largely responsible for
che second.
Higgins returned Abernathy's kick
off to the Texas 4o-yard line. King
passed to Rhoades, who a few Sec
onds before went in for Ford at end,
and the Texas wingman eluded tack
lers and dashed to the Commodore
down by McGaughy. A moment
later King darted back of the line,
raised his arm and hurled the ball
into the outstretched arms Of Hig-
gins just as the latter stepped over
his opponents goal line.
Cowley failed to convert.
With the bal, on their own 34-yard
lire, the Longhorns started their
march down the field. A long pass,
Shelley to Rhoades. was good for 30
yards and Meadows made it first
down on a thrust at right end, plac-
ing the ball on vandy's three-yard
line.
Two jabs at the Commodore's for
ward wall brought only one yard,
then Captain King dived through i
mass Of tacklers over the chalk line.
Kings kick was low and to the right
of the standards.
Early in the third quarter the
Texans made a determined scoring
bid, only to fail when Shelley drop
ped Beular's pass on the goal line
after leaping high after the oval.
Less than three minutes later, after
Arns stead had punted out of bounds
on the Vandy 43-yard line. King
fumbled the ball with a clear field
before him and the over-alert Haw-
kins recovered.
Texas made one more scoring eff
fort in the fourth quarter, but ap-
parently had spent its power against
the stalwart Commodore defense.
Vandy in turn made its most effec-
tive advance during the final two
quarters and missed a touchdown by
inches two minutes before the game
ended. Meadows dropped a punt on
his five-yard line and Lusky recov-
cred. Three line thrusts failed and
the ball went over as the final gun
sounded.
THE LINEUP:
Texas (12) Vanderbilt (lS)
Ford Lokey
Left End
Brown
Left Tackle
Phillips Bristow
Left Guard
Wrsy Olliver
Center
Sewell Brown
Right Guard
Cowley Lusky
Right Tackle
Rose A~Dernatny
Right End
beuIer ArWlsteso
Quarterback
Baldwin ............. McGaughey
Left Halfback
Higgins MeIlwaine
Right Halfback
King (c) ......:..-.... Schwartz
Fullback
Score by periods:
Vanderbilt .......l3 Q O-l5
Texas ...........12 0 0 0-l2
Texas scoring: T~ouchdowns: Hig-
gins, King. Vanderbilt scoring:
Touchdowns, McGaughey and Hawk
ms; points after touchdowns-Armis-
tead.
Officials: Boynton (Williams) ref
cree; Xix (Dartmouth) umpire; Fra
xier (Baylor) head linesman; Arbuc-
kle CIllinois) field judge.