Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-14
WRITES VIEWS
ON FOOTBALL
Davenport, In Temple
Hospital, Full Of
Pigskin Data

Harbert Davenport, Brownsville
attorney, and member Of the local
school board, who is recuperating
from illness at a hospital in Tenn
pie, writes the Sports Depart
ment of The Herald, in regard to
the high school football activities
in the Valley, Of which he is an
ardent local as well as Valley sup
porter. Mr.. Davenport is high in
his praise Of Douglas F~essenden,
coach of the Brownsville high
school. Mr.. D%ayenport's letter fol-
lows, in part:
Il am enjoying The Herald's sport
pages, and ! was especially pleased
with the victory of the Red Ants over
the big FL Jardin team. | knew in
advance, Of course, that the Browns
ville-Ls Feria game was a mere ques-
tion Of size of the score, and that
that would depend largely on how
hard Doug worked his first string
men.
HE proved that he is a real coach
by working them as little as possible.
In n of your squibs you COM
mented on Paul Tyson, and his re-
m~arkable record with the Waco Tig-
ers. DIR. Dougmire. Sho has my ease
in charge is himself a high school
football fan, and ne has permitted
me TO watch the Temple team in ac-
ton the past three Fridays. Temple,
you know, gives Waco its hardest
annual battle, but never quite man
ages to beat Tyson's Tigers. The
teams | have seen IN action against
Temple are also, perforce. Tyson in
fluenced teams. This town is full
Of football fans, experts, and near
experts, and the composite view | get
Of Tyson and his Tigers is:
Tyson is no smarter strategist or
tactician than hundreds Of other
coaches in the state, and there is
nothing out Of the ordinary In his
plays and formations. But there is
a mighty difference in the execution
Of the same plays from the same for
nations by a Tyson-trsined team and
al average well coached eleven, and
the essential difference is in ground
ing the players IN the fundamentals.
Tyson has the infinite patience to
start with his players while they are
still very young, teach them, long
before he has any occasion to use
them in a game, all there is to know
about blocking. tackling, running.
charging, two on one line play. and
handling the ball, so that by the time
Tyson is ready to use them in q game.
il is their second nature to do, and
do right, all the many things that
need 10 be done on the football field.
In consequence he gets one hundred
per cent perfection in the execution
of a given play about ninety per cent
Of the time; the average coach with
mine rum material is lacky to get
one hundred per cent execution of
the same play ten per cent Of the
time. For example: TySon's much
advertised spin play of last season,
was in no wise an improvement on
Earl Morrison's version of the same
play; except that Tyson had a line
in there trained to smother the OPP
posing line on the play. Imagine what
Earl Morrison's team could have
done with that same play had the
other San Benito linesmen known
how TO charge as Todd and Carter
charged.
valley football this season looks
like a mighty battle among McAllen.
San Benito and Brownsville. with a
bare possibility that Harlingen may
yet come through with another good
team. But Moncus and Waters have
been the spark plugs Of the Harlin-
gen team so long that it will likely
be a year or two before Harrington
fully owe from their loss.
u certainly hope that Welch and
McWilliams of San Benito come
around all right before the big games
begin in November. Earl Morrison
is a prince, and deserves all the good
luck that may come his way; so far
this eason the breaks have surely
hit him hard. Fessenden has also
had his share of bad breaks, but If
the lnterscholastic league committee
ever gets TO understand the actual
facts Of the Cabler case IL will Ter
tainly reverse itself as to Bills eli
gibility.
Besides, Brownsville has a very
fair football team without Bill. We'll
Ter was very badly treated. and in
consequence very much moderated
last season. But where do you get
that stuff about Carroll Grove
finding himself at left end? Carroll
played left end in his first high
school anne and in every game the
team played through the rest Of 1926
and all of 1927, and has been as good
a defense end as heart could desire
through those two seasons.
But watch Jimmy Dykes McAllen
team. Jimmy is a smart coach. has
a well arranged schedule, and a lot
Of speed and power on his team.
Jimmy Is going to be very, very hard
10 beat"
LIONS HEAR CHAPMAN