Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-14
EACLESTAPER
OFF TRAINING
FOR Big GAME
Local Partisans Are
Wrought Up Over
Contest That May
Determine Champs
BY BISHOP
Herald Sports Editor.

Coach Douglas Fessenden's high
school Eagles swing into action Fri
day against the highly-touted San
benito eleven, in what promises to
be the most interesting combat ever
witnessed in Brownsville. The game
Is scheduled to get underway at $3.50.
preliminary practice will wind up
Tor the locals this afternoon. when a
light workout will be had. Tomorrow
the Eagles will take a couple Of
launts around the park, and wait for
the coming Of the Greyhounds.
1t has been many years since local
1iandom has had an opportunity to
yecome "fotball crazy"-but they are
become football crazy'-but they arc
are backed by the crack eleven Fcs-
sender has welded together.
There is nothing spectacular-noth-
ing individually, to IN extent at
least, about the Brownsville team.
u started the season with the idea
as promulgated by the crafty mentor,
TO get going as a team-and they are
"a "tuneful" machine today.
Brownsville fans have a right to
be proud of the eleven. There has
never been a local team with as
much harmony and tesm-spirit as the
n that has swept all opposition
aside SO far this season-and kept
their goal line clean. More than that
the manner in which they have
bore down upon opposition. and the
precision with which they have exc
8 cuted plays, has set fandom TO talk
ing of the club as a whole-not as
individuals.
But il takes natural players TO
make this possible-and Fessenden
has them.
A team with a smart field general
and a willing bunch of workers is
hard to beat. Malcolm Newman, at
quarter is declared by local fandom
TO be the smartest quarterback in
south Texas. Upon this young mans
shoulders will depend the attack on
the field the Eagles will hurl at the
Greyhounds. Newman not only has
had plenty of experience in this de-
partment. but he has proven n OF
the shiftiest ball toters ever seen in
Brownsville.
Flanked by Grove, Barnhart and
Perez on the offense. his mates can
carry the ball in no mean fashion,
And what's more these backs-to
whom partisan feelings in San Be-
nito do not give much crcdit-can
pass and catch the pigskin with the
best of high school stars.
Dan Barnhart has tore up oppos-
ing lines in games heretofore. and
is big enough, and willing to mix IL
with any and all corners
McWilliams and Brooks, San Be
y nito tackles, will face Burns and Ben
nett, Brownsville tackles. And what
a merry battle these boys will have!
They are about the same size. Ben
nett and Burns have proven about
the best pair Of tackles ever present
ed by Brownsville.
At center is Captain Robert O'Bry-
ian. who has developed into the best
imam at that position the locals have
had in years. He Is a scrspper, and
charges through the line, and has
broken up many plays and tackled
many an opponent behind the line
Of scrimmage.
Monsees and Cortez at guards are
strong as mules-fighters all the
time. They add a lot of punch ia
the Eagle forward wall.
Weller will be used at end on or
ItUcG nAOIk W 0OHh 1eANGcltl
Weller has been used entirely in the
backfield thus far this season. But
Coach Fessenden sees in him one OF
coming ends of the Valley. He is
strong. big and fast. Smart and az.
gressive. The famous San Benito
end runs won't get very far. IL is be-
lieved over the end positions of the
locals.
In reserve the locals have in Placi.
do Gonzales a really great little
player. Placido weighs llS pounds
but il is all brains and fight-he has
football instinct. and along with 9TH
er Eagle reserves he forms a great
help to the team.
Olin Weller will DO the kicking
for the team. and his punts have
have been the pride OF local fandom
The locals have shown go over-con-
| fidence, they realize that in San Be.
Axito they will be meeting a worthy
= opponent.
Eight Eagles, Fight" is the slo-
~.r of Prowusville fandom-