Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-17
BRONCS FACE
HARD CONTEST
Edinburg Not Optimistic
Over Harlingen Gam
This Friday
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EDTNBURG. Sept. l7.-Defeat.
apparently, Is staring the Edlnburg
College Broncs in the face as they
prepare for their first grid game
of the season with the Harrington
high school Cardinals there Friday
afternoon.
Coach j.. ID. Foster said this morn
ing that his men were soft and not
in very good condition. due TO the
fact that the late opening a COL
lcge prevented the men from hav-
ing as long TO work out as other
Valley schools. The Broncs have
only been scrimmaging for the
past few days OF this week.
Although we will have a hard
fight on our hands and hope 10
hold the Cardinals to ut least a
two-touchdown margin In the game
Friday, we Will put up a good
fight" Coach Foster said.
Despite the lack Of time in which
% prepare for the coming game.
Skipper Foster IS optimistic over
the outcome or the remainder or his
regularly scheduled games this
season. He will have two letter men
back from last season rs well IS
four squad men from the last sea-
son team around which 70 build his
machine for this year
In addition to these men he will
have six high school stars from the
Bobcat team OF last season as well
as several upstate high school
players who have made names for
themselves during their high school
football careers.
Bronze Squad
Members of the Broncs college
squad this year are John McCau-
ley and Ohio Duncan, letter men:
Bill Sayles, Judson Trollinger. Ar
turo Perez. Lupe Moline and rom-
er Ramsey. on the squad last year.
the following ex-hiFh school men
from Edinburg. John r. mum.
Brooks Holt. Jose Ramirez. Ray La
nier. Frank Slaughter. and the fol-
lowing new men. Rathhun Rogers,
McAllen. Bill Boles. Weslaco: Il
Hoppe. Thorndale: Charley Mod
est. McAllen; John CavaZos. Nc
Allen. Matias Cara. Mission: Rob
erts. San Benito; Rudolfo Samano.
Brownsville; Buddy Chenawith,
captain ELECT or the 1890 Mountain
eer squad from Schreiner I~stitutc
and Sharp. from Waco.
The college line this year will av-
erage 100 pounds and the backfield
about 1865. Skipper Foster said. The
high school line Will average lo1
pounds and the barkfield about l45
The Bronze team started working
out regularly Monday They have
b, ! put through light kicking
practice. Both teams re working
ont on a regularly devised schedule
OF practice: the work begins with
free exercises; fundamentals. such
as handling the ball, kicking. etc.
group work. kicking. passing etc.
dummy Md live tackling practice;
walking through plays; Z snap
py signal drill.
Both Foster and n. @. Ballew. sec
ond coach at Edinburg and former
San Antonio Indian lead-off man
are highly optimistic about the
outcome OF the eason for beth the
Bobcats and the Broncs this year
despite the fact that the Broncs
viii have one of the hardest sched-
ules they have ever faced
High School
There are six letter men for FoS-
ter to build his high school team
about this season as we'll as num-
erous members or the 1929 Bobcat
SQUAD. TIE Bobcats have been
working out for the past two weeks
and they have been put through a
series or stiff skull drills by Coach
Foster. Apparently the coach Is
trying TO build up a strong running
attack as we'll as devoting time 70
%perfecting the old "A. & NJ. play off
tackle, which merely followed the
hammer and tongs style CT finesSe.
Both Edinburg college and high
school teams have hard schedules
this year. McAllen and Mission
will be the hardest teams for the
Bobcats 20 face in the upper VAL
ley. Harrington will be the big game
in the lower Valley.
The schedule for both teams Is as
follows:
College
Sept. 19-Hariingen high school,
there.
Sept. 27-McAllen high school,
there.
Oct. 4-Kingsville College Of Arts
and Industries 3 team Gentative).
Oct. 11-Seguin Lutheran college,
at Edinburg.
Oct. 1s-Rice freshmen. az Edin-
burg.
Oct. 25-Brownsville junior col
lege-there.
Nov. 5-st. Mary's university
CSan Antonio). there ttentative).
Nov. IL Schreiner Institute
tKerrville), there.
Nov. 22-23rd Infantry r.. Sam
Houston tSan Antoricl, at Edin-
burg.
High Schcol vi
Sept. 26-Donna. there.
oct. 3-San Benito. there.
Oct. 10-Raymondville. at Edin-
burg.
Oct. i7-McAIlen. there
Oct. 24-La Feria. at Edinburg.
Oct. 3l-I-arlingen. there.
Nov. 6-Pharr. at Edinburg.
Nov. 14-Open.
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