Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-21
LELAND AND
! ATKINS STAR
Frogs Seen Likely To Rap
Tradition BY
Repeating
Nv NEA Service

FORT WORTH. Tex. Oct IL
Winning the Southwest Conference
football championship two years
in a row has been one Of the thi { S
not being done in all the Is seasons
the major athletic organization for
colleges in this section Of the ma
ton has functioned.
The Texas Christian University
eleven-the Horned Frogs of
Fort Worth-is the outfit striving
TO crack the So-called "~nonrepeat
iinx' and set a precedent this
fall.
Francis A. Schmidt came here
from the University of Arkansas
at the start of the 1929 season TO
succeed Madison Bell. old Centre
College star. who had gone to
Texas A. g. NJ. College.
Among the back-field candidates
when Schmidt assumed the reins
in 1929 was a blond headed youth
named Cy Leland. who had been
fairly successful OF the cinder
paths as a dash artist the spring
before. Coach Bell had used Leland
in II game in the 1928 season.
when Cy was rushed into the Rice
Institute fray at Houston to snatch
q pass that beat the enemy. But
the Horned Frog tutor who rreced-
ed Schmidt saw nothing particular
ly outstanding about Cy- that is.
other than the boys natural speed.
1t is still a mystery TO even his
best friends. but Cy did something
between the close OF the 1928 sea-
son and the opening of the 1890
title campaign that stamped him
as the most improved football
player ever seen in these parts.
He became the phantom of the
Southwest Conference opera-in
fact. he made II a tragedy as far
as the opposition was concerned
He chilled Texas University at
Austin last season when. after the
Longhorns had scored on the Chris
tians IN the first few minutes. he
took the kickoff after the foes
touchdown and carried IL back 90
yards to knot the count.
At Waco, against Baylor. he ran
the length Of the field after re-
celving a punt and dashed so odd
yards on a Statue of Liberty" play.
a stunt IN which he runs behind
the quarterback and takes the ball
as the signal barker draws back
his arm IN a fakepassing move.
Against his old coach's Texas A.
a. M. warriors. he had his center
feign an injury with the ball about
70 be snapped and as the opposi-
ton was caught off guard a Sc
cond he received the pass back
from a guard and sped Al yards to
a touchdown.
He learned to Stiff-arm, dodge
whirl. sidestep. feint-had eyery-
thing the greatest pail carriers
boast. with his remarkable speed
to make him impossible to catch
once he got even" with the would
be tacklers in a broken field.
Then he mastered the art Of
tackling. He became almost as
valuable as a safety man on Of
tense, for no enemy ball carrier
has much chance 70 elude Leland
even II he gets in front OF the other
10 Christians.
All this brings the reader 10 the
fact that Leland has returned and
the Blond Blizzard has a formid-
able club around him.
Texas Christian is captained this
year by the 1880 All-Southwest
Conference center, Noble Atkins OF
Crystal Falls, Tex. He has the dis
tinction Of being the first T. c. u.
athlete TO be elected captain Of
two sports in the same school year.
He also will lead the Christian
basketball squad during the coming
winter.
The Frogs play every team IN the
Southwest Conference this season
six titular struggles. II they can
cop the crown. 1t will be earned.
and not one of those champion
ships like some colleges have
achieved down here-won 2, lost o,
percentage 1000.
Arkansas provided the first con-
ference competition here Oct. IL in
the contest ~dedicating the new
football stadium of Texas Christian
University. 1t is now only half
complete and seats 10000. When
finished, the stadium will be a
concrete horseshoe Of $4,000 cap
acity. 1t will cost more than
S500,000. about s250.000 already
having been spent.
Other championship games for
T. c. u. are those with Rice ms
titute. Nov. 8; Texas University,
Nov. Is: Baylor, Nov. %. and South
ern Methodist. Nov. 20.