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Telephone 4391. Delivery Service SUNDAY AMERICAN-STATESMAN, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 28. 1926. 11 All Southwestern Conference Football Elevens For 1926 Are Chosen -v- 'f Gerald Mann and Mack Saxon Are Awarded All-Conference Honors of Season SAXON GETS HIGH HONOR BRIDGES MAKES CLARK CAPTAIN Conference Official Picks All-Star Teams.

Duby All-Conference Selection Coates, Baylor Left End Cortemeglia, SMU End Matthews, TCU Left Tackle Gooch, Texas Tackle Dieterich, Right Guard Wray, Texas Left Guard Ford, SMU Center Saxon, Texas Quarterback, captain Hunt, Halfback Mann, SMU Halfback Kelley, Baylor Fullback Most Valuable Player: Saxon. Best Kicker; kelley. Best Ball Carrier: Hunt. Best Passer: Mann. Best Blocker: Saxon.

Best Pass Receiver; Coates. Best Defensive Lineman: Cortemeglia. Best Offensive Linemen: Gooch. Best Defensive Player: Saxon. Best Offensive Player (including blocking, passing, Best Field General: Saxon.

Best Strategist: Saxon. Best at Diagnosing Opponents Play: Saxon. Coach; E. J. (Doleful Doc) Stewart.

it: 1 4 i M1 i 1 i i i- As, All-Conference Football Teams Of 1926 cj vlil- i 1 iti A 1 i-rrrr tf ''V' Scribes Select Mythical Grid Eleyens Mann and Coates Are Popular Stars game at Memorial stadium. However, the SMU-Texas game, Oct. 30, caused us tb question somewhat our former conclusions. Honors Go to Stewart But now, that things which happened Thanksgiving day are a matter of record, we can no longer hand the laurels to Bible, but must turn and hand the bunting to K. J.

(Doleful Doc) Stewart of the Long-horns. Heretofore, or rather before the SMU game, Stewart had shone little as an offensive coach. We consider versatility the keystone of a successful offense. And prior to Thursday we had seen Stewart's teams do little to Indicate such a quality. But now it Is different Aside from Stewart presenting a stubborn defensive team, he presented one armed with the deadliest of offensive weapons.

The Mustangs felt the terribleness of it, and the Aggies were crushed under its onrush. Bible's Team Fail Dana Bible's team Thanksgiving day failed even to compare favorably In machine-like play and rhythmatic form of attack with that of Stewart's. Ray Morrison's looked almost pitiful against Stewart's machine, and this despite the fact that Morrison's team won the game. Frank Bridges, a shrewd and cunning coach, who had but little material at Baylor university compared with other powers of the conference, was forced td resort to Gerald Mann, general of Ray Morrison's Ponies, was voted the all-round of the state, according to the returns above the rest, both as to physique and football ability. Offensively he is a whiz.

The powerful chap, weighing around 220 pounds, all mucle, big and rangy, with speed a-plenty, simply opens that hole when a hole is wanted. The opposition guards have found themselves flat on the turf many times this season after the impact of the charging Gooch. Frog at Tackle Rags Matthews of TCU is placed at the other tackle. Ha Is a capable lineman, having played a highly consistent game; at end for the Frogs for the past two years. But due to the necessity of keeping Coates and Cortemeglia at ends, Matthews is moved in to tackle, where he should be excelled only by his llnemate, Gooch.

Ox Dieterich of and' Red Wray of Texas are the guards. With the Aggies Dieterich has player tackle. But here again, as in the case of Matthews, we are forced to move the Aggie captain over a notch to make him the all-conference guard, making room for Gooch and Matthews, great natural tackles. Dieterich is a sterling defensive player and a power of drive on the offense. Both he and Red Wray of the Long-horns are as' near Ideal guards as one could pick.

Both play heads-up ball. Both are speedy and alert at diagnosing the play. Ford at Center Rounding out our selection we have Ford, the Pony pivot man, at center. Ford Is considered the most accurate snapper-back in the conference, and being forced to pass the ball to a quartet of backs that are almost always on the run as they receive it. Aside from his qualities as a snapper-back, upon the accuracy of which depends the success of an offense largely.

Ford can hold his man out and get down the field with the rest of them. Due to his superior knowledge of football, theoretically and practically, and his ability to handle men, there is but one who can be considered as captain. He la Saxon, the 1926 captain of the Texas Longhorns, and the greatest captain we have seen leading a squad of grldsters since we gazed upon our first football game back at the beginning of this century. Coaching Staff There remains but one department of the game to be picked to complete our mythical eleven, that of a coaching staff. Until Frank Bridges left the conference last spring we considered him the class of the mentors, with a decided edge.

And we have some powerful and concrete evidence substan tiating our belief. Then, when Bridges left Dana Bible of Texas stood out to us as the wisest and most successful of the conference coaches, and we did not alter our opinion along this line com pletely until the Thanksgiving day honor by a group of spors writers of a poll taken Saturday by the DuBose, sports editor of The American-Statesman, rated him the sec Sunday American-Statesman. Duby preference to the football genius of ond moat valuable, however, giving Captain Mack Saxon of the Texas Longhorns. -1 If a new and proper tradition is established by this precedent at the University of Texas, the numeral "2" has been worked by a Long-horn player the last time. For two yean, Captain Mack Saxon has carried this number on his back, and his astounding performance in the game makes his precedent worthy of recognition.

Duby Dubose has picked Saxnn as the most outstanding player In the Southwestern conference for 1928, and in story on thi page, outlines his arguments why Saxon deserves the honor. Brilliant Players Abound In Plenty. BY DUBY DU BOSE American Sports Editor Picking of all-Southwestern conference team la now In order. For the last few days and the next few day to come It is the chlefmost of Indoor In selecting an all-conference mythical eleven this year the task Is quite a difficult one. Probably never before has there been so many brilliant performers in the southwest as have graced her gridirons this fall.

On practically everyone of the conference squads there are a number of outstanding performers, who must be reckoned With In making a selection. Saxon the Best. However, there are a few, such as Saxon of Texas, Mann of SMU, Hunt of Gooch of Texas, and Kelley of Baylor who can hardly be overlooked. Their work throughout the conference melee has stood out so conspicuously above that of other players, that It Is well nigh Impossible to leave either of this quintet off the mythical selection, and not have Its ultimate beauty marred by the conspicuousness of their absence. Due to the fact that Saxon happened to be on a team that lost four of its games during the season, there is little doubt but what his sterling ability will be overlooked by many in picking their all-conference teams.

Nevertheless, we consider him the greatest of the Treat, so far as gridiron achleve-' ment and greatness goes in the southwest. Mann Next. Next to Saxon in point of accomplishment and value to his team la Gerald Mann of the champion EMIT Mustangs. Then we place Kelley of Baylor in third place, with Hunt of the Aggies fourth, to round out our backfleld, which we believe would make up a backfleld quartet stronger than any other election that might be chosen throughout the entire conference. Imagine a backfleld with Mack Saxon, Gerald Mann, Abe Kelley and Joel Hunt, there to execute an offense for a coach.

The term ver atility does not suffice to de scribe It. Football Wise. Saxon with his master football brains, his knowledge of theoretical football, his ability to lead men his remarkable generalship on the field of action, his ability to lead the interference, the greatest block in the southwest, his sterling defensive qualities, his ball-toting ability, his passing ability, and his oool-headedness under fire. Here we have an Ideal football man a finished product real big leaguer at the game. Mann Is noted principally for his passing.

But never did we see him s-ive as rood a demonstration at this art as Captain Saxon did on Thanlraelviner Day. and against a team which is recognized as the strongest defensively in the con fere nee. Saxon Excels. Mann Is the greatest challenger of them all to Saxon's claim as tne most valuable player. But Saxon xoeis in many ilflngs, whereas Mann is excellent in only a few.

aavs that Mann is a mat Tuuiser and a good ball toter, that is about the crop. But when one begins to enumerate the things that Saxon can do excellently he is forced to Include the entire category of football fundamentals, from theory down to falling on a loose whn 7)1 mi are considered, eertainly Mann has the best record In the conference as passer and it a great ball toter, a great defensive player, a good blocker, cut other than this his qualities are only ordinary. Then, he belongs at a halfback position, with baxon. the master field general at quarter. Flying Aggie.

'At the other halfback post we find Joel Hunt, the flying Aggie. Hunt is the best ball-toter in the He is a good Passer, and a good kicker, and strong defensively. On the defense he is our afetv man. He can shag them back better than Mann. A broken field is his paradise.

At full we have Abe Kelley, the triple-threater, a ball-toter, a passer and a kicker: he is the best punter in the conference, due largely to his consistency in both heightn and distance. As a passer he Is only slightly less qualified than Mann and Saxon, and as a ballcarrier he again ranks favorable with the best in the conference. Defensive, As Well. "All four of these men are strong fensively, both against the aerial attack and line plays. In summing up the qualifications of this backfleld, we have the four best passers In the conference, and the pass has assumed an au-im-portant position in modern football.

Then we have the best punter in Kelley. with Mann, Hunt and Saxon all able to kick some too. Ana in toting the ball we have strengtn galore, with Hunt and Mann excelling, closely followed by Saxon and Kelley. Going into the line there is little doubt as to the ends. Chris cor-temegila of the Ponies and Big Sam Coates of the Bears are undoubtedly the best pair in the conference.

According to records of the games this year Cortemeglia end on the Pony team has not been crossed once, while on the other hand Coates" end has been passed only once, and that was more or less due to an accident in the Bay-lor-SMTJ game, when Mann had run back laterally to pass, nnaing Himself about to be tackled by Coates, he eluded the Bruin, turning the play into an end run, which netted the Ponies 28 yards. Cortemegelia At End. Due to Cortemegelia's line-plunging and pass receiving ability, Ray Morrison, his coach, used him in the backfield on offense, thus giving the powerful Wop double duty, which he shouldered in a magnificent manner. Sam Coates, the other end, is undoubtedly the best pass receiver in the conference. Both he and Cortemeglia are powerful and big enough to well take care of the husky tackles while on offense.

They are real side-swipers and excellent blockers. At tackle we find aa abundance of capable material clamoring for recognition. However, Gooch of Texas stands head and shoulders FORT WORTH, Nov. ST. In an article written exclusively for the Star Telegram and Sunday Record, Frank B.

Bridges, Southwestern conference official and former head coach at Baylur university and probably the best qualified football critic in the south to pick outstanding football players In the Southwestern circuit, gave the champion SMU Mustangs and the TCU Horned Frogs each three positions on his all-Southwestern eleven. His selection of Herman Clark of TCU as quarter on his first team will be of especial Interest to many fans and sports critics as well. He. placed Gerald Mann of Southern Methodist university at a half with Kelley of Baylor, and put Mack Saxon of Texas at fullback. Bridges saw Southern Methodist university play six games, TCU four, Texas four, Baylor three, Texas two, Rice two and Arkansas one.

"In making my pick I am taking into consideration how the men played throughout their entire schedule, their experience, consistency, value to team, the way their team finished and last, but not least, their 'fighting The three teams I have picked are what I call 'fighting He said he would give Morrison, Bell or Bible either team to coach he picked and guaranteed a hard battle If any two of the elevens met. 'For quarter I had to choose between a sweet bunch of ball player in Mann of SMU, Clark of TCU, Washam of Baylor and Hunt of Bridges said. "However, only one of the four is a real field general, the way that I look at i and he Is Clark. He ran his team a lot better than the others, and I believe that the other three are better halfbacks. Clark is the spark plug of his team the same as Mann and Hunt are to their elevens, and when any of these three boys ar not in the lineup their teams are 80 per cent Bridges' three teams are as follows: First Team Coates of Baylor and Matthew of TCU.

ends; Dlotelch of and Roach of SMU, tackles; Watts of and Wolf of TCU, guards; Ford of SMU, center; Clark of TCU, quarter; Mann of SMU and Kelley' of Baylor, halves; Saxon of Texas, fullback and captain. Most valu able player of the year, Gorald Mann of SMU. Second Team Dawson of SMU and CprtemegJIa of SMU, ends; Scarborough of TCU and Browster of TCU, tackles; Taturn of SMU and Underwood of Rice, guards; Washmon of TCU, center and captain; Washam of Baylor, quarter; Hunt of and Hume of SMU, halves; R. King of Texas, fullbnrk. Third Team Olle of Texas and Bikes of ASM, ends; Torter of Baylor and Rose of Arkansas, tackles; Scott of Arknn-aaa" and Weed of Baylor, guards? Boozman of Arkansas, renter and captain; King of Texas.

quaN terback; Ford of Texas and Beaver of Arkansas, halves; B. Williams of TCU, fullback, TWAS NARROW SQUEAK. Alabama, champion of the southwest conference, had its closest call in the game with Sewanee. The Crimson Tide barely managed to eke out a 2-0 victory, safety preventing a tie score. I Broken Sizes 3313 Reduction Every garment offered at reduced prices ia expertly-tailored and embodies the finest type of workmanship througrhout, appealing to the man who knows and appreciates STYLE and QUALITY 711 Congress Leaves Austin 2:00 A.

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Weed, Baylor, and Wolf, TCU, guar 03. Ford, SMU, center. Mann, SMU, quarterback. Saxon, Texas, and Hunt, halves. Cortemeglia, SMU, fullback.

G. H. 8CHERWITZ San Antonio Light Dawson, SMU, and Slover, Texas, ends. Gooch, Texas, and Sprott, tackles. Underwood.

Rice, and Wolf, TCU, guards. Watis, center. Mann, SMU, quarterback. Hunt and Wobdman, halves. King, Texas, fullback.

KELLEY COUSINS Houston Post-Dispatch Coates, Baylor, and Dawson, SMU, ends. Gooch, Texas, and Dlterlch, tackles. Underwood, Rice, and Scott, Arkansas, guards. Watts, center. Clark, TCU, quarterback.

Hunt, and Mann, SMU, halves. Woodman, fullback," JACK HAWKINS Waoo Times-Hrald Left end: Coates, Baylor. Left tackle: Dieterich, Left guard: Underwood, Rice. Center: Ford, SMU. Right guard: Wolfe, TCU.

Right tackle: Porter, Baylor, Right end: Dawson, SMU. Quarterback: Mann, SMU. Left halfback: Hume, SMU. Right halfback: Kelley, Baylor. Fullback: Saxon, Texas (cap.) Best punter: Kelley of Baylor.

Most valuable man to team: Mann, SMU. Best passer: Mann, SMU. Coaches: Morrtlon, offense; Bible, defense; Jennings, assistant cities were flashed on the board lmA 4s tlm rrUtL kIaha Id from time to time. This alone la concrete evidence of Bellmont's thoroughness. have hrd tevaral people say unbecoming things about Bellmont and hi "strictly business attitude." They say all Bellmont wants to know about thing submitted for hi approval, is ''How much expen doe it Involve.

Will be profitable to th athlstio department of th unlvertity, etc." Maybe o. However, final results is what counts. And Bellmont gets results, and to a greater degree than anyone else. He sees to it that the various athletic squads of the university are amply provided with the necessary ma terials. And at the University of Texas there are many athletic squads.

It is not just a football In stitution, like most of them. For instance there are more chaps on the tennis teams exas than are on the entire athletic squads of many schools. CRIMSON SCORES MOST. Of the Big Three, Harvard ran up the largest single game point total during the 1928 campaign. The Crimson scored 69 tallies on Tufts.

Tale's best effort In this respect was against Boston University, when the Blue counted 61. Princeton showed its strongest attack in the Swarthmore battle when the Tigers ran up 27 points. Gerlenbach rates Dempsey, Strlb-ling and Delaney ahead of Tunney as heavyweight fighters Now if he can get anybody to pay off on that list itVlll be official. An unbalanced line In football Is all right as long as the men in It don't start playing unbalanced Gerald Mann of SMU appears to be the one unanimous choice of the southwestern sports scribes for an all-conference berth. Out of the seven teams picked by the seven leading scribes of the state not on of them omit the flashy 'mustage from their collection, most of them placing him at quarterback while one other gives him a halfback" post with Saxon of Texas at quarter.

Next to Mann in point of general approval is the big Baylor end, Sam Coates. Five of the seven select him for the position, The seven first-string all-southwestern teams, as picked by the various scribes, follow: JINX TUCKER Waco News-Tribune Cortemeglia, SMU, and Coates, Baylor, ends. Gooch, Texas, and Porter, Baylor, tackles. Matthews, TU, Cand Ford, SMU, guards. Watts, center.

Saxon, Texas, quarterback and captain. Mann, SMU, and Hunt, halves. Kelley, Baylor, fullback. MILT SAUL Dallas New Cortemeglia, SMU, and Coats, Baylor, ends. Dieterich, and Porter, Baylor, tackles.

Matthews. TCU, and Wolf, TCU, guards. Ford, SMU, center. Mann, SMU, quarterback. Kelley, Baylor, and Hunt.

halves. King, Texas, fullback. POP BOONE Fort Worth Press Matthews, TCU, and Dawson, SMU, ends. Gooch, Texas, and Dieterich, tackles. Weed, Baylor, and Wolf.

TCU, guards. Underwood. Rice, center. Mann, SMU, quarterback. Hume SMU, and Hunt, halves.

Woodman, fullback. fore you are able to get rolling, lli Once rolling, it is a slow gait for a mile or so, with many stops, But these conditions do not axist at Memorial stadium. Why? you will ask. Three times as many npnnla sea football Rame, at Me morial stadium as do at Fair park. The best answer we know for it all is L.

Theo Bellmont and hi ability to do thing. ha een to it that at least a dozen thoroughfare, leading directly to the stadium enclosure, are open and prepared to take care of the traffic. Parking space, both inside the eneloiure and out, abounds in plenty, and en every aide of th prk, with gate for admistion on all ide. So a fellow going to Memorial stadium, even if he i late, can usually find a dace to park hi car within two blocks of the nearest gate. Once at the gate there are so many entrances and lead-ways to the stadium that there i little or no congestion.

Several peoDle who had seats on top rows for the game Thursday, stated that it reauired only is min utes for them to leave the park, go to their care end drive to the busi ness district of Austin after the game. This Is efficiency. As an ath-letio director and business executive, L. Theo Bsllmont seem to have an edge ovsr the rest of those playing th prt in the southwest by hufl majority. One bit of evidence of thi was that scoreboard at the open end of the gigantic horseshoe.

There was kept the score, the down, yards to go for first down, quarter, time left to play in quarter, tc Also scores on games being played In other 175 Suits in A A 3313 Reduction On all Men's and Young Men's Suits. $45.00 $30.00 for rr.0.':-$26.65 35.0 Suit $90 oe for $Lo00 $32.10 suits 01 rr for $20.00 $25.00 Suit 1 a for News Duby's Sportorial Comment By DUBT DU BOSE AMERICAN PORTS EDITOR strategy and cunning, and what some called trickery, to win for the Bears. And he did this, thereby putting a school heretofore insignificant in athletics on the sports may of the Southwest. But never did Bridges present a team endowed with greater strategy, combined with defense and offensive power, than Stewart showed to some 40,000 fans at Memorial stadium last Thursday. Ponies Do Poorly There are those who will say: "Why not give it to Morrison? His team Is the champion," We would like to answer: ''The should have done better than they did without the services of a coach." That enormous horde of stars, numbering S3 of the cream of the Southwest, should have completely smothered the Aggies and the Longhorns and the Frogs, had they had the best of coaching.

But instead, they were forced to rely upon the element of luck for three of their five victories. I Taking the material of the various football coaches into consideration coupled with their showing this year, it seems to rate them aa follows: Stewart first, Jennings second, Bible third. Bell fourth, Heismann fifth, Morrison sixth. In picking our conference selection we have not considered Arkansas, due to the Razorbacks having played only one conference game, which they lost to the Frogs. derly and as expeditiously as a BTPU meeting on Sunday afternoon.

Many of us are inclined to overlook the magnitude of such accomplishment and the importance and convenience of i such preparations. But if one' would be brought to the full realization of its value he need only to attend a tig game on in the Dallas Fair Park stadium, where only about 16,000 can be seated, les than one-third the number whioh wn at Memorial tadium Thursday. There one must figure on losing at least an hour's time, both before and after the game. There is so much red tape to entering the park and so much hurry and scuffle for the three narrow gates after the game that it is well nigh Impossible to witness a contest there without spending the entire afternoon. You are held up for a four-bit piece for each pajcenger and another half dollar for your ear when you enter the gate to the park.

Then you must mill about over narrow driveway until a place is found for parking, which usually Is still a good wys off from your destination. Thsn, the ticket holder must run from one gate to the other, wending his way through a jam at each, until lie finds the portal at which his ticket will give him admission. Then after the game, the "pedestrian Jam" at tho gates and outside the stadium is so that one must do quite a bit of scuffling if he hopes to get outsida in anything like ordinary time. Then after he gets out, there is no little trouble in getting to the parked car. And once in the car, there sometimes is necessitated a wait of 80 minutes be PRAIRIE LEA PERSONALS fipctftal to Sunday AmrUa8tat4tman PRAIRIE! LEA, Nov, JT.

Misses Josephine Vest and Lola Ellison spent Thanksgiving with relatives at San Marco. H. A. Taylor, H. H.

Pruitt and L. S. King have returned from a successful hunting trip to Pear-sall. Mis Corinne Woods spent several day with her parent at Austin. Mr.

and Mrs. Jo Turner and daughter and Chester Hill spent Thanksgiving at Waelder. Miss Louis Clark, accompanied by her roommate from r.aylor col lege, were guests of Mr. and Mr. C.

I. Clark for Thanksgiving. Judge M. U. Smith and wife were her from Lockhart Sunday.

They were accompanied home by Mrs. Smith's mother, Mrs. 8. A. Johnson, who will spend th winter In Lockhart Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Francis and daughter. Miss Isabel, spent Saturday in San Antonio Mr. and Mrs. V.

L. Cromwell and daughter, Willie Blanche, and Mr. J. F. Acord were called to Sour Lake by the death of J.

M. Cromwell. On Wednesday evening tho Glee club, under the direction of Miss Josephln Vest, and the orchestra under the direction of H. A. Taylor, gave a program.

On Friday evening tne or the high school entertained the seniors with a party at the skating rink at Fentress. After an hour spent In games, sandwiches and fruit were served. Mrs. Louis Millmann of San An tonio spent Thanksgiving with her parents, Dr. and Mrs.

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The brilliant victory of the Steers over their ancient and traditional rivals, the Texas Aggies, did most to make It so. This event yanked the season from the depths of gloom and despair to place it high as one of the most sparkling. The Maroons have done much to lift the shroud or gloom, -xueiv splendid showing against other powerful high school teams of the state, wnen sucn was nut notor! riiis to the absence of out standing material at the beginning of the season ana xne acquisiuun a new football coach, who was not expected to mould so capable a machine on his first year. Another thing that ha done much to brighten the season i the completion of the stadium and the efficient manner in which the biag crowd ever to see a football game in the Southwest was handled Thanksgiving day. Never before did so many people assemble into one arena for an athletic occasion in these parts.

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