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ffic News That's Fit to Print Since T871. Monday, November 29, 1926 Page 5 assa sassf Sim WUWa-A A Great Little Man By Feg Murray Sidelights And Comments Only Four 1925 Champs Survive Season of Upsets; Records Broken SAINTSWAITING Basket Ball Practice Held Up. On Sports -BY FRANK WHITE The 1926 college football season, closed except for a few farewell intersectional gestures, has been notable chiefly for an unprecedented ''turnover" among sectional champions and the shattering of all previous records for attendance as well NEW LEADER OF TIGERS BOASTS UNIQUE CAREER It Is doubtful if any major league manager ever took up his duties with the varied experience that has been George Moriarity's portion. He will manage the Tigers next year. Moriarlty.

after several years of minor league ball, enjoyed 10 years as a big league player. Then came a brief period as a minor league manager, Returning to the majors as an umpire, he put in 10 years as a member of Proaidont Johnson's stuff of arbitrators. Breaking in with practically no experience, he so progressed that he soon was recognized as one of the best in the business, Having had a whirl at every phase of the game, he 'should be well qualified to succeed as a major league pllot THREE SCORELESS TIES Wisconsin and Chicngo have played, three scoreless ties during the many seasons they've clashed on the football field. These deadlocks out in 1911, 1922 and 1924. Another tie was played In 1909, each team counting six points.

Michigan kept its Western conference slate clean by beating both Ohio State and Minnesota by single Moose Woeber, basketball coach at St. Edward's university arrived in Austin Saturday and will look ovtr basketball prospects at the Saint school today. All arrangements for basketball are being held up pending the receipt of word from San Antonio concerning the proposed football gam8 between the Haskell Indiana and St, Kdwards' which is ached, uled to be played Dec. 11, Haskell proposed the game to Harry Abies, baseball magnate of San Antonio and Jack Meagher accepted in be. half of his team when Abies suggested the Saints as foes for the Indiana, Definite word Is expected from Haskell today.

If the arrangements go through Woeber will not start basketball practice "Until after the game, as most of his squad are on the football team. He stated that the candidates pot members of the football team probably would start work later this week. In the mean time Jack Meagher Is giving his squad a lay-off. No practice on the grid wl'l be held until the game Is officially scheduled. NAVY STAR PLAYED WITH BROKEN BONE CHICAGO, Nov.

29. A. Han-negan, of Washington, I), star Navy quarterback, plnyed poarly the whole game against the Army yesterday handicapped by a broken shoulder, it was learned Sunday. Hannegan, who suffered the Injury in the Georgetown contest two weeks ago, played with his shoulder In a brace. He was unable, as a result, to use his right arm to any extent.

This injury In the opinion of the Navy's conch, W. A. Ingram, was chiefly responsible for Hannegan's failure to tackle either Cagle or Wilson en the loner runs which these Army backs mode for touchdowns. THREE IN ROW Pennsylvania played three games in a row, in which the final result was 8-6. After losing to Illinois by a field goal margin the Quakers swung around and tripped I'enn State nnd Columbia in like manner.

Paul Scull accounted for Penn's two victorious field goals. side as quickly as possible. We took the rumors as an effort to find out Just where Doe Stewart stood with the alumni and others who wield a power at the university. The deep silence following the SMU game when Stewart's squad gave an exhibition of football that was real football, was broken after the loss to Baylor. The loudest clamor earns when it appeared that the Aggies were going to wallop Texas, Had the Long-horns lost that game the roar would have quadrupled five minutes after the contest ended no matter how brilliant an exhibition the Steers had put up in losing.

In fact, several persons in the press box began to shake their heads In disapproval when the Aggies took a five point lead early in the game. Then came victory and with it a quick flop te Stewart's side by most of the doubters who base their opinion of a coach on what some pne whispers in their ear. THAT KIND of support for Stewart has been manifested all year. There are many alumni and students who will not support anything but a winning team. It is a sad eemment en the value of a college education when the winning of football games becomes the prime factor with alumni and students and the physical, mental and moral development of the players under an efficient and capable coach is of secondary consideration.

As our contemporary noted, all is well now since the game was won, but the conditions which brought about the discussion are still there and to no credit to the university. It may be said for the college world In general that such conditions are disappearing, Do yeu think that Chioago is considering a pew coach to replace Alonzo Stagg, the grand old man who has done more for the physical and moraj education pf the school in his reign there than all the university professors combined. Certainly pot, yet Stagg's team this season has made the worst showing of any in the history of the school. What the alumni, the faculty and the students in control ef athletics at Texas need is more insight into the value of a good coach to the physical and moral development of the men under him and less desire to see the school highly press-agented by an undefeated football team. They may as well get used to it now, anyway, because the recent developments of the game have made it practically impossible for any team to come through AtfTER READING the two col-Umm flf tvna 'i.

tii 15 me sport sheet of our morning contemporary under the heading "Stew rt's Title as Texas Football Coach Appears Solid For Awhile" we come to the conclusion that the writer of the story never hag outgrown the years he lived in Waco, where (or many years the fans have been induced by newspaper publicity to believe that there were only two gods Jn football's wide ramifications, one of them Frank Bridges and the other Paul Tyson and both living In Waco. Those Wacoans certainly do believe all they read. Notice where Morley Jennings was almost ready to be shoved Into Bridges shoes SMU and St, Edward's knocked several people's calculations into a row of cocked hats. The. fans will be quick to forget those losses tinder the pres--sure of the touting Jennings will Vget this winter, however, and they will have a new hero nicely perched on pedal of publicity by next football season.

SERIOUSLY we don't think that anyone In the state outside of our aforenamed contemporary and Jinx Tucker of the News-Tribune ever gave the thought of Paul Tyson coaching Texas a moment's consideration. Tyson has had an envious record at Waco High but as much as we hate to pay it the writer attributes the greater part of his success to the fact that he has the largest student body en which to draw for material of any high school In Texas. Waco Is the largest town with only one high school in. Texas. Look around you and you will find high school teams that win a big majority ef their games all come from towns and cities with only one school and a large population from which to draw.

Beaumont, Austin. Wichita Falls. Abilene and Oak Cliff--whieh Is a city in itself even if It is a suburb of Pallas in and year out these teams are usually to be found battling for the Interseholas-tic league title, with a number of other small cities after two or three years of building up a team, occasionally getting into the semi-finals. There must be a reason for it ahd there is. It is not so muoh the coaching, although that helps some, it is the numerical abundance of material from which the coach can pick that is the main factor.

PAUL TTSON Is a good coach, he has made a deep study of the grid game and gets the best results that can be had from his material, but should Waco ever grow large enough to split the school system VP and make two or three high schools there the famed "Waco Tigers would ge the same route that was follpwed by Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonip high schools that held the center of th stages before the cities became so large that they were loreea 10 erpatt, four or five high schools where one stooa Deiore. i. good thing to get behind your local teams and boost them all the time, Waco has received much favorable publicity for doing just that, but t- 1 A point margins. Kven Alabama had its close call, beating Sewanee only bv 8-0 in the Mouth's biggest form reversrl. Such classics as the Army-Navy, Penn-Cornell, Boston ooltege-Holy Cross, Syracuse-Col-gate, Washington and Jefferson-Pittsburgh, and Colgate-Brown erames all were deadlocks.

Geneva, which conquered Harvard and gave Cornell a scare, sharea the "giant killer" distinction with Carnegie. Besides whipping Notre Dame 19-0, Carnegie upset Pitts burgh, 14-0, pnly to defeats at the hands of New jrorK university and Washington and Jefferson. Many Upsets Disaster stalked in the paths of many elevens visually among the greatest. California's Golden Bears failed to win any one pf their five big Pacific Coast conference games, while Chicago lost all five battles with Western conference rivals. Dartmouth, from national title heights in 1925, was tumbled to de.

feat in all four of its big games. Yale lost four straight before beating Harvard. The season was marked by the break-up of the east's hlstprio "BIS Three," Princeton severing relations with Harvard because ot tne ap parent bitterness of undergraduate feeling. The Army's relations with Syracuse, also were ruptured after a game at West folnt marKeo oy unusual roughness and an attack on the referee by the Syracuse quarterback. Field Goal Returns Field goals came into their own as decisive weapons putting the foot back in football as the success of forward nassinar attacks for' the most nart waned.

Navy, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Cornell scored several of ttielp Dig-eest victories with field goals Brown and the Navy exhibited the two most conspicuous forward pass ing games, where such attacks flourished among a dozen major elevens in 1925. Complicating all-American selec tions, the season produced many new stars, but few outstanding enough to pick up the mantles shed by such backfield satellites as Red Grange, Krnie Nevers, ueorge Wilson, Eddie Tryon, "Peggy" Flour-noy and others of 1925 fame. Wichita Falls Meets Ranger WICHITA FALLS, Nov. Wichita Falls Coyotes, football champions of Northwest Texas, comprising district one, came away from their 21-0 victory over Lubbock in good physical condition. They will open a week of light training Monday In preparation for the bi-district game with Ranger, champion of district two, here next Saturday.

The Coyotes this year present the strongest array that ever repre. sented Wichita Falls on the grid, iron. Coach Bud McCallum, former Texas star, has brought along slowly a versatile running and plunging machine built around Coyal Frances, a triple threater, Mitchell, a speed merchant, and Perkins Ray, wonderful toaser of passes, who heaved the ball B0 yards over the goal line to Francis Saturday against Lubbock. No league team hag been able to score through the Wichita Falls line this year. 7 r.

CHICAGO JV lng a star broken field runner, a brilliant drop-kicker and punter, and a fine defensive player, he was great field general, and it is too bad that he didn't have a chance to play in the modern open game. The wonder of it is that he did so well, for he weighed less than 150 pounds, and starred in the days of mas plays and bone-crushing giants. Among "Eckie's" gridiron accomplishments while at Chicago were the following: A 45-yard field goal and two 75-yard runs for touchdowns in his first conference game with" Indiana. Field goals and one touch-down against Illlhois in 1905, and five field goals and many successful forward passes to Steffen against Nebraska in 1906. A 95-yard run to a touchdown from the kick-off againat Iowa, and a 107-yard run to a touchdown from a fumble against Texas, in 1904.

Against Wisconsin he kicked three field goals in 1903, made a 110-yard run for a touchdown from the kick-off in 1904, and beat them with a field goal on a muddy field In 1905. He stopped great Heston many timeg and once scored a touchdown against Michigan after a fumble by Heston. FROGS MEET STEERS HERE NEXT YEAR Associated Pre Dispatch to Statesman. FORT WORTH, Nov. Horned Frogs will play five conference football games next season, three of which will be staged in Fort Worth.

A' fourth will be played in Dallas in easy reach of local fans. The conference schedule for the Frogs in 1927 includes Texas Arkansas, SMU, Texas university and Baylor. The Aggies, Razorback and Mustang conflicts will be played in Frog stadium while the Baylor Bears will be met at the State fair in Dallas. The clash with the Longhorns will be staged in Austin. The 1927 season will be closed with the Mustang-Frog game as it was this year.

Both fans and school officials expect this Thanksgiving day tussle between the Fort Worth and Dallas institutions to become an annual classic comparable to the Aggie-Longhorn game. Coach Heisman's Rice Owls are the only conference grldders the Frogs will pot meet next year. The Owls were not on the Frog schedule the past season either. Non-conference games for the Christians have not been definitely decided Upon as yet. Final arrangements for next year's football season will be made and a general discussion of athletics in the Southwestern circuit held at the annual meeting of the conference officials on Thursday, Dec, 9, at the Dallas Athletic club in Dallas.

as gate receipts. The gridiron game has become "big business'' and as a result of one of its most stirring campaigns, eitnehed its place as the most speo- tacujar sport in America, taking its consistently immense drawing pow er into consideration as well as all its elements of competitive excitement. 15 Million Gate Close to 15,000,000 fans, carefully gathered estimates reveal, attended the thousands of contests in all parts of tho oountry while the gate receipts, though more difficult to figure, probably reached the aston ishing sum of $30,000,000. The vastly increasing body of fandom, along with other millions who listened to the games by radio, saw or heard the thrills on a campaign that had many unusual fea tures, even though it did not, perhaps, measure up to 1925 in spectacular feats of individual or team achievement. It could hardly have had any more sensational climax, however, than the greatest of all Army-Navy classios, or, on the same day, the crushing of Notre Dame's national championship hopes by Carnegie Tech in the season's outstanding upset.

Four 192S Champs Return In a contest for 15 sectional cham pionships of varied importance, only four teams were able to aetena sue cessfullv the. laurels they gained in 1925. The most conspicuous of these was the University of Ala bama, which lifted the Southern conference title for the third straight year to establish the fore, most winning streak now in prog reas. The others, all in eastern folds, were Prirnceton, triumphant in the last "Big Three" round robin; Amherst, winner of the "Little Three" crown for the second straight time, and "Bo" McMillan's Geneva array, champions again in the tn-state conference. Two more 1925 tltleholders man aged ti stay at the top by virtue of ties, these being Michigan, sharing the Western conference crown with Northwestern, and the Army, di viding the service spoils with the Navy.

In the crashing downfall of champions, the most conspicuous were Dartmouth in the east, the Univer sity of Washington on the Pacific Coast, Missouri in the Missouri Valley conference, and the Texas Aggies in the Southwestern confer ence. Complicated Title Situation Out of the melee, a complicated national championship situation re mains, with Alabama, Stanford, new champion of the Pacific coast, and LaFayette. the only eastern team unbeaten or untied, apparently hold inir maior claims to honors. The atmosphere for two of them may be cleared, however, if Stanford and Alabama go through with their pro- nosed New Year's day battle at Pasadena, Calif. Carnegie's elimination of Notro dame has taken the edge off the intersectional class of the Hoosiers with Southern California next Saturday, a game which previously loomed as an important title test.

It is difficult to leave either of the service elevens out of consideration, observers believe, particu larly the Navy, which won eight straight games against some of the most formidable opposition in the country before being tied by the Cadets, who previously had lost to Notre Dame. Taking all elements into consideration, the Navy eleven that crushed Michigan and conquer ed such powerful teams as Prince, ton, Georgetown, Purdue and Colgate, seems to many critics to be entitled to as high rank as any other team. Nowhere did the season produce a stronger set of title contenders than in the east. LaFayette stood out, but It did not meet any of the other championship claimants such as the Navy, the Army, or Brown, whose "Iron men" swept all oppo sition aside until tied in their final game by Colgate, Close Scores Ties and victories by one point margins featured many of the most exciting ana crucial encounters. Stanford clinched the Paciflo coast crown with a 13-12 victory over Southern California, the runner-up rheBest Automatic Oil Burners Electric Refrigerators Electric Ranges Electric Appliances lighting Fixtures Plumbing, Heating and Electric Supplies JNO.

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flU -Ike MO Walter Eckersell went to the' University of Chicago with a fine reputation as a high school football-player. He mora than made good in his four years in college; in fact, his fame is so great, that to this day, he is known as "the greatest of, quarterbacks." And since his graduation in the spring of 1907, Eckersall has continued to add to his reputation by becoming a capable football official and a brilliant sports writer. Walter's first appearance In connection with the game of football was as a water-boy at the Carlisle-Illinois game in 1897. Later, as a student at Hyde Park High school in Chicago, he was twice captain of the team and had the thrill of helping to defeat the University ef Chieago in 1901 and of swamping Brooklyn Poly 105 to 0 in an East-West interscholastio game in 1902. In his ollege career he became, with Willie Heston, of Michigan, the greatest football-player of the West, and his all-around work so attracted the attention of the late Walter Camp that he was Chosen for that famous expert's all-American team three times.

Besides bs- BASKETBALL Practice at Texas Starts Tuesday. While eoach E. J. Stewart Is away on his annual hunting trip preparations for the coming basketball season at Texas are going merrily on with candidates limbering up today, Actual practice probably will start Tuesday as Stewart announced that he would be back on that date. Stewart this year went to his daughters ranch in West Texas for his fall hunting.

Usually he is the guest pf Lutcher Stark for wild fowl shooting on the latter's preserve along the marshes of Southeast Texas but Stark went to Chicago for the Army-Navy game and the trip had to be postponed. It was necessary for Doc to take his trip in the few days between the end of football and the beginning of basketball so he went after deer and turkey thlg time. In being named as successor to Eddie Collins as manager of the Chicago White Sox, Ray Schalk inherits a tough task. Schalk takes the place of a star who has been an unqualified sue cess as a big league pilot. Likewise he was popular with players and public.

RAY SCHALK EVERYBODY SCORED HERE One ef the oddest scoring games ef the football season was that played between Muskingum and Kenyon, two Ohio colleges. The final result read: Muskingum 33. Kenyon 34. Obviously the ball was behind the goal lines most of the time. PLAY AT CHICAGO Chicago f.nd Pennsylvania will meet on the football fieid in 1927 and 1928.

It is 'julte probable both games will be played at Chieago. For the last two seasons the Maroons have journeyed to the Quakers' lair, so a pair of Per.n Jaunts to the Windy City looks certain. St the writer was born in waeo. pui we have managed to live, it down. THE INSINUATIONS that pur contemporary makes about Doc Stewart and football officials who work the games in the southwest while discussing Frank Bridges as a possible coach at Texas were entirely uncalled for.

One sentence Intimated that Stewart was to blame for the loss to SMU after taking a 10 point lead because he dlcln have a well enough trained quarterback to hold the lead. Since our contemporary has been P0Vnf Mack Saxon as the greatest field general in the conference he is either highly inconsistent or thinks Mack has developed since the SMU game. If he quotes Bridges eoy rectly in his story then Bridges does a great injustice to the men who officiate in this section. For the quotation virtually says that Baylor was defeated in their games 4 because the officials took the attitude, that they could cheat and get away with it in order to satisfy the larger and older schools. Many are prone to blame decisions of officials for the losing of games fcecauae a decision happens to be against them at a critical time.

Many' coaches who seek excuses for losing sames are guilty of fostering this spirit or bad sportsmanship but we flo not Natural tobacco taste has the "call" these days a season undefeated, Look at Notre Dame, undoubtedly the strongest the country and yet humbled last week by. Carnegie Tech after nine consecutive victories. THE WINNERS Winners of section and conference college football championships for 1926 i Championship Winner East (Best Kecprd. Western Western Southern Conf Alabama Pac. Coast Stanford Rocky Mtn, Utah Uni.

So. Western Method. Missouri Val. Conf. Pac.

Nw. Conf. Idaho Far West Mary's College So. Calif. Conf.

Pomona Southern IAA Eastern "Big 3" Princeton Eastern "Little 3" Amherst Trl-State Conf. Geneva (Pa) Service Army-Navy Final standings in the Southwest. em conference W. L. P.

P. 95 40 Pet. SMU Baylor Texas TCU 6 3Vi 2 0 1.000 .700 .500 .500 .500 1 2 2 2 SSi i 49 58 43 81 fie 7 61 38 41 36 56 69 2 Arkansas 2 1W Rice 0 .300 .000 Final standings In TIAA: W. L. .4 0 Pet Daniel Baker 1.000 .800 .800 .800 North Texas 4 Southwest Texas 4 Sam Houston 4 Abilene Christian 2 McMurry 1 S.

F. Austin 1 St. Edward's West Texas 0 Eas Texas 0 .600 .333 .250 .000 .000 Final standings in ference: W. Simmons 2 Howard Payne ..3 Trinity 2 Austin College 1 Southwestern Txm epn- L. 0 I I I 4 Pet.

1.000 .750 .667 .333 .000 Fewer Deaths In 1926 Season (AuMl(e4 Pim pinpttek SUteinisn. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Football with a toll of eight deaths and 300 major injuries, proved less fatal during the season just closed than in 1925, when 20 youths were fatally hurt. The badly Injured numbered only 50 in 1925, however.

AIR CHARGES. DALLAS, Nov, 29. Ineligibility charges, filed recently by Forest avenue high school against four Oakeliff High school players, will be acted upon at a meeting of the executive committee of district three of the Texas interscholastic league at a meeting to be held Monday in Fort Worth. The four Oakeliff men mentioned in the charg are Roy Lumpkin, fullback; Homer Balcom, tackle; Robert Carver, quarter and Hall end. JENKINS RETURNED WICHITA FALLS.

Nov. 29. "Dynamite" Tom Jenkins, Texas league leading hitter during the 1928 campaign who was sold at the end ef the season to the Philadelphia Americans, has been returned to the Ppudders. Jenkins pastimed in left field with Wichita Falls last summer and batted .874. ONE SHUTOUT VICTORY Stage's Chieago Maroons experienced one of the worst football seasons this fall In the wily mentor's long regime at the midway school.

The Maroons won but two of their eight games, failing to win a single Big Ten clash. Maryland was the only team that didn't score on Chicago, believe Bridges wouio. sy thing seriously. ANOTHER STATEMENT to the effect that there would have been an exciting time on the field If Bridges had been coaching 1 exas In the SMU game casts reflections Stewart and the officials. Had the statement been followed by one explaining that after selecting an official Doc was sportsman enougn to allow him to officiate the state, ment might have been taken dif- i n-aa made it seems fhnt Doc sat supinely Dy Shop in tho Stores where you can.

he 1 sure of finding tho and let the officials rob Texas of the game, which scarcely does justice to Doc or the officials, to say the least of it. All this tearing of hair and loud words over a decision never accomplishes anything because once an official makes a de. cision which he believes to be correct in his Judgment, no nmtter how much some people may doubt his judgment, the decision sticks. Officials are always working tinder terrific; pressure when on the neia and do the best they can. It is poor sportsmaship In our judgment to question them In the excitement that always upsets most peoples reason while their school is winning or losing a football fame.

Personally we think it adds, to Doc's other good qualities tas a coach when he follows the policy of picking a good official and then abiding by his decisions as he has been doing. SEVERAL DATS AGO in this column we told about the many rumors that have been going the rounds concerning a new coach at Texas University. WhUe the source of the rumors are shrouded in mystery, there is no doubt in any clear thinking persons mind but what they were started by people who have their ears to the ground ready ngta catch the sentiment; of the strongest side and scramble to that gifts you want at prices you want to pay. Here's real holiday service (orYOu I Just tht natural leaf sweetness of fine tobaccos put together right! Liggett Mttrs Tobacco Co..