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Part A- SUNDAY AMERICAN-STATESMAN, AUSTIN, TEXAS September 16, 1951 Ride If3 on 0(9: li i roriiines So Spirit, Split Mark 'New' Club (Th i the third (n a serte of pigskin previews outlining jooL prospBcil ut Southwest Conference schools. They wiU continue daily.) BY FRED WILLIAMS American-Statesman Sports Editor The new model split-T on which the for Texas football fortunes will ride this fall will depend chiefly on James Carroll Jones, a lad whose nickname, appropriately enough, is 1. The mighty Longhorns of 1950, who gwpt to the Southwest Conference title without defeat, (and No. 2 national ranking) start off another season without a proven-uhder-fire quarter back. Last year is was Ben Tompkins, the man-under question mark, until he "arrived" in the Rice game.

iiow it's T. Jones, the six-foot-one junior, who called only three offensive plays during the '50 campaign. Now the 185-pound Childress kid is the white hope as engineer of the Longhorn Express. Jones doesn't pass as well yet as Tompkins did, but he runs 100 per cent better, and in the split or "sliding" Texas will employ, the emphasis is on running rather than passing and the halfbacks do most of the passing anyway. It Tf v' i -vcn r'i? 1 'V ry VV- y.

j'l3: "jZ 4 v-v4 Half of UT Foes Listed With Top 18 Pre-season forecasts and performances of year ago indicate the University of Texas football team faces the nation's toughest eol legiate schedule in 1951. Thtit In-deed is an ambitious assignment for a new team using a new formation under the direction of a new coach. Exactly half of the Longhorns schedule will be against teams rated among the ration's top eighteen by Grantland Rice In his Football Forecast for 1951 In a recent issue of Look magazine. Rivals rating raves by Rice, with their rank parentheses, are Oklahoma (No. 4), Texas (No.

7), Baylor (No. 11), Kentucky (No. 12), and North Carolina (No. 18). ED FRICE'S Longhorns, defending champions of the Southwest Conference, likewise rank high in Rice's appraisal.

Despite the loss of eight offensive starters from last year's team that ranked second and third In the two major polls, Texas Is ticketed No. 14 in the veteran scribe's forecast. The Longhorns run smack into double trouble early, for they open, their campaign against Kentucky, the 1951 Sugar Bowl champions, in Memorial Stadium here Sept. 22. That jeopardizes a treasured tradition, because until now Texas never has lost an opening game on its home field.

After Kentucky comes Purdua in Lafayette, Ind, on Sept. 29, and the Boilermakers scored mora points egainst Texas last year than any of the more publicized rivals. North Carolina, well up the comeback; trail, invades Austin on Oct 6. A week later the Longhorn will go egainst Oklahoma, tha defending national champion, in tha Dallas Cotton BowL Then comes that murderous Southwest Conference schedule fix tough assignments in succession. The dates, in order, are with Arkansas, Rice, SMU, Baylor, TCU nd Texas THE LONGHORNS have a new coach, they say.

He's Ed Price, who has been coaching at Texas for the past 15 years and is the man who turned out the near-impregnable line last fall which held conference opponents to only 81 yards per contest as compared with second-best Baylor's 157. Sure he's new about as new as the gasoline engine. Price has had to build a new offensive line after six of last year's seven starters were lost by graduation. You don't plug holes' left by such men as All-American Bud McFadin, Ken Jackson, Dick Rowan, Gene Vykukal, Ben Procter and Joe Arnold without a few qualms as to how the "new look" will shape up. Only End Tom Stolhandske is back from that great line.

However, "only" isn't the word for Swede, the handsome young giant who says should be All-American in anybody's book. There's a lack of experienced .4 depth at tackle but men like Bill Wilson, J. T. Seaholmn, Jim Lansford and Charlie Genthner will be hard to shove around. And Texas is entering the roughest schedule in history with a new booked for second string duty, either offensively or defensively.

Sowell, who was challenging for first-string duty, has been sidelined with a chipped elbow that may keep him out of action for three weeks. MOVING UP These seven gridders, who earned reserve letters with the Texas Longhorns last fall, are figuring more prominently in the 1951 plans. They are, left to right in front row, Guard Gene Fleming, Mount Vernon; Tackle Charles Genthner, Dallas, and Center Bill McDonald, Orange; back row, Linebacker Glen Price, Electra; Guard Sonr.y Sowell, San Antonio; Halfback Bill Chanslor, Houston, and Tackle John Naylor, Fort Worth. Genthner and McDonald are expected to make the No. 1 defensive platoon, while the others are formation, its sliding forma TEXAS THREE DEEP LINEUP LONGHORNS AT A GLANCE AT LEAST three of those foes art hungry for victories over the Longhorns; namely, Arkansas, Baylor and the Aggies.

Arkansas has not won from Texas since 1938, while Baylor and have not been triumphant since 1939. The other three Rice, SMU and TCU will be geared to avenge losses to the 1950 Longhorns. Like Texas, SMU must face five teams listed in Rice's forecast Ohio State (No. 3), Texas (No. 7), Baylor (No.

11), Texas (No. 14) and Notre Dame (No. 17). On the basia of laat year's records, the Longhorn's assignment appears rougher, however. Texas' four non-conference rivals had a won-lost-tied aggregate record of 26-14-2 last season, while EMIT four out-of-the-leagut foes posted mediocre 19-18-2 record.

Byron Loses Weight After Hot Summer Fullback Byron Townsend reported to fall practice at Texas weighing only 180 pounds instead of his usual 188. It's the least he's weighed, in fact, since he played for Odessa High. Why? Townsend says he doesn't know unless it was the heat out in Odessa where he spent the DEFENSIVE LE 'Bill Georges. 195 Ft. Worth.

Gilmer Spring, 190 Lufkin. John Adams, 205 Baytown. LT Bill Wilson, 205 Houston. Bull Johnson. 205 Austin.

Bill Harris, 215 Houston. LG HarIey Sewell, 220 St. Jo. Sonny Sowell, 195 San Antonio. Stanley Studer, 205 Austin.

RG June Davis, 220 Denton. Jack Barton, 205 Denton. Glen Price, 190 Electra. RT Jim Lansford, 235 Carrlzo Springs. Carroll Hestand, 215 Robstown.

Charles Taylor, 205 El Campo. RE 'Paul Williams, 205 Lufkin. Hub Ingraham, 193-Abilene. James Gist, 190 Marshall. LLB Don Menasco, 180 Long-view.

James Pierson, 185 St. Jo. David Mays, 195 Fort Worth. RLB BU1 McDonald, 195 Orange. Tom Stolhandske, 210 Baytown.

Bob Honeycutt. 190 Gladewater. LHB Bob Ralcy, 195 Bowie. Bill Chanslor. 155 Houston.

Howard Brooks, 180 Timpson. OFFENSIVE LE Paul Williams, 205 Lufkin. BUI Georges, 195 Fort Worth. Hub Ingraham, 195 Abilene. LT Bill Wilson, 205 Baytown.

J. T. Seaholm, 215 Austin. John Naylor, 215 Fort Worth. LG Harley SeweU, 220 St.

Jo. Stan Studer, 205 Austin. Gene Fleming, 215 Mt. Vernon. Jack Barton, 205 Denton.

Hugh Reeder, 210 Pt. Authur. Bill McDonald, 195 Orange. RG Bill Milburn, 220 Austin. Sonny Sowell, 195 San Antonio.

Bill Harris, 215 Augusta, RT Jim Lansfor, 235 Carrizo Springs. Charles Genthner, 215 Dallas. Larry Fagan, 215 Franklin. RE "Tom Stolhandske, 210 Bay-town. John Adams, 205 Baytown.

Gilmer Spring, 190 Lufkin. QB T. Jones. 176 Childress. Dan Page, 175 Leveretts Chapel.

Donnie Smith, 180 Kerrville. LH Gib Dawson, 170 Douglas, Ariz. Carl' Mayes. 190 Pampa. Buddy Calhoun, 170, Grand Prairie.

RH Don Barton, 160 Longview. Jimmy Pace, 170 Kennedy. Dean Smith. 165 Graham. FB Byron Townsend, 180 Odessa.

Richard Ochoa. 205 Laredo. Phil Branch, 195 Gaston. Stadium: Memorial School colors: Orange and whlta. Nickname: Longhorns 1951 SCHEDULE Sept.

22 Kentucky here. Sept. 29 Purdue at Fafayette, Ind. Oct. 8 North Carolina hare.

Oct. 13 Oklahoma at Dallas. Oct. 20 Arkansas at Fayetteville, Ark. Oct 27 Rice at Austin Nov.

3 SMU at Dallas. Nov. 10 Baylor here. Nov. 17 TCU here.

Nov. 29 Texas at College Station. COACHING STAFF Athletic Director D. X. Bible; Head Coach Ed Price; Assistant Coaches Eck Curtis, J.

King, Bill DuBose, Bully Gilstrap, Buddy Jungmichel and Ox Emerson, LETTERMEN LOST End John Allred, Guard Joe Arnold, Tackle Ken Jackson Halfback Lewis Levine, Guard Bud McFadin, Guard JinvPakenham, Punter Bill Porter, End Ben Procter, Center Dick Rowan, Halfback Bubba Shands, Quarterback Ben Tompkins and Tackle Gene Vykukal. BOWL RECORD Jan. 1, 1943, Cotton Bowl: Texas 14, Georgia Tech 7. Jan. 1, 1944, Cotton Bowl: Texas For the safety man, there's Bobby Dillon, the man who single-handed pulled two games out of the fire last year with pass interception (and almost won the OU game the same way).

"Beautiful Bobby" hat been named on a number of preseason All-America's. Price looks to Dillon to command his specially organized "antiaircraft platoon" which will be given the task of shooting down enemy aerials. TEXAS WILL open its season against one of the passingest gents in the business, Babe Parilli of Kentucky, who has been named on the majority of preseason All-Amer-icans as quarterback. Then comes Purdue's Dale OU's Billy Vessels, SMU's Fred Benners, Baylor's Larry Isbell and TCU's Gil Bartosh. the classiest group of passers in collegiate football.

Dillon, incidentally, is one of the best in the land as a punt returner too. He was third in the nation last year after coming back 334 yards on 15 punts. So things aren't so bad after all. Now turn to the offensive back-field and see how it goes. At quarter back, Jones is the in the split-T.

He runs like a hound dog with a can tied to his tail. At fullback, unanimous All-Southwest Conference Byron Town-send is set to go. His 228 carries during the regular season last year set a national record. He ranked second in the conference in rushing with 946 yards for a 3.8 average. And he made 14 touchdowns, an all-time high for Texas.

Down eignt pounds to a fighting weight of 180, Townsend should have his greatest year this season. At the offensive halfback posts Gib Dawson, the broken field speedster who never got into high gear until late last fall, looks like the answer to a coach's dream. And Don Barton, a defensive star with the '50 champs, has nailed down the opposite half. Barton's a good passer and Dawson was a passing star during his Arizona high school days. Backing them will be such high steppers as Phil Branch, Dean Smith, Dick Ochoa, Dan Page, Bud-dy Calhoun', Donnie Smith, Red Mayes Jimmy Pace and S.

M. Meeks. Thus Texas will be a running instead of a passing team. Arid with this set of fleet-footed backs, the fastest backfield ever corraled on the 40 acres, Price isn't worried over the lack of a standout passer. With his split-T he hopes to give Texas the -sought long-distance breakaway running.

The plodding-type football which marked the Longhorns last year will be replaced by a razzle-dazzle running attack, dulled only slightly by fewer passes. In most plays off the Texas-styled the quarterback slides along the line of scrimmage, with the option of either throwing the ball to another back or keeping it himself. With quick openers, trap plays and wide sweeps on pitch-outs, Townsend, Dawson, Jones, and Barton should put the Pony Express in the shade. There'll be fumbles, one of the disadvantages of the split-T, and there'll be mistakes as the team works out the kinks in the new formation, but Price figures the threat of long gains on any play is worth it all. The offensive lineup now reads like this: Williams and Stolhandske at ends; Wilson and Lansford at tackles; Sewell and Milburn at the guards with Jack Barton at center.

That means an offensive line averaging 214 pounds per man. Texas has one big advantage in its bid to regain the conference crown. The loss of any one player won't cripple the team. Yet think what would happen if Baylor lost Isbell, lost Bob Smith, or TCU was without the services of Bartosh. The Longhorns also believe in winning.

They're used to it. Texas has finished as champion four times or runnerup five times within the past 10 Southwest Conference campaigns. During the same period the Longhorn scored more football victories than any major college in the country (80) and compiled the nation's fourth best won-and-lost record. 1 ALTHOUGH PRICE has 21 lettermen and eight squadmen bark to furnish the experience, some sophomores may rise to stardom this fall. Such sophs as Branch Ingraham, Seaholm, Linebacker Jim Pierson of St.

Jo and Studer are already playing a part in the Texas gridiron drama of '51. So summing it up, Texas doesn't have a standout passer, nor an experienced quarterback, nor depth at tackle, nor a forward wall of men experienced on offense, but the Longhorns are clicking with sp.eed and breakaways under the new split-T; they have the pony more balance, the best set of defensive stalwarts in the conference; and they're the defending champs. Baylor and are loaded this year, but don't overlook the Longhorns. The Steers, with the best squad spirit in years, just might stampede right back into the conference championship. Jones Has Description For Split Passing Quarterback T.

Jones has thumbnail desception of the new split-T formation to be used by Texas this fall. "You don't throw much; jurt enough to keep 'em honest" xs I Sl's I if 7 VfV- 4 A 1 i Doesn't Eye Loss of Bother Dillon Bobby RHB Don Cunningham 190 Graham. Bill White, 170-Denton. Bill Bible, 180 Austin. Safety Bobby Dillon, 180 Temple S.

M. Meeks, 150 San Antonio. Pete Cardere, 190 Dallas. Asterisk () denotes lettermen). Bobby Dillon, the Longhorns ace safety man, has only one eye.

A cataract on his left eye caused him to lose vision in it as a child. "I don't remember seeing out of that eye," he says, "so maybe that has something to do with it. If it gives me any trouble, I'm not aware of it, because I've never known anything else." Saturday's Squad Game 2nd Of Season Here for Steers 7, Randolph Field 7. Jan. 1, 1946.

Cotton Bowl: Texas 40, Missouri 27. Jan. 1, 1948, Sugar Bowl: Texas 27, Alabama 7. Jan. 1, 1949, Orange Bowl: Texas 41, Georgia 28.

Jan. 1, 1951, Cotton Bowl: Texas 14, Tennessee 20. 5f CUSTOM tion. Price, the detailed planner, and his coaches paid a visit to Don Fau-rot of the University of Missouri, the father of the split-T, then came home and planned this offense. "I've been thinking seriously about the split-T since the 1948 season," Price says.

"We've always been able to hold other Southwest Conference teams to under 100 jards per game. But we couldn't hold Oklahoma (a split powerhouse) under 200 yards until last year when we threw a nine-man line at them." Even in 1947 when the Longhorns rolled over OU 34-14, the Sooners piled up 333 yards. In '48, the total was 357, followed by 260 in 1949 and 193 last October. And for three straight years, the Sooners have whipped the Steers. That, figured Price, has to stop.

And how do the boys feel about the new offense? "Why I think most of our players would quit football if we dropped the spiit-T," the Steer mentor says. Texas, a passing powerhouse for years, will be a running club this fall. Price figures the Longhorns will throw only an average of 10 passes per game (as compared to Arkansas' plan, for instance, which calls for 25 to 35 aerial heaves per game.) "We'll run more and pass less than any Southwest Conference team in a long time," he says. As to the old saying that you have to be pass happy to win in the wide open Southwest Conference, Price opines: "It has never been proven you must pass to win. It has just been an accepted fact.

It just so happened the teams that did win usually had good passers. But I seem to recall that SMU had a good ball club even when they didn't have Gilbert Johnson in there passing. And when Rice won in 1949, I don't believe you could say either (Tobin) Rote or (Vernon) Glass were outstanding passers." The great defensive platoon which was chiefly instrumental in the Longhorns' undefeated conference record in '50 is back intact. But to build that new offensive wall, which along with a shatterproof pass defense, is Price's top headache, he has had to move men like End Paul Williams, Tackle Bill Wilson, Guards Harley Sewell and Bill Milburn, Center Jack Barton and Tackle Jim Lansford from defense to offense. At least at first, Williams, Lansford, Sewell, Jack Barton, Stolhandske and Wilson are expected to do double duty until the less experienced linemen develop enough to put the two platoon system back in operation.

The defensive line will be as tough as steel again with these double-duty stars and stalwarts like John Adams, the 205-pound senior end; Austin's Bull Johnson and Stanley Studer at tackle and guard. (J. T. Seaholm is expected to be the No. 2 man at left tackle offensively), Sonny Sowell of San Antonio when he recovers from a fractured elbow; Hub Ingraham of Abilene, and one of the most rugged ends in the conference, Bill Georges of Fort Worth.

Co-Captain June Davis, -the 220-pound defensive quarterback, is on hand to back up the line along with A 11-American Don Menasco, the Tiger." Put Stolhandske or Bill McDonald of Orange back there behind the line with Menasco and Davis, and it's readily apparent that these backfield shock troops will be hard to beat. Don Cunningham has nailed down the right half slot and Bob Raley, who blasted them from defensive left half last season, right back at his old post PAGE ONE? One of the leading performers in early Long-horn workouts this fall, Dan Page is working with T. Jones in the quarterback spot on Coach Ed Price's split-T attack. The 175-pounder from Leveretts Chapel, who earned his letter last season as an understudy to Ben Tompkins, showed marked improvement in spring training games and has continued to impress the Texas coaches this fall with his ball handling and passing. 2 FORMER UT GRID STARS HELP PRICE GUIDE STEERS Saturday's intra-squad scrimmage was the second practice game for the Texas Longhorns in September.

A week ago, the Oranges defeated the Whites 7-6 in an intra-squad scrimmage cut to two quarters by rain. TAILORED J'A CLOTHES for MEN WOMEN Everything that is new and smart and wanted. The fabrics you like, the patterns you like, the colors you like styled and tailored for just YOU from 56.75 "Whites." However, Guard June Davis, being primed for extra-point duties, failed to convert. The 'Orange" squad set the stage for a touchdown when Halfback Don Barton ran from his 30 to the 45. lateraling there to Tackle Bill Wilson, who pushed to the "White" 20.

Barton scored, and End Hub Ingraham converted for the winning margin in the curtailed scrimmage. 1950 RESCLTS Texas Opponem 28 Texas Tech 14 34 Purdue 26 13 Oklahoma 14 19 Arkansas 14 35 Rice 7 23 SMU 20 27 Bavlor 20 21 TCU 7 17 Texas 0 21 LSU 8 Fullback Richard Ocho unreeledl the top play of the day when he raced 75 yards from scrimmage to mark up a touchdown for the Custom Tailored Shirts coached high school football at Hondo, Waco, Corpus Christi and Nacogdoches, and held a temporary position as freshman coach at from 5.00 Texas in 1934. He is 40. Emerson, 43, was an all-confer ence guard at Texas in 1930. He played eight seasons of professional Shown by Appointment PHONE 8-4466 v.

911 CHRISTOPHER Dillon Has Promise Of Job; No Pro Go Bobby Dillon, ace back for the Longhorns, isn't planning on playing pro football except possibly a year or two. He Is studying to be an accountant and has a promise of a job in his home town, Temple, football with the Detroit Lions be fore entering the coaching profession at Alice High School in 1947. He has been at Del Mar one year, Two former Texas football greats, Bill DuBose and G. C. (Ox) Emerson, are helping their old teammate, Ed Price guide the fortunes of the Longhorns this year.

DuBose and Emerson played with Price on the Steers' 1930 Southwest Conference championship team. DuBose was line coach at Texas He is now end coach duty at Texas, replacing J. T. King. King has stepped into Price's old position of line coach.

Emerson, former athletic director and coach at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, is the freshman coach. Harold (Buddy) Jungmichel, former freshman pilot, is to coach the team. DuBose served as line coach at for three years. He has also if 4 til rnce statr oi assistants is rounded out by Eck Curtis, who will continue as backfield coach, and H. C.

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