The Yucca, Yearbook of North Texas State Teacher's School, 1924 Page: 93
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S. M. U. 0-41
As an eye-opener for the Grid Season of 1923-24,
Coach Fouts assailed the Bully Mustangs of the South-
Western Conference on their home ground, to be turned
back in defeat after a hard-fought battle. The Eagle
squad, although overpowered by the heavier and more
experienced men, showed their opponents of the year be-
fore that the wound of the past had more than healed and
that they were soaring again, on their new-growing wings,
to a victory in the oncoming years.
The mainstay of the Eagle team was its invincible
line. Time and time again the hard-ploughing Mustangs
went down in trying to rip off gains through the line; also
they found themselves caught with handsome losses as
their reward for being unable to stop the fighting ends,
Miller and Chapman.
The spirit and grit of the Eagle team was put to test in
this initial game, to the good of each man; the strong oppo-
sition made them realize the preparation necessary for them DAVIS, Tackle
to compete for the T. I. A. A. championship. Caption-elect.
The lack of a sufficient supply of Eagle substitutes in comparison with those
of the S. M. U. squad was the cause of the latter's obtaining the heavy end of the
score. The Eagles held the Mustangs to one counter in each of the first two
quarters, and at one time shaded S. M. U.'s goal with a place-kick from the
fifteen-yard line that failed.
Again in the third quarter, by a long pass completed by Chapman and sev-
eral successive plunges, they did place the ball in S. M. U.'s danger zone, only
to lose on an unsuccessful try for first down by line plunges. The game ended
with the Eagle squad badly crippled but fighting hard with the aggressive spirit
that colors every contest of the Green and White.Ninety-three
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