The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 1, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 21, 1946 Page: 4 of 4
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THE H-SU BRlND
September 21. 1946
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Cowboys
Fair Park Stadium Tonig
Nine Lettermen Back
For Season's First Tilt
Football fans in Abilene and vicinity will got a good look at both
Border Conference and Texas Conference talent when the local school
teams the Hardin-Simmons Cowboys and McMurry college Indians meet
at Fair Park Stadium tonight nt 0:00 o'clock.
For the past week coach Warren Woodson has been driving the
Ranchers through rough and tumble tractics devoting principal attention
to work on the H-SU T-formatlon with special attention on the aroial
attack which is expected to play an
important part in all Cowboy games.
Woodson will be shooting plenty
of speed and deception at the Bra-
ves with a backfield headed by
"Little Doc" Moblcy the nation's
leading ground gainer a record
established in 1942.
Hank Brown at fullback and the
powerful J. C. "Bullet" Cook will
enable the Ranchers to have a lct-
tcrman at each of the secondary
posts.
Other veterans from the '42 team
back for another campaign are Al
Milch and "Cactus Jack" Ellison
both guards Tony Poulos of Edin-
burg guard and Waller Hcdrick of
Probable Starting Lineups
McMURRY
Player Wt. Pos.
Troy Wadzeck 175 L.E.
Mel Jowell 207 L.T.
Don Lyle 190 L.G.
Neal Bradshaw 215 C.
Donald Havlns 190 R.G.
R. M. Patterson 220 R.T.
Grady Baker 190 R.E.
Douglas Cox 170 Q.B.
Tommy Ellis 190 H.B.
F. G. Hoofer 155 H.B.
Garland Lasater 105 F.G.
HARDIN-SIMMONS
Player
Breezy JCox
Herman Raphclt
Jack Ellison
Red Cleveland
Al Milch
Leon Cooper
.' "-. McChosnov
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Rudy Mobley
J. C. (Bullet) Cook
Hank Brown '
Official!:
Referee Abb Curtis (Univ. of
Texas).
Umpire Potts Anderson (Baylor).
Head Linesman Harry Taylor
(TCU).
Field Judge Warren W. Connel-
ley (TCU).
Houston end. Herman Raphelt
husky 214 pounder from Stamford
has virtually cinched a starting posi-
tion at left tackle. Raphelt was
freshman starter in '41. Leon Cooper
who hails from Reading Pa. is in
the lead for the right tackle slot.
Relatively new hands will be
operating at some of the key posi-
tions but that is true too in the
case of coach Vernon Hilliard's
Indians.
Hilliard has a squad of some seven
lettermen but not all of them will
start in tonight's skirmish.
Mel Jowell 207-pound tackle from
Plainview who played freshman
football at Rice is sure of first call.
Others are Don Havins 190-pound
Abilene guard and Neal Bradshaw
220-pound center.
Among backfieldcrs due to start
are Bill Schultz and Tommy Ellis
both of Cleveland Tenn and Doug
Cox of Ballinger.
McMurry will also be running off
the T-formatioi.
Wt. Pos.
190 L.E.
214 L.T.
100 L.G.
103 C.
210 n.G.
230 R.T.
.- 107 RE.
Tj? TO TV
155 ALB.
215 H.B.
175 F.B.
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The ARINEY'S
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Clash With Indians
Bradshaw Assumes
Duties as Coach Here
Wesley Bradshaw former high
school and college coach assumed
his duties as head basketball coach
and assistant football coach at Hardin-Simmons
university last month.
The one time professional ball-
player with Jim Thorp's Rock Is-
land Independents and team mate
of coach Warren Woodson while at
Baylor university in the early '20's
is successor to Gene McCollum who
has accepted another position.
Bradshaw has been associated
with the coaching profession at
Sherman Fort Worth Poly and
Cleburne high schools; has been
assistant football and head basket-
ball coach at Ouchita College 1940-
42 and coach at Fullerton (Calif.)
Junior College in 1944.
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Season for Border
Conference Opens
All but three of the Border Con-
ference teams open their football
season tonight. They arc the Uni-
versity of Arizona Tucson the Tex-
as College of Mines El Paso and
the Arizona State College of Tempe.
These schools open the rollowlng
week.
Two conference games are slated.
Arizona State college of Flagstaff
meets the University of New- Mex-
ico Lobos. The Lumberjacks travel
to Albuquerque for this tussle. The
other game finds the West Texas
Buffs trying their luck with the
Texas Tech Red Raiders at Lub-
bock. New Mexico Aggies engage the
New Mexico Teachers from Silver
City N. M. at Las Cruces while
Hardin-Simmons is playing the Mc-
Murry Indians at Abilene.
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Bones: I feel stiff all over.
Arnica: What's the trouble?
Bones: Wo bought modernistic
furniture a couple of weeks ago
andI just found out I've been sleep-
in a book case all the time.
See Our
Complete Line of
Basketball Football
and Medals of
all kinds
Visit
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Abilene
WOODSON. EVANS
Pictured above is tho
Warren Woodson and his staff Murry Evans and Wcdoy Bradshaw.
Coach Woodson who has spent much of tho last few fears in condition-
ing airmen who flew off Uncle Sam's flat-tops makes Ms first appearance
since '42 (During that year Hardin-Simmons copped the Border Con-
ference crown and went on to play in the Sun Bowl at El Paso Texas).
Murry Evans former All-Border
quarterback for tho Dotroit Lions took over his duties late in the spring
of '46. '
Bradshaw joined tho staff August 15 of this year. Ho replaced Gone
McCollum as hoad baskotball mentor.
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AL JOHNSON
Al Johnson left will .captain the
season opener tonight against the McMurry Indi
Johnson is the team's quarterback
u me center ana co-capiain.
Both Johnson and Cleveland played for the Cowboys in '41 and '42
having lettered the latter year. '
Johnson played high school ball in Hamlin while Cleveland hails
from Sinton.
"He's just a crossword puzzle
fighter."
"What is that?"
"He goes tnio the ring horizontal
and comes out vertical."
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Experts' Predictions
List H-SU Cowboys as
Conf "Darkhorses"
Arizona and Texas Tech are slat-
ed to finish first and second respec-
tively in tho Border conference this
year according to Dick Dunkel
scientific statistical prophet of
sports in an u'rUulo written for
Collier's magazine.
The other teams are predicted to
finish in the following order by
Dunkel: West Texas State New
Mexico Hardin-Simmons Texas
Mines Flagstaff State Tempo State
and New Mexico A&M. Dunkel's
prediction for the outcome of the
Southwest Conference champion
ship reads as follows: Texas Tex
as A&M Southern Methodist Day
lor Rice Rice Texas Christian and
Arkansas. Dunkel's pro-season rank
of tho forty strongest teams in the
United States of 1940 includes Tex
as at the number sixteen slot Texas
A&M at number twenty-six South-
ern Methodist at number twenty-
seven Baylor at number thirty and
Arizona at number thirty-nine.
Paul B. Williamson another statis
tical sports prophet differs from
Dunkel rather sharply In Ills pre
season analysis. Williamson gives
the nod to Texas in the Southwest
with Rice finishing the season in
the number two position. In our
own Border Conference lie also fa-
vors the University of Arizona to
lead the race but he places the
University of New Mexico in the
number finishing slot. Hardin-Sim
mons is listed by Williamson as a
.Middle-Bracket potential leader or
a "darkhorse" in the Border Con
ference pennant race.
As is pointed out by Collier's the
comparative rating of college grid
teams in the pro-season surveys are
based entirely on statistical analysis.
In determining the pre-scason re
lative strength of the team the final
ratings of last year are adjusted in
accordance with a formula that
through seventeen years of research
has proved to bo eighty per cent
correct. The chief factors are: (1)
the average team varies only seven
per cent in rating from year to year
and (2) the amount of such variation
depends almost entirely on the
quantity and quality of returnees
and new players.
The Arizona State College of
Flagstaff which depended largely on
returned wai veterans took its first
game of the 1946 season with a 6-0
victory over the Williams Field
Fliers defending Southwestern army
champions.
The Lumberjacks were held score-
less during the first half but in the
third period they broke through for
an unconverted touchdown. The
score was made on a pass from
George Henry of Laguna Beach
Calif. to Wayne See for the lone
tally.
The game was played in rain.
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Hi-lights from
Hy WOOD
Maikcd Personal:
Old man autumn has made his
entrance and along with him came
his favorite son "Mr. Football " At
this very moment there are thous-
ands of teams preparing for next
week's games. From skull prac-
tice to dressing rooms from dress-
ing rooms to practice fields dreams
will soon become realities.
Scouts are reporting; dispatches
are being received; plans of attack
are being developed and strategy of
every type Is being studied. Yes
just like any war but today it's
war on the gridiron and we mean
a first class war with all the trim-
mings. It seems as it overnight every
able-bodied man has tried to enlist
In some pigskin encampment. "Lit-
tle Junior" who only thiee years
ago was a small boy of 150-pounds
when he said good-bye to his moth-
er's cooking has suddenly realized
that his Uncle's K-rations had more
food value than he thought. So
when the coach yells for men to
fill the gaping holes that have been
left in ye ole Alma Mater's for-
ward wall well our "Junior" wob-
bles up with his now 220-pounds
and applies for the job.
IUvsuKh: Tn ore's so much ma-
terial tlint the Htarting lineup is
strangely enough a grave prob-
lem. Results: The roughest and tough-
est football season in the history.
Southwest Conference:
For those of you that arc keeping
tab on the SW conference it might
be of interest to know that Clyde
Scott has been declared eligible. He
was classified as 4-B which means
advanced ROTC. This might have
a bearing on the Razoi back's pre-
scason cellar position.
Texas Conference:
Abilene Christian College clashes
with the East Texas State Teachers
of the Lone Star league tonight at
Commerce.
In last week's game tho Wildcats
looked very good against South-
western Tech of Weatherford Okla.
Several days ago Tonto Cole-
mnn brought his boys to the
Forty Acres. The scrimmage
was carried on behind locked
gates but some very important
factors were definitely deter-
mined. Picked at Random:
A. B. Foster the 218-pound post
war discovery is not likely to start
at left end. Foster the Clyde sen-
ior who is playing his first football
here at Hardin-Simmons has had
tough luck all year. Last spring
ho was sidelined because of an in-
jured arm.
Ralph (Gabby) Hamil reported
IN ABILENE IT IS
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UUTLKIt
to Woodson's outfit after the fall
drills weic under way. Hamil who
was an all-junior conference back at
John Tarlcton in 1940 was high
scorer in the 9-AA loop in 1939 also
was selected all-district back in
1938 and 1939.
Several other Brcckenrldgo boys
will see plenty of action this season.
A couple of them have gotten into
the thick of things for tackle posi-
tions. They arc Earl (Strawberry)
Rowan and Jack (Sleepy) Harris.
Wlllard Jones is making plenty of
competition for the guards.
Team Background:
In 1912 the Cowboys won the
llorder Conference title. In 1941
they ucre co-chnmpions. In 1912
the team ranked first in the na-
tion in ynrils gained by rushing
averaging 307.1 yards per game.
Little Doc Mobley named on the
Associated Press Little All-America
In 1942 led the nation in individual
rushing setting a record with 1280
yards in nine games. His record
still stands.
All hut seven members of the
1910 Miund are ex-sen Ice men.
The Ranchers participated in the
Sun Bowl Jan. 1 1943; lost to Sec-
ond Air Force Supcrbombcrs 13-6.
Tho New Stadium Plan:
.Many iif you that have been
out of Abilene during the sum-
mer are probably wondering
about the new stadium set-up.
The plan was discussed pro and
con during the summer months.
On June 1 officials from the
three colleges and the public
school board met with a commit-
tee ami heard the latest report by
Paul McCarty chairman of the
school board.
A plan was finally agreed on.
Hardin-Simmons and Abilene High
School Athletic Council are to make
cash payments of $7500 each. Abi-
lene Christian College and McMur-
ry College aie to make cash pay-
ments of $5000 each. A certain per-
ccntage of the gross receipts of each
game will be credited to the indi-
vidual school participating in this
program
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The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 1, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 21, 1946, newspaper, September 21, 1946; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth98218/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.