Rice at Texas

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  Evening star, October 31, 1935, page 59

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  “HEY call em the Touchdown Twins” Bill Wallace and John McCauley of the Rice L Institute foot ball team, which will meet George Washington at Griffth Stadium next Saturday, and friends from Texas tell US that Bill and John, in temperament and abil- “. really are two of kind. “One of the strongest friendships I’ve ever seem” says Frank Bridges, coach Of the st. Mary’s team of San Antonio. exists between McCauley and Wallace. And let me tell you that these two boys will show Wash ington a heap of foot ball” Wallace was named by Grantland Rice on his Golfers Weekly all America team last year, but Bill, says Bridges. insists that McCauley is a better back. Wallace argues” says Bridges, “that he couldn’t have gone places last season but for the great blocking of his pal” McCauley is 205-pounder and Wallace, at 1870. looks small in COM parison with most of the Owls. The midget” of the Southwest Conference champions is Johnny Neece. l65-pound halfback. but although claSSed as second -stringer this youth is star ball carrier. On a team that didn’t sport a Wallace or McCauley, 1t is said, Neece would be a Standout 1t is Al no he ,Ola of the George Washington game than the Touchdown Twins” who may be saved for RiceS next conference game Have Lots of Heft. IT’S a mighty backfleld the Owls will pit against the Colonials. Buck Friedman. 200, and Harry Witt, 2l0, will start with Wallace and McCauley. Friedman does a coed bit of the ball carrying and shares the blocking with Witt, the latter seldom carrying the oval On a long run by Wallace in Rice’s 28–⁠19 victory over Texas last Saturday, Witt blocked out an end and halfback which is blocking of which coaches dream Among Rice’s reserve backs. besides Neece, are Ray Smith and Roy Royal, all rated good enough to be regulars on a big-time team. Smith scored the winning touchdown in Rice’s VIC tory over Texas last year. Neece was the star of the Owls $50 triumph over st. Mary’s, which nearly upset Catholic University recently, and Royal, left-handed passer, led the team to a 27–⁠7 win over Duquesne this Fall. Accompanied by several hundred rooters, the Owls will arrive tomorrow at 1890 pm. They will establish headquarters at the Shoreham Hotel and will work out at Griffith Stadium at 2:30. Tomorrow night they take part in big rally on the Monument Grounds. held under the auspices of the George Washington Alumni Associtation and the Greater National Capital Committee of the Board of Trade. There will be fireworks, street dancing on Constitution avenue, Or ganized singing and cheering and speeches by Colonial adherents. This is G. W.’s homecoming game and Robert P. Smith, chairman of the committee in charge, is doing a great job.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 28, 1935, page 5 (results column)

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  GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are final scores of principal football games played in various parts of the country last Sat- urday afternoon: Washington State 26; Oregon State IS. Wisconsin T; Chicago 13. Idaho IA; Montana 2. University of Portland 2; Santa Clara 21. Southern California T; California 21. Oregon 6; UCLA B. Washburn O; Gonzaga 21. Washington 0; Stanford G. Army IA; Yale 6. Princeton 54; Cornell 0. Colgate 0; Holy Cross 3. Dartmouth IA; Harvard 6. Iowa 19; Illinois 0. Minnesota 21; Northwestern 10. Notre Dame 13; Navy o. Rice 28; Texas 19. Penn State O; Pittsburgh g. Alabama IT; Georgia 2. Louisiana State 2; Vanderbilt 2. Sewanee 0; Tulane B. Centre IA; Tennessee 25. Oklahoma o; Nebraska 19. Ohio State 28; Indiana 6. Georgia Tech o; North Carolina 19. Mississippi ‘; Marquette 33. Carnegie Tech ‘; Purdue 0. Lafayette o; Pennsylvania 67. Lebanon Valley o; Fordham 15. Villanova IS; Detroit 19. SUNDAY GAME St. Marys 13; University of San Francisco 0.

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Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 75 since this game.