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.. , L.J ' 1L T •' • i'f '"" ' • „ • • - ' «» . *' » •***'••• " \^iT' •* > "'a 3 Mm fik-§j IFm: . • I Student Weekly Publication The Rice Institute Volume XXXI Z738 HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, 4 NOVEMBER, 1944 SPECIAL Number 1 s my. J t £ , m*w r# ''''i'w With H. J. Nichols clearing the way, Buddy Russ smashes through EXTRA the Texas line(?). 0 Wartime Spirit This Thresher is in the nature of Steers Stampeded an extra and a memorial combined. Prevails As It was decided that the great Owl Owl Comes Out victory over Texas should not go un- As Owls Take Sweet recorded, so we have put out late— During Vacation; 116 Graduated but not too late, we hope—this edi- Revenge in Victory tion. It will stand as a permanent One hundred and sixteen gradu- reminder that there is more to a Corbett Bus. Mgr. ates received degrees last Monday football team than old men, high in the thirtieth commencement held Team Plays Great Game as Nichols, by-. Rice, Institute. For the second salaries, and publicity agents. It The Owl, sporadic publication for Cox, Walmsley, Scruggs, Russ, Nemir time, the services were held at St. will stand as a permanent rebuke to the students and alumni, finally ap- Paul's Methodist Church, and a dis- an e^lier and unmerciful score of peared last Monday after tests were And Sheffield Distinguish Themselves tinct wartime atmosphere was felt. 58-0. It will stand as a permanent over and everyone had gone home. Many of the graduates were in uni- thorn in the side of a once-arrogant The Owl has at last admitted that By Woody Dryden form; others were awarded their de- university. So keep this paper. Fold nobody reads it anyway, hence came Rice—7, Texas—0. That's what happened at Rice Stadium grees in absentia, a practice just be- it up ana put it away. Then, later out during a vacation period. between 1500 and 1700 on Saturday, 28 October, 1944, a date gun by Rice since the war. or when things seem tough, life is With their customary considera- and score that will be long remembered. The game is over and tion, the staff made the magazine Besides the bachelors of arts and real and earnest, pull it out and • in two sections this issue. The fight Rice has beat Texas—beat Texas even more soundly than the Baa science degrees, two masters of arts gloat over it, remembering and tak- score indicates. After the Owls drove 70 yards to the Texas 6 and three doctorates were conferred song is printed on the middle pages, ing heart from the fact that once so that it may easily be pulled out, with the game just four minutes old, the capacity crowd of by Dr. Lovett. Gordon Bushey, for- upon a time, there were a good many merly an assistant in chemistry and and the rest of the thing thrown 28,000 thought Rice could win. This drive was sparked by the people feeling worse than you feel chemical engineering, and Henry away. This saves the reader the off-tackle slants of fullback Buddy Russ, picking up from 5 to Bumgarten, also a chemistry assist- then. trouble of thumbing through the 25 yards a lick. Twice Russ got in the clear and could have ant, received the masters degrees. , 0 pages until he gets to the fight song. As there is supposed to be a paper gone the distance had the Owls gotten just one blocker in front Doctor of Philosophy went to War- BLANKET TAX NOTICE of him. During this drive, the vaunted Longhorn line just ren Simpson, assitant in chemistry; shortage, however, it would probab- Vincent Frederick Cowling, fellow It is urged that every student ly be wise to save the discarded part wasn't there as Hamilton Nichols, Bob Zelsman, Johnnie Cox, in mathematics; and Charles Mat- purchase his blanket tax as soon as to light fires with, or to wrap up and Cholly Howard ripped gaping holes for th£ Rice backs to thews, who is employed in California possible. Payment of the blanket used chewing gum you want to keep. scoot through. as a chemical engineer. All five of tax permits students to attend the The picture of Scruggs is suitable for framing, Scruggs says. It was in every sense a team victory. Bill Scruggs played the men receiving advanced degrees remainder of the football games, the the best game of his career as he racejj 60 yards through the 11 took their undergraduate work at basketball games this winter, the The Owl also announced that— Rice. track events in the spring, besides surprisingly enough—Lawrean Davis Texas secondary to score, clashed out good gains on quarter- The baccalaureate address on paying for the three publications, it the Editor again. Gary Corbett back sneaks, and was all over the field on defense, hitting Hugh (Continued on back page) Thresher, Campanile, and Owl. is the new Business Manager. (Continued on back page) A '* (!••', " „ ' J 111 ft'" A iiiiiiii fm — — ;, : ' € 1Jg i|l if'* RICE 7. TEXAS 0— • » S =1 -'M; it . 'a:;. -» (Continued from Page 1) If! m Bechtel so hard that he dropped a iMSSifourtgh down pass on the By Grover Noonan afternoon, thougl it will be by no Rice 6, in the last quarter. George Walmsley shined, as usual, The past two Saturdays have been means a pushover. on both defense and defense, intercepting a Layne pass in the happy ones, indeed, for supporter* Arkansas' Razorback, whom the of the Rice football squad, for the team meets next Saturday in their il« GRADUATES— is last quarter and racing 40 yards to the Texas 10, only to have Owls have come back convincingly third conference test, are still in the play called back and Rice penalized for holding. "Buddy" from their bruising encounter with (Continued from Page 1) the process of determining whether • Russ, the game's top ground gainer, played great ball at full- the Tulane Green Wave to take a they are going to play good or medi- day was delivered by Dr. Ellis A. back, carrying the burden of the ball toting in Rice's 70-yard commanding lead in the Southwest ocre football; at least that's the con- Fuller, president of the Southern drive to start the game. Big Buck Sheffield played his best Conference flag chase by virtue of clusion one must reach from the on- Baptist Theological Seminary it game of the year, by far, as he, time and again, knocked down great victories over Southern Meth- and-off performances they have put Louisville, Ky. He took as his sub* the Longhorn ball carrier, threw the pass to Bill Scruggs for odist University and the University forth to date. It's a safe J>et, how- ject the line from "Hamlet" clos- of Texas. These two teams, along ever, that the Porkers will play an ing Scene V, of Act I: "Come, let the score and showed terrific drive in smashing the Texas line. with Rice, were generally favored inspired game against the Owls; for us go together." Dr. Fuller said Frank Lawrence played great ball on both offense and defense, to fight it out for the championship, November 11 is Homecoming Day that education and science alone kicking the seventh point, which it looked like we might need. and in defeating them the jCWvls have at Fayetteville, and come rain or were not enough to minister to man's Bob "The Terror" Nemir played his usual deft game at right certainly cleared two big obstacles shine, Arkansas annually plays over needs, but that religion was neces- > half and blasted the two-ton, tea-town linemen more than once. along the way. Be this as it may, its collective head on that day. sary, too. Viewing man as trifunc- Rice must still face three foes (Ar- Fieldhouse Bull tional, he said that education and The Rice linesmen cannot be praised too much as they rose kansas, Texas A. & M. and T. C. U. It's rumored 'that- Miss Lane is science could supply the demands of up to smother Layne and the other Texas backs on nearly every in a conference that has long been trying to obtain the services of Bob mind and body, but religion alone noted for its upsets. No one knows play. The running statistics are as- Turner after the way he silenced coul supply the needs of the soul. this better than the coaches and the founding-—Texas tried 28 running one-man offense before he could Bobby Layne, Texas University's The services opened each time team, and fans may be sure that plays and picked up the tremendous spot a receiver. On the next play, big noise. When George Grinin- with the singing of "Veni, Creator nothing is being taken for granted distance of 50 yards, an average of Bill Scruggs intercepted Layne's ger made that dive in the end zone Spiritus," and closed with the 100th in that quarter. CHEER 'EM DOWN 1.8 yards a throw—less than the long pass on the Rice 12. The Owls to break up an almost certain Texas Psalm and "America." height of George Walmsley or Bill lost 10 on a penalty and Russ' kick THE STRETCH! touchdown pass, you could almost Scruggs. Wonder where the Texas was returned by Evans to the Rice This afternoon Texas Tech's Red hear Rice fans' hearts as they haired package of cage dynamite is line was—the Rice line was in the 35. After an incomplete pass, Raiders invade Rice Stadium for a flopped back into their normal posi- listed as having no previous experi- Texas backfield! George Grininger broke through to non-conference battle, and they tions.

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