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BEER GALVESTON-HOUSTON BREWERIES, INC. :3alveston, Texas Tulane University NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA vs. Rice Institute HOUSTON, TEXAS Published by: Official THE RICE INSTITUTE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL PROGRAM DON SUMAN, Program Manager Price 25c SOUTH PROGRESSIVE BANKING SERVICES TEXAS COMMERCIAL Since 1886 'NATIONAL BANK 213 MAIN STREET MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OF HOUSTON HUDiiRY OWLS OUR PROGRAM ADVERTISERS APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE • • • Today's game brings the · Rice Owls favorite but Rice outfought the Green home for an appearance before their loyal Wave all the way, although they were so boosters for the first time during the 1947 battered and beaten they never fully re­ season. It promises to be a very exciting covered all season. Then it was in the game as both teams are strong. Each team Tulane-Rice game that the Owls really has played two games and Tulane has the feathered out last year and showed a pre­ upper edge, having won one and lost 0ne. view of things to come for the season. Rice lost a hard fought opener to L. S. U. Neely-coached elevens have lost 4 to by 21-14 and th ~ n journeyed to Los An­ Tulane and have taken 3 decisions since geles and came back with a 7-7 tie with he came to Rice in 1940. This is Coach the U. S. C. Trojans. Henry Frnka's second season at Tulane We are glad to welcome the Tulane and he will be out to even the record after "Green Wave" as our guest and rival his team was defeated 25-6 while he was today. This marks the thirteenth appear­ at his son's bedside last year. a nee between the two teams and should The· series stands: prove to be lucky 13 for one. Tulane holds 1916 ........ Rice 23 ....... Tulane 13 a one game edge in the series which 1917 ........ Rice 16 .. ..... Tulane 0 started in 1916 with a Rice victory of 1920 ........ Rice 0 ........ Tulane 0 23-13. Since that time Tulane has won 6 1921 ...... ~ . Rice 6 ........ Tulane 7 games, Rice 4 games and 1 ended in a 1938 ........ Rice 17 ........ Tulane 26 scoreless deadlock. 1940 ........ Rice 6 ........ Tulane 15 The old followers of this series will 1941 ........ Rice 10 . ...... Tulane 9 never forget some of the memorable 1942 ........ Rice 7 ........ Tulane 18 games which have been played by these 1943 ........ Rice 0 ........ Tulane 33 two teams. For instance the bitterly 1944 . Rice 0 . Tulane 21 fought 10-9 decision which went to Rice 1. 945 . Rice 13 . Tulane 7 in the '41 season. Tulane was a heavy 1946 . Rice 25 . Tulane 6 REMEMBER HOMECOMING ARKANSAS vs RICE NOVEMBER 8 DR. WILLIAM V. HOUSTON President, The Rice Institute terms it. He graduated from T.M.I. at San Antonio, Texas, in 1922, and four years later from Austin College. During his college days, he played under Pete Cawthern, later of Texas Tech and pro-football fame, and lettered three years, earning All-Confer­ ence honors one season. Joining the ranks of the rugged Texas prep circuit, Frnka became athletic director and head coach at Lubbock High School the year he graduated, remain­ ing for a period of five years. He moved to Green­ ville High School, also in Texas, in 1931, and stayed the same length of time. During that decade, the young head coach faced the cream of Texas prep ball and c.ame through with the unbelievable record of 103 victories again·st only eight losses and seven ties. Satisfied that he was ready for college competi­ tion, Frnka moved to Vanderbilt University and The Southeastern Conference the next year to become assistant coach under Ray Morrison. Here he remain­ ed until 1940, when he departed for Temple Univer­ sity and a year's stay. And then the soft-spoken Texan made his college debut as a head coach, taking over the reins of an unheralded Tulsa University Golden Hurricane and zooming it . into the gridiron prominence it was to retain all during the Frnka regime. For three straight years, Frnka brought the Missouri THIS MAN FRNKA Valley diadem to Tulsa, during the 1941-42-43 sea­ sons, and over the five years he compiled an envi­ Out West, when those Monday quarterbacks get able record of 37 victories against but six losses and together for a chat, the talk never fails to include one tie. In addition, he also made a Tulsa appear­ the name of one man ·n the football limelight, a ance in one of the Nation's bowl games on New name they swear by in that blistering language so Year's Day virtually a foregone conclusion. typical of the wide open spaces. Twice, he brought the Hurricane to New Orleans He's a comparative newcomer to the football for the Sugar Bowl encounter, an extravaganza that world, his short period of six years as head coach many rate as the best of the post-season shows. being overshadowed by the lengthy records of such Once, he went all the way to Miami to participate in gridiron pillars as Amos Alonzo (That Grand Old the Orange Bowl and twice returned to his native Man of Football) Stagg, or Bernie (Powerhouse) Texas for appearances in the Oil Bowl at Houston Bierman, and Clark (T) Shaughnessy. But in that and the Sun Bowl at El Paso. time he's written many a brilliant page in football Records play an important part in the selection of history bdoks, and by the time he's been around as · "bowl" elevens but today there's another important long as the aforementioned stalwarts, will probably item-color. Frnka has the faculty of achieving both, . have written many another. a winning machine that may explode at any moment That man is Henry Frnka of Tulane university, the for a touchdown thrust, either on a heart-stopping only man in the gridiron sport today who claims to 50-yard pass, a bone-crushing off-tackle slant, a have lost instead of earned a letter in football. thrilling end-sweep or a deceptive reverse. Frnka, who has had his name pronounced and And there's one more thing of which you may be spelled every way from "Frinka" to "Frank" to sure. When a _Frnka team takes the field, it's in the "Furnka" (actually it's pronounced "Franko"), was best condition possible and it's mentally ready for born on a windy March day in 1903 at Garwood, the game. As Frnka expressed it recently, "We may Texas, "just one of those modest Texans," as he be beaten, but we won't be out-fought." The Rice Institute The Rice Institute has come a long way in legiate and AAU hurdles champion; John athletics in the past 20 years. The Houston Donaldson, National AAU discus champion in School, among the nation's highest ranking 1945. In Tennis, Sam Match and Bobby Curtis institutions academically, sends its football won the national inter - collegiate doubles team out for the thirty-sixth season in 1947. A championship in 1946; Frank Guernsey, win­ member of the Southwest Conference, this in­ ner of the national inter-collegiate tennis stitution has compiled an enviable record in singles title in 1938 and 1939 to become the athletics. seventh youth to win two successive champion­ On Rice's Honor Roll of Athletic Achieve­ ships in the fifty -one years of the tournament; ment for the last 20 years can be found two Wilber Hess, national inter-collegiate singles Southwest conference championship football champion in 1935. In the conference zone, Rice teams, 1934 and 193 7; one tie for conference won four track championships, won three and championship in football in 1946 with Univer­ shared five titles in basketball, won three in­ sity , of Arkansas-each with one conference dividual team championships. The spring 'Of loss; one cotton bowl championship in football, 1 939 saw Rice sweep conference honors in 1937; one Orange bowl championship in foot­ track, tennis, and golf, and repeat in tennis in ball, 1947; Bill Wallace, All-American Back 1940 and 1941. in 1934; H. J. Nichols, All-American guard, The above records should be testimony that 1944; Weldon Humble, All-American guard in Rice emphasizes no one sport to the neglect of 1946; All-American basketball players in Bob another. Kinney ( 1942), Bill Tom Closs ( 1943), and Rice is proud of its athletic program; prouder Bill Henry (1944-45), the late Claude Bracey, still because it has been established without national collegiate 100 and 220 yard dash lowering .scholastic standards. champion and a member of the U. S. Olympic Richly -endowed by William Marsh Rice, the Team in 1928; Jack Paterson, National AAU founder who died in 1900 before his plan 400 meter hurdle titlist in 1937 and 1939; Fred materialized, the Institute is located on a 300- Wolcott, holder of the World's record for the acre Campus in Houston's South End, bordered low hurdles at 22.5 and co-holder in the high by the city's main thoroughfare. Rice is non­ hurdles at 13.7; Bill Cummins, National Col- sectarian, non-political.