IN T E CH OIL,A STIC VOL. XVI AUSTIN, TEXAS, JANUARY, 1933 No. 5 150 Counties Report Kenley Says Four Years LETTEK County Enough in High School Corsicana Wins Conference A SPANISH CONTEST IN BOX and League Organizations to Date JEFFERSON COUNTY PERSONAL PRINCIPAL CHESTER H. KEJST- Football Over Masonic Home ITEMS -*- LEY, of San Antonio High Instructor Says Greatest Diffi­ Counties Not Included in List Urged to Report Now School, writes the LEAGUES, as Eight Conference B Regional Winners Declared culty Is in Securing Prop­ follows: er Tests for Pupils. >OUNTIES that have not RDERING plays for trial from re­ Good-Night Good-Will On "I was unable to attend the Writer Endorses 8-Semester Thirteenth Annual Foot- O the Loan Library service, Mrs. ported officers should do so Gridiron Writer Implies ball State Championship sea­ T AST spring I was director Kahat Baker, of Carthage, gives some League breakfast at Ft. Worth, And One-Year Transfer Rule at once, if election has already so I have just read with interest son under the auspices of the ^-* for Spanish in Jefferson account of herself since she was a ;aken place. In many counties AIUS SHAVER in Colliers County and wrote you for sug­ participant in Interscholastic League ;he account of the discussion on TF the high schools of the state University Interscholastic nstitutes have not yet been held (Nov. 18) says Bob Hall, gestions for conducting the herself: :he transfer and the 8 semester will stick by the one-year League closed with the game be­ Last year our and in some other counties in­ former Masonic Home (Fort affair. I also wrote to the per­ school entered rule. I also read your editorial transfer rule and the eight- tween Corsicana and the Mason­ "What Never Dies," by Percival stitutes will not be held until Worth) football player erred in sons you mentioned who con­ stating that the State Com­ semester rule they voted into the ic Home and School, played at Wilde, in our district meet. shortly before the Christmas being too polite on the college ducted tests in Dallas and mittee would not likely consider Tnterscholastic League football Corsicana December 26, 1932. I teach expression in the Carthage holidays. It will improve the football gridiron and describes McCulloch counties the year High School, and am also director of a change until at least two code, they are going to find While the game ended in a prospects his transformation into a bone- these before. We combined some of declamation for Panola County. Hav­ for a good county years' trial. I wish to commend provisions in 1933 and 1934 scoreless tie, the state cham­ meet breaker under the influence of the rules used in each place and ing been a contestant in the second if those interested in each you for this stand, Mr. Smith, serving as true equalizers. The pionship was won by Corsicana, state meet in 1916, and ounty coaches in the great religious some used in Latin tournaments having sent will see to it that officers oach Taylor, and I think both one-year transfer rule was in as the League's tie game rule a number of pupils to the state meets, institution of Southern Cali­ and had a very successful con­ are elected at the earliest prac- rules are the best rules for the effect this year, but the eight- was operating. Corsicana won my pet ambition is to have a winning icable time. fornia. The item speaks for test in Spanish I and Spanish II. declaimer and to at least reach the itself: » , general football situation that semester rule does not go in 5 to 0 on 20-yard line penetra­ The name of each county offi- Cups Awarded state with my one act play. "There, for example, was big Bob lave been passed in years. We until 1933. tions. We were able to secure one cup er reported is placed on the Hall of Southern California, who had urge you and the State Com­ Incidentally, it is possible.that both Conference A: The following and awarded it to the team winners HE OWL, a school paper pub jeague mailing list. Important everything to make him a star tackle mittee not to permit any ref­ or either might be thrown out before schools won Conference A district in Spanish I and ribbons to individual Tlished monthly by the eighth and Announcements are being made except the ever-ready aggressiveness erendum on them until we have given the 'opportunity to be tested. championships: 1. Amarillo, 2. Ran­ winners in both Spanish I and Span­ ninth grade pupils of Nash School, oncerning which all county of­ so essential to the consistent winner. tried them. Then, if the football The one-year rule has not had such ger, 3. Austin (El Paso), 4. Sweet- ish II. a great effect this season, for the water, 5. Vernon, 6. Shermah, (7<. a school with four teachers and an ficers should be advised. We can- Bob was good-looking, easy-going, situation is not improved rad­ We used mimeographed tests writ­ enrollment of 130, has come to our mild as spring in his native Texas. A reason schools that went in for prose­ Masonic Home, 8. Woodrow Wilson ten by Mr. C. E. Doyle of Beaumont desk and has been referred to Prof. aot reach them unless their fine, gentle giant filled with good­ ically submit a referendum on lyting on a big scale still are profiting (Dallas), 9. Greenville, 10. Athens, Senior High School, covering material Reddick for attention. names are reported to the will. If an opponent murmured them. from the presence of imported stars 11. Corsicana, 12. Brackenridge (San mentioned in the State Department For four consecutive years Nash /eague office. We publish below "ouch" after meeting Bob's magnifi­ "Supt. Emmett Brown's discussion of the year before. The true effect of Antonio), 13. John Reagan (Hous­ foreign language bulletin. School has won rural county cham an alphabetical list of cent shoulders, Bob might solicitously of the necessity of 80 per cent of his the one-year rule and the eight-semes­ ton), 14. Beaumont, 15. Corpus The greatest difficulty was in find­ those Christi, 16. Harlingen. pionship in the field meets. Nash ounties beg the injured lad's pardon and ease students remaining in high school at ter rule will be felt next year. ing someone such as Mr. Doyle, who which have reported The eight-semester rule is far more In the bi-district games played the scored 1015 points on the score card lirectors to the State Office and up a bit thereafter. All of which are .east five years was a revelation to was both competent and disinterested not to be belittled; but they do not me. By way of comparison, I have important than it might appear to the week ending December 3, Amarillo in the outcome, and asking this per­ counties not included in this list layman. It'prevents a-student from defeated Ranger 7. to 0; Sweetwater (See LETTER BOX Page 3) win many games of football. made a study of the graduates of son to make out two long sets of have not yet reported: "Well, we were meeting Stanford, our high school for the 1931-32 ses­ playing football, or basket ball, longer defeated Austin (El Paso) 13 to 6; questions and mimeograph several Sherman defeated Vernon nderson Jim Wells which had a team that neither said sion. The results are: 82 per cent than the eighth semester after his 14 to 7; Archer Johnson "ouch" nor expected anyone to beg its graduated in 4 years; 8% per cent entry into high school. Many strong Masonic Home defeated Woodrow (See SPANISH Page 4) A.tascosa Jones Wilson- EXTEMPORANEOUS Austin Kaufman pardon. Coach Jones was working graduated in 4% years; 8% per cent teams have been maintained through­ (Dallas) 40 to 7; Greenville alley Kleberg out the defeated Athens 13 to 6; Corsicana SPEECH Jastrop Lamar hard on Bob trying to inject a bit of graduated in 5 years; 1 per cent interscholastic league by the iaylor Lampasas murder into his charge and to put graduated in 6 years. This survey simple expediency of retaining star defeated Brackenridge (San Antonio) ee Lavaca 13 to 0; John H. Reagan (Houston) VUTITH the suspension of the eII Lee aside for the season his natural be­ shows that only 18 per cent of my players an extra season, but with the Pay Footballers? lexar Leon defeated Beaumont nevolence. But it seemed a bit hope­ graduates spent more than four years eight-semester regulation in effect it 32 to 7; Corpus " News Review, and the fail­ 3 1 an co Liberty Christi iosque Limestone less. Mr. Jones was about to sur­ in high school. Only four of the cannot be done. The student simply defeated Harlingen 60 to 0. qpERMING football at all large ure of Uncle Sam's Diary to sup­ Jowie Lipscomb Quarter-Finals Jrazoria render when Mr. Templeton bless graduates who played football spent is not eligible after the eighth Live Oak The following * universities "a business ply the Texas demand according Srown Llano him! came to the rescue. more than four years. Consequently, semester after entering high school, results occurred in 3urleson Lubbock the quarter-finals played December 9 proposition," the Minnesota to our understanding when the Gurnet Lynn "Mr. Templeton gave us a nice vic­ -his shows that only 3 per cent of or the eighth grade of a junior high. ^aldwell Madison and 10: Amajrillo ious going-over.