BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL HAS 1000 PER CENT AVERAGE

By Roy B. Henderson

AUSTIN, Dec. 19 - The Interscholastic League football season has closed with the final state championship game, Bryan High school proving its superiority and being awarded the handsome Landsdowne-Barrett trophy in testimony of its achievement.

For the final contenders the season has been a strenuous one. Oak Cliff eliminated Honey Grove for sectional championship, Temple in its first interscholastic clash, and Abilene for the championship of West and North Texas.

In the meantime, Bryan was eliminating Nacogdoches for sectional championship of Section 6 and Eagle Lake for Section 11, and Austin for the championship of South Texas.

Abilene, Austin and Electra are the three teams which won more than sectional honors, besides of course the two teams in the final game.

In the records of the League championship series conducted last year and this, no team or school is mentioned which showed itself unwilling to abide by League eligibility rules and unwilling to undertake the rigors of eliminating championship contenders week after week. The final selection of one team out of the 273 starting the race has been made possible only by the willingness of the teams competing to stand a continual annuling week after week, to be scouted by their next opponents, to patch up injuries as best they might, and to develop new players on the run. It was by weeks of such strenuous sifting that the final championship team was determined, a championship that was not won by any single game, but by the enduring stamina and resourcefulness tested weekly by exacting standards in a long series of eliminations which minimized the element of luck, which is sometimes so strong a factor in a single contest.

There is a feeling among school that the home team has a great advantage. This belief would seem to be unfounded in the light of the fact that in every interscholastic game played in the League series this year save one, the home team has been defeated. Bryan defeated Nacogdoches at Nacogdoches; Austin defeated Corpus at Corpus Christi; Bryan defeated Austin at Austin; Abilene defeated Electra at Electra; Oak Cliff defeated Temple at Temple; Oak Cliff defeated Abilene at Abilene.

A committee of high school authorities, meeting in conjunction with the State Executive Committee of the League will soon enter upon the work of revising the rules of the League championship series for next year. More than 199 teams have already made application for entrance to the next season's series.

The following list of percentages has been compiled upon data on file in the League office. no team which lost all games is mentioned and no team reporting less than five games is mentioned. The percentage of Temple appears higher than that of the loser in the final championship game because of the extremely large number of games which Temple played against aligible high schools. The precentages follow:

1.000 per cent - Bryan
.917 per cent - Temple
.909 per cent - Oak Cliff
.900 per cent- Abilene
.889 per cent - Corpus Christi, Honey Grove
.875 per cent - Belton, Electra, Hillsboro, Lufkin, Nacogdoches
.857 per cent - Austin, Breckenridge, Childress, Cleburne, Dallas (Forest High), Hondo, Texarkana
.833 per cent - Bertram, Bowie, Brownsville, Denison, Floresville, Granger, Lubbock, Marshall, Ranger, San Antonio (Main Avenue), Sherman
.800 per cent - Beaumont, Calvert, Canyon, Celeste, Conroe, Eagle Pass, Flatonia, Georgetown, Llano, Meridian, Orange, Sour Lake, Stamford, Yorktown
.750 per cent - Big Spring, Brownwood, Comanche, Haskell, Houston Heights, Kingsville, La Grange, Masonic Home, Mineral Wells, Pearsall
.714 per cent - Beeville, Corsicana, West
.667 per cent - Eagle Pass, Greenville, Pampa, Plainview, Polytechnic, Taft, Teague, Whitesboro
.625 per cent - Victoria
.600 per cent - Del Rio, Floydada, Gatesville Livingston, La Porte, McGregor, Paris, Sulphur Springs
.571 per cent - Amarillo, Athens, Palestine
.500 per cent - Cisco, Fort Worth (North Side High), Itasca, Taylor, Winnsboro
.400 per cent - Kenedy, Mineola
.333 per cent - San Angelo, Uvalde, Quanah
.250 per cent - Celina, Galveston, McLean
.200 per cent - Albany, Garland, Merkel, Rockdale

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