Sectional Champions to Battle in Three Games

4 Clashes Thanksgiving

Austin, Texas. Nov. 17th - Three intersectional championships in the football series of the Interscholastic League of the University of Texas will be decided this week. Childress and Electra will contend for the title of Sections 1 and 4; Big Spring and Abilene for the championship of sections 2 and 3, while Bryan and Nacogdoches play for the supremacy of sections 6 and 9. The following sectional championships will be decided: Hillsboro plays Temple for section 7, Eagle Lake plays Yorktown for section 11, Corpus Christi plays Hondo for section 12.

Last Game Dec. 10

Thanksgiving week will witness four games, which, barring ties, will leave but four teams in the race. The next round will occur Dec. 3, when the contenders will be reduced to two teams. These two teams will play the following weekend for the state championship, thus winding up the series Dec. 10, without prolonging the season for high schools beyond Thanksgiving week except in the case of four teams. Two of these teams are required to prolong the season but a week, and two for two weeks. Eliminations have been made on a sectional basis of more than 200 teams, and it now seems certain that paper championships among high schools in Texas are a thing of the past. Every high school in the state willing to observe eligibility rules and showing any football strength save one has participated in these eliminations.

This season has shown as the flimsiest of fallacies an assumption which many sport writers in Texas have heretofore deemed a fundamental truth, namely, that the larger the town the stronger the football team. As an illustration of how poor this assumption works on the gridiron, attention is called to the fact that Mineral Wells eliminated Fort Worth Central High, Sour Lake eliminated Houston Central High, Bryan High at Dallas has been tied twice by small towns (once by Mineola and once by McKinney). Wichita Falls was eliminated by Electra, Amarillo was eliminated by Childress, and Austin was tied by Georgetown.

Honey Grove Eliminates Sherman

In a spectacular game, the little town of Honey Grove eliminated the strong Sherman team. An 80-yard run from receiving a punt scored one touchdown for the little place, and the downing of Sherman behind its own goal line counted the other two points. Sherman, battering forward from twenty-five first downs, was able to score only one touchdown. This game leaves the Honey Grove eleven facing Forest High for the championship of section 5, unless an eligibility matter affecting the Oak Cliff team is in the meantime cleared up.

In section 10, Austin plays Granger this week-end and Main Avenue plays Georgetown. If Main Avenue defeats Georgetown, and Austin defeats Granger, Austin will have clear title. If Georgetown defeats Main Avenue and Austin defeats Granger, the tied game between Georgetown and Austin will have to be played off. If Granger defeats Austin, then Granger will be champion if in the meantime Main Avenue has eliminated Georgetown but will have another game if Georgetown has defeated Main Avenue.

Matching of intersectional games will be conducted in such a way that a clear championship will be decided in the northern and western portions of the state and an equally definite championship in the southern and eastern portions. These two remaining teams will be brought together for the final battle in Austin Dec. 10.

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