255 HIGH SCHOOLS OF TEXAS IN INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 13 - Two Hundred and fifty-five high schools scattered all over Texas have accepted the Interscholastic League's plan for deciding a state football championship among high schools this season, according to Roy Bedichek, head of the division of the league. The games in this series occur each week-end, Friday or Saturday.

"At present prospects are bright for the most successful high school football year ever conducted by the University of Texas Interscholastic League," Roy B. Henderson, athletic director of the league declared.

"I regard the outcome of the meeting held last March in Fort Worth by a number of representative Texas high school superintendents, principals, and coaches as a great forward step in high school athletics of the state," Mr. Henderson continued. "At this meeting a general football plan was worked out for the teams which will contest for the state football championship under the direction of the University Interscholastic League."

The high school officials who worked out the plan are: D.D. Green, Abilene; W.F. Garner, Longview; L.M. Hubbard, Belton; N.H. Proctor, Cleburne; N.D. Clark, Fort Worth; F.G. Ernie, Cleburne and B.M. Dinsmore, Electra.

The plan worked out by the committee of school men follows:

1. - The state shall be divided into sixteen sections. Each team must play five games in its own section as early as Nov. 1. After this date, the Interscholastic League officials will match games between outstanding teams in each section.
2. - If possible the championship of the Interscholastic League shall be decided by the middle of December.
3. - The league officials shall have the right to automatically eliminate any team from the running which has not played sufficiently strong and representative teams.
4. - Teams cannot send in entrance fees after October 1.
5. - All competing players must sign an eligibility card.
6. - The transfer rule and the half-year rule shall hold good in all instances.

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