High School Football Gets Off To A Flying Start This Season In The Interscholastic League

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 18 - High school football this season has gotten away with a flying start. Due to the prearranged schedules made with a view to sectional eliminations, the season is far advanced toward a state championship in comparison with the advancement that had been made at a similar date last year. Eighty-one contenders, the records of the League Bureau show, are still in the lists as undefeated teams. It is possible that there may be still a few undefeated teams not included in this list who have failed to make reports. No school which has not reported at least one game is included in this summary. As these weekly summaries are published the ranks of the undefeated teams will grow thinner and thinner until, if the elimination plans work out as forecast, November 11 will see but one champion in each of the sixteen sections into which the state is divided. Inter-sectional games will then be scheduled by the League, cutting the number in eight the first week after November 11, to four the following week, to two the week following, so that the final state championship game may be played the week following Thanksgiving.

A number of surprises have already been sprung in the race which is on. In the Denton-Sherman game, for instance, Gatewood, the plucky tackle on the smaller team, intercepted a forward pass and ran sixty-five yards to make the only score of the game. It was a surpirse to see such promising contenders as Fort Worth Central, Waxahachie, Polytechnic High drop out of the race so early.

There seemed to be a jinx around the games that were played on Friday, the 13th, in the way that the score 13, the only spooky number, kept showing up: Denison13, Whitewright 0; Beeville 13, Mathis 0; Milford 13, Ennis 0; Bridgeport 13, Jacksboro 0; Canyon 36, Tulia 13; Taylor 30, Rockdale 13; Sodville 30, Taft 13; Houston Heights 38, Victoria 13. A perfect battery of three's are noticable in these scores played on the jinx day.

The standing of teams taking no account of teams which have not reported at least one game, follows:

Section No. 1
1.000 per cent: Amarillo, Canadian, McLean, Pampa.
0.500 per cent: Canyon.

Section No. 2
1.000 per cent: Floydada, Lubbock, Plainview, Slaton.
0.667 per cent: Post.
0.250 per cent: Ralls.

Section No. 3
1.000 per cent: Abilene, Albany, Breckenridge, Clyde, Hamlin, Ranger, San Angelo, Stamford.
0.667 per cent: Big Spring.

Section No. 4
1.000 per cent: Cleburne, Electra, Fort Worth (North Side), Mineral Wells, Strawn, Wichita Falls.
0.667 per cent: Bridgeport, Vernon.
0.500 per cent: Polytechnic, Seymour.

Section No. 5
1.000 per cent: Bonham, Dallas (Forest Ave.), Denison, Denton, Farmersville, Greenville, Honey Grove.
0.667 per cent: Whitesboro.
0.500 per cent: Celina, Terrell.
0.333 per cent: Forney, Whitewright.

Section No. 6
1.000 per cent: Atlanta, Mt. Pleasant Paris, Sulphur Springs, Texarkana, Tyler.
0.667 per cent: Longview
0.500 per cent: Mineola, Troup, Winnsboro.

Section No. 7
1.000 per cent: Midland, Pecos.
0.500 per cent: Sonora.

Section No. 8
1.000 per cent: De Leon, Gatesville, Junction.
0.667 per cent: Dublin.
0.333 per cent: Mason.

Section No. 9
1.000 per cent: Kaufman, Corsicana, Hillsboro, Itasca, Meridian, Milford, Rosebud, Royse City, Waco, Mexia.
0.500 per cent: Waxahachie.

Section No. 10
1.000 per cent: Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Palestine.
0.500 per cent: Crockett, Rusk.

Section No. 11
1.000 per cent: Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Hondo.
0.500 per cent: Devine.

Section No. 12
1.000 per cent: Austin, Belton, Giddings, Granger, San Antonio (Brackenridge), San Antonio (Main Ave.), Smithville, Taylor, Temple.
0.500 per cent: Georgetown, Lockhart, La Grange.

Section No. 13
1.000 per cent: Bryan, Caldwell.
0.500 per cent: Hearne.

Section No. 14
1.000 per cent: Beaumont (South Park), Galveston, Houston Heights, La Porte, Port Arthur, Wharton.
0.500 per cent: Bay City, Texas City.

Section No. 15
1.000 per cent: Beeville, Gonzales.
0.667 per cent: Floresville, Victoria.

Section No. 16
1.000 per cent: Brownsville, Harlingen, Mercedes, Robstown, San Benito, Sodville.
0.500 per cent: Mathis.
0.333 per cent: Taft.

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