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itial engagement.Since the Shoats have spent a majority of their time scrimmaging against the varsity, they will initiate the season with virtually only two weeks practice.High school stars last season will sprinkle the Shoats’ start ng lineup. Tomlin will depend on five backs to form the spearhead of his attack. They are Fullback Harry Ledbetter from Fordyce; Halfback Vance Mills from Augusta and Clint Fuller from Malvern; and Quarterbacks Hilly Troxell from Heavener, Okla.Gregg 1/ Masters to PlayWith three of the best ends produced in the state last year ready to go, the Shoats might be expected to take to the air against the army eleven. Gene Sellers from Jonesboro will start at the right flank position and Edgar Norris or Haroldean Huitt will start on the left side. At right tackle will be Don McCrary of Hot Springs or John Carpenter of Stepehns. Starting at left tacklewill be lid I Watson of Osceola or Gregg LeMasters of Fayetteville. Hen Roberts of Texarkana will be at left guard while Billy Stancil from Searcy or Charles Eddleman from Springdale will start in the right guard berth.Tomlin won’t know until game time whether Harding Taylor from Jonesboro or Eldred Rogers will start at center. Both were all-state men last season.In their only game of the current year, the 173rd’s season grid-dcrs lost, 26-0, to a powerful semi-pro eleven, the Wichita, Kan., Aero-Parts Commandos.Capt. Thomas Makal, coaching the army club for its third straight year, isn’t displeased. His team’s record speaks for itself. Just before arriving at the Oklahoma camp, the field artillery eleven won a 1941 football pennant at Camp Livingston. La., with 14 wins, one loss, and one tie; ran up a 1940 total of 10 wins, one loss and one tie.15 Netherlands Hostages ShotLondon, Oct. 23-(/'P)-Aneta reported today that 15 Netherlands hostages had been shot by military authorities in Holland.rayeiievuie ny a nesperaie pas attack. Subiaco has won its thre games this year by passing. Bu Fayetteville, an average team i the air. is superior on the groum to anything it has come up agains in Arkansas. The Bulldogs are a least one touchdown better thaithe Trojans.In Other CirclesThe Arkansas High School Foot-ball conference will either b» clarified or jumbled in tonight’: tilts. This chrystal gazer takes th( clear viewpoint.Pine Bluff will stop Veldon Me* Knight and El Dorado to stay aheac of the conference pack. Ho Springs won’t fall far behind bj beating the once-beaten and tiec North Little Rock Wildcats. Jonesboro, finally, will win over Forrest City. It’s a now or never case for the Hurricane. Hope s Bobcats may be expected to provide tonight’s surprise by overpowering the Camden Panthers.Grizzlies over RussellvilleFort Smith, the unpredictable team that fought Fayetteville to s 6-6 deadlock and downed the Little Rock Geisers, 6-0, are a cinchto put another in the win column when they play the Russellville Crimson Cyclones on their own battleground. The Cyclone can’1 blow down Fort Smith’s forward wall, which stays in the opposition's backfield most erenings.Van Buren Wins Over Springdale, 49-13Van Buren, Ark.. Oct. 23—Scoring into an early lead on threefirst-quarter touchdowns by Halfback Maurice Sagely and piling on counters in every other period, the Van Buren Pointers blasted the Springdale Bulldogs out of the Northwest Arkansas conference picture, 49-13, on Blakemore field here Thursday night. The Pointers, who last week trounced Rogers by a 53-0 score, made it twostraight circuit triumphs againstno defeats and took their place alongside Fayetteville as title favorites.Preachers are the only ones who talk in other people’s sleep.
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Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Fri, Oct 23, 1942
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