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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RACE WARMING UP
 
    Austin, Texas, October, 10, 1921--High School football is opening
in all sections of the state with unprecedented interest,
according to reports reaching the University Interscholastic League.
During the first week fifty-three games were reported from which
some interesting reverses are shown over last year.  Lone Oak defeated
Celeste in their 1920 contest, 32 - 0, while Celeste came back this
season winning 26 to 6.  Last fall Commerce played Sulphur Springs to
a 0 - 0 tie, but could not stop the plunges of the Hopkins County boys
this year and lost 27 to 0.  Livingsworth soundly defeated Conroe a
year ago 12 to 3, but Conroe turned the tables last week and blanked
their former victors 13 - 0.  Mineola scored almost at will against
last fall, winning 38 - 7, while this year failure upon the part of
Athens to kick goal lost them their opportunity to the count. (sic) 
    Usually many accidents occur early in the season, but few have
been reported so far.  A player on the Sweetwater team had his
wrist broken in the game with Haskell.  In the Calvert-Groesbeck
contest, a boy from Groesbeck sustained a fractured collar bone
and a member of the Corpus Christi team suffered the same accident in
their game with Aransas Pass.
    With the hope of finally deciding the state championship, the
Interscholastic League has divided the state into twelve sections for
competition and will use the results as reported to determine the
sectional champions first.  A schedule of eliminations will then be
arranged between these leaders.  The undefeated teams so far according
the sections follow in a list which will become smaller and smaller as
the season progresses:
    Section 1:  Amarillo, Canadian, Canyon, Childress, Farwell,
Floydada, Lubbock, McLean, Miami, Plainview, Shamrock, Quannah,
Tulia, and Wheeler;
    Section 2: Abilene, Brechenridge, Comanche, Cisco, DeLeon,
Haskell, Ranger, San Angelo, Stamford;
    Section 3:  Big Springs, Pecos, Fort Stockton;
    Section 4:  Bowie, Decatur, Electra, Fort Worth Senior High,
Fort Worth North Side, Henrietta, Masonic Home, Mineral Wells,
Weatherford, Wichita Falls;
    Section 5:  Celeste, Forney, Greenville, Sherman, Sulphur Springs,
Terrell;
    Section 6:  Longview, Marshall, Mineola, Nacogdoches, Texarkana,
Tyler, Winnsboro;
    Section 7:  Clavert, Corsicana, Hillsboro, Italy, Itaska, Marlin,
Meridian, Rosebud, Temple, Waxahachie, West;
    Section 8:  El Campo, Houston, Port Arthur, Sour Lake;
    Section 9:  Bryan, Conroe, Navasota;
    Section 10: Austin, Georgetown, San Antonio, Llano, Taylor;
    Section 11: Eagle Lake, Flatonia;
    Section 12: Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Donna, Sabinal,
Taft  
(Monday, October 10, 1921, Greenville Evening Banner)