For the southern championship, football teams of the Texas and Arkansas Schools for Deaf will clash at House Park Saturday night.
Headed by a tricky broken-field runner named Larren "Little Pizen" Musteen, All-America Deaf School halfback two years straight, the Arkansas team will be a slight favorite to repeat its '39 victory over Texas at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
It will be homecoming day for ex-students of the Texas School for Deaf and a large crowd of out-of-town people is expected. Among the guests will be the superintendent of the Arkansas School for Deak and about 20 faculty members, and the superintendent of the Mississippi School for Deaf.
Clyde White's Texas Silents have won two games, lost two and tied two this season, a better record to date than was anticipated because of the strenuous schedule. Defeats were administered by the strong Wink and Conroe High School teams.
Arkansas has lost only one game, that one last week to Wayne High School of Arkansas. A. L. Smith, vocational principal at the local deaf school and a well known Texas football official, saw the Wayne game. He reported that Wayne had a team comparable to Austin high's, and added the Musteen was the finest ball-carrier he had seen in 19 years of observing football.
Texas will try to match Musteen with an All-America star of a different type -- Big Bob Brown, 220-pound tailback who plays in the line on defense. Brown mad the '38 All-America deaf team at tackle and last year's as a back.
It will be the big game of the year for Texas Deaf and one that has been dedicated to the alumni.
Source: Austin American-Statesman, Wednesday, October 30, 1940
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