In a game hotly contested throughout but marred by too frequent penalties and frequent fumbels, Grubbs Vocational College of Arlington Thursday afternoon defeated the East Texas Normal from Commerce 20 to 2. It was a game of tag - you're it - between a pair of offensive elevens weak on defensive play, in which the superior aggressive spirit of the Hornets made the breaks and on which they were alert enough to take advantage for touchdowns.

Grubbs took the ball on the kickoff on its 32-yard line and rushed it to the Normal's 20-yard line, where they lost it on downs, trying a futile pass on the last chance. The Commerce Lions worked back up to midfield on plunges and end runs and also lost the ball on downs on their own forty-nine-yard line after refusing to kick. A series of punt exchanges followed after neither side could gain more than two first downs and the ball was interchanged either on punts or fumbles for the remainder of the period.

The Normal scored its safety in the second period, starting from their own forty-yard line. Carl Hollis smashed over tackle for twenty-three yards, and in eight plays, chiefly bucks by Pennington, the Lions reached the ten-yard line. Grubbs braced and held the Normal attack, and when Pennington attempted a drop kick from the fifteen-yard line it was blocked and recovered on the fifteen-yard line. An off-side penalty set Grubbs back five yards and on the punt formation the center gave Marshall a very bad pass. He attempted the kick, which Blevins blocked, booting the ball across the goal line, where he missed his chance to fall on it for a touchdown, Lea of Grubbs diving on it for a safety.

A long punt by Marshall, following Grubbs putting the ball in play on the thirty-yard line, bounded over Holley's head to the Normal six-yard line. Normal rushed fifteen yards and then tried a pass, which Coleman intercepted and returned to the Grubbs twenty-two-yard line. A five-yard gain by Lea and an off-side penalty on East Texas put the Hornets on the nine-yard mark.

In four plunges, Lea went over for a touchdown and kicked goal. The third plunge left only an inch to go with twenty seconds to play, and had Normal held the last drive the quarter would have ended in their favor.

Taking the kick-off in the second half, Grubbs rushed the ball to the Normal twenty-yard line in five plays, but was stopped there. Lea punted to Grissom on the five-yard line and the latter fumbled when tackled, Holmes recovering and crossing the goal line for the second touchdown, Lea kicking goal.

A fumble by Holley in the fourth period on Normal's seventeen-yard line was recovered by West for Grubbs, and after Lea and Owens had smashed to the four-yard line, Holmes bucked over for the touchdown. Lea missed goal.

The entire Normal team, handicapped by the absence of the most of the regulars from the right side of the line, was off stride and played a listless game. Pennington, a youngster who starred with the Masonic home of Fort Worth, flashed a great brand of defensive play, at times the backs, who loafed miserably to the line of scrimmage, got away.

Coach Duval played jackstraws with his line-up, and between halves moved nearly all his backfield into the line and the line to the backs until the officials must have wondered who was who. But the versatile Grubbs players fought hard, and from their antique formations swept the Normal line off its feet when they were within scoring distance. Coleman, the bulky acting captain, and Lea, a young man with a knack of holding the ball and keeping on his feet, starred on the offensive, while the ends - there were four of them - did good work, and the line at times gauged the Normal's play and stopped it completely.

Practically the entire student body from Grubbs supplied the spectators, although the Normal had two bands, its own senior one and the kids from the training school.

Line-up and summary:
East Texas Normal: Ends, Biggers and Worsham; tackles, Fowler and Blevins; guards, Hardin and Miller; center, Fite; quarter, C. Holley; halve, Wimberley and Grissom; fullback, Pennington.
Grubbs: Ends, Marshall and West; tackles, Dunswort and McKinnon; guards, Young and Anderson; center, Evans; quarter, Mayes; halves, Lea and Coleman; fullback, Holmes.
Substitutions - Normal: Flewharty for Grissom (1), Hunt for Hardin (2), Owens for C. Holley (2), C. Holley for Wimberley (2), T. Holley for Flewharty (2), Hart for Biggers (3), Wimberley for C. Holley (3), T. Holley for Owens (3), Pennington for T. Holley (3), T. Holley for Pennington (3), Morris for T. Holley (4), Hardin for Hunt (4), Norwood for Hardin (4). Grubbs: Swann for Anderson (1), Herm for McKinnon (2), Speck for Marshall (3), Marshall for Holmes (3), Holmes for Herm (3), Herm for Mayes (3), Evans fo Swann (3), Swann for Evans (3), Cooper for West (3), West for Cooper (3), Mayes for Evans (3), McKinnon for Mayes (4), Evans for Coleman (4).
Scoring - Normal: Safety; Grubbs: Touchdowns, Lea, Holmes 2; goals after touchdowns: Lea 2, missed 1.
Officials - Referee, Utay (Texas Aggies); umpire, Garrity (Texas Aggies); head linesman, Splawn (Michigan).
Score by periods:
Normal ..........0    2    0    0    -    2
Grubbs..........0    7    7    6    -    20