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What’s Going To Happen To Football In
The Southwest In View Of Present Trends?
The East is de-emphasizing foot
ball; Pitt led the procession, and
several other Eastern institutions
have followed its lead. The Uni
versity of Chicago is eliminating
football, leading a movement which
may result in decentralization
throughout the Midwest.
What will the Southwest do?
Before we can answer that ques
tion, we must consider the growth
of popularity of professional foot
ball. Within a few years, pro
football has come to the position
of an important sport; attendance
at pro games is increasing, and
pro club owners are doing pretty
well at developing the “spirit”
which has placed college football
on top throughout the history of
the sport.
The de-emphasis in the East
comes along at the same time that
professional football is coming in
to its own. The colleges, whether
they know it or not (and they
probably do) are playing right into
the hands of pro club owners and
laying the groundwork for the
reducing of intercollegiate football
to a status comparable with inter
collegiate baseball.
Bears Trim
Horned Frogs
In Last Half
FORT WORTH, Feb. 3.—Featur
ing a last-half drive headed by
Grady Vaughn, who scored 14
points, the Baylor Bears admin
istered a 52-to-30 defeat to the
Horned Frogs of Texas Christian
University tonight in the Purple
and White Field House.
The first half of the ball game
was a nip-and-tuck affair, with
Baylor leading the Christians only
one point, 17-to-16, at the half.
The Frogs held a three-point lead
in the first minutes of the game
until Vaughn got hot and dropped
two field goals in from a free
throw line. After that the Horned
Frogs were never able to get in
the lead, although several times
they tied the score in the first
half. •
They Have Good Reasons For Their Actions
But The Southwest Won’t Follow Suit
The point we’re making isn’t
that the Eastern colleges are de
emphasizing football in an effort
to allow the pro game to supplant
it; what we want to put over is
that while they are de-emphasizing
because of football’s interference
with scholastic standards, they’re
either knowingly or unknowingly
trying to pull down the curtain on
intercollegiate football.
Athletic programs aren’t design,
ed for students, for former stu
dents, or for faculties. They’re de
signed for John Fan. In the East,
the fans won’t howl too much; they
can still see good football between
pro teams—much better football,
in fact, than they could see be
tween college teams.
In the Southwest, though, the
fans would howl and howl plenty
if a de-centralization program
were attempted—unless the entire
Southwest Conference de-central-
ized at the same time, which is
highly improbable, to put it mild
ly.
Pro football can never amount
to much in Texas for obvious rea
sons—lack of concentrated popula
tion centers, distance between
cities, etc. Consequently, the fans
demand and will continue to de
mand college football teams, that
play good football. They don’t care
whether football is “over-empha
sized” or not; they just want good
games. They can’t get them from
pro teams down here, so they’re
going to force the colleges to sup
ply them.
With the starting of the second
half the Bears pushed steadily to
ward the front, and although the
Toads put up a good fight, Joe
Frivaldsky, Frank Bryski, and
Vaughn were too much for them.
Vaughn was in rare form, hit
ting the bucket with a consist
ency that kept the 1,500 specta
tors gasping. Several times Vaughn
dropped in his one-handed special
ty from back of the circle.
Ben Abney paced the Frogs with
7 points. This defeat marks the
eighteenth straight Conference
basketball game that the Horned
Frogs have lost.
As a curtain raiser to the game,
the Baylor Cubs tangled with the
T.C.U. freshmen. The result was
58-54 in favor of the Cubs.
What’s The Way Out? Several Factors Are
In Conflict, And We Need A Middle Space
Obviously, football can’t be al
lowed to destroy the fundamental
purpose of college—mastery of the
arts and/or of a science or of a
technique. In addition, football
can’t be kicked out or mutilated in
this section because the support of
the public is necessary to an in
stitution of higher learning, pri
vate, church, or state.
What’s to be done?
For one thing, schedules can be
shortened a great deal. A. & M.’s
action in shortening its schedule
for next year may have far-reach
ing results. Short schedules give
athletes better opportunities to
study and eliminate the confusion
which always exists in a student
body during football season.
Another thing to be done is to
limit long trips to play “name”
teams. Football players are in col
lege primarily to learn something,
and they should be treated as stu
dents, not as paid performers who
can be sent out on a road every
year.
One more point must be added—
and this writer doesn’t expect more
than a dozen people around here
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to consider the proposition favor
ably.
It is the possibility of eliminat
ion of post-season games. Foot
ball shouldn’t be played to make
money for a school; it should be
played for the enjoyment the play
ers get out of it and for the en
joyment the students get out of it.
Over-commercialized post-season
“classics” further disrupt college
life, although they do serve several
worthy purposes.
If the reader wishes he may
disregard that last paragraph; but
it would be well for us to give
serious thought to the problem of
the place of football in college,
particularly in view of the present
tendency toward decentralization.
—By R. L. Doss, written for the
exam-crazed Jepp.
Horse Breeders’
Short Course To
Be Conducted Here
On February 19 and 20 the Ani
mal Husbandry Department will
sponsor a short course for horse,
jack, and mule breeders, according
to plans announced this week by
D. W. Williams, head of the de
partment.
Most of the course will be con
cerned with the problems met in
the breeding of horses, jacks, and
mules. Army remounts and polo
ponies will be featured. Many
men who have been specializing in
the breeding of these animals have
been invited to speak at the short
course, and it is expected that
several will accept.
Box Score:
BAYLOR (52)
fg ft pf tp
Terry,
2
1
1
5
Frivaldsky, c ....
5
2
3
12
Bryski, c
v5
2
2
12
Creasy, f
1
4
0
6
Boswell, g
1
1
0
3
Vaughn, g
7
0
3
14
Henry, f
0
0
0
0
Marshall, f
0
0
0
0
Barnes, f
0
0
0
0
Gilbert, c
0
0
1
0
Parks, g
0
0
0
0
Totals
21
10
10
52
T.C.U. (30)
fg
ft
pf
tp
Barron, c
1
2
3
4
Groseclose, f
2
0
1
4
Tankersley, f
0
0
0
0
Billingsley, c
2
0
1
4
Abney, f
3
1
1
7
Cannaday, f
1
0
2
2
Duckworth, g
1
1
2
3
Monroe, g
2
0
2
4
Best, g (c)
0
0
1
0
Holt, g
0
2
2
2
Totals
12
6
15
30
Half time score: Baylor 17, T. C.
U. 16. Referee: Ab Curtis.
Lafayette College is the deposi
tory of what is believed to be the
best possible working collection of
materials for the study of General
Lafayette.
On the night of February 19 the
Texas Horse, Jack, and Mule
Breeders’ Association will hold its
annual meeting and banquet here.
T. V. Lawson of Cleburne is presi
dent of the association, and C. L.
Wilson of Dallas is secretary.
One of the entertainment fea
tures to be put on for these men
will be the Little Southwestern
Livestock Show, which is an exhi
bition of the livestock owned by
the college. The show will be con
ducted by undergraduates in the
Animal Husbandry Department.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1940 . PAGE 3
Joe Boyd, Aggie All-American, “Pulls
His Freight”, To Work For Sun Oil Co.
By “Jeep” Oates
Joe Boyd, All-American tackle
and one of the all-time greats of
Aggie grid teams, packed his be
longings and “pulled freight” Sat
urday.
Boyd played tackle for the cadets
in 1937, ’38, and ’39. He won a
starting berth during the latter
part of his sophomore year and
no one was ever able to beat him
out.
When Joe came to the cadets he
had about as little natural ability
as any man who ever wore a cleat-
ed shoe, but what he lacked in abil
ity he more than made up in fight
and determination. He set out
to learn what wasn’t natural for
him and towards the latter part
of his first year on the varsity
he was holding down the regular
tackle berth.
As a junior he was one of the
most feared tackles in the confer
ence. He was selected on the All-
Conference eleven and gained much
national recognition. Before the
start of the 1939 season he was
labeled as the probable tackle of
the year by many critics.
It was just before the third fray
of the campaign when Joe was in
jured, but he worked untold hours
in keeping his injury in condition
so that he could at least play. He
lied to the coaches about his
shoulder. He took many personal
beatings because he could not pro
tect himself, but during that same
"time he was making his opponents
respect him. The foe was getting
in some hard blows on Joe, but
at the same time he was sinking
some telling blows on them.
He was selected on every col
lege’s All-Opponent team and
when the smoke had cleared just
before the Sugar Bowl game he
was named All-American.
He is one of the three All-Amer
icans the Aggies have ever had,
the other two being the twice-
chosen Joe Routt, and John Kim
brough who still has another year.
Joe majored in accounting and
many companies sought his
services. He turned down several
offers, including one to play pro
football, to take a job with the
Sun Oil Company.
Dr. Frank N. Stanton, CBS di
rector of research, finds that col
lege students learn what they hear
23% faster than what they read.
Columbia Broadcasting System
research reveals that farm fam
ilies listen to their radios on an
average of 5 hours, 18 minutes a
day. City people listen 6 minutes
less.
The largest school In the world
is Columbia’s American School of
the Air. 8,000,000 boys and girls
in 200,000 classrooms attend
through their radios every week
day in the school year.
Celebration Was Real
“Wild West” Affair
WEATHERFORD, Texas. —
Boots, spurs, guns, whiskers,
sunbonnets, and calico dresses were
worn again under the oak trees
on the Weatherford College cam
pus as they were seventy-two years
ago when the student body re
created the atmosphere of the col
lege’s founding by celebrating Pio-
near Day recently.
The college’s cornerstone was
laid in 1868, when Weatherford
was a raw outpost village. It is
a matter of history that Masonic
ceremonies on the occasion were in
terrupted by an Indian raid that
called all men spectators and par
ticipants to saddle in pursuit.
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