Friday, March 4, 1955
THE BATTALION
Page 5
‘Col.
Tries for Another Title
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Staff
A&M/s track teams have swept
through six Southwest conference
titles in the past eight years un
der the guiding hand of Frank G.
(Col. Andy) Anderson, and when
not winning championships have
never placed lower than third.
The 64-year-old Aggie mentor
begins his 35th year on the cam
pus this season, and as usual is
shooting for the conference track
crown. A&M placed second to
Texas last year.
A&M has dominated the SWC
traeiv scene since 1947, when it
wrested the leadership from Tex
as. The Cadets lost only one meet
in three years, from 1950-53.
Col. Andy has coached the Ag
gies to nine SWC championships
ami five straight Border Olympic
titles. His 1951 trackmen ranked
second in the nation only to pow
erful Southern California. The Ag
gies finished the season undefeat
ed that year.
Anderson gave up the head
coaching job in 1936 to become
commandant of A&M’s cadet corps,
and took over the reins again in
1946. He held the rank of colonel
when he retired from the army in
1944. Anderson immediately join
ed A&M’s physical education de
partment, soon afterward trans
ferring to the athletic department.
He was born in Sparta, Tenn.,
and enrolled at Mississippi State
after finishing a brilliant high
school athletic career. Anderson
played football under D. X. Bible,
A&M’s great coach of the ’20’s, at
Mississippi.
Almost 50 athletes have come
away from the SWC track meet
as champions under Col. Andy’s
tutelage, and three of them set
marks which still stand as confer
ence records. Two of his perform
ers were unanimous all-Americans,
and one still holds" a world record.
Some of the more x’ecent stars
that Anderson has tutored are
Bobby Gross, Walter (Buddy) Da
vis, Darrow Hooper, Dale DeRouen,
James Blaine and Bobby Ragsdale.
Hooper is one of the few ath
letes Col. Andy has coached who
was also outstanding in high
school.
“He is one of only two boys in
the last ten years that I got when
Texas wanted them too,” said An
derson.
Davis was crowned world’s
champion high jumper in the 1952
Olympics, and eased over the bar
with a leap of 6-11% the follow
ing year at the National AAU
meet in Dayton, O., to break the
world record. It still stands.
Davis didn’t do very well in high
school track, in fact he didn’t make
the state meet. He came to A&M
on a basketball scholarship in
1948, and was persuaded by An
derson to come out for track.
Anderson changed Davis’ old
style of jumping to a “roll” type,
in which the body is spread out
flat as the jump is made. Two
years of hard work paid-off, and
Davis won the conference high
jump for two straight years, be-
sides setting the world’s record.
Gross, last year’s SWC discus
and shot put champion, is another
example of an unknown’s rise to
glory under Anderson’s capable
hands.
He weighed only 170 pounds
when he first came here, not very
heavy for a weights man, but by
lifting bar bells and working
steadily has pulled up to 195.
Lon Morris Dumps Allen
93-54 for Tourney Title
PpFast - breaking, sharp - shooting
Lon Morris shot out an early 10-0
lead and coasted to an easy 93-54
win over “flat” Allen academy last
night in White coliseum to win
the Texas Junior College State bas
ketball tournament.
Texarkana beat Howard County,
the team in the tourney with the
best record, 91-77, to take third
place. South Texas of Houston
downed Decatur Baptist, 79-57, to
win the consolation title.
The all-tournament team, picked
by the coaches waS: Guards Virgil
Trower, Odessa, and Jim Knotts,
Howard County; forwards, Dean
Evans, Lon Morris, Carlos Monte-
Paul Bryant, Head Coach and Athletic Director
This Is His Second Year at A&M
mayor, Allen, and Fi*ed Slaugh,
South Texas (tie); center, Ken
neth Roach, Lon Morris.
Second team -— Guards, James
Emerson, Lon Morris, Rodney Za-
chry, Texarkana; forwards, Ray
Crooks, Howard County, Clyde
Sturgis, San Antonio; center, Cai-
rell Burleson, Texarkana.
Roach, 6-7, and Emerson, 5-6,
sparked the Bearcats to a 10-0 lead
in the first five and a half min
utes as the Ramblers’ leading scor
er, 6-5 Wayne Lemons, was off
form.
Closest Allen came.the rest of
the game was eight points, the last
time at 10-18 on Lemons’ turn
shot with 10:30 left in the first
half.
After that, Evans, Emerson,
Roach and guard Billy Tubbs paced
Lon Morris to a 44-20 lead at the
half. Emerson scored 16 points in
the first half and 21 for the night.
Evans had 12 at the half and a
total of 22, high for the game.
Roach totaled 15.
Lon Morris made 15 of 19 free
throws in the first half, hitting its
first 10.
Lemons scored 14 to lead Allen,
which finished the season with a
20-11 record.
BOX SCORE
LON MORRIS <!>;i) FG FT PF TI*
Emerson 7 7 1 21
Tubbs 2 5 4 9
Roach ti 3 3 15
Evans ^ 8 3 22
Barker 3 0 1 6
Moore 1 2 3 4
Samuels 3 0 4 6
Fletcher 3 0 1 6
Ward 2 0 O 4
TOTALS . . . . . 34 25 23 93
ALLAN ACADEMY (54) FG
Montemayor 3
Carolan 2
Lemons 6
Lilley 4
Mosley 3
Rodriquez 2
Williams 0
TOTALS 20
Halftime: Lon Morris 44-20.
FT
PF TI’
3 10
15 21 54
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Track Coach Frank G. Anderson
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