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Plans
as Col. Andy
57 Retirement
BY JONES RAMSEY
An era that has spanned three
■ world wars, 10 Olympiads and pro-
I duced nine Southwest Conferences
I track and field championships will
I come to a close in the summer of
1957 when Frank Anderson calls it
quits as Aggie track coach after
serving since 1920.
Col. Andy as he is known by
hundreds of his former pupils and
thousands of track admirers the
world over will step down after the
1956-57 school year. He has been
connected with A&M for 36 years
—24 of them as track coach.
Col. Andy’s budding experience
in track came in a high school track
FRANK (COL. ANDY) ANDERSON — Retiring Aggie
track coach whose teams have won nine SWC track
titles in 24 years..
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meet at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1912
where he won the pole vault for his
Sparta, Tenn., team. His experience
will end in 1957 after the close of
the June national meets for his Ag
gies.
As one of the official coaches
for the United States Olympic
team, Col. Andy will make the trip
to Melbourne, Australia for the
1956 games. His duties will be to
handle the jumpers and hammer
throwers.
“Nobody seemed to want to fool
with the hammer throwers,” the
little coach says, “but I volunteered
because I have just one more year
before retiring and besides you
don’t do much coaching with these
boys—just keep them in condition.”
THE VETERAN COACH who
served as a major in World War 1
and as * a colonel in WW II—both
in field artillery—has coached A&M
track in two sections. He first be
came' the thinclad mentor in 1920
and won a conference title that first
year. He coached for 14 years win
ning again in 1929 and 1930 and
then resigned to become dean of
men and commandant of the Aggie
Corps of Cadets. Following that
assignment he served in WWII and
resumed coaching in 1947 for a
period that will be oil yeai’s with
retirement in 1957.
It was during that post-war
tenure that Col. Andy really domi
nated Southwest conference track.
His teams won the flag in 1947-
7-9, again in 1951-2-3. And he has
won these nine titles without the
high-pressure proselyting tactics so
common with collegiate athletics
today.
HIS PREFERENCE for, coaching
“amateurs” and his success at the
job would be welcomed by the
present followers of the amateur
code and oath in connection with
the 1956 Olympic team.
Anderson gets his talent from the
100 boys who fill every locker in
A Way of Life
Adamson Devoted
To Ag Swimmers
ART ADAMSON—A&M head swimming coach,
son’s 1955-56 team captured the SWC splash crown with
a record-breaking 142 points.
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A native Texan, Willie F. Zapa-
lac, former Aggie star and pro
fessional player, is a backfield
coach at A&M. A Bellville product
Zapalac scored a record 245 points
his senior year in high school, then
came to Aggieland where he played
varsity ball in 1941, 1942 and
1946.
Zapalac’s last season at A&M
came after seiwing 36 months in
the air force. He reached the rank
of captain. Willie played in the
1942 Cotton Bowl game, two East-
West games in 1943 and 1947 and
in two college All-Star games at
Chicago—1943 and 1947.
After playing pro ball with the
Pittsburg Steelers in 1947, Zapalac
coached at John Tarleton, Hills
boro and Arlington State befoi’e
joining the Aggie staff in 1953.
He is married and has three chil
dren—Billy, 8, Jeff, 7, and Jill, 4y 2 .
A graduate of Sul Ross College,
Tom Tipps, who works with Aggie
centers, is one of the most success
ful high school coaches in Texas
history. He joined the Aggie staff
in 1954 after winning 54 of 71
games at Pama, Texas in the tough
AAAA conference. Tipps teams
lost but 16 and tied one in seven
years.
He coached at Seagraves and
Temple high schools befoi-e WW II.
After SV2 years in the infantry
he served at Dennison a year be
fore moving to Pampa. Tipps is
married and has two daughters,
Melanie, 5 and Betsy Lynn, seven
months.
A former star guard at Kentucky
—Pat James—helps coach the ag
gie line, working with the guards.
James played in the backfield at
New Boston, Ohio high school but
at Kentucky he was moved to
guard by Coach Bryant.
James was a star of the 1951
Sugar Bowl conquest of Oklahoma.
The 29-year-old James coached
high school ball at Danville, Ky., in
1952 before joining Bryant at Ken
tucky. He is married and has a year
old son, Michael Patrick.
the Aggie track dressing room each
year and the only boys receiving
financial aid in the form of part
scholarships are those who win
points in the conference meet^
Darrow Hooper, A&M’s great
shot putter of the early fifties and
a second place winner in the 1952
Olympics is the last Aggie track
man to receive a full scholarship
on entering A&M. Other’s have been
offered one since but turned it
down to go elsewhere.
“I don’t believe in going out
and recruiting high school
stars and giving them a four-
year ticket through A&M
when I have boys on my squad
who have developed to where
their times are as good as the
the high school performers,”
he has said numerous times.
“I would split my team wide
open if I used my scholarships
to bring in high school boys
while men on my travelling
squad are paying most of their
own way though college.”
After retirement,. Col. Andy
wants to stick around Aggieland
and help the new coach run off his
meets. “I may be a starter or some
other official,” he declared.
Football
(Continued from Page 6,
first team job, and Galveston’s G.
F. Alsbi’ook is the picture-type
played, skillful and sure, a strong
hand on defense and a fine re
ceiver.
King Hill and Fi’ank Ryan are
a fine one-two punch at quarter
back. Fullbacks Jack Throckmor
ton and Jerry Hall, both seniors
who have never really come
through as they had been expec
ted, will be pushed by Dick Bergs-
By ROY CARPENTER
• Swimming may be considered a
minor sport by some, but to Art
Adamson, head coach of the Ag
gie swimming team, it is not only
a major sport but also a way of
life.
Having swum since he was seven,
Adamson spends an average of 12
hours a day at the P. L. Downs
Natatorium. This devotion to his
job has paid handsome dividends,
for last March the Aggie swim
mers climaxed an undefeated sea
son by winning the SWC champion
ship for the second time under
Adamson’s leadership.
Coach Adamson says, “A boy
may want to swim, but it doesn’t
do any good if he does it wrong.
That’s where I come in.”
trom and Soph Gene Jones.
The line couldn’t be anything but
better than the 1955 version with
center and tackle in good hands.
Don Gillis holds down the ball
snapping position line an anchor
and Jean Barras, Chaidey Thomp
son, Ken Whitmii'e and Don Phil
lips are eyeing the tackles.
James Petei’s, James Bxdggs,
Davg Mantor and Don Gee were
x-egulars from time to time at the
terminals and will be back doing
the same thing in 1956.
Adamson, who was bonx in Eng
land and became famous as a swim
mer in New Zealand, is x’ecognized
as one of Amei'ica’s top swimming
coaches. He is widely known for his
ability to take a young swimmer
and develop him into a star. In
deed, Jose Mex-ino, fx-ee-style and
backsti'oke star from Lima, Peru,
came to A&M because his dad Had
heal’d of Adamson’s coaching skill
and wanted Jose to swim for him.
This x'epi'esents a gi'eat advance
ment for Coach Adamson since he
came to A&M in 1934 as a student
as well as a coach.
With little foi-mal schooling be
hind him, Adamson came to Ag
gieland detei’mined to I’eceive a
college education. He woi’ked his
way thi’ough school by coaching the
swimming team and now holds a
Masters degx-ee in physical edu
cation.
Thi’oughout the . school year in
addition to his duties as coach,
Adamson carries a full teaching
load, being swimming instructor in
the physical education classes.
Dui’ing the summer Coach Adam
son gives swimming lessons to
children fi'om Bi’yan and College
Station. He is quite a favorite the
youngstei’s, who call him “Uncle
Art.”
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held down for two seasons and will
be a top contexxder for all-con
ference recognition. Another senior
—Lockhart’s Dee Powell— who has
lettered at both tackle and guard
will be number two man behind
Hale.
The end spots ai'e capably man
ned by senioi’s Eugene (Bebes)
Stallings, all-SWC in 1955, and
Bobby Keith, but there’s little to
hope for past these two vetei’axxs.
Tackle looks strong with three
returning lettermen plus some good
sophomore pxospects. Jack Powell
and Charlie Krueger are back at
their starting positions with let-
terman Bob Clendennon and squad-
man Bobby Lockett axxd A. L. Sim
mons back of them.
The front-line guards ax*e ade
quate but there is no depth. Jim
Stanley and Dennis Goehring are
the returning x'egulars with Murray
Trimble the only other letterman.
Goehi’ing, although light at 185,
took all-SWC honors in 1955, while
Stanley is descx-ibed as the meanest
man on the squad. Reserves are
Tommy Howard, an all-confei'ence
freshman choice, Jim Langston and
IJarold Price.
The halfback situation, although
showing six lettermen, is more
critical than the experience x-eveals.
John Crow is solid at left half and
Loyd Taylor is far ahead oxx the
other side. Crow is expected to
have a much finer season than iix
1955 and Taylor is the man who
virtually won the Rice game by
himself, scoring twice in 46 sec
onds.
The Aggies will be guided by tri
captains Pardee, Stallings and
Hale, all seniors axxd two-year let
termen.
It should be another interesting,
exciting SWC season with much of
A&M’s success depending on how
much the younger players develop.
We’ll have to wait and see.
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