The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, May 16, 1957
Letters to the Editor
Editor,
The Battalion
To the students of Texas A&M:
We, as members of the 1956-5';
basketball team would like tc
solicit your support of Coach Kei
Loeffler, whom we believe to b<
the greatest coach ever to come
to A&M. As things stand m
Coach Loeffler is in the precarious
position of losing his job for some
thing he did not do.
The evidence against us is not as
serious as it has been believed and
surely doesn’t warrant the job ol
Coach Loeffler. It seems that
scapegoat is needed and the guy
that was leading us to a champion
ship in the Southwest Conference
is the one to get the nod. During
the past two years the basketbal
situation at A&M has looked bettei
than ever before in the history
of the school. It appears that we
are going to be deprived of the
opportunity to do what the footbaL
team has done—-be ranked nation
ally.
The only man than can do this
is Coach Loeffler and without him
basketball at A&M can follow bul
one road—to the cellar, where w
have dwelled long enough.
Somebody with a lot of “say-so
believes that, although Coach Loef
fler is a wonderful guy and a great
coach who thinks a lot of the
school and his players, he is not
“good for A&M.” However, we’ve
talked to many fine Aggies who
believe in the man that told the
other SWC coaches to “Beat us
now, and enjoy it, because it wil.
be the last time you ever will.”
If you will express your opinions
openly and support a man who be
lieves in every principle that A&M
stands for, it might do the trick
and save his job.
Strangely enough, he’s one man
who doesn’t want to leave A&M
and only asks for the opportunity
to place Us where we rightfully be
long, at the top of the list. It’s up
to you, Aggies, to help convince
those few “highly influential”
people that say Loeffler must go.
Texas A&M has always put up
a good fight for what they think
is right and Coach Ken Loeffler
is in favor of everything A&M
stands for.
George Mehaffey, ’57
Ted Jiarrod '57
Neil Swisher ’59
Fritzie Connally ’58
Stewart Heller ’59
Jack Schwake ’59
Erwin Turner ’59
Harry Max ’58
Jim McNichol ’59
Wayne Lawrence ’60
David Corson ’60
Tom Wallace ’60
Bob Johnson ’53
Sammy Myers ’60
Kenneth Hutto ’58
iditor
fhe Battalion
It has become increasingly
rvident that one of the greatest
.injustices that we here at A&M
nave had to witness is forthcom
ing. We refer to the current cloud
concerning thinking about the past
tour yeai-s, we have seen A&M go
mto probation for illegal recruit
ing of football players. This oc-
■ured sufficiently long ago that
iome are inclined to forget, neglect
che fact that there was conci-ete
avidence convicting us on that
count. Although A&M hasn’t been
■aught in recent months because
>f football we have gotten our
jhare of players. Remembering
-hat some widely sought players
cave enrolled at A&M since being
'jut on probation, the thought
arises as to why they still come
;o a school where they previously
wouldn’t enter.
Now the NCAA and the SWC
are striking at A&M for alleged
tryouts, illegal transportation and
lavish entertainment of basketball
playeis. Once again we wonder
whether those who are in respon
sible positions in the two above
organizations are trying as hard to
dean up other schools as they are
A&M.
Rumors flourished after the
action of the SWC some of which
went so far as to advocate firing
the present basketball coach. We
question the theory that a top
national basketball coach with 25
years of experience, including
eight years at Yale, could sud
denly be caught purposefully and
knowingly violating recruiting
rules. To ask this coach to resign
appeals absurd especially if those
in responsible positions at A&M
believe that we will be profited
by such a move on May 31, when
the NCAA convenes to deal with
far reaching problems” — mostly
those reaching from Kirwan. and
Kentucky to A&M. Undoubtedly,
Ab Kirwan is chuckling out loud
(See LETTERS, Page 3)
Editorials
Support Loeffler
A&M is on the verge of losing the greatest basketball
coach of its history simply because a few seemingly mean
ingless and trumped up charges have been made by a South
west Conference committee and no one in the administration
will stand up to defend Coach Ken Loeffler.
It looks like everyone is going to be duped by accusa
tions fired at the famous coach and sacrifice him to the so
shaky claims of the conference committee.
But everyone won’t be fooled! A&M students will never
stand by and see a man as highly respected as Coach'Ken
fired simply as an easy way to clean skirts which in all prob
ability aren’t even dirty.
Now is the time for every Aggie to come to the aid of
the great mentor. Nothing should stand in their way in the
effort to keep the man who can mold champions from future
A&M basketball teams.
There is really no alternative for college officials in the
light of the charges and Coach Loeffler’s pledges that he is
not guilty. Nothing but definite backing of Mr. Basketball
would suffice. All Aggies must realize this and speak out
for it.
The time to act is now. Show the administration stu
dents believe in Coach Loeffler and not in the accusations
which he denies. This may be the only way to keep the
greatest coach in basketball from leaving A&M. —JT
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Rev. Alton Christensen, Hous
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About 40 students and guests
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sen present his topic, “Where Are
You Going?”
He said there are three pressures
that one will feel in college and
throughout life—to relate, to con
form and what we shall give our
life to.
In relating, there are two sides
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pressures. One good point is mar
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On the question of conforming,
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the bad points of democracy. It
one of the things that Aggies
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good is up to the individual.”
To what shall we give our life ?
On this question he said too many
people give their lives to them
selves and that in this modern
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“Taking is a slow and torturous
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