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PAGE 4 Thursday, May 16, 1957
LOEFFLER FIRING
(Continued from Page 1)
line ticket at Christmas from an
uncle in Philadelphia. “Coach Loef-
fler never gave me any ticket,”
said McNichol. This is the same
reply given the committee.
The committee, supposedly from.
the NCAA, had Howard Grubbs,
executive seci’etary of the SWC, as
one member. The other two were
private investigators, one reputed
to be an Aggie-ex, representing
either the SWC or NCAA.
The fourth and final charge was
the lavish entertainment Of a pros
pective student, stating that a rep
resentative of the A&M coaching
staff arranged an overnight trip
from College Station to Houston
for two prospective students, Jack
ie Moreland and Joel Smith, both
of Minden, La.
Loeffler was i ; eprimanded by the
SWC in December, 1956, for this
violation and now has been placed
in double jeopardy.
There is more to this charge
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than meets the eye. Many news
papers across the state have car
ried the story “an Aggie alumnus
lavishly entertained Moreland and
Smith on the trip to Houston”.
The individual making the trip,
however, was Ted Harrod, not an
alumnus, but a graduating senior
and a three-year letterman bas
ketball player. Harrod was a jun
ior at the time.
Harrod, of North Little Rock,
Ark., in an interview last night,
said, “I was with Coach Loeffler,
Moreland and Smith while the two
were visiting the A&M campus late
last spring. We toured the cam
pus and visited the Petroleum En
gineering department.”
“In the afternoon Coach told
me to finish showing him around,
that he was going on home. We
finished and I thought the two
might like dates, so I called a girl
that I knew in Houston and had her
fix us up.”
“We went to Houston, had dates
and spent the night there. There
was nothing lavish about the eve
ning. We came back early the next
morning since I had to return in
time for final review.”
TENNIS
RACKETS
BALLS
RESTRINGING
STUDENT
CO-OP
PORT
L A N T
By BARRY HART
, Battalion Sports Staff
People are asking what’s behind this latest group of
charges levelled at the A&M Athletic Department by the
Southwest Conference and, presumably, the NCAA. It boils
down to one thing—fear; fear that Paul (Bear) Bryant will
continue to produce winning football teams.
A&M was once the doormat of the league, until Bryant
came to take the Aggies from mediocrity to a nationally-
ranked undefeated team. It is imperative that A&M stays
on probation—imperative, that is, to the other seven SWC
schools.
Continued probation for A&M means two things: that
the Aggies cannot continue getting the cream of the high
school grid crop and that someone else will be able to repre
sent the SWC at the major bowl games.
In an attempt to keep the Aggies on probation, someone,
and you need not go further than our own conference to find
any number of eligible prospects, is digging as deeply as
possible to find violations, vague and minor as they may be.
It is absolutely necessary for A&M to do all they can to
offset these charges.
It is obvious that Ken Loeffler has been picked to take
the rap.
This was decided months ago—back when A&M and
Loeffler was prominently mentioned in connection with the
infamous Jackie Moreland, the Louisiana eager that got
North Carolina State slapped on a four-year probation. The
handwriting was already on the wall.
The major portion of the charges involves Alex Roberts,
the Pawtucket, R.I., eager, who was here as a freshman in
the 1955-56 season. Roberts has said that Loeffler paid for
a plane ticket in order that the boy make a Christmas trip
home, and that the mentor conducted a tryout for the athlete.
Loeffler denied the charge, and there is no reason to believe
that he is lying.
Roberts, on the other hand,
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known to have been dissatisfied
with Aggieland. He was on the
verge of flunking out and Basic
Division officials have said that
he would certainly have been in
eligible. An outstanding player as
a schoolboy, Roberts had been
beaten out by Ken Hutto and Neil
Swisher at the guard positions and
he continually complained of the
hot weather.
It is reasonable to assume that
Roberts would say almost anything
to put A&M in a bad light, es-
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pecially after Providence College,
where he enrolled after leaving
here, lost Wayne Lawrence to the
Aggies after eyeing the Pawtucket,
Conn, ace, during his high school
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him that “. . . you won’t like it
down there.”
The SWC instructed President
D. W. Williams to take some ac
tion in the Loeffler case. Williams
has said definitely that it will be
fore the NCAA meets May 31.
This action can be only one thing—•
Loeffler will be fired.
Will this be Williams’ decision?
Or, will the instructions come from
a combined source—Athletic Di
rector Bryant, W. T. Doherty,
president of the Board of Direc
tors, and Dr. Chris H. Groneman,
head of the athletic council? It
is their last resort, for if no def
inite action is reached by colleg-e
officials, it is probable that the
NtAA will stick us with another
probation, possibly even stiffer
than the first.
The college must show both the
SWC and the NCAA that they in
tend to clean up their own house,
so they will do just that by firing
the famous cage coach. With this
action, Bryant can sit back on his
spotless throne, assume the air of
a martyr and say:
“We can’t help it if we had such
a black sheep within our organiza
tion, but we’re rid of him now, so
everything’s fine. We’re clean, so
get off our back.”
But what of Loeffler? Why
should he take the rap for foot
ball ? If he goes, so goes basket
ball at A&M. In two years he
built the Aggies into a team that
is on the threshold of winning.
Without him we will Re back where
we started—deep in the conference
cellar with no hope of escape.
And then there is always this
possibility—that the NCAA will
see fit to place us on an extended
probation regardless of our action.
The firing of Ken Loeffler can ac
complish nothing more than a
widening of the gap between “King
Football” and the other Aggie
sports.
If A&M really wanted to build
their athletic program to a place
that it deserves among the na
tion’s leaders, it will back Loeffler
to the hilt, produce proof that the
charges are wrong, or at the least,
minor, and challenge the NCAA to
justly try our case. Loeffler de
serves a firm backing. Will he
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