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Thursday, January 23, 1958
The Battalion College Station (Brazoa County). Texan
Directors Name Jim Myers Coach
Hagler, Rollins Credited
By The Associated Press
Two students who passed
up final examinations to help
land the man they believed
could best do the job were
credited yesterday with a ma
jor role in the selection of Jim
Myers as new head coach and ath
letic director of A&M. They don’t
know if or when they can make
up the three examinations they
missed.
“I’d like to think our trip had
something to do with it,” said
Gary Rollins, sports editor of The
Battalion, who was an organizer
of a “get-Myers” campaign.
He and Cadet Col. Jon Hagler
visited Myers in Ames, Iowa.
“We talked with him for six
hours and he finally said, ‘What
do you want?’” Rollins related.
“I answered, ‘We came up here
for any answer but a no.’ ”
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“Myers is young, clean-cut and
the kind of man I like to see as
coach,” Rollins said.
He said the athletic council had
favored Myers and its members
knew of his trip to Iowa.
Dr. Chris Groneman, council
chairman, had telephoned Myers
earlier this week and the agree
ment was reached provided Iowa
State officials would agree.
Myers’ last year at Iowa State
ended with a 4-5-1 record. Bryant’s
final season at A&M consisted of
eight victories and three losses,
including one against Tennessee in
the Gator Bowl.
Myers, a protege of UCLA coach
Red Sanders, will find his old
trainer, Charles E. Smokey Harper,
waiting for him here. Earlier to
day Harper said: “I hope they get
Jim. He’s the man for the job and
he can do it.”
Harper was a trainer under
Bryant here.
Harrington’s announcement that
Myers would become coach and
athletic director came at the end
of a day in which the nine
members of the college’s Board
of Directors had met in an al
most continuous closed door, ses
sion.
The session was interrupted at
noon when the board announced
that all members of its athletic
committee had resigned from the
committee but not the board. Last
week the board chairman, W. T.
Doherty, had dissolved the com-
Mittee and two committeemen in-
mediately challenged his right to
do so.
A great many sports writers
said it appeared earlier that the
aggressiveness of the athletic
committee was at the bottom of
A&M’s inability to hire a coach.
As the writers saw it, when a
coach appeared ready to sign with
A&M, the committee would go
after a still bigger name, dis
couraging the current prospect.
At times, also, the committee
and the faculty athletic council ap
peared to be working at cross pur
poses.
In Ames, Myers, 36, said he de
cided to accept A&M’s offer be- i coaches. (Menze said he had no comment
cause “they were so persistent.”! “My relationship with Iowa Ion Myers’ unexpected resignation.
He acknowledged that the tele- State has been pleasant,” he said. Harrington said he asked Dr.
gram and visit of two Texas A&M I “The athletic council and school .James Hilton, president of Iowa
students last weekend were partly have been good to me.” State, for permission to talk to
responsible for getting him to Myers said he hopes to leave 1 Myers before the job was of-
change his mind. for Texas later this week. rficially offered. Permission was
“It’s nice to be wanted,” he said. Myers declined to say whether I granted, he said, and Myers ac-
student | the Cyclone council’s ultimatum cepted.
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“They have tremendous
support.”
Myers said the “opportunity is
better than it was.” He added he
thought the move was better for
his family and his coaching staff.
He said two Cyclone assistant
coaches, Russ Faulkinberty and
Doug Bradley, will accompany him
to College Station. Also he said he
will retain present Aggie assis
tants J. T. King and Willie Zapalac.
Myers said he will hire four other
last week had anything to do with
his change of mind. The council
had directed Myers to say wheth
er he planned to stay or leave
when the Aggies first started to
court him.
The Iowa State Athletic Coun
cil Sifting Committee, which was
appointed last week, now will be
gin seeking candidates for the va
cancy.
Cyclone Athletic Director Louis
“The first word 1 heard about
this came about 3 o’clock this aft
ernoon when I received a call from
Texas saying that the council had
offered to give the job to Mr.
Myers,” Hilton said. The Iowa
State president said a few minutes
later Myers informed him he was
quitting to accept the position.
Hilton also said he knew noth
ing about the visit of the students,
Rollins and Hagler, with Myers.
Athletic Committee Resigns;
Board In Complete Harmony
The Texas A&M Board of Di
rectors, in a movement prior to
their announcement of Jim Myers
as head coach and athletic director
to succeed Coach Paul (Bear) Bry
ant, repaired their battered repu
tational fences by dissolving the
Athletic Committee.
In an official statement from R.
Henderson Shuffler, Director of
Information for the Texas A&M
College System, the directors
stated:
“At the conclusion of the morn
ing session of the Board of Di
rectors of the Texas A. and M. Col
lege System, W. T. Doherty, Presi
dent of the Board, made this state
ment:
“Mr. Finney this morning stated
to the Board that ‘in view of the
confusion of the questions con
cerning the athletic situation at A.
and M. College and the authority
of the board’s committee on
athletics, as well as the authority
of the President of the Board to
discharge this committee, in the
Myers “Hanged”
By Iowa Students
Iowa State Coach Jim Myers was
hung in effigy by a small group
of students last night on the Iowa
State campus.
A dummy was found hanging
from a tree about 9:30 p. m.
First reports were that it was
a student prank in retaliation for
Myers’ accepting the Texas A&M
job of football coach and athletic
director.
spirit of wholehearted cooperation,
we, the members of the committee,
wish to submit our resignations and
ask that the board as a whole as
sume the authority and responsi
bility of the athletic committee and
work diligently within the rules of
the Southwest conference, the rules
and regulations of the A. and M.
College and the laws governing the
A. and M. College in securing a
coach.’ Mr. Finney then moved and
Mr. Campbell seconded, that the
Board accept the resignations of
the members of the Athletic com
mittee and assume the authority
and responsibility of the committee.
The motion was adopted un
animously, with all members pre
sent.”
“The Board is gi’eatly con
cerned,” Mr. Doherty continued,
“over the fact that this one matter
has been allowed to assume an im
portance out of all proportion to
its real significance in the opera-
i tions of the statewide Texas A.
and M. College System. We want
the people of Texas, to whom we
are responsible, to know that we
recognize our primary responsi
bility to be in the effective conduct
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