THE BATTALION
Thursday, February 11, 1960
College Station, Texas
Page 5
Stamford Champs
In Schoolboy Ball
By Associated Press
Before football is stowed away
in favor of baseball and golf it is
well to mention that Stamford set
a record.
Lost in the hulabaloo of the big
guys winning championships and
the fact that professional football
is moving in was the feat of the
little gridiron-minded West Texas
town of takng four state titles in
five years.
No other school in Texas Inter
scholastic League histcpry ever did
it. Back in the twenties Waco won
four state titles in six years. Ama
rillo won four in seven, Brecken-
ridge four in eight. Abilene won
six in 33 years, three in a row.
Wichita Falls won three in nine
years. Amarillo won three in suc
cession.
But only the Stamford Bulldogs,
members of Class AA but able to
play with the teams of the upper
classes, have been able to capture
four titles in five seasons. The
Bulldogs did it in 1955-56-58-59.
What makes football click in
Stamford ?
Coach Larry Wart&s has the ans
wer. “This little town has only
two places to go—church and the
football game,” he explains. “It
is only reasonable to think it
would concentrate on those two.”
Stamford had the distinction of
sweeping through undefeated the
past campaign and including
among its victims Cleburne, which
tied Breckenridge for the state
Class AAA championship. So the
Bulldogs might as well claim both
Class AA and Class AAA titles.
Stamford has produced some
great football players. Consider
Bob Harrison, who was All-Amer
ican at Oklahoma. Mike McClel
lan was one of Texas schoolboy
footballs finest backs. He played
at Oklahoma last season. There
are plenty more.
Practice Starts Monday
For Cadet Baseballers
Spikes Named Top Performer at TCU
FORT WORTH — Jack Spikes,
all-American fullback from Sny
der, was the recipient of the covet
ed Dan Rogers award as the most
valuable player on TCU’s 1959
Southwest Conference football co
champions at the annual football
banquet hei-e Monday night.
Spikes, the heralded 208-pound
senior, was presented the Rogers
ring by Bob Cullum, Dallas bank
er, whose wife, Dorothy, is the
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Rogers.
“Jack had truly a great season,”
reminded his coach, Abe Martin.
“His play was instrumental in the
fine year TCU had this past fall.
Nbt only an outstanding player,
this youngster is one of the finest
young men I’ve had in my coach
ing career. I don’t believe there’s
a doubt that he is the greatest all
round fullback in the history of
the school.”
Spikes also was presented the
Houston Post Back-of-the-Year
award by Post Sports Editor Clark
Nealon.
Ramon Armstrong o f Ennis,
Robert Lilly of Throckmorton and
Joe Cole of Brady were named
winners of other awards.
Armstrong, believed by many as
the most consistent player on the
squad last fall, took the Grassy
Hinton “most conscientious” tro
phy; Lilly, the huge junior all-
SWC tackle won the G. L. Perkin-
son Avatch as the team’s best down-
field blocker; and Cole was select
ed by his teammates for the Y. O.
McCammon award as the outstand
ing non-letterman.
Martin announced 37 varsity let-
termen, which included 17 seniors,
14 juniors and six sophomores.
The Frog coach will have 19 re
turning lettermen for the 1960 sea
son. Only Iavo regulars. Center Ar-
vie Martin of Dallas and Lilly will
be eligible for next fall. Fred Tay
lor announced 31 Wog lettermen.
Riddled by graduation and other
losses, Coach Tom Chandler’s ^.g-
gie baseball team opens defense of
its Southwest conference champ
ionship with opening of practice
Feb. 15.
A&M’s practice schedule begins
March 1 against Sam Houston with
the first conference game March
19 against SMU—-a club that whip
ped A&M’s champions all three
times last spring.
Chandler ( guided the Aggies to
a championship last spring in his
first season at Aggieland but lost
tAvo heart-breakers, both by 1-0
scores, to Arizona in the NCAA
district playoff.
Eight lettermen off that club
return including six regulars but
nine are gone including four all
conference stars —- Catcher Gary
Herrington, Shortstop Ralph Plum-
lee and pitching aces Wayne Sch-
aper and Percy Sanderson.
Only Herrington and Schaper
completed their eligibility. Plum-
lee was signed to a hujfce bonus
contract by the World Champion
Los Angeles Dodgers while San
derson, along with Pitcher Larry
Ayres of Paris, failed to pass their
scholastic work. Other losses in
clude Windel Reed, Lloyd Stone,
Donnie Hullman and Bo Paradow-
ski.
Top lettermen back are Catcher
Randy Wortham of New Boston,
Infielders Dick Hickerson of Bi~y-
an, and Dink Patterson of Dallas
and the Aggie outfield composed
of J. B. Carroll of College Station,
Clifford Davis of Corpus Christi
and Byron Barber of Dallas. Also
returning are T-winers Billy Hou-
chin of Shreveport and Don Chase
of Houston, utility. Squadmen re
turning include Pitcher’s Joe
Thompson of Bryan, Jack Roeder
of Yorktown and Don Costlow of
Lufkin and Infielder Don Davis of
Shreveport.
Chandler also has two junior
college transfers who should give
VARSITY BASEBALL SCHEDULE—1960
Tuesday, March 1, Sam Houston, Huntsville
Saturday, March 5, Texas Lutheran, College Station
Tuesday, March 8, Texas Lutheran, Seguin
Saturday, March 12, Rice (Practice), College Station
Tuesday, March 15, Sam Houston, College Station
Saturday, March 19, SMU, College Station
Tuesday, March 22, University of Houston, Houston
Thursday, March 24 Teas Tech, College Station
Saturday, March 26, TCU, Fort Worth
Tuesday, March 29, Rice, Houston
Friday, April 1, Texas, College Station
Tuesday, April 5, Baylor, Waco
Friday, April 8, Rice, College Station
Saturday, April 9, Rice, College Station
Thursday, April 14, Brooks Medics,*San Antonio
Friday, April 15, Brooke Medics, San Antonio
Saturday, April 16, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio
Friday, April 22, TCU, College Station
Saturday, April 23, TCU, College Station
Friday, April 29, SMU, Dallas
Saturday, April 30, SMU, Dallas
Friday, May 6, Baylor, College Station
Saturday, May 7, Baylor, College Station
Friday, May 13, Texas, Austin
Saturday, May 14, Texas, Austin
the mound staff needed punch.
They are Olan Jordon of Paris and
David Pitcock of Tyler.
Last year the Aggies had an 18-
7 season record and won the SWC.
with an 11-4 record.
TCU Figures High
In SWC Scoring
By The Associated Press
Texas Christian isn’t doing too
well in Southwest Conference bas
ketball but the Horned Frogs have
figured in the highest scoring
marks of the season—both for and
against.
TCU made 99 points against
Tulsa Dec. 9 for the season’s high.
Texas scored 98 points against
TCU Feb. 6 for the second high
est.
Myers Completes Staff with 3 New Men
The Aggie coaching staff is
complete with spring football
training scheduled to begin next
^Tuesday.
Coach Jim Myers’ football staff
will be composed of six assistants.
The staff includes Willie Zapa-
lac, Matt Lair and Elmer Smith,
all members of the 1959 staff, plus
newcomers Bobby Drake Keith,
Tom Ellis and Travis Hughes.
Keith, former Aggie end, has
been on the Alabama staff the past
two years while Ellis was head
coach at McMurry College and
Hughes was head coach at Deer
Park high school.
The Cadets will have 15 return
ing lettermen from last year’s
team that won three and lost sev
en. Nine lettermen were lost
through graduation. Also a host
of freshmen will move up to the
varsity for spring drills.
To complete the athletic staff
Myers named Henry Ransom, Bry
an golf pro, as golf coach and
Omar Smith, Bryan tennis enthusi
ast, as tennis coach.
Three of the Cadets’ assistant
football coaches last fall have tak
en other positions.
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