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lay, By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
race Associated Press Sports Writer
cam Baylor won the Southwest Con-
;rence track and field champion-
■ the iip and there were thousands to
ustneer. But ask a Baylor fan which
U'e le’d rather do—win the track
^arhampionship every year or the
"I'ibotball title just once. His stony
’wiioarp will make you feel stupid
-tcatijr even asking.
ve ' Baylor has made this football
I ! ling an obsession. Unless the
jeneniears can win a Southwest Con-
ie ' s; erence championship soon there
ould be an epidemic of nervous
y rostrationS'.
(1 ! The last time Baylor won the
'■ ^ itle was 1924. That is 37 years
tke a
' inished second six times and tied
■' or second three times. They have
:ome as close as possible not to
" ll j;;ither tie for the title or win it
II outright. For instance, in 1951 they
'.j/'inished second by one-half game.
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It is even more frustrating than
Sam Snead’s failure to win the Na
tional Open because Sam never has
had the glory and Baylor has.
When you win something it’s
tougher on you not to ever win
again than it is to have never won
at all.
Why hasn’t Baylor been able to
win the title in 37 years?
Frank Bridges, the little man
who coached the Bears to their
last championship, doesn’t want to
hurt anybody’s feelings and hopes
Baylor folks take it only as con
structive criticism since he has
nothing to gain by even express
ing an opinion.
But Bridges says the reason
there hasn’t been a winner at Bay
lor is because the coaches haven’t
been tough enough.
“Football is a rough, tough
game where a fellow has to make
his boys realize that the team that
hits hardest is the one that’s going
to win. There have been none of
the so-called tough guys coaching
at Baylor. Perhaps the Bayl'or
administration wants it that way.
But it won’t win a championship.”
Bridges hastens to explain that
he isn’t advocating dirty football
but football as it should be played
—hard, tough but clean. “I had-
60-minute men when I coached at
Baylor,” he says. “They were
rough and tough and they played
the game the way it is intended.”
Bridges came to Baylor as coach
in 1920. He openly boasted that
he would give the Bears a cham
pionship in three years. He did
just what he said—Baylor won the
title in 1922 with a perfect con
ference record.
In 1924 Bridges sent his Bears
to the championship despite a tie
with Southern Methodist. It so
happened that SMU also was un
defeated by won only two games
while tying four.
SPORTS
SECTION
IN REVERSE
NORFOLK,. Va. <A>>—Charles N.
Nohava, 13, took out a war surplus
parachute he had bought to let it
fill up in the breeze. A gust of
30 to 35 miles per hour caught it
and lifted him 20 feet to the roof
of his house, then dragged him into
electric power lines where he hung
suspended before dropping to the
ground. He was treated for electric
shock in the Naval Hospital at
Portsmouth.
CHE BATTALION
Thursday, May 81, 1962
College Station, Texas
Page'.
Roger Ward Wins Indy 500.
Outlasts Younger Favorites
INDIANAPOLIS (A 5 ) — Veteran
Rodger Ward displayed superb
control Wednesday and outlasted
a pair of younger favorites for
his second victory in the Indian
apolis 500-mile auto race. And he
did it in record time.
Right behind Ward was his
tearpmate, Len Sutton of Port
land, Ore., driving the second of
two cars entered by Bob Wilke
of Milwaukee.
Ward completed the torturous
200-lap grind at an average speed
of 140.292 miles per hour. The old
record w’as 139.130, set last year
by A. J. Foyt Jr. of Houston, Tex.,
his first time out.
Eddie Sachs, Coopersburg, Pa.,
runnerup to Foyt last year, fin
ished third, after working his way
up from a starting position of
26th.
The curly-haired, mild-mannered
Ward, 41, made his 12th success
ive Speedway start a methodical
conquest of time and the early
pace setters, Parnelli Jones of
Torrance, Calif., and Foyt.
Jones, who started in the pole
position after a record qualifying
run of better than 150 m.p.h., lead
nearly all the time until brake
trouble forced him out temporar
ily just past the 300-mile mark.
Foyt was knocked out when his
car lost a wheel in the back-
stretch shortly before Jones ran
into his trouble.
The yellow caution light flashed
five times, but a series of spec
tacular spins produced only one
multiple wreck—a four-car tangle
on the 20th lap. The pileup sent
Jack Turner of Seattle to the hos
pital with a broken pelvis and left
big toe. Turner was the only dri
ver hurt.
Turner escaped with only bruises
last year when his car flipped end
over end in a six-car tangle.
Ward now owns an amazing rec
ord of two victories, a second and
a third in his last four Speedway
starts—his first victory coming in
1959. He thrilled the mammoth
Memorial Day crowd of some
250,000 with an 11-second fin
ish ahead of Sutton.
He will collect some $120,000
from an approximate pot of $400,-
000 to be sliced at a victory dinner
Thursday night.
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