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p£#e 4, College Station, Texas? Wednesday, September 19, 19(12 THE BATTALION Reggie Grot Loses Battle, - r Becomes Third Heat Victim DALLAS (A>> Reggie Grob, Hospital said there was more 29, sophomore guard on the Uni versity of Texas football squad, died Tuesday as the result of complications from a heat stroke suffered, on the opening- day of practice. His was the third football death in Texas this season and the sec ond in Southwest Conference his tory. Mike Kelsey, Southern Meth odist University center, died from a heat stroke the day after fall practice opened Sept. 1. A high school boy, 16-year-old Raul Rodriguez, died Aug. 31 aft er collapsing during a workout at Del Rio. Grob, who was in Brackenridge Hospital at Austin for 17 days, was flown here Monday and taken to Parkland Hospital where a three-houx* operation was per formed Monday night. He died at 3 p.m. without ever regaining con sciousness. DOCTORS AT AUSTIN said the boy who lived at Spring Branch, Tex., apparently had re covered from the heat stroke when kidney complications arose. When he was bx-ought here Mon day in a plane owned by John Holmes, member of the University of Texas athletic council, he was reported suffering from progres sive liver failure, kidney failure and bleeding complications. “He put up a great fight,” said a spokesman at Parkland Hospital. “He was a strong boy but he could not overcome the many things working against him.” Emergency surgery was per formed on Grob at Austin Satur day and an artificial kidney was affixed. He was brought to Dallas be cause officials at Brackenridge equipment for use of an ax-tificial kidney and also so he could bene fit from consultants at the UAi- versity of Texas Southwestern Medical School — next door to Pai'kland Hospital. A NUMBER OF specialists wexe called in on the case. A Dallas specialist had made two trips to Austin to treat the boy. Gx-ob died only four days before the opening of the football season in the Southwest Conference —* when he could have played his first vax-sity game. Texas opens the season Saturday night against Oregon at Austin. Kelsey, a 20-year-old 200-pound juniox- from Cox-pxxs Chxdsti, Tex., died in Baylor Hospital Without x-egaining consciousness following his collapse the day before as Southenx Methodist started fall training. His temperatux-e shot to 110 de- gx-ees and death was attributed to xx heat sti’oke although the foot- REGGIE GROB . dies of heat stroke 48th Conference Race Begins, Steers Favored As Usual r By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer The forty-eighth Southwest Con ference football race starts this week with Texas favored, as usual. The Longhox-ns aren’t picked every year but since 1941 they have been selected 10 times, which is an average of every other year. That’s more than three times as much as any other school. Texas didn’t come thx-ough half the time but the fact that the LongHoms did win six titles in that period of 21 years shows that they are the safest bet. WHILE TEXAS is officially credited with only eight champion ships and three ties over the 47 seasons, there were two years when it should have been awarded the title. For instance, in 1916 Texas had a 5-1 record, Baylor 3-1, Oklahoma 2-1 and Texas A&M 2-1, yet the conference did not desig nate a champion and it is left va cant in confexence annals. In those it seems they paid no atten tion to the percentage but just picked somebody if they thought the team desexwing. In 1918, when the country was at war, thexe again was no cham pion although Texas had a 4-0 record in the confex*ence and was undefeated and untied for the sea son. Texas only played five col legiate games, meeting sexwice teams in the other four. Exit since all the college games were with conference teams, it seems this should have givexx Texas the cham pionship. Baylor is listed as champion in 1915—the first year of the con ference—although it is commonly known that the Bears forfeited the title when it was found that the Baylor quarterback, Thomas Stonerod, had played a season with Carnegie Tech before becom ing a “freshman” at Baylor. IF THE CONFERENCE oper ated as it does now, Oklahoma would have been champion. That season Oklahoma was in the con ference and was undefeated and untied, winning just as many con ference games as Baylor although the teams didn’t meet each other. Baylor lost a nonconfex-ence tilt to Sewanee. There have been only two in stances of ineligibility of players. Stonerod was one, but the confer ence appax-ently never paid any attention to it. The other came in 1933 when Arkansas won what it thought was its first champion ship. A lad named Ulysses Schlue- tex - , who played only 10 minutes the entire season, was found to be ineligible because he had spent a year at Nebraska but neglected to tell the Razorbacks about it. The conference fathers couldn’t name a champion that year be cause Baylor and Texas Christian, which tied for second, had identical 4-2 x’ecords and Arkansas had beaten them both, so there was just no way around it. There have been 10 undefeated, untied teams and eight that were undefeated but tied. In the case of the 1929 Southeinx Methodist team,it seems a little fax'-fetched to call in an undefeated outfit al though technically it was. That outfit tied four out of ten. The last undefeated team was Bear Bryant’s 1956 Texas Aggies. Why Do It Yourself FLOYDS RADIO & TV WiU Check Tubes FREE and Give Free Estimates On All Radios and TV’s Brought To Shop Including Stereo, Hi-Fi, and Any Unit That Reproduces Sound. Located At Your FIRESTONE STORE. 901 S. College TA 3-5044 ball pxactice was conducted in 77-degree weather. The tempera ture was 95 degrees at Austin when Gx-ob suffered his stroke. PARKLAND HOSPITAL said thex-e would be. no autopsy. The boy had been unconscious for five days. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. War ren Grob, were here when he died. They went into seclusion at a Dal las hotel. The body was taken to the Marrs-Mundy-Quill Funeral Home here but was to be flown to Hous ton Tuesday nig-ht to the Walker Funeral Home. Sexwices have not been set. Surviving besides the boy’s par ents ai - e a brother, Chax-les of Houston, and his, grandparents, Mi-, and Mrs. Elmer Eubanks of South Fort Mitchell, Ky. At Austin Chancellor Harx-y Ransom of the University of Tex as said “The whole university community is deeply distressed at the loss of an outstanding student who was as accomplished person ally as he was athletically.” 'im SWC Grid Stars Qualify For ’ffi Academic Elevei (Special to The Battalion) DALLAS — Thirty-six fooi players have qualified schoi;; ally for the 1962 All-Sonfe Conference Academic Footln team sponsored by the Coj Sports Information Directors America, Lester Jordan of S! co-oi’dinator of the project, nounced Saturday. The official all-conference i demic team will be selected at end of the season by a comil of sports writers on the basil the gridders’ performance k the 1962 season. Those makin; team will automatically be i inated for the All-America demic team. Intramural Vo k_ L A n c -v. t t■ Qualifies For AI1-SWC Academic Team d!” 1 ! Keller > a one-year letter- All-America brain squad. A 6-4, 190- one of 36 Southwest pounder, Keller will also be a help to Coach Bob Rogers ’ basketl >aJl team. Stuc ,ny of lenefii Oi'ganization athletic off« faculty and all persons interested ii fifth : intramural athletics program |as rc meet at 5 p.m. Wednesdaj Room 202 of the YMCA Bui The purpose of the gatherii(| to plan this school year’s! mural activities. Swimming will be the firsts] iix this semester’s program. 1 event will kickoff Monday,0(tj Campus Crowd ^leasers From ome RECORD FREE BOOK m COVERS BOOKS LOVE ’EM... AND MOST IMPORTANT, THEY’RE ABSOLUTELY GRATIS. AND, PICK UP ON OUR CAMPUS CROWD PLEASING ALBUMS. GRATIS, THEY’RE NOT. GRATIFYING, THEY ARE! THE NATION’S TOP TRIO SINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH FULL ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL BACKING. 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