The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 19, 1962, Image 4

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College Station, Texas?
Wednesday, September 19, 19(12
THE BATTALION
Reggie Grot Loses Battle,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The purpose of the gatherii(|
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