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College Station, Texas Page 6 Thursday, June 6, 1963 THE BATTALION Dallas Will Have Memories Of Pro Football Undercurrents BY HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer The Dallas Texans now are the Kansas City Chiefs, the American Football Leae-ue has moved to New York and only the Dallas Cowboys are around to give this North Texas metrooolis memories of pro fessional football as it is played behind the scenes. The AFL had its headquarters in Dallas for three years. Some of its members wanted it moved to New York all along. But only when it became apparent that there would be no AFL team in Dallas did the moguls decide to shift lo cations. THERE WERE some who talked about going to New York so there would be more and better publicity. However, this was not the real reason for the move. The league couldn’t be expected to operate in a non-member city. But all this brought the dissipa tion of a dream — Lamar Hunt’s dream of a pro football league based in Dallas that could become an operation equal to the old and established National Football League. Hunt organized the AFL when he found he could not get a fran chise in the NFL. He took the only course open to him — he formed his own league so he could have a Dallas club. But the NFL then moved in and the attendance war was on. Hunt thought he could win it, since he figured on the backing of a lot of people who thought the NFL took 'advantage of him. But he also knew he had to have a winning team to do it even then. HAVINC A winning team didn’t seem so difficult in view of the fact that he was starting even with the others and didn’t have to buck old and established clubs. But for two years Dallas strug gled and failed on the field. The attendance reflected the club’s rec ord. Then the Texans stepped out and won the AFL championship. But to Hunt’s dismay and the dis may of many others, the club lost about $200,000. It was time for Hunt to realize that he had been wrong about a winning team being - the cure-all. Former Ag; Gridder Has Insurance Post Thirty-one-vear-old Ray Graves, a fox-mer All-Southwest Confer ence quarterack for A&M, has been named training administrator of a nationallv-known insurance company in Galveston. Gi-aves had planned to play pro fessional football but he suffered a knee injury while signed with the Baltimore Colts and joined the insurance company in 1956. He was graduated from A&M in 1953 with a business degree and entexed the Air Force for a brief tour of duty. Graves served as as sistant football coach at Taxleton State College. When he saw that his attendance next season wouldn’t be substan tially larger — season ticket sales weren’t doinsr any better—he real ized that Dallas just wasn’t big enouo'h for two pro football clubs, especially with the tei'ritory abso- lutelv saturated with television. THE PEOPLE could stay home and see nx - o football on the TV screen; they didn’t have to spend money and. could be much more comfortable than if they went out to the Cotton Bowl to either fight the heat or freeze in the stands where there weren’t enough people to p’et the place waxaned up. The Cov/boys were in better po sition to win the attendance war because they were in a league that was dx - awing big in practically ev ery city and they got enoue-h over the guarantee in most of them to operate with a minimum loss. The Texans couldn’t do that—the other league cities weren’t doing any better at the g - ate than they were. Hunt x-an into something of the situation that wrecked minor, league baseball. Television was brought in by the majors and it killed attendance for the minors. But in his case he was forced to bring in television to hurt him self. And he also had’ television of the other league to combat. HUNT FINALLY awoke to the realization that pro football was a business and not something" that could be run on sentiment. When Kansas City made it possible for him to profit by giving - him fx - ee rental on its stadium and selling $600,000 worth of season tickets, he took the offer. BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES On* day *4 d*t word wr * fPtim DEADUNK ** u» T r »' 24 Der word each additional day Minimum oharsre—404 rtre pnt Claaaiflod Plsplny S04 per celutnn inch each Ineertinn PHONK VT 0-64 xe FOR SAEE Going overseas, must sell 1961 house trailer, 10 x 56, 3 bedrooms—1V2 baths, colonial design. 81400 eouity for $160. 167 T.nkeside Drive. Webb’s Trailer Park, after 5 or week ends. llfitl Charming two storv in the most desirable section of College Station. 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