College Station, Texas
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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.
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1 p. m. 116tfn
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HUMPTY DUMPTY NURSERY. Tdonna-
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203 Bizzell, $40.00 monthly, KE 7-6241.
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Two bedroom house, phone VI 6-7334,
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Two bedroom house unfurnished 5th
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Unfurnished two bedroom duplex, garage,
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7339. - 117tfn
Office space now available at the Rama-
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For your parts and accessories
AT a DISCOUNT See us—
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DISCOUNT AUTO PARTS
Brake shoes. Fuel pumps. Water pumps.
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Save 30 to on just about any part
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AT JOE FAULK’S
25th and Washington
WORK WANTED
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student’s children or all day care at
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118tl
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ru Saturday. Some night
Come bv Apt. D-3-D College
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Will give
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LUZIER
Personalized cosmetic service.
Mrs. Lynn Weedon
TA 2-4349 90tl
Warren McCoy, hair stylist and spe-
BEAUTY SALON. Call for earlv and late
appointments. VI 6-4280 in Ridgecrest.
3616 Texas Avenue. 117t4
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Graduate student, desires quite air con
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