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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, July 30, 1964
Pennsylvania Site
Of Early Football
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
....A squad of Texas schoolboy foot
ball players is going up to Hershey,
Pa., to challenge the schoolboys of
Pennsylvania. Or rather, they
were invited by Pennsylvania to
challenge them. The game is
Saturday.
Despite the fact that they had
to be boys that were not selected
for the Texas coaching school all-
star game, the squad looks capa
ble of representing the State very
well.
Whereas there are 15 all-Staters
at the coaching school, there are
16 with this distinction on the
Texas squad that shows its wares
in the east.
It is nothing new for Texas to
send an all-star squad against
another state. The Oil Bowl at
Wichita Falls has been doing it
for years, as Texas clashes with
Oklahoma.
The Texas squad may not win
in Pennsylvania but then Texas
never has claimed its schoolboy
football is the best in the coun
try. It does, however, claim that
it’s the biggest not only in the
United States but in the world.
The game in Hershey will come
just one month before the season
begins in Texas—when Autumn’s
Mightiest Legions hold their big
gest football campaign yet.
There will be 946 schools play
ing the game in Texas come Sep
tember. It is 10 more than ever
appeared in the big gridiron race
before and the way new schools
are being born these days there
is no way to foresee what it might
be when the Texas Interscholastic
League observes its 50th year of
football.
The race this season will be
the 45th. The first one—in 1920—
had 198 schols. It actually wasn’t
schoolboy football then. The age
limit was 21 years but there was
little machinery set up to enforce
it. Thus grown men were play
ing high school football. Veterans
of World War I were in the line
ups of 1919 and 1920.
The age limit was out to 20
in 1926, to 19 in 1936, to 18 in
1940 and now it is 19. But you’ll
find few 19-year-old boys playing
schoolboy football. Most of the
seniors are 17 or 18.
But despite the fact that the
boys are much younger today than
they were in the twenties, when
the Interscholastic League was
making its start, the quality hasn’t
dropped off.
There have been 28 authentic
all-Americas produced by Texas
high schools under the aegis of
the Interscholastic League, The
first was in 1930 when Botchey
FROM THE
Sideli
ineS
By JIM BUTLER
Extremism in the defense of something or other is no
vice, at least by the standards of one political aspirant and
apparently by the standards of the peculiar, twisted minds
that inhabit the offices of UT’s student newspaper The
Summer Texan, or maybe The Some Are Texan. The latter
comment gives more credit than is deserved to the person
or persons responsible for a pair of articles that appeared
in the July 28 issue of the Texan.
The unkindest cut of all came in a story about the US-
Russian track meet last weekend, reporting specifically on
the feats of TEXANS Fred Hansen and Randy Matson. That
Hansen attended Rice and Matson attends A&M would seem
to be secondary information to the fact that the pair were
representing the United States in the most important inter
national duel in sports, and will probably be in Tokyo trying
to win points for America in the Olympic Games. Yet the
headline read “Aggie Chokes.”
The story, obviously a rewrite of a wire service report
and a poor rewrite at that, had this to say about 19-year
old A&M sophomore who holds the national freshman record
for throwing the shot and has beaten all the top U. S. shot
putters at one time or another. “A&M’s Randy Matson was
just another shotputter . . . Matson couldn’t even defeat the
Russians . . . Matson couldn’t reach 63 feet and slipped to
third place.”
All these cracks for a boy who threw 61-11V2 under
pressure that easily rivals that of the Olympics, and a boy
born and raised in Texas, too.
With this kind of prejudice and hatred coming from
minds that are supposed to hold the future of America, it
is not hard to see how the Ku Klux Klan has risen to such
influence in a historically free and peace loving nation. The
radical violence in Rochester, Harlem and Mississippi is
but a short extension of the prejudice that exists in the
minds of these so called Orange (deep yellow) journalists
who search their tiny minds to produce criticism of a young
Texan and American of whom sane and decent Texans and
Americans are proud.
Some time back, this same publication issued a plea to
abolish Texas A&M. I would like to return their plea three
fold in a slightly different manner. I don’t think the Uni
versity of Texas should be abolished. Possibly there is
something of value at the Austin school. But if the other
Teasips are in any way afflicted with the same mental
voids that their reporters have contracted, the name of the
school should certainly be changed so that the state of Texas
will not have to wince when “I’ve Been Working On The
Railroad” is played.
The other piece of journalistic claptrap that ran beside
the track meet story dealt with A&M’s football prospects
for 1964. It was refreshing in that it is offensive to Aggies
only and no reflections upon the state or nation was evi
denced. The writer, a pseudo-Sip who spent his undergrad
uate days at Rice, obviously knew very little about his sub
ject from first hand observation. In all likelihood, his ma
terial was borrowed from the magazine Texas Football, which
picked the Aggies to finish last. He evidently decided that
the objective unbiased views of TF Editor Dave Campbell
weren’t fit for use in an anti-Aggie newspaper. So he added
his own color which consisted of remarks like “Aggies die
hard, but they always die . . . quality football players gen
erally help eliminate mistakes. With the Aggies this is
merely a hypothesis: quality players are so few and far
between that proof will be lacking.”
I acknowledge the right of any sports scribe to make
forecasts, but only if the writer is knowledgeable and quali
fied to do so. He obviously is not.
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Koch of Baylor was a concensus
choice. Koch came from Temple
High School.
There have been twice as many
made this or that all-America
but a boy has to be on most of the
major teams to be considered an
authentic all-America.
Until 1930 there were no all-
Americas from the Southwest Con
ference who came from the Texas
Interscholastic League. But there
certainly were some who deserved
it, like Joel Hunt, who was all-
America at Texas A&M if ever
there was one but couldn’t get
the recognition, and Rags Mat
thews and Jack Sisco, who also
came along too soon.
Texas has had more all-Ameri
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because there are many more
players than any other state. But
take a select squad and send it
against a like number from any
other state and Texas probably
wouldn’t dominate. In fact, it
would have a tough time break
ing even in a given period. Its
intersectional record bears out that
statement.
As said before, Texas doesn't
claim to have the best but to have
the most. There just isn’t any
question about that.
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