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THE BATTALION Pare 8 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 29, 1965 The Grid Staff i Texas Football Magazine Scores Another Success Coach Dee Powell m By HAROLD Y. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer Texas Football, a magazine that comes out only once annual ly but at a time to make a fan feel cool just to look at it, is off press for another year. It’s July and the sun beams down and the fans (mechanical) buzz, but Texas Football gives the air a touch of fall. It is the best production yet, just showing that even good things improve with age. Most striking points about this year’s Texas Football is that the best teams, best players and best games for the 20 years of post war football are selected by the men who have reported the action —the sports writers. The best player was Doak Walker, Southern Methodist’s three-time All-American. Matty Bell, who was his coach, backed up the writers with the comment “Nobody ever played football like Doak Walker.” The best team was Texas of 1963 — the national champions who blasted Navy in the Cotton Bowl. The greatest game was the 1949 Southern Methodist-Notre Dame melee that Walker missed because of an injury but who was forgotten for one day at least when Kyle Rote almost single-handedly whipped the na tional champions. According to a fine article by Steve Perkins, Matty Bell started preparing for the Irish about this time of the year. He had Mike Brumbelow scout Notre Dame five times. Texas, which will come up with the least experience on any team Darrell Royal has produced ex cept his first year—1957—was picked to win the Southwest Con ference championship. Arkan sas, almost apologetically, was given top mention and was picked on a number of ballots. Harry Walker Recalls 1946 World Series By HARRY WALKER Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates I have had two big thrills in baseball, leading the National League in hitting with 363. as a Phillie in 1947 and driving in the deciding run for the Cardinals in the 1946 World Series. I guess I would have to take the 1946 Series as the biggest. That was the year we beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a playoff for the National League pennant and then took the Boston Red Sox in the seven-game World Series. The Red Sox had just tied the score in the first of the eighth inning at 3-3. Enos Slaughter led off for us in the bottom half with a single but the next two batters (Whitey Kurowski and Del Rice) made out. Bob Klinger was pitching for Boston and Slaughter started for second on the pitch. I hit the ball to left-center and Slaughter already had a good jump toward second base. I turned first and kept going for second because I figured I could back up if I had to. When I rounded first, I could see Slaughter had rounded third and was going all the way. (Some say he ran right through coach Mike Gonzalez’s stop signal). Johnny Pesky, the Boston shortstop and now one of my Pittsburgh coaches, took the throw from the outfield and look ed for one split second before he threw to the plate. I think it was the second baseman’s (Bobby Doerr) fault for not call ing the play quicker. But any- wa y Slaghter made it easy. That run broke the tie and we held them in the ninth with Harry Brecheen pitching. With two runners on. The Cat got the last three men on infield plays. The St. Louis fans went wild. It was a great Series for me be cause I hit .412 and drove in the winning run. NEXT: Manager Johnny Keane of the New York Yankees-^; The riders with the Longhorns seemed to think Texas with a veteran quarterback w as a stronger bet than an experienced- packed Arkansas squad that is undecided on whom it will use at the signal calling job. The way they talk about Ark ansas though it would appear the Razorbacks shouldn’t need a quaterback too much. It has two 9.8 men and one 9.7 boy in its backfield. Perhaps all they need at Arkansas is some body to hand the ball to one of those blazing spedsters — Jim Lindsey, Harvey Jones or Bobby Burnett. It would be interesting if the perennially heralded 10-second men could be timed running with a football. But that might stop a good story. Tommy Nobis, the mighty line man of Texas, is given a special story in which he is built into a John Bunyan and called the greatest Longhorn ever. But this appears to be well-founded on fact. As one writer put it: “Even his freckles have muscles.” University of Houston, which really hits the big-time this year by playing before a television audience in the Astrodome, is featured along with the fellow who’s expected to pack in the fans for the dome—Warren Mc- Vea. One of the reasons McVea went to Houston was because he could play in the Astrodome where weather would be no hazard. With nothing to handicap them McVea and the Astrodome should make swell music together. S' Dee Powell, former Texas A&M lineman, who was on the Ala bama coaching staff, is the de fensive line coach on the Aggie staff headed by Gene Stallings. A center-guard at A&M for three seasons (1954-55-56), Pow- was one of the unsung heroes in Coach Paul Bryant’s scrappy line. Bryant often singled out Powell as “the most underrated guard in the Southwest Confer ence.” Powell, a native of Lockhart, Texas, worked with the A&M freshmen one year after com pleting his eligibility, and then went with Bryant to training, but then was called into military gie hopefuls through their j in practice. He was married to the fJ Diane DuBoise of Lod^f 1958, and they have two cti * a daughter, Elise, 4, and i] Kevin, 2. mi r-- • Fish Bowling Plans Laid AGGIE ATTACK Sophomore quarterback Harry Ledbetter of Breckenridge and senior fullback Bubber Collins of San Antonio work on handoffs as they look toward the 1965 football campaign in Texas A&M colors. Both are strong candidates for starting positions this season. Brochure Available At 5 Locations Sales of the 1965 Texas A&M football brochure to the general public have been running brisk thus far. The 84- page booklet of Aggie football data, past and present, came off the presses last week and a limited number were then allotted for public sale. The magazine has now been distributed to the following loca tions, where they may be pur chased for $1: A&M Athletic Ticket Affice (G. Rollie White Coliseum), Conway’s, First Bank & Trust (from Nancy Broach), Piggly-Wiggly market, and the magazine rack in the main lobby of the M.S.C. Aggie sports publicity director Spec Gammon prepared the pub lication. His 1964 brochure was voted the best ine in NCAA Dis trict 6, which includes all the SWC schools. By JIMMY LEHNE A bowling league composed entirely of freshman will be ini tiated this fall at Texas A&M. According to Wayne Smith, manager of bowling and billiards in the MSC, this league is in tended to increase freshman par ticipation. By competing in this league a freshman may become eligible to compete in the Texas Inter collegiate Bowling Conference. The conference is made up of the following schools: Texas A&M, University of Texas, Uni- of Houston, Trinity, Baylor, Tex as Christian, Arlington State Col lege and San Antonio College. Competition among these schools is met through match teams. Each school plays host to the other seven during the season. At each meet three complete series are bowled of three lines each. In order for a freshman to qualify for these meets he must bowl 21 games and maintain a 170 average or better. service and spent five years in spring as he sent the the Air Force where he was a captain and jet pilot. He re joined the Alabama coaching staff when Stallings was named head coach. Powell played two years of football at Lockhart High and came to A&M on a one-year scholarship. He won a four-year scholarship on his determined, aggressive style of play. In announcing the hiring of Powell, Stallings declared: “He was one of the outstanding coach es at the University of Alabama where he worked with the de fensive line. He will be in charge of the defensive line at A&M, and I am certain he will continue to do an outstanding job.” When he arrived back at Ag- gieland, Powell said: I’m very glad to be back at Texas A&M. This is the place where I learned a lot of valuable lessons.” Powell, who stands 6-1 and weighs 205, appeared to be in trim playing condition this past your* I m DEE POWELL Matson Prophesie! 70-Foot Soviet Pi NEW YORK UP) _ Randy Matson, the young giant from Texas A&M who holds the world shot put record, predicted a throw of 70 feet on his European tour Monday as 70 United States athletes set off for Russia and the annual track and field meet with the Soviets. Matson, a 6-foot-7, 20-year-old Texan who has a pending mark of 70 feet 7 inches for the shot, was in the group of 49 men and 21 women who left New York Monday afternoon. They are scheduled to arrive in Moscow Tuesday afternoon and will be joined there ;; other members of the team will compete against The 14 already are in Eure; From Moscow they will p| to Kiev for the meet Sal and Sunday. 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