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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, August 26, 1965
Schoolboys Given
Credit For SWC
Football Prowess
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
The Southwest Conference has
dominated the nation’s football
for the past two years-
Texas was national champion
in 1963 with an undefeated, un
tied team that won the big bowl
game, beating Navy to confirm
that it was the best.
Arkansas was undefeated and
untied in 1964, the only major
college team with • that distinc
tion, other than Princeton. The
latter does not play in bowl
games or even an intersectional
schedule.
Arkansas beat Texas in the
only game that latter lost, and
Texas beat the national cham
pion, Alabama, in the Orange
Bowl. The Football Writers, who
wait until after the bowl games,
chose Arkansas.
Regardless of whether Arkan
sas was national champion, it
still finished with the finest rec
ord and as far as the Southwest
Conference was concerned was
the best team in the nation.
The victories of a Texas all-
star schoolboy squad over Penn
sylvania and Oklahoma — 26-10
over Pennsylvania in the Big 33
game and 21-13 over Oklahoma
in the Oil Bowl — serves to illus
trate why Southwest Conference
football has become the best in
the country.
Texas schoolboy football is the
major reason. And behind the
whole thing stands the Texas
High School Coaches Association.
This organization, growing
steadily ,has brought high school
coaching to its peak. Thereby
it strengthened the competition
and better players are being pro
duced.
Until a decade ago, Texas
schoolboy football didn’t do too
well against outsiders. The obvi
ous reasons was that it wasn’t
aimed in that direction in the
first place. The age limit was
low, the rules were stringent, the
semester rule kept experience at
a minimum.
But the coaches wanted foot
ball to be as good or better than
other sections. They fought for
spring training and still have it
in the larger schools. They really
worked at coaching. They took
advantage of the opportunities to
better themselves through the
largest coaching school in the
world.
So what might have been lack
ed in ability was made up with
good coaching.
The team that played at Her-
shey, Pa., was fine one indeed.
It also had some top-flight coach
ing from Bobby Lane, Doak Walk
er and Harley Sewell, products
of Texas schoolboy football them
selves. All became stars in col
lege and pro football.
The team that beat Oklahoma
in the Oil Bowl had a good nu
cleus from the team that played
at Hershey. It had a tough de
fense, it had speed in the right
places, it had a versatile of-
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fense, it was a football team that
could beat anybody.
Texas, with its best team pos
sible, beat Pennsylvania decisive
ly. Pennsylvania undoubtedly
had as good high school football
as anywhere in the nation. It
has itself claimed to be tops.
This is not declaring that
Texas high school football is the
best in the nation, because there
are many other states that have
not been played. But it is reason
able to believe that Texas is as
good as the best.
The Oil Bowl game in Wichita
Falls actually is the pioneer of
inter-state rivalry, not the Big
33. Texas and Oklahoma boys
have been playing each other for
20 years. Texas leads by a wide
margin but the competition has
been very strong in recent years.
This treatise is not, however,
on the relative merits of the
ymmztmxxMieet The Grid Staff
Ralph Smith
LINE OF DEFENSE
Fullback Joe Marconi of the Chicag-o Bears
gains five yards and then runs into a solid
wall of Green Bay Packers in the first half
of their National Football League exhibition
game at Milwaukee. Lionel Aldridge (82)
makes the tackle with backing up from Dave
Robinson (89), Lee Roy Caffey (60), Ray
Nitschke (66), Tom Brown (40) and John
McDowell (73). Green Bay won, 31 to 14.
(AP Wirephoto)
Ralph Smith, who knows the
position well from having played
and coached it, works with Ag
gie ends on the A&M football
staff headed by Gene Stallings.
Smith was an outstanding end
for Phillips High under Coach
Chesty Walker, and the Black-
hawks lost but two games during
the three years that Ralph played.
Smith same to A&M in the fall
of 1957, following in the foot
steps of his brother, Don, also
an end. In his sophomore season,
1958, he battled Don for the same
end post and started two games.
He started every game his junior
and senior seasons.
His first coaching experience
was with the A&M freshmen in
1961. He was end coach at
Orange, Texas in 1962-63 and
was line coach at Odessa High
last year.
Smith played both ways for the
Aggies but preferred defense to
offense. One of his top perform
ances came in a 14-0 loss to Bay-1
lor his senior season. The Bears
boasted three of the fastest backs
in the nation that year, but Ralph
as the corner man in the Aggie
defense, turned the Bear’s speed
sters inside and it took two big
pass plays for Baylor to win.
A&M out-gained the Bears on |
the ground that day.
The 26-year-old Smith is a |
bachelor.
College View
Wins Softball
Benching Gave Hodges Top Thrill
states in high school football;
it’s just to show why the South
west Conference has reached its
high place in the nation’s foot
ball.
Even Arkansas, the only out-
of-state members of the confer
ence, has found good use for
Texas schoolboy players. Some
of Arkansas’ finest have come
from Texas. And rightfully so
— Arkansas has as much right to
Texas schoolboys as the schools
in Texas. Arkansas also has
been doing a pretty good job of
producing top-flight boys itself.
By GIL HODGES
Washington Senators Manager
By greatest thrill in baseball
came not from something I did
but from something that was
done for me.
It happened in 1953. To tell
the story straight I must go back
to the 1952 World Series between
the Dodgers and Yankees.
The Yankees won the Series,
four games to three. One of the
reasons, probably the biggest
reason for the Yankee victory
was that I did not make a single
base hit in the Series. Oh for
21! No player in World Series
history, has ever suffered through
such a miserable Series.
That Series weighed heavily on
my mind all winter. I felt awful.
Not only for myself but because
I had let down the loyal Brooklyn
fans.
They say a new year means a
fresh start. It wasn’t for me.
When the 1953 National League
season opened I went hitless and
from them on it was a struggle.
After six weeks by batting aver
age was under my weight which,
incidentially, was steadily going
down from worry.
It got so bad that Charlie
Dressen, our manager, finally had
to bench me. “Maybe a week’s
rest will be just what the doctor
ordered,” said Charlie sympathe
tically. Frankly, I welcomed the
‘rest.’
Then something happened that
will remain with me as long as
I live . . . something for which I
will be eternally grateful.
I had been getting occasional
letters from people expressing
sympathy and wishing me luck.
But during the week of my
benching, the letters came in
like an avalanche . . . They came
by the hundreds daily. All of
them were kindly, sympathetic,
encouraging letters. Envelopes
containing good luck charms,
trinkets, religious medals, even
lucky coins, came in the mail,
The telephone rarely stopped
ringing.
It was wonderful. I was over
come by the fans treatment
which I felt I didn’t deserve. Be
cause I wasn’t doing anything to
help the club. The expression of
support and confidence by the
fans did something for me in
side. It made me humble but al
so proud — proud of the fact that
I never let down, had continued
to hustle, even in my worst mo
ments.
This was my greatest thrill
in baseball.
There’s a sequel to this
story. I returned to the lineup
a week later. Charlie sent me
in to pinch hit against the
Gaints. Dave Koslo, a lefthand
er, was pitching. I hit the first
pitch for a single, a line drive
to left center. I went on to hit
.300 for the first time in my
career. I believe the exact aver
age was .302 (It was, and the
following season Hodges hit .304).
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