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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1974!
UT honors former coaches
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP)-The Texas)
Longhorns’ new 2.5 millionj
baseball park will be named
Disch-Falk field if University of
Texas regents agree.
It will be necessary for the re
gents to waive a rule prohibiting'
naming a university facility after a
living person-Bibb Falk, who)
coached Longhorn baseball teams in
1940-42 and 1946-67 before retir
ing.
Disch is the late William J. “Billy”
Disch, who coached Longhorn
teams for 29 years. i
The new park will seat 5,000 and
will be covered with artificial turf. It;
replaces Clark Field, known by
most for the limestone cliff that runs
Legends highlight 1921-40 athleticl® 1
Banes Irvin, D.X. Bible come to Aggieland
through part of the outfield.
A center for the performing arts
will be built on the site of Clark
field, which was named in honor of
James B. Clark, a member of thCj
first board of regents at UT.
Editor’s note. This is the second in a
series covering the history of or
ganized athletics at A&M.
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By JiRRY JOHNSON
In the period 1921-1940, the Ag
gies sports legends got their names
on the book. The list includes E.
King Gill, the original twelfth man,
Bones Irvin, A&M athletic director
emeritus, Homer Norton and John
Kimbrough.
The start of the roaring twenties
rolled into A&M with Coach D. X.
Bible’s second of four straight bas
ketball championships. After the
1920 championship, the Aggies won
consecutively in 1921, 1922, and
1923. The captain of the 1922 team
was Aggie Hall of Famer Tiny Keen.
The year 1922 also brought a new
track coach to the campus. Andy
Anderson took over the program
and won the conference champion
ship in his first year. That was his
first of what was to become nine
Southwest Conference champion
ships.
E. King Gill is the original twelfth
man from his response to the call
from Coach D. X. Bible at the Dixie
Classic football game on January 2,
1922. The Aggies were pitted
against Centre College and had no
substitutes left when Coach Bible
sent word into the stands for Gill.
He suited up but didn’t get to play.
Gill has been inducted into the
Aggie Hall.
Bones Irvin was an All-Southwest
Conference tackle on the champion
ship team of 1925. He later held the
athletic director post from 1949
Air Force grads
Graduates serving in the U. S. Air
Force were recently decorated.
Col. Mike DeLeon of Houston
received the Meritorious Service Medal
at Randolph AFB. The 1949 A&M
graduate was cited for service at Pacific
Air Force headquarters, Hickam AFB,
Hawaii.
He was in the current operations
division and also was engineering
director. At Randolph, Col. DeLeon is
organization and maintenance director
with Air Training Command head
quarters. He studied civil engineering
here.
Capt. Ralph M. Crow of Texarkana
was decorated with his third award of
the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is
an F-4 Phantom weapon systems
officer with the 92nd Tactical Fighter
Squadron that flies out of Bentwaters
RAF Station, England. Crow was cited
for a Southeast Asia mission.
A finance major, he was in
Squadron 8 and graduated in 1969.
until 1954 and again from 1965 until
his retirement in February 1968.
Golf won it’s first A&M confer
ence championship in 1926.
Another SWC football champion
ship came A&M’s way in 1927. Aggie
Hall members Tommy Mills and
Joel Hunt played that year for
Coach Bible. Hunt still holds the
SWC scoring record for one season.
He set it in 1927 with 128 points.
The year 1931 produced a confer
ence baseball championship for the
Aggies. Beau Bell played in the out
field that year and was selected to
the All-America team. He was the
first Aggie ever to be picked to that
team.
The 1931 football team didn’t win
the championship but one of the let-
termen was James Earl Rudder. He
went on to be the President of the
University from 1959 to 1970. His
Aggie Hall placquecalls him “a truly
great Texas Aggie.”
Three years later, Homer Norton
took over the post of head football
coach. By the time he had finished
his fourteen years at the office, he
had taken the Aggies to the Sugar
Bowl, the Cotton Bowl twice and the
Orange Bowl. His 1939 team won
the National Championship.
Swimming became an outstand
ing sport at A&M with the hiring of
Art Adamson in 1935. He produced
five All-Americans in his 34 years on
the A&M campus. Adamson is a
member of the Aggie Hall and his
tenure stands as school coaching re-
Dolph
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ndorseir
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cord.
One year later, the Aggie
their first football All-Americar.| while his
Routt was also named to theif Farenthc
team. Routt is a memberoftkpd^ 1
tional and Aggie Hall ofFaintf Alexandi
Dick Todd is another namem Posey g<
Aggie Hall list. He captaine!
1938 football team andhasbees
led the greatest broken fieldna
ever at A&M.
Then came 1939 andthegrei
football team in Aggie hist
Coach Homer Norton tooktliisi
to the Sugar Bowl in NewOri
where they beat Tulane Hr
claim the national champions^
All-Americans John Kimbit
and Joe Boyd led that teamti
straight victories. During tbi
son, they defeated Villanova,!
was riding on the stringo|
straight wins, and TCU, die
tional champs of 1938.
In addition to Kimbrougl
Boyd, the other stars of thatti
were Walemon “Cotton Price,]
quarterbacked and captained
team, Herb Smith, whowasa
ference end selection thatyear,
Jim Thomason, who played|
the 600 minutes possible in 18i
blocking back. All are member
the Aggie Hall except Price.
Although it would behardii
the previous season, the Aggie
1940 did almost as well. Hie;
only to t. u. (0-7) and representa
conference in the Cottonb
against Fordham.
BIGGER AND BIGGER lineman highlighted Saturday’s Ma
roon and White game. This fancy photo work was contrived
by Greg Moses and Rodger Mallison.
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807 Texas Ave.
Across From A&M
SlSSy Speaks Out
On the Issues!
“. . . these are not ordinary times and this is not the
ordinary situation. We are not talking about a two-year
term for Governor—we are talking about four more
years.”
Public Utilities
Public School Finance
“Texas is the only state in this nation which has no
state agency to regulate the telephone companies. Texas
is also one of only three states which does not regulate
other utilities, such as electricity.
“The lines are clearly drawn on this issue between my
opponent and me—he wants to leave things as they are,
and I have proposed the creation of a Public Utilities
Commission.
“That man talks about no new taxes . . . Well let me
tell you where the taxes already are. 44% of the school
districts in Texas had to raise their property tax this year.
75% of the remaining districts which did not raise their
taxes this year will be forced to raise them next year
because these districts got no help from the State.
Tax Reform
As Governor, Sissy will:
propose the creation of a State Public Utilities
Commission for regulation of the rates and quality
of service from telephone, gas, and electric
companies and will appoint people to that
commission who put interests of the consumers over
those of the companies.
“Our taxing system in Texas is unequal and unfair. I
believe nothing so destroys the people’s respect for their
government than inequitable taxation. Therefore, as
Governor of Texas I would propose a complete reform
of state taxes so that the average consumer, the average
homeowner, or the small independent businessman no
longer bears more than his or her fair share of the
taxes.”
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FOR GOVERNOR
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