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iTED THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 19T4 Paa:e 7 SWC championships highlight 1941-61 A&M athletics ‘d other; Gradiir; t requi^ 1 $ 1 Nurser By JERRY JOHNSON U\d, Ed. note: This is the third of four t 1 sections tracing the history of or ganized athletics at A&M. ArchitJi Southwest Conference Champ- gn Studf ! ons hips highlight the 1941-1960 era of athletics at A&M. It begins on New Year’s Day 1941 in Dallas where the Aggies battled lie Fordham Rams. A&M was the ictor 13-12. This period of history had at least ^■ne Southwest Conference champ- nt tndjjSin in every year except 1946. ■ For the third straight year, the ggies played in a post season foot- jail game in 1942. Again it was the lotton Bowl but the opponent was labama and the Aggies lost 29-21. Three All-Americans in three dif ferent sports headed the 1943 urels. Pete Watkins in the high mp, Danny Green in the freestyle djitterbug Henderson in the jave- [nwere the Aggie heroes. Hender- n is among those considered, the est athlete to attend A&M as he 11 varsity letters and three eshman numerals in five sports. He on four letters in the same year and no on the same day as he competed WOMES the right ^ur own d working r compit, etic consul foducU. '1y t iin« ut comma ires dim his arts . Brnn. 0 p.m. two conference championships. In 1945, Coach L. J. Dimmitt’s track team showed a preview of things to come as they won three trophies at the Southwest Recrea tional meet in Forth Worth. The year 1947 began a series of six conference track championships in seven years for the Aggies. This was the high point of the years from 1941 to 1957 when the Aggies either won or finished second to the Horns in the SWC meet. The star of the 1947 team was Art Harnden, a quartermiler. In his three years of college competition. Harden never lost a 440 race. He ran on the 1948 Olympic team as a member of the 1600 meter relay team which won the gold medal. He and shotputter George Kadera were selected to the 1948 All-American team. Track and cross country wins in almost every meet they entered vere the reputations of Andy Anderson’s teams through 1953. Football brought another trophy to campus in 1950. The Aggies finished third behind UT and Baylor but were chosen to play in the Presi dential Classic in Washington, D.C. There they smashed the University of Georgia Bulldogs 40-20 behind the strong running of All-American Bob Smith. All-Americans and conference championships made the Aggie sports history of 1951. Pitcher Pat Hubert, track weightman Darrow Hooper and highjumper Walt Davis were the honorees. And track, baseball and basketball won the championships. Davis and Hooper are in the Aggie Hall of Fame. Davis was the first jumper in the world to go over seven feet. A member of that 1951 baseball team was Wally Moon. He is also in the Aggie Hall. He left A&M to play pro ball with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 1952 football team won only three games but still tackle Jack Lit tle made the All-America team. Art Adamson continued to pro duce swimmers from the Aggie pool. In 1953, breaststroker Richard Weick was named to the All-America team. The 1956 golf team had a name player to lead it to the conference championship. Bobby Nichols was that man and he too is an Aggie Hall member. Adamson’s swim teams of 1956 and ’57 won the trophies behind the strong leadership of Tetsuo Okamoto. Okamoto was selected to the All-America team both years. Heisman Trophy winner. The trophy goes annually to the top col lege football player and that year it went to John David Crow. In a late season collapse, the Aggies were third in the conference race and lost in the Gator Bowl to Tennessee 3-0. Football got back on the field of Also on that ’57 team was All winners in 1956, too. Paul “Bear” American tackle Charlie Krueger. Bryant was the coach and the team Two of the Aggies present coaches won the title. All-Americans team came on the scene to close out this were Jack Pardee and Dennis Goehr- period. Tom Chandler’s baseball ing. For some unknown reason, the team won the pennant in 1959, his Aggies didn’t go to a post season first year on the job, and Henry game that year. Ransom’s golf team won the whole Then came 1957 and A&M’s only thing in 1960, his first year also. 'JTS jn both track and baseball. The 1943 football team travelled to A.partir.i: Miami, Florida, on New Year’s Day 944 to battle the Tigers of LSU. partfe farlier in the season, the Aggies had >ummer Beaten the Tigers but that wasn’t the ay it went in the Orange Bowl. Work B SU k ea * Army, 19-14. | Swimming asserted itself as a top I feggie sport in 1944 with the first of | . Baseball sets >en!n8i (til .11 m»in ti! n 626-JOH .; San At -8886. Cli( LUBBOCK (AP)—The University )f Texas Longhorns, the Broncs of xotleiii 3an American University of Edin- exotic <i' )urg, and Louisiana Tech were 'oungTot i e l ecte d Tuesday as the three teams parttiim o your kM weekends, A -ive-In. playoff dates hat will compete in the NCAA Dis- rict 6 baseball playoffs. The playoffs will be held at Arling- f on 4-12 o' r plus sfcifj ilea smith,||on Stadium next May 24-26. Caldwell, || x exas an( j Louisiana Tech won the nvitation because of their confer- ant! » n c e championships. The Lon ghorns took the Southwest Confer- ;nce title and Louisiana Tech was irst in the Southland Conference. The Longhorns, who were 44-4 for "ffthe season, took the conference ihampionship in the last day of the time season when they defeated the Texas Shift it Vggies in a doubleheader. Their con- leage. 0 (erence record was 20-4. ies Men Louisiana Tech had a 27-17 record S. Jlldst For the year. xas T7$ The Broncs won their invitation to [ for Mr the playoffs as an at-large team be- rector < 2au.se of their impressive 50-9 re- 'raley M -ord. Texas will go into the playoffs led by its sophomore pitcher Jim Gi- 1,Si deon, who had an 11-0 record with ^ an ERA of 1.94, and by catcher Rick '’TTP Bradley who batted .424. ) IjUI 1 The Broncs had their most suc cessful season in the six years that they have played under coach Al Og- letree. They had an exceptionally well-balanced pitching staff that col lected a total of 45 complete games. Their top men are southpaw Bruce Wilson, a senior who had a 10-1 re cord, and Laconia Graham, a right hander with a 9-1 mark. Two sophomores, Ron Edquist and Jesse Trinidad, had 9-2 records. The two sophomores also led in strikeouts. Trindad had 71 and Ed quist 64. The team had a batting average of .310 led by junior catcher Wayne Cato who batted .374. 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