Page 12 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1978
‘The voice of Aggieland’
announcer
By SALLYANNE CORNELIUS
Battalion Reporter
Something is different about Kyle
Field this year. It has a new voice.
C.K. Esten has retired after 24
years as the public address an
nouncer at Texas A&M University
football games and 30 years teaching
here.
Esten was born in 1908. He at
tended Brown University and
graduated from Baylor University
with a master’s degree in English
and theater.
“I was working at a detective
agency while going to Brown, and I
met a fellow who was from Baylor
doing graduate work at Brown,”
Esten said.
“He asked me to come to Texas
with him, and I finally did. In enrol
led at Baylor.
“He got me a dorm room and a
job with the athletic department.”
Esten said he ran track at Brown
University, and he hoped to run at
Baylor, but “at that time transfer
students couldn’t run, even if they
had been there a year or more.”
Esten managed the track team
Esten said he teas ashed to he the
public address announcer be
cause “1 knew some football. I
had played it, coached it, re
fereed it, and watched it.”
and helped the coaches and trainers
while at Baylor.
Esten said Brown University was
“a tougher school than Baylor. After
Brown, Baylor was a breeze.”
After graduation, Esten became
principal and coach at a high school
outside Waco.
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Later he taught at Gorman High
School.
“That’s where I met my wife. She
was teaching elementary school in,
Gorman,” Esten said.
Esten and his wife moved to New
England, where he spent 11 years as
a summer stock actor.
The couple visited relatives each
year in Texas, until “One year I
asked my wife if she wanted to move
back to Texas, and she said Yeah”’
Esten was offered two teaching
jobs in West Texas, but decided to
check with a friend at Baylor first.
The friend sent a recommenda
tion to Texas A&M, and Esten came
to College Station for an interview.
“Within five minutes, Dr.
Tommy Mayo said I had the job. I
never signed a thing. I always had,
an oral contract at A&M,” Esten
said.
Esten said he was offered a job a
few days later for a better salary,
but, “I stuck with A&M.
Esten said he was asked to be the
public address announcer because
“I knew some football. I had played
it, coached it, refereed it, and
watched it.”
“I knew the different formations,
and I spoke clearly,” Esten said.
Esten announced for Texas A&M
through nine different coaches, be
ginning with Homer Norton, he
said.
Esten said one of the games he
remembers was the “Hurricane
Game” against TCU in 1956.
“I’ve never seen anything like it
ever, either before or after.
“It was so stormy you couldn’t
see. TCU had the ball about a foot
from the goal line. The officials cal
led it a no-gain. I couldn’t tell, but
I’m sure the officials were right.
Battalion photo by Paige Beasley
After 24 years, C. K. Esten will no longer announce Texas A&M football games.
Those guys were right on it,” Esten
said.
The Aggies won the game 7-6.
Esten remembered the Texas
A&M-Texas game of 1963 because,
he said, of an official’s mistake.
A Texas A&M receiver caught a
pass near the back of the end zone
and the officials ruled he was out of
bounds.
“The problem was the wrong offi
cial called the play, and the referee
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took the wrong official’s word.
“Each official has a certain area he
calls, and this guy was out of his
area.
“I’ve refereed a lot of ball games
and I know whose area is whose,”
Esten said.
Texas A&M lost that game 15-13,
and Texas became the Southwest
Conference champions.
Hank Foldberg, Texas A&M
coach at that time, said of the call
- “This is the greatest injustice to a
group of young fellows I’ve ever
seen.”
The Texas A&M-Memphis State
game this year was "the first time in
40 yers I’ve gotten to sit with my
wife,” Esten said.
Since he retired, Esten has taken
two European trips. Presently he is
considering a trip to the Holy Land.
Esten spends considerable time
gardening at home on his two lots.
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bonfire to be cut at the site 0
Gibbons Creek Steam Elen
Station.
Aggies who build the center
for the annual bonfire will pm
labor, equipment and truckst
and haul logs off the project s
The students will be alk
work in a 300-acre tract ofthel
osed Gibbons Creek cooling
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