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Page 10 THE BATTALION
MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1980
sports
Bible: Ag coach passes on
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Dana X. Bible, great Aggie and
Texas Longhorn coach of the early
part of the century, died Saturday at
the age of 88.
Listed among the great coaches of
the game of football and enshrined
in at least seven football halls of
fame, Bible produced some of his
greatest teams at Texas A&M.
Coaching eleven years during the
span 1917-1928 at A&M, Bible
compiled a record of 72 wins, 19
losses and nine ties. He is the only
Aggie football coach (with four years
service or more) not to suffer a los
ing season.
At A&M his teams picked up five
Southeast Conference (SWC) foot
ball titles and finished three seasons
undefeated: In two of those seasons
Bible’s charges were unbeaten, un
tied and unscored on. His coaching
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produced such SWC players greates
as E.S. Wilson W.E. Murrah, Jack
Mahan, T.F. Wilson, L.G. Diet-
rich, Joel Hunt, and J. B. Sikes.
Little known to many football fans
is the fact that in that span of years
at A&M Bible also coached the
Aggie basketball team. One year
after coach Bill Driver brought Ag-
gieland its only undefeated cage
season, Driver resigned and Bible
took over at the insistence of the
student body. In his seven years at
the helm Bible collected 91 wins, 46
losses and three SWC titles. He is
thus the only A&M coach, besides
current coach Shelby Metcalf to
bring more than one SWC trophy to
Aggieland in basketball. His 1923
seniors, with the Driver-led 1920
season, had four consecutive SWC
titles under their belt and named to
the All-SWC team from that squad
was E. King Gill, the original Aggie
Twelfth Man.
Bible was born in Jefferson City,
Tennessee, and gained his degree at
Carson-Newman College. Before
coming to A&M he coached at
Mississippi College and L.S.U.
After his stint at A&M, Bible went
to Nebraska where in eight years he
produced six Big Six Conference
champions. He then spent his last
ten coaching years at the University
of Texas bringing the Orange three
SWC No. 1’s. He stayed at Texas as
Athletic Director until 1957 when
he retired and was replaced by Dar
rell Royal.
He was named the recipient of
the Alonzo Stagg trophy and re
ceived the New York Touchdown
Club’s award for outstanding service
to football in 1954. He served as a
member of the NCAA football rules
committee for 25 years.
Bible is survived by a son and a
daughter. Services were set for 3
p.m. today in Austin.
—Tony Qallucci
Bri
By TONY G
Sports 1
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ready to play ball
after being in the
fore the game. T
how we came out
fense the first ten
we’d come to play
coach Shelby Met*
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Houston Saturday
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Now you know
Aggie wrestlers take tournament
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round-robin tournament in Denton,
Texas.
North Texas State University
hosted Texas Tech, LeTourneau,
and Texas A&M in the meet. Bob
Santini, a wrestler-coach, said the
team performance was outstanding
as the Ags pinned the NTSU Eagles
28-18, the Tech Raiders, 44-11, and
LeTourneau, 30-15.
“The most outstanding thing is
that this is our rebuilding year,” ^
Santini said. “We started 5 4-
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weekend. Twenty-one returning
All-America wrestlers will be at
tending the event. Santini said the
tournament is a good chance to test
the strength of the Aggie team.
Though the Aggies have never
come close to taking a first, or even
placing in the top three in the out of
state tournaments, Santini feels that
they have done a respectable job.
Twelve Aggies p
ggies scored as h
ipp’s basketball \
Season record to 1
pirashing of North
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Leading scorer
ori Foreman w
down the se;
The Aggies have seldom beenli
even though their effort is based
elv on a cluh-team foundation, i c i ■
T . 'SO' khe had 12 po
Last year the Aggie wresllip ^
placed second in the Texas c
lojiate championship behindH
land Junior College, which hi
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weli-nnanced program. The m ,1 ,
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