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Sports legacy
‘Father of A&M intramural sports’ recalls life in Aggieland
By SCOTT SUTHERLAND
Staff Writer
Each semester thousands of Ag
gies chase grounders, catch passes
and flick flickerballs across the field
that bears his name. And for Walter
“Penny” Penberthy there couldn’t be
a more fitting tribute.
“They call me the father of intra
mural sports at A&M,” Penberthy
savs, “but there was nothing to it.
The student body was eager. It
seemed like any sport we came up
with, everybody wanted to play it.”
But a man doesn’t earn a piece of
Aggie real estate overnight.
Penberthy began his career at
Texas A&M in 1920 after graduat
ing from Ohio State University. He
was hired as an assistant in the physi
cal education department and since
the director of Intramural Sports
had just quit, Penberthy says he got
that job also. His boss ana mentor
was Aggie coaching great Dana X.
Bible.
“I told him I would come to work
here for $2,500 a year,” he says. “Bi
ble told me he’d give me $2,600 a
year and nothing less.”
And with that, Penberthy left his
native Elyria, Ohio for A&M.
Penberthy says he had the great
est respect for Bible. It was Bible,
Penberthy says, who gave him the
well-known nickname of “Penny.”
“The man had all the dignity and
reserve of any man I ever knew,” he
says. “He could have been the Uni
versity president just as well as foot
ball coach. But he loved the game,
he loved the kids.”
When Penberthy arrived in town,
a depot sign said there were 2,000
students enrolled at A&M and 8,000
Bryan residents.
A little farther down those very
same tracks, in Navasota, during the
summer of 1933, he married Lollie
Belli Garvin. He and his wife have
lived in their present home for 45
years.
“Really, this house is one of the
greatest things we ever did,” Penber-
tnv says. “We built it in 1940 after
A&M asked the faculty to move off
the campus. Our old house on cam
pus used to be right on the spot
where the walkway between the
MSC and Rudder Tower is today.”
Penberthy did see action on the
college football field. Not as a coach,
but as an official. Penberthy says he
Walter Penberthy
was an official at the 1944 Cotton
Bowl, which featured Texas Chris
tian University and Oklahoma A&M
College, now Oklahoma State Uni
versity.
“In those days the coaches used to
come in before the game and tell you
if they were going to try any trick
plays/’ he says. “They aidn’t want
you to foul up the play by throwing a
flag if you didn’t see what happe
ned.”
Penberthy was appointed dean of
men in 1947, a position that allowed
him to serve as a member of the Ath
letic Council between 1952 and
1954.
It was in 1954 that A&M went
shopping for a new coach and young
Paul Bryant was the man the college
had its eye on.
But Penberthy, then the chairman
of the Athletic Council, says that he
and the rest of the council didn’t like
Bryant. They wanted to hire L.W.
Sykes, a former Aggie football
player, as the new head coach.
‘'Bryant represented big-time
football, which nad a bad reputation,
and we weren’t ready for that,” Pen
berthy says.
But the A&M Board of Regents
was sold on Bryant, he says. Upon
hearing that the Athletic Council
would vote to hire Sykes, the board
hired Bryant.
“I learned to respect Bear Bryant
before he left,” he says. “He was the
greatest motivator I nave ever seen.
He had a unique way of getting from
kids 100 percent effort, 100 percent
of the time. He loved to win, and he
got the job done, whatever it took.”
Because of Bryant’s reputation
for physical fitness and preparation
in his football plavers, Penberthy
was preparing his kids for a great
challenge before Bryant even got to
A&M.
Penberthy savs he was sent by a
member of the Board of Regents to
study the training facilities at Strate
gic Air Command in San Antonio.
“The idea was for me to gain a
little knowledge as to how we might
get our kids in shape before we sent
tnem off to war," lie says.
Penberthy developed a plan com
prised of four hours a week of ex
tensive conditioning.
“We’d go for 30 minutes doing
hard calisthenics without stopping,’
he says. "I’d have a leader at the
front and while everyone was watch
ing him, he would change to a dif
ferent exercise. When 1 blew the
whistle, everyone would start doing
what he was doing. That way we
wouldn’t have to stop.”
After the calisthenics, Penberthy
says, the students were allowed to
play basketball, football or jog for
the remainder of the period. He says
the conditioning may have worked a
little too well.
“We took almost our whole junior
class down to San Antonio to be in
ducted into the Army,” he says,
“And this Army sergeant sees our
f ;uys standing around waiting, and
ic gets this iuea that he’ll show them
what the Army is like. Well, he hikes
them out about two miles from
where they were and tells them he’s
going to make them run back.
“A little while later our kids came
running back in, and we didn’t no
tice the sergeant with them. They
had run off and left him, just flatly
outran him.”
Penberthy resigned his position as
dean of men in 1954 and then
served as adviser to the Student Sen
ate. As adviser, Penberthy worked
closely with students again.
“But it made me realize how much
I missed being with the students,” he
says. “They’re what always mattered
most to me, the kids.”
In 1959, Penberthy returned to
teaching. He gave up all other com
mitments at the University and be-
f an teaching volleyball and hand-
all.
“Volleyball, I always loved,” he
says. “I’d like to think 1 was responsi
ble for getting volleyball started at
A&M.”
Also in 1959, Penberthy was
awarded a distinguished Battalion
award. The inscription on the award
cites his ability to do his job excep
tionally well.
Penberthy says that in 1978 the
second greatest event in his life oc-
cured. The Walter Penberthy Intra-
mural Complex across from Kyle
Field was dedicated on Oct. 24,
1978, only 12 years after he retired.
But more than the intramural
fields hear Penberthy’s name.
The Walter Penberthy Softball
Classic is held every spring and there
is a Camp Penberthy at Fish Camp.
Since his retirement Penberthy
and his wife have traveled in Eu
rope, Scandinavia and the Orient.
And they get invited to a lot of reun
ions.
"1 always amaze everyone because
I can remember their name,” he
says. “My old students try to test me
by putting their hands over their
name tags and see if I can guess their
names. I even amaze myself some
times because I haven’t seen some of
them in 30 years.”
T oday Penberthy, 84, stays active
in community service and fund-rais
ing events in College Station. But he
says one of his favorite pastimes is
spending time with old students and
friends.
The second week of every month
Penberthy meets with the “Old
Goats.” He says the group is com
prised of old Aggies who get to
gether at the Ramada Inn and talk
about old times.
But Penberthy says he has never
been stuck in the past. He says he be
lieves the University has never been
greater and that it’s obvious what
brought A&M to world class status.
“G-I-R-L-S, that’s what changed
this University,” he says. “I think it’s
wonderful. But the guys didn’t like it
too much. But I’ll bet vou couldn't
find one now who would go back to
the old wav.”
Penberthy was honored in "The
History of the Great Class of 1934,”
a biography of that class’ senior year,
as one of the eight great characters
of 1934. The short story that follows
recognizes Penberthy as a leader and
faculty friend.
But the first four words of the
tribute said it all for the Class of’34.
"Who can forget Penny?"
Judge orders disclosure of Gramm’s records
Associated Press
DALLAS — Texas Sen. Phil
Gramm’s campaign must provide fi
nancial records that the Federal
Election Commission wants for a
complete audit, a federal judge said
Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Robert W.
Porter ruled that the Friends of Phil
Gramm, the Republican senator’s
campaign group, must submit most
of the documents sought in a FEC
subpoena.
Court documents show that FEC
staff members have criticized
Gramm’s campaign for, among
other things, apparently accepting
donations above the $1,000 limit set
by campaign finance laws for indi
vidual contributors and for failing to
itemize some campaign debts.
In June Friends of Phil Gramm
had filed a lawsuit seeking to block
the FEC request for an auefit.
Porter made his decision after at
torneys for Gramm’s campaign and
the EEC spent more than an hour
T hursday pouring over the subpoe
na’s specifics.
The judge had recessed the hear
ing Thursday morning after telling
attorneys from both sides to
straighten out their differences be
tween themselves instead of in fed
eral court.
Prior to the recess, FEC auditor
Joseph Stoltz testified that the re
cords were needed to get an accurate
picture of the freshman senator’s
campaign finances.
Porter had already ruled that the
FEC has a right to audit Gramm’s re
cords. He said the subpoena will be
enforced subject to the terms of the
agreement reached during the re
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“We got what the subpoena
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He said an order outlining the
agreement will be written and signed
by the judge.
Gramm’s campaign attorney
James F. Schoener said the sub
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agreement.
Gramm’s campaign will not have
to submit minutes of meetings relat
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orting responsibilities under the
ederal Election Campaign Act.
It also won’t have to provide docu
ments and materials relating to loan
records because they don’t exist.
The committee will have to submit
financial records dating back to Feb.
12, 1983, including all amendments
filed or anticipated to be filed to the
financial reports. Documents relat
ing to contribution records also will
have to turned over to the FEC.
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