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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, November 25, 1987
A&M intramural game<
owe start to Penberthy
Walter Penberthy, the “Father of Intramurals” at A&M, relaxes at his home in Bryan.
Photo by Jay Jannei
By Brad Marquardt
Reporter
The next time you’re out playing
flag football, softball, ultimate Fris-
bee, water basketball or any intra
mural sport for that matter, you
should stop and pay tribute to Wal
ter Penberthy, the man who made it
possible.
Penberthy has been called the
“Father of Intramurals” for his work
in developing the intramural pro
gram here at Texas A&M. While at
A&M, he has held many titles, in
cluding Head of the Health and
Physical Education Department,
chairman of the MSC Council, chair
man of the Athletic Council, Dean of
Men and even PE instructor.
Penberthy came to Texas A&M
after graduating from Ohio State
University and was hired by legend
ary head football coach Dana X. Bi
ble in 1926.
“At that time, Ohio State, Michi
gan and Illinois had the outstanding
intramural programs in the coun
try,” he says. “The man who was in
charge of the A&M intramural pro
gram left here and went to Washing
ton State.”
Penberthy took the job and has
been in College Station ever since.
But he says he was not always well-
accepted.
“Dean EJ. Kyle (for whom Kyle
Field was named) was very much
sports-minded,” he says. “He
couldn’t understand how anyone
who wasn’t an athlete himself could
run a physical education or intramu
ral program. Coach Bible had to
cram me down Kyle’s throat.
“But I’ll say this to his (Kyle’s)
credit, he became one of my most
staunch supporters. We became
good friends.”
When Penberthy started, the in
tramural program was run on a
company basis, meaning the seniors
could pick the sports they wanted
and the underclassmen got what was
left over, he says. To counter this,
Penberthy divided the sports into di
visions.
“It’s the same way now as it was
then,” he says. “I guess it has never
changed.”
Penberthy says the students came
up with ideas for the foundation of
A&M’s intramural program.
“We had a wonderful bunch of
kids,” he says. “They were just
looking for someone to lead them.”
All the other Southwest Confer
ence schools were located in cities
that provided more sports accidently
than A&M could on purpose, Pen-
“I think the yardstick I put on it when I was in tk
was if ids an activity and it's wholesome and practical,
can be worked in. I didn’t get technical about wheth
it was a sport or not, as long as it was wholesome, In
for it. ”
— Walter Penberthy, A&M’s “Father of Intramun
ip.
Penberthy became friends with the
intramural director at the University
of Texas.
“I’d try something out and if it
went good I’d recommend it to
him,” he says, “and if he’d try some
thing that didn’t work he’d say,
‘Don’t try it, it’s no good.’ So we
worked hand in hand.”
The intramural program started
with only the basic sports, but new
sports were always in the making.
Some didn’t last very long, Penber
thy says.
“But it was worth a try,” he says. “I
think the yardstick I put on it when I
was in there was: If it’s an activity
and it’s wholesome and practical, it
can be worked in. I didn’t get techni
cal about whether it was a sport or
not. As long as it was wholesome, I
was for it.”
Penberthy also tried his hand at
teaching the required physical edu
cation classes.
At the beginning of each semes
ter, he always told his students, “I’m
not concerned at all with the amount
of natural ability you bring into this
activity. But the thing that will con
cern me is if I don’t get 100 percent
of what you’ve got.”
Penberthy says his best sport was
probably handball, but it didn’t allow
the contact with the students that he
wanted, which is why he became in
terested in volleyball.
When he started coaching, he
didn’t know anything about volley
ball, he says, but he learned about
the sport through films and attend
ing national tournaments on the
West Coast.
“I couldn’t execute any of the
skills, but I knew enough to where I
could teach them the fundamen
tals,” he says. “I had a pretty good
analytical mind and I knew how to
teach them.”
Penberthy says he hoped he had
the “God-given ability” to inspire
kids to be good in whatever they did
and to teach the students as well as
the subject.
“1 figure that if the student didn’t
get something extra from contact
with me, then they were missing the
program,” he says.
Another quality that “Mr.
possessed was his ability to reme
oer students names. After the £
two weeks, he called all his studi
by name. This way the studentb
he was being spoken to, he says.
“A lot of time, I’d had tneii
thers,” he says. “It wasn’t unus
for kids to come in and givea*
and say, ‘Mr. Penny, Dad saidto
you hello.’ ”
In 1978, 12 years after hisrti
ment, the Penberthy Ihtrai
Center was named for him, and
ery spring, the Penberthy
Tournament is held there.
He says he still attends somt
the games, handing out trophies
shirts to the participants. He doe
follow any particular team
tournament, but he does follow
team.
“I go out to watch the girls
women’s softball team),” he
“Their homefield is in the intrai
ral center, so I have a double ii
in them. They (last year’s natii
champions) were the best! Thf
the ones I like to watch because!
like to see those gals perform
they do. As a kid growing up,
just didn’t do that. 1 like that.’
Among Penberthy’s other di
were writing a weekly column in
Battalion called “Penny’s Seren*
which dealt with sports and whi
considered “good living, kind
and anecdotes.”
Penberthy was a member
Athletic Council when footballn
Paul “Bear” Bryant was hired
berthy says he had a lot of res
for Bryant for three reasons.
“Number one, he would col
close to getting 100 percent
what a boy had, and I admired
in anybody,” he says. “The sfl
reason was he knew what he«a
and he knew what he was
do to get it. The final reason
of his most admirable qualities
never heard him blame a plajf
ter a loss. He took all the blame
self.
“The only objection I had
hiring Bryant was that he
resented big-time football, and
Athletic Council didn’t feel
A&M was ready for that image
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PECOS (AP) — Texas Rural Legal Aid attorneys
Tuesday filed a petition that would allow them to ques
tion some county officials under oath about the fate of
Saragosa tornado relief donations.
The petition for bill of discovery filed in state district
court asks officials to turn over any records relating to
tornado relief that have not already been given, Legal
Aid attorney Alpha Hernandez said Tuesday.
The action may be the first step to legal action, de
pending on what is found, she said.
Donations of cash, cars, building materials, clothing
and other items poured in from all over the country fol
lowing the May 22 tornado that killed 30 people and
leveled more than 60 buildings in the small cotton
farming town near the Davis Mountains.
The Reeves County sheriffs office, the Pecos Jaycees
and the county-appointed Saragosa Relief Fund Fi
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donations. Some items, including $4,000 cash, have
been stolen, and a community group named the Sara
gosa Foundation asked Legal Aid last month to investi
gate whether county officials were negligent or dishon
est in handling the donations.
“We haven t come up with a definite list of d
tions we want to take,” Hernandez said from her
in Del Rio. “Though I imagine they will start wi
county judge and whichever county officials we
sely involved.”
released rec» :
Earlier this month, the county
mostly deposit slips and canceled checks, to Legal
after the agency threatened to file suit. Hernandez
Legal Aid wants any records the county did notj
vide, such as automobile titles, warehouse receipts
shipping and receiving statements.
Interviews and additional records can help
agency figure out exactly what happened with th f
nations, she said.
“You can go through a box of papers and try 1
construct the story,” she said. “The best way is)
ask people about th<
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called the petition an intermediate investij?
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step
“At some point,” Hernandez said, “we’ll co(
enough information to sit down with out clients
say, ‘Look, this is what we’ve found out. What"
you like us to do about it? If we see any miscondu
will be presented to the proper authorities.”