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Friday • December 1,
SWC a powerhouse? Ags remember when
By David Winder
The Battalion
Texas Christian versus Southern
Methodist.
These days it would not be considered a
big game, but when Yale Lary was young it
was huge. Back then, the Southwest Confer
ence was huge.
“My neighbor was a member of the 1939
(Texas A&M) national champions and we al
ways went to see TCU and SMU,” Lary said.
“Then I got a scholarship to play at Texas
A&M. Growing up the Southwest Conference
was all I knew.”
After Saturday’s game between Texas
A&M and Texas though, Lary will have to
learn about the Big 12 and the Western
Athletic Conference as the SWC ends after
80 years.
“Teams like TCU, SMU and Rice have a
hard time competing in the conference now,”
Lary said. “The trouble is that there are only
two teams that are dominating the confer
ence. If you want to play big-time football,
you have to play big-time games.”
Texas A&M has been involved in some of
the conference’s biggest games, but the game
that stands out to Lary is one where only
bragging rights were on the line.
Entering the game at 4-3-2, the Aggies
played host to No. 16 Texas on Thanksgiv
ing Day in 1951. On the opening kickoff,
Battalion File Photo
Texas A&M running back Keith Woodside
breaks tackles against Texas in 1981.
the Aggies lost star running back Bob Smith
for the game with a broken jaw. But Glenn
Lippman picked up the slack by rushing for
174 yards. The 22-21 victory over the Long
horns was the first since 1939.
“It was my senior year, and we hadn’t
beat Texas in 13 years,” Lary said, “I
scored two touchdowns and our victory
gave the game some meaning. I went out
with a real good feeling. We were the
Fightin’ Texas Aggies.”
Texas A&M captured its only national
championship in 1939 behind the powerful
running of John Kimbrough. In the Aggies
14-13 victory over Tulane in the 1940 Sugar
Bowl, Kimbrough rushed for 159 yards and
two touchdowns.
But the moment that Kimbrough said he
remembers most about that season did not
even take place on the playing field.
“We were practicing for our game against
Texas that Thursday,” Kimbrough said. “All
the other games were going to be played on
Saturday. And they (SWC officials) came out
during practice and told us we were the con
ference champions. That was great.” ^
Kimbrough said he is saddened that the
SWC will not exist after Saturday.
“I’d like to see it continue the way it was,”
Kimbrough said. “It’s all about finances
nowadays, academics are never mentioned.
Money is the bottom line.”
Kimbrough said it is a totally different
game from when he played though.
“I don’t know if it was a better game then
or now,” Kimbrough said. “These days
though the boys just aren’t in shape. They
run for 40 yards and they have to go off to
the sideline and get oxygen. Back then, we
played offense and defense. Most of those
boys probably wouldn’t last five minutes.”
Texas A&M guard Marvin Tate made it
more than five minutes; He was one of only
27 players to make it through Bear Bryant’s
Junction training camp in 1954.
Tate said that the SWC was special in his
days because few Texas schoolboys went to
college outside of the state.
“When you played games against people
like Georgia and Oklahoma State you didn’t
know any of those folks,” Tate said. “But
when you played in the conference you were
playing against guys who had been on your
team in high school or you had played
against in all-star games. You got fired up,
and the adrenaline started pumping for con
ference games.”
Tate said he could see the eventual end of
the conference coming while working with
the different schools.
“I don’t know exactly when the downfall
of the conference occurred,” Tate said. "But
you could see the road map back in the ‘70s.
You take a team like TCU, income and ex
penses causes problems for them. Besides
A&M and Texas, Texas Tech is the only oft
er school that draws well.”
After over a quarter century of involve
ment in the SWC, Tate said he is not sin
how he will react when the conference enti
Saturday. Will he laugh? Will he cry?
“I don’t know,” Tate said. “I guess it a[
depends if we beat Texas or not.”
Texas A&M
University
Entered SWC: 1915
SWC Record: 249-211-30
All-Time Record: 567-363-48
Championships: 1917, 19, 21, 25, 27,39,
49, 41, 56, 67, 75, 85, 86, 87, 91, 92, 93
All-Time Coach: R.C. Slocum 1989-: All-
time: 59-12-2, SWC: 39-4-2
Bowl Record: 11-10-0
Top 5 Players:
1. Darren Lewis,
Running Back
2. John David Crow,
Running Back
3. Quentin Coryatt, Linebacker
4. Lester Hayes, Defensive Back
5. Kevin Smith, Defensive Back
Top 5 Games:
1. Jan. 1, 1940: No. 1 Texas A&M 14, No.
5 Tulane 13: A&M wins its one and only
national championship.
2. Jan. 1, 1968: Texas A&M 20, No. 6
Alabama 16: The student bests the teacher
as unranked A&M led by Gene Stallings
upsets Bear Bryant and Ken Stabler's
Crimson Tide.
3. Jan. 1, 1986: No. 6 Texas A&M 36,
No. 9 Auburn 16: The Blitz Brothers take
out Heisman Winner Bo Jackson
including stopping him four straight times
inside the 1-yard line with the game close
in the third quarter.
4. Nov. 25, 1984: A&M 37, UT 12: The Aggies
save their season (6-5) with the win. It begins
an era of beating Texas 10 out of 11 years.
5. Dec. 29, 1990: A&M 65, BYU 14: The
Aggies set the still-standing bowl record for
points scored and separated both of Heisman
Trophy winner Ty Detmer's shoulders.
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