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THE BATTALION
Friday, February 14, 2003
Tech announcer calling it quits
By Betsy Blaney
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LUBBOCK, Texas — The
audience for Jack Dale’s first
play-by-play broadcasts were
ilte crops on his family’s
Kansas farm.
Having learned the names of
Army and Navy football players
by listening to their games on
radio, young Dale would climb
aiop a tractor and narrate imagi
nary games. He knew then that he
wanted to make a living in broad
casting, not farming.
For the past 50 years, Dale has
done so as the voice of Texas
Tech men’s basketball games.
His run of more than 1,500
games will soon come to an end,
as he’s retiring after this season.
Dale, 70, stopped calling foot
ball games after the 1999 season,
having done it for 47 years. He
missed it for a while, but that
feeling went away.
“And I think that’s probably
iheway it’s going to be with bas
ketball,” he said. “Since I've
made the decision. I can’t hardly
wail until the end of the season to
soil of put it behind me.”
School officials also are estab-
lishing endowed communications
and athletic scholarships in his
honor, ensuring that his name and
ambition will be passed on.
“I want to see it happen,”
Dale said. “I don’t have money to
doit myself, but I'm going to do
eveiything I can do to help.”
Dale moved from the tractor
tothe sideline with a nudge from
Max Falkenstein, who was early
into his ongoing 57-year run as
the play-by-play voice of the
Kansas Jayhawks.
“hold him you can’t just walk
into a station and say, ‘I want to be
abroadcaster,”’ Falkenstein said.
Falkenstein pointed Dale to a
Kansas City broadcasting school.
Six months later, Dale began his
career in Altus, Okla., then went
to Topeka, Kan.
Dale sent out more than 110
Icte to radio stations across the
ffliy. He wound up at KFYO
in Lubbock.
In January 1953, Dale made
his debut on Tech basketball.
He’s remained behind the micro
phone through three facilities and
six coaches.
“I think he is the greatest in
announcing the game of basket
ball,” fonner Tech coach Polk
Robison said. “His speed of
delivery, his enunciation and his
knowledge of the game — all of
it enters into his outstanding abil
ity. He amazes me.”
... I think the
people of Texas Tech
University and
Lubbock have had a
treasure in Jack Dale
over the past 50
years.
— Bob Knight
Texas Tech basketball coach
Dale had a tough time picking
a favorite player, but settled on
Bubba Jennings, who played for
Tech in the early 1980s and now
is one of Bob Knight’s assistants.
“I liked him because he was
a little guy who could shoot,”
Dale said.
Dale is glad to have made it
into the Knight era.
“It’s sort of icing on the cake
to work with a guy with that rep
utation, a real legend,” Dale said.
“That’s been a good way to end it
up, two years with Bob Knight.”
Knight said he commends
Dale for his dedication to the uni
versity and the region.
“I have really enjoyed work
ing with Gentleman Jack over the
last two seasons, and I think the
people of Texas Tech University
and Lubbock have had a treasure
in Jack Dale over the past 50
years,” Knight said through a
team spokesman.
Dale thinks the game is better
now than when he began. Back
then, there was no shot clock and
no 3-point line.
But the most exciting game
Dale remembers is from that
slower era.
It was in 1956, and Tech was
playing without its two top scor
ers. The Red Raiders had won the
Border Conference, but NCAA
rules made those two players plus
two junior college transfers ineli
gible to play against SMU in a
first-round NCAA matchup in
Wichita, Kan.
A football player and a team
manager suited up, and one of the
ineligible players helped Dale
with his radio broadcast.
“He sort of broke into tears
toward the end of the game just
seeing what this team was
doing,” Dale said. “It had to be
one of the most memorable ball
games for Texas Tech basketball
because they fought this SMU
ballclub and finally SMU won
the game 68-67.”
SMU went on to earn a berth
in the Final Four.
Dale has called games from
more than 100 cities and has trav
eled as far as Japan to cover Tech
sports.
During the days of the
Southwest Conference, games
were clustered in Texas and
Arkansas. Dale carried himself
on the road as if he was an
ambassador for Texas Tech.
“There’ll not be anybody who
can do what he’s done for Texas
Tech,” said former Tech football
coach Spike Dykes. “I don’t think
you replace people like that. You
just go on and do the best you can.
But there’s not going to be anoth
er Jack Dale, I can tell you that.”
Tech athletic director Gerald
Myers, a former Red Raider bas
ketball coach, said Dale’s loyalty
to the school has meant a lot.
“I really have a lot of admira
tion for and appreciation of what
he’s done,” Myers said. “He’s
been able to make (basketball on
the radio) very exciting and has
been instrumental in building a
fan base in West Texas.”
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Knight's day comes in Lubbock
LUBBOCK (AP) — The honors just keep
coming in for Texas Tech coach Bob Knight.
Lubbock Mayor Marc McDougal has
planned a news conference Friday to announce
Coach Bob Knight Day in Lubbock on
Saturday when the Red Raiders face Oklahoma
at United Spirit Arena.
The special proclamation by McDougal
commemorates Knight’s 800th career win Feb.
5 when the Red Raiders beat Nebraska 74-49.
During his coaching career, Knight’s
Indiana teams won three national champi
onships. Knight, 62, also coached the U.S.
Olympic team to a gold medal in 1984.
Knight became only the fourth men’s
NCAA basketball coach to reach 800 wins.
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