New Conference of Small Colleges Could Make Football Pay its Way
Associated Press sports writer Harold V. Ratliff outlines a potential new conference for small colleges to sustain paying football. He notes Hardin Simmons and other Texas schools face a Border Conference breakup and discusses adding Arlington State, Trinity, Tarleton, Abilene Christian and Lamar Tech to form a rival league.
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Harold V. Ratliff
Associated Press
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Leo Hardin-Simmons
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Texas Western
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Arizona State University
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Trinity
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Abilene Christian
Arlingon State
Gilstrap
Texas
Lone Star
Card of Thanks for Kindness After Loss
The Sherwood family thanks friends and relatives for kindness, sympathy, food, flowers, memorials, and cards after the death of their husband and father. Special thanks to Rev. Dechert Rev. Taylor and Dr. McCulloh for their services.
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Taylor
McCulloh
Sam W. Sherwood
Dunbar Hosts Class B District Track Meet Saturday
Dunbar will host the Class B district track meet Saturday at Bulldog Stadium with entrants from Munday Coleman Eastland Breckenridge Ballinger Stamford Anson and Dunbar. The Dunbar boys feature Carl Francis and sprint and mile relays with district and state contenders. the Dunbar girls, district champions, also compete.
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Eastland
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Ballinger
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Anson
Dunbar
Carl Francis
Waco Pioneers and the Ben Ficklin Tribute
The article recalls the Huaco Indians treaty with Stephen F. Austin in 1820s, the Comanche expulsion in 1837, and Waco growing near the old village site. It notes the Brazos River crossing and the 1917 Daughters of the American Revolution memorial at Indian Spring near the Suspension Bridge. It then honors Ben Ficklin as a Pony Express pioneer who carried the first message from the first governor.
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Stephen F. Austin
Waco
Texas
Daughters of the American Revolution
Prazos River
Ben Ficklin
Pony Express
Track Meet Event Entries and Winners Mentioned
The note lists events and athletes: high jump with Harris and Brown, pole vault by Crawford, low hurdles by Francis and Crawford, and migan hurdles by Francis. It reads like a brief results or entries summary from a track meet with multiple events and names indicated.
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Harris
Brown
Crawford
Francis
Ben Ficklin: Town, County Seat, and Flood's End
Ben Ficklin in Tom Green County West Texas served as the first county seat and a town named after a man who died in 1870. The settlement lay four miles south of present San Angelo and was destroyed by a flood in 1882.
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California
Missouri
Ben Ficklin
Tom Green County
West
Texas
San Angelo
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