Texans Boost Largest Coaching School In The World
The Texas High School Coaches Association hosts a five day coaching school in San Antonio August 1 5 with all star games on August 4 5. It notes Texas leads in high school football basketball and track enrollments and cites past attendance records while naming Daugherty Wilkinson Sauer Jowers Woolpert and other coaches as instructors for football basketball and track. The piece also critiques a rule penalizing a non member coach for an all star nomination and urges fairness for players.
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Associated Press
Jsn
Texas
San Antonio
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
Texas High School Coaches Association
Hugh (Duffy) Daugherty
Michigan State
Daugherty
Bud Wilkinson
Oklahoma
Eplite
Darrell Royal
Wade Walker
Wilkinwom
Mississippi State
George Sauer
Baylor
Jack Russell
Sam Boyd
Phil Woolpert
San Francisco
Milton Jowers
Southwest Texas State
Jowers
Woolpert
The
Coaches Association
Texas Sports Writers Association
Capitol Hill Last Week Aims At Gas Bill And Pay Hikes
Congress nears adjournment as a watered down natural gas bill to end federal price controls moves through the House committee. Postal workers win a pay raise while the Senate opposes broader home ownership, signaling a cautious final stretch of the session.
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Capitol Hill
Congress
House
Supreme Court
Phillips
Texas Sets 440 Yard Relay World Record at Modesto Meet
Texas sprint squad led by Clyde Littlefield shattered the 440 yard relay world record with a 40.2 time at Modesto. The Longhorns, who have chased the mark since 1941, tied the world record again later in the season and added a 80 yard relay school record in 1 24.7.
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Clyde Littlefield
University of Texas
Modesto
Texas
Littlefield
Penn
H. V. Reeves
Beverly Rockhold
Tiny Gruneisen
Harvey (Chink) Wallender
Billy Seay
Fred Ramsdel
Carlton Terry
Lonnie Hill
Perry Samuels
John Robertson
Allen Lawler
Charley Parker
Longhornes
Jerry Precit
Alvin Frieden
Charley Thomas
Dean Smith
Los Angeles
California
Southern California
Coliseum
Longhorns
Houston
Los Angeles Stadium
Smith
Joe Childress
Odessa
Frieden
Childress
Prewit
Outboard Driving Wins Over Young Bystanders
Postwar youth embrace motors as eight year olds take to fishing outboards. Boys as young as eight handle and maintain 5 hp motors with ease, aided by safer kapok life-vests and easier starts, marking a practical shift in youth boating culture.
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Willard Crandall
Sports Afield Magazine
America
Sammy Baugh Raising Cattle on Rotan Ranch and Five Little Athletes Too
Rotan Texas features Sammy Baugh the Hardin-Simmons coach balancing ranching with five young athletes in the family. Baugh notes sons Todd David Bruce Stephen lean toward football and baseball, while he still runs a cattle operation on the Double Mountain ranch with 125 acres for feed and grain.
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Sammy Baugh
Rotan
Tex
Baugh
Abilene
Hardin-Simmons University
Double Mountain
Todd
Sam
Temple High School
David
Pound Grammar
Bruce
Stephen
Mother Goose In Texas Rhymes and Origins
The excerpt quotes a Texas variant of Mother Goose lines about hushaby and a mockin bird and a diamond ring. It notes the difficulty in tracing origins or timing of these folk rhymes.
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Texas
Ta-ra-ra boomderay refrain ties to street tunes and Texas add-ons
The passage discusses the late eighties tune Ta-ra-ra-ra-boom-der-ay linked to a barrel house in St. Louis before a New York show. It notes a likely earlier rhyme and mentions callers recalling lines from the early nineties. Texas City resident Patsy Muckleroy adds newer lines about a pony running away.
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St. Louis
New York
Texas
Patsy Muckleroy
Texas City
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Font Liana O. C Fisher
Majestic Hotel Bath Department
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Carolyn LaMotte
Harlingen
Baylor University
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Associated Press Sports
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Pobby Whilden
University of Houston
Jim Galliday
Barton Motors
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Little Frances
Automobile and Casualty
Burnel Davis Agency
Lehman-Davis
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U. S
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Southwestern Life Insurance Company
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Empire Gas
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