Coaching Rumors Stir as Texas Tech Faces SWC Ties
Texas Tech moves toward joining the SWC basketball tourney next year while coaching rumors swirl around Houston job candidates. Bud Sherrod Jim Owens Jim Myers Marvin Franklin Charley Waller and others linked as possible successors amid a wave of big-job speculation in Texas athletics.
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Texas Tech
Bud Sherrod
University of Houston
Bill Meek
Sherrod
University of Texas
Houston
Dan Shilts
Cougar
Harry Fouke
Lubbock
Cougars
Texas A&m
Jim Owens
Bud
Oklahoma
Tennessee
UCLA
Jim Myers
Bob Neyland
Marvin
Preacher Franklin
Jim LaRue
Hardin-Simmons
Kyle Rote
Sammy Baugh
Tom Nugent
Florida State
Charley Waller
Texas
Australian tag team clash headlines Wednesday wrestling card
Promoter Sled Allen brings Duke Keomuka and Tokyo Joe to face Ray Gunkel and Roger Mackay at Fair Park Coliseum in a stacked show. The card features a two out of three falls main event with 45 minute limits, a semi final, and a first event. Tickets are on sale with phone reservations and box office hours posted.
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Tokyo Joe
Ray Gunkel
Roger Mackay
Sled Allen
Fair Park Coliseum
Gunkel
Mackay
Keomuka
Leo Newman
Bolo
Joe
Allen
Fang
Funk
Tolas
Donovan
Gary Guerrero
Rip Rogers
Ilans
Curtis
South Plains
Humberto
Allen’s Arena
Braves deny Jackie Robinson charge of drinking lace
Milwaukee officials and Braves veterans refute Robinson's accusation that players spent excessive time in nightclubs during the 1956 pennant race. Warren Spahn Lew Burdette Johnny Logan Dan OConnell Fred Haney defend the team and recall past tensions with Robinson while denying any drinking or misbehavior.
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Jackie Robinson
Milwaukee Braves
Braves
Warren Spahn
Robinson
Lew Burdette
Jackie
Brooklyn Dodgers
Johnny Logan
Dan O'Connell
Fred Haney
Spahn
Robinsm
Burdette
All-State Class A Football Selections Highlight Standouts
George John of Sonora headlines the Class A all state team as a high scorer among players dominated by losses. Stinnett earns a lone first team spot with Larry Dawson at quarterback while Honda places three on the honor eleven. other names include Max Burnett near unanimous selection and Carl Taylor of Balls on the second team.
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Associated Press
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Tyler
North Texas State
Billy Howton
Plainview
Rice
Bobby Layne
Lubbock
Texas
Ollie Maison
Baytown
San Francisco U
Yale Lary
Fort Worth
Texas A&m
Kyle Rote
San Antonio
Southern Methodist
Tobin Rote
Houston
Bill Svoboda
Bonham
Tulane
Bobby Dillon
Temple
Igh
George John
Sonora
Stinnett
Larry Dawson
Honda
Mason
Max Burnett
Dawso
South Plains
Carl Taylor
Balls
Leon Lemons
Farwell
Rodney Blackwell
Sundown
Ferman
Red” McBeth
Hale Center
Kenneth Lea‘erwood
Rosbyton
Honda Ee Newman
White
Mike Cobb
GoMax Burnett
Veae Merkel
Chester Collingaworth
Vas
Tommy Adams
Sieaeee
Bene
Humble
Billy Ford
Sevonee
White Oak
David Alexander
Awson Oa
As Stinnett
Larry Ae
Eytee
Hondo
Butch Wools
Tenons Bees Sonora
George Johnson
Hele
Donee
Alvin Hartman
Bill Townsend
Seca
Baeee
Bastroperens
T—Carter Franklin
James Miller
White Oak Ralls
Carl Or
Henrietta G
Gerald Emerson
Vee
Big Lake
David Jacobs
Area Independents To Compete In TAAF
Twelve South Plains independent basketball teams will compete in three leagues in the District 11 TAAF program this winter. League play runs Mondays and Saturdays through Feb. 18 with matchups featuring Three Way Sandhill Crane, Muleshoe Independents, Dimmit Independents, Hart Armstrong Implements, Plains Independents, Hearne's Independents, Primm Drug, Brown Brothers Oil, Broth ers Oil, K and K Food, and Plainview Independents among others. Schedule highlights include duels in Muleshoe Seagraves and Brownfield, with January and February games across the American and National Leagues and the Texas League.
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TAAF
Texas Amateur Athletic Federation
Three Way Sandhill Crane
Don C. Lamar
Muleshoe Independents
Bobby Nichols
Dimmitt Independents
Herb Mayfield
Hart Armstrong Implements
Lloyd Davis
Plains Independents
Pat Casey
Hearne's Independents
Seagraves
Bill Hearne
Primm Drug
Brownfield
A. R. Isaacs
Brown
Brothers Oil of
Post
Larry Waldrip
Plainview Independents
Dale Smalls
Petersburg Lions
Delbert Holloway
Ralls Gas House Gang
Bill Mayes
K&k Foot Market
Jackie Hayes
Sand Hills Cranes
Muleshoe
Plains Independers
Hearne
Independents
American League
Hart Armstrong
Sand Hills
Lane Hills
Dimasnitt Independents
Brown Brothers Oil
Primm Dru
Plains Ip
Brown Nern
Primm
Bobby Morrow Delights Abilene Language Department Crowd
Abilene Christian College scholars in modern languages translate letters for Bobby Morrow whose Olympic feats flood the office. He receives autographs photos shoes and requests to speak to religious groups and athletic banquets.
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Bobby Morrow
Department of Modern Languages
Christian Colleg
Bobby
Hungary
Savs
France
Spain
West Germany
East Germany
Poland
Norway
Sweden
South Africa
Bavaria
Bob Morrow
U.S
Morrow
Mideast
ACC
Texas
Waner Plans Sunshine Recovery From Pneumonia
Hall of Famer Paul Waner, 53, intends to seek sunshine today in Sarasota Florida for the first time since a severe pneumonia attack two weeks earlier. He is very weak and recently released from the hospital after traveling from Ada Oklahoma to attend the Sarasota Harold Tribune baseball clinic for boys.
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Sarasota
Fla
Paul Waner
Hall of Fame
Waner
Sarasota Harold-Tribune
Pittsburgh Pirates
Ada
Okla
Wright Takes Sea Island Lead In Ladies Invitation
Wright holds a two stroke lead after 36 holes at Sea Island in the Sea Island Ladies Invitation with a 146 total. Suggs, Berg, Rawls and Faulk chase in a tight leaderboard as Wright seeks the 5 000 purse.
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Wright
Sea Island
Mickey Wright
Louise Suggs
San Diego
Calif
Australian swimmer Murray Rose plans U S university visit
Murray Rose world record holder and Olympic gold medalist said he would visit the United States in April to look at Yale or Stanford. The 17 year old vegetarian swimmer set 400 yard and 400 meter freestyle marks at the New South Wales meet and hinted at further record attempts. The article also notes the Sahara as the largest desert.
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Sydney
Australia
Murray Rose
United States
Rose
Yale
Stanford
Melbourne
New South Wales
Graham Hamilton
John Marshall
Ford Konno
Honolulu
Sam Herford
Three Saturday Games Open Church YMCA Cage Conference
The Church YMCA basketball league opened its season with three games. First Methodist Reds beat First Baptist 49 to 25 as Holden scored 16. Green edged St Johns Methodist 26 to 24 with Gibson and Hall at 10 each. First Presbyterian beat Dunbar Hi Y 35 to 33 as Mike Harty scored 17 for the winners.
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First Methodist Reds
First Baptist
Holden
First Methodist
St. Johns Methodist
Gibson
Hall
First Presbyterian
Dunard Hi
Mike Harty
Bobby Williams
Dunbar
Carroll Thompson Jr
Texas Coaches Assn Sets Up Placement Bureau
The Texas High School Coaches Association will open its coaches' placement service by Feb 1. The bureau serves superintendents seeking coaches and members looking to change jobs, keeps a personal folder for each coach with transcripts degrees teaching and coaching records and letters of reference and the coach's preferred job type and school size.
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Texas High School Coaches Association
Coaches’ Placement Service Bureau
L. W. McConachie
Association
McConachie
Floydada Freshman Tourney Draws 12 Schools
Twelve schools enter the Floydada freshman boys tournament set to begin at Graves Gymnasium. First round matches include Lockney vs Matador and Floydada facing Ralls at 8 15 p m Monday. Other entrants are Abernathy Happy Slaton Post Canyon Spur and Tulsa.
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Graves Gymnasium
Ralls
Abernathy
Lockney
Tulsa
Matador
Petersburg
Happy
Slaton
Post
Canyon
Spur
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