Midwestern Drops Football for Five Years in Wichita Falls
Midwestern University's board of directors voted to suspend intercollegiate football for five years due to inadequate financial support. About 37 undergraduates lose their team as the Gulf Coast Conference dissolves. Athletic director Dick Todd and line coach Jimmy Vinzant will seek other roles. Todd has one year left on his contract. The school will emphasize basketball and spring sports while preserving scholarships and assisting players to transfer if desired.
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Travis A. White
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Gulf Coast Conference
North Texas State
Missouri Valley Conference
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Texas A&m
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Todd
Jim Riddle
Jimmy Vinzant
Midwestern
Indians
Kermit Yellow Jackets Defeat Crane Golden Cranes 61 51
Kermit Yellow Jackets beat Crane Golden Cranes 61 to 51 for their fifth win of the year. Sammy Cates led Kermit with 16 points while Gene Williams and Jackie Probst scored 11 and 10. J H Green topped Crane with 14 points.
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Gene Willams
Jackie Probst
J. H.green
Imperial Thumps Panthers In Tuesday Basketball, 51-36
Imperial outscored Pyote in all but the first period to win 51 36. Warren Heaey led Imperial with 26 points followed by Floyd Anderson with 1. Dan Chrane scored 20 for Pyote and Don Holt added eight in the losing effort.
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Dan Chrane
Don Holt
California Rooters Cheer For Chamberlain
Berkeley fans roared as Wilt Chamberlain, the 7 foot Kansas basketball ace, warmed up for last night's victory. The rooting section chanted Wilt the Stilt and sang that he is everywhere, praising his dominance and presence on the court.
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Bears Favored With Few Tickets Left for Sugar Bowl
New York reports Bears favored by three and one half points as Tennessee and Baylor vie in the Sugar Bowl. Sugar Bowl allotment of 14 170 tickets for the New Year Day classic at Yankee Stadium have sold.
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Bear 20 Yards Short of Record
Rick Casares of the Chicago Bears finished the 1956 season with 1,126 rushing yards in 12 games, just 20 yards shy of the NFL single season record. He totaled 190 yards in the season finale against Detroit, averaging 4.8 yards per carry on 234 attempts, a mark second only to Steve Van Buren’s 1,146 yards for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1949.
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Rick Casares
Chicago Bears
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Detroit Lions
Steve van Buren
Philadelphia Eagles
Funk Meets Lou Thez For Crown In Ector County Coliseum
Funk challenges Lou Thez for the world title in a best two falls match at the Ector County Coliseum Thursday night with a 60 minute limit. Thez defends after winning two prior meetings while Funk earned the title shot by winning the elimination tournament ending Tuesday night before a 1,485 crowd. Geigel beat Gunkel and Funk beat Mackey in earlier one fall bouts. Dizzy Davis injured, Tokyo Joe subbed and won. Friday card includes a four Negro girls tag and a Geigel vs Guererro one fall bout. box office opens at 7. Promoter Pat O Dowdy offers phone reservations.
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Dobbs Captures Archery Title in Permian Basin Meet
Roland Dobbs won the bowman title in the men’s division at the Permian Basin Archers Association monthly tournament. Martha Dobbs took the women’s bowman crown, with Troy Dobbs in the men’s archers division, Nancy Miller as women’s archer, Wallace Scott expert A, and Nick Nichleson expert B among other winners.
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Permian Basin Archers Association
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Troy Dobbs
Nancy Miller
Wallace Scott
Nick Nichleson
McAteer to Meet Spider Webb in Chicago Bout
Fight tonight in Chicago features Europe’s top title prospect Patt McAteer facing Chicago middleweight standout Spider Webb in a 10 round showdown at Chicago Stadium.
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Wranglers Fall Short At Home In San Angelo Tilt
Odessa College Wranglers traveled to Lubbock Thursday to face Texas Tech Frosh in the Tech Nebraska prelim. San Angelo College Rams defeated Odessa 69 62, moving their record to 6 1 while Odessa drops to 4 2. Ziegenhorn led Odessa with 12 points. Hawley, Trevino and Jiles paced San Angelo with 12 13 each.
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Rice Defeats Oregon 61-59 in Eugene
The Rice Owls, the lone Southwest Conference team to play Tuesday, beat Oregon 61-59 in Eugene. Gerry Thomas led Rice with 20 points while Ed Bingham dished 17 for Oregon. A last minute basket by Bob Higgins broke the 15th tie and secured the win. Rice next heads to Corvallis to face Oregon State.
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Ore
Gerry Thomas
Ed Bingham
Bob Higgins
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Corvallis
Texas A&m
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Fla
Baylor
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U S Grants 40 Olympic Athletes Asylum
Washington reports the United States grants asylum to 40 Olympic athletes from Russian satellite nations who refused to return home. Among them is Laszlo Tabori, the Hungarian miler who ran 3 minutes 59 seconds at London on May 28, 1955, narrowly missing the world mark by one second.
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United States
Laszlo Tabori
London
John Landy
Australia
Denton and Corsicana Face Negro Title Tilt in Texas
Denton Fred Moore High School and Jackson Nich School of Corsicana meet today for the AA Texas Negro Interscholastic League football championship. Both teams are unbeaten yet each carries a tie. Moore High’s sole blemish was a loss to Denison, later erased by a forfeit after an injured Denison player.
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