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MIDLAND, Tex. O—Ed Price,
who said he had not resigned as
football coach of the University of
Texas but wouldn't say whether he
planned to, confers with chairman
Tom Sealy of the Board of Regents
here today.
Price, under fire from some of
the alumni for the past two years,
denied at Austin yesterday that
he had submitted his resignation
as he was reported to have done
at a meeting of the regents in
Houston last week. He said, "I
have not taken any action on my
part and I am not prepared to
say I will take any."
Sealy said Price did not offer
his resignation, that no demand
had been made upon him or any
demand would be made. But he
added that Price had asked him
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afterwards in the dressing room
when Loyd Taylor told that since
the team had boon praying before
the games and during the games,
why not give a prayer after this
game. They did. _. .
5. The joy on the faces of the
Texas Longhorns after their up-
set victory and then the weeping
team, the guards
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minutes to snap a 73-72 tie to *
hand the Spiders their first set- .
back. Sophomore Dem Flora of i
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Hot Rod Hundley counted 20 for I
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GOALWARD
Dean Davis (41), in white jersey, goes up with Bill Bradley (45), Northeast Louisiana
eenter, as the visiting opponent attempts a layup in the intersectional game in Men’s
Gym at NTSC Tuesday night. Bill Phillips (15), Louisiana forward, awaits action
from the boards. NTSC won, 88-85. (Record-Chronicle Photo by Mary Ann Jennings)
SPORTSMAN
Jackie Holt, Gainesville’s star halfback, sits at a banquet
table in Hubbard Hall Tuesday minutes before he was
announced the winner of District 3-AAA‘s Sportsman*
ship award. (Record-Chronicle Staff Photo by Dave
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started pumping them in with
regularity with jump shots from
around the key. * — -
After the half ended at 45-44 in
favor of Northeast, the lead chang-
ed hands several times and the
largest North Texas could build up
was three points until the final two
minutes when the Eagles pulled
ahead 78-73 with a little over a
minute to play.
INDUNS RALLY
But the Indians would not con-
cede the contest as their little
guard Malvin McSarland, high
point man for the game with 28
points, hit five straight free throws
to send the' game into overtime
78-78.
Northeast’s other small guard,
who wound up with 23 points, calm-
ly sank his specialty to start the
over-time period. Eight times dur-
ing the game he hit with his two-
handed push shots from about 20
feet out in the center.
Hopkins retaliated with two free
throws to knot the score at 80-80
and then added a tip-in after Hill
had sunk another one-handed push
to pull away 84-80. The Indians
kept it close by scoring on one free
throw and a field goal but then
Mitchell practically put the game
on ice with another bucket for the
Eagles. The Indians scored once
more on a lay-up and then Hill
closed the door with two free
throws that ended the game 88-85.
Tonight the Eagles will be meet-
ing Lamar Tech of Beaumont in
their final home game of the week.
On Friday NTSC will journey to
Natchitoches, La., for a return
game with Northwestern State.
The meeting between Lamar and
North Texas will be the first in the
history of the two schools.
The Cardinals will be bringing a
8-1 record into the contest. They
hold two victories over Southwest-
ern Louisiana Institute. Rice, one
of the expected powers of the
Southwest Conference, took a 70-49
win from them Monday night in
Houston.
Tioga Cage
Coach Happy
Special to the Record-Chronicle
TIOGA — In spite of having only
two lettermen out of the 22 that
came out tor basketball. Coach A.
C. Wallace of the Tioga Bulldogs
seems happy.
He wasn't even greatly disap-
pointed aver his team's semi-finals
loss to Collinsville in the recent
Whitesboro tournament "We had
some pretty tough competition
there," he said. "But the main
thing was, we enjoyed it.”
The reason the coach to happy
to because all his cagers are hav-
ing fun, both in practice and in
the games they play. That, Wal-
lace maintains, is the main thing
about high school athletics.
About the Bulldog quintet's
chances tor the season, the coach
said. "We’re pretty well matched
with nearly all of the teams in the
conference." He intimated that it
should ha quit* a season. .____
Tioga’s next game wil be played
and crying in the Aggie dressing
room.
Introduced as a coach who could
take his boys and lick you and
then take your boys and lick his.
the famous coach said that all of
these things that happened this
year, "make me think that there
is something fine about the game
of football."
"It's the only thing where every-
body can start even," he said.
"It's all equal out there, no matter
if you are a banker's son, lawyer
or begger.".
When asked if he remembered
anything that stood out in his many
bowl appearances Bryant said that
the Orange Bowl game in 1949 was
one he would never forget.
"I am the only coach in the
world, including Frank Leahy, that
could have, taken that team down
there and lost,” he said. "I told
REACHING HANDS
Five pairs of hands reach for the rebound following
a jump shot by Krum Bobcat Ballard Hopkins. Going
up for the rebound are Gainesville’s Bill Buck (31) ana
Bobcats* Bobby Parkey (11), Milton Finley (23), and
Garland Holley (28). Parkey was the lucky lad who
reached best and followed it up with a two-pointer.
(Record-Chronicle Staff Photo)
Pete Jokanovich, reserve end on
the Navy football team. was co-
captain of Al Jolson's Sonny Boy
team when he was 11 and 13. The
team played at halftime between
pro games in the Los Angele
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BOX SCORE
NTBO Northenst
Free Throws Miased: NTSC— Lane
1. Hi 8, Mitchel 1. Pierce 8, Hop-
kins 4. Northeast—Patterson 4.
Phlups 1, MUss 8, Mesarland 4,
Bradiy 1.
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eight field goals and seven free
throws for 88 points.
North Texas couldn't have been
much colder from the floor in the
first part of the opening half, de-
pending upon Hopkins' accuracy at
the free throw line to manage a
13-12 tie. Then a basket famine
struck the Eagles and Northeast
pulled away to a 87-14 lead before
Hill could break in for a crib shot.
HILL SPARKS
When Hiu made hi basket. it
was a signal for an Eagle rally
that couldn't be stopped until it
had caught the Indians at 42-42
and went briefly ahead 44-43 be-
fore the half ended. During this
rally, Jack Airington, who had
been carressing but not making the
buckets, started connecting on long
Jackie Holt, Gainesville half-
back. walked off with the sports-
manship trophy Tuesday at Dis-
trict 3-AAA's annual banquet and
coach Bear Bryant of Texas ASM
took the crowd of 325 guests and
members of the Kiwanis Club in
tow in the meantime.
Featured as the main speaker of
the dinner, Bryant captivated the
audience with his remarks about
the past football year at A&M.
Bryant listed a number of things
that stood out in the year that he
would never forget:
1. When one of his players ask-
ed him if he was going with the
squad to play against UCLA.
1. When John Crow was hurt in
the TCU game and then when Don
Watson ran the winning 50-vard
touchdown.
3. The kickoff against SMU
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PONDER — Northwest's cage
squad handed the Ponder Lions a
44-41 defeat Tuesday night after 32
full minutes of battle.
Never more than seven points
ahead at any time, the Northwest
Texans capitalized eh free throws
to win the ball game. They sank
20 out of 25 attempts while the
Lions could only hit seven of the
19 opportunities given them.
Texan Don Davis was high point
man for the night with a total of
22 points. Lion Bert Pope was sec-
ond with 14 marks on the board.
Both teams will be seeing action
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
in the Northwest Invitational tour-
nament. '
In a game played earlier, the
Northwest girls sextet dropped the
Ponder girls squad 51-32.
BOX SCORE
By DON COPPEDGB
Recerd-Chroniele Sports Editor
An elusive victory light blinked,
flickered, and almost went out be-
fore it shone warmly on the North
Texas Eagles who fought an in-
spired . up-hill battle to defeat
Northeast Louisiana 88-85 in a rug-
god overtime battle at the Men's
Gym Tuesday night.
The victory lamp was almost
short-circuited in the first half
when the Eagles went groping
around in the dark, scoreless for
six full minutes while two dapper-
lings from Louisiana were ripping
the nets for a 15-point lead.
North Texas weathered this lead
to catch and pass the Indians in
the second half, only to be caught
78-78 as the final buzzer sounded
by the tenacious, if not frequently
over-zealous visitors.
Ben Hill, sophomore from Bowie,
was the clutch man for the Eagles,
hitting eight points in the up-hill
struggle in the first half and then
closing the door on the Redskins
in the overtime period with four
precious points.
HOPKINS GETS 27
Eagle center, Fred Hopkins, took
scoring honors for the Eagles with
27 points on seven field goals and
13 free throws followed by Hill with
By JOE DAVENPORT
Record-Chronicle Sports Writer
KRUM — All Baba and his 49
thieves couldn't have had stickier
fingers than did Ballard Hopkins
and the Krum Bobcat cage squud
Tuesday night when they roiled
over the Gainesville Leopards 81-
80 here in the opening game in
the new Krum High School gyn.-
nasium.
The Bobcats took the opening
jump, moved in for a two-poin er:
then commenced their art of ball
stealing. The Leopards lost the
ball the first two times they at-
tempted to move down court, both
on steals.
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Sanger Moves
Into Quarters
At Prosper
PROSPER — Anna and Sanger
moved into the quarterfinals of the
Prosper High School boys and girls
basketball tournament. In Tuns-
day’s action, girls teams from
Anna, Sanger and Community also
moved into the quarterfinals by
beating Celina. Plano and Mc-
Kinney, respectively.
Anna's boys team beat Commun-
ity to gain the quarterfinals. Sang-
er swarmed ail over the boys rep-
resentative from Plano and Terry
Stover came off with high point
honors for Sanger by sinking 15
tallies.
In the female end of the bracket,
the best game of the tournament,
from a spectator's standpoint, was
the match between Sanger and
Plano, according to Curtis Chris-
tian, Prosper coach and tourna-
ment host.
Plano led the game until the
last five minutes of play when
Sanger overtook them. Both teams
sank goal for goal until the final
seconds when Sanger managed to
pull out in front and finally took
the contest 70-67. However, Nancy
Chalenor of Plano took high point
honors with 48 points.
Other girls games saw Anr.a
lake Celina and Community move
past McKinney.
In Wednesday's boys pairings,
Princeton will take on Bland in a
quarterfinal match, and Mellsa
plays Westminster in a first round
get-together.
In the girls bracket, Princeton
takes on Westminster in a first
round match and Blue Ridge
meets Prosper in a quarterfinal
game.
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Have Plenty
Of Height
Special to the Record-Chronieie
ERA—Hornet Coach Bob Grundy
can boast of having one of the tall-
est high school basketball squads
in his conference. His smallest
starter, Cecil Raney, to five feet
nine inches, and his tallest, Charles
Southard, stands at six feet three.
In between are guard Winford
Sherrill, five feet eleven; forward
Harold Brown, six feet two, and
center Butch Brown, also six feet
two. Raney and Southard are guard
and forward, respectively.
Out of the 14 men who reported
for the basketball team, however,
only three, Sherrill and the two
Browns, are returning lettermen
from last season, Grundy said.
And only Sherrill was a regular
starter then, he added.
Grundy said that his team had
been having a lot of fun in their
practice, which consisted mainly of
fundamentals and conditioning ex-
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for a conference to "talk over the
athletic situation at the university.
If he does resign, I will, of course,
have to call a special meeting of
the board to consider it.” Sealy
said Price had requested the con-
ference several days ago.
Sealy was emphatic in declaring
that "No one is interested in firing
Ed Price or buying up his con-
tract.”
Price, who became head coach
of the university Jan. 1, 1951, re-
placing Blair Cherry, who had re-
signed. was voted a 5-year contract
extension in 1953. Thus he has two
years to go.
Texas under Price has won one
Southwest Conference champion-
ship and tied for another and won
81 games, lost 18 and tied 1 in five
years.
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favorite to beat Cuba's Nino
Valdes in their 10-round bout
at the Cleveland arena tonight
and gain a shot st Rocky Mar-
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June.
Their bout tonight, feature
attraction on the Cleveland
News' Toyshop Fund boxing
card, will be televised at 9 p.m.
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of the SMU Une. — the team to take their wives and
scrap along with defending champ
Iowa and Indiana. But probably
no one figured the Illini to break
upon the scen with such a show
of offensive punch. Capt. Paul
Judson and Harv Smith esch
scored 88 points as the Illini rang
up their highest one-game total
ever.
No other teams among the top
19 la the pell were active last
Southern Conference got
going en masse, with defending
champ West Virginia spilling Fur*
man 85-71, Washington & Loo’s
Five-Star Generals tagged Rich-
mond 78-78 In a battle of con-
tenders and George Washington,
another "favorite," smacked Wil-
liam and Mary 81-75.
Washington & Lee's youngsters
dumped in six free throws—three
by 6-5 Marshall—in the last two
pack's first Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence game of the season, but their
third straight triumph of the new
schedule.
Illinois, ranked eighth in the As-
sociated Press poll, was a pre-
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The Associated Frees
This'figures to be a hectic
college basketball season for II-
linois Coach Harry Combes, the
great worrier. It looks like he has
a winner.
Nothing lesves Kerry limner
then one of those rip-snortin' title
races in the Big Tea and that's
apparently right whore he's hood-
ed after the way his Ilini made
their debut last night with a
whomping 197 • 75 victory over
Butler.
Illinois* big noise drowned out
the continued success of top-
ranked San Francisco and third-
rated North Carolina State as
each tacked another game to win-
ning streaks. The Dons, with All-
America Bill Russell packing in 39
points in the 22 minutes he played,
mauled outclassed San Francisco
Stste 72 - 47 for their 80th con-
secutive victory. The Dons now
put the string on the shelf until
meeting Marquette Dec. 19;
N.C. State, meanwhile, bagged
No. 11 in a row as Vic Molodet
canned N in a 90-81 decision over
Wake Forest. It was the Wolf-
Krum’s entire starting five €ot
In on the first period scoring with
Sam Marshall and Hopkins leading
the way with si¥ points each.
Gerald Copp was just one behind
with five and Bobby Parkey and
.Larry Enis held up their end
ef the score with four markers
each.
After opening up the second
stanza with the score reading 25-
11, the Bobcats passed the scoring
around to seven men for a total
of 14 points while the Loopaids
could only muster 15.
During the third quarter Krum's
basket wizards, Hopkins and Mar-
shall. found the going easier and
the pair hit the hoop for 19 and
7 points respectively during teir
short stays in the game during the
period and the third stanza ended
with the 'Cat cagers still on top
of the 69-45 score.
The blue and white hoopsters
coasted through the final quarter,
only scoring 11 points to end the
ball game 81-60.
Hopkins was high-point man for
the night with 39 chalk marka,
followed by Marshall with 19.
Third-high honors were split by
two Leopards. Bill Buck and Son-
ny Gilmore, who hit for 13 poiuts
each.
Tuesday night's game was the
door-opener in the new 880,009
Krum gymnasium. Although the
front porch, dressing rooms, and
final floor dressing had not bcm
completed, the 'Cat cagers found
no difficulty in establishing tne
fact that the new white maple
floor and glass backboards were
to their liking.
All night long the Krum hard-
wooders roamed up and down the
court stealing the ball and fast-
breaking the Leopards in an ef-
fort to make up for the 69-61 loss
they suffered Saturday night whe
they tangled with Pleasant Grove.
Krum's next game will be Fn-
day night when they make their
debut in the strong Northwest bos
basketball tournament.
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sweethearts and have a good time,
and they believed me. That was
the greatest conglomoration of con-
flagerated mistakes that ever hap-
pened."
Denton players who were no-
minated for the sportsmanship
award were Jim Adams, Don
Brown, Don Lewis, Lafayette New-
land. James Shelton, and Thomas
Sims.
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