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McMURRY CHIEFTAIN
March, 1964
Vice-Led Indians Post
Fourth Winning Season
Preston Vice, in setting two
school records, kept McMurry's
up-and-down basketball team up
more than down this past sea-
son as the Tribe turned in its
fourth consecutive winning sea-
son.
The Warriors, winning 15
against 11 losses this year, cap"-
tured the North Zone of NAIA
Dist. 8, but lost out a Pan Amer-
ican power house, 86-81, in the
Tribe's bid for a berth in the na-
tional tournament, at Kansas City.
The Vice-led Indians split a
two-game series with rival Abi-
lene Christian, but fell victims to
Hardin-Simmons twice. Midwest-
ern University, another old rival,
provided McMurry with a couple
of important wins in zone play.
Vice added the most points
scored in one season (583) and the
best season scoring average (22.4)
marks to the record he set last
year, the most points scored in
one game (41).
The Garland junior, a unani-
mous choice for the Abilene col-
legiate team, was selected to the
first team of The Dallas Morn-
ing News' All-College five with
such other super stars as Jim
(Bad News) Barnes, Texas West-
ern; Lucious Jackson, Pan Amer-
ican; John Savage, North Texas
State; and John Henry Young,
Midwestern. Vice is the first
McMurry player ever to be
named to this select team.
Carl Jowell, a lanky 6-3 for-
ward who played for McMurry in
the early 1950's, had both of his
records surpassed by Vice, a 6-0
guard, this season. Jowell's 534
points in one season and 21.4
game average fell by the wayside.
Texas Conference
Folds
McMurry, no longer a mem-
ber of the Texas Athletic Con-
ference is granting full ath-
letic scholarships and is seek-
ing conference affiliation.
The Board of Trustees at the
March board meeting gave
McMurry's athletic depart-
ment the go ahead on recruit-
ing prospective athletes on a
full-scholarship basis and
authorized Dr. Gordon Ben-
nett, McMurry president, to
seek membership in such a
conference or conferences as
McMurry might be eligible to
participate in.
The Texas Athletic Confer-
ence folded in late January
after being formed in Septem-
ber. One of the provisions of
the TAC was half-scholarships.
McMurry had three other start-
ers finishing the season with game
averages in double figures—6-4
Russell Noll, 16.4; 6-8 Mac Cade,
14.3; and 6-0 Clayton Brooks, 10.4.
With Brooks the lone senior on
the team this year, McMurry's
cage future looks bright for
another season.
Tribe Slates
Five At-Home
Football Tilts
For the first time in several
years McMurry College's Indians
will make no out-of-state foot-
ball trips, according to the 1964
schedule recently released.
The Indians, playing as an in-
dependent, will play two Lone
Star Conference teams, three
Southland Conference schools and
five independents.
The Tribe will open the 1964
season at home against San
Angelo College, who recently re-
vived football after dropping
the sport while a junior col-
lege. The game is scheduled for
September 12.
The Indians will also play more
home games than in the past
several years. Other home con-
tests besides the one with San
Angelo will be with Abilene
Christian, Southwest Texas State,
Tarleton State and Youngstown,
Ohio.
Homecoming for the Indians
will be Oct. 31 against Tarleton
State at Abilene Public Schools
Stadium.
Schools McMurry played last
year but will not play in 1964
are Corpus Christi University,
Northeast Louisiana, Hardin-Sim-
mons and Louisiana College.
NEW FACULTY MEMBER—
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the Methodist Church he has serv-
ed as director of the San An-
tonio Work Camp, dean of re-
gional student conferences and
seminars, and secretary of the
Association of Wesley Founda-
tions. He has also worked with
various committees and projects
of the Methodist Student Move-
ment.
Dr. Monk was director of the
Wesley Foundation in Texas
A & M University from 1954 to
1958 and the Princeton Wesley
Foundation from 1959 to 1961.
Since 1961 he has lived in Austin
where he has served in the
TMSM.
He is married to the former
Carolyn Parker, and they have
two children. Dr. Monk is a native
of Holly Grove, Ark.
COACH AND PROTEGE—Grant Teaff, head football and track coach,
has an athlete on his hands that all coaches dream about—an Olympic
prospect. Bill Miller, a 1963 graduate and presently a junior high
teacher in Abilene, is a lop prospect for the U. S. Olympic team this
year in the broad jump. Miller is the only Texas broad jumper ever
to clear 26 feet and is ranked No. 4 in the nation at the present time.
In early meets this year. Miller has shown great promise in that he
is jumping much farther than he did at this time last year.
McM Tltinclads Face Rebuilding
With most of the athletes that
made McMurry one of the top
track schools last year in the
Southwest departed from the
reservation this year, the Indians
are faced with a king-size rebuild-
ing job.
The Tribe lost Bill Miller, Jim
Stevenson, Mickey Miller, Bill
Blythe, Ian Studd, Jack Russell,
Henry Allen, Teddy Allen and
Jasim Al-Kuraishi from last year's
squad.
Coach Grant Teaff has a young
and relatively untried clan to
work with this year that is domi-
nated by freshmen and sopho-
mores. There are no seniors on
the squad and David Bonds and
Freddie Walker are the only
juniors.
In two outdoor meets this year,
the Warriors finished fourth at
the Border Olympics and tied for
fifth at the West Texas Relays.
Larry Thorn, a Dallas sopho-
more, set a school record in the
880-yard run at the Border Olym-
pics, 1:55.3. The old record in the
880 was 1:59.2 set in 1951 by
Richard Adams.
Other members of this year's
track team are Danny Valensuela,
Ft. Stockton; Jimmy Rogers,
Throckmorton; Jesse Crawford,
Snyder; Bobby Lanham, Abilene
Cooper; Bennie Blythe, Dumas;
Floyd S w a i m, Breckenridge;
Thomas Hyde, Divide; Kenneth
Deckard, Kermit; and Dean Clark,
Wylie.
Some of the meets on tap for
the Indians this year include the
Texas Relays, The Texas Western
Relays, and the Key City Relays.
Assisting Teaff with the track
team this year is Ronnie Giles, a
student coach.
Bonds is the captain this year.
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