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May, 1964
McMURRY CHIEFTAIN
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Lone Star Admits McMurry
For the first time since 1956 the
Lone Star Conference opened its
doors to a new member and voted
McMurry College to membership
in the seven-team athletic confer-
ence on May 9 at a meeting at
Nacogdoches.
LSC faculty athletic representa-
tives voted unanimously to admit
McMurry to the league as its
eighth member, effective with the
springs sports program in 1965,
following with basketball in 1965-
66 and football in 1966.
The Indians will replace Lamar
Tech as the eighth member. The
Cardinals of Lamar Tech with-
drew from the league last year in
order to become a charter mem-
ber of the Southland Conference
which Abilene Christian College
helped organize.
McMurry becomes the first
school to be added to the LSC
since Howard Payne College was
admitted in 1956. Charter mem-
bers of the league, which was
started in 1931, include East Texas
State in Commerce, Southwest
Texas State in San Marcos,
Stephen F. Austin College in
Nacogdoches and Sam Houston
State in Huntsville.
The other two members of the
loop include Sul Ross State in
Alpine and Texas A&I in Kings-
ville. Sul Ross entered the circuit
in 1949, and A&I gained member-
ship in 1954.
San Angelo College, which will
play a senior college schedule this
fall and will officially become
Angelo State College in the fall
of 1965 as a four-year state-sup-
ported institution, was turned
down on its application to come
into the same conference.
McMurry, which joined Hardin-
Simmons University, Tarleton
State and Midwestern University
in an attempt to form the Texas
Athletic Conference last fall, will
make immediate plans to begin
scheduling the other seven mem-
bers in both football and basket-
ball, even though it will not be-
come eligible to compete for the
league's championship in these
sports until 1965-66 in basketball
and the following season in foot-
ball.
On the Indian slate for the com-
ing gridiron season are three of
the LSC foes—Sul Ross, Howard
Payne and Southwest Texas. Two
other members—East Texas and
Stephen F. Austin—attempted to
set dates with the Tribe but could
not meet each other's open date.
McMurry has competed with
Howard Payne in several track
meets this year, and went to
Alpine to enter Sul Ross' quad-
rangular. McMurry also plans to
field teams in both golf and
tennis.
To gain entrance into the loop,
McMurry had to be approved by
at least a two-thirds majority, or
five of the seven schools. Going
into the LSC session, McMurry
knew there were four backing
schools.
Miller Seeking Olympics Berth
By LEE WHITE
Director of Sports Information
Since the first Olympic Games
held in 776 B. C., young men have
had visions of representing their
country in the world's oldest or-
ganized sport, track and field.
Thousands of would-be Olym-
pians this year are putting their
childhood dreams on the line as
the 1964 Olympics draw near.
Bill Miller, an Olympic prospect
and a 1963 McMurry graduate, is
pursuing a course that he hopes
will lead to Tokyo.
Miller, the NAIA champion
broad jumper last year and NCAA
runnerup, is on schedule in his
bid for an Olympic berth. He is
among the contenders leading the
way.
The big jump from would-be
Olympian to a berth on the U. S.
Olympic team is still ahead for
Miller. Miller will have to place
in the top six at the AAU Cham-
pionships in Newbrunswick, N. J.
June 26-27, in order to qualify for
the Olympic Trials the first week
in July.
On Schedule
"I feel that I am on schedule,"
Miller said. "I'm jumping better
than I was at this time last year."
Miller is threatening the 26-
foot marker with each jump. In
his last outing at a McMurry
three-way meet, he sailed 25
feet 11 inches for a new Indian
Stadium record.
The leap, over five inches shy
of his career best of 26-4%, bet-
tered his previous mark at Indian
Stadium by over five inches.
Not until the second week in
June did Miller break 26 feet last
year. Miller, pacing his workouts
against the danger of "burning
out" before the Olympic Trials in
YOUNG TEACHER WARMS UP—Bill Miller, 1963 McMurry grad-
uate and top prospect for the 1964 American Olympics team, warms
up for an afternoon workout following his teaching chores at an
Abilene junior high school.
July, becomes more determined
as each week flees past.
The Winters, Tex., native is a
seventh grade history teacher at
Madison Jr. High in Abilene, his
first year of teaching.
He sandwiches in practice ses-
sions between a day of classroom
teaching and a night of lesson
preparation for the following day.
Miller, who usually leaves school
after five in the afternoons, gets in
a short workout almost every day
at Indian Stadium.
"I'm usually tired at the end of
a day of teaching," Miller admits.
"I never realized that teaching
could be so demanding both
mentally and physically."
Seeks Competition
The biggest pitfall for Miller
on the road that leads to Tokyo
is a lack of competition prior to
the AAU meet in late June.
Miller, no longer able to com-
pete in the college-university
class, often is forced to jump in
exhibition.
need the experience of being
around and competing with the
top broad jumpers. Jumping in
exhibition is good experience, but
it fails to take the place of actual
competition," he said.
Long ago Miller became in a
separate class from the other
broad jumpers in Texas and the
Southwest. He is the only Texas
broad jumper ever to clear 26
feet.
Miller's plans for the period of
training between now and the last
week in June are sketchy. Only
a few meets in the nation will
have the type of competition
Miller wants and needs to get
ready for the big jump in New
Brunswick, June 26. Miller is
hoping for an invitation to some
of these meets.
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