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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1963
THE J-TAC
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Dick Rogers, Biggs, and league
Dick Rogers, Tarleton State Col-
lege TEXAN halfback and former
all-state fullback from Brecken-
ridge, was named as the 1902 Most
Valuable Player for the TEXANS
and recipient of the John Fielding
Higgs Award. The award, named
in honor of a former Tarleton stu-
dent that lost his life in World
War II, is made by Kufus Higgs,
Sr., owner-publisher of the Ste-
ph'enville Daily Empire, and was
presented by Rufus Higgh, Jr.,
president and general manager of
the Empire and brother of John
■Fielding.
Higgs stated that of the 13 such
awards made, three had been made
to former Breekenridge high school
stars. In addition to the 1962
award to Rogers the 1951 award
went to Jack Jones and the 1953
award was won by Franklin Ear-
ney.
TEXAN Coach Johnny Dunn,
former TCU star, summarized
Rogers' selection by saying, "when
the going got tough Dick got go-
ing." The three-year letterman is
i\ standout at offensive halfback,
defensive linebacker and punting'
and (Coach Dunn adds with relish)
will be back in the TEXAN line-
up next year.
Senior Jerry Teague from
Brownwood, previously selected to
the Fort Worth Star Telegrams
All-College squad as second-team
center, was named outstanding of -
fensive player by the Stephenville
T-Club. Third-year linebacker John
Riggs of Galena Park was named
winner of the Dr. Vance Terrell
award for outstanding defensive
play for the second consecutive
year.
The banquet climaxed Tarleton's
second season of senior college
competition and elicited from
Coach Dunn a summation of TEX-
AN fortunes.
"We don't have an outstanding
won-lost record (5 wins and 12
losses) but we aren't carried as a
'breather' on anyone's schedule
now."
JERRY TBLAGUE
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JOHN. RIGGS
In This Corner . . .
By BILL VANDAVEER
For most this is basketball season and football is but a thing
of the past and not to' be brought to mind again until this fall
and a new season. This is not true on the Tarleton gridiron as
the Texans will begin spring training the fourth of February.
Coach Dunn and his footballers will begin looking toward the
1963 season with hope of a better season as they begin the first
step in molding the '63 squad. Dunn and his staff will look over
the freshmen, sopnomtre and juniors of the Texan team.
If spring training goes as well as the last week of workouts
huring the regular season the fans at TSC can expect a little
better season than the one in 1962.
The Tarleton fans have been attending basketball games this
year ih large numbers and for good reasons. Every game played
at home by the Texan cagers have been one of excitement and
with an air of spirit that is not common on our campus. The
reasoh for this is perhaps that the entire squad seems to' be
putting out that little bit of effort it takes to win even when vic-
tory looks remote.
The reason for this determination is more than the desire of
the boys on the squad but the great competitive spirit of their
coach, Donhie Campbell. The editor of this column has attend-
ed all home games and several of the workouts of the squad and
it is apparent that Coach Campbell is very close to his boys and
has a way of getting the most out of each man.
The game with McMurry, which was played the day before
we let out for the Christmas holidays, the Texans won with a 25
point margin. McMurry was rated very high ih small college
competition with a six game win. The Texans were selected as
the underdogs prior to the game. When asked how he felt about
this victory Coach Campbell said, "My boys gave me the nicest
Christmas present I could have gotten".
Those of you who have hot seen these boys play should do
so when they play Texas Wesleyan College here this January
29th. The Texans are predicted to win by IN THIS CORNER. , .
which may not be good news to the boys on the squad being1
that I am batting about .0000 ih predictions. This is hoping that
Moon, Proctor, Aldridge, Haedge, Currin, etc. . , . will make me
a winner by winning that game.
I would also like to with them good luck against McMurry
tonight as they meet the Ihdians for the second time, this time
in Abilene. The Indians will be out to scalp the Texans and
avenge the massacre they received when they rode into the
land of TSC,
* *
This will be the last time that this column will appear in the
J-TAC and I wish to take this space to thank the J-TAC staff,
the coaching staff, and all my readers (both of them) at Tarle-
ton for allowing me to clutter up the sports page with IN THIS
CORNER ...
DICK ROGERS
Texan Roundballers Now
Have 5-8 Season Record
The TEXANS earned a 4-4 wan-
lost record prior to the Christmas
" holidays with a thrilling victory
over previously undefeated Mc-
Murry College and then dropped
four straight games during and
after the holidays before getting
back into the win columns.
Initial losses during the holidays
came in the first and second
games of the Dallas AAU Cotton
Bowl tournament. Luck of the
draw pitted the TEXANS ( a pre-
tournament favorite) against East
Texas State College in the open-
ing round. ETSC previously had
lost only to Southwest Conference
leading Texas University and
■-went on to win the otton Bowl
tourney after dumping the TEX-
ANS 51-42 in-tiieir opening game.
„ The loss moved the TEXANS
into the consolation bracket where
they met a fired-up Dallas Uni-
versity team. After suffering four
defeats at the hands of the TEX-
ANS in as many meetings the
Crusaders from DU achieved their
long-awaited revenge with an 89-
73 victory over TSC and the even-
tual consolation championship of
the tourney.
After the resumption of classes
■following the Christmas recess the
TKXANS took the road against
Hardin-Simmons University and
-/.Trinity University,
Road trips are notorious for
producing losses for the traveling
team and the TEXANS were no
exception. Meeting HSU in Abi-
lene the Tarleton eagers dropped
a squeaker by one point — 50 to
49. From Abilene the TEXANS
went south to San Antonio and a
defeat at the hands of hard-luck
Trinity University. Previously the
Tigers had managed a season re-
cord 2 victory and 10 losses but
arose to drop the TEXANS 72-57.
Saturday night the TEXANS
avenged their defeat by the Tigers
with an 89-00 pasting in Tarleton
field house. Three TEXANS got
into the 2 Opoint bracket as Mar-
shall Procter dumped in 2L points,
Stanley Haedge scored an even 20
and Don Moon dumped in another
even 20.
Coach Car/ipbell cleared the
bench in the final minutes of play
in order to allow his entire squad
to see action or the final score
would have been spread even far-
ther thai, 29 points.
Tonight the TEXANS travel to
Abilene to meet the Indians of
McMurry. Idle during the end-of-
semester period, the TEXANS will
next meet Midwestern University
in SVichita Falls on Jan. 25.
Two -home games remain on the
schedule. Texas Wesleyan will be
here on Jan. 29, and Austin Col-
lege will play here Feb. 12.
Larry Aldridge
Larry Aldridge, the Tarleton TEXANS mighty mite of the
roundballers, is a two year letterman from Winters, Texas. This
5'8" junior guard scored 182 points in the 1961-62 season for an
average of eight points per game. In the first part of this year s
season, he has already scored 118 points for a nine point game
average. Larry shows great determination and is admired by
TSC fans for his never-give-up spirit.
He doesn't confine his sports ability to' basektball, as he is
also a ping-pong champion in the intramurals tourhament
Larry is a history major at Tarleton.
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