The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1963 Page: 4 of 6
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THE HUMBLE ECHO
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1963
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| JOHN PUNDT,
Scouts Get Hot
Of course they’ve been out beating the bushes
since the last football game back in the fall, but the
college recruiters will really get hot in their annual
search for true talent now that basketball is over.
Some of the ‘ 'plums” in high school football circles
won’t be plucked until even after track season...
and some of the choisest trophies have already been
bagged. But it is usually right after basketball ends
that the bulk of next year’s freshman teams are
lined up.
Humble has several college grid prospects...and
several college scouts interested in them...namely
from Rice, Texas Tech and Stephen F. Austin.
Biggest noise so far in the recruiting wars has
been made by University of Houston and Baylor.
Those two schools have a decided head start on the
rest with Texas and A&.M coming next.
Funny thing about recruiting, though. Some colleges
rarely seem to land a “name” player from the high
school ranks. But these same schools seem to have
about as much success when wins and losses — and
conference championships — are counted as do the
“name” grabbers.
How Many Decades?
We’re thinking particularly now of TCU and Rice.
Both have had far better than average success in the
past decade in the SWC football parade, but neither
very often has come up with a highly heralded high
school star.
In the last few years, three All-Americans have
come from those two schools...and none of the three
was anything like a name star in high school.
First was Jim Swink, TCU’s All-American half-
back in the late 50’s, Swink came to TCU from
Rusk High School on a basketball scholarship, saw
before long he would be relegated to a lengthy term
as an also-ran on the Froggie basketball team and
decided to try his hand at football.
Dickie Moegle was good in his playing days at
halfback for Taylor High School, but certainly wasn’t
a “big catch” of the year when Rice pulled him into
the fold.
And Buddy Dial certainly wasn’t overcome with
offers upon graduation at Magnolia High School. He
went to Rice because it was very nearly the only
offer he had...until his starring role in the high school
All-Star game after his senior year.
All this, of course, leads to two thoughts’: One
is that recruiting is more than just going after the
halfbacks with the most points or the heaviest tackles
or the player with the thickest press clipping scrap-
book. The other is a difference in coaching.
Abe Martin at TCU and Jess Neely at Rice have
had far more than their share of SWC champion-
ships of late.
On the other hand, Baylor has picked off about as
many “big name” players as any school in the SWC,
but we’ve forgotten how many decades it has been
since the Bears have carted off the SWC football
flag.
We’ve Had Enough
We were speaking of the close of basketball season,
so allow us an observation or two on the finale...the
state tourney last weekend in Austin. We sat through
19 games and have had enough until next December.
It seemed to us the best round of games came in
class AAA where both first round games found Clear
Creek and Seminole winning by two points each. Then
Clear Creek won the title by eight points and South
San took third place by four points.
Buna has to get our vote as the smoothest in the
meet. ..the Cougars won their 15th straight state tourney
game by downing Canyon, 47-41, in the class AA finals
and annexed their seventh state crown in nine years.
According to his own words, Buna coach Cotton Rob-
inson is through with basketball coaching, at least for
“a while.”
Best college prospect must be San Angelo’s Minton
White. The 6’3’ senior looks like he could play outside
on any SWC team...and signs point to his heading for
Texas...his father was a baseball letterman there.
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West Sabine, class A king, appears to be the most
likely to be back next year. The three top players on
Coach Jack Whitton’s club will return...Wayne Fults,
Joe Pat Rhodes and Jack Sweeny.
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Easily the most impressive sophomore in the tourney
was Gary Wayne Sibley of Hurst-Bell. He looked great
in the tourney, although the Raiders lost- both games,
and led his team to a 25-5 season record with a 14.5-
point scoring average.
Three Cats
Place At
Cy-Fair
Three Humble entrants
placed in the Cypress-
Fairbanks track meet last
week at Cypress. It was the
first meet of the season for
Coach Charles Forehand’s
team.
Tommy Brooks placed
second in the 180-yard low
hurdles with a time of 21.4
seconds. He was clocked
earlier in the preliminar-
ies in the same event at
20.9
David Krouse was fourth
in the broad jump with a
leap of 20’2 1/2”.
David Schlottman tied for
fifth place honors in the
pole vault. He cleared 11’-
6”, but was eliminated at
the 12’ mark.
Some 30 schools, most in
class AAA, were entered in
the Cypres s- Fairbanks
show.
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Saturday
Track coach Charles
Forehand will take 12-15
Wildcats to their second
meet of the season Satur-
day at Dayton where Class
AA, A and B schools fro_m
across southeast Texas are
entered.
Preliminaries will get
underway at 1 p.m. with
finals down for'7 p.m.
“We’ll probably take
from 12 to 15 boys, maybe
more,” Forehand said this
week. He said Humble ath-
letes will be entered in all
events except two.
At least four district 23-
AA teams will be entered
in the meet -- Humble,
Dayton, Liberty and Ana-
huac. Forehand said Sour
Lake and Hamshire-Fan-
nett may also field entries
in the Dayton meet.
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