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MURRAY EVANS
. . . head mentor
This will be Murray Evans' sec-
ond season as head foreman of the
Hardin-Simmons University foot-
ball department. In his first year
as head mentor Evans saw his
Cowboys win 5 lose 3 and tie 2.
A former star player at Hardin-
Simmons Murray knows how it
feels to play on an undefeated
team. He lettered on the 1939
the 1940 team which plowed
through a tough season to tack
up an undefeated and untied
record and the 1941 team which
tied for the Border Conference
championship.
Following graduation in 1942
Evans played in professional
ranks with the Detroit Loins for
two years. He had one of the best
passing records in the league as a
freshman. He later served with
the United States Navy and
while at the Naval Bainbridge
Station in Maryland starred in
football. Evans returned to take
over H-SU line coaching duties
in 1946 and that year the Cow-
EUGENE SCHOOLEY
. . . statistician
Eugene Schooley a former news-
paperman and currently a pro-
fessor of journalism is one of the
two statistitians at H-SU. Chair-
man of the journalism depart-
ment he is also recognized as
one of the better statistitians of
the Southwest.
Schooley came to the Hardin-
Simmons University campus from
Illinois in 1946. He holds a Mas-
ter of Arts in journalism from
Minnesota.
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A Weekly College Newspaper published every Friday during-
the term by the Hardin-Simmons Press Club in the interest
of the Student Body of Hardin-Simmons University.
Entered as Second Class mail matter June 22 1917 at the
Post Office at Abilene Texas under Act of March 3 1879.
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Editorial Office: Room 2 GI Hall Hardin-Simmons Campus.
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SAM BAUGH
. . . "slingin Sam"
Working with Hardin-Simmons
as associate coach is Mr. Foot-
ball himself "Slinging Sam"
Baugh. Baugh who helped with
spring training in 1952 inked a
contract with Hardin-Simmons
soon after he played his last pro-
fessional game with the Washing-
ton Redskins. Wellknown in West
Texas ranch circles he is also
associate coach of the H-SU rodeo
team which last spring won the
World's championship National
Intercollegiate rodeo association
title.
Baugh brings to the H-SU staff
a wealth of football know-how
which has been recorded in the
college ranks while at TCU and in
the professional ranks while with
the Redskins. Baugh along with
other members of the H-SU coach-
ing staff is kept busy filling ban-
quet engagements. He speaks in
a manner that is becoming to his
way of life. Just about the best
way to size up Sam who is the
father of four boys and one
"cheer leader" is to site some of
the records that he holds:
Sam played football for 16 years
with Washington Redskins smash-
ing 16 rdecords in like number of
years:
Most passes completed 1709.
Most passes completed one sea-
son 1947 (219).
Most passes attempted 3016.
Most passes intercepted 206.
Most passes attempted in one
season 1947 354.
Most yards gained 22085-ap-proximately
12 Vz miles.
Most yards gained passing one
season 1947 2938.
Most touchdown passes 187.
Best passing efficiency (500 or
more attempts) 56.6 per cent.
Best passing efficiency one
season 1945 70.3 per cent.
Best punting average one sea-
son 1942 48.7 yards on 30 punts.
Most years as active player in
National Football League 16.
Championship game records:
Longest punt 85 yards.
Most yards gained passing one
game 338.
boy line was rated the best in the
Border Conference.
Evans will again use the Wing
T formation which features un-
orthodox line spacings set flank-
ers baffling spreads and the con-
centration of amazing power over
holes created by a shifting line
gap. He first mastered the Wing
T in 1941 when he blossomed
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LARRY CUNNINGHAM
. . . associate coach
Larry Cunningham associate
coach at H-SU played football at
Hardin-Simons when the Cow-
boys received their first national
recognition as a grid power.
A three-year letterman Larry
played both in the backfield and
the line on the '37 '38 and '39
teams. In the three years that he
was a Cowboy footballer H-SU
won 23 lost 2 and tied 2. He is
beginning his third season as a
member of the Cowboy coach
ptaff.
Formerly of McLean where he
played high school ball Larry
served on the Denison and Chil-
dress high school athletic staffs
following his graduation from
H-SU. He came to H-SU from
McMurry College.
Along wtih Sam Baugh Cun-
ningham coached a team in the
1953 Greenbelt Bowl at Childress.
While in the Navy he served
four years Larry was on the
athletic staffs at Pensacola Naval
Base and at the North Carolina
Pre-Flight School.
DR. ROBERT A. COLLINS
. . . faculty athletic chairman
Dr. Collins past president of the
Border Conference now serves as
chairman of the faculty athletic
committee. His job is that of
keeping the many records conj-
cerning eligibility rules of the
conference.
Dr. Collins first came to Hardin-Simmons
from a ranch as a
student with a desire to play foot-
ball. His desire was soon fulfilled
and he is said to be the first man
in the Southwest to use the
fepiral pass from center. He devel-
oped the center snap while play-
ing on the 1909 Cowboy team.
Today Dr. Collins is still mak-
ing a contribution to football
and to sports in general at H-SU.
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Much Ado About Nothing
By LAWRENCE WEBB
Here we are coming down into
the last lap of the summer school
race. Soon the Forty Acres will be
left practically barren as things
settle down for a sort time be-
fore the fall activities begin. The
lull will be a short one only
about two and a half weeks be-
fore things start humming again
after summer commencement
Monday night.
Many students will be return-
ing Thursday Sept. 10 for the
BSU pre-school retreat at Lued-
ers encampment. Lueders will be
a busy place that weekend for
the BSU'ers will leave Sunday
morning in time to return to Abir
lene for Sunday School and the
A Cappella Choir members will
BILL SCOTT
. . . associate coach
Bill Scott is associate football
coach and head basketball and
track coach. He brought a basket-
ball conference co-champoinship
to the Forty Acres for the first
time last year as he worked his
second year as head basketball
mentor.
He is the youngest basketball
coach in both service and age in
the conference. He was judged
the coach of the year by the bas-
ketball coaches of the conference
last season. Scott demonstrated
himself as an all around student
and leader while earning his BA
and MA degree at H-SU. He is a
former president of the H-SU
student body and a member of
Who's Who in American Colleges
and Universities. Bill compiled
an outstanding record as an over-
seas coach in the army while in
Guam. A major in the National
Guard Bill served both in the
ETO and the Pacific Theatre of
operations. This will be his fourth
season as a member of the H-SU
football staff.
DR. WILLIAM O. BEAZLEY
. . . statistician
Dr. William O. Beazley assist-
ant to the president at H-SU de-
votes a great deal of his "spare
time" working on the statistics
for the Cowboys. This involves
giving and recording minute in-
formatoin such as the number of
passes yards etc.
During his college days Dr.
Bill was awarded 14 letters three
in football basketball track and
decathlon and two in baseball.
He is the only student to ever
attend Bridgewater College (Vir-
ginia) who won the decathlon
award three years in a row.
An ordained Baptist minister
he is also a recognized statistician
by the men of the fourth estate.
move into the camp after church
services Sunday night. Their
camp will include two days
Monday and Tuesday of intensi-
fied drill on music for the fall
term.
The A Cappella camp wil be
conducted during freshman orien-
tation. A majority of the choir
members for this year were
selected before the close of the
spring term.
Maridell Fisher Berkeley Cali-
fornia is now working in a cam-
pus office awaiting the beginning
of the fall semester when she will
enroll as a freshman. Maridell is
the daughter of Dr. Fred L. Fish-
er former H-SU Bible prof who
Friday August 21. 1953
E. W. (BLL) LEDBETTER
. . . athletic director
In the two years that E. W.
(Bill) Ledbetter has been athletic
director at Hardin-Simmons he
has seen the school have its best
all-around sports program. The
Cowboys have fielder teams in
football basketball baseball
tennis golf and rodeo. Mr. Led-
better naturally would be slow to
take credit for the athletic pro-
gram in its entirety but he can
take credit directly for two
teams golf and rodeo. And both
teams are championship groups.
The Cowboy golf team has won
the Border Conference champion-
ship for the past three years. Last
spring Ledbetter saw his rodeo
team win a world's championship
and his golf team dethrone North
Texas for the NAIA Title. The
Cowboys won the National Inter-
collegiate R o d. e o Association
championship shows which were
held in Abilene. He is also the
business manager of the univer-
sity secretary-treasurer of the
H-SU board of trustees.
GEORGE HINE JR.
. . . athletic news director
George Hine Jr. director of
public information was appoint-
ed assistant director of publicity
in charge of athletic news in 1949
while still a student. He received
a master of arts degree in journa-
lism and sociologigy in 1951.
Hine's football brochure has
been recognized by sports witers
as among the best in the nation.
He has been responsible for much
of the nationwide publiicty given
H-SU on the sports pages.
As a result of a recent expan-
sion of the journalism and pub-
licity departments Hine is now in
general charge of public informa-
tion. is now on the Golden Gate Bapr
tist Theological Seminary faculty.
Word has reached us that the
School of Music will sponsor the
famed Westminister Choir from
Westminister Choir College
Princeton N. J. The choir which
has visited the campus in pre-
vious years is directed by John
Finley Williamson who has as-
sisted with the annual summer
choir school here in past sum-
mers. Date for the concert will
be February 11. All three mem-
bers of the H-SU voice depart-
ment Euoll Porter John Mjzoll
and Miss Nina Williams have
studied in the Westminister
school.
A chapel program which oc-
curred a couple of weeks back
which we did not acknowledge in
print but did enjoy was the
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