The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 25, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 1, 1970 Page: 1 of 4

                                
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COACH AND CAPTAINS Head Coach Glen Whitis and
the men he appointed to serve as co-captains appear eager
for the basketball season to begin. At left is Tom Jahns
sophomore forward and at right Charles Ray Williams
junior forward. '
HE'S 'USED TO WINNING'
Whitis' record
speaks for itself
GLEN WHITIS came to Har-din-Simmons
University this fall
with the finest credentials of
any man who ever coached the
Cowboys.
He is what is known in sports
circles as a winner. He has to
h look back almost a deeadp tn re
call a losing season. If he looks
back just half a decade his re-
cord has to be one of the best in
the nation.
During the past five years
Whitis-coached teams won a to-
1 tal of 221 games while losing
only 28. The record the past four
years was even more amazing
101 victories and just 18 losses.
THE RECORD was made at
Howard Payne College which
has enjoyed national recognit-
ion because of its basketball
teams. The Yellow Jackets were
rated third nationally among the
nation's small colleges the past
two seasons by the Associated
Press. Last year they won three
of four games at the national
AAU meet in Columbus S.C.
representing the NAIA.
One could say that Whitis
came to H-SU because there
were no more world's to conqu-
er at Howard Payne. His teams
had been at or near the top for
years in the so-called small-college
ranks. The challenge at H-
SU which plays an NCAA ma-
jor division schedule appealed
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to the winning instinct in Whitis.
THE NEW head coach and ath-
letic director was born in Kem-
per Texas and attended Lam-
pasas High School. He entered
Howard Payne after serving in
the Navy during World War II.
He earned four letters in basket-
ball and made all-conference
twice.
He began his coaching career
at Pyote High School in 1950 as
basketball and football coach
and guided the grid team to a
district championship. He coach-
ed at Monahans for two years
then moved to Coleman where
he produced two of the finest
teams in the school's history
winning 57 games.
He became head coach at his
alma mater in 1955 and won 15
games while losing only 11 the
first year. He later became ath-
letic director supervising an ath-
letic program which includes
football basketball and track.
WHITIS' MOVE to H-SU was
greeted with much enthusiasm
among Cowboy sports fans. He
was one of a 16ng list of appli-
cants last summer after Paul
Lambert resigned to go to South-
ern Illinois University but a
frontrunner all the way.
"Whitis was screened from a
number of extremely well quali-
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Tip-Off Thursday
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Taylor Coliseum
The lid comes off the 1970-71
varsity basketball season Thurs-
day when the Cowboys meet the
Dallas Baptist College Indians at
7:30 p.m. in Taylor County Coli-
seum. It will be the first meeting of
the two schools' basketball
teams and will be the first re-
gular season game for the Cow-
boys under their new head
Coach Glen Whitis.
The Indians come to Abilene
with six games already behind
them and at last count they
Cowboys face rugged slate
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The Cowboys have been work
ing out since Oct. 15 in prepara-
tion for one of their toughest
schedules in history.
This year's slate includes 25
games 16 of them with major
or NCAA University Division
teams. All of the major teams
but one will be involved in a
Cowboy home game and will
be seen in action at Taylor Coun-
ty Coliseum.
Cowboy fans will be treated
to three home games in a row
during the first week of action.
After the opener with Dallas
Baptist College Thursday the
University of Arkansas Razor-
backs of the Southwest Confer-
ence will come to Abilene for a
Saturday night game in the Coli-
seum. This will be the first time
a Razorback team has ever play-
ed in Abilene and will be the
first meeting between Arkansas
and H-SU since 1964 when the
Cowboys dropped a close one in
Fayetteville.
Samford University from
Birmingham the "Baylor of
Alabama" visits Abilene Mon
Pep rally Wednesday in
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PEPPED UP AND READY TO GO -The six varsity cheerleaders will lead the student
body in i the first pep rally of the year this Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Rose Field House Bottom
row left to right are Carey Leech Phil Westmoreland and Gary Groesbeck Tod row S
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were still on the winning side.
They beat East Texas Baptist
College Nov. 14 lost to Howard
Payne Nov. 20 and beat South-
ern State College of Arkansas in
their homecoming game Nov. 21.
The game experience is what
concerns Coach Whitis and his
staff as they prepare to send
forth a group of eager but
young Cowboys.
Whitis had not announced a
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workouts the first five usually
has been composed of Charles
day Dec. 7. This Baptist school
lost to the Cowboys here two
years ago but has been moving
up in the basketball world. The
Bulldogs won 16 of 25 games last
season and have four starters
returning. Next Monday's game
will be played in Rose Field
House.
The first road trip will take
the Cowboys to Pocatello Idaho
Dec. 10 to play Idaho State Uni-
versity then on to Bozeman
Mont. to play Montana State
Dec. 12.
Both these teams have been
former foes of H-SU. Idaho State
lost two games to the Cowboys
in 1966 in Rose Field House but
won two at Pocatello the follow-
ing year. Montana State lost to
the Cowboys 85-76 in Taylor
County Coliseum last January
and is looking forward to the
return match.
Idaho State and Montana
State are both members of the
Big Sky Conference.
Next action for the Cowboys
will be Dec. 18-19 in the Cowboy
Classic. They'll play the Univer
Ray Williams Cliff Harris and
Tom Jahns as frontline witb
Steve Loos and LeRoy Martin
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at guards. Williams and Harris
are returning starters. Jahns and
Loos are sophomores and Martin
is a transfer from Dodge City
(Kans.) Junior College.
There's plenty of action dur-
ing the first two weeks of the
season. The University of Arkan-
sas Razorbacks come to the Coli-
seum Saturday night and Sam-
ford University's Bulldogs will
play H-SU in Rose Field House
next Monday night.
sity of Nevada from Reno the
opening night after McMurry
College plays the University of
Missouri. The teams switch part-
ners the next night for another
doubleheader.
Closing out the pre-Christmas
season will be a Dec. 21 encoun-
ter with the University of Iowa
at Iowa City. The Hawkeyes are
defending champions of the Big
Ten Conference one of the
strongest in the nation. H-SU has
played Wisconsin and Michigan
State in past years but has never
beaten a Big Ten Team.
Most of the games scheduled
during the long break between
semesters will be on the road.
The only home game will be
Jan. 14 with Doane (Neb.) Col-
lege and it will be played in
Rose Field House.
Other post-Christmas action
includes games with University
v of Texas at Arlington Midwest-
ern University Centenary Col-
lege McMurry New Mexico
State University West Texas
State University and Houston
Baptist College.
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