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maintenance staffer B. Lewis Wilson to produce a wireless account of a 0-0 tie between the Aggies and Texas Longhorns in
football. That was followed by the first actual radio broadcast of an
SWC game on Nov. 25,1926, when General Ike Ashburn gave the
play-by-play account of A&M's 28-0 victory over Texas at College Station.
Game officials and their orderly assignment became a part of
the SWC Office in the 1920's along with cooperation with the
Southwest Officials Association, a longtime partner of the SWC,
while legislation governing scouting of opponents went into effect
during the 1927-28 academic year.
Conference Presidents, In Ordenpf Service
One of the greatest
track & field athletes
of all time, Carl Lewis
attended the University
of Houston.
*$**
University of Texas
alum Jill Sterkel was
a member of four
U.S. Olympic teams
and is now a
Longhorn coach.
The first of several hundred SWC competitors in the Olympic
Games (42 SWC athletes, two head coaches, six individual and
team medals were earned in the Seoul Olympics of 1988 while
close to 60 competitors from SWC schools qualified for the 1992
Olympics) was a meritorious sprinter on the United States' 1928
team - Rice's Claude Bracey.
As the conference moved into the 1930s and 1940s, growing
and maturing programs in all areas - from track and field to
baseball to tennis to swimming - were taking shape for the seven
teams who survived the comings and goings and formed the crux
of the SWC until Texas Tech entered in 1958. Houston later gained
admission into the SWC for the 1972-73 academic year (competing for the first time in football in 1976), and the SWC enjoyed
1914-1915-W. T. Mather Texas
1915-1916-A.C. Love, Texas A&M
1916-1917-J.C. Futrall, Arkansas
1917-1918-Henry Trantham, Baylor
1918-1919-W. W. Watkins, Rice
1919-1920-R. G. Soutar, Oklahoma
1920-1922-J. S. Mcintosh, SMU
*1922-Henry Trantham, Baylor
1922-1934-D. A. Penick, Texas
1934-1937-E. W. McDiarmid, TCU
1937-1941-Henry Trantham, Baylor
1941-1943-J. S. Waterman, Ark.
1943-1944-J. C. Dolley, Texas
1944-1046-H. E. Bray, Rice
1946-1948-Gayle Scott, TCU
1948-1950-R. A. Leflar, Arkansas
1950-1951-D. W. Williams, A&M
1951-1953-J. D. Bragg, Baylor
1953-1955-H.E. Bray, Rice
1955-1957-E. D. Mouzon, Jr., SMU
1957-1959-0. B. Williams, Texas
1959-1961-Henry B. Hardt, TCU
1961-1963-Delbert Swartz, Ark.
1963-1965-Chris Groneman, A&M
1965-1967-Alan Chapman, Rice
1967-1968-Monroe Carroll, Baylor
1968-1971-J. William Davis, Tech
1971-1973-Harold Jeskey, SMU
1973-1975-J. Neils Thompson, Texas
1975-1977-Kenneth W. Herrick, TCU
1977-1979-Albert Witte, Arkansas
1979-1981-CharlesSamson,Jr.,A&M
1981-1983-James A. Casteneda, Rice
1983-1985-Edwin P. Horner, Baylor
1985-1987-Michael Johnson, Baylor
1987-1989-Robert M. Sweazy, Tech
1989-1991-James Vick, Texas
1991-1993-Paul Rogers, SMU
1993- Joseph Helmick, TCU
*Completed Mcintosh's term in 1922
Conference Commissioners, In Order of Service
1938-1945-Dr. P. W.St. Clair
1945-1950-James H. Stewart
1950-1973-Howard Grubbs
1973-1982-CliffSpeegle
1982-1993-FredJacoby
1993- Steven J. Hatchell
some of its most nationally-successful football seasons (four wire
service national championships from 1963-70) since SMU, TCU
and Texas A&M captured American college grid titles from 1935-
39.
The settling effect brought with it the need to have a full-time
office, headed by an Executive Secretary (later re-titled
Commissioner). In 1938 Dr. P.W. St. Clair assumed a part-time
position as the SWC's first Executive Secretary and served in that
position until May, 1945. He was followed by James H. Stewart
(1945-50, the conference's first full-time Executive Secretary),
Howard Grubbs (1950-73), Cliff Speegle (1973-82), and fourth
full-time Commissioner Fred Jacoby (1982-93) before Steven J.
Hatchell.
The SWC maintains the oldest continuous contractual agreement (since 1942) with a major bowl game between the conference
and the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association. This gridiron marriage
has produced numerous battles for national supremacy and an
always-entertaining contest on New Year's Day since the initial
contest in 1937.
From football legends such as Hall-of-Famers Darrell Royal
of Texas, Jess Neely of Rice, Madison 'Matty' Bell of four SWC
schools, and Frank Broyles of Arkansas to Baseball Hall of Fame
member Teddy Lyons of Baylor to Olympic champions such as
Houston's Carl Lewis to 1992-93 Women's Basketball Player of
the Year Sheryl Swoopes of national champ Texas Tech, the
Southwest Conference continues to produce exciting moments in
intercollegiate athletics.
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