Hardin Simmons at West Texas

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  Evening star, October 25, 1961, page 79

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  COLLEGE LINE Rip Engle. who scored his Tooth coaching victory when Penn. State blanked Syracuse last Saturday. never intended to be a coach. Rip says he wanted to go to engineering school when he got out of Western Maryland in 1880. But those were depression days, and Dick Harlow, then the Western Maryland coach. got Rip a couple Of jobs teaching and coaching in high schools. and one thing led to another. Rip never had played foot ball until he got to college. his: background UP to that time having included such things as a mule driver in coal mines when he was IA and a mine supervisor when 10. But he turned out to be one of those all-around athletes you hardly see any more. winning letters in basketball, baseball and ten mis-. in addition to football. He also captained the basketball and baseball teams. Engle’s years at Western Maryland were the best ones Harlow had there, before the latter got the call to Harvard. The Green Terrors really were terrors then, unbeaten and untied in IL games in 1929, and tied only once in 10 games in 1880. This weeks chapter of the Pete Pedro story: Pistol Pete scored two touchdowns and gained 140 yards as West Texas State beat Hardin Simmons, 42–⁠0. He’s leading the country with “a points and SAG yards. The reason you don’t read about it in the Eastern papers is that they play Saturday night football out there. It’s too early to tell. but some of the old Blues up at Yale think they have the makings of another Albie Booth in Lynard Hinojosa, a 5-foot-8. 150-pounder. He’s a soph who didn’t play freshman football because of a broken collarbone, but he has terrific potential. They say that he’s a wonderful broken-field runner who needs only a slit of daylight to get started. Certainly he did all right on his 35-yard scoring dash against Cornell last Saturday. Hinojosa pronounced Hin-ahosa) is from Texas. and says he’s Of combined Irish, French and Spanish ancestry. Il Just happened to wind up with a Spanish name” he says. “a 1t should come as no sur prise to Notre Dame that George Saimes. the Michigan State star Of last weeks 17–⁠7 headline game, in an, expert at THE Twist” that energetic dance popular among certain Of the younger element, which requires a lot Of hop swinging and endurance. Saimes trained for the football season all sum-

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Hardin Simmons leads 14–⁠7 in 21 meetings, counting the one since this game.