| Preview of 1956 Without the 1955 Tigers By Jack Humphries Coach Loggins was interviewed by the Athens Review's Bill Speake about the upcoming 1956 Football season without the 1955 Seniors. Also Ken A, a junior, would graduate. Coach Loggins reply, "I'll sure be glad when Basketball season gets here!!" The first practice after this pronouncement, Hoss Cope suggested that we pretend the Football was a Basketball and dribble it every chance we got. So we did. Every time anyone went out for a pass they stopped the ball and dribbled at it. Coach Loggins was not impressed. We paid the price with extra laps, but our anger carried over to the Mabank game in which we were heavy underdogs. We won the game 13-12!! LINK TO 1ST HOME GAME IN 1956 STORY IN MALAKOFF NEWS NOTE: ROYCE BROKE HIS HAND AT A&M AND EVENTUALLY ENDED UP AT ARLINGTON STATE (A JR. COLLEGE AT THE TIME) AND THEN WENT TO STEPHEN F. AUSTIN I watched Royce compete in the Lone Star Track finals in Beaumont. He placed 2nd in the hurdles. |
| AD '56 Life After Donald... Royce, Ken, Wayne, Bobby, Ben, Howard, Stanley, Dickie |
