This! "Good afternoon football fans . . . ."

wisdom said:

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If you like Dave South....you would have liked Kern Tips.......Kern Tips was horrible. Great....cute descriptive phrases which is the origin of the mistaken belief he was somehow a good announcer, but if you wanted to know what was happening on the field and what the game situation was, Kern Tips was horrible.

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WRONG!

AGxellence91 said:

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I can still hear Kern Tips say, "The ball is handed off to ??? and it's thunder up the middle".

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I listened to many Aggie basketball games with Mike Mistovich. I can still him calling Randy Matson got his head above the rim to grab that rebound.

But Esten was the MIKE!! He was calling the games from Kyle Field while I was a student,.

Dr. Roger Feldman?

Mike Mistovich basketball in the 60's. "Bena Lenex at the line. He sends it away, good."

Kern Tipps calling the tu/ou game at the old Cotton Bowl, "This is a scene that would make Cecil B Demille stand back aghast!"

71txag said:

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"GOOD AFTERNOON FOOTBALL FANS, WELCOME TO KYLE FIELD. THE HOME OF THE FIGHTIN' TEXAS AGGIES".C.K.Esten no contest.

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Thought it was Mike Mistovich? At least '70 on....

CK Esten

Oops. Beat me to it

A couple clippings from the switchover from Exxon to Mutual Broadcasting for SWC games. This is post-Kern Tipps. Not sure when exactly it became normal to have dedicated announcers for schools producing their own broadcasts. But this explains why there might have been some confusion on when Dave South started, or mixed memories of different people calling games:




This thread is also the first time I've seen or heard any old-timers complain about Kern Tips' gamecalling skills. Another article from the era quoted someone saying they could keep pretty accurate game stats just by following his play by play.

SA Ag said:

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Quote Esten; "Ray Kubbbaaalllaaa!

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Brubachaaaaaa!

F4GIB71 said:

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CK Esten

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Compared to Esten, the rest were rookies!!!

HSEEP said:

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C K ESTIN, without a doubt.

1967 SWC Championship year;

Calling an Aggie defensive stop: In on the tackle, Hoooooobs, Aaaaaschenbeck a - n - d, KAW - RUH - GAAAH!

As in Billy Hobbs, Harvey Aschenbeck and Rolf Krueger. Great stuff!

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I never heard him call them that way!

Harry Lime said:

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A couple clippings from the switchover from Exxon to Mutual Broadcasting for SWC games. This is post-Kern Tipps. Not sure when exactly it became normal to have dedicated announcers for schools producing their own broadcasts. But this explains why there might have been some confusion on when Dave South started, or mixed memories of different people calling games:




This thread is also the first time I've seen or heard any old-timers complain about Kern Tips' gamecalling skills. Another article from the era quoted someone saying they could keep pretty accurate game stats just by following his play by play.

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By the mid 1980s, that arrangement had changed. Each SWC school was assigned an announcing crew and for conference games, the home team announcer would do play by play while the visiting one would do color. Big name announcers Ron Franklin (UT) & Brad Sham (TCU) were part of that rotation. Dave South was assigned to A&M during this time period and that's where it began for him. In 1988, this agreement was done away with and SWC schools had their own radio networks with their own announcing crews.

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By the mid 1980s, that arrangement had changed. Each SWC school was assigned an announcing crew and for conference games, the home team announcer would do play by play while the visiting one would do color. Big name announcers Ron Franklin (UT) & Brad Sham (TCU) were part of that rotation. Dave South was assigned to A&M during this time period and that's where it began for him. In 1988, this agreement was done away with and SWC schools had their own radio networks with their own announcing crews.

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Dave had a day job in Waco back when he started doing A&M games. He was offered the general manger position at a Waco radio station in '88, which would not have permitted him to moonlight, so he had to quick after the '88 football season. Chuck Cooperstein did basketball in '88-'89, then for baseball, they started with KBTX new anchor (and former Aggie baseball player) Russ Roberts, until he took a job with a TV station in Arkansas, and then got Bill Schoening to come over from Huntsville to finish the '89 baseball season. Only when football rolled around in the Fall of '89 did John David Crow notice we had an issue with not having a full time play by play guy (Duke Frye did play-by-play while Dave Elmendorf remained on color, having started the year before, if I recall correctly). After the '89 football season, JDC created a full-time position in order to lure Dave South back.

Dave Elmendorf had a brief hiatus from color duties when he took a job working for Miramont (someone didn't like him promoting a golf course that competed with Traditions, which A&M was trying to develop at the time). That's when Kevin Smith did color for a year or two (I want to say that was the end of Crow's tenure and when he left, Elmendorf was allowed to return -- Crow was an awful athletic director).

I probably know you. Dave was the Program Director at KWTX (not sure if it was AM or both AM & FM. Frank Fallon was the station manager. Dave was the color guy on KWTX AM Baylor radio broadcasts while Fallon did the play by play. I know Fallon was station manager when he passed away but did not know South was the ever in that position. Frank's son Steve was discharged from the Army (he was in the Armed Forces Radio Network), he became the sports anchor at KWTX TV. He moved from Waco to an Austin TV station for a while but left the business like a lot of us because many of us required three meals a day. Not sure why so many like to rag on Dave. He did a pretty good job while he was at A&M.

I have about 20- 25 cassette tapes of Aggie football and some basketball games from 1975-1980. These are from radio broadcasts. I would love to bring them back to life..

Man if you could get those digitally remastered & put on CD's, us " olds " would gobble those up. ( Ag wins of course)
75-76 would be the old Exxon network & 77-80 would be the Mutual broadcasts .
Please preserve these & at the very least donate to the Cushing library!!!
Keep us posted!

I'd love to do this if Craig could get me the tapes or copies of them.

Be aware it would be very time consuming, so it wouldn't happen in a hurry. Not sure what I'd do about "remastering" them but I'd preserve them digitally as much as I could to make the sound quality hopefully not sound like a 40-50 year old cassette. Magnetic tape isn't always a great medium for quality, so there definitely would be a limit as to what could be done.

"Wildcat you *******s"

Was CK the announcer that would end every game at Kyle thanking the crowd for attending and telling them on their way home to "please drive carefully ", and he would draw out the word carefully for effect.?

Tex Ag 81 said:

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Early 70's:

Starting in the backfield, Bean, Greene, Dean and Dusek.

Also, tackle for loss made by the entire fightin' Texas Aggie defense.

I can't do the emphasis but the CK was awesome.

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I thought is was....

Dean, Bean, Greene & Waaalker

Got used to Chace Murphy at Kyle Field. Still cannot get not used to the new announcer voice. Is there a voting for naming the new announcers at Kyle?

SA Ag said:

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Quote Esten; "Ray Kubbbaaalllaaa!

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Gary Kovaaaaaa (r)

BoerneGator said:

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SA Ag said:

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Quote Esten; "Ray Kubbbaaalllaaa!

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Gary Kovaaaaaa (r)

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"In on the tackle for the Aggies: Spit-zen-ber-gerrrr."

In spades