Who can forget Connie Alexander's "and he goes down in a mass of humanity". I'm remembering tuning my radio on Saturdays trying to find each game and dreaming what it must look and feel like. A true child of the SWC and listening to games with my Dad.

28? Are you sure your not older than that? I saw you buying David Boone records some time back.

Wish I was but I am a ripe 66 years.

Most of the great ones greatest attribute was that they didn't talk too much.
I remember distinctly listing to SMU-Texas in 1949 at the age of seven.

Fossil

BostonAg74 said:

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Did Mike Mistovich do football? I know he did basketball.

The greatest radio voice ever was Kern Tips, who did SWC games for the old Humble network.

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Mike did Baseball.

Yep, remember those stickers well. Always looked fwd to getting my Aggie sticker in the fall. Humble stations gave Green Stamps with every purchase. They also checked your tire pressure, radiator and cleaned your windshield. For real, youngsters.

BostonAg74 said:

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I may be wrong, but I don't think there WAS an official voice of Aggie football before Dave South. In the days of the old Humble network in the SWC, the best announcers got the best games, so the play by play man would change from week to week. I'm not sure when schools began putting together their own announcing teams, but my guess is that A&M lagged behind in that area, so south may have been the first full time guy.

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You are correct about the old Humble network. I started listening to football on the radio in the late '40s at around age 8 or 9. I grew up in Dallas and at the time was a SMU/Doak Walker fan since it was the local school and Walker was a hometown boy and All American hero. (Lots of kids including me wanted red and blue No. 37 jerseys for Christmas.) Humble broadcast all the SWC games and Kern Tips was the very best of the announcers and got the best games. We didn't have TV until around 1950 and I don't believe many, if any, football games were televised until the early '50s. Kern Tips descriptions were really good and were almost like being at the game. You could almost "see" it through the radio.

A&M won SWC championships in 1941 and 1956 but in the 14 years in between which represented most of my growing up years, tu won 5-1/2 SWC championships, TCU 3, Rice 2, SMU 2 and Arkansas 1-1/2 and so Tips wasn't covering A&M or Baylor games much unless they were playing one of the better teams.

Charlie Wallace AMC '62

Correction: C K Estin always opened with: "Good afternoon FOOTBALL FANS. Welcome to Kyle Field. The home of the fightin' Texas Aggies!"