"The referee (Curly Hays) was still in the tu backfield. When he liked downfield he signaled incomplete. Then the downfield refs then followed his lead."

Curly Hays was from Abilene. He was an officiating legend in West Texas. He officiated well in to his 70's. In fact he passed away one Sunday morning after officiating 3 Pop Warner games the day before. My father in law officiated many high school games with him out this way. Curly worked for West Texas Utilities at the headquarters in Abilene. He always took his WTU company car to ball games, high school and SWC, and doubled dipped the mileage. He was very tight. I'm not sure if totally true, but I have heard this story from several local sources. Price Campbell was the President and Chairman of WTU. Price Campbell was a "Big Aggie". Supposedly he told Curly that he didn't want him to take company car to the game and Curly would ride to the game in the company plane with Price Campbell and his wife. Price Campbell didn't want Curly getting paid mileage in an expense paid WTU car. Back in those days the SWC officials worked high school games on Friday nights and SWC games on Saturday. The story I've heard from several sources is that after the game Price Campbell was so upset that he told his wife let's go and rushed to the airport and they took off and left Curly at College Station.

BS call by the refs. Never went to a tu game again

LoudestWHOOP! said:

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I have heard about this call in the tu game, wonder if anyone else here has any more detail.
This was between my Dad's years (late 50s) and my years (Late 80s)

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Notice the person in the trench coat and hat behind the goal post? This was a student reporter for tu, signaling incomplete. The ref glanced at him just before making the call. Coincident??!!

"gdsrt
2:06p, 1/3/25
My wife and I were sitting (standing) right on the goal line for that game. And it was Schillenburg who intercepted that particular pass. You could clearly see the gouges left by his knees - well within the end zone. Worst screwing I've ever seen by the referees. Brotherton is the one who scooped up a fumble and tried to run it and fumbled.it back to tu."

The signal by the ref was that Welborn was out of bounds, not that he did not have possession. There is a picture somewhere of the gouge in the dirt from Welborns knee well inside the end line. I saw the game on tv.

AgPops said:

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The man in the overcoat is Bill Little the former SID for tu.

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Bill Little and Charles Alan Wright are probably nuzzling Satan's nutsack nowadays