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Author Rollins, Gary, author

Title Return to Junction : Smokey and the Bear and other Aggie football stories / Gary Rollins '58 ; foreword by Jerry "Rat" Rhea '58 and Ray "Grubworm" Stevens '58
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Swaim-Paup sports series
Swaim-Paup sports series
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Oldest Army -- Chapter 2. When Did the Bryant Era Really Begin? -- Chapter 3. Howdy, Rat and Grubworm! -- Chapter 4. It Ain't Always What You Know -- Chapter 5. You Can Call Me Grubworm -- Chapter 6. Howdy! My Name Is Smokey -- Chapter 7. When Wild Willie Met Gabby -- Chapter 8. But Can Pardee Lead? -- Chapter 9. Recruiting, 1954 -- Chapter 10. Foresighted in Aggieland -- Chapter 11. Roddy Osborne: Mr. Versatility -- Chapter 12. The Sugar Land Express -- Chapter 13. One-Armed and Dangerous
Chapter 14. How High Can a Frog Jump? -- Chapter 15. Team Photo Day -- Chapter 16. The Day the Rain Came Down -- Chapter 17. He-e-e-re's Mickey Herskowitz! -- Chapter 18. "I Like Little People!" -- Chapter 19. Dr. Richard Steadman, Left Tackle -- Chapter 20. Those Hallettsville Boys -- Chapter 21. Bonnie Prince Charlie -- Chapter 22. Dub Kendrick from Cowtown -- Chapter 23. Rice vs. Texas A&M -- Chapter 24. Dennis Goehring: Mr. Junction Boy -- Chapter 25. The Aggies Are Back! -- Chapter 26. Charlie Caldwell from Krueger -- Chapter 27. John David and Bobby Joe -- Chapter 28. Spur's Favorite Son
Chapter 29. The Other Howard Payne -- Chapter 30. Jimmy Wright: Villanova and Such -- Chapter 31. Odds and Ends -- Chapter 32. Rings around the Brazos -- Chapter 33. Goodbye, College Station! -- Chapter 34. Skipping Finals -- Chapter 35. Smokey Harper: The Rest of the Story -- Afterword. When Billy Pete Was Just a Lad -- Index
Summary In 1954, a wide-eyed youngster named Gareld Rollins arrived on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas as a freshman, slated to work as a student manager for the football team. The head coach, who had just arrived at A&M the previous February, was Paul "Bear" Bryant, who was already in the process of becoming a sports legend. Bryant had brought with him Charles "Smokey" Harper as head athletic trainer, who not only taped ankles and administered first aid to injured players but was also Bryant?s most trusted advisor on the topic of his players? ability, potential, and, above all, their grit.In Return to Junction: Smokey and the Bear and Other Aggie Football Stories, Rollins tells the behind-the-scenes stories of the Bryant era in Texas A&M football, a time that began amid "the goat-head stickers and dust" of a practice field in Junction, Texas, and ended with the shocking news that Bryant intended to "go home to Mama," taking the head coaching job at the University of Alabama. In fact, as Rollins relates, he had the job?as both a trusted athletic trainer and the student editor of the Texas A&M campus newspaper, the Battalion?of secretly helping Coach Bryant draft the news release that would officially announce his departure from A&M. Featuring interviews and recollections from many of those who lived that time along with him, Rollins gives readers a firsthand view of what has come to be seen as a golden time in Texas A&M football
Subject Bryant, Paul W
SUBJECT Bryant, Paul W. fast
Subject Texas A & M Aggies (Football team) -- History
Texas A & M Aggies (Football team) -- Biography
Texas A & M University -- Football
SUBJECT Texas A & M Aggies (Football team) fast
Texas A & M University fast
Subject Football coaches -- United States -- Biography
Football -- Texas -- History
Sports & Recreation / Football.
History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Biography & Autobiography / Sports.
Football
Football coaches
Texas
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Rhea, Jerry, writer of foreword
Stevens, Ray R., writer of foreword
ISBN 9781623498665
162349866X