Trainers and Managers 1893- 1959
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Longhorn TRAINERS AND STUDENT MANAGERS 1893-1959
1893
First Longhorn football manager- Walter Crawford.
Although UT began playing football in 1893, the first hired coach for the Horns was Reginald DeMerritt Wentworth who contracted to work for the 1894 season for $325. However, Wentworth’s true title was not “coach” but “trainer,” although the only training he appear to have recommended to the young Longhorn team was to practice and run plays.
1894
Reginald DeMerritt Wentworth is the first hired “coach/trainer” at UT.
W.O. Stephens is the football manager
1895-
Student Manager – J.A. O’Keefe
football manager Walter Crawford
Even with a segregated south, Doc Reeves managed to get a job at the UT athletic office that lasted from 1895 to 1915. He was the ultimate pioneer for blacks in the history of Texas Sports. His hard work and the respect he earned eventually led to his position on the football team as water boy , assistant to the coaches, and equipment manager, and the name “Doc”. His tools were a medicine , towel, and water bucket and he took care of the football players. He did everything in his power to heal the athletes and along the way became the bench mark for future managers and trainers. In one publication he was called “the most famous character connected with the football in the University of Texas.” Once an school official released him but the student body protested, and Doc kept his job. In 1915 Doc suffered a stroke and died 2 months later. The student body paid for his hospital bills.
1896
JW. McClendon and Dick Slaughter football managers
McClendon later served as chief justice on the Texas Court of Civil Appeals. He shares that being the manager “was practically an all-time job.” He had to do everything and he had no clerical assistance. “I collect the money, arranged for the home games and trips and everything you can imagine. I finally had to give it up” because he was missing law school classes.
Julius House and Snakey Jones were the captains.
1897
Student Manager – Robert Goree
football managers – F.C. Hume and John Phillips
1898 Student Manager – John C. Saner
1899 Student Manager – W.N. Friend and R.W. Frankton
1898
football manager John Phillips
1899
Football manager R.W. Franklin (also played end on the team )
1900″s
Student Manager – E.T. Moore also letters at shortstop
football manager – George Robertson
Wilber Allen baseball manager – later the Chairman Board of Regent of the U.T. system.
1901
Student Manager – Baseball M.F. Highley; football George H. Robertson ; and James Taylor
J.S. Dibrell track
1902
Student Manager – R.J. Randolph;
Baseball Carter Dalton ;
football G.D. Hunt and A.M. Barton
1903
Student Manager – Baseball A.M Fraizer ; football Joe B Hatchitt
Dalton – baseball manager
1904
Student Manager – A.M. Frazier; G.W. Burkitt; Eddie Connor, and Joe Kerbey football
1904 Student Manager – A.M. Frazier
1905
Student Manager – Ed. C. Connor baseball;
Fred Fisher- football
J.B. Hogsett- Track manager
1906
F.E. Lumpkin football manager
C.O. Terrell- track Mgr
1907 Student Manager –
Track- P. Montgomery
Baseball- Angus Wynne
Tennis H.P. Robertson
1908 Student Manager –
Ross Boothe- Track student Mgr.
Football- W.C. McCutcheon
Baseball- B.D. Tarlton and Bob Holliday
1909 Student baseball Manager – R.L. Holliday becomes a member of the U.T. Board of Regents from 1927-1933;
In later years R.L. Holliday is a member of the UT Board of Regents.
Kenneth Krahl football manager
1910
Lutcher Stark – football manager
Student Manager baseball – J.H. Brownlee;
Theo Green- Student Mgr- track
1911
Student Manager – Lingo Platter was Coach Disch first student manager. His son was Coach Disch student manager in 1939.
Steve Pinckney would be credited for convincing alumni to purchase Bevo I in 1916.
Steve spotted the uniquely colored animal while on patrol for Mexican rustlers along the Rio Grande .
1912
1913
FOOTBALL MANAGER KNIGHT.
O.E. Daughtery- student Mgr. Track
1913 football George Heyer (Manager) Billy Disch (trainer),
1914 Student Manager – G.E. Matthews;
Sylvan Lang- Track
Ted Drury – baseball
Doc. Reeves is recognized in a publication as the “most famous character connected with football at The University of Texas”.
Robert knight football manager
1915-Student Manager – Ted Drury; F. Cotton.
Doc. Reeves has a stroke that kills him. The student body raises money to pay for his medical bills, the Houston Post has a tribute to him, and he is inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 2000.
Joe Glenney – football manager
1916- 1917
1917
football manager F.M. Sheffield
1918
football manager Ed Walker
1919
Manager baseball – Nelson Phillips; football Jeff Nealy
1920
football manager Joiner Cartwright
S.N. Ekdahl rejoins the team as the trainer. A post he held until 1924.
1921
football manager Brady Cole
1922 The year managers earned “respect”
The Athletic Council acting on the “T” Association recommendation added trainers and managers as full members in the organization, with all its privileges. Managers could not wear the “T” of the athlete’s sweaters but would receive recognition for their service with a small “M” inserted in the base of the letter.
football manager – Walter Sterling
1923
Trainer Ekdahl
football manager Lon Cartwright
1924
1924 Student Manager baseball – R.B. Kidd; Russell Dunbar
1925
J.D. Woolsley – baseball manager
1925 Student Manager – R. R. Taylor ; football manager Charles Reinhardt
1926
Student Manager baseball – Denny Dallas;
Connell Reese football manager
1927
Student Manager baseball – J.R. McMurrey;
Gail Whitcomb football manager
Reed Westmoreland Student Mgr. Track
1928
Hollis Schultz football manager
1929-1930
football manager Johnny Keel 1929 and Otto Ramsel 1930
Student Manager – Gerald Scott football
Disch wins the title by winning two games against A & M
1931- 1932
Student Manager – Bob Oglesby becomes a state official; Rupert Harkrider
1931 Student Manager – Ruel Walker who later was justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
The football student managers were Kraft Eidman 1932 who later became Managing partners of Fulbright & Jaworski, and Fred Schaffner 1933.
1933-1934
Student Manager baseball
– Howard Edmonds;
1934 Student Manager – Dr. Woolford McFarland and Bernard Karkowski
football manager Leonard Chote
1935
This was Tex Robertson’s first year as the UT swim coach, and he needs to promote his sport to the public so he offers Stanley Gunn the editors of the Daily Texan the managers job and Gunn accepts. The promotion of swimming program starts receiving good “real estate” in the Daily Texan.
1936
Student Manager – Bond Davis football;
Bernard Karkowski-Student Mgr-Track
Kelly -Trainer track
1936 Student Manager basebal – Reagan Wiseman;
1937 Student Manager – Thornton Hardie; H. Y. Cartwright
David Home and Sam Brown football manager
1937
football managers Bill Ward Kelso Dabney
1938
Student Manager baseball – W.R. Cousins;
Daniel Kleinman Student Mgr. Track
Kelso Dabney football manager
1939
Student Manager baseball – Lingo Platter. Jr. becomes a magistrate in the United States District Court in Houston.
Daniel Kleinman Student Mgr. Track
Estey Youngblood football student manager
1940
1940 Dr Franz Polgar at UT using group hypnosis on football players to convince them they are carrying a heavy load
Student Manager – Albert Slavik baseball; Bill Sansing
Billy Pool football manager
Bill Sansing- Inducted into HOH in 1986
(1939-40, Basketball Manager)
Former sports editor of The Daily Texan
UT’s first full-time sports information director 1945-1949
Sports marketing firm representing such clients as Jack Nicklaus and the Dallas Cowboys
1941-
Earl Shelton – football manager
1942
football managers – Rooster Andrews and Joe Hirsch
1943
football manager – Rooster Andrews
1944
football manager – Rooster Andrews
Norman Morgenstern mgr track
Tom Berry – Baseball manager
Student Manager – Jack Crosby became a cable television executive;
1945
football manager – Rooster Andrews
1945 – ’48, ’49, ’51
Student Manager baseball – Bill Blocker;
Sam Senglemann TRACK
1946
Johnny Thompson was the equipment manager who later was the President and Chairman of the Board of the Southland Corporation.
Football manager – James Moody
1947
– Sam Senglemann
Student Manager – Rooster Andrews was also a player and manager for the football team and started Rooster Andrews Sporting Goods.
1947 Student Manager – John Lucas baseball; Horace Stubblefield
1948
Joe Thompsons’ son , John Philp Thompson, BBA ’48, Life Member, made his own mark at the University, serving as the football manager for the Longhorns and, much later on, becoming a Distinguished Alumnus.
1949
Student Manager- Kenneth Batchelor
football Manager- Paul Brewton
1950
Student Manager – George Patterson baseball; Kenneth Batchelor
Bill Bohn football manager
1951
– Student Manager- Tony Kazen. Joe Abbey
1952
Student Manager – Laverne Huser baseball; Tony Kazen
1953
– Student Manager – Tom Yium baseball; Payne Roye, Jere Thompson
1954
– Student Manager – Tom Yium, Simon Henderson
Kenneth Dabbs- mgr. track
1955
Student Manager – Clinton Houy baseball; Conrad Joseph; Paul Peterson
1956
Student Manager – Clay Gault baseball ; Conrad Joseph; Jackie Hewlett
1957
Student Manager – Clay Gault; Albert Delaney; Walter Saunders
1958
Student Manager – Bill L. Turner baseball; John David Baird; Don Fincher
1959
Student Manager -Vernon Shelton baseball; John David Baird; Jim Kniker
1960
Student managers Lawrence Bergen
1961
football manager Jodie Thompson
1962
Ralph Knebel baseball manager; Bill Ermel football
1963
Danny Gardner baseball manager; Roy Jones football manager
1964- 1967 Gordon Lakey baseball manager
1968-1969 John Hargis III baseball manager
1970-1971 Gordon Olhausen baseball manager
1972-1973 Randy Bryant baseball manager
1974-1977 Howard Herrera baseball manager
1978, 1980-1982 Alex Hutson baseball manager
1982 – John Turman baseball manager
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