mrydel wrote:If there was a game on the radio it was an Arkansas game. Late at night, on occasion I could tune in a station from somewhere very faintly with an SMU game. Could only hold the broadcast for a few minutes then would fade out.
That certainly paralleled my experience in GA in the 1960's. You heard GA and GT and some SEC games on the radio. Sometimes I'd drive away from home a short distance hoping for better reception of a game from the SWC on the car radio.
For some time my mother-in-law, who was great, tossed all the sports sections in a box and I'd read them when we visited Dallas. I saw a lot of Blackie Sherrod columns that way. Later, during the Pony Express days, I subscribed to both Dallas papers because news delivered by snail mail five days later was better than nothing - the ATL papers oft times had about four lines on an SMU game, if it made the Sunday paper at all.
One thing, the Atlanta coverage of GT and UGA was excellent. The annual freshman game was a huge thing in those days. It drew bigger crowds than SMU has had in a long time. The Atlanta papers published pictures and bios for the three deep on both [freshman] squads. So far as highschools were concerned there was only one good program in the country and that was Valdosta which was very, very good under Wright Bazemore.
Texas Football was a prized possession.
Looking back, I wasn't smart enough to do what
Arkpony mentions. I should have called the sport department at the AJC! LOL.
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 8:42 pm