McMurry University - Totem Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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Reservation People, tradition, and a complex of buildings make up McMurry College. McMurry had its beginning in 1923 as a two-year junior college under the presidency of Dr. W. Hunt. Since that time, McMurry has grown and de- veloped into what is today a four year senior college offering studies in re- ligion, school teaching and administra- tion, medicine, law, science, industry, journalism, and business. Now, over forty years old, McMurry College, spon- sored by the Northwest Conference of the Methodist Church, ranks among the better liberal arts colleges in the south- west. H 51- K4 r ., ,, , 4,-j.f'?, in -, Q i 4, ' ga... . C K. 4 va-J.,f.,z,fi5 , - ,,:, l 4 . . . 'Vw-YY' INN Z 3 we 1' l 'iff Teepees ..... Battles ..... Tribes ..... Warriors ..... Pow Wow .... Council .... Chiefs .... Medicine Men Indians .....

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Coach P. E. fPetej Shotwell has been a legend in Texas coaching ranks. He began coaching in 1916 in Cisco and has since enjoyed three state championships and a chapter in Harold Rat- liff's book, Towering Texans. The legendary career suffered an interruption during World War I when Shotwell served as a pilot in 1918 and 1919. Coach Shotwell is the only Texas coach to ever win state football titles in three cities-Abilene, 19233 Breckenridge, 1929, and Longview, 1937. He is a charter member of the Texas Coaches Association, one of the originators of the as- sociation's annual coaching school, helped set up the Interscholastic League, and was one of the first five individuals to be installed in the coaches association's Hall of Honor. Following his first year of coaching at Cisco in 1916, Shotwell moved to Abilene where he Couch Shotwell headed the industrial arts department and coached football and baseball. Shotwell returned to Abilene following World War I where he coached at Abilene High School and Simmons College until 1926 when he moved to Alpine to coach at Sul Ross. After three years in the college ranks, Coach Shotwell returned to high school teaching and coaching at Breckenridge until 1935. He then moved to Longview for 10 years before moving back to Abilene for good in 1946. He was instructor and football coach at Abilene High until 1952, when he was named supervisor of health, safety and physical education for the Abilene public schools system. He joined the McMurry staff in 1956 as athletic and physical education director. Since that time, he has become a part of Mc- Murry College, and this Totem '69 is dedicated to Coach Pete Shotwell for his service to Mc- Murry. P. E. qperey