St Edwards University - Tower Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Don’t hire ours, just fire yours| There would have been no coach to fire if SEU’s golfers had missed the cul in 1973, but they won the confer- ence anyway. Atound the Big State Conference in 1973 there must have been a lot of worried golf coaches. At the Big State Conference Meet in San Antonio St. Edwards’ Hilltoppers demonstrated how important their job is to golf. And that’s why they were worried. The coachless Hilltoppers’ 922 team total was good enough to beat the defending Big State champions from Southwestern, who finished at 929. David Watkins of Southwestern claimed medalist honors with a 222, but the Hilltoppers came in with Tom Lanfer and Mike Houpe each at 228, and Houpe’s 73 stood as the best round recorded on the par 72 course. Houpe was honored at season's end as the Most Valuable Player by his teammates . 82 The 1973 Big State Conference Golf Champions Kneeling, Greg Crook and Jimmy Crowther. Standing, Steve Domitrowits, Greg Pratka, Tom Lanfer, Wayne Mitchell, and Mike Houpe. Se

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1972—73 Basketball (8—16) TexasA I Howard Payne SW Texas State 70—84. 38—40 99-52 Sul Ross Tournament Sul Ross Western New Mexico Texas Wesleyan 75—83 80—67 63-61 Cowtown Tournament Texas Wesleyan Le Tourneau Howard Payne 56—58 76-75 69—103 Texas Lutheran Tournament McMurray Le Tourneau Huston-Tillotson St. Mary’s Texas Lutheran Le Tourneau East Texas Baptist Southwestern St. Mary’s Texas Lutheran Southwestern Texas Wesleyan Le Tourneau East Texas Baptist 62—76 65—71 70-71 32—38 56—72 66—65 70—76 99-95 38—53 4A5—4.7 84—81 59—78 70—56 57-61 Huston-Tillotson 108—98 Big State Conference game Rich Bohac, winner of the defense award and SEU’S Top Scholar-athlete. 81

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| old show that toured the Big State Conference. Make that five in a row and 14 Big State Conference championships in the last 15 years for Brother Emmett Strohmeyer’s tennis express. Year to year the story has stayed the same while only the faces seemed to change. Sweeping through yet another Big Hill- toppers featured one new face, singles champion Trey King of Brooklyn, and mixed something old with something new in doubles champions John Waddell, the 3-year and 1973 MVP, and State Conference Tournament the Miami letterman John Whitmire. In that singles competition King trimmed Fred Sandel of St. Mary’s 7-6, 6-3, and Waddell beat James Fisher 6-2, 6-3, to set up the all-SEU finals in which King defeated Waddell. In doubles the finals became an all-SEU affair again when Waddell and Whitmire battled by Sandel and Brady of St. Mary’s 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, before they defeated their teammates King and Bob Dyer 8-7 for the title. John Waddell, (above) 1973 BSC doubles champion. Trey King, 1973 BSC singles champion and winner of the 2nd annual Emmett Strohmeyer Award for Sportsmanship. The face seems familiar. . Or does it? Brother Emmett threw in some new characters, but it was the same John Whitmire, champion. 1973 BSC doubles 83