Lord and Thomas became one of the nation's largest advertising agencies and under Lasker's leadership became one of the first agencies to enter the new medium called radio. Lord and Thomas created Amos 'n Andy as an advertising medium for Pepsodent toothpaste, sponsored broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera , and hired a young comic named Bob Hope to host a Pepsodent-sponsored show.
In his Galveston days, Lasker worked as a promoter for heavyweight champion Jack Johnson , and after moving to Chicago he became majority stockholder in the Chicago Cubs. Before selling the team to William Wrigley, he was instrumental in hiring Kenesaw Mountain Landis as baseball commissioner in the wake of the Black Sox scandal.
Past recipients include Dr. Michael DeBakey of Houston. Lasker died in , more than 60 years after his debut as one of Texas' first sportswriters.
It should be noted that while love of football knew no color boundaries in the 19th century, the old taboos that would continue into the s were very much in place. Galveston Central, the city's black high school, issued a challenge to play the three white teams that went unanswered. The Aggies won that game On that same day, a group of Ball High reserves played St. Mary's College at Galveston.
Although Galveston's early games apparently received the best, most thorough coverage from the local newspaper, football developed elsewhere around Texas in the late s and early s. Arthur L. Livermore founded a rugby team at Houston's Sam Houston High School in , and the school was playing American football rules by at least , when it played Galveston Ball on Thanksgiving Day. The game drew front-page coverage in the Chronicle, which had been founded just over a month earlier, for more than just the score.
Houston won in a game that required police intervention to break up a series of fights that brought the contest to a halt. Both men were in earnest. The crowd flocked to the field and mingled with the players. For five minutes pandemonium reigned, until the two police officers on the scene were able to force their way through the struggling mass of humanity to the center of strife.
The men were dragged from each other by main force. As noted, town teams from Dallas and Houston played as early as Another early pioneer of the game was Glenn Pop Warner -- the future coach of Jim Thorpe at Carlisle -- who brought the game when his family moved in from Springville, N.
After working as a tinsmith in Texas, Warner attended Cornell in and progressed from there into pigskin legend. The first recorded games involving school-sponsored teams in the Dallas area occurred in Honey Grove won Accounts of the school's history noted its football team frequently played two games a day and that it was not uncommon for the team to catch a train on weekends and play in area towns.
Austin College , in nearby Sherman, was a frequent opponent for the Wall boys. All of these events, mind you, preceded the Oct. Matthew's and Dallas High School that has been cited elsewhere as the birth of Texas high school football. James Caffrey Richardson, the man who helped launch the game on these shores, left Galveston in Richardson spent the next decade teaching school in New Haven, Conn.
He returned in to Houston, where he established his Prosso Preparatory School. With or without football, he was a busy man. He was a director of the South Texas Automobile Association, represented the Houston Yale Club on the alumni advisory board and was secretary of the Four-Minute Men group, making more than speeches in Texas, Missouri and Kansas in support of the war effort.
After several years at his Houston school, located at an address in the Midtown area that is now a vacant lot, he became ill with stomach problems while returning from a class reunion in James Caffrey Richardson died April 8, , survived by his wife, four children and three granddaughters -- and a sport that continues to thrive more than a century after its first, tentative steps on the playing fields of Galveston Island.
Most Popular. Both Arp players and coaches alike are disappointed that their first game is canceled. So you got to try to mitigate it as much as possible and do whatever you can do," Arp Head Coach Dale Irwin said. Arp and Hughes Springs aren't the only East Texas school with canceled games. John Eastman the Head Football Coach at Troup said with games being canceled all over the place, they're prepping for all possibilities. It will be a season of making sure everybody on the team is ready to go because even though an entire game may not be canceled, a few players being out every game is a possibility.
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