The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • Page 12

1 2A THE SUNDAY CONSTITUTION, 14, 1975 Turf Wasn't Artificial, Or Dry, For Early Day Cameron Students I was a little wet last night for Cameron University's football coming out party on its new artificial turf and a little muddy around the edges of the campus and in streets under construction. But Cameron and its students have been wetter and muddier, and today's university is a world or two removed from the days in 1910 when Hush Corwin, historian, and John A. Hammond, retired rural mail carrier, used to ride their bicycles to the district agricultural high school, as Cameron was called then. Hammond rode 12 miles each way from his home east of Lawton a total of 24 miles a day. He used to stop at the Corwin place, and he and Hugh would ride together from home, nine miles east of Lavvton.

The tough part was the Cache Creek bottom. I D. CORWIN Cases Reported To City Police O-a." cr ju 1 2 V-i Oe, C.roc'.-r a 1 yu F' lOO 1 Iw -icir, jj'i Gc 'C Dur V'i: Of An A I 1 a i- i ri Hocer i iO- 0 7 rodiO. heir A 'j Speech, Eye Tests Available At Fair Lawton school children aitividini: iht Oklahoma Cily Slate Fair. Sept.

19-28. may take advantage of free vision and speech tests at the Oklahoma Society for Crippled Children (OSCC) Easter Sea! booth, in the Made-In-Oklahoma building. Vision checks will be a a i a daily. Speech articulation tests will be jjivcn Sept. 22 and 26.

Lawtonians T. D. Nicklas, Mrs. Volney Hamm. R.

L. i and Ron Polston are members of the OSCC xov- ernine board. Counseling Session Set On Child Abuse Local residents who feel ihey may be able to offer help and counseling to parents who abuse their children are urged to attend the Child Abuse Council of Comanche County's meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Child Guidance Center, 1010 S. Sheridan.

A volunteer parent aid project, sponsored by the council to provide counseling for abusive parents, will be organized at Thursday's meeting. Anyone interested in the problem of child abuse is urged to attend. For further information contact Fred Brown at the Marie Detty Youth Center, 248-6450. "Sometimes the mud was so thick, I'd have to carry the bicycle two miles on my shoulders," Corwin said. The road east of Lawton was not graveled, and you couldn't even walk in the mud.

Hugh would shoulder his bike and walk out in the weeds. There was only one mile of pavement, on Avenue from Railroad to llth, Corwin said. "No gravel roads. The rest was strictly mud," he recalls that old black mud, oh, me, it was worse than thai around Corsicana, if that's possible." The school at the beginning was located in the basement of what was then the First National Bank Building, 302 C. The first year, 1909, approximately 100 students enrolled in the new "Cameron State School of Agriculture." Only 11 were full-time students.

Many of the others were housewives taking special courses in domestic science in the new "Cameron Stale School of Agriculture." Both high school and junior college subjects were taught. In 1915, Cameron become an agricultural high school, leaching vocational subjects. It attained junior college status in the late 1920s. Hugh played on the Cameron football team in the fall of 1912. "The only reason 1 played is that they couldn't make 11 men without me." he says.

There was no a but they nlavod teams of Fort Sill soldiers and teams from Fort Sill Indian School. "We played on the cow lot between the old girls dorm and the barn, an area a little southwest of the present building," Hugh said. They also played in old Koehler which was located on two square blocks, between 14th and 15th and and A. It was quite a park, with a dance pavilion and a lagoon, and a board fence around part of it, for league baseball in 1908 and 1909, Corwin says. Another old time locale, for Cameron football, and also Lawton High School football, was the old fairgrounds, lo- By PAUL McCLUNG cated east of the Rock Island tracks on D.

Football was played there from 1902 until the 1930s. "There was no gravel road to Cameron until 1925," Hugh says. He taught manual training in the mornings and was in charge of band in the afternoons and nights at Cameron in those days. "We graveled road i conscripted student labor." he says. For two weeks, all the boys in school got off every afternoon.

Between 70 and 80 boys manned picks and shovels, and we used two teams and two wagons. We got the gravel at 38th and J. I was in charge.of the spreading the Cameron president J. G. March was on the loading end.

We started at llth and and went west one mile then north one block to then west on to 28th street then north on 28th to the corner of the campus. The county commissioners graded it. down. We were supposed to put down four inches of gravel, but I think we skimped it a little bit." Carrying his bicycle through the mud didn't damage Hugh much. At 79, he's going strong, raising cattle and writing the history of Cameron which will appear in the bicentennial issue of Prairie Lore.

Hugh is the editor of Prairie Lore, the quarterly publication of the Southwestern Oklahoma Historical Society. His old classmate and bike riding pal, John A. Hammond, 81, Js president of the society. He'll be 82 Oct. 25.

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