Theron J. Fouts, who was to retire as NTSC athletic director June 3, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home Tuesday night. He had spent 34 years on the NTSC faculty.
Funeral services will be in the First Baptist Church at 2:30 pm Thursday. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery under the direction of Goen Funeral Home.
Fouts, 60, has spent more that half his life building, directing and promoting athletics at NTSC. During his later years in the athletic post, he headed what he called a "master plan of development"/ This included the 20, 000 seat football stadium, men's new gymnasium, a 115 acre recreation park which has 19 hole golf course, two cinder tracks, a swimming pool, tennis courts, an intramural field, three football fields and a club house for the golf course. It has been said that NTSC, under the athletic leadership of Fouts, presented the best all around recreation program in the nation.
In his college days, Fouts was a star athlete at Baylor, where he graduated. He came to NTSC in 1921 as a coach of all athletics. He served under four presidents including present president, J. C. Matthews.
Pallbearers will be Jack Cisco, Corsicana and John Reid, Woodville, Texas, both former NTSC coaches; Amos Barksdale, W. A. Cooper, Fred Slack, Winton Noah, W. G. Woods and Dr. Emmett Cambron, all of Denton.
Fouts had selected June 3 as his retirement date in order to be free to enter into personal business.
He said on announcement of his retirement, "Although I will be out after June, I'll always be for NTSC."
Fouts never tried to show any favor to any particular sport while guiding the athletic program at NTSC. He treated them all equally.
The golf team, coached by Fred Cobb, who also recently died of a heart attack, won four straight national championships and supplied the National Amateur - Billy Maxwell - in 1951.
The boxing team, easy winner of the Dallas regional Golden Gloves tournament two years in a row, gained national laurels when Pat Riley won the Nation GG flyweight championship.
Basketball, football and track all turned in top performances, during Fouts' reign.
One of the things he was most proud of, though, when he announced his retirement was that he had never fired a coach.
Survivors include his widow, one son, Theron Fouts Jr., Sherman; two daughters, Mrs. Roger Smith, Richmond, Ind. and Mrs. Frank Crockett, Odessa; three brothers, John Dall; Elwood, Houston; and Floyd, Dayton, Texas. Six grandchildren also survive.
Denton Record Chronicle, Wednesday, April 28, 1954
Funeral services will be in the First Baptist Church at 2:30 pm Thursday. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery under the direction of Goen Funeral Home.
Fouts, 60, has spent more that half his life building, directing and promoting athletics at NTSC. During his later years in the athletic post, he headed what he called a "master plan of development"/ This included the 20, 000 seat football stadium, men's new gymnasium, a 115 acre recreation park which has 19 hole golf course, two cinder tracks, a swimming pool, tennis courts, an intramural field, three football fields and a club house for the golf course. It has been said that NTSC, under the athletic leadership of Fouts, presented the best all around recreation program in the nation.
In his college days, Fouts was a star athlete at Baylor, where he graduated. He came to NTSC in 1921 as a coach of all athletics. He served under four presidents including present president, J. C. Matthews.
Pallbearers will be Jack Cisco, Corsicana and John Reid, Woodville, Texas, both former NTSC coaches; Amos Barksdale, W. A. Cooper, Fred Slack, Winton Noah, W. G. Woods and Dr. Emmett Cambron, all of Denton.
Fouts had selected June 3 as his retirement date in order to be free to enter into personal business.
He said on announcement of his retirement, "Although I will be out after June, I'll always be for NTSC."
Fouts never tried to show any favor to any particular sport while guiding the athletic program at NTSC. He treated them all equally.
The golf team, coached by Fred Cobb, who also recently died of a heart attack, won four straight national championships and supplied the National Amateur - Billy Maxwell - in 1951.
The boxing team, easy winner of the Dallas regional Golden Gloves tournament two years in a row, gained national laurels when Pat Riley won the Nation GG flyweight championship.
Basketball, football and track all turned in top performances, during Fouts' reign.
One of the things he was most proud of, though, when he announced his retirement was that he had never fired a coach.
Survivors include his widow, one son, Theron Fouts Jr., Sherman; two daughters, Mrs. Roger Smith, Richmond, Ind. and Mrs. Frank Crockett, Odessa; three brothers, John Dall; Elwood, Houston; and Floyd, Dayton, Texas. Six grandchildren also survive.
Denton Record Chronicle, Wednesday, April 28, 1954
Theron J. Fouts, who was to retire as NTSC athletic director June 3, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home Tuesday night. He had spent 34 years on the NTSC faculty.
Funeral services will be in the First Baptist Church at 2:30 pm Thursday. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery under the direction of Goen Funeral Home.
Fouts, 60, has spent more that half his life building, directing and promoting athletics at NTSC. During his later years in the athletic post, he headed what he called a "master plan of development"/ This included the 20, 000 seat football stadium, men's new gymnasium, a 115 acre recreation park which has 19 hole golf course, two cinder tracks, a swimming pool, tennis courts, an intramural field, three football fields and a club house for the golf course. It has been said that NTSC, under the athletic leadership of Fouts, presented the best all around recreation program in the nation.
In his college days, Fouts was a star athlete at Baylor, where he graduated. He came to NTSC in 1921 as a coach of all athletics. He served under four presidents including present president, J. C. Matthews.
Pallbearers will be Jack Cisco, Corsicana and John Reid, Woodville, Texas, both former NTSC coaches; Amos Barksdale, W. A. Cooper, Fred Slack, Winton Noah, W. G. Woods and Dr. Emmett Cambron, all of Denton.
Fouts had selected June 3 as his retirement date in order to be free to enter into personal business.
He said on announcement of his retirement, "Although I will be out after June, I'll always be for NTSC."
Fouts never tried to show any favor to any particular sport while guiding the athletic program at NTSC. He treated them all equally.
The golf team, coached by Fred Cobb, who also recently died of a heart attack, won four straight national championships and supplied the National Amateur - Billy Maxwell - in 1951.
The boxing team, easy winner of the Dallas regional Golden Gloves tournament two years in a row, gained national laurels when Pat Riley won the Nation GG flyweight championship.
Basketball, football and track all turned in top performances, during Fouts' reign.
One of the things he was most proud of, though, when he announced his retirement was that he had never fired a coach.
Survivors include his widow, one son, Theron Fouts Jr., Sherman; two daughters, Mrs. Roger Smith, Richmond, Ind. and Mrs. Frank Crockett, Odessa; three brothers, John Dall; Elwood, Houston; and Floyd, Dayton, Texas. Six grandchildren also survive.
Denton Record Chronicle, Wednesday, April 28, 1954
Funeral services will be in the First Baptist Church at 2:30 pm Thursday. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery under the direction of Goen Funeral Home.
Fouts, 60, has spent more that half his life building, directing and promoting athletics at NTSC. During his later years in the athletic post, he headed what he called a "master plan of development"/ This included the 20, 000 seat football stadium, men's new gymnasium, a 115 acre recreation park which has 19 hole golf course, two cinder tracks, a swimming pool, tennis courts, an intramural field, three football fields and a club house for the golf course. It has been said that NTSC, under the athletic leadership of Fouts, presented the best all around recreation program in the nation.
In his college days, Fouts was a star athlete at Baylor, where he graduated. He came to NTSC in 1921 as a coach of all athletics. He served under four presidents including present president, J. C. Matthews.
Pallbearers will be Jack Cisco, Corsicana and John Reid, Woodville, Texas, both former NTSC coaches; Amos Barksdale, W. A. Cooper, Fred Slack, Winton Noah, W. G. Woods and Dr. Emmett Cambron, all of Denton.
Fouts had selected June 3 as his retirement date in order to be free to enter into personal business.
He said on announcement of his retirement, "Although I will be out after June, I'll always be for NTSC."
Fouts never tried to show any favor to any particular sport while guiding the athletic program at NTSC. He treated them all equally.
The golf team, coached by Fred Cobb, who also recently died of a heart attack, won four straight national championships and supplied the National Amateur - Billy Maxwell - in 1951.
The boxing team, easy winner of the Dallas regional Golden Gloves tournament two years in a row, gained national laurels when Pat Riley won the Nation GG flyweight championship.
Basketball, football and track all turned in top performances, during Fouts' reign.
One of the things he was most proud of, though, when he announced his retirement was that he had never fired a coach.
Survivors include his widow, one son, Theron Fouts Jr., Sherman; two daughters, Mrs. Roger Smith, Richmond, Ind. and Mrs. Frank Crockett, Odessa; three brothers, John Dall; Elwood, Houston; and Floyd, Dayton, Texas. Six grandchildren also survive.
Denton Record Chronicle, Wednesday, April 28, 1954
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