Hamilton Prieleaux Bee Maule, commonly known as Tex Maule (May 19, 1915 in Ojus, Florida — May 16, 1981) was the lead American football writer for Sports Illustrated in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. After playing football (end) at SMU in college and serving in World War II, he joined the Los Angeles Rams front office, where he worked with Hall of FamersPete Rozelle and Tex Schramm. May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Ojus is a census-designated place and formerly incorporated town located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Mathews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... The St. ... The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the National Football Leagues Hall of Fame. ... Alvin Ray Pete Rozelle (March 1, 1926–December 6, 1996) was the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office. ... Texas Earnest Schramm, Jr. ...
Later, in 1956, Maule was hired by Sports Illustrated, where he covered football for 19 years. He also was a prolific author during this time. From Sports Illustrated, Maule moved to The Dallas Morning News for three years. From Dallas, he returned to New York to write on a freelance basis. It was there he died in 1981. The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area. ...
In the 1960s, TexMaule and the magazine he was associated with, Sports Illustrated, were exemplary of the way many sports reporters forgot what should be the first rule of their profession: "maintain impartiality".
Maule was known to his contemporaries as "an NFL guy", and rather than report the pro football scene objectively, he resorted to ridiculing and belittling the efforts of the American Football League and its players.
The reasons for this treatment are not clear, but may have reflected what seems to be a common fault of the profession, all tied to that lack of impartiality: writers sometimes associate so closely with the teams and leagues they cover, that they evidently feel that they are representatives of those leagues and teams.
Senior editor Andy Crichton was reviewing the copy that writer TexMaule had submitted prior to the fight, to see what could be preserved and combined with the main part of the story, which Maule was scheduled to send by telex from Houston at 2:30 a.m.
By three a.m., with Maule's rougher-than-usual copy arriving by teletype and the fate of the photographs sealed (the Learjet was grounded until morning), the sketches were finished.
TexMaule, right or wrong, was the pro football writer, and I was the college football writer.
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