Kern Tips Memorial Award (1968)

Duration: 1:27

Year Published: 1968

Sound: No Sound on Film

Description: This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV reports on the creation of the Kern Tips Memorial Award in college football. Some portions are silent and would have been voiced over by the anchorperson during a live broadcast. Known as the “Voice of the Southwest Conference,” Tips spent 32 years broadcasting Southwest Conference football games and narrating programs such as the Humble Oil and Refining Company’s Southwest Conference Highlights. He passed away in 1967.