Cal Hutzler, who competed for the Texas A&I football team in the mid-1950s and holds is bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the school, will be inducted into the 2013 Javelina Hall of Fame Nov. 15 in the Memorial Student Union Building ballrooms on campus.
Hutzler, from Rio Medina, was a four-year quarterback letterman at La Coste High School .
He joined the Javelinas in 1954, the year the Javelinas joined the Lone Star Conference and the season Gil Steinke became head coach.
Hutzler recalled that there were 100 players at the start of workouts and by the end of the season, there were 37 remaining.
He joined the Javelinas as a quarterback but was switched to halfback in the spring of his freshman season. The next three years he continued to play quarterback when needed.
In the season opener his sophomore season, he took his first handoff as a halfback in the opener with Texas Lutheran and ran 85 yards for a score.
Hutzler, who threw and was a leading receiver from the halftime slot, led the team in rushing as a sophomore.
He had 509 rushing yards as a junior and averaged 5.9 yards a carry. He threw for an additional 134 yards.
Hutzler lettered in 1955-57 and was All-LSC. He was an All-America honorable mention.
He was a member of the Javelinas’ “H-Bombers” that includes Hutzler, Joe Holcomb and Harold Holden.
He was one of the first players to be on a Gil Steinke-coached team when the legendary coach took over the head position in 1954.
Hutzler was the head football, basketball and baseball coach at D’Hanis High School in 1958-59 and was head football and baseball coach at Medina Valley in 1961-64.
He became an assistant football and head track and field coach at Laredo Martin High School in 1964 and was there through 1967.
Hutzler became the athletic director at San Antonio Judson High School in 1967-68 and then became an elementary school principal in the Judson school district in 1968 and held that position until 1990.
He lives in Rio Medina and is the father of a daughter, Trisha Doucette and a son, Scott Hutzler.
