Out of the call up of National Guard units to Mexican Border after Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus, New Mexico, the Second Texas Infantry formed a football team to play teams from other National Guard units stationed along the Rio Grande. Teams were composed of post-college athletes who played football for the leading colleges in the nation. The Second Texas, organized of Texans who had played primarily of University of Texas and Texas A&M took on all comers. In the days before professional football leagues, they put Texas football on the map compiling an unsurpassed record of eight wins and no losses, outscoring opponent National Guard teams by a combined score of 432-6. Pundits called them, “The World’s Greatest football Team.”
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About Jim Moloney
Jim Moloney is one of the owners and a founder of Energy Gas Compression, a Corpus Christ based Oil & Gas service company. He came to south Texas in 1981. Besides the gas compression field, he spent six years heading up the Coastal Bend Community Foundation.
About 35 years ago, Moloney became interested in collecting post cards and other articles of Texas history specializing in Aransas, Kenedy, Kleberg, San Patricio and Nueces County. His collection numbers almost 7,000 cards and he’s always looking for more. His Nueces Press has published 19 books on South Texas history with Moloney as publisher, coauthor, editor or contributor with recently deceased Murphy Givens, Rob Sawyer and others.
Moloney is a regular contributor to a weekly segment on South Texas history with Blake Farenthold on Tuesdays at 8:30 a.m. on radio station FM 105.9. He frequently speaks on South Texas and Corpus Christi history. He writes monthly articles in the Corpus Christi Yacht Club newsletter, based on his collection of historical documents.
Moloney served on the Board of the Friends of the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History for more than 30 years, with many of them as the President. He is a recipient of the Dan Kilgore Local History Award from the Nueces County Historical Society and the John Guthrie Ford History Award from the Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association. Moloney also received the first History Book Award from the Corpus Christi Landmark Commission in 2023.
