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Name Howard Grubbs TCUs Southwest Conference Exec AUSTIN, Texas, May 13 UP.— Howard Grubbs, athletic director at Texas Christian University since 1938, today was named executive cecretary of the Southwest Conference to succeed James H. Stewart, who resigned to take over the reins of the state fair of Texas. Grubbs selection was announced only a few minutes after the conference executive committee had sent word it had adjourned without making a choice for the post Stewart has held for the past five years. » All of the new "czars" conference history has been with TCU, where he graduated in 1930 after starring as the first of a long line of famed Horned Frog passers, and quarterbacking TCU to its first conference title in 1929.