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Tuesday, January 4, 1955 THE BATTALION Page 3 PORT H O R T By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor Southwest conference football fans may be able to view a game featuring SWC elevens on television nearly every Saturday next season if the National Collegiate Athletic association approves the plan of the Big Ten conference. Television of football is the big headache facing the NCAA during its annual convention in New York this week. Some kind of change seems highly likely. Whether or not it will greatly benefit local fans remains to be seen, of course. Big Ten Backs Regional Plan Fortenberry, Brophy Lead Ags Against Owls Last season, under the present ■ NCAA plan, only one game was available each week for television, and some of them didn’t hold much interest for fans of this area. Southwest fans got to watch only three games involving SWC teams this year—Texas-Oklahoma, Bay- lor-Texas, SMU-Notre Dame. Under the regional program pre sented by the Big Ten, each region would select its own games for tel evision. (Each region presumab ly would include one major NCAA conference.) This plan also is supported by the Pacific Coast con ference (although it’s hard to pic ture, after what Big Ten teams have done to the Coast elevens in the last few Rose Bowl games.) of-the-week. The conservative but powerful Eastern College Athletic confer ence is backing continuation of the game-of-the-week program, with a very limited amount ' of regional television. These two, and three other pro posals, will receive a “straw vote” by members to guide the TV com mittee in adoption of the 1955 pro gram. But four members on the committee are from the East, so it seems likely that the ECAC plan, with some modification, will be adopted. The East has 101 of the 415 NCAA colleges. If the Big Ten and the Pacific Coast members combined forces and gave definite indications they Several times the Big Ten has will bypass the NCAA, there would hinted it may withdraw from the NCAA or ignore the national game-of-the-week setup if it is adopted again. The Big Ten re portedly has received a million dollar offer for a conference game- be a good possibility of a plan of half national—half regional tele vision, a big improvement. Some thing tolls me Texas fans would like to watch Texas teams on TV for a change. Ramsey ‘Honored’ At Houston At the recent conference bas ketball tournament in Houston, Morris Frank introduced Jones Ramsey, A&M sports publicity director, as “one of the great fic tion writers of our time.” To which Aggie fans reply, “Wait ’til next football season.” Talk about comebacks — the Aggie basketball team lost its first game at the Canyon tour ney to West Texas State, 57-82, then the next night beat Pepper- dine 86-84, scoring more points than an Aggie varsity cage team has ever scored. Co-captain John Fortenberry set a tourney record by sinking 13 of 15 free throws against Texas, but Dick O’Neal of TCU broke it the next night. Pat James, Aggie assistant foot ball coach, might be interested in knowing that at least one mem ber of the 1954 Fish team calls him “the meanest man on the cam pus.” The player last week was quoted as saying “He’s the only guy out there I can’t handle” when James gets down and mixes it with the players. (He also has the voice that can be heard farther on the Aggie practice field than any other coach.) . . . James, Elmer Smith, Phil Cut- chin and Jim Owens are attending the NCAA convention in New York. Head coach Paul Bryant didn’t make the trip. . . . Bryant was second in voting for Texas senior college coach of the year by the Texas Sports Writers association. The Fish game with Tyler jun ior college listed for Saturday night before the Aggie-Arkansas contest has been rescheduled for 7:30 p.m., Jan. 11, the night the Cadets meet SMU in Dallas. . . . Trainer Charles (Smokey) Har per was quoted by Dan Jenkins in the Fort Worth Press as saying “Alex Groza (all-American cen ter at Kentucky, wasn’t near as good as Dick O’Neal when he was a sophonume.” Boxers Workout The A&M Boxing club will be gin nightly workouts at 7 p.m. to night in the fencing room of De- Ware field house, said James Earle, president. Earle invited anyone interested in joining the club to attend. Women Can Bowl In New League A new women’s bowling league is now being formed which is open to all women in the Bryan-College Station area. According to John Geiger, man ager of the MSC bowling alleys, the new league, which will meet on Friday nights, is open to every one from the beginner to the most experienced bowler. Tommy Cox, cocaptain, announc ed that A&M will meet Trinity university in San Antonio. The team is composed of .the top 10 bowlers in the A&M Bowling club who have rolled nine or more lines. Hollingsworth Third in Meet Aggie trackman James Hol lingsworth finished third in the 120-yard high hurdles at the Sugar- Bowl track meet in New Orleans Sunday. Originally scheduled for Friday, the meet was postponed because of rain. A&M’s mile relay team of Wal lace Kleb, Bill Holloway, Robert McKnight and Johnny Roberts was fifth. ( Advertisement) Sparked by cocaptain John For tenberry and forward Bill Brophy, A&M’s improved varsity basketball team opens its Southwest confer ence campaign tonight against dan gerous Rice in Houston. The Fish meet the Rice frosh, led by sensational 6-11 Temple Tucker, in a 6:30 p.m. opener fear- turing two undefeated teams. Coach John Floyd sent his squad through a fairly light workout yes terday. The Aggies were due to leave by bus at 2:30 p.m. today. Already winner of as many games as they won all last season, the Cadets are rated about an even choice tonight. After losing by 25 points to West Texas State in the Canyon tournament, A&M downed Pepperdine 86-84 the next night, setting an all-time varsity scoring record. Fortenberry, a junior who has played in only three winning games in his A&M basketball career, found his shooting eye, and com bined with Brophy to help the Ag gies put on a better-than-expected performance at the SWC presea son tourney in Houston. The Cadets beat Texas 66-61 in their nyeet opener, Fortenberry hit ting 21 points, including 13 of 15 free throws, and Brophy 15. For tenberry made 15 of^SO free throws against Pepperdine. Against tourney-champ TCU, Fortenberry scored 19 and Brophy 15 in a 57-72 defeat. A&M stayed even for the first 25 minutes. Then 6-4 George Mehaffey, who had been doing a fine defensive job on 6-7 Dick O’Neal, got three quick fouls and fouled out with 16 minutes left. In the consolation finals, the Ag- UP AND AWAY—-Aggie co-captain John Fortenber ry averaged 19 points per game in the conference pre- s e a s on tournament and made the second all-tour ney team. TI4IS ISN'T ADVERTISEMENT~TUtS IS A PACT? . cAkae asout! *$L.oucri" qot™ SONAE op TUCy^B. s>ppf<r cuorues j=rcm. tue EYCU&KICE STORl-! UE'S WE"S EVE M Q HT" 7 " ! L 1 FROM urh GIRL. 1 ME WAE VO-rfED e>E^>T OREtEOE.D Mam. Uio _ CLA‘SG>, e>UT WET COT 4- MouR-s for BE1U4 MOU-FEC! 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Rice will open with Bobby Bra shear and Monte Robicheaux at guards, Terry Telligman and Fred Woods at forwards and Joe Dur- renberger at center. Both the Aggie and Rice fresh men have won three straight games, but John DeWitt doesn’t have anyone near Tucker’s height. Ted Dockery, 6-5 center, probably will start the game guarding him. Tucker has scored 34, 27 and 32 points in Owlet wins over Allen academy, Victoria junior college and Wharton junior college. He gets able support from 6-5 Tinker Wilson and King Hill at forwards and guard Dale Ball. Brum below Talks To UofH Officials HOUSTON, Jan. 4—UP)—Mike Brumbelow, head football coach at Texas Western College of El Paso, conferred with University of Hous ton officials yesterday about the coaching vacancy here. “No use kidding about it,” Brum below said. “I’m a pr-ofessional coach and I’m interested.” Brumbelow visited the campus Sunday and had conferences sched uled Monday with the university Athletic council and President A. D. Bruce. “Brumbelow is here strictly on our invitation,” Athletic Director Harry Fouke said. “He is one of the gentlemen and coaches we think highly of.” . Brumbelow, Coach of the Year in the Border Conference, flew here the day after his Texas West ern team whipped Florida State 47-20 in the Sun Bowl. He plans to return to El Paso today. He played at Texas Christian univer sity. Indian Fan Club CLEVELAND <A>)—Four pitch ers on the Cleveland Indians are members of the “1,000 Fan Club.” To be a member of the mythical society, a hurler must strike out 1,000 batters. Bob Feller leads the active hurl- ers in this organization. He has fanned 2,538. Hal Newhouser is next on the Tribe with 1,788. Early Wynn has 1,172. Bob Lemon made it this year. He now has 1,030. 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