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By BRUCE L. SUBLETT
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Out in West Texas, they’re crap
pie. Around the Piney Woods
they’re white perch. In Louisiana
they’re sac-a-lait. Whatever they’re
called, they’re abundant, easy to
catch and dynamite on the dinner
table.
To be technically correct, they’re
crappie. Crappie come in two
species, black and white. The two
are so closely related that it’s not
worth worrying about. Around here,
they’re all white anyway.
Starting right about now, crappie
fishing will start to improve and will
stay good until the weather gets hot.
The best news of all is that Somer-
■ville is suddenly one of the best
crappie lakes in the state. Good
strings are already being taken from
the docks at Overlook and Big Creek
Mari nas.
There are four kinds of crappie ac
tion to be had at Somerville. The first
is the most comfortable and often the
most successful. Just pay a buck and
a half and walk onto the marina
docks, drop a small minnow on a
light wire hook over the side and
start catching fish. Well, sometimes
it’s that easy. In any case, it’s not a
hard life. Lazy folks like myself use
tiny yellow jigs in a double rig so we
don’t have to rebait.
The more ambitious brave the
wind and cold to hunt the schooling
fish around the creek channels and
brushpiles. The technique isn’t any
different, but competition for fishing
space isn’t as stiff.
A place where space is at a pre
mium is below the Yegua Creek
dam. If the Corps of Engineers is
letting water out of the lake, this area
is shoulder to shoulder with fisher-
Houston s Fouke recalls
bygone days of Cougars
Associated Press
HOUSTON — It’s easy for Uni
versity ofHouston Athletic Director
Harry Fouke to look out from his
comfortable office over the multi
million dollar athletic complex he
oversees and reminisces about his
30-year labor of love.
Fouke’s memories flow back to
1946 when he had to scrounge for
uniforms to field the school’s first
football team, to sweeping out the
gym after basketball practice, to
proudly accepting membership into
the Southwest Conference in 1971.
Houston’s athletic program is 30
years old this year as the Cougars
complete their infiltration into the
SWC by competing in the basketball
and football championship races.
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They earlier entered SWC competi
tion in other sports.
It gave Fouke, UH’s first and only
athletic director, an opportunity to
remember.
“When Dave Williams took over
the golf program, we didn’t have a
golf trophy to our name,’’ laughed
Fouke, who was UH golf coach until
he appointed Williams. “Dave went
out and bought the biggest trophy he
could find and had a playoff among
his team so the golf team could have a
trophy in the trophy case too. ’’
That first trophy is still there,
somewhere among the 12 national
championship trophies Williams and
his Cougar golfers went on to win.
Fouke takes pride in the modern
facilities the Cougars now use but he
says his biggest rewards come from
the accomplishments of people like
Williams.
Fouke was hired in October, 1946
to install an athletic program at
Houston. By December, the
Cougars were playing basketball in
the Lone Star Conference, which
they won and advanced to the Na
tional Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics (NAIA) tournament in
Kansas City.
“We started out with one basket
ball to our names and it was peeling, ’
Fouke said. “We worked out in old
gray sweat suits but it wasn’t the
sweat suits that counted, it was what
was in them. All those people we’ve
had over the years have made the
difference at Houston.
“It was not only a challenge from
the opponents but a challenge from
within.”
Since joining the SWC, Houston’s
golf team has won three SWC fall
tournaments and won or tied three
spring tournaments. The Cougar
tennis team won the 1974 team title
and last year provided the singles
and doubles champions, but did not
win the team title.
When the Cougars finally were ac
cepted into the SWC after years of
rejection, fans figured Houston’s
long tradition of winning basketball
and football teams would dominate
the league.
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In 1971, the year Houston came
into the SWC, the Cougar football
team completed a 9-3 season, includ
ing a 29-17 loss to Colorado in the
Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. The bas
ketball team was en route to its sixth
appearance in the National Col
legiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
playoffs in seven years.
But as 1976 begins, the Cougar
football team is coming off a 2-8 sea
son, which equals its worst in his
tory. Guy Lewis’ basketball team is
struggling to stay in the first division
of the SWC race.
Noting that basketball hasn’t been
a SWC strongpoint, one SWC official
told a Houston official, “Well, we fi
nally brought you down to our
level.”
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men chunking jigs, rock shrimp or
minnows. They’re all catching fish —
crappie, white bass, drum and chan
nel catfish. Some of the crappie
down there are real barn doors,
weighing up to two pounds. Occa
sionally a jig fisherman will tie into a
big drum. That’s excitement.
Before heading below the dam, it’s
wise to call the Corps of Engineers to
find out if it’s letting any water
through. If it’s not, don’t go. It’s usu
ally not worth it.
The last way is my favorite, unless
I’m specifically after freezer fodder.
Despite the propaganda that crappie
only hit small, slow baits; they can be
caught on big, fast baits. They’re
usually big, fast crappie. I’ve taken
crappie over three pounds on Hot
Spots, Little Georges, Hellbenders
and Spinnerbaits (artificial lures), all
in shad or white color patterns.
Don t believe that crappie can’t
pull. Once I was sure that I had one
of the famous Murvaul Monsters, a
bass of over six pounds. Wrong
again, it was a three pound crappie
that attacked the fast-moving Hot
Spot.
Somerville isn’t the onllSf ^
hole for crappie by any me* ^
dam below Livingston haik
one of the best holes an)'*®;
crappie. Toledo Bend pro;! By LI
most consistently large era*;
ever seen. Don’t call theirL.
there, the natives won’t kj|
you’re talking about. T-Beri:| vers 'b' j
perch country. Meniec
Caddo is the grandaddyo:| eilt J ac ^
when it comes to white pc^Pl^’ can
guides take two fishen: n f! short
half-day’s fishing with caneyR.j^.
minnows and come backwiB .
load of big ones. The secret
low a guide at a respeetableT" 1 c
fishing the same spots be! , I
Guides don ’t stay in one pi.
, ir, soi
enough to fish it out. Someti:
following boat does better,
last spring, my daddy am
fishing behind a guide. Tlit
je cause
he si
party caught three small! Irningi
Nelda 1
nabbed 33 big ones.
Filleted, soaked in bill ;fused
rolled in cornmeal, fried cr |ement
eaten with cajun hot sauce,;
are a table delight well wort! :11 did
ing minnows for.
fficials
Tech’s Meyers inveii
new winning formul
Coach Gerald Myers of Texas
Tech has found a new formula for
victory. Get two of your starters sick
with the flu and ambush your oppo
nent with unexpected reserve
strength.
Myers was in bed with the flu dur
ing Tech s Southwest Conference
victory over Houston Saturday night
and three days later starting forwards
Rudy Liggins and Grady!
were struck down with I
sickness.
Reserves Grant Dukesu
Russell started in their pi
combined for 35 pointswhl ,
Lite guard Geoff Hustonadi
give Tech an 86-78 victim!
Improving
Consol girls
face Brenham
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By MARIE HOMEYER
Battulion Staff Writer
Fouke thinks it’s the opposite —
the SWC basketball teams have
come up to Houston’s level.
“Once the schools knew we were
coming into the conference they
knew they’d have to improve and
they have,” Fouke said. “I think
we’ve already helped the conference
because of the basketball improve
ment. The SWC used to be looked
on as weak in basketball but that’s
changing now. ”
After years of disappointment, the
A&M Consolidated High School
girls’ basketball team has finally put
together a winning season.
A victory tonight over Brenham
would put the Tigers in second place
behind Spring. Their season record
would advance to 12-2, and their dis
trict record to 9-3. If they lose, it
places them in a second place tie
with Brenham and possibly Tom ball.
This is only the second winning
season in the history of the girls’
team. The first was when the team
went 11-8 in 1972.
“Even though we have lost, the
games were very competitive,” said
Coach Arthur Bright. Only three of
the losses were in excess of 10 points
and none of them were in excess of
20.
Bright attributes the success of the
team to more experience and im
provement of guard play. There are
six seniors on the nine-member
kansas. The victory gave Tel
record, a half-game beta
A&M, which moved to8l|
85-69 triumph at homeovel
In other games, Si
Methodist crushed Rice |
Texas Christian upset
in Waco and Houston H
Houston Baptist 91-71 isl
conference battle.
“Dukes and Russell reair
well coming in like they hall
Myers. “It was the firststan|k\IEM
of them and they reall® enc y
through. They have real®! from
well this year but . . . youl»o 3»0C
concerned with two starters® bom
main thing, too, is thatwe Ped a 17
deeper when we had to coun
bench. ” feaeos clo
Russell scored two ba% eStini
23 Points late ip the game
Kansas had whittled anearhj
deficit to five at 69-64.
“We didn’t think Dukes(j
that outside shot huthedj
Coach Eddie Sutton of J
who perhaps will look for]
toxin for his players beforel
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team. The
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remaining
juniors.
Beforehand, the girls rarely made
it past their freshman year. They
would lose to teams with more ex
perience, become discouraged and
quit, said Bright.
With experience has come the
second reason for success. Last year
the guards gave up an average of 57
points a game. This year the number
has dropped to 43. This year’s guards
are seniors Debe McCandless,
Susan Pope, and Julie Dieckert, plus
juniors Mary Whiteley, Martha
Lambert and Peggy Kapchinski.
While the guards have been cur
tailing opponent scores, the for
wards have been averaging 47 points
a game. Top scorer for the Tigers is
junior Julia Crawford with 452
points, an average of 19.6 per game.
Following her are seniors Sherri Wil
liams and Debby Quitta. Williams
has an average of 16.9 and Quitta an
average of 11.6.
Military: K-l vs. Sq-f I
H-2 vs. F-l, 41-54; Sq4v!
34-33; C-2 vs. Sq-8, 46-3il
C-l, 37-34; M-Band vs. M |
B-l vs. A-l, 29-42.
Independent: Hobbits *
dogs, 57-22; Bearkats
Cock’s No. 2, Craigs Cocks*
Vet III vs. Animal Scienttf
Law vs. Pero, 29-31; BSUi
M. Raiders, 36-46; BSU)fl
Dunlops, 49-50; NailersvsJ
4, 63-25; Utay Ex’s vs. MeiMispect
ico forfeited; Moses X vs. HBr-old S
ers, 49-87; Saints vs. Pin®at Bre<
80; Briarwood 76’ers vs. Oljprs is in
36-43; Gulf Coast vs. On! after beir
43; Bad Company vs. TiPital s em
39-26. jfirder.
Women: Colonels
8-21; Keathley2, vs. Hughesl
Co-Rec: Castaways vs. il
47-19; No Wheels vs. PoB
8-32; IM’s vs. Angola 0™
61; Wesley Weenies vs. SM
113; The Group vs. WillB
47-37; Outcasts vs. PersffB
Personnelities forfeited; ®
Colonels, 43-29; Buds
Dribblers, 50-45; Hot Shot
I, Vet I forfeited.
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