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Page 6—Sec. II THE BATTALION Friday, September 11, 1953
Swim ream Expects
Best Season in Years
The Aggie Swimming Team will
he looking forward to one of the
best seasons in years next spring
as 24 of 1953’s 27 varsity mem
bers will return.
Starting his nineteenth . season
directing A&M’s mermen will be
Coach Arthur (Art) Adamson. An
internationally famous amateur
swimmer and Aggie-Ex, he began
his coaching career here in 1935.
Adamson will receive able as
sistance from diving coach Emil
Mamaliga. This will be Mama-
liga’s seventh year at A&M.
Gains Fame
Born in London, England, Feb.
25, 1905, Adamson began his swim
ming in Oxbow, Saskathawan,
Canada, but gained fame after he
moved to New Zealand with his
mother.
He won the 100-yard freestyle
championship of New Zealand in
1925 and held it through 1927, set
ting records of 57.2 seconds in the
100-yard and 1:03.4 in the 100-
meter freestyle events.
Adamson has been a member of
the Gulf Coast and National AAU
swimming committees for many
years, and is well known in swim
ming circles throughout the coun
try.
Came to A&M
Mamaliga came to A&M in the
fall of 1947 as both diving coach
and physical education instructor.
A graduate of Ohio State Univer
sity, he was named to the All-
American swimming team as the
university won the Ohio state
championship.
Mamaliga specialized in swim
ming, although he was a partici
pant in tennis, track and golf. The
200-yard breaststroke was his spe
cialty, and he clocked 2:28 in this
event.
In his last year in college, the
Ohio team won the Big Ten, NCAA
meet, the National AAP indoors
meet and the AAU outdoors meet.
Ohio State is the only team ever
to do this, and has repeated the
feat four times.
Texas Tech
Tries for Third
Aggie Win
Texas Tech will be trying for its
third win over the Aggies in 26
years as they meet each other Oct.
10 at Lubbock.
This will be A&M’s first game
with Tech since the Aggies’ 20-7
win in 1951. The two teams had
played each other consecutively
since 1941-51. A&M’s highest win
over the Raiders was in 1927 when
they won 47-6.
Head Coach Dewitt Weaver is
expecting a greatly improved team
this year. “Undoubtedly the Raid
ers will better last year’s record,”
Weaver remarked, “because up
ward is about the only way they
can move from a 3-7-1 mark.”
Banking on Cavazos
Tech will be banking heavily on
speedy Bobby Cavazos, the Raid
er’s 190-pound All-Conference half
back. Cavazos has made All-
American honorable mention both
seasons, and has been Tech’s lead
ing rusher for the past two years.
Also seeing action again this
year will be quarterback Jerry
Johnson, the Border Conference’s
Number Two man in total offense.
Johnson has picked up poise this
year and will be backed by Jack
Kirkpatrick whose work was con
fined to defensive play following
an auto accident last fall.
Consistent Starter
Sophomore tackle Jerry Walker
is Tech’s only consistent two-way
starter of last year who is return
ing, although Vic Spooner played
some defensive halfback. Walker
and senior Jimmie Williams give
the Raiders probably the best
tackle combination in the Border
Conference.
Tech’s starting line averages 200
pounds and its backfield, 179.
Art Adamson
Puts Mermen Through Paces
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Track Season Looks Tough for Aggies
A&M will begin track season
with the worst outlook in 13 years.
Gone from last year’s champion
ship team are Darrow Hooper,
SWC record holder in both the
shot put and discus and Olympic
runner-up in the shot; Charles
Hudgins, distance ace.
Bobby Ragsdale, hurdles; Mal
colm Marks, 440; James Baker,
(Col.) Andy Anderson
Odds Are Against Him
440; Joe Criswell, distance; Roy
Dollar, javelin; Carol Libby, 440;
Glenn Spradlin, pole vault; Bill
Stalter, dashes; Claude Watts,
dashes; and Edwin Wilmsen, 880.
Low Outlook
Track prospects have not looked
so low for A&M since 1940 when
the Aggies finished fourth. The
lowest the track team has ever
placed is fifth in both 1918-19.
Under the direction of Coach
Frank G. (Andy) Anderson, the
tracksters have compiled during
the last seven years one of the
most impressive records in the na
tion.
The team has won the SWC title
six times, and finished second to
the University of Texas in 1950.
Called Col. Andy
Col. Andy, as the Aggies call
him, is in his thirty-third year at
A&M. During this time, he has
been freshmen football coach, track
coach, and commandant of the ca
det corps.
During the 21 years while An
derson has served as track coach,
the Aggies have never placed be
low third in SWC competition, and
have captured the crown nine
times.
He is noted for developing un
knowns into steady performers.
Col. Andy claims his greatest
thrill was in the 1952 Olympic
games at Helsinki, Finland, when
he saw his two proteges, Hooper
and Walter (Buddy) Davis, win
first and second in the high jump
and shot put, respectively.
Born in Sparta, Tenn., in 1891?
Anderson was an outstanding high
school performer in the pole vault.
He went to Mississippi College aft
er graduating from high school to
play football under the direction
of Dana X. Bible.
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