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Cadets Lose to U of H,
Meet OCU Tonight
The A&M varsity basketball
team meets Oklahoma City uni
versity tonight in DeWare field
house after last night’s 62-56 loss
to the University of Houston in
Houston.
OCU outscored TCC, 58-31, last
week.
A promising Fish team plays
Lon Morris junior college in its
first game of the season at 6:30
p.m. The varsity game begins at
8 p.m.
Last night Center Roy Martin,
6 feet 8’,s junior, scored 24 points,
but a second half Cougar rally was
too much for the Aggies.
The Cadets led at half-time, 36-
30, but were outscored 19-9 in the
third quarter. This gave Houston
a 49-45 lead at the end of the third
quarter, and the Farmers couldn’t
make up the difference.
A&M now has lost two of three
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games, bowing to Lamar Tech in
the season opener and defeating
Trinity at home Saturday night.
Forward James Addison contrib
uted 10 points to the Aggie scor
ing. Houston’s top performer was
Center Gary Shivers, who scored
15 points.
A&M tied the Cougars, 21-21, in
field goals, but Houston sank 20
of 31 free throws to the Cadets’
record of 14 out of 21. Both were
good performances.
Ar
Freshman coach Larry Hayes
yesterday said that he hadn’t de
cided on the Fish starting lineup.
BOX SCOIUS
A&M (50) FG FT F TP
Fortenberx*y ..,3 1 5 7
Addison 4 4 3 10
Martin , 9 0 2 24
Pirtle 1 0 5 2
Hardgrove 3 0 2 6
Moon . ..2 0 4 4
Boring 0 0 3 0
Ellis 0 1 0 1
McCrory 0 2 0 2
Totals 21 14 24 56
HOUSTON L. (62) FG FT F TP
Hatton , 4 1 5 9
Kittman 4 4 1 12
Shivers 7 1 4 15
Bell 2 3 1 7
Mosher 2 7 2 11
Foster . 13 15
Pettilette 0 0 1 0
Booher . 1 1 0 3
Totals ..21 20 15 62
Officials: Rossi ami Shaw.
Free throws missed: Hatton, Kittman 2,
Pettiette 2, Shivers 2, Mosher 4, Forten
berry 2, Addison, Martin 2, Hardgrove,
McCrory.
Score by quarters: 12 3 4
Houston 15 30 49 t52
A & M 20 36 45 56
“They’ve all been looking good and
working hard,” he said.
The Fish roster shows six play
ers 6 feet 5, or over and two out-
of-state players who made all-
state high school teams. The form
er all-staters are Center Charles
Blood, 6 feet, 5, of Ponca City,
Okla., and Guard Ted Harrod, 6
feet, of North Little Rock, Ark.
Others players 6-5 or over are
Center Robert Judd, 6-6; Forward
George Mehaffey, .6-5; Center Jef
frey Penefield, 6-6; Center Joe
Schiraldi, 6-5 H; and Forward
Janies Stephens, 6-5.
Ag- Fencers
Reach Finals
In Dallas
Members of the A&M fencing
team reached finals in all events
of the Dallas YMCA Invitational
meet Saturday and Sunday but fail
ed to win any of the three divisions.
About 40 entries representing
Texas Tech, Abilene, Wichita Falls
TarlejjPn State college, Dallas, El
Paso god A&M were at the meet.
Aggies reaching finals were-
Foil, Bob Braslau and Lonnie
Southgrlapd; Epee, Gus Wulfman
and Bill Huettel; Sabre, Wulfman
and Art Garner.
Eleven freshmen and first-year
varsity members will meet Bryan
air force base tonight in a prac
tice match. It will he held in the
BAFB gym at 7 o’clock.
'Mural Highlights
Sq. 11 Wins 24-18 Title Game
Squadron 11 scored first and
never trailed as they defeated A
chemical, 24-18, and won the in
tramural basketball championship
in DeWare field house Monday
night.
Squadron 11 led at the half, 11-
5, and froze the ball in the closing
three, minutes.
High point men for the squads
were Scott for squadron 11 with
seven, while Craig Weigand paced
A chemical with 10.
Squadron 21 defeated squadron
25 on penetrations, 2-1, in a 6-6
tie in intramural football yester
day.
J. Stevens scoi’ed the touchdown
for squadron 25, • while Swafford
made the score for squadron 21.
Wayne Dirks romped 60 yards
around end for one score and later
scampered 80 yards for a second
to help company E defeat company
L, 12-6.
Doug Mullins scored the touch
down for company L by returning
kickoffoff all the way.
Hohensee of company I ran 20
yards and scored the touchdown
which beat Fish band, 6-0.
Company C’s Jim Knutson
caught a scoring pass from John
Mearns to help his unit win over
squadron 20, 10-0.
Squadron 17’s Ray Finch com
pleted two passes for touchdowns
to beat companyB, 12-0.
La Von Andei’son caught the
first pass good for 60 yards, and
Jack Stitch received the second
for 55 yards.
Allen Davis scored scored six
points to help the Physical Edu
cation club defeat the Meteorology*
club, 15-13, in intermural basket
ball.
Hillel club’s Steve Cornfield
scored 12 points to help beat the
Newman club, 22-14.
In bowling company F defeat
ed company H, 419 - 3S7 while A
field artillery won its league play
off.
Squadron 4 defeated A infantry
in horseshoes, two matches to one.
Aggie Coach Had Top Teacher
DRESS UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Floyd Almost Sees Ifoa,
His Former Coach, Again
In an ABC tournament in Chic
ago in 1944 Joe Fliger made 11
strikes in a row. He fouled on the
12th ball. He bowled 290.
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Battalion Sports Staff
John Floyd, A&M’s head basket
ball coach, and Hank Iba, one of
the outstanding coaches in the na
tion, almost had a reunion here
last Saturday night.
The Cadets originally were
scheduled to play the Cowpokes in
the opening game of the new
physical education building. The
game had to be called off because
the new building will not be com
pleted until after the first of the
year.
Floyd played under Iba at Okla
homa A&M and also coached there
two seasons.
Iba, the man who taught Floyd
much of his basketball, is usually
thought of as a coach who stresses
-defense- 'has been
criticized by sports writers and
fans for it. Some feel that Floyd
tends to follow Iba’s technique.
Aggie Basketball Balanced
Floyd thinks the charge that Iba
puts too much stress on defense is
highly overemphasized. As for A&
M’s basketball, “We spend an equal
amount of time on offense and
defense to maintain a balance be
tween them,” he said.
Eastern teams seem to have an
edge over Southwestern schools be
cause they have the percentage
with them, said Floyd. There is a
larger number of Eastern teams;
there is more basketball interest
there, and seasons are longer;
therefore players have a better
chance to develop there, he ex
plained.
Floyd thinks the Aggies can
have a fairly successful season, de
spite the fact there is an overall
lack of depth and only three letter-
men back.
“There are no individual stars,
but we have several good players,”
he said. “If things go well, with
some hard work we should be able
to develop a well-rounded team
that will work well. This year’s
team will be based on’ teamwork
rather than on stars,” he added.
To Build on Lettermen
Floyd plans to build the team
around the returning lettermen,
Roy Martin, Janies Addison and
Rod Pirtle, with the help of Don
Moon, a squad member, and two
sophs, John Fortenberry and Joe
Boring.
“Martin should make a good
showing at center,” he said. He
has called Moon “the ball of fire on
the ball club.” Of Fortenberry, he
said, “He has the potential to
score 16 to 20 points in some
games, plus the ability to stop any
opponent on defense.”
Floyd thinks future cage pro
spects look very good. “We have
an extra large group of good fresh
man basketballers, and their team
looks very good,” he said.
He thinks TCU, Texas and Rice
will fight it out for the Southwest
conference title, followed by SMU,
Baylor and Arkansas. The Aggies
might fit anywhei-e in this order,
depending on how they develop,
said Fldyd.
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basketballers in high school. They
late) - niade the mythical team play
ing at Kansas State and Oklahoma
A&M. He rates Buddy Davis and
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Basketball Coach
Jewel McDowell among the best
he has coached. Davis tallied 952
points in varsity play, and Mc
Dowell scored 865.
This will be Floyd’s fourth sea
son as A&M’s head basketball
coach. His first team here, in 1951,
tied for the conference champion
ship with Texas and TCU.
Coached Hometown
Floyd was born in Wellington,
Kansas, in 1918. He returned there
as basketball coach in 1947. His
teams won the state title in 1947,
lost in the quarter-finals in ’48 and
was runner-up in the state meet
in ’49. After being graduated from
Oklahoma A&M, he returned to
coach freshman basketball-ln-1942-
43. His team won 16 of--17 gamines.
Fl,oyd" then entered the navy and
playe^, two" seasons- 'on. the- Nor?
folk Naval Training station team,
which was rated one of the best in
the nation both seasons. He spent
three years in the navy and re
turned to Oklahoma A&M during
the 1945-46 season as assistant to
Iba.
He is married and has two sons,
aged 10 and 5.
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