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Wednesday, February 3, 1954 THE BATTALION Page 3 Last Round Inside Story On Council By ED HOLDER Battalion Co-Editor Here’s the story on why the athletic council has quibbled around for almost a month now without hiring a new head football coach. The information was given to us by an inside source who said he would rather not see his name in print, but added that the public ought to know the true story. There are two factions on the council which are split over the big question of whether A&.M should hire a big- name coach or a coach whom A&M can get for the usual sal ary ? The faction which wants to go ahead and hire a coach, and pay him about the same as A&M’s coaches in the past have received, is in the major ity. Our source said if it were to come to a final vote at pres ent, he believes the 11-man poll would come out about 7 in favor of the small-name man and 4 against. The chief argument of this group in favor of a small- name coach is: if a college starts paying its coach more than a man in a dean’s posi tion is receiving, the school then exists for football, not as an educational institution. HOLDER The three or four members who would vote it down, and who would vote for the big-name coach, are in the minority. But they have the backing of three powerful men. These three men are none other than the three men who are representing the board of directors in an “advisory capacity.” Their names are W. T. (Doc) Doherty, R. H. (Jack) Finney, Jr. and A. E. Cudlipp. Doherty, Finney and Cudlipp want the big-name coach. They contend, along with certain mejnbers of the council, that a big-name coach would draw players. This, in turn, would give A&M a winning football team. The athletic pro gram, the high-salaried coach included, would pay for itself, and bring national recognition and prestige to A&M. Will Be Recommended Tomorrow You can place your money on proved by the board, probably at this prediction: the new coach will a meeting this weekend. be recommended in tomorrow’s . ..... „ , • .. , You also might win a little meeting oi the council, and ap- . , ... ... , ^ money by betting on this: The council will recommend a “small-name” coach. They won’t bow to the three mem bers of the all-powerful board of directors. This coach prob ably will be Michalske. But if the board of directors does not approve the small-name coach recommended by the council, there will be some red-hot temper’s flar ing. And you might as well throw out your athletic council. This will prove it is powerless anyway. On second thought, either way the board goes, there will be some people mighty hot under the upper regions of the shift. Some Other Comments Here’s some comments from sources on down the line: Barlow (Bones) Irvin, athletic director, clammed up like a man with a knife in his back. He would not talk. However, he did say “Now is the time to contact future athletes.” He said Willie Zapalac, freshman coach, and Bill Duncan, assistant football coach, “are on the road contacting the better boys now. “You make the initial contact now. Most of the boys will make up their minds pretty soon. Boys naturally want to know who their coach will be.” He added that high school players will begin to turn in their letters of intent April 15. 1 then asked Irvin if he had (See INSIDE STORY, Page 4) Nancy Olson Make Sixth SWC Win Friday A&M’s win-starved varsity bas ketball team will make its sixth attempt to break into the South west conference win column Friday night, taking on SMU in Dallas. The Mustangs are pre-game fa vorites to take the contest not only, because of their better record this year, but also because the Aggies have not defeated the Ponies on (heir home court in four years. Until recently, SMU was running third in the conference race behind Council Meets Thursday am second place Rice and leading Tex as. But Buster Brannon’s TCU squad, now riding the Upset Spe cial, remained atop the Mustangs in a wild 85-84 contest last week to shove the Methodists into fourth place while the Frogs moved into third. Aggie Coach John Floyd’s start ers are rested and ready again after their 80-55 loss to Arkansas at Fayetteville Monday night. The squad returned to A&M Tuesday and held its first workout of this week today. Both SMU and the Cadets have men holding positions in the con ferences’ high scoring bracket. Mustangs Ronnie Morris, with 66 points, and Art Barnes, with 51 points, hold sixth and eighth places respectively. John Fortenberry, Aggie forward, is tied with Bay lor’s Don Dickson for 10th place with 48 points. Derrell Murphy, veteran Pony guard who held out last season, is back this year and holds sixth place among the top 10 scorers in season play. Following a 71-60 loss to Lon Morris junior college Monday night, the Fish will be out to add to their list of wins at the expense of Allen Academy Friday night in Bryan. The Fish now boast a 5-2 won-lost tally, their only other loss being handed them by Rice’s Owlets in Houston. Cadet Trackmen To Meet Top AA U Team from Mexico A&M’s track team—1954 edition —will open the season on an inter national note, meeting a crack Mexico Amateur Athletic Union team at Kyle field Feb. 20. The meet is sponsored by the College Station Kiwanis club and matches the top amateur track ath letes of Mexico against the school which has won the Southwest con ference track championship six times in the past seven seasons. Thirteen lettermen return from last year’s conference champion ship team, but none won numerals in the broad jump, high jump, pole vault or low hurdles. Also, players who brought home 62 points at the The A&M athletic council will continue its search for a head coach at 10 a.m. Thurs day in the MSC. Dean W. L. Penberthy, chair man of the council, last night said that Line Coach Mike Michalske still is “a strong and definite candidate. He is still very much in the ru ning.” Penberthy said “I don’t know” when asked if anyone would be intervied at the meet ing. He also said that all mem bers of the council will be present at the meeting “as far as I know.” Athletic Di rector Barlow (Bones) Irvin and Pat Dial, business manager of athletics, were excluded from the last meeting. Tigers Down Waller, 51-26 A&M Consolidated high school’s Tigers last night smothered Waller under a 51-26 shellacking to stay in the running for the district 25-A basketball title. Consolidated now has a 4-1 dis trict mark and a. 16-2 season rec ord. They close out their league sea son Friday night in Sealy. Bell- villc had handed the Tigers a 48- 41 licking last week, giving the Brahmas a 2-1 district slate. In the opener, the Tiger B team swamped the Waller B squad, 70- 27. The Tigers trailed 9-10 at the first quarter mark but roared back to outscore Waller by a 29-8 mar- Swimmers Down ia ENDS TODAY .Warner Bros PRESEI uohnWayneI i-Sf CO-STARRING LLOYD NOLAN • WALIER ABEL • IAMES ASNESS ANDY DEVINE •IB uLfi • wilLIAMA. WELLMAN * ftliflWS rtoouctioii . eisuiBUTco rr WARNER BRD Mi THURSDAY & FRIDAY A JUNGLE STAMPEDE, OF AGI0N! 4 / #K. AND THE i! co-starring I EX BARKER -MCE IteKEIlE w i v RAYMOND BURR • MONIQUE VAN VOORE*.' tju CJN ' AY. p'id'jeed bj SCI LEiiE e A&M’s varsity swimming team, on a trip through the South, out pointed Emory university, 54-30, and Georgia Tech, 53-31, last week. Results of the Monday meet with the University of Florida at Gainesville and with Florida State at Tallahassee yesterday were "not available. At Georgia Tech, the Aggies won four firsts and six seconds. Gayle Klipple won the 150 yard individual medley and the 440 yard freestyle. Don Horne won the 100 yard free style, anchored the winning free re lay team and placed second in the 220 yard freestyle. Bill Tutor was first in diving, and Casbeer Snell won th"e 200 yard breaststroke. The Aggies also took first in the 400 yard relay. The Cadets won 6 of the 10 events from Emory, John Speich and Bert Kocgl each taking two firsts. Speich swept the 220 and 440 yard freestyle events, and Koegl won the 50 and 100 yard free style events. . Klipple won the individual medley and Tommy Devenport won the 200 yard backstroke. Ag'-Georgia Tech Summary 300 yard medley-1. Tech; 2. A&M. 220 yard freestyle—. Growne, Tech; 2. Horne, A&M; 3. Speich, A&M. 50 yard freestyle—. Walker. Tech; 2. Burns, A&M; 3.. Gajewsky, A&M. 150 yard iiKlividual medlcy-srl: ^Klipple,- A&M; 2. Vaif Leer, Tecli; 3. Devenport, A&M. Diving—1. Tutor, A&M; 2. Cameron, A&M; 3. Ballard, Tech. 100 yard freestyle—1. Horne, A&M; 2. Walker, Tech; 3. Gajewsky. A&M. 200 yard backstroke — 1. Hiles, Tech; Maynard, A&M; 3. Devenport, A&M. 200 yard breaststroke—1. Snell, A&M; 2. Wallin, A&M; 3. Herrera. Tech. 440 yard freestyle—1. Klipple, A&M; 2. Browne, Tech; 3. Speich, A&M. 400 yard relay—1. A&M; 2. Tech. Ag - Emory Summary 300 yard medley—1. Emory; 2. A&M. 220 yard freestyle—1. Speich. A&M; 2. Horne, A&M; 3. Crymes, Emory. 50 yard freestyle—1. Koegl, A&M; 2. Burns, A&M; 3. Savage, Emory. 150 yard individual medley—1. Klipple, A&M; 2. Glancy, Emory; 3. Devenport, A&M. Diving—1. Jacques, Emory; Cameron, A&M; 3. Tutor, A&M. 100 yard freestyle—1. Kocgl, A&M; 2. Horne, A&M; 3. Savage, Emory. 200 yard backstroke -— 1. Devenport, A&M; 2. Maynard, A&M; 3. Througham, Emory. 200 yard breaststroke — 1. Harris, Emory; 2. Snell, A&M; 3. Wallin, k&M. 400 yard freestyle—1. Speich, A&M; Gajewsky, A&M; 3. Crymes, Emory. 400 yard relay—1. Emory; 2. A&M. gin in the second and third periods. That gave them a 38-18 edge go ing into the last quarter. A&M Fencers To Compete In Annual Meet A&M’s fencing team Satur day will compete in the annual individual meet of the Ama teur Fencing League of America. The meet will be held in the Memorial Student Center assembly room, starting at 2 p. m. Other teams competing will be Galveston Buccaneers, Houston Fencing club, University of_ Hous ton, Ricje and Corpus UhiiHi YMCA. The following Cadet fencers will enter the meet—Bob Braslau, Gus Wulfman, Bill Fink, Carroll For rester, Ed Fries, Richard Forrester, Russ Goodale, Jim Bigg and Jerry Ramsey. - Other Cadets \vho will fence in clude Carl Hill, John Yates, Don Roth, Bill Swann, Roger Clark, Charles Holcomb, John Halbert, Gene Shackelford, Richard Brown, George Ernst, Neal Farmer, Ken Jones, Walt Anderson, Lonnie Sutherland, Lee Balsley, Van Eaton, Bob Zarbock, Bruce O’Hara and John Shanks. Intramural Standings To Be Announced The first meeting this semester of intramural athletic officers will be held at 5 p. m. Thursday in room 301, Goodwin hall. Barney Welch, intramural di rector, urged all of the officers to attend. Present outfit standing will be announced and plans will be made for this semester’s com petition. Box Scores Consolidated (51) fg. ft. fl. tp. Cooner . . . 3 4 1 10 Beasley . . . 0 2 0 2 Bonnen . .. 3 O 1 6 Jackson . .. 8 5 2 21 Anderson . . 3 0 0 0 Carroll . ... 3 0 1 6 TOTALS . 20 11 5 51 Walter (28) IK- ft. ft. tj>. Snow ‘-i O 4 4 Keagln . ... (1 0 2 0 Harris . . . . 4 1 4 9 Rayburn . . . . 0 0 0 0 Gallatin . . . 1 D 0 12 Stanford . . 2 0 2 4 Suggitt . . . 1 0 i 2 Reimer . ... . . 1 II i 2 Hoff 1 l 0 3 TOTALS . 12 14 26 Score by Quarters: Consolidated 9 15 1 4 13—51 Waller . . 10 6 2 8—20 Consolidated B Game (70) fg. ft. fl. tp. Floeck . ... G 3 O 15 Hickman . , 4 0 1.0 Oden .. wuhi jy-dfA is ."''T •'4': .11 Englebrecht . 0 3 0 3 Perryman . 5 1 0 11 Garcia . ... . . . • 9 A O 3) 18 Nixon . . 0 2 1 2 j* & ■fl ^ ' JSl TOT A T <8 : .28 13 9 70 Waller (27) fg. ft. fl. 1|>. Bishop . ... 0 0 2 O Davis . .. . i 2 5 4 Moore 2 2 1 0 Reimer . . . . 1 r> 11 Brejcha . . . 0 •O i 0 Hufft 1 0 0 2 Gallatin . . . 2 0 4 4 TOTALS . 11 5 18 27 cdnference meet will be missing from this season’s team. Returning lettermen and the events in which they compete fol low: Pete Mayeaux, sprints and jave lin; Tom Dollahite, high hurdles and javelin; Glenn Blake, high hurdles; Harley Hartung, high hurdles; Carroll Libby, 440; Ger ald Stull, 440; Frank Norris, 440;- Wallace Kleb, 880; Dale DeRouen, mile; James Blaine, two mile; Ver- lon Westmoreland, two mile; Bob by Gross, shot put and discus and Marvin Swink, high jump. Squadmen retuning are Sidney Goyer, sprints; James Earle, pole vault and George Knipple, javelin. Knipple last year placed fourth in the javelin at the conference meet. Ag Wrestlers Open at Home WitliLonghorns The A&M Wrestling club will open its home season in a meet with Texas here Feb. 27. “Last year we beat them twice so with 10 returning lettermen, we should have a good chance to win our first meet”, :said Coach J. W. Griffith. The returning lettermen • are Robert Beattie,’ Dick Cappel,? Bill Gilbert, Jerry Pyle, Rudy Henson, Javier Gonzalez, Jqhh Johnson, A1 Perkins j Hpgh • Laiiktree and John Huff. | U-Some good'' prbspectif are A1 'Rial, 'an Intramural champ last yeaf,' and freshmen .Dave- Reimer and Kenneth Jones. Other meets scheduled with Dal las YMCA on Feb. 20, Texas March 13, there, and the National tourna ment at University of Oklahoma March 26 and 27. MEXICAN DISHES Meet At The Chapultepec for Your Get-Togethers or Just Plain Dining - SPECIALS ALWAYS — MEXICAN DINNERS 45c ENCHILADAS with Chili Gravy Cheese . 45c Basket of Fritos Free with Order CHAPULTEPEC 1313 S. 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