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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1954)
INiglil Drills Set For Football Squad A squad of 104 reported Mon day night for the opening of spring football practice. Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant announced night workouts for his Cadets Monday through Thursday. There will be DeRouen To Be Track Captain For Next Year Dale David DeRouen, sen ior business major from Port Arthur was elected captain of the 1954 Aggie Track team by t h e varsity lettermen on March 1. DeRouen is a railer and 2 miler on the team and also runs half mile on the Ag relays. lie is a 3 year varsity cross-country let- terman. DeRouen’s past track career is almost completely post-high school, having never competed in a major high school meet and never specializing in any one event. He “participated” in a few small meets as a senior in Bishop Byrne High School in Port Arthur. DeRouen was recruited from the fish area into Kyle Field and the Athletic dormitory on the basis of his showing of promise on the cross-country course. From here he developed into the top freshman miler at A&M and in the South west Conference. As a sophomore, he lettered on the varsity cross - country team, having to finish in the top ten in the 1951 conference meet to do so. He ran the mile the next spring, finishing third in the conference track meet and lettering on the conference championship team of 1952. During his junior year, DeRouen was runner-up in the conference rross-countfy meet and came back Yist spring to win the Southwest Conference mile championship, and Von his third major, varsity letter on last year’s undefeated cham pionship team. This past fall he was plagued with a chronic foot injury and never did round out into shape for the cross-country season. no workout Friday, but drills will resume Saturday afternoons. Spring sports day will be March 27 with the intrasquad game set for 7:00 P. M. on that day. Seventeen lettermen are among those squadmen working out. Players on scholarship ate at 5:15 P. M. yesterday and reported to Kyle Field at 6:30 for*a meet ing with the coaches. One hour later they were working out. Drills will be scheduled at 7:30 each night. Yell practice was held in Kyle Field Stadium shortly before prac tice officially started. While the “12th Man” sang the Spirit Coach Bryant stood at attention, hand over heart, then sounded a long loud blast with his whistle and spring practice was underway. At Kentucky only boys on scholarship reported for practice, but last night over 100 boys wore maroon and white. Only half of that number are on scholarship. This was Bryan’ts first contact with the Cadets as head coach. Two years ago his Kentucky Wild cats beat the Aggies 10-7 on Kyle Field, and lost last year 7-6. Temporary addition to Bryant’s staff is Vito (Babe) Parilli, All American quarterback at Kentucky. Parilli will work with the quarter backs for two weeks. Babe is on leave from the Green Bay Packers. After seeing the A&M-Texas film, Parilli was impressed with the material. After seeing “We Are the Aggies.” he said that Coach Bryant could do “as good a job as is expected of him, and probably better. “Babe evaded forecasting the identity of a starting quarter back for next season. RESTRING WITH STANDS OUT m play © Harder Smashes ® Better Cut and Spin STANDS UP m your racket • Moisture Immune * Lasting Liveliness COSTS LESS than gut APPROX. STRINGING COST: Pro-Fected Braid..., $6.00 Multi-Ply Braid $5.00 At tennis shops and sporting goods stores.' IN A CLASS BY ITSELF Q OMEGA Don’t ask us to show you anything that compares with the Omega Automatic, because there just isn’t another such watch. Omega holds the highest awards for accuracy ever achieved at the foremost inter national observatories. It has timed four consecu tive Olympic Games. And, in the Automatic, it offers the greatest watch value on the market... bar none! 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Though there was no further scoring during the first half of the game, the excellent passing tactics of the Aggies kept the ball con- tiniously in the Chance Vought section of the field. Among the players who disti- guished themselves in the first half of the game were Dudley Swofford. Mauricio Lesage, Emilio Medina and Ignacio Rangel. Toward the end of the second half the Aggies redoubled their efforts to increase their lead, but were unable to get past the ex cellent defense presented by the Chance Vought goal-keeper, who played an execellent game. Lee Blocker and Juan Letts were the outstanding players of the second half. The varsity swimmers will close out their season this weekend with the conference meet in Austin Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Aggies will not field a strong team but will enter nearly their limit in each event, hoping for breaks and also to split up the points. In the breastroke it will be Ben Allen, Bill Bedford, Casey Snell and Deul Wallin. In the back- stroke it will be Roland Baird, Tom Devenport, and Carl Maynard. In the freestyle events there will be Jim Burns, captain, Frank Gajewsky, Don Horne, Gale Klip- ple, Burt Koegl, Don Beutelschies, Aggie Golfers Win Meet Saturday The Aggie golfers won their opening meet 6-0. against Stephen F. Austin College, here Saturday. They travel to Laredo for the Border Olympics this Friday. John Kubitz was medilist for the cadets, with a two over par 72, in their win over S. F. A. Homer Cal loway, Bill Franklin, and David Vandervoot were also victorous. Lee Pepping, and John Speich. Diving for the Cadets will be John Cameron, George Parr, Erwin Stawicki, and Bill Tutor. Charlie Hadden looks like the; only possible triple victor to come out of the meet. He is expected to take the 1500 meter, 440 yard, and the 220 yard freestyle for the Steers. Behind him in the distance events will be his team mate, Alberto Yariat. 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