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1 Wednesday, March 10, 1954 THE BATTALION Page 3 BAFB Loses To Bergstrom For Zone Title Bryan Air Force Base’s Bulldogs returned from Berg strom AFB, Austin, Texas, after an unsuccessful bid for the Southwest Air Force Zone basketball crown, winning their tournament opener with a blister ing 89 to 80 win over Gray AFB, Killen, Texas, but bowing out of the double elimination tournament after successive defeats by Bark sdale and Bergstrom AFB’s. The first game was nip and tuck all the way with the score at the quarter mark 25 to 24 in favor of Gray, 45 to 45 at the half, 71 to08 at the end of the third stanza for the locals, and the final, 89 to 80 with the Bulldogs on top. The second game was another close one with Barksdale AFB. The locals broke on top 14 to9 the first quarter, were one point behind at the half, 24 to 23, but were unable to counteract a third quarter scor ing spree by the Louisiana team and ended up in the short end of a 58 to 47 score. In their second defeat, another disastrous third quarter brought defeat, 78 to 68, this time to Berg strom AFB. High scorers for the Bryan team in all three games were, Bob Jordan, 59, John DcWitt, 47, Fat O’Neill, 41, Jack Larrimore and Dick Gardemal, 21 each, and Phil Collins 15. Koltoii Visits In Pakistan D. W. Williams, vice chancellor for agriculture of the Texas A&M College System and Ur. F. C. Bol ton, president emeritus of the A&M College of Texas are en route to Pakistan to explore the possibility of technical co-operation in agriculture and engineering be tween the Texas A&M College System and the University of l*)ae- ca in Pakistan. The investigation is being made at the request of the Foreign Op erations Administration and with the approval of the board of di rectors of the Texas A&M College System. Mr, W illiams, who heads the combined extension, research and teaching activities in agriculture of the A&M System, will investi gate the present set-up in Pakistan for agricultural work in these fields to determine what assistance the Texas A&M System might give in developing a more effective ag ricultural program in Pakistan. Dr. Bolton will check on the en gineering work at Dacca Univer sity and on the possibility of im proving the administrative set-up for education. Dacca University has filed a re quest for assistance in several fields of science including Veteri- ,’.ary Medicine, agriculture, educa tion and engineering. If the investigation shows that there are a number of fields in which the Texas A&M System can give effective assistance to Pakistan, particularly in the work at Dacca, it is expected that the A&M System will enter into an agreement with the Foreign Oper ations Administration to render this assistance. Under such plan, staff members from the Texas in stitution would be sent to Pakistan to help in the development of re search, extension and teaching pro grams of agriculture and engineer ing, and possibly staff members of the University of Dacca would? be sent to Texas for training. It is also possible that a number of students from Pakistan would be sent to' the Texas institution for work in the several science includ ed in this program. i' ILL ENDS TODAY & Sis At GEORGE DOLENZ ABBE LANE A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE THURSDAY & FRIDAY jfljUj EVANS '''v-ith WEST STUlllte MY C&UW c.-.i iMfrcdadag FILMS IH 4 UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE *9 , 'x -> mm tit* M Gulf Gymnastics Set Here Saturday 22^ biS*.' I DALLAS ATHLETIC CLUB National AAU champion team that will appear in DeWare field house Saturday at the Gulf AAU Gymnasitics meet. They are left to right, Avis Tieber, Bettye Vance, Barbara Galleher, Vickie Fos ter and Paula Lewis. Bryant’s Assistants Show Capability The following are thumbnail sketches of the. new A&M coaching staff. Two assistant coaches, Elmer Smith and Tom Tipps who were appointed recently, are included in the list. PAUL (Bear)) BRYANT Paul (Bear) Bryant, 40, will be the head coach and director of athletics. Native of Fordyee, Ark., Bryant played three years at Ala bama, 1933-35, under Coach Frank Thomas. Was all-Southeastern con ference last two years. Assistant coach at Alabama 1936-39. Assistant at Vanderbilt 1940- 41. Entered navy and returned as head coach at Maryland, 1945, won 6, lost 2, tied 1. Became head coach at Kentucky 1946 and continued for eight years before moving to Texas A&M in Feb., 1954. His Kentucky teams' won 60, lost 23 and tied 5. Overall record as head coach: Won 66, Lost 25, Tied 6. ' Married* Wife—Mary Harmon. Two children: Girl, Mae Martin, and Boy, Paul, Jr. * JIM OWENS One of two coaches who will work with the Aggie line, Jim Owens is a native of Oklahoma City and played four years at the University of Oklahoma where lie was an all-American end in 1948-49. lie co- eaplaiucd the Sooner Sugar-Bowl team of 1949 and joined the Ken tucky staff under Coach Bryant after playing the 1950 season with the Baltimore Colts. His joining the Wildcat staff came shortly after the 1951 Sugar bowl game in which Kentucky downed the national champion Sooners, 13-7. He played in four bowl games while at OU—the Gator in 1947, the Sugar 1949-50 and the Senior in 1950. He also played in the Chicago all-Star game in 1950 before joining Baltimore. While at Baltimore he coached the ends for John Hopkins. During World War II Owens was in the naval air corps as an enlisted air crewman. Married: Wife—Martha. One child: Girl, Kathy, 20 mos. PHIL CUTCHIN One of three coaches who will work with Aggie backs, Phil Catchin was assistant to Bryant at Kentucky in 1952 and 1953. A 1943 graduate of Kentucky he came back after WW II to pick up his final year of eligibility as a halfback in 1946. He Was assistant coach at Ohio Wesleyan from 1947 until his recall to the service in 1950. He served a year in Korea as an army lieutenant with the First Calvalry division. Married: Wife—Betsy. One child: Girl, Melinda, 1 year. WILLIE F. ZAPALAC Willie Zapalac, freshman coach at A&M in 1953, is chief scout and will work with the backs under Coach Bryant. A native of Bcllville, Texas where he established a record of 245 points in 1938, Zapalac played varsity ball at A&M in 1941-42 and 1946 after 36 months as a first lieutenant in the air corps. Zapalac was a freshman at A&M in 1939 and was held out during his sophomore year of 1940 as John Kimbrough was leading the Cadets to fame. Zapalac returned to A&M in January, 1953 as frosh coach. He played pro ball witli Pittsburg in 1947, then couched at John Tarleton in the A&M system, Hillsboro high school and Arlington State, also in the A&M system. Married: Wife—Dorothy. Three children—Billy, 5%, Jeff, 41^ and Jill, 2. . JERRY CLAIRBORNE An outstanding safetyman and end during four years’ varsity experience under Coach Bryant, Jerry Clairborne was assistant at Kentucky in 1952-53. One of the nation’s outstanding pass-interception artists, Clairborne helped Kentucky to the school’s first major bowl game—the Orange in 1950. He was head coach at Augusta, Va. Military Academy in 1950 and 1951. Married: Wife—Faye. One child—David, 16 months. PAT JAMES Another assistant who will work with the line Pat James was a top defensive guard on the victorious Kentucky team in the 1951 Sugar bowl. He was a back at New Boston, Ohio high school and shifted to the line at Kentucky. He was coach at Danville, Ky., high school in 1952 and wa3 assistant at Kentucky in 1953. Married: Wife—Eloise. No children. CHARLES “SMOKEY” HARPER A graduate of Mercer college in Macon, Ca-, Charles (Smokey) Harper has been an athletic trainer since 1926. During his long and colorful career he has served at Clemson, Vanderbilt, Florida, Alabama, UCLA and Kentucky before coming to A&M in the spring of, 1954. Has been trainer at Kentucky since 1950. Was previously with Coach Bryant at Vanderbilt in 1940. Married: Wife—Marie. One child—Girl, Peggy, 20. IAL DYERS'FUR STORAGE HATTERS merican 2-1585 210 S. Main Bryan Pho. 2-15S4 What’s Cooking On Saturday the Gulf AAU championship gymnastics meet will be held in Deware fieldhouse. This meet will include men’s and women’s championships in both the junior and senior divisions, the juniors being held at 2:00 p. m., and the seniors at 7:00 p. m. In both divisions, the men’s events will include: free calisthenics, long horse, side horse, horizontal bar, parallel bars, rings, rope climb, tumbling, and trampoline, while the women will compete only in the tumbling and trampoline events. Thus far, entries have been re ceived from the following organiza tions: Dallas Athletic club; North western State college of La.; Ft. Worth YMCA; Baton Rouge YM- CA; Maverick Boys club of Am arillo; Houston Variety Boys club; Texas University; Crenshaw Ath letic Clhb of Austin; and A&M. A few more entries are still expected this week and should provide some very keen competition for this annual meet. Wednesday 7:15 p.m.—rWesley Foundation, Wesley Foundation building. A talk on “Religion and Science” will be given by Dr. Mcdlin of Biology department. 7:30 pan.—Knights of Columbus, basement of St. Mary’s Chapel. Thursday 7:15 pan. — Lavaca county club meeting, Academic building. Galveston county A&M club meeting, MSC. Discuss high school day, spring function and softball team. 7:30 pan.—Corpus Christi club meeting, MSC. Important meeting. Waco McLennan county A&M club meeting, second floor of MSC. Picture is paid for and will be made. Permian Basin hometown club meeting, fourth floor, Academic building. Picture for Aggicland to be discussed. Panhandle club meeting, Aca demic building. Anuyillo A&M club meeting, room 125, Academic building. Plans for picnic and club picture for Ag~ gieland. Shreveport Club meeting, room 106, Academic building. Tennis Team Sets Southern Matches Varsity netters will make a road trip this weekend, traveling to Beaumont, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette, La. - In this trip the netters will face Lamar Tech of Beaumont, L. S. U., and Southwestern Louisiana In stitute in Lafayette. Gene Kinard, Ronald Wolf, Bill Ashburn, Bob Kerr, and Frank Holbrook will make the trip for the Cadets. Kinard and Wolf will be on doubles team while Ashburn and Kerr will make up the number two team. L. S. U. will field a very strong team. Richard Hamilton, L. S. U. number one may, has just returned from the Davis Cup Matches where he was a substitute for the U. S. team. The Aggies have lost one meet and won one last week from South eastern State College of Okla Morgan Elected Vice-President OS Range & Forestry Page W. Morgan, a junior, majoring in range and forestry at Texas A&M College, has been elected vice-president of the Range and Forestry club. He was’recently promoted to the rank of first ser geant of A Transportation com pany, ROTC. He had been opera tions sergeant of the 4th Battalion staff. The Range and Forestry club is composed of majors in that depart ment and its activities include bi annual barbecues, meetings at which agriculturists are speakers and an, annual exhibit for Parents Day May 8. Morgan is a member of the debate team, Alpha Zeta, honor agricultural fraternity, the Ross Volunteers, program ehairyiun of the Collegiate 4-H club, a disting uished student for four semesters and a member of the Texas Academy of Science, The main highlight of this meet will probably develop Saturday night in the women’s senior tumbl ing event, when Barbara Galleher of the Dallas Athletic Club, 1052 and ’53 National A. A. U. senior women’s tumbling champion, will meet Avis Tieber, also of the Dal las Athletic Club, last year’s South western A. A. U. senior women’s tumbling champion, who has really been striving hard in trying to dethrone her terrific tumbling teammate. Tickets for this meet are now on sale, priced at 5i)<t per session, and may be purchased from any mem ber of the A&M Gymnastic Club. Judging Team Will Compete In Oklahoma Texas A&M’s Junior Live stock Judging Team will com pete in an intercollegiate judging contest in Oklahoma City, March 13, said Dale Handlin, team coach. The team left Wednesday, March 10, and plans to practice at several different farms and ranches on their way. They plan to judge at Mrs. Ammic Wilson’s Hampshire Ranch at Plano, Texas Wednesday, Turner’s Herford Ranch Thurs day at Sulfur, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater, Oklahoma Friday Morning. They will arrive in Oklahoma City Friday night. “The team should see some very good animals and x get some good practice those tbfee days,” said Handlin. Students making the trip are Ken Killion, Ken Lewis, Bill Kane, Billy Steele, Sam McAnally, James Durham, Herby Hclbig, Frank Parker, Buddy Hall, James Wclge- hausen, and Theo Lindig. New Guinea and Borneo are each slightly larger than Texas. One flock of geese is known to have flown at the height of 29,000 feet. 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