Tuesday, January 4, 1955
THE BATTALION
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H O R T
By JERRY WIZIG
Battalion Sports Editor
Southwest conference football fans may be able to view
a game featuring SWC elevens on television nearly every
Saturday next season if the National Collegiate Athletic
association approves the plan of the Big Ten conference.
Television of football is the big headache facing the
NCAA during its annual convention in New York this week.
Some kind of change seems highly likely. Whether or not
it will greatly benefit local fans remains to be seen, of course.
Big Ten Backs Regional Plan
Fortenberry, Brophy
Lead Ags Against Owls
Last season, under the present
■ NCAA plan, only one game was
available each week for television,
and some of them didn’t hold much
interest for fans of this area.
Southwest fans got to watch only
three games involving SWC teams
this year—Texas-Oklahoma, Bay-
lor-Texas, SMU-Notre Dame.
Under the regional program pre
sented by the Big Ten, each region
would select its own games for tel
evision. (Each region presumab
ly would include one major NCAA
conference.) This plan also is
supported by the Pacific Coast con
ference (although it’s hard to pic
ture, after what Big Ten teams
have done to the Coast elevens in
the last few Rose Bowl games.)
of-the-week.
The conservative but powerful
Eastern College Athletic confer
ence is backing continuation of the
game-of-the-week program, with a
very limited amount ' of regional
television.
These two, and three other pro
posals, will receive a “straw vote”
by members to guide the TV com
mittee in adoption of the 1955 pro
gram. But four members on the
committee are from the East, so
it seems likely that the ECAC
plan, with some modification, will
be adopted. The East has 101 of
the 415 NCAA colleges.
If the Big Ten and the Pacific
Coast members combined forces
and gave definite indications they
Several times the Big Ten has will bypass the NCAA, there would
hinted it may withdraw from the
NCAA or ignore the national
game-of-the-week setup if it is
adopted again. The Big Ten re
portedly has received a million
dollar offer for a conference game-
be a good possibility of a plan of
half national—half regional tele
vision, a big improvement. Some
thing tolls me Texas fans would
like to watch Texas teams on TV
for a change.
Ramsey ‘Honored’ At Houston
At the recent conference bas
ketball tournament in Houston,
Morris Frank introduced Jones
Ramsey, A&M sports publicity
director, as “one of the great fic
tion writers of our time.” To which
Aggie fans reply, “Wait ’til next
football season.”
Talk about comebacks — the
Aggie basketball team lost its
first game at the Canyon tour
ney to West Texas State, 57-82,
then the next night beat Pepper-
dine 86-84, scoring more points
than an Aggie varsity cage team
has ever scored.
Co-captain John Fortenberry set
a tourney record by sinking 13 of
15 free throws against Texas, but
Dick O’Neal of TCU broke it the
next night.
Pat James, Aggie assistant foot
ball coach, might be interested in
knowing that at least one mem
ber of the 1954 Fish team calls
him “the meanest man on the cam
pus.” The player last week was
quoted as saying “He’s the only
guy out there I can’t handle” when
James gets down and mixes it with
the players. (He also has the
voice that can be heard farther on
the Aggie practice field than any
other coach.) . . .
James, Elmer Smith, Phil Cut-
chin and Jim Owens are attending
the NCAA convention in New
York. Head coach Paul Bryant
didn’t make the trip. . . .
Bryant was second in voting
for Texas senior college coach
of the year by the Texas Sports
Writers association.
The Fish game with Tyler jun
ior college listed for Saturday
night before the Aggie-Arkansas
contest has been rescheduled for
7:30 p.m., Jan. 11, the night the
Cadets meet SMU in Dallas. . . .
Trainer Charles (Smokey) Har
per was quoted by Dan Jenkins
in the Fort Worth Press as saying
“Alex Groza (all-American cen
ter at Kentucky, wasn’t near as
good as Dick O’Neal when he was
a sophonume.”
Boxers Workout
The A&M Boxing club will be
gin nightly workouts at 7 p.m. to
night in the fencing room of De-
Ware field house, said James
Earle, president.
Earle invited anyone interested
in joining the club to attend.
Women Can Bowl
In New League
A new women’s bowling league
is now being formed which is open
to all women in the Bryan-College
Station area.
According to John Geiger, man
ager of the MSC bowling alleys,
the new league, which will meet
on Friday nights, is open to every
one from the beginner to the most
experienced bowler.
Tommy Cox, cocaptain, announc
ed that A&M will meet Trinity
university in San Antonio. The
team is composed of .the top 10
bowlers in the A&M Bowling club
who have rolled nine or more lines.
Hollingsworth
Third in Meet
Aggie trackman James Hol
lingsworth finished third in the
120-yard high hurdles at the Sugar-
Bowl track meet in New Orleans
Sunday.
Originally scheduled for Friday,
the meet was postponed because
of rain.
A&M’s mile relay team of Wal
lace Kleb, Bill Holloway, Robert
McKnight and Johnny Roberts was
fifth.
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Sparked by cocaptain John For
tenberry and forward Bill Brophy,
A&M’s improved varsity basketball
team opens its Southwest confer
ence campaign tonight against dan
gerous Rice in Houston.
The Fish meet the Rice frosh,
led by sensational 6-11 Temple
Tucker, in a 6:30 p.m. opener fear-
turing two undefeated teams.
Coach John Floyd sent his squad
through a fairly light workout yes
terday. The Aggies were due to
leave by bus at 2:30 p.m. today.
Already winner of as many
games as they won all last season,
the Cadets are rated about an even
choice tonight. After losing by 25
points to West Texas State in the
Canyon tournament, A&M downed
Pepperdine 86-84 the next night,
setting an all-time varsity scoring
record.
Fortenberry, a junior who has
played in only three winning games
in his A&M basketball career,
found his shooting eye, and com
bined with Brophy to help the Ag
gies put on a better-than-expected
performance at the SWC presea
son tourney in Houston.
The Cadets beat Texas 66-61 in
their nyeet opener, Fortenberry hit
ting 21 points, including 13 of 15
free throws, and Brophy 15. For
tenberry made 15 of^SO free throws
against Pepperdine.
Against tourney-champ TCU,
Fortenberry scored 19 and Brophy
15 in a 57-72 defeat. A&M stayed
even for the first 25 minutes. Then
6-4 George Mehaffey, who had been
doing a fine defensive job on 6-7
Dick O’Neal, got three quick fouls
and fouled out with 16 minutes
left.
In the consolation finals, the Ag-
UP AND AWAY—-Aggie
co-captain John Fortenber
ry averaged 19 points per
game in the conference pre-
s e a s on tournament and
made the second all-tour
ney team.
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gies lost to Arkansas 70-74 after
tieing the score 64-64 with two and
a half minutes to play. Forten
berry, who made the second all
tournament team, had 19 points,
Brophy 17.
Now sixth in conference scoring
with 137 points, Brophy has hit 44
per cent of his shots and is averag
ing 15.2 per game. Fortenberry is
seventh in the conference with 134
points, including 60 of 77 free
throws. His average is 14.8.
Brophy leads the Aggies in re
bounding with 80, followed by Me
haffey with 62.
Floyd tonight probably will start
Pat McCrory and Roger Harvey at
guards, Fortenberry and Brophy
at forwards and Mehaffey at cen
ter.
Mehaffey sprained his ankle in
practice Sunday but will be able to
play.
Rice will open with Bobby Bra
shear and Monte Robicheaux at
guards, Terry Telligman and Fred
Woods at forwards and Joe Dur-
renberger at center.
Both the Aggie and Rice fresh
men have won three straight
games, but John DeWitt doesn’t
have anyone near Tucker’s height.
Ted Dockery, 6-5 center, probably
will start the game guarding him.
Tucker has scored 34, 27 and 32
points in Owlet wins over Allen
academy, Victoria junior college
and Wharton junior college.
He gets able support from 6-5
Tinker Wilson and King Hill at
forwards and guard Dale Ball.
Brum below Talks
To UofH Officials
HOUSTON, Jan. 4—UP)—Mike
Brumbelow, head football coach at
Texas Western College of El Paso,
conferred with University of Hous
ton officials yesterday about the
coaching vacancy here.
“No use kidding about it,” Brum
below said. “I’m a pr-ofessional
coach and I’m interested.”
Brumbelow visited the campus
Sunday and had conferences sched
uled Monday with the university
Athletic council and President A.
D. Bruce.
“Brumbelow is here strictly on
our invitation,” Athletic Director
Harry Fouke said. “He is one of
the gentlemen and coaches we
think highly of.” .
Brumbelow, Coach of the Year
in the Border Conference, flew
here the day after his Texas West
ern team whipped Florida State
47-20 in the Sun Bowl. He plans
to return to El Paso today. He
played at Texas Christian univer
sity.
Indian Fan Club
CLEVELAND <A>)—Four pitch
ers on the Cleveland Indians are
members of the “1,000 Fan Club.”
To be a member of the mythical
society, a hurler must strike out
1,000 batters.
Bob Feller leads the active hurl-
ers in this organization. He has
fanned 2,538. Hal Newhouser is
next on the Tribe with 1,788. Early
Wynn has 1,172. Bob Lemon made
it this year. He now has 1,030.
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The 6-3 former Allen academy star is the leading
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and 28 points against LSU.
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