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Wednesday, December 7, 1955 THE BATTALION Page 3 Aggies Certain To Play In One Bowl By BARKY HART A&M is playing in one bowl for sure this season and the Aggies are a cineh to win it. BOTH THE Maroon and White teams, opponents in the 1955 12th Man Bowl, worked long and hard Tuesday with only seven days of practice left before the game, which is to-be played Thursday, December 15, at 3 p.m. on Kyle Field. Maroon head coach Larry Win kler sent his squad through an ex tensive drill on fundamentals. As sistant coach Gene Stallings worked the linemen on blocking and tackl ing while backfield coaches Gene Henderson and Don Watson drilled the backs on plays. THE MAROONS ran through a spirited dummy scrimmage with an offensive team of Ken Kuykendall and Ed Gray at ends, A. V. Gon zalez and Ken Upton at tackles, Roy Millen and Bob Peters at guards, John Zeigler at center, Gene Harding at quarterback, Channing Williams and Henry Tom at the halfbacks and Charlie Smith at fullback. The White team, under the direc tion of Head Coach Ronald Rob bins, and assistants Donald Rob bins, Dee Powell and Henry Clark, opened their practice session with over an hour of specialty work. The backs ran plays while the line worked on their offensive blocking. “WE STILL don’t know enough about the team to really tell who will start,” said Coach Robbins. “We’ll probably cut the squad Fri day.” Robbins sent his team through an offensive scrimmage that found Gail Pruitt and Fred Erp at ends, Dick Sayger and Bob Lowry at tackles, Sam Wachel and Charlie Kugler at guards, Sam Zuchero at center, Bobby Singer at quarter back, Harley Hartung and Tom Norton at the halfbacks and Oren Helvey at fullback. BOTH TEAMS will be issued full equipment after the . Saturday workout and will practice in pads the three days prior to game time next week. ' llllllife ! ‘ if M| ffi8i8Ma mm -C \ . 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By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Editor A distinctive, if not unus ual, Fish basketball team takes the court against Allen Academy’-s high scoring Ramblers tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Allen Gym. Only one Texan appears in the starting line up for Aggie first- year men in their opening cage battle of the season. Neil Swisher, whose specialty is a jump shot, hails from Victoria where he was one of the most sought after high school basketball players in the state last year. An all-stater, Swisher also has the distinction of being the shortest man on the starting freshmen five. He’s 6-1. FROM SANTURCE, Puerto Rico comes Gonzalo Diago, whose spe cialty is hitting the basket from all angles. The 6-3 Puerto Rican has an almost uncanny accur acy with his set shots. Coach Ken Loeffler, who believes that great basketball players must have “eyes in the back of their head”, says Diago has the best eyes he’s ever seen. And Loeffler has observed quite a few in his 25 years of coaching professional and college teams. Diagm is only 17 years old. Another outstanding prospect on the Fish team is Stewart Heller, a strong, 6-5, center from McKees port, Pa. Loeffler remarked that Heller “could really help us on the varsity this year.” He is espe cially adept at getting rebounds, and equally helpful on offense. JAMES McNICHOL, rangy 6-6 hopeful from Philadelphia, should develop into quite a ball player ac cording to Loeffler and his assist ants, John DeWitt and Joe Hard- grove. McNichol followed Loef fler here from Philadelphia, where the Aggie mentor compiled a 145- 30 won-lost record in his six years at La Salle. Rounding out the freshmen’s No. 1 team is Alex Roberts, 6-2 for ward from Pawtucket, R.I. Rob erts is very fast and what he lacks in height he makes up for in hus tle. The Fish have speed to go with their height, and each player can share the scoring burden if called on. They will have their work cut out for them tomorrow night. The Ramblers have been very impres sive in posting a 2-2 record so far this season. ALLEN OPENED with a crush ing 87-56 win over the helpless San B-Field Surges To Top Spot In Freshmen Intramurals Antonio Rangers and appears well on its way to another Zone 2 junior college championship. In losing to Lon Morris Monday night the Ramblers still managed to score 85 points. Allan boasts a well balanced team as far as point production goes. Five players, Jack Collier, Carlos Montemayor, Joe Rodriquez, Mark Mosely and Bill Davis, are waging a fight for the team’s individual scoring lead ership. A&M’s varsity cagers get a brief rest from basketball wars this week before their home opener with the Louisiana State Tigers Saturday. “I’M PLEASED with our show ing in the first three games,” said Coach Loeffler. “We’re on the right track anyhow. The boys are really eager.” Junior center George Mehaffey leads the Aggies in scoring with 39 points. Sophomore Fritzie Con- nally is next in line with 33. Bill Brophy and Ted Harrod have each tallied 28 points. By JOE DAN BOYD Intramural Writer B-Field Artillery surged into the top spot in freshmen intramural standings yesterday by wrapping up the Class B horseshoe champion ship with a 2-1 win over A-Quar- termaster. Bobby Middleton and Charles Lively took an easy win from A- QMC’s Joe Grubbs and James Jones in the first match. Rod and Ron Stepp took the second match as they defeated D. T. Strickland and Don Lewis. A-QMC won the other with Walter Carlton and Gareth Tolman downing Douglas Jinks and Charles Hanovice. C-Infantry remained in Class B football playoffs by grinding a vic tory out of Sqd. 9, 19-6. Frank Brunson scored first for C-Infantry on a left end sweep from the four- yard line. Quarterback Jim Vrba led a successful drive for the second Infantry talley and carried the' ball over from the 10. Conversion was no good either time. Billy Presswood caught one of Vrba’s aerials and ran 27 yards for the final C-Infantry score. Vrba passed for the extra point. Sqd. 9’s lone score came on a pass play from Bob Busby to Steve Con rad who carried for 25 yards. Powerful B-Engineers downed Sqd. 6 18-6 and remained solidly in playoff running. Sqd. 1 defeated Sqd. 9 in a play off game in Class A tennis. Sqd. 17 downed E-Infantry; Sqd. 7 stop ped C-AAA; and White Band re moved A-Ordnance from the play offs. Class A football started yester day and was featured by B-Infan- try’s 27-0 win over A-Signal. B-Composite defeated B-FA 27-8 in upperclassman basketball. C-FA drew a forfeit from Sqd. 20; and A-AAA trounced Sqd. 2, 29-11. Eugene Davis of Sqd. 12 raced to the Class B cross country cham pionship last Friday with a time of 8:20. 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