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/ Frogs Swamp Aggies As O’Neal Sets Record Thursday, February 23, 1956 THE BATTALION Page 3 Aggie Grid Great In SA Hospital Barlow (Bones) Irvin, Ath letic Department Administra tive Assistant at A&M, recent ly underwent a serious eye op eration at the Santa Rosa His- pital in San Antonio. Irvin, who was an all-South- west Conierence tackle on the 3 925 Aggie team, is reported to be “getting along nicely”, lie will be unable to resume his duties at the College for at least a month according to Santa Rosa doctors. Hoffman Diamond Cuffing Co. I low OVERHEAD I - OFFICE OPERATION 1 T/au. Vp. %1 , Paced by Dick O’Neal’s 30 points, the TCU Horned Toads hopped past A&M last night, 91-67, in a Southwest Conference encounter at Fort Worth. The Aggies meet Rice here tomorrow night in White Coliseum in their final home appearance of the season. Game time is 8 p.m. O’Neal who broke the TCU 4 " all-time scoring mark in the game, brought the Froggies from behind and put them ahead for the first time with seven minutes left in the first half. He has now scored 1,135 points in less than two seasons play. The former holder' of the school record, George McLeod, registered only 1,124 points in three full seasons. The loss gave the Aggies a 3-7 slate in SWC games, and allowed Baylor to pull into a fourth place tie with the Cadets. The Horned Frogs now own a 2-9 record. A&M SNATCHED THE opening tip-off and quickly pushed ahead | in the see-saw first half. Bill Brophy sank a jump shot to open the night’s scoring. The Aggies pulled away to a five point lead on Ken Hutto’s set shot minutes later, their biggest lead of the game. O’Neal tipped a stray TCU shot through the hoop at 6:58 to push the Froggies ahead for the first time, 30-28. George Mehaffey who led the Aggies in rebounds in the initial period, fouled out at the 4:57 mark. THE FROGS LEFT the court at half-time leading by only two points, 39-37. But sparked by If you need a book, Ole Army . . have the money . . . SEE OLE LOU, HeTl take an I. O. U. . But don’t O’Neal and Jim Swink, who count ed 19 points, TCU began to pull away and jumped to frequent leads of 15, 17 and 20 points. Brophy led the Cadets in scor ing with a high of 17 points. He was followed by Hutto with 14 and John Fortenberry and Don Bil- brey.with 10 each. Bryan Suther- lin, who played only the final eight minutes of the contest, drop ped in seven for A&M. So far this season the Aggies’ famous 12th Man has been worth at least 20 points to them. A&M is winless on the road, and in its last outing against TCU, won 84- 74 at College Station. BOX SCORE AGGIES (67) fg- ft. pf. tp. Hutto .. 2 3 0 1 14 Brophy 6 5 2 17 Mehaffey 3 3 5 5 Bilbrey . 3 3 3 9 Harrod 0 1 3 1 Foi’tenbei'ry . 4 1 3 9 Connally .. 2 1 2 5 Sutherlin . 3 1 3 7 Henry 0 0 0 0 TOTALS . . .21 25 22 67 HORNED FROGS fg. ft. pf. tp. 30 O’Neal .10 3 0 4 O’Bannon 2 10 1 14 Swink 6 7 3 19 Taylor . 7 0 3 14 Dickerson .. 4 1 2 9 Estill 0 0 0 0 Page . 1 1 0 3 Tucker .. 2 0 5 2 Ball . 0 0 1 0 TOTALS . . . 32 29 19 91 Score by halves: A&M 37—30—67 TCU .... 39—52—91 AGGIES! treat your dates to Cafe Rue Pinalle Two Floor Shows — Starting Friday at 8:30 MARILYN WEISS Singer BILL FLYNT . . . Accompanist JOHN WHITE BOBBY LEE . GUITARIST—Solo . GUITARIST—Duo — Make Reservations Now in Bowling Alley — Cafe net In MSC Bowling Alleys Squadron 17 Bowlers Nip Squadron 18 In ’Murals By JOE DAN BOYD Squadron 17 rolled into the fresh man bowling semi-finals yesterday by defeating Sqd. 18, 1240-1187. David Petty, Tim Byer and Nick Laird made the points for the win ners while David Black, Scotty Farley, and Dick O’Malley scored for Sqd. 18. A-Transportation went into the quarter final race by rolling over Sqd. 12, 1202-1100. Bud Mitchell, Darrell Gunderson, and Lou Me-' Donald amassed the points for A- TC. Sqd. 12 scoi'er s were Mert Green, Richard Raitt, and K. W. Cecil. B-AAA copped a league title in upperclassman football clipping Sqd. 11, 13-7. Jerry Pitts, Jim Owen, and Steve Scott paced the AAA gridders. Sqd. 2 blasted C- Armor 27-0 and the Corps Staff forfeited to Sqd. 10. CAPTAIN JOE BORING of the Aggie baseball team be gins his swing to bang out a base hit in an intra-squad game on Kyle Field. A&M opens its season March 2 against Sam Houston.—Photo by Guy Fernandez. HIT PARADE OF FOODS . . Fit For A King Full Course Meals For Noon & Evening 85c Lunches Served From 11-1—Fast Service TRIANGLE DRIVE-IN & DINING ROOM Kittens Finish Season Tonight A&M Consolidated Junior High’s Kittens close out their 1956 season in Tiger gym tonight as they play host to Madisonville. The “B” teams are slated to open the doubleheader at 6:30 with the “A” teams taking the floor at 7:30. Buddy Holick and Jimmy Wright netted 31 points between them Tuesday night as the Kittens down ed Leona, 45-39. Holick was high for Consolidated with 18 points while Wright collected 13. Lanny Nash was the whole show for Le ona, finishing the game with 28 points. The Kittens “A” team en ters tonight’s game with an 8-10 record, while the “B” teams stands at 9-4. Starting tonight will be Wright, Holick, Condy Pugh, Bruce Thomp son and Billy Mac Miller for the “A” team, with Virdon Smith, Bob by Adams, Kelly Parker, Tim Ca sey and Mike Denison opening for the “B” squad. I Sport Shorts By The Associated Press BALTIMORE — Fullback Buck McPhail, former Oklahoma all- American, has signed with the Bal timore Colts, of the National Foot ball League. He joins another ex- Oklahoma gridii'on star, Billy Ves sels, who signed with the Colts six days ago. HOUSTON—Rice Institute’s ninth annual coaching clinic for high school and junior col lege coaches opened today. Jess Neely, athletic director and head football coach, said about 100 coaches are expected for the three-day program. NEW YORK—Grant Golden and Amando Vieira scoi'ed upsets over two of the seeded stars yesterday in the first round of the National Indoor Tennis championship. Gol den tamed Kurt Nielson and Vieira turned back Sammy Giammalva of Houston. ELLISON Pharmacy • • • the purchase of Lipscomb Pharmacy I take this opportunity of announcing my purchase of Lipscomb Phar macy at North Gate .... and to invite your continued patronage of both Ellison Pharmacy in Bryan and College Station. 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