Aggie Cinder Men Face USC,
Texas, SMU in Dallas Friday
By BARRY HART
Assistant Sports Editor
The Southwest Conference tan
gles with the world’s best Friday
night as A&M, Texas and SMU
host the mighty University of
Southern California Trojans in a
quadrangular track meet at 8 p.m.
in Dallas.
USC, national cinder champions
for the past decade, have won both
pi-evious Dallas meets between the
four and will be heavily favored
tomorrow night.
“Southern Cal will win, as
usual,” said Aggie head tiack coach
Frank (Colonel Andy) Anderson.
“Texas will finish behind them and
we’ll be third. I can’t see SMU
scoring many points, but they
might beat us in the mile relay.”
The Trojans captured the first
meet scoring IZVz points. Texas
was second with 50, A&M followed
with 34 Vz and SMU trailed with 16.
Last year the Califoimia bunch ran
of with the title and scored 8314
points to the Longhoim’s 50, the
Aggies' 24% and the Ponies’ 15%.
A&M is taking 22 thinlyclads to
face the USC bunch. Making the
trip are: Ed Blake, mile; Ed Bussa,
440 and mile relay; Bill Cocke, two-
mile; Ken Hall, 100 and 440 relay;
Bob McKnight, 440, 440 relay and
.mile relay; Sam Nave, hurdles;
Johnny Roberts, 440, 440 tfelay and
mile relay; Emmett Smallwood,
100, 440 relay and 220-low hurdles;
Harry Whitmore, mile; and Carl
Wilmsen, two-mile.
Tom Bonorden, shot put and dis
cus; Bobby Carter, high jump;
WRESTLING COACH Jim Griffith shows John Watson
(top) and Hiram French (bottom) an offensive wrestling
hold.
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James Clark, pole vault; Fritzie
Connally, high jump; Harry Cox,
shot put and discus; Dale Elmore,
broad jump and javelin; Bobby
Jack Gross, shot and discus; Oran
Helvey, javelin; Jim Jackson, pole
vault; Joe Schiraldi, javelin and
high jump; Winton Thomas, pole
vault.
Southern Cal holds a monopoly
on the meet records with 11 while
Texas shows title to four and SMU
claims one.
The Mustang foursome of Adel-
bert Bartek, Rex Dunlap, David
Weaver and Don Morton raced to a
record 3:13 mile relay in 1955.
Texas’ Dean Smith flashed to a
wind-blown 9.3 to set the century
record in 1954 and his teammate,
Charlie Thomas swept to a 20.5
meet mark in the 220-yard dash
the same year.
Another Longhorn, Dick Foer-
ster, strided to a 1:51.7 880-yard
run in 1955 to set the meet stan
dard and the - Texas 440 quartet
of Dean Smith, Alvin Frieden, Jer
ry Prewit and Bobby Whilden
swept to a record 40.5 in the same
year.
USC’s Mike Larrabee set the ex
isting 440-yard dash mark of 47.8
in 1955 as did his teammate, Marty
Montgomery, with a 4:15.3 mile.
Fernando Ledesman ran a 9:26
two-mile last year to set that rec
ord and Southem Cal’s Will Wright
holds the 14.4 120-yard high hur
dles standard which he set in 1954.
John Morgan bounced over the
220-yard low hurdles in 23.1 in
1954 to set that mark and Ernie
Shelton jumped 6-914 that year to
set the high jump record that still
holds.
Jon Arnett, Trojan All-American
gridiron star, leaped to the 24-3
broad jump mark last year while
Bob Voiles was throwing the jav
elin 205-10 for that standard.
Walt Levack and Ron Morris,
both of USC, hold the pole vault
record of 13-6 which they set in
1955. Des Koch sailed the discus
170 feet in 1954 and Ray Martin
pushed the shot put out to 54-5%
last year for the weight records.
44
Like Father, Like Son”
Wrestling Runs
In Griffith Clan
By LUTHER HALL
Battalion Staff Writer
“It runs in the family,” said Jim Griffith, coach of Texas
A. & M.’s wrestling team. “My father has been coaching
wrestling for as long as I can remember and my brother was
coach at Georgia Tech for three years.”
Jim Griffith has been around wrestling nearly all of his
life. His father, who is a great coach at Oklahoma A. & M.,
the largest wrestling school in
this section of the country,
was probably the main reason
for Griffith’s becoming inter
ested in wrestling.
“My brother and I used to scuf
fle around just for the fun of it and
Dad was always showing us the
tricks of the trade,” Griffith said.
He first started organized wrest
ling in junior high and in high
school he placed third in the state
meet in both his junior and senior
years.
While attending college Griffith
decided he wanted to be a coach, so
in 1950, after graduating from
Oklahoma A. & M., he took a job
as wrestling and assistant football
coach at a small high school in
Kansas. After a period of about
four months he accepted the posi
tion of wrestling coach and Physi
cal Education instructor at Texas
A. & M. College. Although wrest
ling never has been popular in the
Southwest Conference, Griffith
came with “vim and vigoi 1 ” to build
up wrestling in the Southwest and
to establish A. & M. as a school not
only to be noted for football, bas
ketball and other sports, but also
for its wrestling teams.
“It will take a long time to es
tablish wrestling, because wrestling
is not a sport that can be taught
to a boy in just four years,” he
said. “There are about 400 holds
and counterholds that have to be
mastered.”
The A. & M. team this year en
tered two dual meets and three
tournaments. They won both dual
meets and also won first place in
the Houston Invitation Tournament
and in the Southwest Collegiate
Tournament but failed to place in
the NCAA tournament, mostly due
to inexperience. Griffith believes
wrestling must start in the Texas
high schools so the boys will want
wrestling teams in the various con
ference schools that they attend.
“It is a mistake to believe that
high school boys would injure
themselves in wrestling,” he said.
“It is the cleanest sport today be
cause the rules are so strict that
any hold that would injure your
opponent is out. There would be
fewer injuries in wrestling than in
other high school sports.”
Coach Griffith believes that
wrestling is to be rated with the
best of sports. He encourages it
because it is an excellent exercise
for coordination of the body, it is
one of the best physical developers,
and it tends to give the small boy
a better chance than do most other
sports because he is matched
against opponents of his own size.
College View-B Smashes
Mitchell in Softball, 23-1
College View-B buried Mitchell
Hall 23-1 yesterday in the second
go-round of Civilian softball. James
Bannister paced the one-sided tilt
by making the diamond circuit four
times. Carl Raba was outstanding
for Mitchell.
College View-A fell under yes
terday’s smoothness of operation
and lost to Hart 6-4 in another
civilian game. Again the College
Vie'w ace was catcher Ty Hunger-
ford with two scores. Jack La
Faver led the winners.
Dick Sorrells led A-Engineers
over C-Field Artillery 2-0 in up
perclassman volleyball. Chuck Car
ter and Jon Hagler played fine ball
for the artillerymen. Dan Winship
and James Boyer paced D-FA over
C-AAA 2-0.
Tony Bolner, Gerry Brink, Dale
Offield, and Jerry Pitts decisioned
Sqd. 11 over Sqd. 5 2-1 in another
volleyball game. Don Ranly and
David Brothers pushed A-Compo-
site over C-Armor 2-1. Tom Wag
ner and Don Burton paced C-Ar
mor.
Eyes Examined
Glasses Fitted
DR. E. LUEDEMANN
DR. G. A. SMITH
Optometrists
•
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Cadet Golfers
To Meet Rice
Here Saturday
A&M’s golf team takes on
Rice Saturday on the Aggie
golf course in the final home
appearance of the fast fading
Southwest Conference season.
Coach Joe Fagan’s Cadets jump
ed into second place in the league
standings this week after crush
ing wins over Baylor and Texas
Christian. The Aggies •dumped
Baylor, 5-1, and trounced TCU’s
highly-regarded linksmen, 6-0.
Southern Methodist leads the
conference with 14% wins against
3% losses, but the Aggies are only
2% points behind with 18 victories
and 8 defeats.
Paced most of the year by a five-
some of Jerry Durbin, Bobby Nich
ols, Dave Vandervoort, Marcelino
Moreno and Gary Fletcher, the Ca
dets appear destined for their fin
est season. Last year A&M wound
up the season in second place, bare
ly behind champion SMU.
The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Thursday, April 26, 1956 PAGE 3
OUTSTANDING GOLFER—Jerry Durbin has been con
sistently good this year in helping the Aggies to a second
place position in the SWC golf race. Durbin is a junior
from Dallas. •
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