Ag Track, Golf, Tennis Teams Journey
To Fayetteville, Waco for SWC Meets
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Thursday, May 10, 1956 PAGE 3
A&M Golfers,
Netters Enter
SWC Meets
Four members of the A&M golf
team, i-unners-up in the conference
title race, journey to Fayetteville,
Ark. today to represent the Aggies
in the annual Southwest Conference
tournament.
David Vandervoort, Jerry Dur
bin, Bobby Nichols and Marcelino
Moreno will accompany Coach Joe
Fagan to the Fayetteville meet,
which begins tomorrow.
The foursome will try to get in a
practice round before the 72-hole
medal play tourney gets underway
on the Fayetteville Country Club
course. Under SWC rules, the first
and second place finishers in the
conference standings are allowed
to send four players to the meet.
Meanwhile, Coach W. M. Dowell’s
tennis team battles SWC competi
tion today at Waco. The meet was
scheduled for Waco because of Ar
kansas’ lack of clay courts. Both
doubles and singles matches are
scheduled for the three-day tour
nament.
Texas’ Longhorns, running true
to form, won the SWC tennis crown
with ease. The Cadets w'ound up
their league activities in fifth
place.
Frank G. (Colonel Andy) Anderson
Coaching Champions Easy
For College’s ‘Col. Andy’
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
When a coach wins six champ
ionships in nine years, and does it
with a host of previously unknown
athletes, he deserves a place among
the profession’s immortals.
Frank G. “Colonel Andy” An
derson, A&M’s head track coach
is just such a genius. The amiable
65-year-old mentor climaxes his
36th year at Aggieland this week
end at Fayetteville, Ark., when his
Cadets hit the cinders in the South
west Conference Track and Field
championships.
A&M has dominated the SWC
track scene since 1947 when it
wrestled the leadership, from its
arch rival, the University of Tex
as. Anderson, along with his equ-
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nam, has coached the Aggies to
nine conference titles and five
straight Border Olympic champion
ships.
His 1951 team was second in the
nation only to powerful Southern
California on the strength of an
undefeated season. A&M lost only
one meet in the three years from
1950-53. Anderson’s teams, w'hen
not winning championships, have
never placed lower than third in
the conference meet.
Anderson took over as head track
coach in 1946, after giving up that
post in 1936 to become comman
dant of the A&M Corps of Cadets.
He was retired from the ai’my in
1944, and immediately joined the
Aggie physical education depart
ment, soon afterward transferring
to the athletic department.
THE VETERAN TUTOR first
came to A&M in 1920 from Missis
sippi State, and held football and
track coaching jobs until he be
came commandant. At Mississippi
State he was a football student of
D. X. Bible, A&M’s great coach of
the early 20’s.
A hard workei*, Anderson is no
ted for his ability to make champ
ions and steady performers out of
unknowns. He has coached close
to 50 athletes who have come away
from the Southwest Conference
meet as champions. Three of these
performers set marks which still
stand as conference records, at
least two moi-e were unanimous
all-Americans, and one holds a
world’s record.
“The greatest feeling I have
ever had in all my years of coach
ing was watching Buddy Davis
step onto the platform of champ
ions at the Olympics,” beamed An
derson.
Thinlyclads Due to Battle
Rice for Runner-up Spot
By BARRY HART
It’ll be a battle for second between A&M and Rice with
Texas a strong- favorite to win the 41st running of the
Southwest Conference track meet Friday and Saturday in
Fayetteville.
The Longhorns have won the crown 23 times as compared
to A&M’s 11. Rice has won
the title four times and Okla
homa in 1918-19, before they
dropped out, for the only oth
er teams to ever cop the cham
pionship.
Texas edged the Aggies in 1955,
7814 to 7614 with Rice a far third
at 54, SMU 22, Baylor 17, Arkan
sas 16 and TCU 6.
“It looks like another second
for us,” said head track coach
Frank (Colonel Andy) Anderson.
“In fact, we’ve got a better
chance to take third than we do
first.”
At least six records may be
broken before the dust settles Sat
urday night. Four marks already
have been bettered this year—in the
century, sprint relay, mile relay
and discus — with the 220 being
tied.
The Steers, of course, are heavy
in the sprints with A&M holding
all but one of the best performan
ces in the field events.
Texas’ Bobby Whilden has bet
tered the 100 mark with a 9.4
and his 20.3 220 tied the old rec
ord. Whilden also anchors the
Longhorns’ world-record sprint
relay foursome, which has cir
cled the oval in 40.1.
Texas owns a record-bettering
mile relay of 3:12.4 and A&M’s
Bobby Jack Gross has sailed the
discus 170-2, two inches better
than Darrow Hooper’s standing
mark.
Both Emmett Smallwood and
’Mural Supper
Fetes Officers
More than two hundred attended
the annual Intramural barbeque at
the Grove last night where awards
were presented to athletic officers
and intramural managers.
Corps and civilian athletic offi
cers were presented intramural tie
clasps by Barney Welch, director
of A&M’s Intramural program.
Welch lauded this year’s officers
and labeled the position of athletic
officer or sergeant as a vital posi
tion in any organization.
Sweaters for fifty-one junior and
sophomore Intramural managei-s
will be presented at the next meet
ing of the group in 'appreciation
for their work in directing the
mechanics of this yeai'’s Intramural
athletics.
Tony Bolner, senior manager re
ceived a gold watch for co-ordinat
ing the managerial work for the
year. Ben Rawls who graduated
in January also received a watch.
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Rice’s Roy Thompson will prob
ably break the old 220-yard low
hurdles record. Thompson has a
22.9 to his credit while Smallwood
owns a 23.0. The record is 23.6
Tom Bonorden has the best throw
in the shot, Smallwood the best
broad jump, Oren Helvey the fin
est throw in the javelin and Win-
ton Thomas the best pole vault. .
S
PORT
L A N T
s
By BARRY HART
Battalion Sports Editor
All eyes are on Fayetteville
these next two days as the South
west Conference holds what might
be one of its most important meet
ings in history.
Top on the list of business, and
the subject which the whole State
of Texas is watching and holding
its breath, is whether or not Texas
Tech will at long lasft be admitted
to the SWC.
Tech has been trying to obtain
entrance to the conference for 30
years, and this may be their year.
The West Texas school needs five
votes of the seven for admittance
and they may have them if A&M,
Texas, Baylor, TCU and SMU vote
as they have indicated they might,
should the motion come up.
Whether or not an actual vote
comes up will probably be Tech’s
biggest problem. They’ve been
shelved before and could easily be
put back again. It is thought by
many around the conference that
the Red Raiders will make it this
year and I, for one, would like
to see them in.
From Waco comes word that Bay
lor will once more submit the Uni
versity of Houston for considera
tion on admittance. There is little
suppoit for the Cougars, and at
the last meeting no one even saw
fit to second Baylor’s motion, thus
killing- the Houston bid.
I can’t see any intelligent thought
behind even considering Houston
for admittance. As far as I’m con
cerned neither their teams nor the
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