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Ags Lose to Rice, 53-39;
Host Arkansas Saturday
George Me haffey
Plays Without Foul
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Friday, January 4, 1957 PAGE 3
By BARRY HART
Battalion Sports Editor
The zone defense ran true to form again last night as
the Rice Owls dropped A&M, 53-39, in a slow-moving South
west Conference basketball opener in White Coliseum.
The Aggies host the Arkansas Razorbacks tomorrow
night at 8 p.m.
Rice’s huge height advantage and the frigid shooting of
Coach Ken Loeffler’s Aggies was the difference as both
teams hit their season low in point total.
A&M’s one bright spot was the play of Captain George
Mehaffey, who led the Aggies in scoring with 13 points,
paced both teams in rebounds with 13 and played the entire
game without committing a foul—the first time Mehaffey
has accomplished this in his
collegiate career.
DOWN GOES AN OWL —as Ted Harrod drives over an unidentified Rice basketballer on
his way toward the basket with the Owls’ Fred Woods (23) and W. A. Preston (28)
looking on. Harrod fouled the grounded Owl.
Mehaffey, however, could
not offset the scoring and re
bounding of the Owls’ 6-10
Temple Tucker and 6-9 Tom Rob-
itaille who scored 18 and 16 points
with 12 rebounds each. A&M soph
Ernie Turner took second in the
Aggie scoring column with 10.
P O G O
By Walt Kelly
By Walt Kelly
In losing their ninth game as
against four wins, the Aggies hit
a meagre 25.8 per cent of their
shots from the floor to Rice’s 34.4.
Robitaille and Tucker had five
points before Mehaffey’s jump
shot at 16:10 made it 5-2. The
Owls pulled away to a 12-4 lead
midway in the first half and the
closest the Aggies got after that
was with 3:33 remaining at 20-16.
Robitaille hit five quick points and
Glenn Fields dropped a jump for a
Rice lead at the half of 27-20.
Tucker got hot to open the sec
ond half, hitting 10 consecutive
points to make it 39-26 at 12:33.
The Owls turned it on to pull out
in front by their largest margin,
49-31, with two minutes remaining
to play.
BOX SCORE
A&M (39) Fg Ft
Hutto,g 1-3 0-0
Swisher, g 3-10 1-4
Mehaffey,c 4-19 5-8
Schwake.f 1-2 0-0
Harrod, g 1-4 0-0
Heller,f 0-2 0-0
McNichol.c 0-1 0-0
Turner,! ........ 5-11 0-0
Connally.f 0-2 3-4
Kolle.f 0-4 0-0
Reb Pf Tp
3 0 2
2 2
13 0
0 0
1 2
2 2
0 0
7 3
2 O
2 2
Team Reb. . 10
Totals . . 15-58 9-16 42 11 39
Rice (53)
Tucker,c
Robitaille,!
Woods,f
Thomas, f
Higgins,g ,
Fields,g . .
Preston, f
Griffin,c
Hill, g ....
Baggett,f
Fg Ft Reb Pf Tp
8-12
7-11
0 - 5
.1-9
0 - 6
4-13
1 - 1
0 - 2
O - 2
0 - 0
2-3
2-4
0-0
5-7
0-0
0-0
1-2
0-0
0-0
1-2
12
12
8
4
0
2
3
1
0
1
Team Reb 6
Totals . . . 21-61 11-18 49
Halftime: Rice, 27; A&M, 20.
Officials: Rossi and Watson.
9 53
TWO FOR SPIDER—as Aggie Captain George Mehaffey
goes up for a jump shot in last night’s action with Rice.
Mehaffey took high point honors for A&M with 13 in their
39-53 loss. Surrounding George are Rice’s Temple Tucker
(21) Glenn Fields (26) W. A. Preston (28) and Tom Robi
taille (25) in background.
Annual CHS-Kiwanis
Tourney Opens Today
By MAURICE OLIAN
The eight-team 11th annual Ki-
wanis-A&M Consolidated Basket
ball Tournament got underway this
afternoon in Tiger Gym.
Tomorrow night the tournament
comes to a close with the consola
tion finals scheduled for 7 p. nji.
and the championship battle on tap
for 8:30. First, second, and con
solation trophies are to be present
ed following the completion of the
championship scrap. Also to be
awarded at this time are miniature
gold basketballs to members of
the all-tournament team, which is
to be selected by the coaches.
Tonight’s session begins at 6
p. m. as the losers of today’s initial
two melees get together. The
hometown A&M Consolidated
Tigers, who won the consolation
crown each of the past two years
and took championship titles in
1953 and in 1954, conclude first-
round play at 7:30 tonight when
they meet Burton. Following this
contest, the winners of the Nava-
sota-Allen clash and the Sealy-
Franklin tilt play each other for
a spot in the finals.
The action tomorrow starts at
1 p. m. with the loser of the Wal-
ler-Somerville game meeting the
loser of the Burton-CHS fracas.
Then at 2:30, the victors of these
two games fight for the other
championship finals place.
Tickets, which may be bought
either for individual sessions or for
the entire tournament, are being
supplied by Black’s Pharmacy of
Bryan and College Station. For
separate sessions, tickets are 25
cents for students and 50 cents
for adults, while for the whole
tourney, tickets are selling for 50
cents for students and $1.00 for
adults.
All profits are to go into the
Kiwanis Club’s special fund for
sidewalk improvements around the
A&M Consolidated Schools.
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