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> t 4 u'i r Aggies, Froggies Meet In Battle for Basement A&M meets TCU in the battle for the Southwest Conference cage cellar in Ft. Worth Saturday at 8 p. m. The Aggie Fish meet the TCU Wogs in the opener, slated for 6. Coach Ken Loeffler’s Aggies, still looking for their first league victory of the 1957 season, will meet a TCU team that is doing little better. The Frogs of Coach Buster Brannon have won a single SWC game while losing four. A&M is 0-4 in conference play and 4-12 on the season while TCU holds a 9-8 overall record. Once again the Aggies find themselves on the short side of the rebounding game, yielding a huge height advantage to the towering Frogs. A&M counters 6-4 George Mehaffey, number one Cadet rebounder and scorer, against TCU’s 6-10 sophomore, H. E. Kirchner, the high-scoring Dick O’Neal, 6-7 senior, and 6-5 Ronny Stevenson. O’Neal leads the Frogs in the scoring column with 333 points over the season for a 19.6 average and 92 points in league play, an 18.4 average. Mehaffey has 247 and 63 points, respectively, for averages of 15.4 and 15.7. Sophomore Neil Swisher is a close second in Aggie scoring with 215 and 60 points. Swisher owns a 13.4 season average and 15.0 in league action. The pair are far and away the best re bounders, with 172 and 107 re bounds, almost half of the A&M total. AgBaseball, Track Open Spring Sport A&M’s track and baseball teams open the Spring sports scene on March 2 as the thinlyclads duel the Universities of Texas and Houston in Houston while the Aggie nine opens the 1957 season with the Cougars here. Coach Frank G. (Colonel Andy) Anderson’s tracksters have slated 10 meets for the varsity and four for the Fish. They wind it up with the Southwest Conference Meet in Austin on May 10-11. The Aggies have finisfed second the last four years. The baseballers of Coach Beau Bell SWC champs in 1955, hope to return to the throne with a 24- game schedule, including 15 league contests. TRACK SCHEDULE Mar. 2—Texas and Houston at Houston (also frosh) gar. 9—Border Olympics at Laredo Mar. 16—Rice at College Station (also frosh) Mar. 23—LSU and Rice at Houston Mai - . 30—Houston at College Station (also frosh) April 5-6—Texas Relays at Austin April 13—SMU and Rice at Dallas (also frosh) April IS—USC, SMU and Texas at Dallas (night) . ( May 2—Texas and Rice at Austin (night) May 10-11—SWC Meet at Austin BASEBALL SCHEDULE Mar. 2—-Houston at College Station Mar. 4—Sarp Houston at Huntsville Mar. (5—-Sartl Houston at College Station Mar. 11—Texas Tech at College Station Mar. 13—Texas Lutheran at College Sta tion Mar. 16—Texas Lutheran at Segum Mar. 18—Houston at Houston Mar. 22—Texas at College Station Mar. 23—Texas at College Station Mar. 29—Baylor at Waco Mar. 30—Baylor at Waco April 5—TCU at Fort Worth April 6—TCU at Fort Worth April 12—SMU at College Station April 13—SMU at College Station April 18—Brooke Medics at San Antonio April 19 Brooke Medics at San Antonio April 26—Rice at Houston April 27—Rice at Houston April 30—SMU at Dallas May 3—Rice at College Station May 7—Baylor at College Station May 10—TCU at College Station May 14-—Texas at Austin TCU beat the Rice Owls in Ft. Worth, then lost to Texas, SMU, Baylor and Arkansas. The Bears downed the Frogs, 70-64, last Saturday night and TCU took it on the chin in Fayetteville Tuesday nighf, 62-58, from Arkansas. The Aggies, on the other hand, lost to Rice, 53-39, Arkansas, 73- 65, SMU, 62-53, and Baylor 67-58. It’s strictly a two-man show for the Aggie Fish, who will be looking for their third win against the Wogs. The first-year Aggie statis tics are dominated by Wayne Lawrence and Darve Corson. STARTING LINEUPS A&M TCU Mehaffey (6-4) ,..C.... Kirchner (6-10) Connally (6-2) . . ■ F. O’Neal (6-7) Turner (6-4) .... . F. . . . Stevenson (6-5) Swisher (6-1) ... • G. King (6-2) Harrod (6-0) . . . .G. ... O’Bannon (6-1) Third Annual OHS Tourney Opens Friday The third annual Consolida ted Junior High School bas ketball tournament gets urn derway Friday at 1 p.m. when Madisonville meets St. Jo seph of Bryan in the first round opener in Tiger gym. The Consolidated Kittens will be looking for a win over the Hearne five to even their 3-4 season re cord in the final opening round contest at 7:30. Madisonville and Huntsville rank as the tourney favorites, both hold ing Victories over CHS, Somerville and t'lavasota. The remainder of the fifst round schedule finds Huntsville battling Somerville at 2:30 and Caldwell against Navasota at 4. The losers of the Madisonville- St. Joseph and Huntsville-Somer ville games will meet at 6 p. m. Friday to open the second round of play with the winner dueling in tomorrow’s finale at 9. Saturday finds the losers of the Caldwell - Navasota and Kitten- Hearne contest meeting at 1 p. m. while the winners trade baskets at 2:30. The consolation final is set for 7 p. m. Saturday with the champ ionship game beginning at 8:30. FAST way to travol to El PASO Fly low cost DC-6B coach from Houston WASHINGTON, D.C. Via fast connecting service from Dallas or Houston Call Continental at VI 6-4789 ontinental \ HAIR GROOM TONIC IN UNBREAKABLE PLASTIC ! Grooms your hair while it treats your scalp. Controls loose dandruff. 1.00 plus tax SHULTON New York • Toronto SHULTON PRODUCTS MAY BE SECURED AT ELLISON PHARMACY The Rexall Store at North Gate “‘PRESCRIPTION SERVICE YOU WILL LIKE” NORMAN UFER—-one of the mainstays of Coach Art Adamson’s defending champion Southwest Conference swimming team. Ufer won the 200-yard backstroke, took second in the 100-yard backstroke and swam a lap on A&M’s winning 300-yard medley relay in the 1956 con ference meet. The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Thursday, January 31, 1957 PAGE 5 Rears* Casa res Leading Rusher PHILADELPHIA, UP) — Rick Casares, the Chicago Bears’ great fullback who tore opposing lines apart, gained 1,126 yards in National Football League competition last season to win the pro loop’s ball carrying championship. Official statistics showed that the ex-University of Flor ida star missed breaking the 1949 ground-gaining record set by Philadelphia’s Steve Van Buren by a scant 21 yards. Casares, sixth a year ago with 672 yards piled up his yardage on 234 attempts, an average of 4.8 yards per carry. And during the time he handled the pigskin he crossed the goal line 12 times. Ollie Matson of the Chicago Cardinals, who was the 13th best ground gainer in 1955, was second behind Casares with 924 yards on 192 attempts, also a 4.8 yard av erage. Other leading rushers were Mc- Elhenpy of San Francisco, 916 yards; Alan Ameche, the ’55 cham pion from the Baltimore Colts, 858, and Frank Gifford of the New York Giants, 819. The best aA r erage per attempt was made by Lenny* Moore, the Penn State flash playing his first ball with Baltimore. Moore gulned 649 yards on 86 carries for an av erage of 7.5 yards per try. The longest run in 1956 was the 86-^yard sprint from scrimmage by McElhenny. Tom Wilson of the Los Angeles Rams set a new NFL record for the most yards gained in one game, 223. This eclipsed by five yards the mark of 218 set in 1950 by Gene Roberts of New York. 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