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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.
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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.
The Chicago Bears retained the
team ground gaining title, piling
up 2,468 yards on 536 attempts
for a 4.6 average. Baltimore was
second with 2,202 followed by New
York 2,129, Chicago Cardinals 2,-
053 and Detroit 2,011.
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