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KEN TELLS ’EM HOW—Aggie Coach Ken Loeffler voci
ferously describes the tactics in A&M’s 69-67 victory over
the University of Texas Steers here last week.
Six New Gridders Enroll
Here for Spring Semester
The Texas A&M football team
gained six new members this
spring with the enrollment at mid
term of four junior college trans
fers and two outstanding high
school prospects.
Only one of the six will be eli
gible for yarsity competition this
fall and he is San Angelo Junior
College’s Bill Webb, a 6-4, 240-
pound giant who was an All State
Junior College selection last fall.
Webb lettered three years at San
Angelo and is eligible for only one
Southwest Conference campaign.
Jim Harrison, 180-pound fresh
man quarterback from Stephen F.
Austin High School, Houston, cast
his lot with the Aggies after twice
leading the Texas high school
Class AAAA passers in total yard
age gained passing in 1955-56.
The other high school enrollee is
Olin Garrison of Adamson High
School of Dallas.
The 1956 Texas Junior College
champions, the Allen Academy
Ramblers, contribute three fine
performers in Michael Jennings,
185-pound quarterback from Gary,
Ind., James Zalenski, 188-pound
guard from Troy and Ernest Kim-
bro, 162-pound fullback from
Georgetown.
HOLIDAY
Tuesday, February 12, 1957, being a Holiday,
in observance of Lincoln’s Birthday, the under
signed will observe that date as a Holiday and
not be open for business.
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By JIM CARRELL
The Texas Aggie swimmers
crushed the Rice Institute Owls 56
to 30 as Coach Art Adamson swam
every Aggie team member except
his ace, Tetsuo Okamoto, in a meet
staged in P. L. Downs Natatorium
Saturday afternoon.
In a preliminary meet the A&M
Fish easily outsplashed the Owlets
47 to 30 with the 24-year old fresh
man, Orlando Cossani of Concep
cion del Urugray, Argentina, swim-*
ming to two victories and boasting
the only record-setting time of the
day for either freshman or varsity
swimmers.
Cossani’s time for the 100-yard
butterfly was 5.6 seconds faster at
1:01.6 than the old pool record of
1:07.2 set in 1952 by Dick Weick of
A&M. This time is also one of the
fastest clockings in the nation this
year.
The Aggie swimmers, the 1956
Southwest Conference champions,
lost only three events as Dick
Hunkier, Roger Burton, Bruce
Martin, Jerry Mount, and Norman
Ufer raced to victories in their
events with both the 400-yard free
style and medley relay victories
going to A&M.
Hunkler’s 23.6 second clocking
in the 50-yard free style was only
a tenth of a second off his confer
ence winning time of 1956.
Norman Ufer turned in a fine
2:32.3 timing in the 200-yard back-
stroke, being only four seconds off
the conference’s best time of a year
ago.
Bob Murray, Don Bell and Bill
Wardlaw of Rice were the Owl’s
only winners for the day with Mur
ray’s victory s'omething of a gratis
in the 440-yard freestyle when
A&M ace Okamoto was not enter
ed. Okamoto’s best time last year
in this event was 55.8 seconds fast
er than the 5:47.8 turned in by
Murray.
VARSITY SUMMARIES
800-yard medley relay—1) A&M (Ray
Cook, backstroke; Bob Barlow, breast
stroke; Wally Penberthy, dolphib; Jerry
Mount, freestyle). Time: 4:29.4.
220-yard freestyle-1) Roger Burton, A&M.
2) Frank Holmes, A&M. 3) Bob Murray,
Rice. Time: 2:30.4.
Ag’s Bryant Honored
As ’56 Coach of Year
50-yard freestyle — 1 > Dick Hunkier,
A&M. 2) Jimmy Dye, A&M. 3) Don Bell,
Rice. Time—:23.6.
200-yard butterfly — 1) Bill Wardlaw,
Rice. 2) Bob Matthews, Rice. 3) Roland
Baird. A&M. Time: 2:45.4.
Three-meter diving—1) Bruce Martin,
A&M (207.55). 2) Bruce Card. A&M
(201.00) 3) Bill Barrow, Rice (131.75).
100-yard freestyle — 1) Jerry Mount.
A&M. 2) Bill Sick, Rice. 3) Leroy Flet
cher, A&M. Time :56.3.
200-yard backstroke--1) Norman Ufer,
A&M. 2) Dave Mcllhenny, Rice. 3) Joe
Steen, A&M. Time: 2:32.2.
440-yard freestyle—-1) Bob Murray, Rice.
2) Mike Kuich, A&M. 3) Lindsey Blayney,
A&M. Time: 5:47.8.
200-yard breaststroke—1) Don Bell, Rice.
2) Bill Wardlaw, Rice. 3) Ross Truesdale,
A&M. Time: 2:51.3.
400-yard freestyle relay—1) ' A&M (Hen
ry Goff, Rippy Woodard, Joe Middleton,
Roger Burton). Time: 3:51.3.
FISH SUMMARIES
50-yard freestyle—1) Henry Kemp, Rice.
2) Don Draper. A&M. 3) John Dollard,
A&M. Time—:24.7.
100-yard butterfly—1) Orlando Cossani,
A&M. 2) Dieter Ufer, A&M. 3) Bert Biail,
Rice. Time: 1:01.6. (New freshman rec- i
ord. Old record of 1:07.2 set in 1952
by Dick Weick, A&M, College Statibn).
200-yard freestyle—1) Dave Woodard, ^
A&M. 2) Claro Hernandez, A&M. 3) Jess
Stuart, Rice. Time: 2:17.4.
100-yard backstroke—1) Jim Meadows,
Rice. 2) Mike Briggs, A&M. 3) Hal Gos-
nell, Rice. Time: 1:08.3.
100-yard freestyle—1) Nick Kuich, A&Mi
2) Tom McKeown, Rice. 3) Jim Roberts,
A&M. Time—:56.4.
One-meter diving—1) Wayne Cole, Rice
(187.65). 2) Harold Hooks, A&M (124.70).
3) Wallace Fowler, A&M (113.95).
200-yard individual medley—1) Orlando
Cossani, A&M. 2) John Dollard, A&M. 3)
Hal Gosnell, Rice. Time 2:24.2.
8-lap Medley Relay — 1) A&M (Mike
Briggs, backstroke; Dieter Ufer, breast
stroke; Dave Woodard, dolphin; Nick
Kuich, freestyle). Time: 2:44.6.
8-lap Freestyle Relay—1) Rice (Jess
Stuart, Wayne Cole, Merl Baumwart, Hen
ry Kemp, Rice). Time: 2:27.8.
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A&M head coach and athletic
director Paul (Bear) Bryant was
honored as Texas’ Senior College
Coach of the Year last night at
the annual Sports Achievement
Dinner at the Dallas Downtown
YMCA.
Bryant guided his amazing Ag
gies to an unbeaten season, the
first at Aggielai^d since 1939 and
first in the Southwest Conference
since 1947. A&M captured the
SWC championship for the first
time in • 15 years, although they
were forbidden from being host
team in the Cotton Bowl by the
NCAA ban.
Bobby Morrow, San Benito track
whiz who has been tabbed the
world’s fastest human, received
awards from the Texas Sports
Writers Association as its South-
westerner of the Year and also its
Amateur Athlete of the Year. Mor
row won three gold medals in
leading the United States to a
landslide victory in the Olympic
Games at Melbourne, Australia.
Junior College Coach of the
Year Claude (Chena) Gilstrap re
ceived his plaque for taking his
Arlington State gridders to Texas’
first victory in the Junior Rose
Bowl Game in California last De
cember.
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