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— Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas £<3 4 Friday, March 1, 1957 istie Flanagan Jr. of Port th 3 .r, Tex., won the Notre Dame nan golf tournament. His dad a Notre Dame halfback 30 s f j ago. Battleship was a great steeple chase horse. However, as a 3-year- old in 1950 he won the Flamingo Stakes, a major flat race, at Hia leah Park. HOLIDAY Saturday, March 2, 1957 being- a Holiday, in observance of Texas Independence Day, the undersigned will ob serve that date as a Holiday and not be open for bus- jiess. First National Bank City National Bank First State Bank & Trust Co. College Station State Bank Bryan Building & Loan Ass’n. Ags Out of SWC Cellar If Beat Owls Tonight '■v-'nrpcg: yy:?; Bent on fighting their way out of the Southwest Conference cel lar for the first time since 1952, A&M’s aggressive cagers take on the runner-up Rice Owls at 8:15 tonight in Houston. Currently tied with the Univer sity of Texas in the depths of the conference basement, each with 3-8 records, the Aggies could take their fourth league victory for the first time in five years with a win tonight. Texas meets TCU in Ft. Worth, where the Frogs do not lose often. Already Coach Ken Doeffler has led the Cadets to their best sea son since ’52, when they won nine, lost 15, with a 7-16 record. By AN Eyes Are On TEXAS STATE OPTICAL s New BRYAN Office ROOM No. 501 VARISCO BUILDING (Directly over J. C. Penney's) © Complete Analysis of the Eyes by an Experienced Doctor of Optometry © Lowest Possible Price © Largest and Latest Frame Selection © Easiest Credit Terms Directed by Dr. $. J. Rogers, Dr. N. Jay Rogers Optometrists Room No. 501 Varisco Building IN BRYAN (Directly over J. C. Penney's) See "The Tracer" Wednesdays, 7:30- 8 P.M., KWTX-TV, Channel 10 Finest Quality $20 Value Single Vision Glasses Including Examination WEAR WHILE YOU PAY $1 MEEKLY beating the Steers last Saturday, Loeffler became the first man to down Texas twice in regular lea gue play since 1923. The Owls of Coach Don Suman were blasted out of title conten tion last weekend by the three time champion SMU Mustangs, 75- 72. Rice owns a 15-8 season re cord including two victories over A&M. The tall, talented South Mainers took the Cadets’ measure, 66-44, in the SWC tourney, and 53-39 in their first league game. Rice has beaten A&M 10 consecu tive games extending over a five- year period. George Mehaffey and Ted Har- rod will be playing- their final game for the Aggies. Mehaffey, the 6-4 Houston St. Thomas grad, will make his last appearance be fore the home town fans, but has missed the last two games com pletely with an ankle injury and will not be at full strength to night. Harrod, the little guard from N. Little Rock, Ark., stands third be hind Neil Swisher and Mehaffey in the A&M scoring columns with 96 conference points. Loeffler will probably start Har rod, Mehaffey, Swisher, junior Ken Hutto and sophomore Jim Mc- Nichol, who has been the hero in the last three A&M games. Bear Moves Webb To Fill Guard Gap ^ ' ' igSB; By BOB CLENDENNEN Big Bill Webb, towering 250- pounder from San Angelo Junior College, shifted from center to right guard Thursday as Coach Paul Bryant continued to shuffle his squad in order to fill the gaping holes left by graduation. Bryant needs replacements for left and right guards, center and fullback. Webb is a passable cen ter, but switched to guard so he could continue to play middle guard on defense. A center usually plays right linebacker in the Aggie de fense. A&M coaches began to increase the tempo of practice Thursday, and a new system for handling extras was introduced. Now, there is a permanent “pool” of substi tutes, and any coach wanting an extra player needs only to call for one. Backs and ends worked longer on pass formations and pass defense yesterday, while linemen took up signals on blocking techniques and tackling. Charlie Krueger protected his left tackle spot by removing some competition. Another tackle further down the line lost a few teeth in a skeleton drill. There were the usual amounts of bruises, cuts and other effects of rough play show ing up. One halfback tried to make his cut into the line and woke up in the training room. He later said that he saw three of the linemen closing in on him, but another must have caught him on the blind side. There was an additional spectator high atop the stadium tower .who hadn’t made it before—a 16mm movie camera. Before practice was over, though, the cameraman had to give up and go home. It was too dark. 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