— 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
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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
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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
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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.
The Aggies will show approxi
mately 1,000 high school seniors
their wares on Kyle Field at 7:30
tomorrow night in accordance with
the annual Sports Day. The scrim
mage will culminate the huge day
of sports.
CATERING FOR
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
Leave the Deeails to me.
LUNCHEONS
BANQUETS
WEDDING PARTIES
Let Us Do the Work—You Be A
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Maggie Parker Dining Hall
W. 26th & Bryan TA 2-5069
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COACH CARNEY LASLIE—Head Coach Paul (Bear)
Bryant’s number one assistant and newest acquisition on
the A&M coaching staff. Laslie, who moved here from
West Point, was under Bryant at Kentucky and joined the
Aggies Feb. 14.
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