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By JAMES CARRELL
Though finishing a somewhat dismal season, the Aggie
basketball team still compiled, on the basis of a 7-17 season,
the best record since 1952, when the Aggies began their
march on the conference cellar with a 9-15 won-lost mark.
The arrival of Ken Loeffler in 1955, saw the Aggie cage
fortunes rise, lifting A&M from the cellar floor where they
had dwelled for three years during 1953-54-55. This year
A&M won three conference games as in 1956, but dropped
into a last place tie with Texas, though beating them twice
during scheduled conference play for the first time in 34
years.
Now, the era of the tall man arrives, and with it a
blightei look into the futuie i ^ a jj man. He tossed in 40 points
in the person of Wayne
Lawrence, the 6-9 freshman,
who becomes the highest scor
ing freshman in the history
of basketball at A&M College with
308 points in 11 games and a 28-
point average.
Lawrence, the best freshman
basketballer in the Southwest, is
a well-developed and coordinated
200-pounder expected shortly to be
gin a reign as the league’s best
against the Rice Owlets in Houston
Friday night, raising his field goal
percentage to .483.
The brilliant Connecticut lad is
a strong, outside shooter and fine
rebounder, clearing the boards of
174 rebounds for an average of
15.8.
On the varsity side, Neil Swisher,
offensive ace for an Aggie team
that started slowly, faltered, and
then picked up steam down the
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Thursday, ^Jarch 7, 1957 PAGE 5
Aggie Muscle Men
Take 2nd in Meet
Led by team captain Henry Heatherly, A&M’s weight-
lifters muscled their way to secon$ place in the Houston Odd
Lift Contest last Saturday in Houston.
Heatherly, who weighed in at 18114, captured first in
the midheavyweight division (198 pounds) with a total of
1135 pounds. Heatherly managed 280 in the bench press,
355 in the squat and 500
HIT FOR AGS —as centerfielder Dicky Thomas slashes out a baseknock in A&M’s 5-3 loss
to theUniversity of Houston last Saturday. The Aggies’ scheduled game with Sam Houston
was rained out Wednesday.
stretch, threw in 15 points against
Rice to barely nudge George
Mehaffey as leading Aggie scorer,
304 to 300.
Swisher finished tenth in the
conference in season scoring.
In behalf of Mehaffey, who has
finished a fine basketball career at
A&M, it might be said that an
ankle injury kept him from the
last three games and with it a
place among the top scorers in
the Southwest Conference. Injured
in the Arkansas game, when he
scored two points, he played with
a painful, swollen ankle against
TCU and Baylor, netting only 15
points and fouling out early in
both tilts.
The total of swishers for Swisher
ran to 114 out of 297 shots, a
.384 percentage, and a 12.6 average
in 24 games. Mehaffey averaged
14.2 in 21 games.
Missing three games and the
most part of three others, Mehaf
fey still led the club in rebounding,
totaling 208. Swisher, the 6-1
sophomore from Victoria, followed
with 169. rebounds.
Only two seniors, George Me
haffey and Ted Harrod, graduate
from the squad that made its
presence known late in the season.
Finishing as one of the tougher
teams in the league, the Aggies
whipped Texas twice and Baylor,
and saw the official’s whistle blow
away “almost” victories against
TCU and Rice.
The tardy awakening of basket
ball ability in Jim McNichol pro
vided a needed spark to the Aggie
attack in replacing Mehaffey and
contributing 21 points against
SMU and 24 against Texas.
Ken Hutto scored 258 points over
the season route, averaging 10.7,
followed by Jack Schwake with
131, Ted Harrod 126, Ernie Turner
122, Jim McNichol 111, and Fritzie
Connally 60.
In conference play Swisher had
149 points and a 12.4 average in 12
games, while Mehaffey scored 116
in nine games for a 12.8 average.
Trigon Toros Meet
Units in Basketball
By GARY ROLLINS
The Trigon Toros, A&M’s
Military counterpart of the St.
Louis Hawks, has issued a
challenge to any cadet organ
ization wishing to play basket
ball.
The Toros, all from the Military
Kreuger,
Crow Voted
’57 Captains
John Crow and Charlie Krueger
were elected Aggie 1957 football
captains by the varsity squad yes
terday.
Crow and Krueger, both senior
two-year lettermen, were un
animous all-Southwest Conference
choices in 1956 and Krueger was
named to the International News
Service all-American team. Crow,
the 217-pound halfback who came
out of the Louisiana swamps to
help put A&M on the football
map, was released Tuesday from
Houston’s Hermann Hospital after
undergoing surgery.
The Springhill boy, who will
miss Spring training, had a bone
chip removed from his right ankle
and will wear a heavy cast on the
foot that crossed 12 double stripes
last fall.
“The operation was even more
successful than the doctors had
hoped,” said the obviously-pleased
Crow.
Science Building, have on their
roster such flashy ball handlers as
Major Ruel P. Scoggins, Maj. Tom
George, Capt. Jim G. Stafford,
Capt. Bill Wright, Lt. “Doug”
Slingerland, Lt. Perry Shephard,
Sgt. Paul Love joy, Sgt. William J.
Brown, and Sgt. Homer Brodie.
So far this season the Toros
have won two, lost four, and tied
one. Their two victories were over
“A” Armor, and “B” Armor. How
ever, both tanker units possess vie
tories over the Toros. Their one
tie game was with “C” Infantry.
In off-campus games, the gentle-
men-in-khaki have not fared
well, losing their only game to St
Joseph’s SCYO of Bryan.
Any outfit wishing to try their
luck against the “terrors of the
hardwood” can contact Capt. Staf
ford at VI 6-4119 in the Military
Science Bldg. Games will be sche
duled for Monday, Wednesday, or
Friday nights for the next two
weeks.
In case you need scouting ma
terial, the spokesman for the team
has this to say: “We don’t have a
high scorer—we don’t score that
much.”
pounds in the deadlift.
“It’s a good thing I was one-
fourth pound over my regu
lar weight division (181),”
said Heatherly, “I would have tak
en second in light-heavy.”
The Aggies were a close second
to the Southside Lifting Club, of
Houston. Southside finished the
event with 10 points, while A&M
totaled nine. Houston Southwest
YMCA took third with six and
Northwest YMCA had five for
fourth.
Charles Holmans placed second
m the light-heavyweight division,
with 910 pounds and Burk Phillips
got third among the heavyweights
(over 198).
Holmans raised 240 in the bench
press, 290 in the squat and 380 in
the deadlift, while Phillips pushed
up 250 on the bench, 360 in the
squat and 475 in the deadlift.
A&M will enter a man in each of
the seven divisions in the Region
al YMCA meet slated for March
16 in Houston. The meet will be
the regular Olympic lift—press,
snatch and clean and jerk.
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