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1 The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Wednesday, February 19,1958
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Ags Drive Toward Finish
Cadet Win Over Hogs
Would Confuse Race
With four games still remaining in conference play the
Aggies need only one game to pass some of the scoring marks
they had made at the end of ’57 season play.
Neil Swisher, at 6-0 the shortest man on Coach Bob
Rogers’ starting five, regained his scoring lead over team
mate Archie Carroll to pull within 19 points of his 149 point
total of last year, the total that led the Cadet’s scoring last
year.
The aggressive guard from Victoria, if he continues his
present scoring pace, should post a final total of 182 points,
if you go by his 13.0 average to date. Right now Swisher
stands in sixth place among the conference scoring leaders.
Carroll, the 6-5 transfer^
from Lon Morris Junior Col-
Taking Those ‘First Swings’
* Dickie Thomas, junior outfielder from Dallas takes his
warmup swings with Gary Herrington, Baytown catcher,
~ doing the receiving-chore. Drills began this week, with
I the Cadets opening their season March 1 against the Uni-
«* versity of Houston here at Kyle Field.
Soccer Team Bops HU, 4-3
The A&M soccer team retained
their second place position in the
Houston Soccer Association by de
feating: Houston United 4-3 in a
hard fought contest Sunday in the
St. Thomas Stadium at Houston.
The Cadets trail the first place
team, the Blue Stars, by two tour
nament points* lost when the Farm
ers dropped a 3-2 contest Feb. 9
In Houston to the loop leaders. The
loss was the Aggies first since
September, 1956.
The Farmers will have revenge
in their eyes this weekend when
they face the Blue Stars for a re
turn match that may well decide
the championship in the Houston
Association.
The game will be played at 2:30
Sunday afternoon on the soccer
field across from Anchor Hall.
Winner of the Conference will
represent the association in the
state playoff with Dallas and San
Antonio.
lege, stands tall as the teams
second highest scorer with 124
points, only six behind Swish
er. The tall center-forward
from Redlands, the team’s
leading r e b o u n d e r, is
averaging 12.5 points per game.
The pair of hustling juniors are
providing the scoring punch as the
Aggie basketball team is enjoying
its best season in six years.
Wayne Lawrence, the team’s
tallest player at 6-8, has scored
100 points, an average of 11.1 per
game.
The Farmers have averaged 57.0
points per game in the 10 South
west Conference games played up
to date, compared to the 56.8 aver
age they posted last year. A&M
needs only 112 points in the remain
ing games to tie the 682 points
they sunk one year ago for *a 3-9
record. \
In the rebound department the
improved Farmers have cleared the
backboards 395 times compared to
the opponents 383. Last year the
Aggies were on the short end of
the stick, 447-449.
-The" Aggie's shooting eye is not
as sharp this year as it was one
year ago. They’ve hit 35.2 per cent
of their floor shots this season for
a small drop from the 35.4 posted
last year.
The Cadets have four games re
maining. A&M faces Arkansas at
College Station Saturday night for
A Campus-to-Career Case History
BUI Rhode (left) at the site of New Orleans' new Claiborne Street Industrial Canal Bridge.
‘Problems keep life interesting
for a telephone engineer
‘T’ve taken part in all kinds of en
gineering projects during the five years
I’ve been with the telephone com
pany,” says Bill Rhode, M.E., Tulane,
’52. “Each project brings special
problems to solve.
“Take a couple of recent jobs I did
as examples. One was to plan and
oversee the relocation of telephone fa
cilities near a new drawbridge. The
job included designs for attaching tele
phone cable to the finished bridge and
for providing service to the bridge-
tender’s office and the locks.
“The other job was completely dif
ferent. I was asked to make an ex
perimental installation of some newly
developed line concentrator equip
ment. After selecting the test location,
I engineered facilities for the remote
concentrator unit, and trunk plant to
the central office. ^
“Another thing about these jobs —
they’re a result of the growth of the
telephone business. Not only do prob
lems like these keep life interesting
for a telephone engineer, but they
mean that careers are full of oppor
tunities to show what you can do and
get ahead.”
Wilmer J. Rhode is with Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company. He is one of many
young men who are finding interesting and re
warding careers with the Bell Telephone Com
panies. Ask your placement officer for informa
tion about the careers these companies offer.
BELL.
TELEPHONE
COMPANIES
A
their next to last home game of the
season. The Aggies will wind up
the year by playing TCU in White
Coliseum March 4. The other two
games are on the road against Tech
Feb. 25 and SMU March 1.
Tankers Journey
For Louisiana Win;
Tech, SMU Next
Coach Art Adamson’s swimmers
splashed to victory last Saturday
afternoon in Natchitoches, La. over
Northwestern College of Louisiana
by the one-sided score of 61-25.
In the 400-yard medley relay,
the Aggies’ team composed of
Briggs, Cossani, Ufer and Mount
decisioned Northwestern with the
time of 4:17.8.
In the 220-yard freestyle, Perni-
que of Louisiana finished first, fol
lowed by Tetsuo Okamoto and C.
M. Hernandez of the Aggies.
Nick Kuich of the Aggies copped
the 50-yard freestyle, followed by
Donald Draper. Kuich’s time was
:24.6.
Paul Briggs captured first place
in the 200-yard backstroke, follow
ed by Ray Cook for the Cadets.
Cook was captain for this week.
Jerry Mount took first place in
the 100-yard freestyle with a time
of :54.6, followed by team-mate
Kuich.
The Aggies’ Dieter Ufer estab
lished a new pool record for the
200-yard backstroke with his 2:38.2
timing. Jimmy Rhodes placed third
in that event.
Northwestern won the 440-yard
freestyle, but Okamoto and Her
nandez finished in second and third
place.
In the 200-yard butterfly event,
Orlando Cossani of the Cadets
placed first with a 1:02.5 time,
closely followed by Rip Woodard.
The Diving events found Johnny
Lyon and Dubby Godfrey placing
third and fourth behind McClana-
han and Tirinell of Northwestern.
In the final event, the 400-yard
freestyle relay, A&M took first
place with a time of 3:55.7. The
team was comprised of Leroy
Fletcher, Draper, Kuich and Mount.
John Harrington, freshman All-
American backstroker from College
Station, has been elected team cap
tain for the freshman squad.
SEASON STANDINGS
Team— W' L Pet Pts Op
Texas Tech 13 5 .722 1255 1173
Arkansas 14 6 .700 1204 1121
TCU 14 6 .700 1397 1089
Rice 12 7 .632 1305 1185
SMU 11 8 .579 1266 1211
Texas 9 9 .500 1220 1255
Texas A&M 8 12 .400 1198 1217
Baylor 3 17 .150 1195 1349
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Team— W L Pet Pts
Arkansas
Rice
Texas Tech
lexas
SMU
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M
Baylor
.700 587
.667 644
.667 617
.556 606
.500 691
.444 599
.400 580
.100 571
Op
553
598
581
581
667
657
582
676
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
Arkansas 65. Southern Methodist 63 ;
Texas Tech 74, Baylor 72; Rice 67, Texas
A&M 57; Texas Christian 88, Texas 58;
Texas Christian 82, Southern Methodist 71 ;
Texas 74, Texas A&M 68 ; Texas Tech 69,
or 63, Rice 62.
THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE
Arkansas 48; Baylo
Tuesday—Southern Methodist vs. Rice at
Dallas, Texas Christian vs. Baylor at
Lubbock.
Tech at Dallas,
Houston, Texas vs. Baylor
A&M vs. Arkansas at Col]
at Wa<
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SEASON LEADERS
vs. Texas
vs. Rice at
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Tom Robitaille, Rice...,
Temple Tucker, Rice....
Freddie Grim, Arkansas
Gerald Myers, Tech..
Neil Swisher, A&M
Bobby James, SMU.
Wayne Lawrence, A&M
CONFERENCE
Player—
Ronny Stevenson, TCU
Tom Robitaille, Rice....
Grim, Arkansas
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Max Williams, SMU..
Neil Swisher, A&M.
Gerald Myers, Tech..
Leon Hill, Tech
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Charley Lynch, Tech.
Dale Ball, Rice
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LEADERS
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Keglers Get Hot;
Bowl Over TU,OSU
The Aggie Keglers met the Okla
homa State Team here Saturday
and the Longhorns in Austin Sun
day racking up two impressive
wins.
The Farmers bowled over Okla
homa by the score of 4433-4151, a
difference of 282 pins. High man
for the Cadets was Floyd Hardi-
man with a 938 series for five
games and individual high of 242.
The Longhorns fared a little bet
ter but still met defeat 4433-3799
at the hands of the first team and
4364-3942 by the second team.
Hardiman again led his team in
scoring with a 976 series and a
high of 246. The first team was
634 pins better than the best the
’Sips could put out.
High point man for the second
team was Lee Wilson with a 958
series and a 228 game. There was
a difference of 422 pins between
the two second teams.
High Man Hardimon
INTRAMURALS
Lots of “huffin’ and puffin’ ” and
pounding of the mat could be heard
last night as intramural wrestling
got underway.
About 500 grapplers are entered
in the competition and if past per
formances is any indication of the
future, much action is in store be
fore the champions are decided in
the various divisions.
Intramural standings were
brought up-to-date this week and
many changes were evident.
In the class A standings, “A”
Infantry? and “A” Ordnance are
tied for first place with a total of
420 points. “C” Infantry is not
far behind in third place with 410
points. “A” TC, “B” Infantry, and
Squadron 17 are tied for fourth
place with 400 points.
Squadron 20, Squadron 13, “B”
AAA and “A” FA round out the
top 10. Squadron 20 has 390 points
while the latter three are tied for
eighth place with 385 points.
Squadron 13 continues to hold the
lead in class B standings with a
total of 45214 points. They hold
a relatively wide margin over “A”
Vets, who are in second place with
416 and two-thirds points. These
two teams have held the top posi
tions in the class B standings near
ly all year.
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Squadron 2 is in third place with
410 points and Squadron 7 is in
fourth place with 405 points. • “A”
AAA is in fifth place with 401 and
two-thirds points but the sixth
place team, Maroon Band, is close
behind with an even 400 points.
“A” Chemical, “B” Composite,
Squadron 20, and Squadron 15
round out the top 10 with 386 and
two-thix-ds, 381 and two-thirds, 380,
and 378 and two-thirds points re
spectively.
College View still leads the pack
in the class C standings with 235
points. Milner is second with 22214
points and Legett is next with
170 points.
Puryear, Walton, Bizzell, Mitch
ell, Law, Hart, and Dorm 16 fol
low in that order.
Infantry outfits have won four
class A championships this year.
“A” Infantry won in horseshoes
and “B” Infantry won the cross
country. “C” Infantry won the
other two in football and ping pong
— both championship finals were
played in a pei’iod of 24 hours.
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IN
SHOE REPAIRS
COURT’S
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North Gate
Spalding and Wilson
Tennis Rackets and Balls
STUDENT CO-OP
Aggies -
Try Youngblood’s
Fried Chicken
Chicken - Trimmings $1.00
Barbecue — Steaks — Seafoods
Rock Building
South College
Midway Between
Bryan & College
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