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I The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Thursday, April 10, 1958 PAGE 5 Spring Drills Impressive Nelmen In Oklahoma Jaunt Single Wing (Right) Here’s the Aggie single wing as it will probably be set up. The strong side is on the right, with the weak side end being split out from the rest of the line. The backs are in I'egular formation, but will shift in 'other uses of the for mation. MSC To Host Annual Bowling Tournament The Eighth Annual Texas A&M Bowling Tournament will be held on the Memorial Student Center lanes Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13. Twenty teams from nine schools in the Southwest are scheduled to enter the two-day tourney which will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday. Oklahoma State University, St. Mary’s University, the University of Texas, the University of Hous ton, and San Antonio College will enter two teams each. Southern •^Methodist University is entering three teams, and Texas Christian University one. Alley Alley Alley Alley- Alley Alley Alley Alley Alley- Alley Alley Alley- Alley Alley Alley Alley- Alley Alley SATURDAY 3 o’clock 1— Rice, first team 2- —University of Houston, second team 3 A&M, second team 4— Rice, second team 5— University of Houston, first team 6— A&M, first team 6 :30 1— San Antonio College, first team 2— St. Mary’s, second team 3 University of Texas, second team 4—St. Mary’s, first team 5 University of Texas, first team 6—San Antonio College, second team 8:45 1— Southern Methodist, second team 2— Oklahoma State, second team 3— Oklahoma State, first team 4— Southern Methodist, first team 5 Southern Methodist, third team 6—Texas Christian, first team SUNDAY 1 o’clock Oklahoma State, Southern Methodist, and one team, A&M doubles. 3 o’clock San Antonio College, St. Mary’s, Texas Christian, and two teams, A&M, doubles. 5 o’clock University of Texas, Rice, University of Houston, and two teams, A&M, doubles. Lanes 7 and 8 will be held open for doubles and singles matches Saturday. 4 Gridders Named Coach Jim Myers has announced the pending signing to a letter of intent of Bob Caskey of Gon zales, 6-0 185-pound back and thi-ee outstanding junior college stars, Bubba McLean and Mack Hall of Tyler and Philbert An thony Santia of Texarkana. The three jaycees will accept scholarships next fall, while the prep star will sign as soon as track season is over. Santia was an all-America guard at Texarkana last fall while McLean was one of the top JC backs in the nation. Hall is an end. Caskey was an all-state AA se lection and will play for the south all-stars in the all-state game at Houston next August. By GARY ROLLINS Battalion Sports Editor Coach Jim Myers worked the Aggies on defense yesterday af ternoon, as spring training enter ed its third day. According to Southwest Conference and NCAA rules, the team will be allowed 18 working days in a 28-day per iod. Not since 1945 has an Aggie single wing formation appeared on the A&M campus—and the last time a single wing team played on Kyle Field was in 1954 when Bowden Wyatt’s conference cham pion team Arkansas, who ran the Tennessee version of the single wing, tripped the “thin thirty.” The Aggie single wing will re semble more closely the UCLA- type of attack, for it was at the California school the Aggie men tor learned his trade under the old master, Coach ‘Red’ Sanders. Only four starters from the 1957 team return in Kenneth Beck, tackle from Minden, La.; Allen Goehring, guard from San Mar cos; John Tracey, Philadelphia end; and fullback Richard Gay, from Shreveport, La. Howevei’, there is quite an im pressive ci’op of lettermen, with 16 award winners returning from last year’s squad. Murray Trimble, the one-armed guard from Alabama, will also return after missing the 1957 sea son. He is a two year letterman. Other lettermen returning are tackle Bill Darwin, Houston jun ior; centei’s Ray Doucet, Neder land senior and Gale Oliver, Re fugio junior; guards Bill Godwin, Orangefield junior; Tommy How- ax-d, Galveston senior; Carl Luna, Garland juniox*, Joe Munson, Ang- leton junior and Buddy Payne, Houston, junior who was injured in the first day of spring drills. Don Smith, Phillips senior and backs Chax-lie Mifstead, Gordon LeBoeuf, and Robert Sander’s com plete the list. 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Four names appear in top con tention for tailback, with Charlie Milstead, Tyler ace, in slight fa- vox*. Ed Dudley, all-Axxxerican high school back from Pampa re- Jim Myers Slightly pleased Regional TV Games Set By Conference Four dates available for district televising Southwest Conference 1958 football games were made public today. The confex*ence selected these afternoon games to be televised: Baylor vs. Texas Tech at Lub bock Oct. 18; Geoxgia Tech vs. SMU at Dallas Oct. 25; Army vs. Rice at Houston Nov. 8; and Texas vs. TCU at Fort Worth Nov. 15. The Texas-A&M game at Aus tin Nov. 27 will be televised na tionally. tuxms to the gridiron after one sea son rest along with Luther Hall, who was an all-state high school tailback at Sunset High in Dal las. Jon Few, a sophomox-e-to- be has the power and ability to bx-eak into the startixxg lineup as a sophomore. Myers has stated the pux*pose for this spring training will be “to place the athletes in the po sitions best suited for them.” He fux’ther states, “We have a com plete rebuilding job to do this spring and fall.” Fish Schedule Set The Texas A&M freshman foot ball schedule for 1958 has been completed by the athletic depart ment it was announced Friday. The Fish will open their sched ule on October 2 against the Uni versity of HoustbYi dt Kyle Field and will play three home gaxxies. Other home games are set for November 13 against Rice and No vember 22 against Texas. Road games will be play.ed on October 8 against TCU at Fort Worth and October 16 against Baylor at Waco. The complete schedule follows: Oct. 2—U of H at Kyle Field, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8—TCU at Fort Worth, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16—Baylor at Waco, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13—Rice at Kyle Field, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22—Texas at Kyle Field, 2 p.m. Pttive-EN, 4fSSp’ , E f*EE PARKINS Deluxe Hamburgers Thick Malts Delicious Shakes THE TEXAN Drive-In Restaurant 3204 College Rd. Coach W. M. Dowell’s tennis team is touring the state of Ok lahoma this week, meeting some of the top competition the Sooner state has to offer. With a 3-2 record for the season and 0-1 in Southwest Conference play, the netxxxen will xxxeet Tulsa and Southwestern of Durant some time this week. They will then travel to Lub bock to contest Texas Tech on Apxdl 11 before resuming confex*- ence play April 18 against South ern Methodist at Dallas. The Aggies have lost to Tx-inity, 1-5 and to Rice, 0-6 while sweep ing matches with Southeast Ok lahoma, North Texas and Missis sippi Southex’n. 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