The Battalion College Station (Brazos County). Texas
Friday, February 27, 1959
PAGE 5
Aggies Try Rice Saturday in Houston
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< Wilmer Cox
Cox, a junior college transfer from Kilgore, has fit into
Coach Bob Rogers’ basketball scheme pretty well. A starter
all season long, Cox has scored 124 points in conference
play.
ATCU Boasts 68.2 Mark
By The Associated Press
The proper balance for a South-
vest Conference champion in bas
ketball appears to be an average
f 68.2 points per game on offense
vhile giving up 62.4 on defense.
I That’s the season record of Tex-
Has Christian, which last week
Jlclinched the championship.
I In conference play, the Horned
^Trogs averaged 69.7 and allowed
WB1.3.
I The best defense was Southern
^■Methodist’s which allowed only
K69.7, but the Mustangs were 6.3
■boints per game behind TCU on
'offense.
Statistics for the season show
that H. E. Kirchner, the giant Tex
as Christian center, leads in scor
ing with 19 points per game in
season play and 19.3 in conference
warfare. He also leads in rebounds
with 278 in 22 games and 161 in
12 conference affairs.
I Wayne Clark of Texas has the
Rest field goal average wuth .500,
and Bobby Puryear of Texas leads
in free throw percentage with .896.
Both also are tops for the complete
season with .494 and .889 per cent
respectively.
Rice’s rampaging Owls try to
stay on the comeback trail to
morrow night in Houston when
they face Coach Bob Rogers’ hot-
and-cold-running Aggies.
The Owls have won two
straight games, against Baylor
and Texas Tech—and hope to
make it three as they face the
Aggies for the third time this
season. A&M came out on top
in the first outing in the South
west Conference Tournament, but
Rice charged back strong in their
second meeting to down the Ca
dets, 70-65.
A&M will be placing their 6-6
conference mark up against a 4-8
record compiled by the Owls. Rice
has the conference’s seventh lead
ing scorer in lofty Tom Robitail-
le, who is averaging better than
14 points per game.
Robitaille’s 6-9 frame will pre
sent something of a problem to
the Aggies who can’t match his
height but can make up the dif
ference in the scoring department.
Frosh Close Season
Saturday with Owlets
The five freshmen will try to
cegain their winning touch in the
Saturday opener at Houston when
they tackle the Rice Owlets, the
team that dropped the University
of Texas Shorthorns for their lone
•oss of the season.
Two of the freshmen’s four de
feats this year have come at the
hands of the Shorthorns. Balanc
ing up the ledger, the fish downed
the Owlets earlier this year by
a 64-51 score.
Leading the Ags will be Carroll
Broussard who paces the squad in
field goals and free throw shoot
ing. The 6-5 frosh averages 18.6
points per game and is hitting the
bucket at a .497 clip. He is sec
ond in rebounding with 104.
Another starter for the young
Aggies will be the towering Don
Riggan. Riggan, at 6-10, is the
tallest Cadet in A&M basketball
history. Probably one of the most
improved cagers on the team, Rig
gan has pulled down 85 rebounds
and scored 90 points.
Leading- rebounder for the Farm
ers is John Keller. Keller ha^TjfO
!/.
■
So
artindale Leads
Ag Golf Qualifiers
Sophomore Bill Martindale leads
the varsity golf team in nine qual
ifying rounds with a 641. Par for
162 holes is 630.
1 The top six varsity qualifiers
are Monroe Mitchella, 657; Ed Trip
lett, 664; Tom Fonseca, 670;
James Toland, 672; A1 Jones, 682
and Martindale.
■ These six men will probably
form the squad that will meet the
University of Houston Cougars
here Saturday in a dual meet,
fg Jim Fetters leads the freshman
squad ^through 144 holes of qual
ifying with a 560, which is par for
this many holes.
I The top six frosh golfers who
will race the Houston freshmen are
Dick Duble, 585; Johnny Johnson,
598; John Lively, 604; Dick Bell-
mares, 612; Kerman Stroman, 622
and Fetters.
» Qualification for both squads
will continue all year.
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to his credit and has scored 75
points. Standing at 6-5, Keller’s
main skill is on defense as he
crowds the opponents away from
the bucket and pulls down the
ricochets.
Second high scorer for A&M is
Gary White with 165 points to his
credit, good enough for a 15-point
per game average. Filling out the
scoring for the frosh is Riki Wag-
horne with a 5'.3 average and Pat
Clancy with a 6.6 mark.
This will be the final game of
the season for the freshman who
have compiled a season record of
seven wins and four losses under
the coaching of Shelby Metcalf.
Metcalf is in his first coaching
year at A&M.
Archie Carroll, the 6-6 senior
from Redlands, averages 16 points
per game for A&M while Neil
Swisher is just a step behind with
a 15.5 average. Robitaille has a
lead in rebounding with 120 in
conference play, good enough for
fourth in the SWC while the Ag
gies can’t place one in the top
10.
Other leaders for the Rice five
are seniors Gary Griffin and Jay
Bowman’s Club
Invite Ag Members
Knox Walker and Ted Davich,
heads of the Brazos Bowman Club,
have invited anyone interested in
the archery to join the club here
at A&M.
The organization .will be two
years old in June and presently has
12 members. In the club’s two
years of existence, it has acquired
membership in the Texas Field
Archery Assn, and the National
Field Archery Assn.
In the past, the club has entered
various tournaments throughout
the state. They plan to sponsor
several tournaments to be held
here in the spring.
Fourteen targets have been set
up near Easterwood Field. The
targets art actual decoys with hay
background. The group holds prac
tice sessions on weekends.
Mcllvain. Griffin is No. 2 in the
field goal percentage leaders with
a .481 average followed by Mc
llvain with a .476. One other Owl,
David Craig, is tied with Carroll
for fi.th in shooting accuracy
with a .467 average.
Com paving the two teams as a
whole Rice has averaged 61.5
points per game while the Cadets
have been a little stronger at 62.2.
The Aggie defense has limited
their opponents to little more than
60 points per game while Rice has
seen their opponents 62.4 points
per game.
There is one other Rice player
who deserves more than just a
passing mention. Dale Ball, the
blond flash from Lubbock, has
been a knife in the side of A&M
all season with his lightening-
ike breaks under the basket. The
6-0 Ball is called the fastest play
er in the conference—something
the A&M team can’t come close
to matching.
As far as conference standings
go, a Farmer win or loss won’t
have much effect. If the Cadets
win this game and the Texas
Lech Red Raiders lose their’s Sat-
uruay at Waco it will throw the
two teams into a tie for third with
a 7-6 conference mark. -
TCU has already sacked up the
championship, but they could
throw a crimp into SMU’s sail if
they down the Mustangs in their
Saturday battle.
If they do A&M will battle it
out Tuesday night with the Ponies
in White Coliseum to see who will
wind up the season in the second
place shot—that is, if Tech al
ready isn’t there.
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