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College Station, Texas
Friday, February 17, 1961
THE BATTALION
Cagers Enter Dangerous Land
Of Rice Owls Tomorrow Nile
The Texas Aggie Cagers will
enter enemy territory again to
morrow night as they meet the
Rice Owls in Houston at 8.
As always the case for the Ca
dets, foreign ground usually pre
sents a dangerous Situation.
It was only a week ago that the
highly favored Aggies were in for
a big surprise as they tangled with
the supposedly lowly Texas Chris
tian Horned Frogs in Fort Worth.
However, last Saturday the Toads
weren’t as harmless as expected
as they swatted A&M, 68-66, in
the last six seconds of play.
Spring Training
Starts Saturday
Tomorrow at 2:30 some 60-odd
football hopefuls will gather on
the A&M practice field for their
first spring practice session of
1961.
The three big problems that
hope to be solved by the Cadet
coaching staff this spring will be
the development of an adequate
passing game; solv.e the quarter
back question; and select some
overall speed to go with the bat
tering ram fullbacks, Sam Byer of
Marlin and Lee Roy Caffey of
Thorndale.
Of the grand total, Aggie coach
es will have 29 lettermen to help
them solve these three pertinent
problems.
The Cadets will have 30 days in
which to get in the 20 practices
allowed. These sessions will in
clude an intrasquad game on the
night of Mar. 18. As in the past
the teams wil be as evenly matched
as possible.
A&M will be seeking more of
fensive punch to go with the fine
defensive record posted last year.
And the battle for quarterback
is slated to become one of the most
fierce in A&M history with five
men on tab for that position at
present.
Place Daryle Keeling of Tyler,
Rennie Brice of Andrews, Jim
Linnstaedter of Brenham/ Eddie
Hall of Dickinson, and John Erick
son of Waco all looking for the
same job and the race will be off.
So far the coaches have given nods
to all the candidates for being
first team material.
Keeling and Brice were starters
at various times last season, while
Linnstaedter and Hall came up
from the Fish ranks after com
pleting a respectable season.
Erickson is a transfer from Tarle-
ton Junior College where he made
quite a name for himself.
Another candidate who will
start practice in the fall is Bobby
Elliott of Cameron who formerly
played at Del Mar Junior College.
Coach Jim Myers thinks that if
A&M had shown more with their
passing game in 1960, they would
have been in contention for the
Southwest Conference title.
This is the main reason for a
major part of the spring agenda
td be centered around the aerial
attack.
Myers anticipates several posi
tion changes, but just what they
will be—the coach doesn’t even
know yet.
Early plans are to move Babe
Craig from quarterback to half
back, Eddie Van Dyke from half
back to fullback and Wayne Frei-
ling from tackle to guard.
Thirteen of the 21 Aggies who
formed the three-deep in the final
game against Texas last season
are expected to report for spring
drills.
They are Ends Bobby Hunting-
ton of Plainview, Russell Hill of
Dallas and Franklin Fisher of
Brenham; Tackles Wayland Sim
mons of San Antonio, Joe Eilers
of Hallettsville, Ben Krenek of El
Campo, Wayne Freiling of San
Antonio, and George Hogan of
Longview; Guards Jim Harper of
Borger, Jim Phillips of Freeport,
and Keith Huggins of Houston; and
Center Jerry Hopkins of Mart.
Rice had an almost identical sit
uation Tuesday • night as they
squeezed out the Bears of Baylor
just in the nick of time, 61-58.
The winning points were scored in
the closing, seconds.
The outcome of the. Baylor-Rice-
contest indicated that Rice is
weakening or Baylor is getting
stronger even though the Bears
are still looking for a Southwest
Conference victory.
Going into tonight’s game, Car-
roll Broussard is still the top Ca
det as well as tops in the confer
ence with his 23.7 average. Brous
sard is also the top rebounder with
76.
The Stanley Twins are running
second and third in scoring with
Don taking over second in re
bounding with 70, but brother Pat
has a slight edge in points with
13.5 compared to a 12 point aver
age for his other half. Although
these two boys aren^t re-writing
any record books, they have proved
to be about the most consistent
A&M has had this year. What
records they haven’t set, have
been made up for with their hustle
and defensive play.
Perhaps the most astounding
part of A&M’s victory over Texas
Tech Tuesday was the. play of
seven-foot Lewis Qualls. He has
drawn much praise for his pro
gressiveness, and endurance shown
in the last game. Qualls is also
the fourth high rebounder with 41.
Next Tuesday night the Aggies
will be on the road again as they
meet Southern Methodist Univer
sity in Dallas.
Fish Meet Owlets
In Prelim Game
The Aggie Fish will furnish
preliminary excitement tomorrow
night at 6 as they meet the Rice
Owlets for the second time this
season.
If the game is anything like the
game that the Frosh played earlier
in .the week as they bowed to Tyler,
it will be quite a clash to see.
Fish Coach Shelby Metcalf is
still bragging on his team’s per
formance against the top notch
junior college opponent that the
Fish lost by an 80-83 score.
Besides the fact that Fish Bennie
Lenox broke an A&M freshmen
scoring record with his 44 points
before fouling out, there were
many other fine points in the game.
The Young Aggies hit 50.8 per
cent of their shots from the floor
which is a respectable average for
any winning team. Metcalf also
said the freshmen only threw the
bal away four times during the
game, which' showed few mistakes
were made.
In the Fish’s first meeting with
the Owlets this year they had a
tough time beating them even
though the game was played in
G. Rollie White.
Until the Owlets played the Fish
they had suffered only two losses.
The Fish’s defeat Wednesday night
was their second of the year so
they will lay the same record on
the line that the Owlets did in the
first meeting.
Two Events Slated
For A&M Athletes
In Houston Sat.
Texas Aggie athletes will take
part in two intercollegiate events
in Houston Saturday.
Coach Omar Smith’s tennis play
ers will open their 1961 schedule
with matches against the Uni
versity of Houston while Coach
Bob Rogers’ cagers will take on
the Rice Owls in a SWC contest
at the Rice Gym.
Smith has named Richard Halter,
a one-letter junior from Baytown,
as his number one player. The
number two slot will go to Bill
Koch, a senior squadman from Port
Arthur.
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SPORTS
Prairie View
Tops Small
College Poll
By The Associated Press
Unbeaten Prairie View pushed
its winning streak to 22 games
and took over as the new leader
in the weekly small colleges bas
ketball poll of Associated Press
experts Thursday.
The panel of sports writers and
sportscasters gave Prairie Yew
72 points while ending Tennessee
State's long run as No. 1. Tennes
see State is second, Southern Illi
nois third, and Mississippi South
ern fourth in the revised listings.
The leaders with first-place
votes and won-lost records thru
Feb. 11 in parentheses.
Top Ten
1. Prairie View (22-0)
2. Tennessee State (19-4)
3. Southern Illinois (18-4)
4. Miss. Southern (19-1)
5. Hofstra (15-2)
6. Grambling (22-4)
7. -8. tie Maine (15-3)
Northern Michigan (14-1)
9. Westminister Pa. (13-3)
10. Kentucky Wesleyan (12-6)
Denton Scores ‘Grade A’
With Texas Aggie Athletes
A. E. (Buddy) Denton scores
“grade A” with Texas Aggie ath
letes.
A&M Athletic Director Jim My
ers has Denton as a full-time em
ployee in the athletic department,
counseling on educational, voca
tional, personal and other prob
lems.
And because of Denton’s guid
ance, Myers can count only four
student athletes, all freshmen,
who failed to pass adequate hours
to retain their eligibility.
They are Buddy Oakes of Hous
ton and Tommy Ecker of Amarillo
in football, Timothy K. Bagby of
Chesterton, Indiana in track and
Ewell H. Jackson of Houston in
baseball.
. The other A&M athletes, who
may be the stars of the future in
football, basketball, track and
baseball scored satisfactorily in
the classroom to bring a smile
from Myers.
Proud of the stress placed on
the scholastic endeavors of the ath
letes, Myers said:
“We are placing a strong em
phasis on the academic phase in
connection with varsity athletics. I
am proud of the job Buddy has
done during the two years he has
been our counselor.”
Denton, 38, is a native of Lex
ington, Kentucky. He later moved
to Cleveland, Tennessee where he
graduated from high school in
1940.
He then went with his parents
to make his home in Dallas, and
enrolled at Texas A&M in the fall
of 1941.
Following two years of college,
Denton served for three years in
the infantry in World War II, and
returned to Aggieland in Febru
ary, 1946.
He graduated with a bachelor of
arts degree in 1948 and secured a
masters degree in education in
1949. While working on his mas
ters, Denton was a physical edu
cation instructor for A&M.
Following a two-year'stay with
the Holloway Huges Veterans’ Ap
praisal Service in Houston, Den
ton came back to College Stattion
where for nine years he was coun
selor of the basic division.
In February, 1960, he went to
work as a member of Myers’ staff.
Denton is extremely fond of
his job, and says he believes he
is one of only three full-time ath
letic department counselors on
duty in major colleges.
The others are at the University
of Texas and the University of
Kentucky.
“A Freshman student has the
need of the proper guidance and
supervision he can be assured of
getting at A&M. We don’t “give”
the boy a thing in the way of
grades, he has to make it pn his
own. ,
“However, we furnish all the
help he needs and then it is up to
the student to take it from there,”
said Denton.
Denton is sold on athletic pro
grams, especially the one at A&M
College.
“Coach Myers has a well-round
ed program—one of the best any
where. In my opinion athletics
have attributed more than any one
thing to fitting athletes into stu
dent life,” said Denton.
It is Denton’s belief that many
football players blossom in the
spring, both on the field and in
the classroom.
“It seems that the two are sy-
nonomous. A boy will have a “bad”
year as a Freshman footballer and
also score low academically.
“However, when the spring se
mester rolls around, it is surpris
ing the number of boys who make
the football team in spring train
ing and also improve their grades,”
said Denton.
The counselor said that at Tex
as A&M, it is the first responsi
bility of an athlete to have a
sound academic perfomance.
“We stress that the athlete at
tend class regularly, and study,”
Denton said.
AnotherQualifying
Round Completed
By A&M Golfers
The Texas A&M golf team has
completed another round of their
spring qualificating matches.
Sunday’s rounds brought the to
tal to 144 holes which leaves 72
more before the top six men will
be picked.
So far Billy Martindale is lead
ing the pack with 583. Ralph
Johnston who led in the first
rounds of play fell to second plac«
with 588.
Still in contention is Harry Hos
kins, scoring 617 and Johnny John-
son has 620.
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