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Paffe 6 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, September 21, 1961 s-x- Myers Names Best For Test Coach Jim Myers has named his best for the test. The best would be a three-unit lineup for the Ag-g-ies in the season’s opening game at Kyle Field here Saturday night (kickoff at 7:30 p. m.) The test will be against the rugged University of Hous ton Cougars, ranked as high as 11th in the nation in pre season grid previews. A crowd of 20,000 is expected for the opener. The Aggies’ order of appearance includes: left end, Rus sel Hill, Pat Latham, Ronnie Carpenter; left tackle. Wayland Simmons, John Kolacek, David Powitsky; left guard, Wayne Freiling, Jim Harper, Walter LaGrone; center, Jerry Hop kins, Jerry Jenkins, Ray Kubala; right guard, Jim Phillips, Jerry Pizzitola, Keith Huggins; right tackle, Joe Filers, James Craig, Darrel Dean; right end, Daryle Keeling, Bobby Huntington, Franklin Fisher. Also, quarterback, Jim Keller, John Erickson. Ronnie Brice; left halfback, George Hargett, Jim Linnstaedter, Jim Murphy; right halfback, Bob Caskey, Travis Reagan, Ron nie Ledbetter; fullback, Lee Roy Caffey, Jerry Rogers, Sam Byer. Kenneth Kipp will play defensive halfback, Mike Clark will be on kickoff duty and Babe Craig is the top-rated punter. Myers began tapering off drills Wednesday afternoon, working the Cadets against Houston’s offensive and de fensive manuevers. Chuck Cottier, utility with the Detroit Tigers, m in the big: league for fJ three seasons and has tiijl ferent managers— Chuck Dressen and Myers announced that his squad is in good shape phys ically with the exception of Tackle Ben Krenek who Likely will be sidelined for the opener with a knee injury. SWC Coaches Indicate That They'll Pass More This Fall Three players standing C-feet-8 will advance to West Virginia’s varsity basketball team next sea- Joe ((Buddy) Eilers Buddy Eilers, 214-pound stalwart in the Aggie line, will open at right tackle this Saturday night on Kyle Field against the Houston Cougars. Eilers, a very dedicated player, is being boomed for All-SWC and All-America honors this season. By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer The Southvyest Conference foot ball campaign starts this week and it will be interesting to see if the coaches mean what they say this time. As usual, they have announced they’ll pass more. It was ever thus. “We’re going to throw more and open up the game,” they de clare before the season starts. Mapi McCandless Plans In Meeting Mural Yesterday Charles (Chuck) McCandless, the new Intramural Director, was introduced at an organization meeting yesterday and this year’s plans for intramurals were dis cussed. The first event scheduled this fall will be swimming which will begin on Oct. 3. McCandless stat ed that the pool will be open for workouts from 4 to 6 p.m. on pete in bowling, basketball and horseshoes. Two sports from last year have been discontinued — handball and cross country. Handball has been dropped due to the construction of a new outdoor swimming pool at the site the courts formerly occu- pie’d. New courts are presently in the planning stage. Cross coun try was dropped because of the weekdays and from 2:30 to 4:30 lack of interest, p.m. on weekends. He urged that | 0utfit badminton and open ffym _ all participants get m as much , have been sugffested as re _ work as possible before the meet. lacements for hand b a ll and cross After swimming is concluded, r the Freshmen will move into the annual “favorite”, flag football, country. Equipment will be issued to out- while the upper classmen will com- , fits at G. Rollie White which will be open until 9:30 p.m. on w’eek nights as soon as it arrives. Stronger participation and more interest by those living in civilian dorms was also encouraged by Mc Candless. He said that day stu dents and graduates who wish to take part in intramurals are urged to contact John Sullivan at VI 6- 5208 or John Furrer at TA 3-6092 as soon as possible. There will be an organizational meeting of junior and senior in tramural managers next Wednes day, Sept. 27 at 6:00 p.m. in the intramural office. On Sept. 28, there will be a meeting of sopho mores interested in becoming in tramural managers. u our wvws /< or ^Suturdctu 4 (j c cune STUDENT FLORAL CONCESSION Place Your Order At FLORICULTURE BLDG. Thursday & Friday Between 8 a. m. & 5 p. m. “RUN BY AGGIES FOR AGGIES” Some may do it hut not to the do- , team in the league. The Bears gree indicated. On the average tried 205 passes in 1960, led by they usually pass less. i a wide margin in throwing, but The record will bear this out. | <l*dn’t win the title. Baylor at- In 1958 the Southwest Conference | tempted 219 in 1959 18 more team averaged 18.1 passes per than Southern Methodist — and 1959 it was 14.4 and di dn’t van the title. Neither did Southern Methodist. Baylor at- i tempted 253 in 1958 — 20 m ore That s not much passing com pared to the colorful thirties and ^ cha ionshi early forties when the conference j ith was known ps the paasingest I aicm league in the country. It isn’t surprising, then, that The advent of the T formation i the coaches forget their best in game. In last season it was 14.1. Texas A&.M KD AT MAN S OWN SI Septemb October CORPS FRES YEARBOOK 1*0 SCHKDLT FRESHMEN in the have their portrait in “AGO 1 ELAND the following sci rails will be made GI ELAND STUDIO, north of the inf" North Gate, between of 8 AM and 5 I’M scheduled. 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