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Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 6, 1964 THE BATTALION Aggie Cagers To Try Repeat Coach Shelby Metcalf returns three starters from his A&M basketball team that won the Southwest Conference champion ship last season and the Aggies are expected to make a strong bid for another league crown in the 1964-65 campaign. Scoring leader and captain Ben nie Lenox and the versatile Bill Robinette are the two starters who were graduated. It’ll be a spirited battle among some five candidates to see who will replace them. Top candidate to take over Len ox’s guard slot is Dick Stringfel- low, a frontline reserve as a sopho more last year. He’ll be pushed by Eddie Dominguez, transfer from Lon Morris Junior College and Dick Rector, a redshirt last year. Paul Timmins is the returning starter at the other guard slot. John Beasley, last year’s “sopho more of the year” in the SWC, returns at center and Bill Gasway, the cool southpaw, returns as a starting forward. Their competi tion will come from Tim Timmer man and Ken Norman, both top reserves last season and Sonny Fethenker, a transfer from Hen derson County Junior College. Tommy Bantle, John Reynolds and Billy Atkinson return from last year’s varsity squad and Ed Gardner, transfer from Odessa College. —Advertisement- exuA CLS CL 26 fyu'dfy 64 cjCou, liuue cl brother planning to come to this fish. ^3 wonder you ivould send him a campusofoyy booh and ail the other hot poop . Seriously, you have done damn weli by me and ^3 wonder ij? you couidn t hefp yet him started out on the riyht j^oot. ^Jdis address is: (name and address available at Loupot’s *3 hope to See you next year—you can seif me some saddfe soap f^or those beautiful senior boots. Sincerely, (signature available at Loupot’s) *tol o! ft ff*f| roes -And So St Qc ^dather to Son Srother to Srother d ddriend to ^driend am —Advertisement— SHELBY METCALF Aggie Football Had Its Start Before 1900 A&M football began in 1893 when the Aggies fielded a team but played no games with out-of- town teams. In 1894 the Aggies, then known as the Farmers, played road games including the first of the traditional battles with the Uni versity of Texas, then known as the Varsity. The late Dean Emeritus Charles Puryear, who had joined the fac ulty in 1888, was the first man ager and one of those responsible for football being established at the college. A&M played no out- of-town games in 1895 but re sumed a schedule in 1896 and have continued to do so ever since. The first undefeated season was in 1902, a year in which the Ca dets won seven and tied two. A&M also was champion of Texas in 1909 and 1910, but in 1910 there was a loss to Arkansas, and TCU held the 1909 team to a scoreless tie. The 1912 team was hailed as “Champion of the South” in spite of a loss to Kansas State. A&M was a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic As sociation until the Southwest Ath letic Conference was formed in 1914 and is a remaining charter member of that organization along with Texas, Arkansas, Rice, Uni versity, Texas Tech and Baylor. Southern Methodist was admit ted when the University of Okla homa dropped, out and Texas Christian University took the place vacated by Oklahoma A&M. Texas Tech became the eighth member of the Southwest Conference in 1956 and began participation for the football championship in 1960. The Aggies have won the SWC championship eight times out right and tied with SMU another. A&M won the title in 1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1939, tied in 1940, won again in 1941 and 1956. The 1939 Aggie team was Na tional Champions and defeated Tulane in the Sugar Bowl Classic. The teams of 1917 and 1919 were unbeaten, untied and unscored upon while the 1939 and 1956 teams were undefeated. FRESHMEN! ■ Save Like Upper Classmen Do .... Take Advantage of the — Largest Stock of Used Books IN OUR 25 YEARS OF SERVICE Accumulated through the satisfaction Texas Aggies have with our USED BOOK RENTAL POLICY. ASK An Upper Classman —Or An Aggie-Ex - He’ll Tell You About Loupot $ North Gate KEN NORMAN TIM TIMMERMAN BILL GASWAY A&M Cricket Club Brings Famous Game To Aggielam Aggies long accustomed to stu dying the pesty crickets known to scientists as the family Gryllidae now have a new form of cricket. The A&M Cricket Club brings the traditional British game to Aggieland. The club was organized in early ’63. Foreign students at A&M now form most of the club member ship, Assistant Professor John F. Griffiths said. He is a London- born climatologist and an avid cricket fan who helped organize the A&M club. Cricket is the second interna tional game being played by A&M students from other lands. A soc cer team recently enjoyed a suc cessful season. “I am now president arid captain for my sins,” Griffiths said of his role in organizing the cricket club. “I’m sure that later they’ll want me for a nonplaying captain.” The A&M professor serves as historian of the Kent County Cricket Club, a major league team in England, although he has been away for years. Griffiths was in charge of meteorological research for the British Colonial Service in East Africa before he came here about a year ago. He served in Africa for a decade. He toured the United States be fore accepting a post here. “I like it here at A&M and think it has great potential, especially in my own field,” Griffiths said in explaining how he happens to be so far from the world of cricket. Members of the Texas A&M club practice Saturdays on a mown campus area. “We usually, when cooler weath er comes, give a demonstni match,” the club captain said. 11 basically like baseball, butyout be out, or dismissed, in ninei ferent ways.” There are two wickets instf of homeplate and the three baa The ball is comparable to a ta ball, while the bat is flattei on one side. Idea of the game is to prill your wicket, the three pieces wood sticking up above the grit for 27 inches, from being hill the pitched or “bowled” ball “A few” American students 1» expressed interest. Club men* hope others will join. rf Ag Soccer Team One Of Finest Within the last few years an enthusiastic group of students, most of them from Latin America, have built up one of the finest soccer teams in the state. The soccer team, which competes against teams from a few Texas colleges and clubs from nearby cities, went unbeaten and untied for three years until last season when they tied once and lost the state championship game to a club from San Antonio. A member of the Houston Soc cer League, the A&M team plays almost every weekend during the entire school year. It practices each afternoon on a field south of the main campus. The soccer team has part of its expense paid by the Memorial Student Center. It has no coach, and the team members pay the rest of the expenses for uniforms, equipment and transportation. BATSMAN DEFENDS WICKET ... an A&M student, member of the Cricket Club, demi strates how the batsman defends his wicket against tt opposing team’s bowler. Welcome— AGGIES- To- YOUNGBLOODS GOOD FOOD AT MODERATE PRICES FAST, EFFICIENT SERVICE FOR YOUR COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE Rock Building Hiway 6 PHONE TA 2-4557 Midway Between Bryan and College YOU DON'T LOSE WHEN YOU TRADE AT LOU'S!