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Included in the group were 28 lettermen, all but two of them in fine physical condition. Only Ronnie Lindsey, junior fullback from Halletsville, and Ed Breding, junior end from Jacksboro, remained on the ail ing list. Lindsey, a 200 pound letterman expected to see much service at fullback this fall, was nursing a broken toe which he received dur ing a summer workout at his home town Halletsville. Lindsey was running on the high school track and snapped a bone on the middle toe of his right foot. He’s expected to be back in action soon. Breding, a 6-4 210 pound letter- man, was held out of opening contact drills to give his ankle a little more rest. He broke it during spring training and Stal lings did not want to take any chances with it on opening day. He should be ready for A&M’s Sept. 18 date with LSU. Stallings said Wednesday he was real pleased with the team’s physical condition. The new mentor had in- mer, and set a earning football LEDBETTER gear this fall. All 69 players passed the test, with all but nine running under the six minute mark. Harry Led better paced the team with a 5:14, six finished under 5:20 and 38 under the team average of 5:40. Stallings said the Cadet’s phy sical condition had a great ef fect on the practice schedule, al lowing more time for team work. The Aggies go in shorts at 9 a.m. daily, followed by a 5 p.m. session in full pads. Stallings hopes to have the team ready for a scrimmage Saturday afternoon to give his quarterbacks a little more experience under game con ditions. The quarterback fight shaping up between letterman Eddie Mc- Kaughan and sophomore redshirt Harry Ledbetter should be one of the most interesting contests of fall drills, Stallings believes. Lindsey’s absence from Wed nesday’s workout necessitated two position changes. Dan Sch neider, 198 pound sophomore from Trafford, Pa., was shifted from strong side back to fullback, and Lawson Howard, 188 pound jun ior letterman from West, moved from split end to strong side back. In another move, Stallings re turned Joe Weiss, 210 pound let terman from Pflugerville, to full back. He had been tried at strong side back and center dur ing spring training. The Aggies continue two-a-day workouts this week, and last spring’s procedure will be con tinued for admittance to the ses sions. Students and faculty members will be admitted with activity cards while other persons must obtain written permission from Stallings to attend the drills. Football Brochure On Sale For $1 The Aggie fan’s guide to Tex as A&M football may be pur chased at the Athletic Business Office in G. Rollie White Coli seum. Selling for $1, the 1965 bro chure lists personal sketches of all players and coaches, strengths and weaknesses of A&M oppon ents, Aggie football records, sum mary of the A&M football pic ture for this year and many other facts. Jerry Levias Controversy Ignited By UCLA's Failure To Heed Letter Of Intent By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Associated Press Sports Writer That disagreeable happening at Hershey, Pa., when UCLA coach Tommy Prothro tried to talk to Jerry Levias, the Beau mont Negro schoolboy football star, about passing up Southern Methodist would never have hap pened had UCLA subscribed to the inter-conference letter of in tent. Levias had signed a letter of intent with Southern Metho dist and that protected SMU from all the other members of the inter-conference setup. But the Athletic Association of West ern Universities, of which UCLA is a member, has not come into the agreement. Therefore, UCLA could legally recruit Levias without forfeiting any of the athlete’s eligibility. That’s what would have happened — two year’s eligibility would have been taken away from Le vias — had he gone to another school that was in the agree ment. The AAWU is the only major conference other than the Ivy League not subscribing to the inter-conference letter of intent. The Ivy League apparently never will and it is no matter. That conference is not concerned with high-powered recruiting and does not go after anybody else’s athletes anyway. The AAWU is thinking about joining; said a year ago it probably would eventually come in. It is to be recalled that Chuck Curtis, assistant coach at SMU, went to the Big 33 game with the announced intention of pro tecting the school’s interest in Levias. When Prothro tried to talk to Levias, Curtis said he gave the man a shove and brought the athlete to Dallas. Levias said he was going to SMU and that was that. So Prothro says he will file a complaint with the NCAA. Just what it will contain is unclear. The NCAA doesn’t have a rule against one coach shoving an other and it does not forbid a member school from hanging onto the athletes it has recruited. The inter-conference letter of intent was the brain child of Dr. J. William Davis, Texas Tech’s member of the Southwest Conference faculty committee. He wanted to cut out wild re cruiting, thus reducing the en mity between colleges and help ing the athlete. The boy could sign a letter of intent with the knowledge that he wouldn’t have to fight off coaches and scouts from the other colleges and could spend his time on school work. The inter-conference letter of intent has been sensationally suc cessful. There has not been a single major complaint. There have been some disagreements, to be sure, in the recruiting of athletes, but the conferences in which they occured settled the matters without fuss or flurry. No one has had to appeal to the organization as a whole. Most of the independents are in the agreement but such schools as Army, Navy, Air Force Aca demy and Miami are not. Why the service academies do not sub scribe can be understood. Why Miami isn’t in is unknown but Miami hasn’t caused any contro versies anyway. Army, Navy and Air Force have an agreement that they will abide by the letter of intent so far as they can. However, Army, Navy and Air Force get their students by appointment. In other words, a boy has to get an appointment to go to the service academies. If a boy gets an appointment to West Point or Navy or Air Force he has to be taken even if he has signed a letter or intent at some college. But even if Army, Navy or Air Force took a boy by recruit ing him and getting him an ap pointment, they still would not be violating a rule since they are not members of the inter-confer ence letter of intent. But there’s no reason for the Association of Western Univer sities not to be a member. It would remove the last barrier to complete understanding on re cruiting in the nation. THE BATTALION Thursday, September 2, 1965 College Station, Texas Page 5 SWC Practice Opens Ticket Sales Rise For Aggie Games Coach Gene Stallings’ football battlecry is “Make Something Happen” and Texas A&M fans are responding at the ticket win dow. A&M athletic business manager Pat Dial has announced that tic ket sales are “better than 25 per cent ahead of two years ago when the Aggies also had four home games.” Wednesday all tickets at A&M became available on a first-come, first-served basis with no limit on the number purchased. Tickets for games at Georgia Tech and Arkansas are $5.50 each while single tickets for all other Aggie games, both at home and away are $5 each. DALLAS — Southwest Confer ence football teams returned to the practice field Wednesday, with an increasing awareness that they may have to be the best in the country to win their own league championship. Ot least, it has been thus for the past two seasons. Texas was a consensus national champ ion in 1963, while Arkansas gain ed national championship recogni tion last New Year’s Day by virture of a Cotton Bowl con quest of Nebraska. Both the Football Writers Association and Helms Foundation accorded Ark ansas this acclaim after it had given the league successive un defeated, untied champions. Repeat national championships had been achieved by Southwest Conference teams once previous ly, in 1938 and 1939 when TCU and Texas A&M put such recogni tion back-to-back. Sovereigns of the Southwest for six successive campaigns, Texas and Arkansas generally are expected to continue their domination, but the margin from top to bottom may be the thin nest in a half-century of cam paigning. All eight contenders are hold ing morning and afternoon work outs through the first two weeks of drills. Nearly 600 candidates answered the opening call. One-hundred eighty-eight let termen returned to the eight squads, including eighty-six start ers. The number of returnees is greater than last year in each respect, mainly because several squads virtually converted to two- platoon football last fall. The substitution rule has been liberalised even more for 1965, with the emphasis on offense due to be comparable to that of the early 50’s, when conference games produced two touchdowns more on the average than the contests of recent seasons. The Conference has its first new head coach in four seasons, with Gene Stallings succeeding Hank Foldberg at Texas A&M. Stallings returns to his alma mater after nine years of appren ticeship under Bear Bryant, who directed the Aggies to a Con ference championship in 1956, Stallings’ senior season. SWC/f up. for Holiday feasting Look at these FUNsational FOOD VALUES — perfect for picnics — great bargain cues for barbecutes — and your very best bets for better Holiday meals. 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