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Page 6 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, October 29, 19G5 FROM THE Sicleii ined Hansen ^Best In Clutch. On busy days at Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach, the ocean is so crowded with surfboards that swimmers call it “the lumber yard.” By Larry R. Jerden TGIF! It’s been a long week, but not without reward. A few more grade points won or lost, another weekend is finally here, those beautiful contract checks came in . . . and now the weekly exodus is well underway. The Aggies are packing and leaving, some for the game in Little Rock, some for home, and others to where the heart has been all week: womanland. The chosen few, for financial or other reasons, will enjoy this break in classes in the Golden Industrial Crescent, keeping in touch with the outer world via letters, radio, TV and that most hallowed of the mass media: the newspaper. Our Aggies are not going to Little Rock to lose, and they take some respectable credentials with them. A case in point, Harry Ledbetter. The A&M quarterback is cur rently fourth in SWC in total offense, with two of the Hogs right behind him. Ledbetter has run 211 plays, the highest of any player in the conference, and has a net of 621 yards, 593 via the airways. In fifth spot comes Jon Brit- tenum, the Razorback quarter back he will meet Saturday night. Brittenum has run 123 plays for 605 yards, 496 in the air and 109 on the ground. Ole Harry Jones shows up sixth, behind Brittenum with his 60 rushing plays for 540 yards and an even 9 yard average. There are other games to be played around the state Satur- INSTANT MILDNESS yours with Aristocrat, Billiard Shape, $5.95 and $6.95 No matter what you smoke you’ll like Yello-Bole. The new formula, honey lining insures Instant Mild ness; protects the imported briar bowl — so completely, it’s guaran teed against burn out for life. Why not change your smoking habits the easy way — the Yello-Bole way. $2.50 to $6.95. Spartan $2.50 Official Pipes New York World’s Fair Free Booklet tells how to smoke a pipe; shows shapes, write: YELLO-BOLE PIPES, INC , N Y. 22. N.Y.. Dept. 100. By the makers ot KAYWOODIE day. Among the top will be the contest between the Sul Ross Lo- bos and the A&I Javelinas. Sul Ross is the only undefeated col legiate team in the state, and this is supposed to be the game that will tell the tale for the Lobos’ future. Texas Tech and Rice wil^meet in a game that, until last week end, was considered a Tech bene fit. Now, the question is whether or not the Owls can keep up what they started in Austin. Gene Stallings has decided the most important job facing 1 the Aggies is recruiting. “We’re go ing after the big, strong, FAST youngsters who’ll put on those Maroon shirts and move the Ag gies back to the top in SWC foot ball,” the first-year mentor said. Yep, Gene sure knows what football material looks like! Now, if he can just get it assembled on our campus and get it to work. He and his staff are off to a good start, though, when you con sider that next year the Aggies will have Maurice Moorman eligi ble. He’s a 21-year-old Lang uage Arts major from Louisville, Kentucky and he is BIG. About 240 pounds big and the grapevine has it Stallings won’t let him do contact work any more to try and keep the soaring injured roster down a bit. For a while the good head coach had us believing that only the “narrow shouldered, skinny legged little fellers” came to A&M. They come . . . but they don’t always play football. Take Bruce Baugh, for exam ple . . . Here’s a nice sized piece of potential grid material. He’s a respectable 6-3, 200-pounder that has a father named Sammy. Seems like we’ve heard of him somewhere before . . . had some thing to do with football. Anyway, Bruce’s brother David plays for Tech, but Bruce will concentrate on his studies at Ag- gieland. Fish Baugh is in A-2. By HAROLD V. RATLIFF AP Sports Writer DALLAS, Tex. <2P>—The 1964 Olympic pole vault champion is a freshman again and he dreams of 18 feet he never will make. The freshman part of that statement may cause the most comment because Fred Hansen had already graduated from Rice University when he won the pole vault at Tokyo with a leap of 16 feet 8% inches—an Olympic record. He also was an ex-student at the time he soared 17 feet 4 inches to set the world’s record. But today Hansen is a fresh man in the Baylor University College of Dentistry in Dallas. He will be there six years for one of its highest degrees. He’s going in for orthodontics, which require two more years than the average dental course. “I think 18 feet will be attain ed in the pole vault, if not this year in the pre-Olympic year,” said Hansen as he went about his work at the dental college. “That is one reason I hated to quit track. I felt I would make 18 feet eventually. I studied films of myself when I did 17 feet 4 inches. I was going six to eight inches higher than the crossbar. But I had to quit track after winning the Olympics—the big goal of any track man—and start making a living. You know you can’t earn anything using a pole to propel yourself over a bamboo bar.” And Fred won’t have time to do any vaulting while he’s study ing the intricacies of repairing teeth, making teeth and making braces for teeth. Besides, he’s getting married Dec. 27—to Marian Cole, a Dallas school teacher—and will settle down to operating a home. Fred is only 24 years old and in the prime of athletic life. But he looks back on his track career and wonders if he hasn’t already had a lifetime in it. Hansen started vaulting when he was in the sixth grade, so he has been at it for a dozen years. He looked back on his storied career and decided his greatest accomplishment was not the world’s record or victory in the Olympics but the ability to come from behind and win the big ones. “When I won the pole vault in Melvin H. Johnson ’64 College Master Representative Fidelity Union Life 846-8228 HEAR, HERE! ALL NEW FROM SOINTY. % Tape Recorders Model 102 CLEARING FOR A WORLD RECORD Fred Hansen showed the Russians how to 4. Now, after studying films of this leap, pole vault this day (July 25, 1964), in the ex-Rice student Hansen says he was clear- United States-USSR meet in the Los Ange- ing the bar with six to eight inches to spare, les Coliseum. He set the world record of 17- BRYAN RADIO & TV SERVICE, INC. 1301 S. College Ave. SUPERSCOPE high school, it was on my last jumP i n the state meet—my last appearance as a schoolboy,” he said. “When I won the triple crown —the pole vault at the Texas, Kansas and Drake Relays—it ■was on my last jump. “When I won the Olympics, I was behind on misses and had to make that last jump to win it.” In other words, Fred Hansen was best in the clutch. Parseghian Faces Friends On Gridiron N. Dakota State Leads Small College Poll Visit the city’s newest and finest MODEL CAR RACING CENTER GRAND OPENING Friday - Saturday - Sunday UP)—T h e Fargo football ex press keeps moving swiftly as powerful North Dakota State maintained a solid lead Thursday in the Associated Press’ small college poll. Consolidated Adds New District Foe Supt. of Schools W. T. Reidel announced Monday night a shakeup in the football district in which A&M Consolidated High School participates at a meeting of the school district’s Board of Trustees. La Grange has been added to the district, bringing to seven the number of member schools. However, none of the schools had a sufficient membership to jump into class 4-A ranks, so one additional district game will be scheduled each year. The rampaging Bisons, unbeat en and untied in seven games, drew six first-place votes and 135 points in this week’s balloting by a special panel of 16 regional experts. Maine advanced one place to second with 95 points. The Black Bears trounced Rhode Island 36-0 for their sixth victory without a loss or a tie and play Colby this weekend. The vote on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3- 2-1 basis, with first-place votes in parentheses, season records and total points: 1. North Dakota St. (6) 7-0 135 2. Maine 6-0 95 3. Middle Tennessee (1) 6-0 77 4. Los Angeles St. (2) 4-1 71 5. Long Beach St. (1) 6-0.... 62 6. Colo. Western St. (1) 6-0 47 7. Florida A&M (1) 4-1 32 8. North Illinois 6-0 30 9. Tennessee State 4-0 27 10. Lamar Tech 4-2 22 SOUTH BEND, Ind. <A>)—Al most every time Notre Dame’s Ara Parseghian looks across the football field this season, he sees an old buddy—suffering as a ri val coach. Friendship went into a two- hour deep freeze as Parseghian’s Irish belted Alex Agase’s North western Wildcats 38-7 and, one week later, blanked Paul Dietzel’s Army Cadets 17-0. The oddsmakers say Parse ghian will be equally unkind to a pal since high school days, Navy’s Bill Elias, in Saturday’s 39th renewal of Irish-Middie ri valry here. The fourth-ranked Irish, 4-1, are rated three touchdowns better than Navy, coming off a 37-16 spanking by Georgia Tech with a 3-2-1 record. After Notre Dame exploded with a 24-point last quarter to crush plucky Northwestern, Par seghian walked off Notre Dame’s field his arm draped over the sagging shoulders of Agase, who wiped away a tear or two. Agase was Ara’s Northwestern aide for eight seasons. Dietzel was Parseghian’s class mate and teammate at Miami of Ohio. Now comes Old Pal No. 3, Elias, who at 42 is the same age as Parseghian and has had a par allel career up through the coach ing ranks. FREE PRIZES! EXCITING RACES for ribbons, trophies! FREE DRIVER REGISTRATIONS! 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