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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 4, 1966
FROM THE
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By Larry R. Jerden
There it went.
If there was something you
wanted to accomplish in 1965 that
you didn’t, it’s too late now.
Everyone likes the year-end remi
niscences, especially writers, so
one more time, let’s look over the
last 12 months in sports before
plunging into the ever-unfolding
surprises of the New Year.
In Aggieland two figures domi
nated the headlines. One made
them on his outstanding accom
plishments in track and field and
later in basketball, while the
other has begun to build what
should prove a new era in Aggie
football.
Randy Matson and Gene Stall
ings. The big names in A&M
athletics for the past year.
Now that re-cap of ’65.
Biggest single event in January
took place far from the actual
athletic field. It was around ma
hogany conference tables that
colleges returned to two-platoon
football. The result, showing in
the fall of the year, was higher
scoring and a general increase in
offensive power by most college
grid teams.
February’s biggest event was
the running of the Daytona 500.
It was shortened by rain, but
crowds were down even for a
rainy day duee tot he lack of
competition among the various
marques. A Ford won, to no one’s
surprise, with Fred Lorenzen at
the helm. Fords dominated the
sport since Chrysler’s hot hemi
was banned and GM still wouldn’t
back a racing team.
UCLA, put on a full court press
in March to defeat Michigan 91-
80 to capture the NCAA basket
ball title. In Sebring, Florida, a
couple of Texans in a home-built
car with an automatic transmis
sion won the 12-hour race. Jim
Hall and Hap Sharp piloted the
Chapparal to a victory over Eur
ope’s finest as well as the fac
tory-backed $16,000 Ford GT.
April was the month of the As
trodome’s fly ball troubles as the
nation’s sports eyes turned to
Texas to watch its opening and
the prowess of an Aggie sopho
more as he put the shot 67-11%
to break the world’s record. The
windows in the dome were paint
ed over and opened on time as
the Astros briefly held the Na
tional League lead.
Matson boosted his record to
69- 034, then in Kyle Field became
the first man to put the 16-pound
iron ball over 70 feet with a
70- 7 effort to open the month of
May.
Cassius (Muhammed Ali) Clay
put Sonny Liston out of his
misery with one minute gone in
the first round to hold on to his
title and Jim Clark of Scotland
won the Indy 500 in a Lotus for
the month’s other top stories. The
Flying Scot averaged 150.686 in
the Ford-powered car to break
the Offy’s long reign at the brick
yard.
The heat of June withered no
one as baseball fans watched
their boob tubes and listened to
Dizzy Dean describe the action.
Jim Maloney of the Reds held the
Mets hitless for 10 innings, then
lost the game 1-0 on a Johnny
Lewis homer in the 11th.
Clark won the world champion
ship in road racing for the second
time early in the season as his
Lotus performed flawlessly in
July, while later in the month the
Cleveland Browns downed the
College All-Stars 24-16 as the
football season came either to a
late close or an early beginning.
In August Dave Marr won his
first golf match in three years.
It just happened to be the PGA.
He snagged it with a 280.
September finally arrived and
the hectic National League race
fought for headline space with
the opening grid season. The
Dodgers won 13 in a row while
in Atlanta the Aggies came from
behind to outlast the Georgia
Tech Yellow Jackets 14-10 in the
Wrecks’ first home game . . . oh,
happy day!
October brought the end of the
baseball season with the Dodgers
winning the World Series four
games to three over the Minne
sota Twins.
Minnesota Twins ? Whatever
happened to the New York
Yankees ?
That same month the potent
Arkansas Razorbacks put it to
the then-number-one Sips 27-24
before a national TV audience.
November was the month of
the broken and re-broken land
speed record. Art Arfons seem
ingly had it settled at 576 mph,
but Craig Breedlove came out in
spite of bad weather and salt con
ditions on Bonneville to blast his
Spirit of American Sonic I to a
new LSR of a hair over 600 mph.
600 on the ground . . . that
ain’t me, babe!
Then Clay beat, rather mauled,
Floyd Patterson for 12 rounds
before the referee stopped the
fight to be the most hated world
champ ever. Mike Garrett of
Southern Cal won the Heisman
Award . . . but anyone that com
pared his performances with
Donny Anderson of Texas Tech
doubts the validity of that award.
The running, passing, kicking,
catching star from Raiderland got
some compensation later on, how
ever, when he signed with the
Green Bay Packers for $600,000
and was reportedly offered $800,-
000 by Houston.
November to Aggies only has
one day: Turkey Day. The Cadets
really pulled one out this time.
THE PLAY.
Enough said, except that the
halftime score was 17-0 A&M.
Does anyone remember the final
outcome ?
December featured unhappy
schools like Oklahoma losing un
successful coaches like Gomer
Jones and trying in vain to sign
big-name winners like Darrel
Royal. It also featured a small-
college quarterback from Texas
A&I, Randy Johnson, shining
among major opposition for the
first time as the Grey trounced
the Blue in their annual grid-
reenactment of the Civil War in
Birmingham.
If 1966 continues like it started,
the losers shall become winners
and the lion shall lay down with
the little lamb. The nation’s top
three college football teams got
knocked off in the bowls and the
struggling Packers beat the
Browns. Earlier the Buffalo Bills
had shut-out the scoring champs
of the AFL, San Diego, to win
that loop’s crown, but who could
imagine that LSU would snap the
Hogs’ streak at 22 games?
In Aggieland it was the year
of Matson, Stallings, McLean and
Big John. The Texas Special and
probation, controlled yelling at
football games . . . but no sports
manship trophy. That was given
to Baylor . . . you know, the guys
with the paint ....
It was also the year of coming
“so close” to the baseball crown,
and a winning soccer team. The
year of hard-nose football and a
fast turtle in the national col
legiate turtle race, of cricket on
the drill field and saw-horse
roping in the quad . . . another
year of sports at A&M . . . Ath
letic and Military . . .
Aggies Face Mustang
The Aggies open their 1966
Southwest Conference basketball
season Tuesday night in G. Rollie
White against the SMU Mustangs
after having a rough go during
the Christmas Holidays.
Aggie Coach Shelby Metcalf re
ported the best workout of the
season Monday in preparation for
the game and expressed hope that
student attendance would compli
ment the teams’ efforts.
A&M is tied with TU for sec
ond at the end of the pre-season
scheduling. Both teams are 5-4
with Arkansas in the lead with
6-2 mark.
A&M won its first five games
in a row, including a victory over
one SWC foe, Rice, in the Blue
bonnet Classic. Scores over the
holidays were an 89-81 victory
over Rice and a 90-85 loss to
RECTOR SCRAMBLES . . .
Dick Rector (13), the ever-scrambling Aggie guard, hawks
for the ball in the All-College Tournament in Oklahoma
City during the opening game Against Virginia Tech. The
Gobblers won it 101-74 and finished second to Oklahoma
City in the tourney.
Matson Named
Top Sportsman
By Writers
Houston in Houston and three
losses in the All-College Tourna
ment in Oklahoma City. Those
games were Virginia Tech, 101-
74, Xavier (Ohio) 98-86, and
Bowling Green 85-72.
Going into the SMU game,
John Beasley leads in team scor
ing and is tied with Randy Mat-
son in rebounding. Beasley has
a 24.9 point average with a high
of 34 against Memphis State,
while he and Matson both have
an average of 10.8 rebounds per
game. Matson has a high of 18
against Trinity while Beasley
brought in 15 against Southwest
Texas and Houston.
Dick Stringfellow has averag
ed 12.3 points and Dick Rector has
a 10.8 mark to put three of the
starting five in the double figures
category. Eddie Dominguez has
an 8.8 average and Matson has
pumped in 7.2 per game to round
out the top five scorers.
One of the greatest assets the
Aggies will have in the SMU
game and those that follow is
their depth. Help from the bench
has been outstanding so far this
season. Metcalf and the starting
five credited much of the
early success this year to
reserve strength.
Standouts in clutch situat
from the bench have been Ti
Trippet, Tim Timmerman, Ji
Payne among others.
SMU’s greatest single wesj
is Carrol Hooser, their all-SI
center. He’s a 6-7, 2O0-p<5
senior and the team captain,
last year’s co-championship sp
he had 427 points and is regs
ed as one of the all-time Mnsti edit
cage greats.
Other returning starters fi gpot <
last year’s successful teami on his
Charles Beasley and Denny B
man. Beasley is a 6-5 fom
that chunked in 345 points 1
season with a 48 per centrec
from the outside. Holman is
“play maker” of the club. A
junior, he’s quick and aggress
and had a high output against
Ags last year of 18 points.
The Mustangs are fresh in
an 80-66 rout of Connecticut!
is 5-5 for the year. The Ag
band will make its first appf
ance of the new year for
game.
Duke Holds Lead,
Kentucky Second
OP) — Powerful Kentucky, one
of the two remaining undefeated
major-college teams, moved in
to second place behind once-beat
en Duke in The Associated Press
basketball poll Monday.
Tournament winners St. Jo
seph’s of Pennsylvania, Provi
dence, Texas Western and
UCLA also advanced.
Duke remained a solid leader,
collecting 34 votes for first place
and 389 points in the balloting
by a special panel of 42 regional
experts. The Blue Devils have
won seven in a row, including
victories over Notre Dame and
Wake Forest last week that
boosted their record to 9-1.
Kentucky climbed, three places
after beating Notre Dame 103-
69. The Wildcats, 8-0, drew
first place votes and 299 points,
the later on a basis of 10 for a
first place vote, nine for second,
etc. The voting was based on
games through last Saturday.
Vanderbilt, which lost to
Southern California in the Los
Angeles Classic for its first set
back of hte season, fell to third.
The Commodores are followed
by St. Joseph’s, Bradley, Provi
dence, Iowa, Brigham Young,
Texas Western and UCLA in
that order.
St. Joseph’s jumped four places
to fourth. The Hawks, winners
of the Quaker City Tournament,
defeated Niagara, Minnesota and
Temple for a 9-2 record.
Bradley, suprisingly set back
164-87 by Indiana, slipped two
notches to fifth. It was the
Braves’ first defeat after 10 vic
tories. Providence, with an 8-1
mark after winning the ECAC
Holiday Festival Tournament,
climbed from 10th to sixth.
Texas Western’s triumph over
Iowa in the Sun Bowl affected
the rankings of both teams. Tex
as Western, unbeaten in 10
games, moved into ninth place.
The Miners were unranked a
week ago. Iowa dropped three
places to seventh.
Brigham Young fell from
sixth to eighth after losing for
the first time this season, 71-
69 to LaSalle. UCLA, last year’s
national champion, climbed back
into the rankings, taking over
10th place after winning the Los
Angeles Classic for the fourth
consecutive time.
Michigan and Minnesota of the
Big Ten dropped out of the rank
ings. The Wolverines, seventh
last week, lost for the fourth
time 89-87 to Arizona State.
Minnesota, No. 9 a week ago,
was beaten by Chicago Loyola
and St. Joseph’s and are 7-3.
The Top Ten, with first-place
votes in parentheses and total
points on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
basis:
1.
Duke (34)
389
2.
Kentucky (5)
299
3.
Vanderbilt (1)
260
4.
St. Joseph’s, Pa.
197
5.
Bradley (1)
195
6.
Providence
186
7.
Iowa (1)
126
8.
Brigham Young
109
9.
Texas Western
57
10.
UCLA
47
Randy Matson was named to
two more honors for his feats
of 1965, being tagged Amateur
Athlete of the Year by the AAU
and Texas’ Sportsman of the
Year.
The latter award will be pre
sented to the Aggie Sophomore at
an awards dinner in February by
the Texas Sports Writers Assoc
iation.
Matson won the title over rep
resentatives of just about every
sport in the state. Tommy No
bis of Texas and Donny Ander
son of Tech were in the runners-
up positions for their grid feats,
while fourth spots went to J. T.
King of Tech from the coaching
ranks.
Baseball was represented in the
voting by Roy Hofheinz of Astro
dome fame . . . and fortune.
Matson won the title for his
feats with the shot when he be
came the first man to put it
over 70 feet with his record 70-7
effort at the SWC Track and
Field Meet last May. The record
was the on a string of 68-8%,
70-7, 67-9, 69-3%, 68-4% and a
scratch.
He also won the discus that
day, had previously won a silver
medal in the Tokyo Olympics, and
recently became a starter on the
basketball team where he is the
fifth-highest scorer and tied for
the lead in re-bounds.
Wellborn, Nichols
Elected Captains
Linebacker Joe Wellborn of
Tomball and safety Jerry Nichols
of San Augustine have been elect
ed captains of the 1965 A&M foot
ball team by their teammates.
Coach Gene Stallings named
game captains during the season
and the players voted for the top
leaders this week.
“It’s the greatest honor I’ve
ever had,” said Wellborn, “but I
felt like all the seniors deserved
it.”
Nichols also felt that it was
a great honor. “I’m real happy
to have the privilege of being
elected captain. I'm thrilled
death but I didn’t expect it
thought many others were m
deserving.”
Both captained their high scl
football teams, Nichols at
Augustine and Wellborn at
Thomas in Houston.
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