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EC g ■ MEETING THE FANS ra i Hophomore standout Terry Trippet obliges an Aggie cage an with an autographed program following the Ags' come- ro Fr irom-behind victory over SMU Tuesday night. FROM THF Sideii ined By Larry R. Jerden 1966 Aggie gridders continue to ap- ear in the news as the post- .tor’j trfjason rash of all-this and all- thJn«t teams appear and the pro is will jgn-up continues. Aude McLean, the talented end hwSWt appear on the Buffalo cer«i»«Rter next year, and guard Gary Lilian iiovar were named to Georgia ® aC *t'ech’s all-opponent squad, ppror^ Another note on that game ^ho iomes from a friend-of-a-friend- 'orm r)f-mine who is a fullback for the i^JJpfilow Jackets. It seems they r, ydBven’t forgotten the last Ag- ^cap ‘ffe game, and this isn’t surpris- ;" n g .ng since it was a 14-10 A&M b cap victory. But this player goes on say that the Aggies are about p number one point of discus sion among the Tech gridders be- ^-^ause of the loss, and they plan m V o^fight back in full fury in next 'ear’s opener. feut then the Gator Bowl rtodeli Kamps will be facing an even T, Rougher Aggie squad, and one ^ just as much determination “I received usi^aid, “but I (Contract.” the last! Linebacker Joe Wellborn, who Rny considered as All-SWC '^^naterial, has signed with the FOBjJw York Giants for an undis- ^uldsed sum. He’s definitely the viOR^iard-hitting type pros are made TE^. a bonus,” Wellborn didn’t get a no-cut j op tract.” S zJput the big game now is played ^pistrjth a bouncing ball thrown s B'ough a loop, and A&M’s squad | l ' a c { h - f cagers is currently dribbling ilcng with a 6-4 record, including e Mesday night’s victory over d Lc8fJpU in their first SWC match, set large part of this win was he result of the rebounding ^ptuation. The Aggies dominated hefjle boards 48-23, following true * oad o form. sun^r’ ven they came out on lb short end of the score in rne L_ All-College Tournament in cred' ■ftlahoma City, the Ags claimed le boards all the way. They 1 Bnt down to Virginia Tech 101- I, but out-grabbed the victorious •bblers 70-54. The chief con- ■buters to this collection of Rse-ball snagging are Big John •asley and Randy Matson, with Ipport from Dick Stringfellow, Irry Trippet, Tim Timmerman Id scrappy Dick Rector. ■Eddie Dominguez has had the fi’ ; .est fouls of any team mem- |r after ten games with three, Idle Randy Matson has been Idstled down 42 times and 0 :ed out four times. Rector Is been the sharpest shooter Jth 57.6 per cent from the floor. ^'(lA’s hit 38 of 66 attempts. f jI^P° rtsrnans ^iP Las again be- ^rifWnie something on an issue, fS® 106 no ^ ess t ^ ian 9,000 Aggies jontiWiieezed” through the halftime ‘'blisW the Cotton Bowl only to see ^jfylor get the trophy. The stu- * d 11 ^ Lody received the challange his 4 win the cup well, and conduc- K themselves in what could be 1 lid a couragous manner in the Ice of some rather degrading ^Jeatment by others, including | Members of the prize-winning {JSfool. Though the A&M campus was smeared with paint three times during the football season, not one Aggie car left on a mid night mission similar to last year’s caravan to Waco to set off their bonfire. The students in Aggieland are justly disappointed, and more than a few are bitter at what they feel an unfair decision by the sportmanship committee. Its a hard pill to swallow, but all we can do is continue to display the good conduct and respect that have become noticible during the last semester. And while some recent offi ciating was probably less perfect than would be desired, under no circumstances should the referees be bombarded with paper or boos. The action comes fast in basketball, and the decisions are just as tough to make as in any other sport. The Ags have only one more home game this semester, the January 11 contest with Arkan sas. The Hogs came on strong in the pre- SWC season, and may hold surprises for the “experts.” Saturday the Cadets meet the Owls in Houston, return for the Porker game, then hit the road for four straight against Baylor, Texas, Houston and TCU. The Baylor game January 15 and the February 5 match with TCU are both to be televised at 2 p.m. The Aggie fish will begin their quest for the SWC Frosh title in the early game with Rice, then accompany the varsity on their road tour. Both squads will then return to G. Rollie White February in action against Tex as Tech. In the “information everybody wants to know” department: 404,121 people watched SWC basketball last season with an average of 4,592 . . . about the same size crowd as was in G. Rollie White Tuesday night. Another hot tip: A&M has had five SWC scoring leaders scince 1915. The first was A. C. Forbes in 1920 with 123 points in 16 games. He was followed four years later by Ox Darby who tallied 184 points in 20 games. It was a long stretch till the next Aggie champ scorer: 37 years. By 1961 the season was 14 games when Carroll Broussard pumped in 339 points, and two years later Bennie Lenox tied with Kendell Rhine, the Dupo Dipper from Rice, for the high- point mark with 352 points. Last year marked the fifth Aggie SWC scoring leader as Big John Beasley broke all rec ords with 395 points. In all-time marks, the Aggies hold the dubious honor of hav ing’ the most free throws scored against them by a single player in a game. First place in this hotly-contested division of statis tics came in 1955 when Raymond Downs of TU hit 23. Dick O’ Neal of TCU is second on the list with 22 in 1956, also against the Aggies, but I’ll bet it wasn’t in G. Rollie White. THE BATTALION Thursday, January 6, 1966 College Station, Texas Page 7 Agreement Needed On Draft Inkings By HAROLD V. RATLIFF Something needs to be done about these fiascos at bowl games where the pro football scouts move in and make the signing of players the top news. It’s gotten so the bowl game becomes quite secondary and the fans start wondering if it’s a meeting of the pros or a college football spectacle. All they hear is that the pros are going to sign tackle Bill Slocum at the goal posts when the game is over, with hints that he already has been signed sub rosa. Take the Bluebonnet Bowl at Houston, a very fine operation that came up this year with a top game—Tulsa University vs. Tennessee. It compared with any of the bowl games. But Coach Dobbs of Tulsa spent almost as much time claim ing Dallas had promised not to sign his star tackle, Willie Townes, as he did being inter viewed on the game. As soon as it was over the players had to be run down and asked if and with whom they had signed. During the week of the game, about all the news concerned whether this or that player was going to sign a pro contract and it took ingenuity on the part of the writers to put the bowl game itself in the headlines. It’s getting this way at all of the post season games and there really is no use for it. Why can’t the pros wait until the game is over before making an approach? Their answer, of course, will be that the other league is try ing to steal the player from un der their noses. Then, why not work out a system of letters of intent as do the colleges, whereby a boy signs a promise to play with one of the pro clubs. The pros ought to be able to agree among them selves to honor such a system— especially if the colleges demand ed it and enforced their demands. Under the letter of intent in college, the player can not go to any other team without for feiting a couple of years of eli gibility. The pros could follow the same pattern. No player would jump one of the clubs if he knew he would have to lay out a couple of years for doing it. There would be no violation of the amateur rule if a boy merely agreed to sign a pro contract after the bowl game. He’s go ing to sign one anyway and he wouldn’t be accepting any money to make him a pro before he finished up in college. Of course, the NCAA, which has its faults, too, would have to do away with its recently announced rule that says a boy can’t even state a preference be fore he plays in the bowl game. This emerged before the Gator Bowl when Donny Anderson, Texas Tech’s great back, seemed on the verge of saying whether he preferred Green Bay or Hous ton. 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