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.
It actually would be better for
the boy to state his preference
and then get on with the busi
ness of playing football with his
college.
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