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: ^ ' ' ie Exes Launch Stadium Proiect - • ; THE Thursday, June 9, 1966 BATTALION College Station, Texas Page 7 < ( Tit c 1 00 JAP f GRID GREAT CROW RETURNS ohn David Crow, an All-American and the only Texas V&M football player ever to win the Heisman Trophy, came jack to the campus recently to help the Bryan-College Sta- ion Aggie Quarterback Club launch its 1966 membership rive and announce plans for the Kyle Field expansion pro gram. “When I heard that Gene Stallings had been hired, ny first though was to apply for a job. I knew we’d win ome games,” Crow said. 14 Golfers Beat Pros In Ag Meet Fourteen golfers, headed by Dewey H. Hoke of Navasota, beat ihe pros in Texas A&M’s 1966 International Golf Tournament iponsored by the Former Stu- ients Association. A&M golf course manager juke Harrison announced tourney results. Entrants tried to beat fired by pro golfers Bobby iichols and Billy Martindale of i&M. Hoke, senior chemistry major >f418 Horlock, Navasota, gouged 62 out of Navasota’s August lorst Country Club to take top wnors. Other division winners were: Former students — Leo E. loodman Jr., Amarillo, 64; A&M boosters — Tom Wey- nouth, Dallas, 67, and High school — (tie) Duke But- tr, A&M Consolidated, and John 5. Mahaffey, Kerrville, 64s. Twenty-one men beat or tied iar rounds by Nichols and Mar- indale at A&M May 2. Match ing or beating 70 were 13 former students, three high school and four A&M students. Others beating the pros were Walter Swank, Victoria, 66; Bill Bradford, A&M student from San Antonio, and John West, Bryan, 67s; Billy Carter, Midland, and Sam Rutledge, Amarillo, 68s; Also John Burton of Baton Rouge and Bruce Vaughn, Brady, A&M students; John Moore, Mid land, and Ralph Grant, Shreve port, all with 69s. Seven shot 70s, including Tom Shelton, College Station; John Glover, Wichita Falls; Howard McClelland and David Dupree, Shreveport; Porter Garner and Louis Kowalski, Laredo and James Christopher, Amarillo. Hoke’s winning card carried no above par figures. He birdied Nos. 1, 10, 13 and 18 to shoot a five-under-par 67 at Navasota’s 6,000 yard, par 72 course. The chemistry major is a five handi cap golfer. Expansion To Increase Seating Tearing a page out of Gene Stallings’ “Make Something Hap pen” book, some 1,000 “Aggie Exes” have launched a statewide drive to enlarge and improve Tex as A&M’s historic and antiquated football plant — Kyle Field. The stadium expansion project, headed by L. F. Peterson, mem ber of the Texas A&M Board and a Fort Worth oil operator, is a two-phase endeavor. Phase One will begin immed iately following A&M’s final home game this season (Arkansas Oct. 29) and is due to be complet ed in time for the 1967 season. It includes an additional 16,000 good seats in high-rise cantilevered upper decks on both sides, install ing high intensity lights to 100 candle power, renovating under stadium facilities, adding exten sive parking space near the stad ium and increasing and improv ing traffic arteries to and from the stadium. Phase One will increase the total seating capacity to 55,000. Starting date of Phase Two has not been determined yet but it will include the lowering of the present playing area, taking out the track, adding seats closer to the field on both sides and closing in both ends to form a bowl. The present “Aggie Horseshoe” on the north end will be moved in closer to the playing field. Peterson’s steering committee will be active in nine district cam paigns across the state. The immediate goal is to raise $1.5 million for Phase One. Some 8,000 choice seats will be offered in four types of options, ranging in price from $150 to $250, will raise $750,000 and the other $750,000 will be a revenue bond issue. Option holders will have a preferential choice to buy the best seats in the stadium for 10 years. Some 1,000 seat options already have been pledged in the Bryan- College Station areas in a kickoff drive launched by the local Aggie Quarterback Club. Various reasons are behind the “Do It Now” attitude toward en larging and improving the foot ball plant. Aggies everywhere are confident Stallings soon will have A&M among the nation’s grid powers. A&M’s enrollment next fall will be 11,000-plus and a 15 per cent increase is expected annually after that. 4 Tracksters Sign With Ags Texas A&M track coach Char ley Thomas has added four more outstanding recruits to A&M’s growing list. Signed to scholarships are James Biggs of Taft, Ronnie Lightfoot of Copperas Cove, Ed Tresp of Dallas and Scotty Hen dricks of McKinney. Biggs is a hurdler; Lightfoot is a weightman; Tresp is a half- miler; and Hendricks is a sprint- All of the signees participated in the state meet in Austin earlier in the spring. CO-CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY Billy Crain, captain of the 1966 Texas A&M baseball team, presents Southwest Conference co-championship trophy to athletic director Barlow (Bones) Irvin. The Ag-gies tied with TCU, Baylor and Texas for the championship. The COFFEE LOFT Announces Its SUMMER INTERNATIONAL NIGHTS Each Friday 8 - 12 p. m. Everyone Welcome A different national group will introduce its country and folk ways each week. Also Sunday Evenings 6:30 A series on contemporary Christian Issues Example: Dr. Ferenc F. Nagy on Eastern Europe and Communism The Parable (Produced For N. Y. World’s Fair) £: I I xj X* I g; School Officials Set Golf Tourney School administrators and supervisors attack Texas A&M’s golf course Sunday in the sixth tournament of the annual June conferences. More than 30 entries are ex pected to compete for three trophies and other prizes in the Health and Physical Education Department-sponsored event. The School Administrators and Supervisors conferences meet in the Memorial Student Center June 13-15. Tourney awards will be made at a Wednesday morn ing general assembly in the MSC Ballroom. Entrants play by the Callaway handicap system for low score, low net and high score trophies. Golf balls are awarded for birdies and holes-in-one. Bellville Supt. Robert Turner won medalist honors in the 1965 tourney, beating Truett A. Roach, Andrews superintendent, in sud den death by card. Low net tie was taken by Dr. John Rogers, University of Texas counselor, over C. C. Shumate, assistant superintendent at Sinton. Bob Allen, Williamson County schools administrative assistant from Austin, captured the high score trophy. Entrants may play their com petitive round any time Sunday over A&M’s 6,450 yard, par 70 course. 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