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Thursday, June 9, 1966
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College Station, Texas
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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
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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
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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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