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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, January 4, 1967
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Ags Start Year With 69-66 Win
START THE MUSIC!
A&M’s Billy Bob Barnett, momentarily Rice. With Barnett are Ag-gies Dick Rector
motionless, is surrounded by both friend and (12) and Ronnie Peret (44) and Owls Lar-
foe as he attempts to retain possession of ry Miller (33) and Farrar Stockton (21).
the ball in Tuesday night’s exciting win over (Photo by Russell Autrey)
By JERRY GRISHAM
What better way is there for a
basketball team to start off the
new year than with a win? The
Texas Aggies did just that last
night in G. Rollie White Coliseum
as they defeated the visiting Rice
Owls 69-66.
The win marked the Aggies’
first Southwest Conference bas
ketball victory in as many starts
and their second win of the sea
son against eight losses.
Rice grabbed the lead in the
early minutes of the game, but
the inability of the Owls to de
fense the Aggies without fouling
and the hot hand of the Maroon
and White at the free throw line
pushed the Aggies to an 11-point
lead with 3:19 to go in the half.
In the first half the Aggies
were outshot from the floor with
12 field goals for the Owls and 11
by the Farmers. But the Aggies
hit 14 of 18 charity shots to 7 of
16 for the visitors and went to
the dressing room at the half
with a 36-29 lead.
Johnny Underwood was the
pace-setter for the Aggies in the
first half as he connected on five
field goals and one free throw.
The second half was devoted
primarily to a game of catch-up
by the Owl five. Behind the
shooting of Larry Miller, who was
the game’s top scorer with 17
Fish Stomp Owlets
77-49 In Prelims
Bryant Says Short-Changed!
With Best Team Ever Seen
Texas A&M’s Fish turned a
basketball game into a rout as
they steam-rolled the Rice Owl
ets, 77-49 in a prelude to the
varsity game in G. Rollie White
Coliseum Tuesday night.
The victory evened the Fish
record at two wins against two
defeats for the season.
The Fish, who led 34-27 at half
time, put on an awesome display
of offense in the second half,
combined with a stubborn defense
to outscore the Owlets 43-22.
A&M hit 32 of 68 from the
floor, for 47 per cent, and held
the Owlets to 20 of 66 for a cold
30 per cent. In free throws the
Fish also topped the Owlets with
15 of 20 while the fledgling Rice
unit hit 9 of 19.
Only on rebounds did the Owl
ets come close to the hot Aggie
five. The Fish grabbed 51 re
bounds and the Owlets pulled
down 47.
Bill Brown of the Aggie Fish
was the game’s high scorer with
21 points. Second was John
Gowdy of Rice with 18.
All five starters for the Fish
hit in the double numbers. Oliver
Diggers scored 17, Mike Heitman
14, Mac Hooten 11 and Mike
Hazel 10.
The next game for the Fish
will come Jan. 10 when they host
the TCU Polliwogs.
Louisville In Hot Pursuit
Behind UCLA For Top Spot
By The Associated Press
Louisville, which is winning
games more rapidly than UCLA
but impressing people less, gets
two chances to gain ground on
the Bruins this week in The As
sociated Press major college bas
ketball poll.
The Cardinals took their 11-0
record against Tulsa Tuesday
night, and then headed for a bat
tle with North Texas State Thurs
day night. But, maybe, before
trying to impress the voters they
had better take a look at what
happened to North Carolina.
The Tar Heels, who finished
third in the latest vote-counting
behind top-ranked UCLA and
runner-up Louisville, got the only
first-place vote the Bruins didn’t
from the 39 sports writers and
sportscasters balloting in the poll.
While second-ranked Louisville
has two games scheduled, UCLA
plays only one, against Washing
ton State Saturday night. North
Carolina gets two chances to get
back up there, meeting Wake For
est Wednesday night and Duke
Saturday night.
While the Big Three held their
spots, four teams moved into the
elite group — Providence, Kan
sas, Bradley and Mississippi
State. At the same time, St.
John’s, N. Y., Vanderbilt and
Michigan State dropped out.
The Top Ten, with first-place
votes in parentheses, season rec
ords and total points on a 10-9-8
etc. basis:
1.
UCLA (38) 8-0
389
2.
Louisville 1-0
339
3.
North Carolina (1) 9-0
309
4.
New Mexico 9-1
215
5.
Houston 11-1
168
6.
Tex. Western 8-2
108
7.
Providence 8-2
93
8.
Cincinnati 8-1
92
9.
Kansas 9-2
51
10.
Bradley 9-2
44
Miss. State 8-0
44
AN OPEN LETTER
Hello Ag-gies,
For several weeks we have been running our adver
tisement in the Battalion telling you about Aggieland
Recreation Center located behind Betty’s Fashions in the
Redmond Terrace Center, College Station, Texas.
We’ve told you that we have two five by ten billiard
tables, two five by ten snooker tables, sixteen four by
eight billiard tables, seven pin ball machines and other
games. That we are open 7 days each week from 8 a. m.
till midnight. That no alcoholic beverages are sold or
allowed. That we sell billiard supplies, jointed cue sticks,
etc.
Hundreds of Aggies have visited our Recreation
Center, and we believe most of them were impressed. If
you have never visited the Aggieland Recreation Center,
we hope you will very soon. We believe you will like what
you see.
AGGIELAND RECREATION CENTER
Redmond Terrace Center
College Station, Texas
P. S. By the way, the girls play here!
By WILL GRIMSLEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS (A>) _ Coach
Paul Bear Bryant of Alabama
feels short-changed that what he
called the greatest football team
he has ever seen is only No. 3 in
the national rankings, but he’s
not ready to back a new formula
for selecting the champion.
He said Tuesday that he could
not subscribe to the proposal by
Michigan State’s Coach Duffy
Daughterty that the title be de
cided by a series of eliminations
among sectional winners at the
end of the year.
“If it could be done within the
framework of the present bowls,
I might be for it,” Bryant said.
“But I’m strictly a bowl man and
I wouldn’t go for any plan that
would cut down the number of
Southeastern Conference teams
that might play in the bowls.”
Alabama, one of five South
eastern teams which figured in
postseason games, was an impres
sive 34-7 winner over Nebraska,
the Big Eight champion, in the
Sugar Bowl.
Florida beat Georgia Tech in
the Orange Bowl 27-12, Tennes
see whipped Syracuse in the Ga
tor Bowl 18-12, Georgia smother
ed Southern Methodist in the Cot
ton Bowl 24-9, and Texas beat
Mississippi in the Bluebonnet 19-
0.
Alabama has been by far the
most active of the bowl partici
pants, playing in 20, winning 12,
losing 6 and tying 2. It has
played in six different bowls.
Perhaps its most explosive vic
tory was the rout here Monday
of the Cornhuskers, a team that
had lost only one game during the
season.
Quarterback Lenny Stabler hit
All-America end Ray Perkins
with a 45-yard pass on the first
play of the game and the small
but quick Tide proceeded to score
a smashing triumph. The score
might have been doubled if Bry
ant hadn’t played second- and
third-stringers.
“We could have beaten any
team in the country out there
yesterday. I am convinced of it,”
Bryant said. He didn’t preclude
Notre Dame, the national cham
pion, and Michigan State, the
two teams ranked ahead of his
team this year.
“This is not only the greatest
college team I have been associat
ed with, it’s the greatest I’ve ever
seen,” Bryant added.
He got another vote from
Coach Bob Devaney of Nebraska,
who admitted “This must be the
best team in the country.”
Bradley’s Surgery
Set For Friday
AUSTIN, Tex. <A>) _ Bill Brad
ley, outstanding Texas quarter
back, will undergo surgery on his
right knee Friday at an Austin
hospital.
An athletic department spokes
man said Tuesday that doctors
will remove cartilage from the
knee, injured in the game with
Indiana Oct. 1.
Despite the injury, Bradley
played most of the remaining
games.
points, Rice pulled to within six
points of the Aggies with 5:40
remaining.
The Owls three times whittled
the Aggie lead down to one point,
but crucial shots by Billy Bob
Barnett and Ronnie Peret for the
Aggies maintained the slim Ag
gie lead. With seven seconds
showing on the clock, a free
throw by Sonny Benefield pulled
the Aggies to their final three-
point margin.
Rice outshot A&M from the
floor, hitting 25 of 51 for a hot
49 per cent, while the Aggies
scored on 23 of 50 for 46 per cent.
In the free-throw department the
Aggies hit 23 of 32 and the Owls
tallied 16 of 24.
The Aggies decisively control
led the boards as they pulled in
39 rebounds to 29 for Rice.
In scoring Greg Williams and
Bill Doty of Rice both scored 16
points to back up the high scorer
Miller.
The Aggies had four in the
double digits as Benefield led
with 16. Underwood scored 14,
Barnett hit 13 and Peret 12.
Barnett was the game’s top re
bounder with 12.
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