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ir r : Jid t m |i| i til iliijii^ n Two Squads Named For Spring Game A hig-hly competitive, leather popping battle is in store for football fans who attend Texas A&M’s Maroon-White game here Saturday afternoon. The Aggie spring squad was divided evenly, with QB Char lie Riggs leading the Maroons and QB Edd Hargett leading the Whites, and the coaching staff was split with Dee Powell heading the Marroon staff and Bud Moore heading the Whites. Separate practices were slated for Tues day and Thursday in preparation for the 3 p.m. Saturday game at Kyle Field. The game will be sponsored by the T-Association, the A&M on- campus lettermen. Admission will be $1 for everyone over 12 years of age, except A&M stu dents who will be admitted on their activity cards. There will be no reserve seats so the early arrivals will get the choice loca tions. The T-Association, headed by Jim Singleton of San Antonio, has adopted the slogan: “The Aggies Are Back” for this con test and for the 1967 season. Opinions vary on which team will win. Hargett has tailback Wendell Housley, strong guard Maurice (Mo) Moorman and strong- tackle Rolf Krueger as his most heralded offensive threats. Riggs, on the other hand, has split end Jimmy Adams, wing- back Bob Long, fullback Bill Sal lee and tailbacks Ross Brupbach- er and Arthur Cooley as offen sive threats. Defensively, the Maroons boast of end Gary Kitchens, guards Winston Beam and Harvey As- chenbeck, linebackers Bill Hobbs and Ivan Jones and safety Cur ley Hallman. The Whites have such defensive aces as end Grady Allen, guard Lynn Odom, line backers Jim Piper, Buster Adami and Robert Cortez and halfbacks Tom Sooy and Jack Whitmore. Both teams have a good punt er because Steve O’Neal will han dle that chore for both sides. Hobbs likely will do the place kicking for the Maroons and Sooy for the Whites. Coach Dee Powell’s aides for the Whites include Elmer Smith, Don Watson, Jack Pardee, Ralph Smith and Bobby Joe Conrad, plus student assistants Larry Lee, Dan Westerfield, John Poss and Gary Kovar. Coach Bud Moore’s White staff has Loyd Taylor, Jack Hurlbut, Lide Huggins and Jake Helms, plus student assistants Ken Lam- kin, Joe Wellborn, Ken McLean and Ray Gene Hinze. This past Saturday marked the last time all the players worked together. They will work out twice this week in separate units and then play the spring game Saturday. In Saturday’s scrimmage, the first offense finally caught up to the first defense and came out on top. After Whitmore picked off a Hargett pass on the first of fenses series against their de fensive counterparts, the offense took the ball in on the next two series. The scores came on a Housley end run after a pitchout from Riggs and a Hargett-to-Adams pass for the other. All the series started on the eight yard line and the offense was given four plays to get the ball in the end zone. Both first-team units were im pressive against the second team squads. The defense bottled up the second offense in three series and the offense scored four times in an equal number of tries against the second defense. The two squads will work out separately for tonight’s session and for one more this week be fore the Saturday matchup. | mm | p sj Good Field, No Hit Season Sums Up 1967 Aggie Baseball By GARY SHERER The Aggie baseball team fared just about as well as a fourth place team should, in the final Southwest Conference statistics released Monday. Conference hitting stats told the story as far as the Maroon and White were concerned. They were next-to-last in hit ting and their opponents aver age was the next-to-highest in the conference. However, the Aggies finished as the top fielding team in the SWC with a .965 fielding aver age. This was brought about by the fewest errors in the league (20). They were second in dou ble plays with 12. Pitcher Rocky Thompson proved not only to be the work horse of the Aggie squad, but also for the conference. Thomp son appeared in 14 of the Aggies 15 conference games to run away with the total appearances title. Thompson also was crowned the control pitcher of the league, with only 12 walks in 68% in nings, for a 1.58 per game aver age. Walter Varvel gained recogni tion, as he appeared in 16% SWC innings and did not give up an earned run. The former A&M Consolidated pitcher also had the top full season ERA with 1.43 in 44% innings. Shortstop Mike Arrington led the SWC with stolen bases with six and Bob Long tied for the runner-up spot with four. Ar rington topped the full season theft marks with 15 steals. Hitting was, in the end, the team’s downfall. The Aggies hit .213 as a team and their 7-8 con ference record speaks well for such a low average. Coach Tom Chandler had the team hustling all the time and the young team was able to capi talize on its opponents’ mistakes to produce some of their wins. Next year should see a more experienced team on the field as only three players are seniors (Arrington, Tommy Chiles and Chuck Malitz). Campus Security Seeks Stolen Art Campus security officers at Texas A&M are looking for art- loving thieves who struck A&M’s Space Science Center this week. Three pictures valued at $75 each were stolen, reported Cam pus Security Chief Ed Powell. He said the thieves took pictures from the hallways of the first, second and third floors. 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