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THE BATTALION
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College Station, Texas
Friday, January 5, 1968
Football ‘Expert’ Gets Free Steak
Aggie Five Returns Home With TCI
PAiijjNER
You’ll Always Win
The Showdown
When You Get
Your Duds Done
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
Football is a hush-hush affair
at Texas A&M, at least from the
fans’ view-point.
Two of three Sbisa Dining Hall
cafeteria patrons who correctly
forecast the score of the Aggies’
Cotton Bowl win over Alabama
didn’t show up to collet a free
16-ounce steak.
Patrick J. Decker, English in
structor who graduated in 1959,
was the only steak-taker. Jim
Richards, who also wrote down
20-16 before Jan. 1, didn’t show.
The other winner signed himself
only as Robert Z. on his winning
entry.
The entry form also carried a
iballot asking whether Food Ser
vice Department officials should
announce the secret of success in
predicting the results of A&M’s
last seven games.
Customers voted 2 to 1 not to
announce the secret. Decker
wouldn’t explain how he decided
on 20-16 and said he would have
to wait awhile before trying his
hand on the A&M-LSU 1968 open
er September 20.
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By JOHN PLATZER
After a month on the road, the
Aggie basketballers return to G.
Rollie White Saturday night to
play Texas Christian University
in the second Southwest Confer
ence battle for each team.
T.C.U., a big, strong team with
excellent rebounding, has reeled
off three victories in a row to
even their season mark at 5-5 and
1-0 in conference play.
THE KEY MAN in the Horned
Frogs’ attack is 6-5 senior for
ward Mickey McCarty. McCarty,
a 240 pounder, is averaging 17.5
points per game while pulling
down 136 rebounds in his team’s
10 games. James Cash, a 6-6 cen
ter, and Tom Swift, a 6-5 junior
college transfer from Fullerton,
California, give the Frogs their
strength inside. Cash is getting
about 13 rebounds a game while
Swift brings down about 8 per
outing.
Starting outside for T.C.U. are
Carey Sloan and Bill Swanson.
Sloan, a 6-0 senior, has averaged
8.3 points while Swanson, a 6-0
sophomore, has averaged 0.9.
Tommy Gowan leads the reserves.
T.C.U. opened up their confer
ence season with a win Wednes
day as they defeated Rice 84-75.
Cash was the Frogs’ big man in
the win as he scored 29 points.
Swanson contributed 15 points to
the T.C.U. total and substitute
guards Rick Wittenbraker and
Jeff Harp each had 11 point
nights. The win put the Frogs
in a first place conference tie
with Arkansas, Baylor and Texas
who also scored opening confer
ence wins Wednesday.
THE FROGS had warmed up
for the Rice game by winning
the Holiday Classic Tournament
in Storrs, Connecticut. In their
first game in the tournament
they defeated the University of
Massachusetts 63-56 and then
topped the University of Connec
ticut host team in the champion
ship game 72-65.
Following T.C.U. into town two
nights later will be the Texas
Tech Red Raiders, one of the
conference’s pre-season favorites,
in a rare Monday night game.
Tech is paced by 6-7 forward
Vernon Paul. Paul is one of the
finest players in the conference.
The Red Raiders were shocked
Wednesday when they were up
set by Texas 84-72 on their home
court in Lubbock. Texas, which
didn’t arrive there until three
hours before the game because
of bad weather, jumped into a
46-34 halftime lead in the game.
After Tech had narrowed the
margin to four points in the first
five minutes of the last half,
Texas once again pulled away.
Texas Tech cut the lead back
down to six with 6:35 left but
the Steers went into a stalling
game forcing the Red Raiders
into fouls which allowed the
Longhorns to stretch their lead
to 12 points.
PAUL, A SENIOR from Okla
homa, led the Raiders in the
contest with 19 points and 10
rebounds. Jerry Haggard, a 5-10
junior guard from Lubbock, had
17 points in the game while Joe
Dobbs, a 6-5 junior from Lubbock,
had 11 and Randy Sherrod, a 6-5
sophomore guard, contributed 10.
Texas Tech was outrebounded
in the game 35-33 and hit on only
44.6 per cent of their field goals.
The Red Raiders’ second confer
ence game is Saturday night in
Waco against the red-hot Baylor
Bears. If Tech is to uphold their
pre-season rating they will have
to make a comeback in the Bay
lor game settihg up their game
with the Aggies Monday.
After two impressive wins gave
the Aggies the championship of
the Seattle Legion Invitational
Tournament over the holidays,
they were tripped up Wednesday
in their Southwest Conference
opener by Arkansas 75-70 in
overtime.
After the Razorbacks seeming
ly had the game wrapped up in
regulation time, Ronnie Peret
sank an easy layup for the Ag
gies as time ran out to knot the
score at 60-60. A&M had the ball
out of bounds with only one sec
ond left and trailed by two when
Peret got loose underneath.
ARKANSAS sank nine free
throws in the overtime period to
put the game away. The Aggies
came from 10 points behind in
the second half to take a 49-43
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JOHN UNDERWOOD
BILLY BOB BARNETT
lead before the Razorbacks came
back to retake the lead. Arkansas
led 35-29 at the half.
Peret led the Aggies in the
contest with 19 points and 18
rebounds while Billy Bob Barnett
added 17 points and Mike Heit-
mann and John Underwood each
had 14. Arkansas’ Robert Mac-
Kenzie was the game’s top point
maker with 21.
Barnett and Underwood were
each continuing on their fine per
formances in the Seattle Tourna
ment where they both were
named to the all-tournament team
as the Aggies took home the first
place trophy.
The Aggies edged San Fran
cisco University in the tourna
ment’s championship game 77-75.
San Francisco, the alma-mater of
Boston Celtic great Bill Russell,
is an annual power which gave
the Aggie win even more mean
ing.
THE GAME was a see-saw af
fair with the Aggies never able
to pull to more than a four-point
lead in the second half while San
Francisco was able to tie the
game only once at 65-65. After
the tie Mike Hazel stole the ball
for a two-pointer to give the
Aggies a lead they never lost.
Free throws played a major part
in the contest as A&M hit on 19
of 24 from the line and San
Francisco hit 19 of 26.
Barnett paced the Aggies’ scor
ing for the night wtih 25 while
Underwood contributed 19.
In their first game of the tour
nament the Aggies upset the host
ing Seattle Chiefs, alma-mater
of Los Angeles Laker star Elgin
Baylor, 80-72. Harry Bostic hit
four straight points with two
minutes left in the game to break
a 70-70 tie and assure the Aggies
of the win. A&M was hot from
the free throw line with 30 of 36.
DESPITE fouling out with 7:48
left in the game, Mike Heitmann
led the Aggies’s scoring in the
game with 21 points. Heitmann
hit for 20 of his points in the
first half.
Also scoring in double figures
for the winners for the night
were Barnett and Terry Trippet
with 16 apiece and Underwood
with 12.
The two tournament wins
broke a three game losing streak
for the Aggies and combined with
the Arkansas loss gives
6-4 season mark going into Sail
day’s 8 p.m. game.
The Aggie Band will beonki
at the game which opens Ai!
home conference season. A
is a must to put the Aggiea
in the thick of the conference
chase.
PRECEEDING the varsij
game, the Aggie Fish will
their conference season
the T.C.U. Wogs. The Fish
a 1-1 record on the season.
Fish will play Temple Jui
College in a preliminary to
Texas Tech game Monday.
Pacing the Fish in their fi|
two games have been Bill
sey, a guard, and Chuck
a forward. Cooksey is scorinj
a 23.5 clip while Smith has a:
mark and leads the team with
rebounds. Steve Niles, a 6-11«
ter, has averaged 12.5 pointu
? ? rebounds. Other key freshn
players have been Rod McAlp
and Donny Berry.
The Fish began their sea:
with a 77-70 victory over Heni
son County Junior College
then lost to strong Lon Moi
Junior College 92-81.
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