THE BATTALION
Pag-e 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 9, 1968
Sports Aplenty
A Study
In Courage
By GARY SHERER
Ags Top Tech For First SWC Wk
By GARY SHERER
“If we’d played like this before,
we would be 3-0 now.”
Trying to define competitive spirit is difficult. It is
also hard to say why a young man wants to compete in
college football.
Yes, there are a lot of reasons you can name, but are
they the true reasons ? It seems the only safe observation
is that a boy wants to compete because the
urge is just naturally there. Coach Gene
Stallings says one of the most important
things a young man should do is compete.
It is natural then, that his players should
possess a lot of this competitive spirit.
One player proved he has all the com
petitive spirit needed to play football on New
Year’s Day.
Barney Harris is a sophomore end from
San Antonio. He was the starting quarter
back for last season’s Fish squad. At the
start of this season, he had been considered
at many spots in the lineup, but late in the
season became the regular weak end.
Barney, along with the rest of the Aggie squad, had
arrived in Dallas on Dec. 26 for final preparation before
the big New Year’s Classic. Four days later, Barney re
ceived the tragic news that his father had died.
The late Mr. Ben Harris was principal of MacArthur
High School in San Antonio, where Barney had starred in
football.
The funeral was set for the morning of New Year’s
Day. Coach Stallings left the decision to come back to
Barney. Just before gametime, Barney suited up for the
game and was in the starting lineup. Many of the 75,000
spectators did not know of the strain that number 15 for
the Aggies was playing under.
His fellow players did know, and they presented Bar
ney one of the two game balls (the other went to Coach
Gene Stallings).
Barney Harris displayed much more than competitive
spirit in that game. It was a courageous performance by
an equally courageous young man.
This was Coach Shelby Met
calf’s observation following the
Aggies’5 94-81 Southwest Confer
ence victory over Texas Tech in
G. Rollie White Coliseum Monday
nig’ht.
It was a must win for the 7-5
Maroon and White as they won
their first SWC game after two
straight setbacks.
BY PRE-SEASON predictions,
this was supposed to be a deter
minate of the team to beat in the
conference race. Both Tech and
the Aggies were named most
prominently by conference ex
perts as the top two teams in the
forecasts.
High Scoring Fish
Slam Temple JC
Tech, coached by Gene Gibson,
had also lost its first two games
and at gametime, the teams were
tied for the cellar with defend
ing champion Southern Methodist.
The Aggies came out and
threatened to run away early as
they built up a fast 9-3 lead. The
crowd of 2,100 (good, considering
the weather) saw Tech then re
verse the tide and a see-saw first
half ensued. The Aggies took a
41-38 halftime lead to the dress
ing room.
After intermission, it was
strictly A&M as the Aggies walk
ed away from the Tech five and
had as much as a 19-point lead
on some fine second half shooting.
THE MAROON and White fin
ished at 59.4 from the field on
a fine 38 for 64. They shot at a
torrid 65.6 norm in the second
half runaway.
Metcalf was especially pleased
with the play of Ronnie Peret
and Harry Bostic.
Peret, 6-9 junior from Plain-
view, garnered 29 points from in
close and also under the guarding
of 6-8 Vernon Paul, Tech’s all
conference center.
Bostic, 6-6 Tyler JC transfer
from Indiana, showed the shoot-
Bill Cooksey and Chuck Smith,
the high scoring one-two punch
of the Aggie Fish, scored 50
points between them Monday
night to lead the Fish to a con
vincing 97-80 victory over Temple
Junior College.
The win over Temple, which
had compiled a 15-1 record going
into the game, gave the Fish a 4-1
overall mark.
Cooksey put the game out of
reach for the Aggies midway
through the first half when he
hit for 13 points in a four minute
stretch. In that time the Fish
increased a 27-20 lead to 43-28.
TEMPLE HAD a 10-9 lead in
the game and were tied at 2-2 and
10-10 for the only times the Ag
gies weren’t in command. With
Cooksey scoring 21 from long
range and inside man Smith and
playmaker Roddy McAlpine each
contributing 12, the Fish raced to
a 55-40 halftime advantage.
In the second half the Aggies
hit an amazing 17 of 21 from the
field for 81 per cent and ended
the game with 35 of 63 for a
55.6 mark. Temple hit on 31 of
81 in the game for a 38.3 mark.
A free shot by Smith with 9:43
left gave the Fish their largest
lead in the contest at 77-56.
Turnovers again were a thorn
in A&M’s side but their strength
on the backboards more than
made up for it. The Fish had 14
turnovers to 8 for Temple but
pulled down 54 rebounds to 40
for Temple. The Aggies have had
more turnovers than their op
ponents in each of the five games
but have also pulled down the
most rebounds in each game.
COOKSEY LED the winners
with 28 points while Smith had
22 and McAlpine and Steve Niles
each contributed 15. Niles pulled
down 16 rebounds to pace the Fish
for the third straight time. Smith
contributed 13 rebounds while
Cooksey had 10.
Marcus Whitson and Frank
in the initial half as the Fish
eased out front 35-23.
Things began to get better for
A&M in the second half, as a
corner jump shot by Cooksey with
13:09 left gave them their biggest
lead at 58-32. McAlpine provided
the spark for the remainder of
the game as the Fish coasted on
in.
A&M HIT ON 32 of 76 from
the field for 42.1 per cent while
holding the Wogs to 24 of 79 for
a 30.4 mark. TCU hit on only
23.5 per cent in the first half to
36.1 for the Aggies.
The winners outrebounded the
visitors 70-59 but committed 12
turnovers to 8 by TCU.
Cooksey, Smith and McAlpine
led the Fish in scoring with 16
points apiece while Niles con
tributed 13 and Tommy Bain
reached the double figure mark
with 10. Niles was the game’s
top rebounder with 19 followed
by Smith with 11 and Cooksey
with 10.
Ron Pierce paced TCU with 18
points while Glenn Monroe added
16 and Mike Shabay had 10.
HARRY BOSTIC
Bryant Named
Chief Speaker
For Grid Fete
UCLA, Cougars
Top AP Ratings
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two unbeaten teams, UCLA
and Houston, remain one-two
while two other unbeatens, St.
Bonaventure and New Mexico,
advanced slightly Monday in The
Associated Press’ major college
basketball poll.
UCLA, 10-0, again drew all but
one first-place vote and Houston,
15-0, got the other vote.
St. Bonaventure ran its record
to 11-0 with two victories last
week and climbed from ninth to
seventh. New Mexico, 13-0 after
a pair of victories last week,
moved from 10th to ninth.
The Top Ten as of Jan. 7, with
first-place votes in parentheses,
Jackson led the Temple offense
with 23 and 18 points, respec-
and total points on a
basis:
10-9-8 etc.
tively.
1.
UCLA (38)
389
The high-scoring Fish jumped
2.
Houston (1)
351
to a 1-0 conference record Satur-
3.
North Carolina .
301
day night as they took a 86-68 vie-
4.
Kentucky
256
tory over Texas Christian Uni-
5.
Tennessee
183
versity.
6.
Utah
159
The game was tied only at 4-4
7.
St. Bonaventure
135
and 9-9 as the Aggies never
8.
Vanderbilt
114
trailed. Neither team could find
9.
New Mexico
89
the basket with any consistency
10.
Columbia
44
Alabama’s Paul Bryant will be
principal speaker at Texas A&M’s
annual football banquet in Sbisa
Hall the night of January 20.
Bryant’s Crimson Tide lost to
the Aggies, 20-16, in the recent
Cotton Bowl Classic at Dallas.
The banquet, sponsored by the
Aggie Club, will also feature the
presentation of the Aggie Heart
Award, a huge trophy that will
go to the senior whom the squad
votes most deserving in such
traits as desire, determination
and leadership. A&M coach Gene
Stallings will make that presen
tation.
Aggie Club members will get
first priority on tickets to the
banquet. Applications have al
ready been mailed to them. Tick
ets to the general public, priced
at $6.50 and which will be limited
because of space and demand
from Aggie Club members, play
ers, their dates and parents and
special guests, will go on sale
Monday, Jan. 15.
Mickey Herskowitz, executive
sports editor of The Houston Post,
will be master of ceremonies.
Bryant, prior to going to Ala
bama, coached four seasons at
A&M, 1953-57, and Stallings
played three years of varsity
football under him here.
ing hand that Metcalf had been
looking for before last night. The
service veteran had come to A&M
with a reputation as a fine shoot
er but had carried less than a
nine-point average into the game.
BOSTIC FINISHED with a
season-high 20 points as his six
second half buckets led the Aggie
onslaught.
Peret and Bostic got support
in the scoring department from
John Underwood with 17 and
Mike Heitmann at 13 points. The
four leading scorers were a com
bined 33 for 53 from the field.
High for Tech was Jim Nelson
with 23 and Paul added 17.
The deficit might have been
larger but 11 misses from the
free throw line held the big lead
down.
It was free throws that helped
and hindered the Aggies in Satur
day night’s disappointing double
overtime loss to Texas Christian
before 5,200 G. Rollie White Coli
seum spectators.
In the first half of the game,
the Aggies grabbed a 34-29 lead
but some free throw misses cut
down on their margin. Both teams
were below-par from the field in
the first twenty minutes as the
Aggies and Horned Frogs col
lected 11 baskets apiece on a total
of 71 shots.
IN THE SECOND half, the
Aggies held onto the lead as their
free throws and field shooting
improved. The Frogs, however,
stayed right with the Maroon and
White and finally tied the game
at 57-57 with 3:49 remaining.
Then, the Aggies seemed to ice
the game with 30 seconds left as
Sonny Benefield’s two free throws
made it 65-61 Aggies. That half
minute was all the Frogs needed,
however, as they ran off two
quick baskets and regulation time
ran out.
The first overtime was more of
the same see-saw scoring as the
Aggies had a chance to win but
Bostic’s hurried shot with four
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seconds left went off target.
In the second and final over
time, Frog forward Mickey Mc
Carty emerged as the Aggies’
fate-sealer. The 6-6 senior from
Pasadena had led a TCU come
back last season in a come-from-
behind Frog win at College Sta
tion. McCarty repeated his per
formance Saturday night as he
accounted for TCU’s last six
points and put the game out of
reach for the Aggies.
26 points and McCarty finished
with 20. Peret was high for the
Aggies with 18 and Underwood
and Billy Bob Barnett added 16
and 13 respectively.
The TCU loss marked the sec
ond overtime loss in a row for
the Maroon and White as they
had bowed to Arkansas in
time, 75-70, at Fayettville.
Two more games are on
Aggies’ agenda before
break. They will be both on
road with the first being Si
day at SMU and then a
from tonight at Texas.
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