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Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, January 12, 1968 . Fish Scorers Led By Cooksey, Smith n ■ \ By JOHN PLATZER Chuck Smith and Bill Cooksey, the Aggie Fish basketball team’s own version of Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside, continue to be the outstanding players in their team’s drive to a 3-1 record. Cooksey, a 6-2 guard from Houston, has been the outside sharpshooter for Coach Jim Cul pepper’s cagers and leads the squad in scoring with a 22.8 av erage. He has hit on 41 of his 94 long range shots for a 43.6 mark. While in high school, Niles led San Antonio Lee to the 4A state championship along with McAlpine and Andy Harris. McALPINE, a 5-9 guard, is the fourth member of the squad with a double figure scoring av erage. He has an 11.5 average and leads the team in free throw shooting, making 26 of 30 for an 86.7 mark. Danny Berry is averaging 4.8 points while Tommy Bain is at 4.3 along with Billy Hodge. Har ris is carrying a 2.8 average. Aggie Five At Dallas In each of the Fish games Cooksey has either led or been tied for the lead in his team’s scoring. He led with 24 points against Henderson, 23 against Lon Morris and 28 against Tem ple and tied Smith and Roddy McAlpine with 16 against Texas Christian University. The Fish next game is Monday night when they put their 1-0 conference record on the line against the Texas Yearlings in San Antonio. TURN OVER Purdue University forward Rick Mount (10) lands upside down after completing- a shot during game with University of Wisconsin at Lafayette, Ind. Purdue Boilermakers won, 99-79. (AP Wirephoto) Indiana’s Pont Is Named SMITH, PERHAPS the best all-around player on the team, is the Fish inside threat. He is second on the squad in both College Coach Of Year scoring and rebounding. Smith is averaging 20.3 points and 12.8 rebounds. The 6-4 forward from Odessa has hit on a fantastic 27 of 39 shots from the floor for a 69.2 mark. His best single game was against Henderson when he scored 21 points and pulled down 15 rebounds. The leading rebounder and third top scorer on the team is 6-10 Steve Niles. He has hit at a 13.3 scoring mark and has averaged 15 rebounds. He has made 20 of 44 shots for a 45.5 mark with his best scoring game coming against Lon Morris with 18 and his best rebounding game against TCU with 19. NEW YORK (A>)_ John Pont, who pulled off a 100-1 feat in leading Indiana University through a 9-1 season and into the Rose Bowl, was named col lege football’s Coach of the Year Thursday by his fellow coaches. The 39-year-old Miami of Ohio graduate was voted the annual Kodak Award in a poll of 2,000 members of the American Foot ball Coaches Association. The same group elected Cecil “Scrappy” Moore, who is retiring after 42 years at the University of Chattanooga, the Kodak Award for having done the best coach ing job in small college ranks. Moore’s 42nd Chattanooga team had a 7-3 record and gave CASA CHAPULTEPEC OPEN 11:00 A. M. CLOSE 10:00 P. M. 1315 COLLEGE AVENUE — PHONE 822-9872 [SPECIALS GOOD IFRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY Fiesta Dinner Guacamole Salad, Beef Taco, Three Enchiladas, Beans, Rice, Tortillas and Hot Sauce, Candy. K z:: r $i.09 TACO DINNER Two Beef Tacos, One Chili Con Qucso, Guacamole Salad, Tortillas and Hot Sauce, Dessert. Regular $1.25 the slim, gray-haired grandfather a career mark of 171 victories, 146 defeats and 13 ties. Pont took a Hoosier team that had won only one of 10 games in 1966 and turned it into a winner that placed fourth in The Asso ciated Press national rankings. “Discipline and imagination were the trademarks of our team,” Pont said. “The boys pos sessed tremendous spirit and drive. They didn’t believe they could be beaten. They were a team that would make any coach look good.” Pont said that at Indiana this year he and his staff picked the best 22 players and decided to forget about replacements. “We sought to instill responsi bility in them from the begin ning,” he added. “I called no more than 10 per cent of the plays. The other 90 per cent of the plays were left to our quarterback, Harry Gonso. “I believe in giving this re sponsibility to the players and we get more out of them. They learned to believe in themselves. They were a remarkable group.” The Hoosiers lost only one game — to Minnesota, 33-7 — but came back for a titanic 19-14 triumph over Purdue and the great Leroy Keyes. They lost to top-ranked Southern California in the Rose Bowl, 14-3. Moore’s Chattanooga teams played and beat larger football powers. Scrappy got his nickname be cause of his desire to play bigger opponents. A television man at the pre sentation Thursday referred to Moore as “Cecil.” “Cecil?” Moore exclaimed in credulously. “I haven’t been called ‘Cecil’ since my ma got mad at me when I was six.” FIFTH TRIPLE TIE CHICAGE (A>) _ When Indi ana, Purdue and Minnesota fin ished in a three-way tie for the Big Ten football title it marked the fifth triple tie in the history of the conference. By GARY SHERER The Texas Aggie basketballers take to the road this weekend with a Saturday night game at Southern Methodist. Dallas’ Moody Coliseum is the site of the 8 p.m. Southwest Con ference encounter. THE MUSTANGS are experi encing the same problems their football counterparts had this season. SMU took both the SWC football and basketball titles last season. This season, the football team had a bad year and the basketball team isn’t doing much better. SMU takes a dismal 1-11 record into tomorrow night’s game and an 0-3 conference mark. Long time assistant Bob Prew itt took over the head coaching job this season from E. O. (Doc) Hayes. Hayes directed the Mus tangs to several conference titles in his many years at the Mustang helm but decided to retire after last season. PREWITT FACES the problem that faced the Aggies’ Shelby Metcalf last season. SMU is load ed down with sophomores and inexperience. Their attack is built around two fine players, 6-7 Lynn Phillips and 6-3 Bill Voight. Phillips, a junior from Houston, was a starter on last year’s championship squad and ended up with a 14.1 average in con ference play. Voight, a junior from Dallas, was the top reserve for the Mustangs last year. Voight has taken on the top scoring role with some assistance from Phillips. But with the ex ception of senior forward John Higginbotham not much other seasoned help is in sight. The Mustangs can’t be counted out, however, and have been in contention in every game this season. Their one victory came against Indiana of the Big Ten in the All-Sports Classic over the Christmas holidays. Houston’s W ebster Air Force Bound In 1931 Michigan, Northwest ern and Purdue tied. Other triple ties were between Illinois, Michi gan and Purdue in 1918; Michi gan, Minnesota and Wisconsin in 1906 and Michigan, Minnesota and Northwestern in 1903. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz VouVe been crabby every pay ! PO YOU REALIZE THAT? DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOU HAVEN'T MIS5EP A 5IN6LE PAY ? O’ now YouVe JINXEP ME,. I WAS GOINS FOR A NO-HITTER ' HOUSTON (A*)—George Web ster, the American Football League’s rookie of the year, is entering the military service and will miss the AFL all-star game Jan. 21 at Jacksonville, Fla. The Houston Oilers announced Thursday the rookie linebacker from Michigan State is to report for Air Force Reserve duty Fri day at New Orleans and will be stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. “We had hoped his reporting date could be delayed until after the all-star game in that he is the only rookie on either starting team for that game,” an Oiler spokesman said. “We hope he will be back with us in time for the start of fall training.” ATTENTION MID-TERM GRADUATES THE CITY . BANK PHONE 823-5402 BRYAN, TEXAS MAIN AT 24th STREET ANNOUNCES its AGGIE AUTO LOAN PROGRAM A SERVICE W BANK TH • FOR MID-TERM GRADUATES • 100% FINANCING • NO PAYMENTS FOR 60 DAYS - 36 MONTHS TO REPAY • NO COSIGNER OR ENDORSER REQUIRED • LOW BANK INTEREST RATES • ANY CAR YOU CHOOSE • TAKE YOUR NEW CAR WITH YOU ANYWHERE YOU GO the bank thut^A growing. i b bty heipinff others ffroiv BAYLOR, Texas and Rice have topped the Ponies so far in the young conference race. In the Texas game they were nipped by four and a last second shot beat them in the Rice game. Sur prising Baylor scored a double figures margin over the Mus tangs. SMU now finds themselves in the conference cellar and will be looking for a win Saturday night to raise them to at least a tie for the murky depths. Prewitt’s crew would love to start off some victories with one over the Ag gies. The 7-5 Aggies (1-2 in the SWC) go into this game off an impressive 94-81 Monday night win over pre-season favorite Texas Tech. If the Aggie five lacks anything this season, it seems to be consistency. y more if they are to be contend!; for the SWC crown. Metcalf plans to go with see ing leader Ronnie Peret, Hat; Bostic and newcomer Byn Chandler up front and Johnl'i derwood and Mike Heitmann the guard positions. The last game before the e« break will be Tuesday night Texas. UCLA Faces l ough Trips However, when they have look ed good, they have been impres sive. Over the holidays, the Maroon and White faced some tough teams and came out on top in Seattle’s American Legion Tournament. THEN, WITH the change of the year, they lost two straight overtime games. The two losses (Arkansas and Texas Christian) were conference games so Met calf’s charges can’t lose too many Evansville Leads AP Small College By The Associated Press Evansville’s 71-64 victory over Kentucky Wesleyan last week en abled the Aces to wrest first place from the Panthers in The Associated Press’ small-college basketball poll. The Owensboro, Ky. team, though, will get its chance to get even. The Aces’ triumph was record ed on their home court. When the two teams meet again on Feb. 10 it’ll be on the Panthers’ floor. LOS ANGELES <#>-Coll ( , basketball’s greatest attractio; many a year, the Bruins UCLA, begin this weekend series of out of town trips ft will within the month take tl> to Houston’s Astrodome andX: York’s Madison Square Gant Unbeaten in 44 consecut games and only 16 shy ofn national collegiate record set the University of San Francs in the era of Bill Russell,! Bruins open the tour at Berke Friday night. It is a Pacific-8 Confert; game against a much stroti Golden Bear team than thei the Bruins handled in the ti chase last year. UCLA will be at Stanford;; urday night, then returns to own Pauley Pavilion Thurss night against Portland for; only remaining home game January. It will be the No. 1 Brc against No. 2 Houston and as out crowd of 55,000 in the Ast dome Jan. 20, followed by Madison Square appean: against Holy Cross and Boa College Jan. 26-27, respectivd; Coach John Wooden of UG believes in first things (ii which means California andSti ford. In the latest poll of 14 sports writers and broadcasters on a na tional panel based on games through last Saturday, Evansville received seven votes for first place and 129 points, the latter on a basis of 10 points for a first-, place vote, 9 for second, etc. “Cal is extremely strong i year,” Wooden says. The contest figures to be interesting struggle betwi UCLA’s Lew Alcindor and Bears' Bob Presley. Lew at 71 is the nation’s most highly pui cized star. Presley, 6-10%, is route to breaking all scoring n ords. Kentucky Wesleyan slipped one notch to second, accumulating 95 points. Long Island University remained a strong third with 92 points. The unbeaten Blackbirds recorded their 11th victory last week by downing Seton Hall, 53- 47. Alcindor’s supporting ca; which probably could win sistently without the big jiui includes Edgar Lacey, 617;! cius Allen, 6-2; Mike Wart. 5-11; and Lynn Shackelford,! Presley readily admits thatli ing Alcindor poses his great; challenge. The top Ten, with first-place votes in parentheses and total points on a 10-9 etc. basis: 1. Evansville (7) 129 2. Kentucky Wesleyan 95 3. Long Island U. (3) 92 4. Indiana State 75 5. Southwest Missouri St. (1) 62 6. Trinity, Tex. 57 7. San Diego State 41 8. Southwestern Louis. (1) 40 9. Guilford (1) 34 10. Winston-Salem 18 CIVILIAN SENIORS and GRADUATE STUDENTS Will have their portrai: made for the 1968 Aggie- land Now thru Jan. 31. Portraits will be made a University Studio. (Coats & Ties) VOLI Si Civilk ister i regist throu; Autl special tional bonne, term Univei Vo 7 ^ Put $money$ in your corner pocket with our low prices and high trade-ins on your used books. Loupot's North Gate