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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Friday, January 12, 1968
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Fish Scorers Led
By Cooksey, Smith
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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
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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
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