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SWC To Vote
On Eligibility
For Freshmen
DALLAS •A’) The Southwest
Conference is conducting- a mail
vote to decide whether to make all
freshmen athletes except football
and basketball players eligible
immediately for varsity competi
tion.
The NCAA, governing body of
major college athletics, voted last
week to make freshmen athletes
eligible for all varsity sports ex
cept football and basketball.
But the Southwest Conference
rules now permit freshmen to
compete only in varsity golf and
tennis. Last December the con
ference voted to allow freshmen
to compete in all varsity sports
except football, basketball and
swimming with the beginning of
the 1968-69 school year.
If the conference approves the
new NCAA freshmen rule, swim
ming, which is already underway,
would be the first sport affected.
Howard Grubbs, Southwest
Conference secretary, said the
ballots went into the mail Mon
day and he expects to have the
results within a week.
Page 6
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, January 16, 1968
THE BATTALIOI
Consol Roars By Cy-Fair
For 16th Straight Victory
TWO FOR PERET
Ronnie Peret drives for a basket in Saturday night’s 78-77 loss to Southern Methodist.
Bill Voight (40) and John Higginbotham (35) defend for SMU while the Aggies’ Mike
Hazel (30) looks on. (Photo by Mike Wright)
From Battaion News Source
Picking up their 16th consecu
tive win, the A&M Consolidated
Tigers raced to a 78-59 victory
over the Cy-Fair Bobcats Friday
night at Cypress-Fairbanks.
The win, paced by big Ennis
Watson’s 33 point performance,
left the Tigers in first place in
District 10AAA with a 4-0 mark
and increased their season slate
to 22-1.
Watson hit on 13 field goals
and 7 free throws in the game
while compiling his season high
point total. Also scoring in double
figures for Coach Jack Church-
hill’s cagers were James Nichols
with 17 and Jan Dozier with 15.
Consolidated jumped to a quick
six point lead in the game but
saw it melt away to 14-14 at the
end of the first quarter.
With Watson pouring in 10
points, the Tigers pulled away in
the second quarter. The Tigers
stretched their lead to 30-20 with
3:48 left in the quarter and then
held on to retire to the dressing
room at halftime with a 38-28
advantage.
Putting the game out of reach
in the third quarter, the Tigers
kept their lead over 20 points.
The largest margin was 25 points
at 59-34 and the third period
ended with the Tigers in front
61-38.
Cy-Fair could get no closer
than seventeen in the final eight
minutes.
For the season. Consolidated
has now scored at a 62 point per
game clip while holding their op
ponents to 45. In conference ac
tion the Tigers are rolling at a
60 point clip while choking off
their opposition at 46.
Consolidated kept its one game
lead in district with the win. Con
roe remains in second after de
feating Brenham Friday 77-43.
The Tigers defeated Conroe 60-
50 at College Station earlier in
the campaign and will have a
return match with them January
30 in Conroe.
Consolidated is in Mexia tonigt
for a non-district battle with I
Mexia Black Cats.
Lew May Miss
Uof H Battle
LOS ANGELES (A*) — The it
jury to the left eye of UCLA bn
ketball star Lew Alcindor is m« : .
serious than at first believed t
there’s a possibility he may mi;
next weekend’s game with Hot;
ton which pits the nation’s t*
top teams.
UCLA said Monday the l-fm,]
li/ 2 -inch center is suffering
treme pain’’ and impaired viiiij
and has entered the Jules Sk
Eye Institute on the campus J
tests and observation.
VOL
of^T^sociation Matson Clinic
Terry Trippit was elected presi
dent of the “T” Association of
Texas A&M Thursday night.
Other new officers elected at
the association’s regular monthly
meeting were Grady Allen, vice
president, Joe Staples, secretary-
treasurer and Bill Sallee, ser-
geant-at-arms.
Set For Jan. 27
Bugged, Iron Ruler, Family
Fun and Francie’s Hat are ex
pected to race at Hialeah this
winter. They were the 1-2-3-4
finishers in the rich Garden State
last November.
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Texas A&M’s Randy Matson,
who has reached his goal in all
shot put efforts except one, will
conduct a clinic and exhibition
for West Texas High School
coaches and athletes in Andrews,
Sat., Jan. 27.
Matson’s remaining goal with
the 16-pound shot is the upcoming
Olympics, scheduled for Mexico
City next October.
He now holds the world record
of 71 feet, 51/2 inches, set at Col
lege Station last April 22. He
also has thrown the discuss 213-
9Vi, just two inches under the
world record.
The Andrews appearance is
sponsored by the Andrews Even
ing Lions Club.
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The schedule calls for Matson
to make a short talk at 1:30 p.m.
and then demonstrate with the
shot, discus and weight-lifting.
Matson, a tremendous all-around
athlete at Pampa High School, re
cently was voted Amateur Ath
lete of The Year for 1967 by the
Texas Sports Writers Associa
tion.
Still working toward his degree
at A&M (he missed his sopho
more fall semester because of the
1964 Olympics in Tokyo), Randy
will compete in selected Indoor
Meets and a few outdoor events
this year in the open division. He
plans to concentrate on weights
to build up his strength and likely
will work hard on throwing the
shot about six weeks prior to
the October Olympics.
CIVILIAN
SENIORS
and
GRADUATE
STUDENTS
Will have their portrai
made for the 1968 Aggit
land Now thru Jan. 31,
Portraits will be made a
University Studio.
(Coats & Ties)
PARDNER
You’ll Always Win
The Showdown
When You Get
Your Duds Done
At
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
Navy quarterback John Cart
wright completed 129 passes last
season, breaking the Naval Acad
emy record of 119 set by Roger
Staubach in 1964.
FALLOUT IN INNER SPACE
A1 Zetzsche (30) of De Paul University falls down chasing rebound in first period of
basketball game with Notre Dame in Chicago. Surrounding fallen players are Notre
Dame’s Bob Whitmore (53) Bob Arnzen (40) and Mike O’Connell (20). Notre Dame won,
75 to 68. (AP Wirephoto)
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