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Spring Sports Page 8 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 8, 1968 THE BATTALION r Fort Worth Meet Friday Begins Ag Track Season By JOHN PLATZER Coach Charlie Thomas’ Aggie track team travels to Fort Worth Friday for its first meet of the year. A&M WILL be among approxi mately 20 universities to be repre sented pa the invitational which will be run in Will Rogers Coli seum. Most of the Southwest Conference schools will be repre sented as well as other schools in Texas and such out of state schools at Kansas and Oklahoma. “This is one of the season’s best meets,’’ Coach Thomas said. “It has been a sellout almost every year.” Tom Cilio will compete for A&M in the 300 yard dash while Jack Abbott, a junior, will run the 60 yard high hurdles and Richard Ball, David Dalton and Robert Munson make up the school’s mile relay team for the meet. SOPHOMORE Ronny Lightfoot and Randy Matson, who holds the world record at his specialty, will represent the Aggies in the shot- put. Matson has completed his track eligibility at A&M but is allowed to compete at the Fort Worth meet where no team point total is kept. Many of the team’s better boys will not be allowed to participate. “CURTIS MILLS is one of our best boys but he is just a fresh man with no experience and it would be too dangerous for him,” Thomas explained. Senior Jack White and junior Mike Boyd have had the flu the past week and also will be unable to compete. Following the Will Rogers In door the Aggies wait until Febru ary 23 for their next meet when they travel to Waco for the Bay lor Invitational. The team will appear at home for the first time March 1 when they host Rice and Texas. WHILE THE Aggie cindermen are competing in their first meet, Coach Henry Ransom will be searching for his best golfers in qualifying rounds this weekend at the A&M golf course. The freshmen will try out on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the varsity players will shoot 18 rounds Friday and 27 each on Saturday and Sunday. The qualifications will be run like a tournament with medal play and 16 boys will try out for the varsity while 14 are expected to try out for the freshmen. Fish Cage Stats Player Bill Cooksey Chuck Smith FG-FGA Pet. 61-141 43.2 44-71 62.0 FT-FTA 15-24 46-70 Pet. 62.5 64.9 Miss Reb-Avg. 90 51 51-7.3 79-11.3 Pf-D 22-0 21-2 Pts. 137 134 Avg. 19.6 19.1 Steve Niles Roddy McAlpine Danny Berry Tommy Bain Andy Harris Billy Hodge Lloyd Lippe Joel Sheffield 38-84 15-43 15- 35 16- 3.2 5-9 8-22 1-7 0-2 45.3 36.3 42.9 50.0 55.6 36.4 14.3 00.0 24-39 40-47 11-15 3-3 1-8 2-3 2-2 0-0 61.5 73.3 73.3 100.0 12.5 66.7 100.0 00.0 61 35 24 16 11 15 6 2 81-13.0 14-2.0 14- 2.0 17-2.4 15- 2.5 9-1.8 8-1.3 2-0.5 25-0 20-2 5-0 19-1 7-0 4- 0 5- 0 0-0 100 70 37 35 11 18 4 2 14.3 10.0 5.3 5.0 1.9 3.6 0.7 0.5 CHARLES THOMAS Track Ken Johse 2 0-1 00.0 0-0 00.0 1 0-0.0 0-0 0 Team Rebounds . ...50-7.1 Totals FISH 7 203-448 45.3 146-214 68.2 312 351-50.1 129-5 552 78.9 97 FOES 7 206-502 41.0 121-170 71.2 345 307-43.9 159-6 533 76.1 92 SWC (2-2) G FG-FGA Pet. FT-FTA Pet. Miss Reb-Avg. Pf D Pts. Avg. High Chuck Smith 4 23-41 56.1 23-26 88.5 31 39-9.8 8-0 69 17.3 22 Steve Niles 4 24-51 47.1 12-32 37.5 37 51-12.8 13-0 60 15.0 21 Bill Cooksey 4 38-71 53.5 6-11 54.5 48 26-6.5 15-0 62 15.5 20 Roddy McAlpine 4 7-23 30.4 26-29 90.0 19 9-2.3 11-1 40 10.0 16 Tommy Bain 4 13-24 54.2 2-2 100.0 11 12-3.0 14-0 28 7.0 10 Danny Berry 4 9-23 39.1 8-11 72.7 17 5-1.3 3-0 26 6.5 12 Andy Harris 3 2-4 50.0 1-5 20.0 6 3-1.0 4-0 5 1.7 5 Lloyd Lippe 3 1-5 20.0 2-2 100.0 4 6-2.0 2-0 4 1.3 4 Billy Hodge 2 1-6 16.7 1-2 50.0 6 3-1.5 2-0 3 1.5 2 Joel Sheffield 2 0-2 00.0 0-0 00.0 2 1-0.5 0-0 0 Ken Johse 2 0-1 00.0 0-0 00.0 1 0-0.0 0-0 0 Team Rebounds. ...36-9.0 Totals FISH 4 108-251 43.0 81-120 67.5 178 192-48.0 62-1 297 74.3 86 FOES 4 112-270 43.0 73-94 77.7 188 176-44.0 87-1 291 72.8 81 High Game 28 (Temple) 22 (Tem-L Mor, Tex) (Texas) (TCU) (Rice) (TCU) (TCU) (Temple) (TCU) (Temple) 21 16 12 10 5 6 4 2 (Temple) (L Mor.) (Texas) (Texas) (Texas) (TCU) (TCU) (Rice) (TCU) (TCU) (TCU) (TCU-T) (Baylor) '~v.\ tx as HENRY RANSOM Golf FURL SAIL TO SHIP MIAMI, Fla. (A 5 )—Long range plans call for Mi's. E. K. Thomas’ Furl Sail, 3-year-old filly cham pion of 1967, to be shipped to Hia leah early in February from New Orleans. Trainer John Winans has his eye on the Columbiana and Black Helen stakes. NORTHB& t\J Tigers Edge Furr For 28th Triumph NAPKINS 25* $P£<Z//U.S PZ>& ‘ TUU& S- FA I + SAT All <5>UAr\)r/rv 'Rights Rsi/d- m/-rs sopt marine WHAT BIG BUYS PAPKAY 6 i ib. CFA^. 39 R I P£ BANANAS PILLS6URY OR £ ALLARD | 9BISCUITS425 CAkfM/X 34" T>^TBLR.G£: AlT BOLD — 9 9 Mims 3 fe 89- K'A/fFT'^ toACAHONt T CHEESE J- * a, DINNER’S 5^1- \JjfLSON‘S> bAA HO . OLEO iO- U.S.D.A. Choice — Blade Cut, CHUCK ROAST. 39 Lean Boneless • • • • STEW Hormel FRANKS 12-Oz. FOLGCR'S MOUAJTAIh! COFFEES 19TID MIRACLE GMftlT , 5/z£ ""JTnjn nnfi n nreri r S REDEEM THIS COUPON FOS ( REDEEM THIS COUPON FOR 50 FREE TOP VALUE STAMPS With Purchase of Pkg. of 5’s Schick Double Edge Razor Blades Coupon Expires Feb. 10, 1968 t? 1 SO EXTRA TOP VALUE STAMPS With Purchase of Johnson’s Sun Country Air Freshener Coupon Expires Feb. 10, 1968 1—i° -tTiru-t-M— n^ninrETWinrfyyuL REDEEM THIS COUPON FOR 50 FREE TOP VALUE STAMPS With Purchase of $5.00 or More (Excluding Cigarettes) • One Per Family Coupon Expires Feb. 10, 1968 From Battalion News Service Coach Jack Churchill’s A&M Consolidated Tigers passed one of their biggest tests of the year Tuesday night with a pressure- packed 48-46 win over the fired- up Furr Brahmas in Houston. The win was a must for the Tigers, as they all are now, who remained in a first place deadlock in district 10AAA with Conroe on identical records of 8-1. Consoli dated is now 28-2 for the season. ENNIS WATSON once again provided the turning point in the game, according to Coach Church ill. “He hit two real vital free throws with just 13 seconds left that decided the game,” Churchill said. Furr, who had the lead for a huge portion of the contest, was nursing a two point bulge with 4:40 left when Jan Dozier hit a corner jumper to knot the count. The Brahmas then soared back into a four point lead before Watson took control of the game with six points in the game’s last minute. The Houston team had per formed erratically during the sea son and went into the game as heavy underdogs. They seemed to be unfazed by the Tigers’ grow ing reputation, however, and jumped out to a quick lead which was stretched to as much as six points in the initial quarter be fore a closing spurt by Consoli dated narrowed it to 14-13. 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Grid All-AmericanTeam the period and ran it up to six at one point. Furr cut the lead in half to trail 25-22 at the half time break. Furr regained the lead in the third quarter as they entered the last eight minutes with a 36-34 margin and a major upset bal ancing on their fingers. Watson, the Tiger’s 6-9 all- state candidate, paced Consoli dated’s offense with 24 points while Dozier and David Terrell each contributed 9 and James Nichols added 6. Coach Churhill described the closeness of the game as a com bination of good effort by Furr and a below average game by the Tigers. “THEY PLAYED real well against us in a vital game while we didn’t play one of our better ones,” Churchill explained. “We just weren’t mentally pre pared to play. We had beaten them twice before, the last time fairly easily.” Consolidated returns to the familiar surroundings of College Station Friday night after a three game road trip. Cypress- Fairbanks will provide the com petition Friday followed Tuesday by the Brenham Cubs. If the district should end in a tie, a playoff game will be set up between Consolidated and Conroe to decide the league’s champion and its representative in the state playoffs. In two games the teams split with Conroe winning by one in Conroe and the Tigers taking a ten point decision on their home court. NEW YORK Ohio, Cali- fornia, Pennsylvania and Texas contributed 27 of the 100 super schoolboy stars selected selectei to the All-American High School Football team by Scholastic Mag- azine. The squad includes 17 linemen who weigh 230 pounds or mort, topped by George Trujillo of Jackson, Mich., who is G-foot-S and 282 pounds. John Harris High of Ham burg, Pa., was the only school to place two players—tackle Milo Vecanski, 226, and quarterbad Jim Jones, who completed 129 of 197 passes for 2,260 yards and 35 touchdowns. Ohio, California and Pennsyl vania each had seven on the teas and Texas six. Among the statistical leaden was Roy Bell, a 195-pound nia- ning back from Clinton, Okk who rushed for 1,842 yards aik scored 276 points. He scored 69? points in his career. All of the 16 ends were 6-1 or taller and only one of the 28 ii terior linemen was under 6 feet Iverson Williams of Ft. Pierce Fla., scored 43 touchdowns, pairr ed 2,117 yards and piled up total yardage of over 5,000 yards ii his career. Among the outstanding qua terhacks were Greg Briner of Gardena, Los Angeles, Jen; Powell of Lincoln High, Sat Diego and Charley Duddish ol Avondale, Ga. Bob Giorgetti, a flanker froi St. Ignatius, San Francisco, ra: for 1,330 yards, caught passe; for 266 yards and Scored 23 to# downs. Texas members of the prtf All-America area: Ends Rile; Odoms of Corpus Christi andKfl Adams of Kashmere High ii Houston; interior lineman Romi Carroll, Spring Wood High, Hon; ton; center Frank Dittu, Waltric High, Houston, and 0. Z. White Houston; quarterback J«1 Mildren, Abilene. The basketba Nom ants moi eating, t Texi lowed by Texas, A Wht wrong o error, th that onlj basis, is unsinkai The leading casts on conferen gap in f< what’s v Hov to accon were su] this sea TCI ball teai water’s The Rice ant Austin. Texas teams, malcy” The but bea had top and on : Arl season ] have ac rently t points. In more pc No that ev win ove seum o harried in the r WI pro foo can be ; —on a Panel To Discuss Missionary Fields Clergymen from the Baptist ant Episcopal Churches and a local missionary to Indonesia will dis cuss “The Positive and Negatirc Aspects of the Mission Field"ai 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the AiH Methodist Church. Dr. Charles Sampson will 1; the moderator. 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