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Sports Aplenty
The Zany SWC
By GARY SHERER
Aggie Cage Stats
The sports writers who cover the Southwest Conference
basketball games did some pre-season rating late last year.
Now sports writers qualify as ne’er-do-well clairvoy
ants more often than not. In this classic bit of prognosti
cating, they didn’t ruin their record.
Texas Tech was picked to finish first in the SWC fol
lowed by the Aggies, Texas Christian, Southern Methodist,
Texas, Arkansas, Rice and Baylor.
When a person predicts something, he is either proved
wrong or right. Therefore, with a very slim margin for
error, they can’t be chastized that much. But, when a team
that only receives 19 votes on a 8 for first, 7 for second, etc.
basis, is presently leading the conference — shades of the
unsinkable Titanic.
The Baylor Bears, are currently 6-1 in SWC play and
leading the league. What did the writers base their fore
casts on ? One possibility is that the Bears haven’t won a
conference crown since 1950. And there is also the 44-year
gap in football championships. . . . But, lets not cop a plea,
what’s wrong is wrong.
However, being wrong about the zany SWC is not hard
to accomplish. It should be noted that the Texas Aggies
were supposed to be dead after four straight football losses
this season.
TCU is a good example of how the fortunes of a basket
ball team in the SWC can change as often as Barry Gold-
water’s statements.
The Horned Frogs started off the season by beating
Rice and then the Aggies. Texas then knocked off TCU at
Austin. After the loss to TCU, Rice beat Arkansas and
Texas Tech. Last week, TCU lost ,to those same two
teams. Texas, however, kept some semblence of “nor
malcy” (to quote Warren G. Harding) by beating Rice also.
The Aggies now enter the picture. They lost to TCU,
but beat Texas. Tuesday night, the Aggies beat Rice who
had topped Arkansas who had beaten the Aggies and on
and on and
Arkansas, who also was lightly regarded by the pre
season poll, is now in second place with a 5-2 mark. They
have accomplished these five conference wins though cur
rently they are five points behind their competitors in total
points.
In fact, only the Aggies, TCU and Baylor have scored
more points than their opponents.
Now, back to league-leading Baylor. It should be noted
that every one of their victories, with the exception of the
win over the Aggies have come in the Heart-of-Texas Coli
seum on the homeground of Waco. Therefore, maybe the
harried scribes will still be right after Baylor hits the road
in the next couple of weeks.
What is the answer to this zany situation? Well, the
pro football people say that on a given Sunday, any team
can be as good as another. However, in the SWC it must go
-on a given night, any team can be as bad as another.
Player
G
FG-FGA
Pet.
FT-FTA
Pet.
Miss Reb-Avg.
Pf-D
Pts.
Avg.
High Game
Ronnie Peret
17
107-185
57.8
89-132
67.3
121
182-10.7
73-7
303
17.8
30
(S.W.T.)
Billy Bob Barnett
17
76-177
42.9
62-91
68.2
130
108-6.3
46-2
214
12.6
32
(Cent.)
Johnny Underwood 17
73-166
44.0
42-52
80.7
103
71-4.2
31-1
188
11.1
27
(Texas)
Mike Heitmann
17
52-138
37.7
74-92
80.5
104
108-6.3
47-3
178
10.5
28
(Trin)
Harry Bostic
17
65-138
47.2
26-34
76.5
81
77-4.5
46-3
156
9.2
20
(TTech)
Terry Trippet
16
42-97
43.6
35-45
77.8
65
34-2,1
36-1
119
7.4
16
(W.T.S.)
Sonny Benefield
14
23-74
31.1
18-25
72.0
58
21-1.5
17-0
64
4.6
14
(Texas)
Mike Hazel
16
22-39
56.4
26-33
78.8
24
44-2.7
34-1
70
4.4
13
(SMU)
Oliver Biggers
8
6-9
66.7
6-8
75.0
5
4-0.5
3-0
18
2.3
6
(TT,Rice)
Bill Brown
11
6-18
33.3
8-11
72.7
15
5-0.4
6-0
20
1.8
8
(LTech)
Byron Chandler
5
2-6
33.3
2-3
66.7
5
8-1.6
7-0
6
1.2
3
(Texas)
Buzzy Myatt
5
5-14
35.7
3-4
75.0
10
10-2.5
10-1
13
2.6
6
(W.T.S.)
Larry Ditto
1
0-1
00.0
0-0
00.0
1
1-1.0
0-0
0
Team Rebounds.
..114-6.7
Totals A&M
17
479-1062
45.1
391-530
73.8
722
786-46.2
356-20
1349
79.3
106
(Trin)
FOES
17
515-1178
43.7
321-462
69.6
804
740-43.5
393-27
1351
79.4
99
(Cent)
SWC (W 3, L 4)
G
FG-FGT
Pet.
FT-FTA
Pet.
Miss Reb-Aver.
Pf-D
Pts.
Avg.
Hisrh Game
Peret
7
47-77
61.0
35-59
59.3
54
82-11.7
32-4
129
18.4
20
(TTech)
Underwood
7
35-77
45.5
27-31
87.1
46
22-3.1
15-1
97
13.9
27
(Texas)
Barnett
7
26-65
40.1
27-40
67.5
52
61-8.6
23-1
79
11.3
19
(Texas)
Heitmann
7
19-57
37.2
27-32
84.4
43
42-6.0
19-1
65
9.3
18
(Baylor)
Bostic
7
25-53
47.2
12-15
80.0
31
27-3.9
22-2
62
8.9
20
(TTech)'
Benefield
6
13-38
34.2
10-11
90.9
26
14-2.3
8-0
36
6.0
14
(Texas)
Hazel
7
9-16
56.3
17-23
73.9
13
24-3.4
20-2
35
5.0
13
(SMU)'
Trippet
6
9-29
31.1
7-10
70.0
23
9-1.5
16-1
25
4.2
8
(Tx,Bay)
Biggers
3
4-6
66.7
4-6
66.7
4
3-1.0
3-0
12
4.0
6
(TT'Rice)
Chandler
4
2-5
40.0
2-3
66.7
4
7-2.3
7-0
6
2.0
3
(Texas)
Brown
4
1-4
25.0
0-0
00.0
3
1-0.2
2-0
2
0.5
2
(TTech)
Team Rebounds.
...45-6.2
Totals A&M
7
190-427
44.5
168-230
73.1
299
337-48.1
167-12
548
78.3
94
(TTech)
FOES
7
195-467
41.8
155-202
76.7
329
291-41.6
168-11
547
78.1
87
(Texas)
THE BATTALION
Thursday, February 8, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 9
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DE GAULLE AT OPENING OF WINTER OLYMPICS
French President Charles deGaulle, second from right,
attends opening of 10th Winter Olympic Games in Gre
noble, France. From left: Mayor Hubert Dubedout of
Grenoble, Empress Farah of Iran; Mme. deGaulle; Presi
dent deGaulle; and Avery Brundage, president of Interna
tional Olympic Committee. (AP Wirephoto by cable from
Grenoble)
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Chess Players Open Tourney
Texas A&M chess players
match wits for the annual Mem
orial Student Center tournament
championship Saturday.
Students and faculty will com
pete in the day-long tourney to be
conducted in Room 3B of the
MSC, announced chess committee
chairman Norman Gabitzsch of
Brownsville.
Gabitzsch said registration will
be at 8 a.m. with the first round
of play to begin at 8:30. No
entry fee will be charged.
“Students will compete on
equal basis with faculty mem
bers,” the chairman said. Each
participant will play five games.
GRENOBLE, France (A 1 ) —
Peggy Fleming’s artistic skating
legs got the United States off
to an exhilirating start Wednes
day, but the ankles of skier Billy
Kidd and hockey forward Craig
Falkman soon turned the Ameri
cans’ Olympic cheer into gloom.
After Italy’s Franco Noones
stunned the Nordic ski world by
winning the 30-kilometer cross
country race for the Winter
Games’ first medal, Miss Fleming
started on the way to a gold medal
of her own by spinning to a com
manding lead in women’s figure
skating.
The 19-year-old world cham
pion from Colorado Springs, Colo.,
completed the fii-st two of five
compulsory figures with 373.4
points for a 30.4-point lead over
her chief rival, Gabrielle Seyfert
of East Germany.
But that was all the U. S. par
tisans had to shout about for the
rest of the day.
First, American hopes for a
medal in the men’s downhill ski
race were damaged severely when
Kidd fell on a training run and
sprained his bad left ankle.
Then thoughts of a longshot
chance at a hockey medal were
obliterated when Falkman dislo
cated his right ankle and the
U. S. dropped a 4-3 decision to
Sweden for its second loss in as
many starts.
Falkman, a 24-year-old sales
man from Golden Valley, Minn.,
was out of the Games, but Bob
Beattie, coach of the U. S. skiers,
wasn’t certain about Kidd’s sta
tus for Thursday’s downhill.
“Billy’s all but out of it,” Beat-
tie said after examination as he
disclosed the 24-year-old Stowe,
Vt., ace had suffered a sprain.
Kidd himself preferred to look
at his situation optimistically,
saying:
“It’s okay. There was no break,
and I hope to be able to race in
the downhill.”
Kidd, who injured the same an
kle and broke his left leg in 1966,
fell at about the third check gate
when he either caught an edge of
his ski or a binding opened acci
dentally.
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