Fish End Year With 9-3 Mark
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College Station, Texas
Friday, March 1, 1968
THE BATTALIO
By JOHN PLATZER
Bill Cooksey, Chuck Smith and
Steve Niles emerged as the one-
two-three scoring punch of the
Aggie Fish this season as the
team posted the best record of
any Aggie freshman squad under
Coach Jim Culpepper.
The Fish finished with a 9-3
season record and a 6-2 confer
ence mark.
ONLY ONE slightly rough spot
was hit by the Fish during the
year and that was the two games
immediately following the semes
ter break. The Aggie freshmen
picked up both their conference
defeats in those contests losing
to Baylor in College Station 81-67
and to Rice in Houston 63-58.
Both scars on their conference
slate were later wiped clean when
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they defeated Baylor in Waco
76-73 and Rice in College Station
89-68.
Culpepper’s cagers started the
season in impressive fashion with
four wins in their five starts
before the semester break. In
that time their only loss was to
high-ranked Lon Morris Junior
College 92-81.
AFTER THE low point follow
ing the break, the Aggies reeled
off five victories in a row to end
the season.
The most spectacular victory
for the Fish may have been their
next to last game of the season
when they downed Tyler Junior
College 73-71 in overtime. Tyler
had entered the game with a 26
game winning streak and a 27-1
season mark to go with a ranking
as the number 3 junior college
team in the nation.
Another high point of the year
for the Fish was a double win
over arch-rival Texas. The Fish
defeated the Yearlings 86-79 in
their first confrontation of the
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back to down the Austin based
school 80-73 three games later
in College Station.
SMITH PACED the Fish’s
scoring in the San Antonio game
with 22 points while Cooksey
set a team scoring record in the
G. Rollie White game with a 33
point effort.
Temple Junior College was also
rated among the top 10 in the
nation when they fell to the Fish
in the season’s fourth game 97-80.
Niles, a 6-11 all-stater last year
from San Antonio Lee, had the
squad’s top individual rebound
ing performance with 19 in
A&M’s first contest against the
Texas Christian University Wogs.
The top team rebounding game
was also the first one against
TCU when they dominated the
backboards with 70.
Leading the Aggie offense in
five of the games was Cooksey
while Smith led in thre6 and
Niles in two. Cooksey and Smith
tied for the lead in two other
games.
THE REBOUNDING depart
ment was strictly in the hands
of Niles and Smith. Niles led
in the vital statistic eight times
while Smith pulled down the
most in four games.
Cooksey finished the season
with a 20.6 season scoring aver
age and 19.3 conference mark
while Smith had a 19.2 season
and an 18.4 conference mark.
Smith was the team’s top
marksman from the floor as he
connected on 61.9 per cent of
his shots for the season while
Cooksey, a 6-2 outside shooter,
hit on a fine 45.2 per cent of
his long range shots.
Two boys from San Antonio
Lee’s AAAA state champions of
1967 were the team’s number
three and four scorers. Niles
averaged 14.4 for the year while
Roddy McAlpine, a 5-9 ball han
dler, hit for a 9.3 average.
NILES TOPPED the team in
rebounding for the season with
a 13.1 season mark while Smith
grabbed 10.8 a game and Cook
sey picked off 7.7 a contest.
Danny Berry, a 5-9 guard from
Dallas, rounded out the Aggies’
starting five with a 8.3 season
scoring mark.
As a team the Fish averaged
79.8 points for the season and
78.8 in conference while holding
opponents to 77.7 for the season
and 73.6 in conference.
The Fish grabbed 591 rebounds
compared to 514 by the opposition
and hit on 46.5 per cent of their
shots to a 41.8 mark for their
foes.
Fish Cage Stats
Player
G
FG-FGA
Pet.
FT-FT A
Pet.
Miss
Reb-Avg.
Pf-D
Pts.
Avg.
High Gamp
Bill Cooksey
12
109-241
45.2
29-44
65.9
147
92-7.7
33-0
247
20.6
33
Chuck Smith
12
83-134
61.9
64-101
63.4
88
129-10.8
38-4
230
19.2
29
Steve Niles
12
66-156
42.3
41-63
65.1
12
157-13.1
38-1
173
14.4
27
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Roddy McAlpine
12
24-63
38.1
63-83
75.9
59
25-2.1
28-2
111
9.3
16
TCU
Danny Berry
12
39-82
47.6
21-25
84.0
47
30-2.5
12-0
99
8.3
17
Tommy Bain
12
23-53
43.4
6-9
66.7
33
24-2.0
27-1
52
4.3
10
TCU #1
Billy Hodge
5
8-22
36.4
2-3
66.7
15
9-1.8
4-0
18
3.6
6
Templf 1
Andy Harris
9
7-11
63.6
1-9
11.1
12
18-2.0
10-0
15
1.6
5
TCU ifi
Lloyd Lippe
11
2-11
18.1
7-9
77.8
11
21-1.9
11-0
11
1.0
4
TCU 1&2
Joel Sheffield
5
0-2
00.0
2-2
100.0
2
3-0.6
0-0
2
0.4
2
Temple
Ken Johse
3
0-1
00.0
0-0
00.0
1
0-0.0
0-0
0
Team
Rebounds..
83-6.9
Totals FISH
12
361-776
46.5
236-348
67.8
527
591-49.3
201-8
958
79.8
97
FOES
12
362-865
41.8
178-257
69.3
582
514-42.8
255-10
902
77.7
92
Lon Mor.
SWC (6-2)
G
FG-FGA
Pet.
FT-FTA
Pet.
Miss
Reb-Avg.
Pf-D
Pts.
Avg.
High Game
Cooksey
8
67-148
45.4
20-30
66.7
91
54-6.8
23-0
154
19.3
33
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Smith
8
54-91
59.3
39-54
72.2
52
91-11.4
24-2
147
18.4
29
Niles
8
50-110
45.5
28-55
50.9
87
105-13.1
21-0
128
16.0
27
TCU if?
Berry
8
27-60
45.0
18-21
85.7
36
18-2.3
9-0
72
9.0
17
McAlpine
8
12-37
32.4
44-59
74.6
40
17-2.1
19-1
68
8.5
16
TCU
Bain
8
17-38
42.1
4-6
66.7
23
18-2.3
21-0
38
4.8
10
TCU #1
Lippe
7
2-9
22.2
7-9
77.7
9
17-2.4
8-0
11
1.6
4
TCU 1&2
Harris
6
4-6
66.7
1-6
16.7
7
6-1.0
7-0
9
1.5
5
TCU #f
Hodge
2
1-6
16.7
1-2
50.0
6
3-1.5
2-0
3
1.5
2
TCU #1
Sheffield
3
0-2
00.0
0-0
00.0
2
2-0.7
0-0
0
Johse
3
0-1
00.0
0-0
00.0
1
0-0.0
0-0
0
Team
Rebounds
.. 60-7.5
Totals FISH
8
234-512
45.7
162-242
66.9
354
391-48.9
134-3
630
78.8
89
FOES
8
239-546
43.8
111-165
67.3
361
321-40.1
169-5
589
73.6
84
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Saturday afternoon at Bryan’s
Travis Park, the Texas Aggie
baseball team opens its 1968
Southwest Conference season as
they host the Texas Longhorn
nine.
Coach Tom Chandler’s charges
are 2-1 on the year with their
only action thus far coming
against Pan American at Edin
burg. The Aggies took two games
of a three-game set last week
end. Yesterday’s game with St.
Mary’s of San Antonio was post
poned because of weather con
ditions. The game will be re
scheduled.
WEATHER has been the main
problem for the Aggies as well
as most of the SWC teams. Out
door workouts have been at a
minimum and with Kyle Field
baseball diamond repairs pro
gressing rather slowly, Chand
ler has had little chance to use
the field.
Texas has managed to get in
four games, and they have won
them all. Watching the Long
horns play baseball won’t be the
same this season, Bibb Falk has
retired after 25 years at the head
coach’s helm. He has been re
placed by Cliff Gustafson, one
of the most successful high school
baseball coaches in Texas.
Gustafson, who played under
Falk while at Texas, comes to
Austin from South San Antonio
high school where his team went
unbeaten in 39 games last season.
In fact, his team won their last
six games of 1966 and their 45-
game streak was the third long
est in prep school history.
THE NEW Texas coach in
herited an experienced outfit for
the 1968 season. Returning from
last year’s SWC co-champions
are first baseman Bob Snoddy,
who was the conference’s leading
hitter with a .392 mark last sea
son. Joining Snoddy in returning
is outfielder Pat Brown, who
was all-conference and sopho-
more-of-the-year last year.
Other returnees are Kelly Scott
and George Nauret, outfielders
and shortstop Jimmy Hunt.
Texas was hit hard by gradu
ation in ther pitching staff. Gone
is Tommy Moore, who compiled
a 9-0 record and received third
team All-American rating. The
number two man on the staff last
season, Gary Gressett, is also
gone.
This weakness, pitching, will
be the main problem for Gustaf
son if the Longhorns are to re
peat as conference champion.
Coach Chandler plans to start
Rocky Thompson, the stocky
senior JC transfer from Houston
in tomorrow’s 2 p.m. game.
Chandler will have Walter Var-
vel and Bob Sanders ready if
Thompson falters. All three pitch
ers make up the nucleus of
Chandler’s staff this season.
Hitting is coming along slowly,
because of the weather hindering
practice. Chandler hopes to see
the offense come around tomor
row.
The Aggie lineup should have
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all-SWC catcher Joe Staples, JC ryound
.nd his
all-America Eddie Vaughn from
Odessa at first, Richard Backest
or Pete Maida at second base
Terry Dailey or Jim Raley ai
shortstop, Dailey or Butch Ghutz
man at third base and Dave El-
mendorf, Bob Long and sopho
more Boyd Hadaway in the out
field.
Hadaway, a pitcher, has shown
some batting prowess so Chand
ler has inserted him in the line
up.
The game has been moved to
Travis Park because of the Ky\e
Field repairs not being finished.
The field should be ready for
play soon. When ready it will
present a good challenge to long
ball hitting. The foul lines run
335 feet which are as long or
longer than any major league
specifications.
This year, freshmen will be
able to compete in varsity base
ball in the SWC. The rule states
that if they play an inning of
varsity play, they will be in
eligible to compete on the fresh
man level.
Chandler has four first-year
men on his varsity roster. The
Fish team starts its season Tues
day against the Baylor Cubs
here. The game should be played
at Kyle Field but it is not defin
ite as yet.
Lou Camilli, the Aggie third
baseman the past two years, has
been signed by the Cleveland
Indians, but has one more year
of school remaining, will be the |j ri
coach of the Fish squad.
At the same time the Fish host
the Cubs, the varsity will be at
Waco to meet the Baylor Bears
for their second SWC action.
The next Aggie home game will
be Mar. 12 against Southern
Methodist and in-between the f
Aggies will ti’avel to Houston to
meet the Houston Cougars on
Mar. 9.
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