THE BATTALION
Page 4 College Station, Tex^s Wednesday, May 15, 1968
Allen Is Named
A th lete-Of- Year
Grady Allen, a tri-captain and
all-Southwest Conference end,
will be Texas A&M’s Athlete-of-
the-Year at the Southwest Con
ference Lettermen’s Awards
Luncheon here Thursday. The
sixth annual event is co-spon
sored this year by the Salesman
ship Club of Dallas and will be a
feature of that organizations
weekly meeting at the Dallas
Athletic Club.
Allen, the only A&M player to
receive special Tecognition at the
championship s q u a d’s football
banquet, is one of four all-SWC
gridders who will be honored.
The others are Greg Pipes, Bay
lor’s all-America lineman; Jay
Collins, Rice’s Bob Quinn Award
honoree, and Hartford Hamilton
of Arkansas. Allen, Collins and
Hamilton shared consensus all-
SWC recognition as defensive
ends.
To be honored along with the
four gridders are Gary Overbeck,
Texas’ all-SWC basketball play
er; Jerry Utecht, SMU’s cham
pionship hurdler; John Scovell of
Texas Tech and Eldon Gresham
of TCU, football captains who
have earned post-graduate schol
arships for their outstanding
classroom work.
Allen, who observed his 22nd
birthday anniversary with an
outstanding performance in
A&M’s Cotton Bowl conquest of
Alabama, is a finance major who
edged baseballer Joe Staples for
the honor to represent A&M at
the luncheon. The Nacogdoches
senior was recipient of the “Ag
gie Heart Award” for the 196T
season, recognition that goes for
all-out effort. He has signed to
play professional football with
the Atlanta Falcons.
Felix R. McKnight, editor and
co-publisher of The Dallas Times-
Herald, will make the Athlete-of-
the-Year presentations to the
eight Southwest Conference hon-
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A&M’S ATHLETE-OF-THE-YEAR
Grady Allen, senior from Nacogdoches, named recently
A&M’s top athlete for 1967-68, will represent his school at
the Southwest Conference’s Lettermen Award Luncheon
Thursday.
Swim Program Registration
Set For G. Rollie May 26
Registration for the first ses
sion of the College Station Recre
ation Council Swimming Program
is set for May 26 in the lobby
of G. Rollie White Coliseum from
2 to 5 p.m.
The registration fee is $4 for
residents of College Station and
$8 for non-residents. In order to
compete in the program, children
must be 6 years of age, 51 inches
tall or be able to swim 30 feet.
Classes for the first session will
meet three times weekly from
June 3-29.
The second session is scheduled
for July 1-27. Both learners ses
sions will be conducted by Coach
Art Adamson.
Testing will be required of all
children who can swim but have
never been enrolled in the College
Station program. The testing will
be in the Downs Natatorium at
Texas A&M from 5:10 to 6:10
p.m. on May 22, 23 and 24 and
on May 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. All
swimmers are expected to bring
a suit and cap.
A competitive program will be
offered both sessions from 7:30
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to 9 a.m. daily. During the month
of August this program will con
tinue on an invitational basis
under Pat Patterson, new swim
ming coach at A&M. Patterson
will also teach Life Saving and
Diving courses and manage the
Wofford Cain Olympic Swimming
Pool.
Patterson, who was the coach
of Joan Spillane, the only Texas
girl to win an Olympic gold medal
in swimming, coached at the Uni
versity of Arkansas for the past
two seasons.
Plans are currently being made
to sponsor one or more swimming
championships in the Olympic
Pool this year.
Ladies classes are not sponsor
ed by the Council but will be
offered. The beginners class will
be held from June 3-29 and the
advanced class from July 1-27.
Fees for these classes are $6 per
session. Registration will be in
Coach Adamson’s office in Downs
Natatorium on June 3 and July 1.
Cloudy skies, wet grounds and
rain always will remind Coach
Tom Chandler of his 1968 Texas
A&M baseball team.
“They deserved a better fate,”
he opines.
A&M lost three games to rain-
outs (one with Baylor and two
with Texas) and consequently a
chance to share the Southwest
Conference title and represent
the SWC in NCAA playoffs.
Seven of A&M’s nine starters
batted over .300 in SWC play in
posting a 10-5 mark. The Aggies
had the best overall record in the
SWC at 21-7. As a team, A&M
batted .295 in league play and led
in virtually all phases of sta
tistics.
They lost two games to Baylor,
the first played entirely in the
rain and the second halted by
rain after seven innings. An
other loss was to Texas Tech in
Lubbock in a game played in 50-
mile-per-hour wind.
Although they officially fin
ished third, behind Texas and
TCU, the Aggies beat Texas in
the one game they played and
they swept all three from the
Frogs.
Senior catcher Joe Staples, who
was all-SWC as a sophomore and
junior, won the SWC batting title
with a .391 mark.
Second baseman Pete Maida
finished with a higher average,
.394, but did not have enough at
bats to qualify.
Other regulars over the .300
mark:
Leftfielder Dave Elmendorf,
.364; shortstop Jim Raley, .353;
third baseman Terry Dailey, .340
and centerfielder Bob Long, .328.
The rightfielder, Robert Arnold,
was close at .293.
Had the Aggies won the three
games that were wiped out by
rain, one with Baylor and two
with Texas, they would have fin
ished at 13-5, same as TCU, and
would have gone into the playoffs
by virtue of three victories over
TCU.
Ag Foursome
To Compete
In Beaumont
Coach Charles Thomas an
nounced that he will enter a Tex
as A&M foursome in the Lamar
Tech Memorial mile relay Satur
day in Beaumont.
The race will be a feature
event in the Ty Terrell Relays,
honoring the late track coach at
Lamar Tech who was killed re
cently, along with some of his
track squad, in a plane crash.
The Aggie foursome that ran
a 3:09.8 this year for a school
record include Steve Bancroft
(48.4) , Mike Boyd (47.0), Curtis
Mills (45.9) and Robert Vaughan
(48.4) .
A&M also will enter Larry Mc
Intyre in the pole vault. McIn
tyre this past season was ineli
gible for competition.
Of the four, only Vaughan will
be lost through graduation to
Coach Thomas’ team of next
year. Bancroft and Boyd are
both juniors while Mills is a
freshman.
Aggies Land
Swimmer
Texas A&M has signed ace
schoolboy swimmer Steve McMil-
lion of Houston Memorial to an
athletic scholarship for next fall.
McMillion, state champion in
the 400-yard freestyle and a
member of the state title relay
team at Memorial, was a high
school all-America swimmer.
McIntyre will be expected to
take up the slack in the field
events on next spring’s squad.
Martin Rollins the Southwest
Conference pole vault champion
and the conference’s top perform
er throughout the season with a
best of 16-1^ has completed his
college eligibility.
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