TECH PLEDGE FALLS SHORT
Betty Scarcell, Avion Airline Stewardess, displays one of the thousands of signs which
overed each seat in Lubbock’s Municipal Coliseum Saturday night. Gene Gibson, recent-
dismissed as Tech basketball coach, saw his team fall one point short as the Aggies
ok a 71-70 victory. Undaunted, the Red Raiders celebrated the defeat by carrying their
coach off on their shoulders following the game. (Photo by Mike Wright)
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By RICHARD CAMPBELL
The Texas A&M Fish basket-
lallers will take a breather of
orts from Southwest Conference
ftfcction Tuesday when they tackle
group of Aggie footballers in
special 5:45 p.m. preliminary
game.
The special match will precede
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the SWC battle between Arkansas
and the Aggies.
The footballers who’ll play in
clude Curley Hallman, Barney
Harris, Bill Hobbs, Tom Buck-
man, Bob Long, Ross Brupbacher
and Mike DeNiro. In addition, a
couple of basketballers — Larry
Linder and Byron Chandler —* will
be with them. The group will be
coached by Terry Trippet.
Probable starters for the Fish
will be center Rick Duplantis,
Jeff Watkins and Robert Thread-
gill at forwards, and Frank
Farnsworth and Skip Carleton at
guards. The record for the Fish
is now 6-4 for the year and 3-4
in conference action after drop
ping their last contest Tuesday
night to the Baylor Cubs, 71-70.
Watkins continues to lead the
Fish in nearly every statistical
category with a 23.0 scoring norm
and 13.9 rebounds per contest.
He also leads in field goal per
centage with a 63.0 mark and in
free throw shooting with a 75.0
percent average.
The remaining games for the
Fish will be Friday night against
Christian College of the South
west at 5:45 p.m. and March 4
against the TCU Wogs in Fort
Worth.
Aggies Start
Soccer Tourney
Texas A&M University opened
its annual spring soccer tourna
ment Sunday with Mexico beat
ing Allen Academy 5-3 and Africa
defeating the Pink Panthers 4-2.
“The annual spring soccer tour
nament had started two years ago
at A&M and will continue every
spring semester with the hope
that more teams from the North
American continent will partici
pate in the years to come,” A&M
soccer team captain and tourna
ment organizer Ridha Labidi said.
He said that this year’s tourney
includes: Africa, Allen Academy,
Central and South America, Pink
Panthers, and Mexico. This tour
ney will last until the middle of
May.
Next Sunday on March 2nd
Africa will play Allen Academy
at 2 p.m. on the Allen Academy
soccer field, and Mexico will face
Central and South America at
4 p.m. in the A&M South Gate
soccer field.
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Slow-Motion Films Exonerate
Aggie Gridders In Cage Fight
Slow-motion films of the Aggie-
Baylor basketball game have com
pletely cleared A&M’s football
players of any wrong-doing in
the fight in which Baylor eager
Tom Friedman was injured.
Aggie athletic director and
head football coach Gene Stall
ings showed the video-tape and
presented A&M’s side of the story
at a press conference in the Let-
termen’s Lounge Friday.
The movies show Friedman
committing an extremely flagrant
and intentional foul on Ronnie
Peret of A&M and then getting
decked by Billy Bob Barnett, one
of Peret’s teammates. It further
shows footballer Tom Buckman
attempting to keep people away
from Friedman and linebacker
Bill Hobbs forming a bridge over
the fallen eager in an attempt
to save him from further punish
ment.
Both Aggie grid stars were at
the press conference and told of
their part in the incident.
“I knew somebody was going to
come after Friedman,” Buckman
said, “and I was trying to pro
tect him. I know there was lots
of people in there I didn’t know.”
Hobbs admitted that his first
intention was to “get him” but
he changed his mind and protect
ed Friedman after seeing the
condition the Baylor player was in.
“He was bleeding bad when I
got there,” Hobbs said. “He was
out cold. I didn’t see anyone kick
him. If he had been kicked any
where around the head, I believe
I would have seen it.”
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