THE BATTALION
Page 6 CoUege Station, Texas Friday, March 28, 1969
Sports Peak
Scheduling
By Decree
by John Platzer
What a dull, dreary world this would be without the
University of Houston!
Houston, you see, is not an ordinary college (many
people argue with good reason that it is not a college at all,
but that is beside the point).
Most collegiate basketball teams use the same old
brownish color basketballs in warmup that they use in the
games. Not the Cougars! (They use red, white and blue
basketballs in their warmup drills).
Most collegiate basketball teams play in an arena they
can call their own. Not Houston! (They play in a city high
school gym called Delmar).
Most colleges try to schedule athletic contests in the
old-fashioned way of one athletic director getting in touch
with another one. Not the Coogs! (They tried to schedule
A&M through the newspapers last year).
Most colleges have coaches who tell their players what
to do instead of players who tell the coaches what to do.
Does Houston?
Such qualities as these are known by many names such
as colorful, flashy, or showy. The phrase that fits best,
however, is bush league.
The University of Houston is like a man in quicksand,
sinking to lower and lower depths with no bottom in sight.
They came very close to the bottom the other day when
Rep. Bill Swanson introduced a bill in the Texas legislature to
MAKE Texas, Texas Tech and A&M play Houston in athletic
contests.
If it weren’t so ridiculous (and dangerous), it would be
funny.
There are many things which this state’s colleges need,
but one of them is not governmental interference in the
athletic program. College athletics must be kept in the hands
of such qualified and capable men as Gene Stallings and
Darrell Royal and not be given to some legislator who doesn’t
know a screen pass from a “red-dog.”
Swanson said that he is repeatedly asked why “in all
sports, but more especially in football and basketball, the
four state schools are not competing with each other?”
Well now, (isn’t) that the University of Houston that the
Aggies have played 18 times in the last 10 years in basketball
and 7 times during the same period in football?
Was that some other team posing as the fearful “Big
Red” that the Aggie basketball team played in Delmar this
year?
Who was that that Texas led off their football schedule
with this season?
Swanson also said that the Astrodome (where Houston
plays its home football games) would be a great drawing card
for games with A&M and Texas.
This is very nice (for UH), but don’t you think that the
other schools may want to play on their own fields every
once in a while? Kyle Field may not be the Astrodome, but it
is home.
Another of Swanson’s prize words of wisdom is that the
three colleges (A&M, Tech and Texas), would have three
open dates not already committed by 1971 and should be
able to fit UH into their schedules.
Either the Houston representative failed to check
A&M’s future football schedules or has inside word that the
NCAA is going to a regular eleven-game season.
The Aggies already have 10 games scheduled for the
1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972 seasons.
The very thought of such a bill even being introduced is
enough to make allies out of A&M and Texas.
Maybe we should have a law against a team running up a
100-6 score against an outclassed opponent.
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Top Schoolboy Tracksters Here Today
By RICHARD CAMPBELL
Kyle Field will be the scene
Friday afternoon and night of the
first Annual College Station Re
lays as 24 of the top flight track
teams clash to decide the initial
winner.
The preliminaries begin at 11:30
a.m. with the finals to start in the
field events at 3 p.m. The run
ning finals will begin at 7 p.m.
immediately following the presen
tation of awards to the winners of
the field events.
The entry list for the meet in
cludes Bryan, A&M Consolidated,
Kemp, Brenham, Aldine, Bay
City, Conroe, Cypress-Fairbanks,
Deer Park, Lufkin Dunbar, Del
Valle, Lubbock Estacado, Beau
mont French, Austin Johnson,
Lamar Consolidated, Livingston,
Spring Branch Memorial, Marlin,
Aldine MacArthur, Beaumont
South Park, Orange, Pasadena
Rayburn, Wharton, and West
Orange.
Memorial is tabbed as the pre
liminary favorite but will be
challenged by strong teams from
Bay City, Conroe, Lufkin Dunbar,
and Deer Park.
Lufkin is headed by swift Mar
vin Mills, younger brother of
A&M’s star quartermiler Curtis
Mills, and their 440-yard relay
unit has logged a fast 41.9. One
of the nation’s top hurdlers, Don
nie Rogers of Bay City, will pro
vide most of the action in the
120-yard highs. He has a 13.7
time to his credit already and was
an All-American high school per
former last year.
Brenham’s Jack Smith will pro
vide most of the fireworks in the
sprints. He is the defending Class
AAA 100-yard dash champion and
has a 9.6 to his credit. Conroe
boasts the state’s top pole vaulter
in David Roberts, who has vaulted
15'8", two inches higher than the
best Southwest Conference mark
Gary Butler of Conroe is also
the best discus thrower in the
schoolboy ranks this year. He has
heaved the discus 190'4" and! has
this season.
also tossed the shot 58'8" for on
of the top marks in that ever,
The Tigers also have a
relay troup with a 42.5 in It
sprint relay and a 3:19 in
mile relay.
Admission is one dollar f#
adults and fifty cents forchildra
Chess Committee
Sets Tournament
The Texas A&M spring dies
championship will be held Sato
day and Sunday in the Memork
Student Center, announced Davi:
Line, Chess Committee chainnu
Line noted that toumamei;
registration 'begins at 8 a.ra. Sit
urday, with the first round scM
uled for 9 a.m.
“The winner of the four-rouJ
tournament, open to all m
students and faculty membeis
will receive a handsome trophy,
Line noted, “and will be rectf
nized as the chess champion (
Texas A&M for the spring sen®
ter of 1969.”
Line also noted that there vi
be other prizes for the conta!
ants, including a “nice
place trophy and numerous oil
MILE SPECIALIST
Sammy Skinner of Deer Park will be one of the top milers
at the first College Station high school track meet set for
today at Kyle Field. Skinner has a best time in the mile
of 4:20.
Entry fee for the tournament:!
one dollar, Line pointed out, ai
all entry fees will accrue towarii
the prize fund. Chess setsforlk
tournament, he added, will be fi
nished by the committee.
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