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College Station, Texas
Thursday, January 8, 1970 THE BATTALION
Dawson Loses His 4 Cool’
outwardly, at least, to be the
cool, collected person he is gen
erally acknowledged to be.
But when a question was
thrown from the floor about his
relationship with Donald Dawson,
the Birmingham, Mich., restau
rateur recently arrested by fed
eral gaents in connection with
gambling, the quarterback quiet
ly exasperated turned to coach
Hank Stram and asked:
“Are we going to get involved
with all this again?”
“No, we’re not,” said Stram,
pointing out that the questioning
should be limited to Sunday’s
game against the Vikings.
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NILES' REBOUNDING FOR TWO
Steve Niles powers past Arkansas’s David Elderidge for
a tip-in early in the second half of Tuesday’s game. Niles
hammered in 13 points in the contest and pulled down 10
rebounds. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Purdue Coach
FROM
THE
PRESSB0X
by Richard Campbell
There were several things that happened to preclude the
Aggies’ 64-59 win Tuesday night over Arkansas that madeit
an even more remarkable feat than it seemed to those of you
that heard it on the radio.
A lot of you probably heard what happened to the team
and their traveling companions (namely coaches and us sports
writers) when they attempted to take off from Easterwooi
airport Tuesday morning. First of all, we showed up Monday
at 1 p.m. when our flight was scheduled and stood in thf
terminal for nearly three hours before finding out that the
plane couldn’t land in Fayetteville because of the weather.
Not to take anything away from HaHa Airlines (a namt
which has been changed to protect the guilty) but whenwr
found out that one of the engines had caught fire beforewt
took off, many of us became a little wary about ow
impending journey. I guess you noticed that it was cold, cold,
cold Tuesday morning. Well, our swift bird of flight was
without a heater and it was rumored that the inside
temperature of the fuselage actually approached a stifling II
degrees above zero. Add to that, flying all the way to
Longview before changing our course for Dallas, some rougl
winds flying at 2,700 feet and you get 21 very cold Aggies.A
few of us lucky ones got sick during the near two hour flight
and got to keep the wind off of us in the restroom.
If that wasn’t enough, when we finally touched down in
snowbound Fayetteville, the mercury was a steady nine
above and drifts of snow covered cars and trucks that could
not be moved. All of the roads were covered with ice but we
finally made it to Barnhill Fieldhouse where the heaters were
not working. At tip-off time I sat at the scorers’ table in
topcoat and watched the Aggies battle the Razorbacks in the
deep-freezer and win.
What was truly remarkable about this win was that
through all of this adversity, the players managed to keep
their cool (if you’ll excuse the pun). They managed to keep
their minds on the job they had to do while us bystanden
could only shiver and wonder how they did it.
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solids, right now, is that no one knows
what to do with them.
This intriguing state of affairs came
about after physicists began firing
photons into molecular crystals and
observing the results. Which were:
“excitons."
An exciton is a conceptual entity that
has more “stateness" than “thingness"
about it. When a photon strikes a
molecule in an organic crystal with
sufficient energy, it bumps an electron
to a higher energy level, leaving a
“hole" in the molecule. In the brief
interval before it falls back into its hole,
the electron releases the energy it re
ceived from the photon, which propa
gates another hole-electron pair in a
neighboring molecule, and thus on
through the crystal.
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“singlet" excited state: or the singlet
exciton. Du Pont scientists have pro
duced it with a 150-watt bulb. In the
singlet, an electron is excited without
any change in direction of its spin or
magnetic moment. It dies quickly, and
a blue light emerges from the crystal.
But with an intense light source, such
as the laser, an even more interesting
excited state has been produced: the
“triplet."
In the triplet, the spin of the excited
electron is reversed, a magnetic field
is produced, and the excited state lasts
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dredth of a second. Du Pont researchers
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You think that game with Arkansas was important just
look at Baylor, which invades G. Rollie White Saturday night
They beat Texas easily, 81-59, and have a fine season record,
including wins over nationally ranked Wyoming and Ne»
Mexico State. But they seem to choke whenever they play in
College Station and that’s because the Aggie fans rattle them.
A&M has now won four in a row on the road, not a bad
feat in itself, and they deserve a better break than two or
three thousand people in the stands. They are the defendinj
Southwest Conference champions and if a large crowd would
help their chances of beating anyone then they should
given that chance. So show up Saturday night, because!
basketball team is only as good as its supporters.
A lot of rinky-dink schools right around us have com!
up with good basketball teams because their fans support
them and A&M could just as easily become a basketbal
school with a little support.
Lum berjacks
Hold 2nd Slot
Calls It Quits
LAFAYETTE, Ind. UP) — Jack
Mollenkopf announced his retire
ment as head football coach at
Purdue Wednesday, six months
before reaching the mandatory
retirement age of 65.
Mollenkopf informed his coach
ing staff of his decision in a
phone call from Honolulu where
he is serving as a coach for Sat
urday’s Hula Bowl game. He
had spent 23 years with the
Boilermakers, the last 14 as head
coach.
The highly successful coach,
nicknamed “Jack The Ripper,”
could have asked Purdue trustees
for a waiver of the retirement
age rule. He said he decided
against it after “much thought
and deliberation with my wife
and a few friends.”
He thanked his staff members
“who have been so loyal to me
all these years.” he said he hat
ed to leave, “but it’s time to re
tire and to prolong it wouldn’t
be good for the staff or for the
university. I think it is good for
me.”
Mollenkopf had a record of 84
victories, 39 defeats and nine
ties in his 14 years as head
coach at Purdue. He had a
mark of 8-2 or better each of the
last five Seasons. His 1966 team
defeated Southern California 14-
13 in the Rose Bowl.
Mollenkopf’s Boilermakers were
the only team that defeated
Notre Dame in the 1969 cam
paign. They’ve beaten the Irish
in 10 of the last 14 seasons, the
last three in a row. Purdue lost
games last season only to Ohio
State and Michigan.
By The Associated Press
Kentucky Wesleyan and Ste
phen F. Austin remained one-
two in The Associated Press
weekly small college basketball
poll Wednesday while Howard
Payne took a giant step and
grabbed the third spot.
In the nationwide balloting by
sportscasters and sportswriters,
the Panthers received 10 first
place votes and 240 points. Ste
phen F. Austin drew three firsts
and 211 points while Howard
Payne, now 14-0, drew enough
support without any first place
ballots for 178 points.
Howard Payne, with two vic
tories last week, moved up from
sixth place. The voting is based
on games through Saturday,
3.
Kentucky Wesleyan, 8-1, an
Stephen F. Austin, 7-0, each wn
one game last week.
Youngstown, 9-0, with a fin
place vote, remained No, I
drawing 143 points with Ashlail
9-1, in the No. 4 spot, droppin
one notch after three straigl
victories.
Trinity, Tex., 7-2, moved «
one place to sixth while Gannoi
8-2, slipped three places to Ni
7, after splitting a pair of game!
North Carolina A&T 7-0, rt
mained No. 8 with Puget Sod
8-0, moving into the ninth spot
up two notches.
Oglethorpe, 6-0, slipped fron
ninth to 10th.
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