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Wednesday, April 1, 1970
College Station, Texas
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Track fans now can quit re
ferring to Marvin Mills as “Cur
tis' little brother.”
Marvin, a freshman at Texas
A&M, has really come of age in
the short span of several weeks.
He entered A&M with a big psy
chological burden — being the
younger brother of world record
holder Curtis Mills. Everyone
automatically expected so much
of him and he had to live in the
shadow cast by Curtis.
Marvin has moved out of that
shadow now. He has proven to be
a quality runner on his own. He
has nudged teammate Rockie
Woods twice in photo finish 100-
yard dashes, winning in 9.7 on
March 14 and in 9.6 last Saturday
night in Corpus Christi. And, he
ran the 220 for the first time last
Saturday and set a meet record
in 21.2. Of course, he’s been a key
man on both the 440 and mile
relay teams all along.
This week the Aggies move in
to Austin for the big Texas Re
lays. Curtis and Marvin are ex
pected to run on three baton
teams.
The Aggies seem to loom as the
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FIRST QUARTET—This quartet combined for a first place
in the 440-yard relay in the Corpus Christi Invitational last
weekend. Rockie Woods, Marvin Mills, Curtis Mills, and
Scott Hendricks will again shoot for a victory Friday and
Saturday in the Texas Relays in Austin.
pre-meet favorites after their im
pressive win at Corpus Christi
this weekend. Led by both Mills
brothers, who garnered 21% of
the A&M’s winning 67 points,
they outdistanced a good field
including Texas and Rice. They
had something to do with four
of the Aggies’ seven first place
finishes. Marvin won the 100 and
220 and Curtis won the quarter.
Each ran a leg of the 440-yard
relay while Curtis also ran a
leg on the third place mile relay
unit.
First Curtis and now Marvin
stole the publicity spotlight on
the Aggie team, but there are
some other quality performers.
Rockie Woods, for example, is
a 9.3 sprinter, anchors the 440
relay team and runs the high
hurdles. Don Kellar, a Pecos lad
who transferred from Mesa
Ariz) JC, has a 51.2 in the' 440
hurdles and could still win a spot
on the mile relay unit. Marvin
Taylor and Ben Greathouse are
rubber-legged high jumpers. Tay
lor has cleared 6-9 and Great-
house 6-7.
The Aggies will shoot at the
440, 880 and mile relay trophies
at Austin this weekend.
The 440 relay unit will have
Scotty Hendricks, Curtis Mills,
Marvin Mills and Rockie Woods.
Their best time thus far is 40.1
but they expect to go about 39.4
this week. Maybe even faster.
The 880 relay team could be
A&M’s best bet for a win. It will
have Donnie Rogers, Rockie
Woods, Marvin Mills and Curtis
Mills running in that order. All
can run below 21.5 for their 220
leg, out of blocks and should be
faster from running starts.
The mile relay team still is
doubtful. Willie Blackmon, a reg
ular on the team, is bothered by
a sore leg. It could be that Don
Kellar will substitute for him,
thus joining Harold McMahan and
the Mills brothers for the four
laps around the Memorial Stad
ium track.
In winning the Corpus Christi
Invitational, the Aggies won 7
first places, set four meet records
and tied another.
What they’re really aiming at,
however, is the Southwest Confer
ence meet on May 1-2 at Rice
University in Houston.
Aggies 9 Heitmann Tops
All-SWC Academic Team
Six schools are represented on
the six-man Southwest Confer
ence all-academic basketball team
announced Saturday.
Heading the team are Texas
A&M’s Mike Heitmann, one
of the highest-scoring basketball
players in the southwest, and
SMU’s Bobby Harrison, one of the
highest-scoring scholars. They’re
joined by TCU’s Jeff Harp, Texas
Tech’s Steve Williams, Arkansas’
Rick Tanneberger and champion
Rice’s Steve Wendel. Heitmann
was concensus all-conference and
Harp made several honor teams.
Heitmann carries a 3.57 grade
point average (out of a possible
4.0) in the school of veterinary
medicine. The 6-4 senior forward
from Houston was a three-year
starter for the Aggies and played
a major role in their champion
ship in 1969. He averaged 19.5
points per game this season, fin
ishing fifth in the individual
scoring race. The team captain
this season, his 1,089 career points
rank him fifth in A&M career
scoring.
A 6-2 senior from Amarillo,
Harp was a three-year starter at
guard for TCU and was consider
ed an outstanding playmaker and
defensive player. He also aver
aged 14.9 points per game in SWC
play and carries a 3.45 grade
point average as a math major.
Harp is listed in Who’s Who in
American Colleges and Univer
sities, and is president of Phi
Delta Theta fraternity.
Wendel has a 3.2 average in
the school of commerce. The 6-8
three-year letterman from Hous
ton didn’t become a starter until
late in the season as the Owls
made their surprise run for the
championship. But he was a maih
factor in their success, averaging
11.9 rebounds during the final
eight games of the season. For
the conference season Wendel
averaged 8.7 rebounds and 6.4
points.
Harrison, SMU’s number two
scorer behind champ Gene Phil
lips, is the SWC’s leading schol
ar. He averages a perfect 4.0 as
a management major and plans
to attend law school. Harrison is
a 6-3 senior from Dallas and is
on the dean’s list of honor stu
dents in addition to being a mem
ber of two honorary fraternities.
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