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.V.'A v .V .. Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, January 21, 1971 THE BATTALION Aggies sign All-American swimmer FRED MEYERS, second from right, stands with three of his A&M teammates at P. L. Downs Natatorium. Meyers, a junior college All-American swimmer and water polo player at college of San Mateo near San Francisco, Calif., was the first swimmer signed by coach Dennis Fosdick. Pictured with Meyers from left are: Steve Sonnenberg, Bob Willoughby, Meyers and Dan Sonnenberg. (Photo by Jesse Herrera) W mulem GLOBETROTTERS ■N. . *j_ MAGICIANS OF BASKETBALL In Person! G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM Thursday, Feb. 11, 1971, 8:00 P- m. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE MSC Student Programs Office 845-4671 Frazier terms Last fall when Aggie swimming coach Pat Patterson returned to his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, to become head coach, he was replaced by a native Californian whose first few months have brought new hopes to A&M in swimming. Dennis Fosdick has taken over and built the current Aggie team, although not one with excessive talent, into one that has pulled some surprises with a great deal of hard work. After coming to A&M, Fosdick discovered his weak spots and then went out to recruit to fill them. He returned to his home state, where he visited over 300 high schools and junior colleges search ing for help, even some that could come into help in the spring se mester. California probably is the fore most place to find an outstanding swimmer when you consider the facts. Over 500 California high schools compete in swimming. Then there are numerous junior colleges. Fosdick visited 23 of them. At the College of San Mateo, south of San Francisco, he found his first recruit. Fred Meyers is a transfer from the College of San Mateo where he was a junior college All-Amer ican in swimming last year and just recently was named All- American in water polo. The geology major will be eli gible as soon as his transcript arrives from San Mateo, where they just completed finals last week. Fosdick hopes his All-American breaststroker will be officially eligible by at least Feb. 6, when the Ags host the University of Arkansas in their only home meet of the year. “He’ll give us some depth in our breaststroke and back up for our relays,” Fosdick said. Meyers will join Doug Carson, Steve Son nenberg and John McCleary as breaststrokers on the swim team. Fosdick found Meyers midst a world of swimming talent in Cali fornia through Meyers’ coach Rick Donner. Donner and Fos dick were once teammates on the San Jose State swimming team. The recruiting will continue, and right now Fosdick’s green pastures are in California. “We’ve found a lot of interested people.” That statement isn’t hard to understand when you realize how really big swimming is in Cali fornia. In northern California alone there are about 10,000 swimmers registered through the Pacific Association of the Amateur Ath letic Association, which has four districts in California, with about 40,000 swimmers in the whole. And he added that there aif many high school and colleji swimmers who don’t swim unfc the AAU. Southern Methodist Univenit has put a monopoly on Sfff swimming and has a yearly habi: of winning the crown without an trouble. The recruiting of Fred Meyer; is the first step for Dennis Fes dick and with a continuation ol this hard work to come, the A{ gies may be pushing the Mus tangs in a very short time. J. C. (Jim) Harris THE BUG SHOP, Inc. 1911 So. 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Frazier once again displayed a warmth and wit that many times has been overshadowed by the flamboyancy of Ali and Frazier’s own reluctance to ap pear before a microphone except with his singing group. “John Condon is another close friend of mine,” Frazier said while pointing to the Madison Square Garden boxing publicist who has made the training camp arrangements. “He’s got me in the mountains now and it’s 14 degrees below.” Frazier is training in the Cats kills in upstate New York. “Who’s the greatest fighter you’ve ever seen?” someone asked. 6 high school gridders to sign with A&M The champion said he believes that Ali whom Frazier calls Cas sius Clay, was fooling black peo ple with his statements and ac tions. “The greatest fighter today is myself,” was the reply. TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED The first day for signing col lege football prospects in the Southwest Conference is still nearly two weeks away, Feb. 9, but Texas A&M has received ver bal commitments from six grid ders that they would sign with the Aggies. They are Logan Cox, 6-3 200, FB, Monahans; Jackie Landess, 6-0, 195, TB, Dallas Kimball; Jim Herndon, 6-1, 210, LB, Dallas Kimball; Rusty Cook, 6-1, 225, .OT, Gregory-Portland; Russell Dick, 6-1, 245, DT, Lamarque; Marvin Tate II, 6-1, 185, DB, Bry an Stephen F. Austin; and Scoot er Finley, 5-11, 185, LB, Abilene Cooper. Also agreeing verbally was Bill Yoakum, 5-11, 185, rover, from Northeast Okla., Junior College. FREE FLIGHTS IN T-34 for any male student qualifying on the NAVY FLIGHT APTITUDE TEST —SOPHOMORES thru ORADUATES— 25 - 29 January 1971 8:00-4:00 Memorial Student Center Navy Information loam BE SOMETHING SPECIAL FLY NAVY I Chai Wi