Page 6 College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 4, 1971
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By CLIFFORD BROYLES
Battalion Sport Editor
As it now stands, only a major miracle could bring the Southwest
Conference basketball championship to College Station, as the Aggies
have dropped four games behind unbeaten Texas Christian in the league
race.
Should A&M win the last nine, the way some of the league teams
are playing, it’s a possibility that the winner will have less than four
losses.
Right now TCU is 5-0 and Tech 4-1 and there’s a good possibility
that one of those teams will finish with less than three losses.
The main Aggie problem right now is putting the ball through the
hoop. Anytime you outrebound a team by 29 you should win no
matter how bad you shoot, but the Aggies shot worse than that and lost
to SMU.
“We need just one good shooter and one good ball handler and
we’d be okay,” Coach Shelby Metcalf said. This is the first time in a
long while that the Aggies haven’t had that one good man who could
get the 20 points every time out.
Mike Heitmann did it the last couple of years. Before that it was
John Beasley, Bennie Lenox and Carroll Broussard in the early 1960’s.
Metcalf felt that the play of Rick Duplantis was really out
standing.
“Duplantis played as well for us as Phillips did for SMU.”
Duplantis hit for 20 points despite playing about 25 minutes in
the game.
While the Aggies lack that one consistently great scorer, most of
the teams in the league don’t and that is probably the big difference in
A&M’s 1-4 mark of this year and 9-5 and 12-2 standards of the last two
years.
There’s not a team in the league with the rebound strength
of A&M.
SMU has Phillips, and TCU has got great work from two junior
college transfers, Eugene Kennedy and Simpson DeGrate. Kennedy is
averaging better than 20 a game and is an outstanding rebounder.
Baylor has Willie Chatmon, who’s scoring at 25 points a game, and
Texas Tech has the duo of Greg Lowery and Gene Knolle, and for those
who saw Tech here Saturday you know how valuable they were—
especially Lowery in the second half comeback.
Rice has Gary Reist and Tom Myer and yet their record is 2-3 and
the defending champions’ problem is just the opposite of the Aggies.
Reist and Myer are two outstanding shooters and they proved last
year with good work underneath that they could be formidable by
winning the championship.
Two sophomores are handling the Owls’ post positions and they
are not faring well. Steve Niles held 6-10 Mark Wehrle to one rebound
and three points.
The Aggies’ problems hang in the backcourt. A&M’s big men got
61 of the 83 points and only Bill Cooksey and Charlie Jenkins put in 10
apiece for the Ag guards. Their combined percentage was eight out of
25 for 32 percent.
Metcalf feels that help is coming from his freshman team and
from the early season performances that means help from flashy guard
Bobby McKey and sharpshooting Randy Knowles but that doesn’t
brighten the picture for the rest of this year.
Vol.
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COACH SHELBY Metcalf look up at the scoreboard, whi
belonged to the Ags most of the night Tuesday. But wtej
the final buzzer sounded SMU had the big end with as
89-83 win. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
4 black gridders
leave TCU Frog
fe
FORT WORTH <A>>—Four black
football players at Texas Chris
tian told head coach Jim Pittman
Wednesday that they are quitting
and transferring to Florida State.
Defensive tackle Larry Dib
bles, running back Raymond
Rhodes, defensive back Hodges
Mitchell and defensive back Ervin
Garnett, all sophomores, cited
limited social activities at TCU
as their reason for leaving.
“They explained to me,” said
Pittman, “That they had not been
happy with the social activities
the last two years. They said it
had nothing to do with the pres
ent coaches or any of our rules.”
Pittman came to TCU from
Tulane after Fred Taylor was
fired at the end of the 1970 sea
son. Pittman immediately put
some of i
down rules for squad dress and
appearance and The Fort Worth
Star-Telegram said it caused re
sentment among
black players.
All four of the black pkti
started last fall. Rhodes i
TCU’s leading rusher and
ell led the SWC in punt retai
Dibbles was being considereii
All-America honors by onei
tional magazine for this fall.
Three other black players
main at TCU—Larry Harris^
ny Colbert, and freshman 111
man Charley Davis. Harrisi
sophomore running back a
sophomore Colbert is a deft
sive cornerback.
Gene Henderson, who was a
assistant under Taylor is»
assistant coach at Florida Stfi
The dress code discounj
beards, moustaches and sideha
below the bottom of the ear,
Pittman pointed out thatK
bles was the only player li
TCU that was not clean shn
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