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(UCLA) la Dor—bor.
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tho oocoad looint ca*poton in
oo—i trioo tor Cooek Sholby
Moteolf. eomo to tko oad of pro-
dkrtlon* that ranfod tor tko
Acvios to bo ottkar tko ekam-
ptoa or a major contender tor tko
Sootkwoot Conforonco titlo.
Bat tko Actio* foond tk—-
oohroo nestled in ooroatk place
fat tko eickt team circuit aad
atom* a atandout player. In tko
pact it had boon CarroU Brous-
oard. Bonnie Lenox, John Beasly
and moot rocontly Mike H*H-
monn that tko Atgi«* tko
consiataat 20 point performance.
Loot year it wasat there. i'
Metcalf, erkoao tea— own a
couple of Southwest Conference
titles, two second place finishoo
and a third in seven yean, will
seek to put tko Afti** bock in
tko winniny column.
Racalltny MotcalTa first loa-
iny soaaon of 1907, tko next Ac*
tie club eras 14-10 and then a
year later they were conference
champ*. In other words tk* aoph-
omore*, who had their problems
in,1907 bad dovelopod into chain-
•f tha year,
0-7 Jeff Orerhoeee. Overkowa*
averaced 1AJ point* aad B.7
4 potato to rank aao—d on tk*
■pead behind Stove Nila*.
Miles, on* of toor departed
seniors, was drafted by tk* New
York Knickerbockers of tk* Na
tional BaaktobaO Association in
that Uafee’s annual eoll«ciate
player draft.
Beside* Ore rheas*, who could
se* action it either poet tki* toll,
tk* Acci** C*t timely rapport
especially ia tko second half of
the season from first year play
er*, Charlie Jenkins, Bob Gobin
sad Wayne Howard.
Howard, after sooinc very lit
tle action in tko early part of
tko season duo to a misunder-
ataniinc with Coafch Metcalf, fin
ished the season with an 11.4 *▼
erne* in SWC c*m*s as the
former hick school All-American
at Sprinc Branch Memorial had
scored only 17 points in part-
time duty in 8 nonlsayue con
tests.
Jenkins took over the point
poet and scosod at an avernc*
of 7.2 during league play. His
play wa^ valuable late in the
campaign as the Aggies had to
fill the point post that came open
when senior Pat KavaiUgh miss
ed the last half of the
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shre style of play, pasotng aad
ballhawking defense, hopes to *
improve on his shooting which
produced BJ per game.
Another sophomore from last
year's squad waa Bill O'Brien,
hot the 0-0 pointman who team
ed with Howard at Memorial, is
not returning this fall aa he is
transferring to McNeeee State.
0-7 Rick Duplantis and 0-8
Bobby Threadgill are the only
returning seniors for the Aggiee
and, like their counterparts, had
their momenta but aa the ease
was didn’t have enough of them.
Duplantis, bothered early last
season with a knee injury that
eras recuperating from surgery,
chipped for a 7.8 average in scor
ing and 4.2 rebounds per game.
His .490 a h o o t i n g percentage
ranked among the Ipop’s leaders.
Coach Metcalf and assistant
Jim Culpepper went hunting for
the big gun and felt that the
quickest help might be the jun
ior college route where the Bay
lor Bears have benefited greatly
and the Texas Christian Univer
sity Homod Progs foond a con
ference champion.
Culpepper — spending numer
ous hours searching the midwest,
northesst and west and fighting
with the powers such ss Drake,
USC and Jacksonville and jnst
about everybody else ■— picked
up two junior college stars.
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Charlie Jenkins
Bobby Threadgill ,
Bob Gobin
Wayne Howard
The moat prnmtosnt of than
Is 041 Mario Bream to— Ken-
aedy King Junior Collage la Chi
cago. Brown, a prolific driver,
will fight along with Gobin,
Jenkins and freshman Bobby
MtKey for the point position.
Brad Pauley from Glendive
Junior Collate in Montana is 0-
6 and will be in the battle at the
high post and at the arings when
practice starts in October.
The Aggiee have added five
freshman recruits to the lift but
have six prospects coming up
from last yaar's 7-0 squad to
battle for the varsity.
Lots of travel
for Ag eagers
Traveling from one end of the
country to the other, the Texas
Aggie basketball team is slated
to appehr in three tournaments
this winter i n their 27 game
schedule.
The Aggies hit the road after
opening the season with three
games to travel to Loa Angeles
for a matchup with defending
national champion, UCLA and
then on Jan. 7-8 will be on the
other end of the continent when
they take part in the Presiden
tial Classic in Washington, D.C.
Appearing with the Aggies st
the Presidential Tourney will be
the boat team, George Washing
ton, American University and
Virginia Tech.
On Dec. 22-23 AAM will face
a top notch field in the Lobo In
vitational tournament at Albu
querque, N. Mex. The University
of New Mexico, eastern inde
pendent St. John’s and Midwest
ern independent Creighton will
provide the opposition.
The Aggies are slated to make
their annual visit to the Houston
Classic Dec. 27-28 when they and
the University of Houston co
host the evest at Hofheinz Pa
vilion. Louisians State Univer
sity of the Southeastern Confer
ence and Michigan State Univer
sity of the Big Ten will be on
hand to round out the field.
A AM opens the season against
Texas Wesleyan, Northwestern
Louisiana State and Missouri
Valley Conference power Tulsa
before going to the west coast.
Most prominrat amoag the
sophomores-to-be Is 04 Randy
Know lea, who will b* trying for
• wing or post job and McK*y,
a flray competitor at the point.
McKey t from Dallas Thomas
Jefferson was impressive with
his leadership, quickness and a
good shooting eye. Knowloa,
from Geneva, Ohio, la an out
standing outside shooter as he
led the Pish with an 18-point av
erage last season.
Other prospects from the Pish
are 8-8 Joe Arciniega at a wing
post, and 0-8 poetmee Johnny
Mayo and Jack Vast.
Mark Stewart, who eras one of
the Pish leaders despite playing
without a scholarship, will also
contend for wing post. -
The five freshman recruits who
will make the nucleus of the Ag
gie Pish team coached by Cul
pepper are headed by Cedric
Joseph who was choaen the play-
tor
•r of tk* year last ra
high school bashuthall In Tsxaa
and seated 01 point* in on* gams
H* will h* joined by Ugh school
teammate 0-4 wtngman Dale
Donaldson. %
0-7 Webb Williams bring* h>.
80-plus average from Class B
power Comstock and 0-0 Jerry
Mercer brings a lot of muaeie
and aegring power from Cypress
Fairbanks, the Class 4A baskst-
ball champion. Marcdr, also eras
an All-State selection in football
and dominated the backboards
at the state basketball tourney.
Another 80-point average was re
corded by 0-11 guard Mike Floyd
from Rockford, Illinois.
With defending national cham- ^
pion UCLA on the schedule the
Aggies will definitely be the un
derdog but there’s a possibility
the Aggies will come back and
that comeback will be a strong
one. Remember 1967 and 1969.
Veriato, Johnson
pace Ag golfers
With the changing of the
Southwest Conference golf
champioAship format, to medal
play rather than round robin
match play, the conference moved
in the direction of the re-entry
into league competition of the
University of Texas at Austin.
The Aggies seem to agree with
medal play as Steve Veriato, and
Tommy Johnson finished first and
third respectively this spring in
the Southwest Conference medal
individual tournament on the
AAM course.
Both return as a fine nucleus
for the team that was fourth
behind Texas Tech, Arkansas and
Southern Methodist in match play
standings.
If the University of Texas at
Austin is allowed re-entry then
the curcuit will be forced with
contending against the National
champions as the Longhorns, be
hind freshman medalist Ben
Crenshaw, squeezed by Florida
and the University of Houston for
the title on the final day.
Veriato, from Hilo, Hawaii,
sizzled the course with the lowest
four rounds ever shot, 273, in
cluding a round of 64. seven under
par in the tournament. Johnson
after opening with a 66 in his
first round, finished with a 279.
Coach Henry Ransom’s Aggies
have won six Southwest Confer
ence championships in his twelve
seasons and lost only one senior
off last yaar’s squad, Mike Mach-
emehl from Beaumont.
Aside from Veriato and John
son, the Aggies return three-year
lettermen Tommy Shelton, of AAM
Consolidated and Tommy Gilbert
from Jacksboro.
Other top players who aril] be
bidding for the team spots will be
sophomore Clay Dozier, sopho
more Chet Edwards, and junior
Randy Tickner.
Players vie for the four spots
on the Aggie traveling squad
through grueling competition that
usually includes playing 10
rounds of golf to find a low score
winner.
This eras Variate’s second ap
pearance in the league medah*
tourney as he finished 10th g
year ago at Houston while a
teammate Richard Ellis took fifth
place.
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