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Second half blitz drops Temple JC
By BILL HENRY
Assistant Sports Editor
After a slow first half, the
Texas A&M freshmen caught fire
by scoring 47 points in the final
stanza to defeat Temple JC, 76-
67, here Saturday night in front
of 8,000 avid supporters.
Tonight the Fish travel to take
on the Texas Yearlings in Austin
at 5:46 p.m. to complete the first
round of SWC action. A&M stands
4-0 in conference and 8-2 for the
season after Saturday’s non-con
ference victory.
Throughout the first half, the
contest was as exciting as a
county spelling bee with both
teams having a hard time holding
on to the basketball; much less
shooting it. The Fish had a far-
below-average 40 percent shoot
ing average, hitting 13 of 32
shots, were outrebounded and
outplayed. Temple turned the ball
over 10 times and hit only 29 per
cent of their outside shots to
leave it two points down at the
first half buzzer.
Temple had the lead but once,
9-8, though the Fish errors kept
the Leopards in the contest
throughout the first half. A&M
led by six numerous times but
was not able to break away. In
the last eight minutes, A&M was
able to score only six points to
the Leopards 12.
Julius Howard, 6-8, 236, led
all scorers in the first period with
14 points and seemed to be thei
only offense the Leopards had
even though hampered with three
fouls.
The second half, as has been
evident in several contests, was
to be all in A&M’s favor. It start
ed off in the same slow manner
as the preceding stanza with
A&M scoring only four points to
six for the Leopards during the
first five minutes and the score
tied, 33-33. Coach Culpepper had
the team call a time-out and from
that point on nothing was to stop
the Fish from its eighth victory
in 10 starts. Two minutes later
the Fish had gained a 10-point
advantage with heads-up basket
ball. With eight minutes remain
ing, A&M had a 16-point lead
and coasted the rest of the way
to take the 19-point bulge.
The margin of victory came as
a result of a tenacious press and
good defensive play by A&M.
Dale Donaldson was a key factor
in achieving the win by hitting
four straight howitzer-like shots
from a range of over 20 feet.
Cedric Joseph, as usual, led the
team in scoring with 20 points
and grabbed 10 rebounds. Webb
Williams led the locals in re
bounds with 13 while stuffing in
14 points. Isdell Birbaum scored
11 points and Jerry Mercer 10 to
round out the double-figure scor
ing. Mercer, hampered with four
fouls early in the second quarter,
had only one rebound which was
far below his 13-per-game norm.
Huge Julius Howard led the
leopards in scoring with 18
points and took runnerup honors
in rebounds with 11. Eric Clark,
sharpshooting and hot-headed
guard from San Antonio grabbed
14 rebounds to lead the team
while scoring 12 points. Lee T
liams also had 12 points
Temple.
The Fish will not return to
on home ground until Fel.
when they host Rice and will
played four straight road
No preliminary match is
uled proceeding the Ar
A&M varsity contest Feb. IS,
Stallings hired by Cowboys
as defensive backfield coadi
Ags recruit 4 blue-chippers
Fred R. (Skip) Kearns
The Fidelity Union Life Insurance Co. salutes Mr. Skip Kearns
for his outstanding sales and service record. During 1971 Skip
achieved the following honors:
1. Produced over $1,000,000 of permanent life insurance
2. National Sales Achievement Award
3. National Quality Award
4. Texas Leaders Round Table
After entering the Life Insurance business in March 1969 Skip
has grown to be one of the more successful men with this Multi-
Million dollar Insur-ance Company. We congratulate Mr. Skip
Kearns on his outstanding year of professional service to his
clients.
Charles F. Johnson & Associates
Aggieland Agency
846-8791 — Home Office - Dallas, Texas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas A&M, Texas and South
ern Methodist collected the most
blue chips in the early going to
day as Southwest Conference
coaches fanned out from the Red
River to the Gulf of Mexico in
search of schoolboy football tal
ent.
The Aggies, making a resur
gent recruiting bid under new
Coach Emory Bellard, signed All-
State stars Richard Osborne, a
classy 6-foot-4, 195-pound wide
receiver from state AAA A cham
pion San Antonio Lee and Dennis
Aggies upset
Houston Cougars
in tennis tourney
In a match which went down to
the final point of the final game,
the A&M tennis team upset the
University of Houston, 5-4, in its
1972 season opener Saturday.
Singles:
Lee Merry, UH, defeated Dick
Fikes, A&M, 6-3, 6-4; Richey Ley,
UH, defeated Billy Hoover, A&M,
6-3, 7-5; Dan Courson, A&M, de
feated Bob Ogle, UH, 7-6, 6-1;
Billy Wright, A&M, defeated
Ronnie Flores, UH, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4;
Tom McCardle, UH, defeated
Tommy Connell, A&M, 6-3, 2-6,
6-4; Lawton Park, A&M, defeated
Patrick Gainey, 6-7, 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles:
Merry-Ley, UH, defeated Fikes-
Courson, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Hoover-
Wright, A&M, defeated Ogle-Mc-
Cardel,UH, 6-2, 6-4; Connell-Park,
A&M, defeated Flores-Gainey,
TTR 9..R 6-2. 7-6.
Smelser, a rugged All-State
tackle from Odessa Permian, who
tips the scales at 6-foot-5, 229
pounds. All-State halfback Ron
Hubby of Clovis, N.M. and star
quarterback Dale Ammons of
Pampa also signed. The Long
horns, as is their custom under
Coach Darrell Royal, made a
quality haul.
Texas bagged such stars as
quarterback Marty Akins, who
passed for over 1,000 yards last
year at Gregory-Portland, Larry
Miller, a blue chipper from Austin
Reagan, linebacker Rick Fenlaw
of Amarillo and tackle Ricky
Burleson of Fort Worth Richland.
Southern Methodist snared All-
America running back Wayne
Morris of Dallas South Oak Cliff,
a 6-foot-2, 185-pound prize sought
by over 50 other schools. The Mus-
stangs also signed Randy Fry of
Dallas White, the son of SMU
Coach Hayden Fry. Guy Thomas
of Dallas Jefferson, a highly re
garded All-District lineman, join
ed the Mustang fold as did Chuck
Benefield, a slick All-District
quarterback from Mesquite.
DALLAS O'Pi—The Dallas Cow
boys have hired Gene Stallings,
who lost his head coaching job
at Texas A&M after last season,
it was announced Saturday.
“It was a move we had to
make,” said Cowboy Coach Tom
Landry. “It was felt we had to
split up some of the duties in
Bobby Franklin’s area. He’s been
trying to coach the secondary,
the specialty teams and handle
all our film work.”
“Franklin will handle the kick
ing game and continue his film
work, and Gene will take the sec
ondary,” Landry said.
“We’ve always recognized
Gene’s ability as a coach, and his
major background is defense and
in the defensive secondary.”
The hiring of Stallings does
not set precedent with the Cow
boys.
Jim Myers, the offensive line
coach and running game coordi
nator, was hired by Dallas in
1962 after he lost the head coach
ing job at A&M.
Stallings, 36, will join the Cow-
a:*
Gene Stallings
boys in about a week, a 8
man said.
“Pm extremely pleasedtobe J
to join an organization suck
the Dallas Cowboys, as
always been a fan of
Landry’s as well as the
team,” Stallings said. “I just
I can make some contributioc
the organization.”
Stallings, a 1957 graduate
A&M, returned there in IDW
head coach. In his third
his team won the Southwest
ference championship and
beat Alabama in the Cotton I
Before returning to AiM,
Paris, Texas, native had
at Alabama under Paul
Bryant, who was his coacl
A&M.
“Although Gene’s major*
ence has come in college f
ball, we feel he’ll make the
justment easily and do a goodjii
for us just as Jim Myers
others have, Landry said.
Morton to battle Staubach
for starting nod next season
DALLAS (A*) — Quarterback
Craig Morton indicated Monday
he will cast his future with the
Dallas Cowboys rather than ask
to be traded.
But no one will know for sure
what Morton is going to do until
the No. 2 signaler holds a news
conference Tuesday.
“Everyone has been giving me
an opinion, on what I should do,”
Morton told the Dallas Times
Herald. “I thought I would take
a couple of months to decide—
but I think it would be good to
make a decision and let everyone
know.”
Morton did hint as to what his
future would be with such re
marks as:
“I did enjoy not playing last
season. My arm is fully recovered
and I think I made a contribution
to the team.”
“I wouldn’t mind fighting for
the job at Dallas. If I went some
where else, I’d have to fight for
the job, too. Besides, I think
could take the team as far
Roger Staubach did.”
Staubach became the No,
quarterback this past season
led the Cowboys to 10 s 1
victories including the Supe
The tenor of Morton’s re
were almost opposite of what
had said after Staubach was
tablished as the starter.
“After this season, one of s
will be moving on,” he remarM
privately at the time.
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