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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, December 12, 1972
TH£ BATTALION
First A&M Setback, 79- 72
George Washington Nips Ags
By BILL HENRY
Battalion Sports Writer
George Washington University
used an overabundance of talent
here Monday night. Pat Tallent
that is.
Tallent hit eight straight buck
ets and scored 16 of his 22 points
in the second half, thrusting the
visitors to a 79-72 victory.
For the Texas Aggies, it was
the first defeat of the young sea
son and leaves A&M with a 5-1
record. The Colonials travel back
to Washington, D. C., with an
identical mark after suffering
their first defeat of the year in
Rice Saturday, 93-89.
“That’s the most aggressive
I’ve ever seen them play,” George
Washington coach Carl Stone
said after the game. “The key to
our win was the way Tallent and
Clyde Burwell played. Burwell
has finally come around like I
though he would. He’s devastat
ing.”
Burwell, a 6-11 sophomore, in
timidated A&M’s inside game
and stuffed in 17 points with his
jump shots. He led GW with 10
rebounds.
For the Aggies, it was a com
bination of inopportuned turn
overs, lack of outside scoring
punch and a disputed goal-tend
ing call and following technical
foul.
“We played hard,” coach Shel
by Metcalf said following his first
loss. “Cedric (Joseph) is getting
better and Jeff (Overhouse) is
beginning to find himself after
being injured during drills.
Mustang’s Popelka
Wins Tips Award
DALLAS — Robert Popelka,
Southern Methodist University’s
outstanding defensive back, has
been named winner of the fifth
annual Kern Tips Memorial
Award.
America team and the Football
Writers All-America team.
The trophy, named for the late
Southwest Conference radio
broadcaster, is awarded each year
by Humble Oil & Refining Co. to
the outstanding senior football
player in the Southwest Confei*-
ence.
Popelka broke the SMU record
for most yards in interception re
turns and set a new school record
for most tackles by a defensive
back three years in a row. He
is also an honor student, main
taining a 3.5 grade point average
in the School of Business.
Selection of the winner is made
by a panel of 120 media and
sports representatives.
Popelka, who is from Temple,
Tex., has recorded an outstanding
football and academic career at
SMU. His defensive play at the
safety position has attracted
widespread recognition. As a
junior, he was named co-defen
sive player of the year in the
Southwest Conference, was
selected consensus all-conference,
and made the Associated Press
All-America second team.
John J. Loftis Jr., vice presi
dent and member of the Humble
board of directors, made the
award presentation to Popelka.
Loftis pointed out that academic
standing, good sportsmanship and
high moral character were con
sidered in the selection in addi
tion to athletic ability.
The award winner is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Popelka of
Temple.
This year, he has been named
to the Kodak mid-season AU
TRY
BATTALION CLASSIFIED
Other players, nominated for
the 1972 award were: Mike Bay
er, Texas; Lyle Blackwood, Tex
as Christian; Bruce Gadd, Rice;
Robert M u r s k i, Texas A&M;
Tom Reed, Arkansas; Donald
Rives, Texas Tech; and Tommy
Stewart, Baylor. The University
of Houston is not eligible for the
award until it competes for the
Conference football title in 1976.
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“I thought it was the best game
we’ve played all year and I’m
sure it’s the best they’ve played.”
Overhouse led A&M in scoring
with 21 points followed by Joseph
with 18. Mario Brown was the
only other Aggie in double fig
ures with 12.
Leading rebounders for A&M
was Joseph with 11 and Over
house with 10.
“We finally got our inside
plugged up in good shape and
now we don’t get any help from
our wings,” Metcalf added. “We
have got to get a good team ef
fort to beat clubs like George
Washington. What we desper
ately need is someone to back up
Ced and Jeff underneath. We
lose too much momentum when
we have to rest them.”
One play was singled out by
Metcalf after the game giving
the Aggies the loss. A&M had
come within two points, 72-70,
with 1:04 remaining when Bur
well missed a lay-up, Brown got
the rebound and referee Shorty
Lawson called goal-tending on
Joseph for hitting the net. Met
calf questioned the call and was
Track Team
Sets Marks
Texas A&M’s track team set
three school indoor records in a
meet in Monroe, La., Saturday.
The two-mile relay team of Pat
Bradley, Harold Davis, Willie
Blackmon and Horace Grant
placed first in a time of 7:50.5.
The old record was 7:50.6 set In
1967.
Sophomore Scotty Jones ran
7.2 in the 60-yard hurdles for
third place. The old record was
7.4, held by Rockie Woods and
Jack Abbott. Donny Rogers long
jumped 23 feet for a new record,
though he did not place. The old
record was 22-7!4 by Steve
O’Neal in 1967.
Freshman Craig Carter won
the shot put with a career best of
54-0(4. David Peterek placed
third in the pole vault with 15-0.
Ben Greathouse, competing un
attached, tied for first in the
high jump with 6-10.
In the afternoon division, the
mile relay team of David Hunt,
Donny Rogers, Tom Owen and
David Morris won in a time of
3:30.6. The two-mile relay team
of Harold Vagtborg, Dennis
O’Brien, Tom Todd and Danny
Jones placed second.
“We were very pleased with
the s h o w i n g,” coach Charlie
Thomas said. “Sammy Dier-
schke and Wayne Mills both ran
well on the mile relay, though we
didn’t place. Everything is very
encouraging.”
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stuck with a technical. These
events gave George Washington
the lead, 75-70, and the ball.
After the contest, Lawson ad
mitted he blew the call when he
was asked to view the film in
Metcalf's office.
“I thought Cedric hit the net
before the shot,” he said. “It was
a fast break and I couldn’t see it
clearly. That’s what I thought
happened.”
When analyzing the play, it
was Brown who tipped the net,
but it came after grabbing Bur-
well’s missed shot. Joseph was
seven feet away from the basket.
The only thing the Aggies
couldn’t overcome was the tre
mendously hot hand held by the
Colonials the second half. George
Washington hit on 17 of 22 shots
from the field for 77%. A&M hit
on 13 of 33 for 39%.
A&M’s largest lead in the con
test was with 18:01 remaining in
the opening stanza 8-3. Less
than two minutes later, the Ag
gies found themselves down 9-8.
It was nip and tuck for a while,
but by 9:07 remaining in the
half, GW garnered a nine point
lead, 27-18.
In the second half, GW jumped
to an eight point lead with Tal
lent doing his thing from about
20-feet out. A&M tried to come
back and traded baskets, but
couldn’t keep up the torrid shoot
ing pace.
A&M tied it up, 68-68, with
6:48 left, but that was as close
as it got. A&M hit another cold
streak as the Colonials took the
contest as the Aggies were
burned on an admitted official
blunder.
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