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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1973)
BATTALION Wednesday, March 21, 1973 College Station, Texas Page 7 &M Should Try The Same TCU Football Coach Has Foot Amputated TA Drag Championship Set Doctors announced Tuesday that Billy Tohill, TCU head foot ball coach, had his right foot amputated at 7:30 this morning. Tohill, 33, suffered multiple injuries in a one-car traffic acci dent last Wednesday. Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw of John Peter Smith Hospital said the foot was removed because physicians were unable to restore circulation. Dr. Crenshaw said, “The dam age to the blood vessels in his foot was so severe that the major blood supply appeared to be lost.” The doctor said Tohill agreed to the amputation. ION Women’s lib, having conquered ; |e horse track, moves to the jrap strip next month as college Samurais gets off its feet and its wheels for the second Jual Texas College Drag Rac- o| Championship. hile last year’s runs were |ted to male college students, [Ilf Arlington Intramural Direc- flijjim Garrett has opened the jtnt to the gals this time. Tt all takes place Saturday, jjril 14, at Dallas International for Speedway. ihen the college drags were (pirated by the UTA Intra- ral Department last year, they h thought to be the only such Int in the nation. No one has yet disputed that claim. The idea for an intramural drag championship was brought to Garrett by a couple of students last year. At first he thought it slightly ridiculous but, being the type to try anything once, de cided to give it a try. The result was a field of 173 cars from throughout the state. Top eliminator was Mike Dunn of UTA in a 1969 Dodge Super Bee. “The drivers had so much fun last year,” said Garrett, “that this year’s date was set at that time.” Virtually any car, from an old clunker to a fuel dragster, can enter. The only stipulations are liinclad's Marks Improve; Top Meet On Tap Saturday rgy 322 mi EER S smok- 0 Respite problems during the fc ling of the season, Texas A4M thinclads are ranking high long Southwest Conference inpetitors. cottie Jones is the only A&M Ider with a 13.9 high hurdle set last weekend, en Greathouse stands second the high jump with a 6-9 leap rnered here two weeks ago. le vaulter David Peterek mds third with a 15-6 jump, die freshmen Craig Carter and II Newton stand fourth in their spective specialties of the shot and javelin. Carter has rown 53-10 while Newton has |213-0 heave to his credit, un other individual efforts, Jllie Blackmon and Horace lant are ranked in the 880-yard la with Blackmon holding third in 1:52.1. Grant is fifth with a le of 1:52.3. Doug Brodhead is third in the ID-yard dash in :47.6 and Ger-ald lAmbrosio is tied for third in e 100-yard dash with a 9.7 lie. Marvin Mills stands in a lurth place tie in the 220-yard ish in 21.6. In relay events, the Aggies and with the fifth best time in ich the sprint and the mile lents. The team of D’Ambrosio, Wayne Mills, Marvin Mills and Donny Rogers has a 41.5 mark and the team of Grant, Harold Davis, Blackmon and Brodhead has run a 3:13.5. ★ ★ ★ Six universities and about 22 high schools will be in action Saturday at Kyle Field for the College Station Relays. Prelims in the high school di vision start at 11 a.m. Finals in field events will be run off in the afternoon. Running event finals will get underway at 6:30 p.m. There will be no relays for the university field that includes Texas A&M, South Carolina, Abilene Christian College, Bay lor, SMU and TCU. One of the feature events in the university division will be the long jump where four of the contestants were over 24 feet last weekend. Donny Rogers of the Aggies hit 24-2 1 /^, Kenny Har rison, SMU, 24-1%; Danny Brab ham, Baylor, 24-1, and Ricky Thompson, Baylor, 21-0%. The 100-yard dash should be a blazing battle, too. Gene Poun- cy of SMU has a 9.5 while Ron Shaw of TCU, Joe Pouncy and Rufus Shaw, both of SMU, all have 9.6 times. that the drivers must be Texas college students and the car must be able to pass a safety inspec tion. Time trials begin at 7:30 p.m. to determine which of 10 E.T. (elapsed time) brackets the cars will be placed in. Final elimina tions begin at 2:30 p.m. Winners in each bracket will receive tro- nn • rpt lenms leant Begins Action It’s a busy week for Texas A&M’s tennis team with action scheduled five consecutive days, Wednesday through Sunday. The Aggies, 5-2 in dual com petition, face the University of Houston Cougars in Houston Wednesday. They’ll compete in the Rice Intercollegiate tourna ment Thursday, Friday and Sat urday and then they’ll return home to host Oklahoma City Uni versity Sunday. The Aggies lost a 6-3 decision to Oklahoma here last Saturday after a 7-0 victory over Sam Houston Friday. The A&M squad consists of Bill Wright, Dan Courson, Bill Hoover, Lawton Park, Mike Mills, Kermit Smith and Carter Lomax. Kruse (Continued from page 1) Delegates also created a posi tion to coordinate the Texas Stu dent Lobby. North Texas Stu dent Government President John Shackleford was elected to fill the position as vice president of legislative affairs. TSL closed the TISA conven tion by endorsing several pro posed bills. These included an opposition stand on an increase in foreign students’ tuition; ap proval of the bill to make credit transfer between state colleges easier; and approval of legisla tive investigation of the Prairie View A&M administration. A&M opposed the last endorse ment. Delegates to the convention from here were Kruse, Sears, Tom Locke, Mark Fitte and John Tyler. phies plus merchandise gifts from major dealers. The top eliminator will be de clared the Texas College Drag Racing Champion. Each driver may have as many pit crew members, college or non college, as he desires. Each spec tator will be charged $1.00 plus an additional $1.00 if he goes to the pits. This year, a driver may have a co-rider in his car with him. Car entry fee and pit fee for each driver is $2.00. All partici pants and spectators are covered by the Dallas International Motor Speedway’s insurance. Entries from Dallas - Fort Worth area schools must be in by April 9 by entry form or let ter. Students out of the Dallas- Fort Worth area may enter at Dallas International the day of the races. While it will be only the col legians who’ll run for the tro phies, several big-name racers have agreed to make exhibition runs. “I feel we’ll have about 300 entries this year because the word has gotten around,” said Garrett. “If this thing continues to grow like we hope it does, we may open it up to college stu dents throughout the Southwest next year.” Spring Sports Event Schedule Wednesday Tennis—at Houston Thursday Tennis—at Rice Intercollegiate Tourney Friday Baseball at Rice, doubleheader, 1 p.m. Tennis at Rice Intercollegiate Saturday Baseball at Rice, 1 p.m. Tennis at Rice Tourney Track at College Station Relays Sunday Tennis here against Oklahoma City, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Baseball here against Minnesota, doubleheader, 1 p.m. Football spring trainings begins THROUGH EXPERIENCE UNDERSTANDING MARCH 19-25 TIME PLACE ACTIVITY SOUL FOOD dining hall* DR. J. 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