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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, September 26, 1973
THE BATTALION
Intramural Deadline
Billiards, Racquetball, Handball
By MARY RUSSO
Today is the deadline for intra
mural team bowling, open hand-
tail, open raquetball and open
pocket billiards. The open classi
fication means anyone who is af
filiated with the University in any
capacity: students, faculty or
staff can play.
Tennis and volleyball were re
cently added to the active roster
for play. Although it’s too early
for any standings, the teams that
have volleyed have shown some
skill and these competitions could
prove to be very close in the final
analysis.
Schedules of team play are
posted in the Intramural Office.
According to the student referees
the teams that have a cheering
squad usually play a better game
than those teams who don’t.
In football the Class A corps
upperclassmen are playing as can
be expected. The majority have
teams that have played together
before and many have receiver-
quarterback combinations with lit
tle rushing taking place. These
games are usually decided on
penetration which is an indication
that all the teams are, within a
given league, evenly matched.
In studying last year’s team
play League A looks like a power-
matched group. Most of these
teams made it to quarter finals
for corps play. There are now
four teams with identical records,
2-2. These are Sq.2 and 8, and F2
and L2.
Intramural
Results
Scores from September 24,
VOLLEYBALL
Class A: Sq. 12 netted B2; FI
netted K2; Ml netted L2; LI net
ted Sq. 8; Sq. 6 netted Sq. 3;
Class B: D2 netted Al; B2 netted
FI; N1 netted Sq. 1; Sq. 6 netted
Sq. 12; Sq. 9 netted Sq. 11. Class
C: Moses netted Crocker; White
netted Dunn; Puryear netted Re
tard; Law netted Milner; Walton
netted Moore
TENNIS
Class B: LI racked Sq. 4; Sq. 3
racked Bl; Sq. 16 racked Sq. 5;
Al racked Sq 11; FI racked D2;
Sq. 7 racked Sq. 10
HANDBALL
Class A: II gloved Nl; Sq.3
gloved Sq.2; D1 gloved LI; Class
C: White gloved Puryear; D-Gary
gloved Crocker; Law gloved Le-
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A runaway choice for League
B champ is H2. With every other
team with a 2-1 or 0-3 record they
have three wins to their credit.
Leagues C, D, and E have only
played two games but there are
some leaders. FI, Sq.9, Bl and
Sq.5 have two wins each.
Leagues F and G have played
two games, but all their teams
have one win and one loss.
Class B football is a fish’s game
and this is really obvious in their
play. They have little organiza
tion and even less teamwork.
Practice makes perfect, and may
be the athletic officers should be
looking out for their underclass
men buddies.
There are several players in
Class C who have been disquali
fied for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Otherwise, the residence halls
have shown some virtue. Law
Hall in League A is running away
from their competitors with a
three win record and some fancy
play that showed team work and
originality.
League B shows Moore and
Crocker deadlocked with two vvins
and League C, where only two
games have been played, shows
Walton holds the lead with two
wins.
Class X, off campus residence
units or clubs, started play last
week. Too few games have been
played to really point to any
champions here.
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By KEVIN COFFEY
Sports Editor
How important is attitude to a football team?
“Attitude is 95 per cent of the game,” says A&M de
fensive end Don Long. “You got to have the right attitude
to keep plugging away when your’re down.”
Sophomore Carl Roaches also recognizes the impor
tance of attitude and what it means to the 1973 edition of
Texas A&M football.
“Attitude has a lot to do with the team. If you don’t
have the right kind of attitude you might not throw a good
block for someone you don’t like. We don’t have that prob
lem around here,” Roaches said, “everyone gets along fine.”
Long, a junior, is a holdover from the old days at
A&M. He played his freshman year under the reign of
Gene Stallings.
“When I was a freshman,” Long said, “we were looked
down on by the other players. You couldn’t even go in the
varsity dressing room. Now we are a closely knit bunch
of guys and the freshman can talk to everybody. After my
freshman season, I don’t think I ever felt comfortable with
the guys that treated me bad.”
Roaches even finds a difference between Emory Bol
lard’s first season as head coach and this year.
“The freshman really get to know everybody else this
season,” Roaches said. “There were a lot of guys that were
married last season and the only time I ever saw them was
at workouts and we were to busy to get to know them as
people. It’s better if you know each athlete as a person
and a football player. It makes everybody happier when
you’re friends off the field as well as on.”
Last year there were 33 married players on the team,
compared to eight now.
“None of the captains lived in the dorm last year,” said
Long, “Now you can walk down the hall and see this year’s
and talk about your problems or just rap about football.
It makes for a better atmosphere.”
Thinking about winning is an important part of hav
ing a good attitude. The ’73 team just doesn’t think they
can lose.
“I don’t think we will lose any more,” said Roaches,
“at least I am not thinking about another loss. We got the
athletes and the coaches to beat anybody that comes before
us. The loss to LSU hurt and we played them hard. We
are going to play that hard against everybody, just like
they were as good as LSU and I don’t think we’ll drop an
other one.”
Long shares Roaches optimism. “We’ll get to the Cot
ton Bowl but it will be a long fight. If we learn by our
mistakes, there is no way they can keep us from the cham
pionship. I learned more in the LSU game than I did in
the four games I started last year. We will just get better
and better each game.”
Quarterback Mike Jay says the Aggies improve every
week.
“We are a better football team this week than we were
last week,” Jay said in the locker room after the LSU game,
“and we will be a better team next week than we are this
week. I am anticipating my receivers and they are antici
pating me. Mark my word, we are going to be a fine foot
ball team by the time its all over with.”
Long warns that Saturday’s game against Boston Col
lege may be a turning point.
“We got beat by Army and stayed down most of last
year and Boston is by far a better team,” Long said. “They
will battle Penn State for the mythical Eastern champion
ship so they will be tough. We need this one to carry us
to the Cotton Bowl.”
Backs Averaging
More Per Carry
DALLAS—The top backs are
running less and enjoying it more
in the Southwest Conference this
season—only two are averaging
more than 100 yards per game,
but 11 of the 13 leaders are aver
aging five or more yards per
carry.
TCU, 6.7 by Keith Bobo of SMU
and 5.8 by Alvin Bowers of A&M.
SMU’s Alvin Maxson, the SWC
rushing leader in 1971 and
ranked third last year, is rush
ing at an 8.1-clip, while leader
Roosevelt Leaks of Texas is at
5.1 yards per try and runner-up
Wayne Morris of SMU is at 7.4.
And among those who just
don’t get their hands on the ball
enough to rank with the leaders,
SMU’s Brian Duncan is averag
ing 11.3 yards per carry, Baylor’s
Bily Wilson is at 8.0 and Texas’
Lonnie Bennett is at 6.8.
Other outstanding averages
include 9.0 by Texas’ Joey Abous-
sie, 8.7 by Skip Walker of Texas
A&M, 7.1 by Kent Marshall of
Consequently, SMU teams are
posting outstanding offensive fig
ures. SMU leads in total offense
with 477.5 yards yer game as
six of the eight teams playing
to the championship are gaining
better than 300 yards per game.
And five of the eight are rushing
for more than 200 yards an out
ing, led by SMU’s 402.0.
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