Cosh id a price comparison in at local grocery stoi 6 that people are pa} U-TOT-EM,” said &• ger U-TOT-EM FedMji F8 .55 ,43 evm s orner 59 >6 il [3 19 19 14 '9 7 .45 | KEVIN COFFEY, Sports Editor ATTENTION! Contrary to popular belief A&M has a sport other n football. What, you say? Indeed. Shelby Metcalf unveils the |73-74 edition of the Aggie basketball team Friday night in G. Rollie ite Coliseum at 7:30 against Houston Baptist. Metcalf doesn’t rantee an undefeated season, but he does insure an exciting one. “This team is not as good as last year’s was at the end of the son but they have the potential,” said Metcalf. “We should be a [ysical team that runs and shoots.” There will be some added attractions to pre-conference basketball lisyear, something that has been forgotten by fans in the past. First, [e Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band will play at all home games, not just inference action as has been the tradition. “The band should help with student support,” Metcalf said, “and |e players like all the noise they make.” In the past, attendance at December basketball games has been »or to say the least. Anything around 3,000 fans was good and some 1000 would come for conference games. With 18,000 students, a full louse should cram G. Rollie for every game. With the energy shortage and no gas on Sundays why go home on :ekends? Stay here and take in a basketball game. Fan Club Revived t of the construe- Phase II Low Den- nn) is completed it - only $1.45 The second highlight of Friday’s action is the revival of the now mous “Arciniega’s Army,” the fan club of Aggie co-captain Joe irciniega. Thousands are expected to join this unofficial organization, icording to a source close to the club. “We just want to support basketball the way a major university ould,” the source said in an interview. “The Aggies are known for being great fans with undying spirit, it they don’t show it for basketball. This year we are going to have a )od team and the band is making the extra effort to come to all 12 me games. I think we can fill the ball yard.” Our unnamed informant pointed out that basketball games start 7:30 p.m. and students can be home and in the rack by 9:30. “Basketball has a lot of action and the Aggies fast break will be cellent,” the source said. “I hope all the students will come out.” It is rumored that the fan club may buy T-shirts, issue lembership cards which will grant special privileges and charter a jet to 'ayetteville, Ark. for the Aggies final game of the season. “We can do exactly what we want to do if the students will get jehind the team in mass,” our informant said. The Aggies’ first four games are in here before the team departs on holiday tournament, not to return to the friendly confines of e Station until Jan. 8. Conference play opens on Jan. 15 with Ags posting Southwest Conference favorite Southern Methodist. After Friday’s battle with Houston Baptist, Southwest Texas isits on Monday, Tarleton State on Dec. 6 and Stephen F. Austin on >ec. 10. “Southwest Texas should be in the battle for the Lone Star inference championship,” said Metcalf, “and Stephen F. Austin was 5-3 last year. Houston Baptist finished strong last season playing most iofits games on the road. They will give us a real test in the opener. Metcalf stresses the importance of a good winning record this ason as the second place team in the SWC will have the opportunity [to play in a tournament for runner up in nine major conferences. Since inly eight spots are available, the teams with the best record would jeemingly be the picks. Come out and prove that Aggies can support a sport other than lootball. Attendance and spirit has been outstanding throughout the . Let’s carry it over to basketball. THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1973 Page 9 US-Russia Track Meet c ^ ocker Faces FI Toda y For All-University Title Slated for June at UT AUSTIN (A*) — American and Russian teen-agers will compete in track and field here next June, a meeting the Amateur Athletic Union thinks may be pa i of the answer to the United States’ declining fortunes at the Olympic games. The June 28-29 meet on the artificial track at the University of Texas’ Memorial Stadium will be the first international track meet ever held in Texas. All events are scheduled at night to escape the Texas heat. The Russian squad of about 75 men and women, all 19 or under, will arrive on campus five days before the meet to work ^>ut and get accustomed to humid weather. The international meet completes a track schedule that should make the 80,000-seat stadium a focal point of track next year. The Texas Relays are set for April 12-13, and the NCAA championships will be held here June 6-8. Executive director Ollan Cassell of the AAU, a former quartermiler for the University of Houston, said the Russia-U.S. meet “should take the state of Texas still another step up the ladder in the sport of track and field.” He said the AAU selected Austin over Los Angeles and Eugene, Ore., and he added that the organization tries “to move the events around because it does stimulate interest wherever they go.” Cassell noted the numerous European meets for those 19 and under, and he said, “That’s the reason, more or less, that they are catching up to the U. S. in athletic abilities. Just look at the Olympics and the medals the Americans don’t win.” He predicted that 80 per cent of the 1976 United States Olympic track squad will be chosen from the teen-agers who ran this year in meets in West Germany, Poland and Russia. Russia won the first junior Russia-U.S. track meet at Sacramento, Calif., in 1972, and the Ameri cans won at Odessa, Russia, this year. “It’s a natural competitive situation,” Cassell said. Members of the 1973 U. S. squad will be se lected at a qualifying meet in Gainesville, Fla., June 21-22. The Russia-U.S. meet here will be televised by CBS and shown on the network’s “Sports Spectacu lar” show. Besides the track competition, local businessmen have arranged for the Russians to see that Alamo at San Antonio and also to attend a rodeo and barbecue. “I’m sure when they go back they’ll be trans planted Texans,” Cassell said. Working their way through the intramural team in Class C and A, Crocker and F-l have won the honor of competing for the title of University Champions in intra mural football on Kyle Field to day at 4:00 p. m. The contest pro mises to be the battle of the se mester as both teams have dis played outstanding team play, combining powerful defenses and ground gaining offenses. Final competition in the field goal kicking contest will be one of the features of the half-time along with a performance of the 1974 Fish Drill team. A small admission fee of 25 cents will be charged and all pro ceeds from this game will go to the Campus Chest. 1 Town & Country j| P o tp o
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