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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1974
Page 5
Tech’s Reuther finds new home on banks of Brazos
Former all-SWC standout finds way to Aggieland via 'Belgium, Canada,
Ijr TONY GALLUCCI
Would you believe A&M re-
ruited a basketball star last year
ho was an all-stater at Ft.
Perth Arlington Heights, broke
' the Ft. Worth scoring records,
ired 78 points in one game and
layed on a team who had a 73-10
rd over a two year span ?
Where is he?
hy hasn’t he played this
mple.
'sy - jail The above mentioned star is
He
?ds and
apj’^orm Reuther, new assistant bas
ketball coach for TAMU.
C Reuther comes to A&M after an
ent ^ UBtrious career with half a doz-
# l basketball teams in Texas,
and Belgium.
# Sefore graduating from Arling-
n Heights in ’62, Reuther man-
l ;ed to break all the city scoring
~^~>ecords. They stood for ten years
2nd st inti 1 “ironically enough Cedric
j le 'bm[ffoseph came along and broke
fio rev wery last one of them.” Reuther
a first team all-stater al-
gh his team never left dis-
om Ft. Worth Reuther travel-
;o Lubbock to play for the Tex
as Tech Red Raiders. He bad an
outstanding freshman year on a
13-1 team. The next year it was
varsity and the tall Ft. Worthian
never missed a starting night
through graduation.
His sophomore year the Raiders
finished second behind A&M, and
his senior year they were third
in the conference. It was Reuther’s
junior year that was the highlight
of his Tech career. Reuther called
it “the best team I played on there
and probably the best team ever
to play at Tech.”
The team was 18-6 and South
west conference champions that
year but because of an error in
counting that was all the honors
the team gained. It seems Reu
ther had enough hours to be eli
gible but one of those hours was
a Phys. Ed. course which, un
known to Tech officials did not
count toward the total. The inef
ficiency didn’t slip by conference
officials though and Reuther was
declared ineligible. There was no
NCAA tournament for Tech in
’65.
Reuther had stayed in Lub
bock to study when, a year later,
he was picked by the Dallas Chap
arrals in the first ABA draft ever
held. He spent the training sea
son in the Dallas camp before
being put on waivers. The Chi
cago Bulls took the option but
Reuther wanted to stay in Dallas.
That wasn’t the end. Reuther
had been moonlighting. The big
forward played on an independent
team from Texas, leading them
to the AAU National Champion
ships in Denver.
Reuther remained in Texas an
other year before being offered a
coaching job at the University of
New Brunswick and accepting a
position there as an assistant.
Canada was the start of the sec
ond half of Reuther’s life as he
met his wife-to-be there. It just
so happens that Mary Ann Ai-
kenhead of Renfrew, Ontario was
a member of the New Brunswick
U. girls intercollegiate basket
ball team which won 87 games in
a row (shades of a dynasty, a-
la-UCLA).
His stay in Canada was not re
stricted to coaching though. Reu
ther played again on an indepen
dent team and led them to the
finals of the Canadian National
Championship, where he set a
scoring record of 75 points in two
games.
From Canada, Reuther set sail
for Belgium* He was hired by
“what they call an amateur team
but it compares with a pro team
in the U. S.” Nevertheless, he
was put on as a player-coach with
a full salary and “incentive for
high scoring.” It was with the
Belgian team that Reuther’s stat
istics look most impressive.
In one breath, Reuther scored
78 points in one game, scored over
50 in ten others and was awarded
the Honor Cup by the Antwerp
Gazette. His team had a 78-10
record during his two seasons
with them, lost only one division
game in that span, made the
eighth finals of the National Cup
both years and was always ranked
in the top fifteen teams in the
country. Probably the most amaz
ing demonstration of this man’s
abundant talent was his average
of 35 points, 20 rebounds and 10
assists per game.
Reuther took Miss Aikenhead to
Belgium and there they wed. Bom
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to them was a daughter Melissa
Ann, now three, who has, says
Reuther, “triple option, she can
claim to be Canadian, Belgian, or
American although the Belgian
government claims she is Bel
gian.”
Reuther came back to Texas
looking for a position and went
to Tech temporarily for a teaching
certificate preparatory to coach
ing. At last year’s Tech game,
Shelby Metcalf acted interested
and a year later finds Reuther as
sisting the Sage of the Brazos.
Reuther always had “a great
deal of respect for Metcalf. He’s
a great person and a great coach.”
Reuther says, “I’ve learned more
in five or six months here than I
would have coaching a high school
team for five years.”
As for the team he’s currently
involved with, A&M, “we have
good potential because we have
good people. We match up well
with any team in the conference.”
There is trouble explaining
the Ags current slump though as
Reuther explains, “we’re having
difficulty finding the right com
bination. It seems there is a built
in animosity toward A&M from
every team in the conference.
Everybody plays their best game
against us.”
Reuther is currently working
on his Master of Education here in
Health and Physical Education.
He comes from Tech well educat
ed with a Bachelor of Science in
Zoology and minors in Botany
and Chemistry. He also earned a
teaching certificate; “whatever
that’s worth.”
Hobbies other than his first
love, basketball, include fishing,
(a must for assisting Metcalf),
hunting and collecting first edi
tions and rare books.
Reuther is one recruit who’ll
probably last longer than the av
erage four years.
He has been working diligently
with A&M’s post men. Play at
center in the forms of Cedric
Joseph, Jerry Mercer, John Thorn
ton, Webb Williams, and C. W.
Guthrie is noticeably improved.
His intensity on the court, sprink
led liberally with jumping, point
ing, yelling and (most appreciat
ed) praise, indicates the type of
coach he is. Exciting.
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DALLAS (AP)—Running back
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feeler from the World Football
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Jones’ agent, Fred Joseph, a
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