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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1974
Improvement key hope for track duo
By TED BORISKIE
Assistant Sports Editor
School records in the high jump,
120-yard high hurdles and javelin
may he in jeopardy hut to Danny
Jones and Richard McGilvray, a
school record is one of the farthest
things from their minds. In fact, they
would he happy just to qualify for the
conference meet.
Jones is just a hair’s breadth away
from qualifying in the mile, having
run a 4:18.0 with the conference
standard a 4:16. McGilvray has run a
54.2 440-yard hurdles, just two-
tenths of a second away from qualify
ing. They both have their last chance
to bring their times down Saturday
as the Aggies travel to Waco for a
dual meet with Baylor.
McGilvray ran a 14.3 in the high
hurdles and a 38.4 in the 330-yard
intermediate hurdles at San Antonio
Alamo Heights High but had trouble
adapting to the higher college hur
dles.
T came out this year determined
to qualify for conference,” said
McGilvray. “I’m still determined
but I guess it’s boiling down to one
last chance.
McGilvray was running a good
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through began to lose his timing
which slowed him down.
"I know what I have to do, he
said. "All I have to do now is get out
and do it.”
In Thursday’s meet, Jones was the
top Aggie finisher in the mile but was
outpaced and turned in a 4:21 hi a
overall slow race.
“I think I could have run with the
leaders, said Jones, “but I waited
too long before making my move. I
hung behind (Texas’ Jack) Golovin
and he started chopping (breaking
stride) which threw me off. By the
time I decided to break around him
the leaders were already too far
ahead for me to catch. You might be
able to make a mistake like that in
high school and still win but a mis
take will kill you in college.
“Danny deserves a lot of credit,
said assistant track coach Ted Nel
son. “Hardly anyone on the team
works as hard as he does.
It might seem to the average on
looker that there are few rewards for
trackmen like McGilvray and Jones
but rewards do not always come in
the shape of first-place medals.
“Running on the track team,
you’re in a position where it’s you
against everybody else and I like
that,” said McGilvray. “I also enjoy a
great comradeship of being on the
squad because everyone is essen
tially in the same boat as you. All you
can do is to go out and do your best
and try to improve. ”
It’s not hard to find McGilvray and
Jones because every afternoon they
are working out at Kyle Field, striv
ing for improvement, fueled by some
inner confidence that they can some
day become No. 1. But if someone
was to stop one of them and ask if he
was planning to break a school record
in an upcoming meet, he would
probably just smile and shake his
head. And keep on running.
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Trophy case holds sports
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By JERRY JOHNSON
Do any of you out there stop to pay
some attention to the trophy case in
G. Rollie White Coliseum?
Some of the Aggies greatest sports
achievements are captured in that
small space. One is the football from
the 1917 A&M-Texas game. With
that win, the Aggies capped a perfect
undefeated, untied and unscored-on
season.
The feats of Aggie sports heroes
are also featured there. The shot
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his late world record is on display. So
are the outstanding player awards
presented annually to the A&M bas
ketball, baseball and track teams.
Athletic Department Business
Manager Wally Groff is in charge of
the case and what goes in there. "We
try to put in the most recent
trophies. We also include some of
the older, more famous trophies.”
The case is on the right hand side
of the main entrance to the coliseum.
It is divided into four sections.
The oldest item on exhibit is the
football from the 1915 A&M-Texas
game. After this game, the Aggies
branded a steer with the score 13-0
from which the name Bevo evolved
for the UT mascot. The people at
Austin connected the 1 and the 3 to
form a B, made an E out of the dash,
inserted a V and just like magic
BEVO.
Down through the years, the
awards trickled in. In the second sec
tion of the case is the trophy from the
Southwest Conference champion
track team of 1921. They were pre
sented the Schmelzer’s trophy. It
stands about one foot high and is in
the shape of a loving cup instead of
the vertical trophies of today.
In 1940, the Aggies won their sec
ond of what was to become three
SWC football championships in a
row. On New Year’s Day, 1941, they
played and beat Fordham in the Cot
ton Bowl Classic. The trophy they
won that day is in the fourth section
of the case.
Ten years later the Aggies were in
Washington, D.C., to play the Uni
versity of Georgia in the Presidential
Classic. They came back victorious
with a 40-20 win and the Presidential
Cup. This is the largest of the football
trophies in the case. It’s in the fourth
section of the case, too.
The A&M track teams of Coaches
F. G. Anderson and Charlie Thomas
dominate the display. There are 22
track trophies in case. Football has
the next highest total with eight.
The trophy the track team won in
1953 is in the fourth section. This
award ended the string of SWC
championships in seven years for
Coach Anderson and his Aggies.
The alligator covered football from
the 1957 Gator Bowl is in the second
section. That A&M team was led by
Heisman Trophy winner John David
Crow. But even he couldn t stop the
University of Tennessee that day as
the Volunteers won 3-0.
The other present Aggie coaches
who’s teams are honored are Tom
Chandler (baseball) and Henry Ran
som (golf). Both coaches won their
sports conference championships in
their first year at A&M. Those
trophies are in the first section of the
case.
“The 1959 baseball team didn’t
have what I d call a lot of natural
ability,” said Chandler. “We were on
our way out midway through the sea
son. We had five losses, two outs and
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were behind 9-5 in the top of the
ninth against TCU. Then their great
shortstop George Banda dropped a
pop fly. From there, we went on to
win that game 10-9 and swept Texas
three straight to win the champion
ship.”
1960 was the first year Ransom was
at A&M. He won four consecutive
SWC championships in his first four
years as head golf coach. Both his
I960 and 1963 trophies are in the
case.
The team with the most awards is
Coach Thomas’ 1970 track team.
“That was a good team. We were
very strong in the relays with Rookie
Woods and Curtis Mills,” Thomas
said. “ Rookie was one of our studs.
He had just exceptional strength in
his legs. Curtis best quality was his
hard work. He also had a lot of
natural ability.
Mills set a world record in the 440
yard dash in the 1969 NCAA meet.
He also anchored the indoor mile
relay world record team of 1970.
Both these moments are captured on
pictures in the third section of the
case.
“Strength, agility and finesse.”
These are the words Thomas uses to
describe Randy Matson. Matson
ruled the world weight scene in his
competing years at A&M. His biog
raphy and shot put are in the third
section, also.
The Dallas A&M Club presents
the award to the MVP on the
baseball team. Chandler said, “We
give the winner a smaller trophy and
put his name on the big one. Right
now we’re a few names behind.” He
said the winners in ’73 were Bobby
Falcon and Jim Hacker.
The John I I. Lindsey award for the
basketball MVP stands right beside
the other two.
From 1915 until now the Aggies
have won their share of loving cups.
Presidential Cups and trophies.
They are there for people to look at if
you just take the time.
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