THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1974
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Water Polo sweeps Southwest title
By TONY GALLUCI
If you’re in Dallas this weekend head on over to
Tupinamba for midnight yell practice. Eddie Dominguez
and Joe Arciniega are bound to have a real thriller planned
for Friday evening.
Randy Haddox’s 57-yard boot against Arkansas was the
longest field goal in A&M history, as well as the second
longest in SWC history.
It is eclipsed only by a 60-yarder kicked by Arkansas’
Bill McClard against SMU in 1970. Only 18 field goals in
SWC history have surpassed 50 yards. Eight have kicked in
the 1970’s.
The first field goal ever kicked over 50 steps was by
Randy Sims of A&M against Texas in 1959. That boot
sailed 52 yards.
SMU can make SWC history Saturday if the Mustangs
beat A&M. Never in conference history has a Mustang team
beaten an Aggie team that was undefeated in conference
play. In 1923, 1926 and 1967 the Ponies beat the Ags in
their conference opener. Eight times the Ags have faced
SM(J with undefeated records and eight times they have
remained unscathed.
Texas and Baylor meet Saturday with the loser being
eliminated from the conference race. Of their 52 previous
encounters, on 30 occasions at least one team has faced
elimination.
Texas’ won-loss record against Baylor is 15-4-1 and
Baylor’s record against Texas on such occasions is 5-9-1.
On five dates both teams have faced elimination and Texas
leads that series 3-2.
Bubba Bean lost his first place position in the rushing
category last weekend. He moved behind Baylor’s Steve
Beaird who had a 119 yard game against TCU.
Mark Stanley still leads the punting category with a 42.4
yard average. Haddox’s 57-yard field goal leads the
conference this year and possibly the nation.
The team still leads the conference widening the margin
between them and Arkansas. A&M is second nationally in
defense behind Notre Dame.
If you haven’t seen this week’s Sports Illustrated, grab a
copy quick. The Aggies are featured in a full-color spread.
Local merchants report that all the copies were sold off the
newsstands within hours after arriving.
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By MARY RUSSO
Staff Sports Writer
The Aggies won in every hour of
play this past weekend as they
swept the Southwest Water Polo
Championships.
It all started with the A&M Var
sity. The poloists high lighted their
fast-break play with shooting that
just couldn’t miss.
Playing the final games of his col
legiate career, Paul McKinzie,
goalie and team captain, lived up to
all expectations stopping nearly
forty shots. He was the major
reason for the low total of three
points by all other contenders.
Looking like the Jim Yates that
came out of California three years
ago, he took to the pool with a ven-
gence that was cured by a 13 goal
tournament total.
Following Yates was the other tall
man on the A&M team, Larry
Schueckler. Schueckler, who mis
sed the California trip earlier in the
season, played an excellent game
making 11 goals.
These two top scorers were fol
lowed by Lee Davis, Doug Adam
son, and Steve Moore.
All these top scorers will return
next year, with the exception of
Adamson.
Yates, Scheuckler, Moore and
Adamson all looked good in the as
sists with Oran Marksberry joining
the crew.
A&M Varsity took A&M “B”
15-1, Hendrix College 10-1, Col
lege Station Water Polo Club 18-0
Auburn may
face Ags in
Gator Bowl
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
(AP) — The Gator Bowl
football game the night of
Dec. 30 will almost cer
tainly match Auburn against
the Southwest Conference
runner-up. But bowl offi
cials still wouldn’t confirm it
Wednesday.
“We believe in living up
to the agreement that bowl
pairings are not to be an
nounced before Nov. 16,”
said George Olsen, execu
tive vice president of the
Gator Bowl Association.
Selection chairman Gor
don Thompson Jr. said a
firm invitation was issued to
Auburn and “we are fairly
confident they will play in
the Gator Bowl.”
The opponent is expected
to be either Texas or Texas
A&M. Baylor has a chance if
it upsets Texas this week.
Texas A&M, 7-1, is
ranked fifth. Texas, at 6-2, is
12th. They meet the day
after Thanksgiving day at
Austin, Tex.
Meanwhile, A&M faces
Southern Methodist and
Rice and Texas must handle
Texas Christian in addition
to Baylor.
Scouts will view
Lions Saturday
DALLAS (AP) — Field
Scovell, chairman of the
Cotton Bowl selection
committee, will be in
Raleigh, N.C. Saturday for
Penn State’s game with
North Carolina State.
The Penn State squad
voted Monday to accept an
invitation from the Cotton
Bowl. There has been no of
ficial invitation tendered to
the Penn State squad,
Scovell said.
and The Bunch 11-1.
The play was consistent. It was
the fast drive, the good fakes under
the water defensively, the ball con
trol and the ability to plan an offense
and carry it out that made them
number one over-all.
The College Station Water Polo
Club took second. This group was
comprised of A&M graduate stu
dents, under graduates and former
students. The third place team was
the A&M “B Varsity. All this says
that A&M is definitely the power
house in Southwest.
“We host a tournament in hopes
of getting rid of trophies and usually
end up with them all,” Coach De
nnis Fosdick said at the end of the
two-day tournament.
This was true again in the “B”
Division as the A&M Freshmen
took first place here. Leading the
pack was Boh Leland with 9 goals.
His old arch-enemy from high
school days, David Meeks came in a
shade behind Leland s total with
six.
Assists came from Greg Meeks
and Mike Springer, feeding the pass
to the scorer, five times each.
The Country Hix finished sec
ond. This group comes primarily
from A&M Consolidated and again
is the show of Aggie training and
interest.
About the only place the Aggies
didn’t directly influence was the
State College of Arkansas’ third
place finish.
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