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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1974
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Southwest championship
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By ROBERT CESSNA
Staff Sports Writer
Question-What do Gale Sayers,
Brian Piccolo, Tucker Fredrickson,
Lance Rentzel, Jim Hudson, Dick
Butkus and Joe Namath have in
common besides the fact they are or
were football players?
Answer-The answer is two-fold. 11
you said that till of the above were
drafted in 1965 you got the first part
right. The 1965 draft was one of the
best drafts the NFL has had in
years. But the vintage year of these
collegiate athletes started to turn
very sour as their pro careers began
to take form.
Knee injuries, cancer and per
sonal problems all hindered or shor
tened the careers of these individu
als. Sayer, Piccolo and Butkus were
all drafted in the first round by the
Chicago Bears. Sayers in his short
time in the NFL became one of the
top runners in the league. A knee
injury cut short his career and at the
end of the 1972 season he retired.
Piccolo’s story is sad indeed. All
throughout his collegiate career he
played in the shadow of Tucker
Fredrickson. When Piccolo arrived
in Chicago he again found himself
being number two, this time behind
Sayers. Piccolo’s career came to a
tragic end when he died of cancer at
the young age of 26.
Dick Butkus was one of the best
middle linebackers in the history of
the NFL. He never had the oppor
tunity to play for a champion and at
the end of the 1973 season two bad
knees forced him to hang em up.
Tucker Fredrickson came out of
Auburn as the No. 1 draft choice of
the New York Giants. He was to
have been the best running back to
come along in quite awhile. His
career never did get off the ground
as knee surgery had to be performed
time and time again. Fredrickson
retired a journeyman never reach
ing his potential.
Jim Hudson and Joe Namath first
met in the 1965 Orange Bowl when
Hudson quarterbacked Texas to a
21-17 win over Namath and
Alabama. Hudson and Namath
were both drafted by the New York
Jets. Namath at quarterback and
Hudson in the defensive secondary
led the Jets to their Super Bowl vic
tory. Hudson became so bothered
by his knees that he had to retire a
few years after the Super Bowl win.
Namath has been constantly
bothered by bad knees and other
injuries. He is currently playing out
his option with the Jets who have
gone nowhere since their 1969
Super Bowl win. Namath has been
reduced to a has been in many
minds.
Women poloists take 2nd
B:
Last we have Lance Rentzel who
has had personal problems. His first
NFL stop was Minnesota where he
was first charged with indecent ex
posure. The Vikings decided to
trade him to Dallas. With the Cow
boys he became one of the most
feared wide receivers in the game.
His second indecent exposure
caused him to miss the Super Bowl
against the Baltimore Colts. A game
the Cowboys lost. Rentzel was
traded to the Los Angeles Rams. He
is now an alternating wide receiver.
By MARY RUSSO
Staff Sports Writer
The women water poloists suf
fered little from their inexperience
as they took second last weekend in
the first Southwest Water Polo
Championship for women.
Held at A&M, the women proved
that thinking can compensate for
experience, most of the time. The
Ags beat LaMarque and Lafayette,
but lost to the Wil’cats from Clear
Creek.
In the Clear Creek game, the de
fense from both A&M and the
Wil’cats were fast-moving, but the
A&M women couldn’t get in any
shots off The gamp score: Wil’cats
3, A&M 2.
Generally, the women played
good water polo, much better than
Dennis Fosdick, Aquadies Coach,
expected. As a principle pusher of
the sport in Texas, Fosdick expects
women to take the polo ball and go
far.
“Although only four teams played
this year, there were people up to
watch and they were impressed by
the play,’ Fosdick said.
About the Ags, Fosdick said,
“They played well. Lack of experi
ence hurt them in the game so they
lost. They show a lot of potential. ”
The coach, Mike McLellan, a
four-yearvaristy swimmer, credited
the women with mental alertij ' e
He credited the VVil’catswithnJ ina ' n '. st
finesse (better ball handlm; Jinff- a 1
connections), but "the A™f> rst '
women were improving througfJ Novem
the game.”
McLellan will return withrfietj
tire squad intact next fill], Win]
forward to more
competition.
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Rookies fail
to show up
Joe Namath is rumored to be
going to the Rams at the end of the
season. For the children of the
damned to have a happy ending,
wouldn’t it be nice for Namath to go
to L.A. and lead them to the super
bowl with his favorite receiver
being . . . you guessed it Lance Re
ntzel.
If you have any questions regard
ing any aspect of sports submit them
to the Batt notice box in the Reed
McDonald Services Building, room
216. We will try to come up with the
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Run
ning back Kermit Johnson and of
fensive tackle Booker Brown, two
highly publicized Southern Califor
nia Sun rookies who were showcase
signings of the World Football
League, failed to show up for a
playoff game with the Hawaiians
Thursday night.
The team gave no reason for their
absence, but said that Coach Tom
Fears had suspended Johnson and
Brown indefinitely.
The Sun players voted to play the
game despite being owed their last
paychecks — due last Friday. The
previous pay was eight days late.
There was no word from the ab
sent players.
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Female water polo team in Southwest tourney this past weekend. (Photo by Kim Moore)
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HOUSTON (AP) —The Houston
Oilers, riding a four-game National
Football League winning streak,
announced Thursday their game
this Sunday in the Astrodome
against Dallas was a sellout and
would be televised in Houston.
It was the first regular season
sellout for the Oilers since 1972.
The Oilers have also sold about
3,000 of the 5,000 standing room
only spaces at the dome.
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Last Week
8-2
8-2
6-4
6-4
7-3
6-4
6-4
9-1
7-3
Season
66-34
66-34
65-35
64-36
64-36
63-37
63-37
62 38
61-39
Percentage
.660
.660
.650
.640
.640
.630
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.620
.610
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Guest Picker next week: Herb Holland, sports editor of The Daily Texan, UT
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INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS
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As season ends; winners become numerous in
handball, golf,
badminton, archery
Game of the Week
As the semester winds down,
so do the play-offs for All-
University titles.
win
I Bronson-Gres sett
doubles title
In handball, the team of
I student Jack Gressett and staff
Jeff Bronson beat out the Corps
champions from Ml. Represent
ing the Recreation division, the
G&B team could finish a rally
with the right kill shoot and used
the combination of “smarts and
speed” to overcome even the
most experienced of players.
Thomas Culberson and
Kley Hughes are the Corps
champions after beating out the
SQ4 fish team, Tim Billingsly
and Charles Knarr. G&B won
the civilian championship by
outmatching Law’s Dennis
Grafa and Pat Kelley.
on nightly in
House.
DeWare Field
Youens and Johnson shoot
the bullseye
Mike McCabe birdies for
Currently, another closed-
room sport is in the play-off
stage. Paddleball, handball with
a sawed-off tennis racket, goes
crown
Co-Rec basketball rules told
The rules for the Co-Rec Basketball competi
tion are out.
If there are a few women with any sort of
uinf
basketball skill who can convince a male or two to
join their forces, they could come out tops in this
single-eliminations round-robin tournament.
Men’s goals are worth two points, while
women’s are worth four. Free throws by women
are worth two while men’s are worth one.
Personal fouls will be counted against the
individual with five fouls causing ejection. After a
foul is committed the ball is taken out of bounds,
except when the foul is committed in the act of
shooting. In this case a free shot is awarded if the
shot is missed. If the shot is made, the violator is
charged and the ball is taken out of bounds by the
opposing team.
No team can have more than four of its
players on a half court at any time. A man and a
woman must remain on each half throughout the
game. Violation of this ruling results in the oppos
ition receiving the ball.
A male may not enter the free throw lane or
the key area at any time. If he violates in his own
court, the opposition is awarded two points. If he
violates in the opposition’s half, the ball goes to
the opposition.
The three second violation is waived for
women. Women will begin the game in a jump
ball.
For anyone interested, a team managers
meeting will be held Dec. 10 at 5 p.m. in room
232 of G. Rollie White. Entries close Dec. 10 and
play begins Jan. 22, 1975.
Applications are available in the Intramural
Office located on the “G. Rollie side” of DeWare
Field House.
The play-off contestants
were E2 golfers Mike McCabe
and Paul Brasher. After three
games of nine-hole match play,
McCabe birdied in the last two
holes to win over the fish coun
terpart. Brasher and McCabe
had come out of an all-day com
petition to play in a round-robin
competition.
Robert Youens shooting a
242 out of 270 points won the
Open Class Archery tournament
held Nov. 14. Taking second was
Joe Bosely and finishing third
was Mike Watson. They shot
217 and 192, respectively.
In Instinctive shooting,
Doug Johnson bullseyed it for
the first at 199. Robert Lopez
shot a second place 144 and
George McKirahan finished
third at 132.
Devils
over
I. M. standings seen
Dogs
Kent Douglas takes rac
ket first
Kent Douglas, an indepen
dent, finished off Randy Carr in
badminton play-offs playing to
the tune 15-10 and 15-2.
Superior racket and birdie con
trol brought Douglas the title.
Moore
Walton
Puryear
Hart
White
Military
For those interested in their standing in Intramural competition
excluding victory points for table tennis, racquetball, and volleyball
championship points the standings run:
Civilians
382 E2
374 Ml
367 Sq2
335 D1
326 Sq8
Fish
Women
326
310
308
298
297
Fowler
Hughes
Kruegar
Keathley
PE Majors
Sq7 overcomes ‘
corps’
In the game
the other
that deter
mined the Corps upperclassmen
flag football crown, for certain,
the All-Stars from the Texas
Maritime Academy came to play
Sq7, early Saturday morning.
to
by BOB GIBSON
Stubborn D-l used steady teal
play to come back from a 14-11 tif
licit and beat D-2 16-14 in the™
and deciding game of an intraimin
volleyball match.
D-l also took the exciting second
game 17-15 after nearly bein|
eliminated. D-2 took the first maid
15-9.
In the first game, D-2jumpedonl
to an 8-0 lead behind the serving®
Kit Hayden and the spiking of Pelt'
Polemis. D-l cut the score to 8-1
but D-2 breezed to an easy wink
hind Donald Boyd’s excellent pas'
ses and setups.
The second match was a seesa»
battle as D-2 constantly forgedsli®
leads but failed to hold them. D-l
won a long volley between thetw
teams to take an 8-7 lead whichtkl
never relinquished. Mike Chiskeys
spiking accounted for the final If*
points.
D-2 came hack from another 8-5
deficit in the third game be!
Mike Stiles’ consistent selves. Eve”
though D-l extended their lead
14-11, D-2’s team hustle gave the®
the margin of victory.
Amid the mud and fog, the
All-Stars valiantly battled the
Phantoms for the topdog posi
tion. Their reactions just
weren’t quick enough to make
the Sq7 offense ineffective. The
final outcome was Sq7, 25; All-
Stars, 6.
Paul Hicks, a freshman Chemical Engineering student, took
first in the 2.1 cross-country run, Wednesday. A 4-year let-
terman in cross-country, Hicks ran a 11.09
These Intramural Highlights
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