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Both teams risk perfect marks Saturday
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1975
Page 7
Aggies, TCU knock tilt heads in conference
By PAUL MCGRATH
Staff Sports Writer
Although it is still early, Texas
A&M defends its 1-0 record against
TCU for their first major challenge
of the young Southwest Conference
race.
Tomorrow’s 7:30 p.m. tipoff pits
the 9-4 Aggies and the 6-6 Homed
Frogs. Both will be putting un
beaten SWC marks on the line. On
the line is a literal statement consid
ering the amount of time both teams
spent at the free throw stripe in
their last outings.
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Wiggin signed a three-year contract
with the Kansas City Chiefs Thurs
day, then said his first priority
would be to try and talk All-Pro
linebacker Willie Lanier out of re
tirement.
Wiggins becomes the second
coach the Chiefs franchise has had.
The National Football League club,
which began in 1960 as the Dallas
Texans in the American Football
League, had been coached by Hank
Stram since its creation.
The Chiefs said Wiggin, a
40-year-old defensive specialist and
an assistant coach with the San
Francisco 49ers, will be field boss in
the organization which is replacing
the authoritarian Stram. The lean,
crewcut Californian told a news con
ference that is exactly what he wants
to be — the man in charge on the
field.
Stram was a vice president of the
Chiefs as well as head coach and
exercised considerable front office
authority.
After trying to get Lanier to
change his mind about retiring,
Wiggin said, his next task is to line
up a staff, particularly an offensive
coordinator since he has concen
trated on defense.
Down the road, he indicated, was
the quarterback problem.
The Chiefs had never had any
coach but Stram until they fired him
Dec. 27 and almost no other quar
terback but Len Dawson. Dawson
was at the announcement session as
a broadcast reporter but asked no
questions. Wiggin did not mention
him, although they played together
two years at Cleveland early in their
careers.
“I see a rebuilding process
needed here,” Wiggin said, “but I
do not know how deep it will have to
go. I’m not going to tell you that this
team is going to the Super Bowl. If it
were, I wouldn’t be here.”
But the Chiefs are not in such dire
straits that they will have to forget
about winning for a year or two and
concentrate instead on building a
new and younger team, Wiggin
said.
Lamar Hunt, the Texas multimil
lionaire who owns the Chiefs, de
scribed the intensive search for a
coach, the contacts with 60 to 70
prospects, interviews that lasted as
long as eight hours with 14 of the
most promising.
“One person stood out as far as we
were concerned, and that was Wig-
gin,” Hunt said.
Wiggin said he signed a three-
year contract but would not talk sal
ary.
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A&M’s Shelby Metcalf and
TCU’s Johnny Swain will match wits
in what may prove to be a battle of
defenses. “We don’t know that
much about them (TCU),” said
Metcalf, “Everybody has played
them a zone, we re going to play
them man-to-man.
TCU is a good ball club. They
have a pretty well balanced attack.
They play good defense and they
run the ball well. They have good
people. (Lynn) Royal is a premier
player. They also have good depth
on the bench.”
Metcalf says that the Frogs will be
more physical than Rice and should
feature a strong inside attack with
their double post offense. The Frogs
big men-Royal at 6-7, Tom Bledsoe
at 6-6 and Bill Bozeat at 6-10 play
the boards well. Bledsoe has been
TCU’s leading scorer in their last
two games.
Illustrating TCU’s board strength
is the play of Bozeat, who in one of
last season’s contests with A&M pul
led down 15 rebounds before being
disqualified.
On offense TCU often overloads
either the right or left side of the
Cowboys
schedule
court. That is, by drawing the for
ward and two guards to one side and
placing the two post men on that
side’s baseline, they can set up a
multiple of plays with various op
tions availably to the man with the
ball.
At the guard positions for TCU
are Richard Johnson, who Metcalf
says is an excellent ball handler, and
Eddy Fitzhugh.
Metcalf feels that for A&M to win
they must control the boards and
shut down their outside people by
not letting them penetrate.
A&M has had some problems set
ting up their fast break due to a
slowness in switching from defense
to offense. “Our break has not come
along like we would want it to, but it
is improving. We have to get the
outlet pass better,” said Metcalf.
A&M’s offense is styled to go in
side as much as possible, however,
they are not afraid to take the out
side shot. “We’ve got a lot of faith in
(Chuck) Tone, (Sonny) Parker and
(John) Thornton,” said assistant
basketball coach Norm Reuther.
“We’ll put it up out there.”
Metcalf takes great satisfaction in
the effort and attitude of his players.
“We are a team on both ends of the
court. All of the players are unself
ish. If one man gets beat defen
sively, another will pick up for him.
They make things enjoyable be
cause they play with intensity and
are unselfish. I feel this team is a
true representative of the school
spirit at A&M.”
This will be the first of two meet
ings for the Aggies and Frogs. The
duo split their games last year, each
winning at home. Other SWC
games will have SMU hosting Ar
kansas, another contest between
unbeatens and will be televised.
Texas Tech travels to Austin to play
Texas. Rice and Baylor have open
dates.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Roxie Ann
Rice, on the advice of a St. Louis
police investigator, refused on
Thursday to corroborate a story that
she was a courier of drugs for profes
sional football and basketball
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that she had ever told such a story.
He also said she refused to take a lie
detector test or to talk to any one of
several persons in the National
Football League who remember
some of the incidents related in a
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“She flatly denied the charges she
reportedly made, flatly refused to
take a lie detector test and flatly re
fused to talk to reporters,” Wren
said in a news confei. He said Miss
Rice’s decision came on his advice.
“In the absence of an attorney, I
felt I must take a protective role in
her case. I did not want her to be
exploited,” Wren said.
Miss Rice was arrested Jan. 4 on
charges of defrauding an innkeeper
and fraudulently using a credit card,
reportedly stolen from Ken Hous
ton, a defensive back for the
Washington Redskins. She still is in
jail. Wren said, however, that the
St. Louis police, federal authorities
and investigators from the NFL and
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DALLAS (AP) — If top-flight
pre-season games mean getting the
Dallas Cowboys into top condition
for the 14-game drive toward the
title, the Pokes should be ready to
hit the regular season running for
the Super Bowl.
The Cowboys announced Thurs
day they will play the world champ
ion Pittsburgh Steelers and Oak
land, the champion of the American
Football Conference West, in pre
season in Dallas. The Cowboys ear
lier announced they will play Min
nesota, the second team in the
Super Bowl, in Dallas before the
regular season begins.
“The Texas Stadium schedule of
Minnesota, Oakland and Pittsburgh
represents our most difficult pre
season assignment in years,” said
Cowboys President and General
Manager Tex Schramm.
There will be three pre-season
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