Off to best start in 14 years
Page 6 THE BATTALION |
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, ISii
Symptoms of basketball fever in Aggieland
Wi
DAVID WALKER
Staff Sports Writer
Slowly but surely basketball fever
is catching around Aggieland and
the reason is because the Texas Ag
gies are off to their best start in 14
years.
The Ags 11-4 season mark is the
best at this point in the season since
1960 when the Aggies won their first
10 in a row. They are also off to their
best Southwest Conference start
since 1969 when they won their first
five and eventually won the SWC
championship.
Coach Shelby Metcalf warns that
it is a little early in the season to start
championship talk. “I’d rather not
talk about our good start now be
cause in 1966 we won our first seven
conference games but we didn’t win
the championship.’’
One major aspect of the Aggies
3-0 conference record is that two of
the victories have come on the road.
Rice and Texas Tech, and that’s no
easy task.
i
x*x
; 'iii
*>X
Xr*'
Houston Oilers choose
Hardeman in 2nd round
HOUSTON (AjP) — Texas A&I’s
bragging, poetry-spouting fullback
Don Hardeman, picked in the first
round by Houston in Tuesday’s Na
tional Football League draft, made
his debut here Wednesday with a
few predictions.
“I’ll make Oiler quarterback Dan
Pastorini all pro with my blocking
and my catching,” Hardeman said
for openers. “I can do everything.”
Hardeman showed up at the Oil
ers draft headquarters Wednesday
as the NFL draft went into the final
stages and quickly became the
center of attention.
“If I touch the ball seven times.
I’ll put it in the end zone twice,”
Hardeman added, noting he had
scored 18 touchdowns his senior
year in leading Texas A&I to the
NAIA Division I national champ
ionship.
“I really scored more, but some of
them were called back,” he said.
Hardeman said he was known on
the A&I campus as a Muhammad
Ali type football player because he
Club Sports
RUGBY
The rugby team is encouraging
any interested people to join. Prac
tice is daily on the drill field at 5
p.m. Three teams are being formed
and everybody will get to play.
The sides next match will be Feb.
15 against the newly formed Hous
ton Strikers.
SOCCER
There will be a general meeting of
the Soccer Club Wednesday at 7
p.m. in the Rudder Tower. Officers
will be elected for the coming year.
There will be discussion of several
upcoming games, the Baylor spring
Tournament and plans for building
new goalposts.
PISTOL TEAM
Curt Prudhomme is trying to
form a pistol team. A coach is availa
ble. Meeting place has not been de
cided on yet. For information or to
join call Prudhomme at 5-4077 after
7:30 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Coach Kay Don’s troops will
travel to Beaumont this weekend to
participate in the Lamar Tourna
ment. The gals are 2-2 on the season
thus far including an impressive
99-16 win over Rice and an 87-40
win over Sam Houston State in a
scrimmage on Tuesday.
liked to predict when he would
score a touchdown.
How often was he right in making
a touchdown prediction, Hardeman
was asked? “Every time,” he said.
Hardeman was the second choice
of the Oilers in Tuesday’s first
round. Houston picked Jackson
State linebacker Robert Brazile ear
lier in the first round.
While Hardeman was entertain
ing newsmen Wednesday, the Oil
ers continued the draft process, ad
ding Rice placekicker Alan Pringle
to their picks in the 10th round.
Pringle, highly rated among this
year’s crop of college kickers, made
20 of 29 field goals during his career
at Rice.
Hardeman said heavyweight
champion Muhammed Ali was one
of his heros and he had even written
a poem about Ali.
Cautioning newsmen that he had
the poem copyrighted “somebody
can get any money off it,” Harde
man said “Are you all ready for this?
Tin a poet and everything.”
After reciting the lengthy poem,
in tru Ali sing-song fashion, Harde
man said “I add on to it as I go. I may
say it different next time, but that’s
all I can remember off hand. ”
Hardeman was an all-conference
linebacker his junior year at A&I
and then shifted to fullback his
senior year and gained 1,547 yards
rushing.
The victory over Tech was the
biggie as the general consensus
around the SWC is that if you can
beat Tech at Tech you can beat any
body, anywhere.
Metcalf said, “The Tech game
wasn’t our best game of the year, the
second Va. Commonwealth game
was, but it was definitely our biggest
game so far.”
The Aggies current four game
winning streak is the longest in over
two years and with a victory over the
Longhorns Saturday in Austin the
string would be the longest since
1970.
Statistically the Aggies aren’t ex
actly tearing up their opponents.
The Ags are averaging 76.4 points
per game while their foes are hitting
72.5 per game. A&M also has a
slight per game rebounding average
over their opponents, 40.3-39.3.
But as someone once said, statistics
are for losers.
Besides the obvious importance
of an Aggie victory Saturday another
important side light is that they
East paced
by Lewis
in All-Star
Aggie Cinema
presents
Where mere you in VS?
would probably rate,
or
at least
A&M
Opponent
Att.
Hi Scorer
Hi Rebounder
should rate.
a top 20 ranking. The
84
Texas Lutheran
74
2,280
Davis, 24
Davis, 15
Ags received votes in
last week s
84
Houston Baptist
77
2,884
Parker, 22
Parker, 13
poll but not enough to break into the
83
Oral Roberts (OT)
84
5,535
Davis, 19
Davis & Parker, i
elite group.
98
Virginia Commonwealth
84
3,331
Parker, 21
Davis, 12
55
Indiana
90
17,700
Floyd, 11
Thornton, 7
Name
Sonny Parker
Games
15
Pts.
225
Ave.
15.0
Reb.
87
Ave.
5.8
67
Northwestern*
55
5,000
Parker, 19
Davis, 8
Barn' Davis
15
206
13.7
115
7.7
69
UT El Paso*
71
5,000
Parker, 18
Davis, 8
John Thornton
15
144
9.6
88
5.9
62
Fairfield*
57
4,800
Davis, 15
Davis 6r Mercer,S
Mike Floyd
15
128
8.5
20
1.3
84
Virginia Commonwealth*
70
5,412
Parker, 27
Thornton, 11
weDD Williams
Hay Roberts
15
85
7.7
5.7
34
26
2.3
1.7
80
UN Las Vegas***
78
5,673
Parker, 14
Davis & Joseph, 9
Jerry' Mercer
15
71
4.7
89
5.9
72
Houston *
92
8,825
Thornton, 18
Davis, 13
Chuck Tone
14
60
4.3
19
1.4
101
Sam Houston State
71
3,516
Thornton, 19
Mercer, 18
Gates Erwin
Cedric Joseph
11
15
45
48
4.1
3.2
17
41
1.5
2.7
64
Rice*
61
3,821
Parker, 14
Mercer, 9
Mike Williams
7
9
1.2
1
0.1
81
TCU*
69
7,720
Parker, 15
Mercer, 10
Doug Mezger
3
1
0.3
4
1.3
62
Texas Tech*
55
9,112
Davis, 21
Davis, 6
F
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) —
Eastern Division Coach Kevin
Loughery says teamwork produced
the 151-124 victory over the West in
Tuesday night’s eighth American
Basketball Association All-Star
Game.
“Everyone on our team played
great, but when things got close, my
New York players struck for the
quick points,” Loughery, coach of
the New York Nets, said.
Loughery brought with him
Julius Erving, who connected for 21
points, Larry Kenon who claimed
12 and Brian Taylor 21. Billy Paultz
added four points to the East total.
But it was 6-foot-1 Freddie Lewis
of the St. Louis Spirits, one of the
shortest on the East squad, who led
the charge with a 26-point effort and
ten assists.
Newsmen voted him the most
valuable player.
Davis, in top form
Barry Davis picked a good time to come
out of his slump, as he led the Aggies in
scoring and rebounding in Tuesday’s 62-55
win over Tech. He scored 21 points and
grabbed six rebounds and put out a stellar
effort to keep the Ags tied for the con
ference lead with the Hogs at 3-0.
When you need a calculator
you need it now.
No waiting for delivery. Your University Calculator Center
has the largest inventory of quality units available
anywhere. Plus, we specialize in the calculator
requirements of the college student.
From TEXAS INSTRUMENTS,
worldwide leader in the
electronics industry.
SR-11. A versatile, hand-held calculator with a range of
nearly 200 decades (10" to 10~ 98 ). Its capabilities
include scientific notation (EE), square root (Vx),
reciprocals (1/x), squares (x 2 ), change signs (+/—),
plus mixed calculations, pi (tt) as a constant and a
constant for x, -k Data may be entered in free form
(floating decimal, scientific notation or any combination
of the two). Algebraic logic. Rechargeable. All
accessories included. $69.95
LOUPOT’S
Northgate
Across From The Post Office
University
Calculator
Cenlec
Service Mark
Application Calculators Incorporated
© 1974 Application Calculators Incorporated