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^.Controversial meet ees UT take win THE BATTALION Page 7 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1975 mis onilj worked, ttle L I By DAVID WALKER Staff Sports Writer Kiime. &;■ £ ven ^ough the Aggies could do 1 ''' no better than fourth in the 1975 Southwest Conference Indoor ^ 0Sin ^®Br aC k and Field Championships, R i? “Wey did have some fine individual ’f’ 151 ' - etlorts. ( Aggie Brad Blair set a meet re- Htrdin jxrle vaulting with a vault of j lt ‘ %K’6”, But it was not enough as the ( lexas Longhorns finished first in s itlie nine team meet followed by ■aylor, Arkansas, A&M, TCU, utreJmBlouston, Rice, Texas Tech, and ' lo yd IsMU. K The next highest Ag finisher was -VebbW eWilta i without |tlie mile relay team which finished ■econd behind TCU with a time of ' '-T'iS : ^0'4- The team consisted of : ’ I Horace Grant, Doug Broadhead, ' r ! R^olph Tingan and Charles Butler. e wl J“*( In the 60 yard high hurdles " ' tl ®|A&M’s Scottie Jones finished third with a time of 7.5.4 seconds. A&M also took fourth and fifth in the [vent with Shifton Baker finishing jextwith a time of 7.6.5. and Mike williams finished fifth with a time of f.8 seconds. Manfred Kohrs took fifth in the. Rifle team mile with a time of 4:18.5. Adolph Tingan took fourth in the 600 with a time of 1:13.7. Phil McGuire and Lynn Bird took fifth and sixth, re spectively, each with a jump of 6’6”. Bruce Smith placed fifth in the two-mile-run with a time of 9:14.5, and Frank West finished the even ing for the Aggies with a fourth place finish in the shot. Even though Texas won the event, Baylor felt there were some questionable calls. The first questionable call came when Baylor s Tim Son was disqual ified after winning the 600-yard das. The curve judge ruled that Son bumped Larry Gnatzig of the Uni versity of Houston. Houston track coach Johnny Morris said that there was no doubt that Son hit Gnatzig. Correction The Battalion incorrectly re ported that Dwight Davis was the brother of Barry Davis. He was mis taken for Dwight Jones who is the brother of A&M’s Steve Jones. Baylor coach Clyde Hart said no body saw it if he didn’t. Also, in the two-mile relay, a Texas runner hit an Aggie runner and was not disqualified. A&M filed a protest but no corner judge ruled against Texas so the pro test was thrown out. The Bears coach, mad to the point of tears, told reporters after the meet, “There were just a bunch of inconsistencies in the meet, and it was that all the breaks went against us.” Other incidents that the Baylor coach complained about also dealt with Texas. In the prelims several runners were disqualified for jump ing the gun. A new NCAA rule says that if a runner jumps the gun, he is disqualified. Another gripe by Hart was involv ing a Texas pole vaulter who was credited with a 15 foot vault after his pole had knocked down the cross bar. The rule states that the vaulter is responsible for pushing the pole out of the way. Davis selected meets uh Player of Week : recipienl rt Award to Lamp ors Prop- the Rod- tarter and academic Lamp is pirit, de- id deter- a senior, ed by the team, tsonwere morees. t The TAMU rifle team has won wo straight matches and goes after he University of Houston Satur- lay. “They’re tough again,” evaluated SFC Max Schill, TAMU rifle team :oaeh. His crew has a 3-1 record in Southwest Rifle Association natches. The team beat UT-Austin, UT- Vrlington and Rice, and lost to St. clary’s University. Texas A&M’s Barry Davis was named as the Southwest Confer ence Player of the Week for his superlative play of last week. “I can just say this,” said Davis, “it’s not worth anything if we don’t win this game tonight. Everyone did a good job last week. Any one of us could have won that award. Some have said Davis was in a slump until recently. He disagrees. N&oos WELCOME BACK AGGIES Fontana’s is now serving Mexican food prepared by Mr. and Mrs. J. Cedillo. Open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Check with us for lunch specials. 1037 S. Texas Avenue Thefabulou/ ] [ *411 GLOBETROTTERi m PERSON G. R0LLIE WHITE COLISEUM ^7 THURSDAY—FEB. 27—8 PM n* A TAMU SPECIAL ATTRACTION FOR INFO—CALL 845-2916 TICKETS NOW ON SALE MSC BOX OFFICE—1st FLOOR—RUDDER TOWER Prices:$4.°° and $4. 50 STUDENTS AND CHILDREN 12 S UNDER—$1. 00 OFF THE S4. 00 TICKETS HflRLEm GIOMTROTTEIW POPCORfl mflOlinE. on CBJ TV. \ teamj J attributing his lack of eftectiveness to the amount of foul trouble he has been in, causing him to miss play ing time. Naturally he is happy with the Aggies 4-0 record but says they still “have ten games to go.” He expects SMU “to come down and be ready to play and so will we.” Overflow will see Ag game If Tuesday night’s Aggie-SMU basketball game in G. Rollie White Coliseum becomes a sellout, the overflow of A&M students, their dates and faculty season book hol ders can watch the contest on closed circuit TV in the Rudder Tower Au ditorium. The doors to G. Rollie White Col iseum will open at 6 p.m., an hour and a half before the start of the game. Once the general admission area is filled the doors will be closed and only reserve seat ticket holders will be admitted. The Auditorium doors will not open until G. Rollie White is filled. The closed circuit TV will be limited to A&M'students, their dates and faculty season book holders. W. Trahan still looking Warren Trahan is still undecided on who he will sign with in the Na tional Football League as interest has increased. Trahan went up to Dallas last weekend to talk with Cowboy officials and will fly to Pittsburgh to chat with Steeler offi cials. But now the New York Jets have shown interest in Trahan and want him to fly to New York. NFL’s player draft leaves SWC behind By ROBERT CESSNA The king is dead .... long live the king. When the last cigar was put out and the last cup of coffee drunk at the National Football League draft last week, the scoreboard unofficially read: the Big Eight-45, the Big Ten-38, the Pac-Eight-37, the Southeast Conference-36 and the Southwest Conference-24. The pro draft had once again given the SWC a slap in the face. But why? Didn’t the SWC have a competitive season and shouldn’t it show in the draft? Only twenty-four draftees from a major conference? What is the problem? Once a king among football conferences, the SWC has to be now rated fifth at best. And with the Atlantic Coastal Con ference and Western Athletic Conference coining on fast, the SWC could drop even lower. I see three reasons why the SWC has fallen behind in the race for football supremacy. First, the SWC was slow to sign blacks to scholarships. It’s no secret that the South refused to sign blacks at a time when the Big-Ten, Pac-Eight and Big- Eight did so. The SEC also suf fered in this category. While Al abama was once king of the na tion, she recently has settled for king of the SEC. Outside the conference Bear Bryant’s troops have acted more like pussycats, especially in bowl games. The refusal to sign blacks has hurt the SWC greatly. No tre Dame, USC and Ohio State are three top powers that have had no trouble signing top black players. They appear to have more to offer blacks on cam pus. Look at the small percentage of blacks on campuses in the SWC. A&M is one example. This has to discourage top black ath letes from coming here. The Uni versity of Houston has not failed in this respect and maybe this shows up in the draft when nine Cougars were selected. The SWC should be glad Houston is joining the SWC in 1976. Secondly is the SWC selec tion of offensive patterns. While the wishbone oriented confer ence may produce top offensive and defensive linemen, the oth er positions have suffered bad ly- This year, Neal Jeffrey was the only quarterback drafted from the SWC and only a 17th round choice at that. Baylor does run from a pro offensive pattern and this may have helped him. The only top-notch quarterback in the pros from the SWC is Joe Ferguson from Arkansas. And when he was at Arkansas they ran a pro offense to use his talents. Wishbone quarterbacks are in low demand in the NFL. SWC-wide receivers and run ning backs in the pros are about as rare as easy classes. The backs drafted this year were Texas’ Roosevelt Leaks, Bay lor’s Steve Beaird and Phillip Kent and Marsh White from Ar kansas. One may stick in the pros and that will probably be Leaks at Baltimore. The receiv ers taken were SMU’s Oscar Roan and Tech’s duo of Larry Williams and Calvin Jones. Roan will stick and so should Williams. SWC receivers and backs don’t made the pros be cause they have no experience catching the ball. Running backs have to be able to catch the ball today. As for wide re ceivers, the wishbone has only one and he is seldom used and the tight end is used to block not catch. Positions drafted from the SWC are linemen, linebackers and defensive backs. Defensive backs are probably the biggest question mark because they faced little passing. The linemen that were drafted are: centers, Ricky Seeker of A&M and Mike Smith of SMU; linemen Merle Wang of TCU, Jody Medford and Cornelius Walker of Rice, SMU’s Louis Kelcher, Texas Doug En glish and Arkansas Brison Ma nor. The only linebackers drafted were John McCrumbly of A&M and Derrel Luce of Baylor. De fensive backs include Floyd Ho gan of Arkansas, Gene Hernan dez of TCU and the Ag pair of Tim Gray and Jim Daniels. Luce, Kelcher, English, McCrumbly, Gray and Walker will make it. Seeker and Dan iels have a good shot and should stick. Drafted kickers Mike Dean of Texas and Rice; Allen Pringle will make it in the NFL. Finally, I question the SWC on its recruiting. Up until recently they have gone for a linebacker to fill a linebacker void position for position in other words. Now they are changing to an attitude of drafting the best possible ath lete which is the way it should be. If he’s good he will play somewhere. All these reasons have taken their toll on the SWC and the road back has been long. It ap pears they are getting there but how far back can they come? The other conferences are very strong and do not seem to be falling. All the SWC can hope for is parity, not the domination they once enjoyed. And it’s unfortunate that foot ball is so dominant in the SWC, because that’s all there is. And even in football, it does not dominate the post-season play or inter-conference games. In basketball, it cannot compete with the other conferences at all. 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