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Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1975 Football queers rule roost, basketball suffers By TONY GALLUCGY Staff Sports Writer It happens time and again and it never ceases to amaze me. This is football country all right and to semi-quote someone famous but unquotable at this point: football queers run rampant. Texas is finally discovering that there are other sports to be seen and some are on the upswing. The three that have shown the greatest interest increase happen to be my favorite sports. Namely soccer, hockey arid bas ketball. Football has always been king, which is odd because only one game in twenty can keep me from snooz ing. Baseball has never fared well in Texas, despite the very high quality of Texas collegiate teams. Yet the sport is THE American pasttime. Soccer is the world’s most popular sport and the fastest grow ing sport in the U.S. But until last week, the Ag soccer team played on a gravelly eroded field. And they still have no coach. Hockey fever has hit Houston in the past three years. In a city hun gry for a winner of any kind, Hous ton sucked it up. They even have little league hockey. Dallas has little league soccer. But now comes my gripe. Bas ketball. This sport has existed in the state nearly as long as football and base ball. It ranks in between the two in roughness, is about the same in length, it is never ended in a tie or rained out but most important of all — It is exciting. Shelby Metcalf has done as much for A&M basketball as Watergate has done for the Democrats. The Aggies are playing better basketball now than ever before in the school’s history. Here they are: Undefeated in conference, sporting a better re cord than four top twenty teams and owning a win over another, and they re still playing before non-sell out crowds. The Ags played before sellout crowds in Indiana and Aus tin. Yet in seven'home games the Ags have yet to play before a full house. Where the hell are you? Tradition may be going, but is Waldrep envisions new life HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Christ ian running back Kent Waldrep, paralyzed in a football game last Oc tober, made his trip out of the hospi tal in a wheelchair Tuesday and said he is determined to walk his way back to a normal life. T am not going to be satisfied until I get out of this wheelchair and walk," said the high spirited TCU junior as he watched his school bas ketball team play the Rice Owls. Waldrep, who was injured in a football game with Alabama last Oc tober 26, received a standing ova tion when he was introduced before the game. He was accompanied by his mother, Denise. Waldrep has been undergoing treatment at the Texas Institute for Research and Rehabilitation here since his release from a Birming ham, Ala., hospital. Asked if he expected to come all the way back Waldrep said firmly: “I never thought I wouldn’t come back all the way. You see a lot of different kinds of people in the hospital. Some people are satisfied to sit in a wheelchair. I will never be that way.’’ Waldrep said while he was hos pitalized in Alabama, he thought he would be "moving around” by this summer and he stills feels that way. He has regained partial use of his hands and spends about three hours daily in physical therapy. The feeling is back in my legs,” he said. “I can feel all the way down to my toes now. For a while there they were like foreign objects.” Country Stampede Night Ionite, Feb. 5 at the new Fiesta Ballroom Groesbeck Rd. & Palasota Music by The Ramrods 8 p.m.—12 a.m. LADIES FREE Beer Available ALL MAGGIES & AGGIES WELCOMED love of sports disappearing too? I have seen bigger crowds in lean years. And you call yourself Aggies. The shame of it is that in order to keep from turning people away from the door, closed circuit tele vision was set up. And all for nought. It’s hard to imagine that a school of 21,000 people, a community of quadruple that amount, could pro duce only 6,190 people at a bas ketball game. It might be reason able if there was an increase in attendance over the last home game. But a week and a half ago against TCU there were 7,720 people present. It’s logical isn’t it. Three wins la ter the Ags must perform before 1,500 less people. Baloney. Without berating the two-per centers (I hate the word but it sure is accurate) anymore, I must praise the crowd who did attend. The 6,000 or so present were the most enthusiastic bunch of people I have ever seen. Standing ovations that wouldn’t quit. What the hell, who needs the rest of you. The 6,000 solid supporters we have now could carry the Ags through the rest of the season. Let’s not waste our fees to set up closed circuit for those who come if they can get a ride across the sidewalk, or don t feel like coming unless they can see a ‘good’ team like Arkansas or some one play the Ags. 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