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HITITTIIIlllIIIIIiiiiiiL c Aa meet at 7 p.m. Friday SW Missouri swims at Downs By PAUL McGRATH Staff Sports Writer ona.K oaj If ff,| aus itfJ Southwest Missouri will visit the L. Downs Natatorium Friday to read water against the snake-bitten exas A&M swim team of Coach ennis Fosdick. Fosdick doesn’t know too much bout the Missouri team and says “will be going into the meet [blind. We can’t go into it lightly. hey can’t be too bad to travel this jfar. Southwest will face TCU Thursday night before coming to College Station and Fosdick will call Fort Worth to learn something about the team. Saturday the Aggies fly to Lub bock to swim against Texas Tech. “Tech has the best team they’ve ever had. They’ve set all kinds of school records. They beat Houston (UH recently defeated the Ags) and gave SMU a good meet,” said Fos- I , ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 dick. He feels A&M s breaststrok- ers, backstrokers and individual medley team should do well. His divers are doing a good job, says Fosdick, despite not having a coach. “They’ll (Tech) have to swim their best people. They won’t be able to play around with us. ’ Fosdick has had to experiment in what events to enter his swimmers due to the loss of several of his top players because of ineligibility. He says his people are very tired but have been working hard. Yesterday “was the first time in about four years I ve cut a practice short. The team was Tike a bunch of zombies out there. The attitude of the team has taken a turn for the better, ac cording to Fosdick. “The kids know they can’t depend on the big names. We ll just have to be a no-name group.” Before his current troubles took place, Fosdick recalls the scheduled trip to Brazil over the holidays that had to be cancelled due to a mening itis epidemic. “If I’d known what was going to happen later, I’d have taken a vacation. Fosdick is in the process of doing some preliminary recruiting work. The signing date for swimmers is in April. He is sending letters and cal ling prospects as far away as Califor- ■ fettle PANCAKE HOUSE AGGIE SPECIAL Burger & Fries 79c ( Wl,h coupon) 1601 Texas Bryan Come To Diamond Country Sankey Park Diamond Salon 21 3 s. MAIN DOWNTOWN BRYAN ^ Engagement Rings ^ Wedding Rings obc) INTERSTATE AIRPORT 1975 ■ ' Interstate's s*—^ » n i e r » i a i jobcEEiuE UNIVmiTV SQU»*t SHOPHHS CfNHR 846-6714 846-1151 STARTS FRIDAY The Fire Chief RAUL STEVE NEWMAN McQUEEN WILLIAM HOLDEN IRWIN ALLEN’S IbSnE^ING INFERNO EAYE DUNAW/ ASTAIRE BtJUCEUr CHAMBBUJUN ^JSSes* SMPSON VAUGHN H H H N M H H M H M H M H H H H H H nia, Indiana, Georgia and New York. “Well take them from any where as long as they have the times. One problem Fosdick is having in recruiting is that most of the prospects are not through swimming until after the signing date and their coaches frown upon their best swimmers gone to visit college campuses. The Aggie coach is mostly looking at the high school athletes but junior college transfers have benefitted the team in the past. Fosdick says only California has any quality junior college swimmers. A good many of his recruits come to A&M wanting to play water polo. The Aggie water polo team has made a trip to California for the past three years to compete with West coast teams. The publicity received from these excursions has helped in re cruiting says Fosdick. The meet with Southwest Mis souri is the last one for the Aggies at home. After facing the Red Raiders, they then travel to Houston to meet the Owls of Rice. DENNIS FOSDICK Ag ferns beat UH; fifth win HOUSTON — Behind the 18 points of freshman Karen Aulen- bacher the Texas A&M women’s basketball team stretched their sea son record to five wins and three losses with a 95-66 victory over the University of Houston Cougars here last night. Coach Kay Don said that her team’s performance was one of their best of the season. “I thought we played better in the Lamar Tour nament but tonight was definitely our second best game. “We played a little sluggish in the first half,” said Don, “but I thought we opened up in the second half and really played good ball. ” The Aggies led at half, 43-36. Sally Morisse was slightly injured in the game when she was poked in the eye by a Cougar defender while trying to get off a jump shot. The injury is not believed to be serious. Eight other Aggies got into the scoring act along with Aulenbacher. Sally Morisse was second high point with 16, followed by Cissy Auclair, with 10, and Laura Holmes with nine. Cindy Horton, Dana Callaway and Lucy Neiman each had eight points and Ruth Whiteley rounded out the scoring with five. The next action for the women’s cage team is Friday when they travel to Waco to participate in the Baylor Tournament. The next home game for the Aggies is Tuesday, February 11. That game is the first of a double header with Baylor. The women’s game starts at 5:15 fol lowed by the men’s contest at 7:30. Aggie recruiting signs 24 hopefuls By ROBERT CESSNA Staff Sports Writer Some say, championship football teams are won by what kind of mater ial you can recruit. If this is the case Head Coach Emory Bellard and his coaching staff had another good year. T think we had a good signing day,” Bellard said. A&M had a great reception wherever they went to recruit and they signed a big percentage of the ones they wanted. The ones they didn’t sign went out of state, Bellard said. A list of the signees is at the end of the article but a summary of some of the top signees follows: MARK THURMOND— A quarterback from Spring Branch with fine credentials. Even though Thurmond is only 511” he completed 96 of 179 passes last year for 1,363 yards and eight touchdowns. He led District 16-4A in scoring with 70 points including 11 touchdowns. ADGER ARMSTRONG— A running hack out of Jersey Village who averaged seven yards a carry. The 61” 195 lb. Armstrong rushed for 1,057 yards, making it two straight years over the magic mark of 1,000. Besides being able to carry the ball he caught 14 passes for 201 yards and led 16-4A in punt returns with 18 for 296 yards. EDDIE HARDIN— One of the most highly recruited players in the Houston School District area. Hardin helped lead Madison to its first playoff berth ever. He rushed for 794 yards on 152 carries for a 5.2 average. GARY YOUNG— A three-year running back and twice All-District in 24-4A. The6’0” 198 lb. Young rushed288 times for 1,560yards (5.4 avg.) and scored 21 touchdowns. Hit the 100-yard mark in nine of his 10 games and was over 100 in 18 of his last 20 games. CODY RIESEN— A 6’6” 240 lb. tackle from Cypress-Fairbanks who was hampered by injuries much of the year. He still made second-team all-district after making first team a year ago. He was still one of the top line prospects in the state. RONNIE SMITH— A 6 4” 240 lb. tackle who was highly sought after. The Baytown Sterling product started 40 straight games and was all-district unanimously twice. Was all-greater Houston as a junior and senior. He was also picked on five pre-season All-America teams. Has good agility and leadership qualities. JOHNNIE DONAHUE— The 6’6” 240 lb. guard was another of the top linemen in the country. The Houston Yates player was all-district in 17-4A and All-HISD. But A&M was not the only team that did well on signing day in the Southwest Conference. “Everyone signed some good athletes,” Bellard said, “Bayjor did a good job,” added Melvin Robertson, assistant head football coach. And as for the product of football players in the state Bellard said, “It’s a fine group of football players. ” Complete list of Aggie signees: John Baber back 6-2 180 Hobbs, N. M. Mark Thurmond quarterback 5-10 165 Spring Branch Adger Armstrong back 6-0 200 Houston (Jersey Village) Roderick Reed linebacker 6-2 225 Aldine Carter Steve Flynn linebacker 6-2 195 Spring Branch (Memorial) Mark Burger lineman 6-4 240 Spring Branch (Westchester) Cody Risien linebacker 6-6 225 Houston (Cypress-Fairbanks) George Woodard back 6-2 230 Van Vleck Gary Young Eddie Hardin hack 6-1 198 Dickinson back 6-4 225 Houston Madison Larry Johnson Johnnie Donahue defensive hack lineman 6-2 180 Houston (Sterling) 6-6 240 Houston (Yates) Ronnie Smith lineman 6-4 250 Baytown (Sterling) Curtis Jennings lineman 6-5 225 Baytown Stacy Briehan lineman 6-5 220 San Marcos Lou Caviello lineman 6-3 235 Dun more Garry Mulligan lineman 6-1 250 Lampasas Darrell Smith hack 5-10 160 Fort Worth (Wyatt) Tony Franklin Chet Chandler kicker 5-10 165 Fort Worth (Arlington Heights) back 6-1 205 Shreveport (Jesuit) Richardson (Berkner) Chuck Carr hack 6-5 190 Carl Grulich hack 6-0 170 Richardson (Pearce) Eddie Heath lineman 6-5 215 Richardson (Pearce) THE BATTALION Page 9 FEBRUARY 6, 1975 SKATELAND OF BRYAN 305 Dodge 822-0387 Thursday — 6:00 P. 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