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ttion ft. Sixths s Tounij 29,1915 sd on tin son Pa^ 'ell Pail i School the Teaj tches«:! day, Juof $2.25 p# is Willi* trophios 1 to first .'inhersis wo eonso I be nu ch event ' will l* t exhibit p on and Hows: rubles) Doubles i over S red Don- i (Singles over 55 id under id under id under id under jc B mas THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1975 The best is yet to come in Aggie sports By PAUL McGRATH Some columnists like to look over the events of the past year and make their predictions for the ipcoming year in their last col umn. However, I am not like other columnists, but I am still going to >o ahead and lay my remem- irances and predictions on you anyway. It has been quite a positive year sportswise here in Aggieland, lespite the day-after-Turkey Day massacre. And I feel quite lucky to somehow have been involved in t to the small extent that I was. 1974-75 will be a difficult year hr any Ag to forget. After all, it’s not every year your basketball team (unless you’re at UCLA) wins the conference and your baseball team goes into the play offs. So let’s go back to the early months and review the sports sea son in perspective. Remembrance number one. Texas A&M brought a hungry and die-hard group of gridders into Baton Rouge to contest the SLU Tigers in their own snakepit sta dium. The fact that in the waning moments of the fourth quarter a small contingent of Aggie enthusi asts were out-screaming, out- stomping and out-cussing the Ca jun crowd told the story almost as well as the scoreboard did. The over ^ Bayou Bengal crowd sullenly left the arena as if the Christians had upset the lions. One slightly un- iober LSU fan approached me af ter the game and humbly ad mitted, “You guys just beat the bell out of us.” It was perhaps my favorite quote of the year. Remembrance number two. I’d like to forget the outcome of the game, but the Amtrac trip to Kan sas I can’t forget. Thirty-six drunken Aggies in one train car 1,5 in . 1 land being called on to lead a yell particiy ) events he same j visions A-I J K L M citizens iter the oust ap- practice for a gathering of former students would have to be consid ered quite out of the ordinary. Baker leads golf match, shoots 74 A member of the Texas Aggie parks “ g 0 jf team, Bobby Baker, was the ,f Atkins -egister . during parti# Course, Monday. iter dun nable to icriodnf H need Please lV ebee» (any set joint tij itch will ich par - , vVilson eadi 3 d. Tk >d balk 'S t »n a teai" fsasl"- | fere# j,livef in eS - , three ourna- ,,1651" loiigars ; W ir s ea# *. A$ ieS A A &1 '! br 2 , tenth b e enf° r '$¥ e tky- >* (]$> 1pp i,,s idJi"! ec°f f3 sea' itai Remembrance number three. The Aggies defeated TCU 17-0 and held them to negative yard age, but yet still caught a lot of flak from their “fans.” Usually Aggieland was delighted with just the fact that the team won. Now they were complaining because they weren’t winning “bad enough.” Remembrance number four. 20-0 in Waco and all of those then-frustrated Baptists. Remembrance number five. Turkey Day-plus-one. I remember this one like Dracula likes to play with wooden stakes. But what I recall the most was the feeling that I got that the whole year seemed to have been wasted. Remembrance number six. What a day it was when those Aggie cagers beat Texas and Loomis, intramural superstar Texas A&M has its first super- star! He may not rank with O. J. Simpson, this year’s winner of the ABC-TV professional superstars competition, but he topped the field at TAMU. Junior Ronnie Loomis moved through the six events in fine form, collecting 55 points to wear the title of A&M’s initial intra mural superstar. The events were tennis, bowling, 100-yard free style swimming competition, free throw shooting, the softball throw and an obstacle course race. Loomis received stiff competi tion from 23 other entrants, es pecially Bobby Ellis who won the bowling and free throw shooting competition. clinched the SWC crown. I espe cially remember a lot of cham pagne flowing in the dressing room, quite a bit of which got to me. Remembrance number seven. Walking the streets of Des Moines with several members of the track team was really a trip. Even though the town seemed to close up at 5 p.m. we managed to find something to do, like calling room service and sending a crib to some guy’s room. Those are just some of the highlights I remember most from over the year. But before I forget, I’d like for Jerry Honore to take a bow. This seemingly forgotten fullback came through when the team needed him most. He was the hero of the Arkansas and SMU games, scoring four touchdowns in the two contests. Not bad for a guy they said was too slow to start. Well, now it’s time to go out on a limb and make my prophecy for next year. Here goes: The Aggie football team will win the conference. Now where have you heard that before, I guess you’re saying. But if you look at the squads and the person nel, you have to admit that the Aggies are the most feasible choice. They will be hard-pressed by Arkansas and Texas and pos sibly Baylor, but the Maroon should prevail. Coach Metcalfs men will again be strong on the hardcourt and I have to go with them to repeat. This is if all of those new recruits live up to their press clippings. The baseball I fear is heading for a slight fall as most of the talent will be graduating. Coach Chandler usually comes up with some fine talent but I don’t think it will be enough. I see them tak ing third. The Aggie thinclads are also bringing up some good recruits to go along with the present talent on the squad. People like Doug Brodhead and Scottie Jones will be missed. But the new blood should more than make up for their loss. 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