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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
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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. The Aggie tracksters
look strong enough to win the
whole thing and are (without in
jury) a certain second.
So, from my viewpoint at least,
1975-76 looks like a banner year
for A&M sports. What a way to
welcome the centennial.
presents
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