Page 8 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1975
Ags open tonight
Frosh WP tourney
By PAUL McGRATH
Battalion Sports Writer
The water polo season gets
cranked up tonight as the Texas
A&M freshmen host a ten team
round-robin tournament in the
Downs Natatorium.
The Aggie varsity will not see ac
tion until next Wednesday when
they travel to Houston to face The
Bunch, a local water polo club.
The tournament is divided into
two brackets with the Aggie fish
fielding a team in each bracket. The
A team draws the opening card to
night at 6:30 p.m. and will play
again at 8:30 p.m.
Five high school teams, a junior
college squad and two swim clubs
will participate in the 24 game tour
ney. Midland’s freshman team is
the only other collegiate entry.
The high schools include last
year’s state champion, Lamarque,
A&M Consolidated, Clear Creek,
McAllen, and Alamo Heights of San
Antonio.
Joining the high schools. Midland
and A&M’s two teams are the
Wichita Falls Swim Club and the
San Antonio-based Chaparral Swim
Club.
Action will resume on Saturday as
the Aggies swim at 8:00 a.m. and at
noon. The tourney will continue all
morning until 3:00 p.m. for a break
because of the football game.
The third place team will be de
cided in a 7:30 p.m. match and the
champion decided at 8:30 p.m.
Besides the men’s competition,
the A&M women’s team will take on
Wichita Falls at the Art Adamson
Pool at 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on
Saturday. Like the men, the women
will also field two teams.
The varsity has been through two
scrimmages thus far and the rust is
just beginning to disappear. "We re
just starting to get out moves back
and getting our timing down. Our
first scrimmage looked like
everyone was swimming in slow
motion, said Head Swim Coach
Dennis Fosdick. “We re just now
starting to get those automatic reac
tions back.”
Varsity captains this season are
seniors Jim Yates and Oran
Marksbury. Although missing All-
American Paul McKinzie at the
goalie slot, the Ag varsity should
equal or better their 18-2 record of
last year.
For the A&M fish. Bill Yates,
brother of the varsity captain, and
Scott Harris have been named as
the captains. The younger Yates was
an All-American in high school in
polo while Harris was an All-Stater
and is now the freshman goalie.
Expected to start tonight for the
Aggie tankers are Roger Lien from
Santa Clara, David Stewart from
Consol, Dallas’Bill Kuvlesky, Chris
Shipp from Dearborn, Michigan
and filling out the lineup will he two
Texas products, Rick Golding and
Brad Swendig.
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By TONY GALLUCCI
Sports Editor
Well folks, an entire edition of football talent has no*
come full circle in the Bellard machine. No more Stalling
boys to blame. Bellard himself is looking for his fourth letter*
head coach and may well be a strong candidate for All-Ament,
status.
Tomorrow afternoon at four o’clock, 5211 pounds i
Aggie starters will line up opposite 5035 pounds of Ole Mis
starters. The Aggies will have 22 Senior lettermen andi;
Junior lettermen enter the field.
The last names of three Aggie footballers begin with an I
15 with B, five with C, five with D, none with E, six with F,si
with G and so on. 27 people are listed as backs of one sort*
another and another 60 are listed as linemen. The youngest
Aggie player is 17, the oldest is 23.
It’s easy to see how trivial and ridiculous figures, statistic
and facts can become. I could have just as easily listed alltlf
past honors awarded team players, listed their speed in tie
forty, and given a quote from a coach about good moves
‘lateral action’ or ‘good hands.’
But there is only one intangible thing that w ill determine
whether or not the Aggies win tomorrow, and all season an
become SWC and possibly National Champions, which a!
players think they are, and for which they most definitelyhave
the potential. That one, non-describable, yet most importan
property is desire, attitude if you will.
This team will always be remembered as that teamof il
the Cotton Bowl etc., and likewise it belongs to the class oflj
The class that has sweated through four years whether on tit
field, in the stands or next to the radio for this, the climaxd
what wdll become the best Aggie athletic years in histon.
Those years will continue, but this is the end of the upward
climb. Really, the beginning.
I have the luck to be able to attend the games and watt!
from the press box. Likewise, I guess, 1 am supposed tot*
unbiased at least in writing. Journalism and all that rot yoc
know. But my heart will he pounding at the kickoff known;
that this maybe the finest college football team I willeversee
I will suffer until then.
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Fans unaffected
by NFL strike
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A year ago, when
the National Football League
Players Association went on strike at
the start of the exhibition season, a
lot of fans found they could do with
out those preseason games.
This year many of those fans are
still doing without the exhibitions.
And next year, the NFL may also
find it can do without some of them,
too.
Exhibitions, which used to he lit
tle more than interclub scrimmages
attracting fans who paid a fraction of
the cost of a regular-season ticket to
watch the workouts, have now be
come business almost as big as the
regular-season games. The two or
three scrimmages of years past have
become six full-fledged games, all
but the first one or two played al
most exclusively with front-line
players.
It is being considered — and
some insiders say it is almost certain
— that when Tampa and Seattle join
the league next year, the six-game
exhibition schedule will be reduced
to four games and the 14-game regu
lar season will rise to 16 games.
Attendance averaged 54,413 fans
a game in the 78 pre-seasonjas
of 1973, the year before thesfrili !
In 1974, the fans decidedli I
paying as much as $18 a ticket! I
watch exhibition games elute |
with rookies, free agents and* ;
ond- and third-line players wisfe
much. Attendance dipped toan;
erage of 36,653.
There has been some recove
this year. Heading into tliefii
weekend of exhibitions, the lea;
has averaged 42,382 fans, upne
6,(KM) from last year but stiD do
alniut 12,(KM) from two years ago
The situation might been
worse were it not for the lacltt
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exhibition-game seats be Iwuglt!
a package with the regular sew
game season tickets.
There are clearly three villas
sharing responsibility for tli
dwindling attendance:
— Discovery by funs that e*hd>
tions are simply that, mainly game
which don t count.
— Wearing off of the novelty)
games between old NFLandAFl
clubs, each of them once consider
mini-wars with pride as the prize
— The economy.
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Associated Press
BAASTAD, Sweden — A Davis
Cup official said Thursday that the
semifinal match between Sweden
and Chile should be moved to a
neutral country.
Basil Reay, British secretary gen
eral of the International Lawn Ten
nis Federation’s Davis Cup Com
mittee, told a Swedish television
station: “A final decision on this
issue will be made Friday and Iwl
advise the Swedes to mbvdtl*
match to a neutral country.”
The decision will he madei
London between officials of ll(
ILTF and the Swedish Tennis Fed
eration.
Meanwhile, thousands ofSwede!
demonstrated in the country’s three
largest cities Thursday on the sec
ond anniversary of the military coif
in Chile.
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