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NEW ORLEANS — A federal
appeals court struck down on Wed
nesday an Alabama judge’s ruling
that college football traveling
squads may have 60 players instead
of being limited to 48. The NCAA
said travel squads would be cut back
to 48 players after this weekend.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court ol
Appeals order suspended a tempor
ary injunction which had granted to
Alabama Coach Paid “Bear” Bryant
after a hearing before U.S. District
Judge Sam C. Pointer Jr. in Tus
caloosa on Sept. 8.
The NCAA said college squads
may travel with 60 players this
weekend, but that the old limit of 48
would apply after that.
“Schools already have things in
motion for this weekend,” said the
spokesman, Warren Brown, adding
that the NCAA would probably
send letters to its member schools
with the new instruction on Thurs
day.
Suspension or stay of Judge
Pointer’s order had been by the
NCAA pending the outcome of its
appeal of Judge Pointer’s decision.
In granting the NCAA plea, the
Circuit Court refused to accept the
case as one of high importance and
thus grant it a quick hearing, which
would have cut several months off
normal court procedure.
What that means is Bryant’s orig
inal suit against the 48-man travel
squad still exists. But since the 5th
Circuit Court does not consider the
suit of high importance, the case
cannot get on the docket until at
least late this year. That means the
48-man travel squad is likely to re
main in force the remainder of this
season.
Told of Pointer’s decision Bryant
said, “Naturally, I am disappointed.
I don’t plan to have any further
comment. We ll just do the best we
can. ”
The NCAA imposed the 48-man
rule as an economy measure last
August after many of the 821 NCAA
members complained of the high
cost of intercollegiate athletics.
Coach Bryant then filed a class
action suit against new NCAA
By-law 12 and Judge Pointer
granted an injunction against it. He
held that limiting the traveling team
to 48 players was unfair because the
home team could have 60.
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Girls tourney set
The second annual Texas A&M
Women’s Intercollegiate Softball
Tournament will be played Friday
and Saturday at Haswell Park in
Bryan.
Nine teams are entered in the
double elimination tourney includ
ing defending champion UT Ar
lington and defending state champ
ion TWU. The other teams are host
A&M, Sam Houston State, Texas
A&l, Stephen F. Austin, Baylor,
Lamar and West Texas State.
The tournament will begin at 1
p.m. Friday with Sam Houston
playing Texas A&I and West Texas
playing SFA. At 2:30 p.m., Baylor
will meet UT Arlington and TWU
will meet Lamar. A&M will play the
winner of the Sam Houston-A&I
game at 4 p.m.
Second round games will be at
5:30, 7 and 8:30 p.m. Friday.
Games will begin at 8:30 a.m.
Saturday with the finals scheduled
for 6 p.m. There is no admission
charge.
Representing A&M will be Robin
Oakley, junior from Houston; Patty
McSweeney, freshman from
Madisonville; Janice Williamson,
sophomore from Bryan; LaRita Fic-
key, senior from Bryan; Becky
Hartman, freshman from Luling,
La.; Diane Gothard, freshman from
Midland; Kim Bellamy, sophomore
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HOUSTON — Houston Aeros
President Gordie Howe, who led
the Aeros to two World Hockey As
sociation championships, an
nounced today he woidd play the
full 1975-76 season.
Howe, 47, the former National
Hockey League great, said after last
season he was retiring after playing
in the Aeros first game this season in
The Summit, their new home.
“I think it was unfair to ask me at
the end of last season if I would re
tire,” Howe said. “I was tired then
and wanted to rest. But we put on
the sweats a couple of days ago and
the old fires started burning again.
Howe was named president of the
Aeros following his retirement as a
player- Howe said he would leave it
to the Aeros’ board of directors con
cerning that position.
“I can stay as president in name
only if that’s the way they want it,”
Howe said. “We have plenty of
quality people.”
Flyers club
will meet
The Texas A&M Flying Club will
meet Tuesday, Sept. 23rd, at 7:30
p.m., in Rudder Tower room 402, to
develop plans for the local club
competition scheduled for Oct. 4.
Six areas of competition are avail
able including power on spot land
ings power off spot landings, mes
sage drops, EGB flight computer
utilization, cross country flights,
and pre-flight checks.
Up to three club members in each
area of competition will be selected
to participate in the regional meet to
be held in Uvalde, Texas on Oc
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Persons interested in participat
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further information contact Kim
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By DAVID WALKER
Battalion Sports Writer
An open letter to Emory Bellard . . .
Dear Emory,
A friend told me today that he thinks “sports writers is dumb.”
Now, I don’t totally agree with him but I do think you’ve been
getting some pretty unfair knocks about last week’s victory over
Mississippi. Just listening to everyone it seems as though the Aggies
lost.
What bad memories those folks have. You and I both remember
the days when everyone would be dancing in the streets over a 7-0
victory.
•
Something else everybody is griping about is fumbles. It seems
all an Aggie back has to do is fumble and the entire world jumps off’
the band wagon and sports writers rip your team pretty good.
I guess my friend is kind-of right.
They keep talking about last week’s fumbles and how it was like
last year all over again. The fumbles were quite different last Satur
day. Two of them were on punts and the other three were not pitches
and just dropped footballs. Emory, do you remember the last time
that we played a game without a bad pitch?
But don’t worry, like my friend says, Texas won the National
Championship in 1969 and they out fumbled every team in the South
west Conference by at least ten fumbles.
Since it’s Thursday and people are still griping about your team’s
fumbles, my friend and I decided to look at the records. I think
you’ll like what we found, as a matter of fact it would be better for
your Aggies to fumble more and recover less of the other teams
fumbles.
Since you’ve been here your teams have played 34 games. You’ve
won 17 and lost 17. In the 19 games where your Ags lost two or
less fumbles they have won only nine. But in the 15 games where your
Ags have lost three or more fumbles they ve won eight.
In the 28 games where the other team has lost two or less fumbles
against the Aggies they’ve won only 12. But when the opponents lost
three or more they have won five of the six games.
I guess my friend is right.
Here is a chart of A&M fumbles broken down by games since
you’ve been here.
Number of games
1
10
8
11
2
2
Number of fumbles lost Games A&M won
none X
one 6
two 2
three 6
four i
five l
I hope that you can beat some teams bad this season so some
of your fans will be happy.
I guess most of them would still be mad if you went 12-0 and all
of ’em were 7-0. I don’t know about you but I d rather have a great
defense that doesn’t give up many points and have an offense that
is good enough, than have a super offense and a “hope and pray
defense.
You know last year you beat LSU 21-14 and everyone was
happy and the world was right. But that s just seven points. I wonder
if they would be as happy this year if you just beat em 7-0?
Sincerely,
Me-
P.S. My friend said to tell you not to pay any attention to sports
writers, they don’t know what they re talking about.
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