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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JAN. 20, 1976 w Page 7 irst meet Results poor for tracksters 1 By PAUL McGRATH Battalion Sports Editor w year didn’t open very sly for Coach Charlie [as the Aggie track team to Oklahoma City. is|A&M could manage only inti in the ten team meet and cl ninth in the point totals. )ina won the second-annual Indoor Relays in which 11 rds were broken. Kansas slfcped past Kansas by one :o take second-place honors, lop finished as the top South west Conference team ahead of Oklahoma State and North Texas State. TCU, Arkansas, A&M and SMU, which brought only two men, rounded out the standings. Meet winner Oklahoma was paced by hurdler-sprinter John Garrison who garnered two of the three Sooner firstplace finishes with wins in the 60-yard dash and low hurdles. Kansas State showed its strength in the field events with firsts in the shot put and pole vault and second in the long jump. The Kansas Jayhawks 'were led by sprinters Cliff Wiley and ; Nolan Cromwell, the KU quarter back during football season. The Aggies had a very small voice in the meet, but Thomas’ crew did have its bright moments. The dis tance medley team of Jim Brannen running the half mile , Chuck Bu tler on the quarter leg, Jacob Yemme running three-quarters of a mile and Manfred Kohrs anchoring in the mile, took second with a clocking of 10:24.4. Kohrs had an excellent time in the anchor leg at 4:17.8. Butler also ran well for this portion of the season, claiming a 48.3 in the distance medley and a sub-48- second time in the mile relay. Pole vaulter Brad Blair took fifth in that event with a 15-6 effort, tying the A&M record for indoors held by Harold McMahan. Yemme was one of the few Ags to make to the finals in an individual event with a third place finish in his heat in the 1,000-yard run. The senior from Ghana was scratched from the finals however to run in the distance medley. Texas A&M will travel to Baton Rouge this weekend to compete in a four-team meet with LSU, Auburn and Houston. A&M’s chances in this meet will be greatly improved with the addi tion of several athletes who were out with injuries or illness. Shifton Baker, Craig McPhail, Charles Daw son, Frank West and Greg Carter, all needed point getters, should be ready for action this week. Half- miler Tony Wheeler, suffering with a torn Achilles’ tendon, will be held out once more. The results from the 26-mile Houston marathon were a lot brigh ter for the Aggies as their three-man squad won the team title. The trio of David Gillett, Richard Adams and Phil Edelen finished ninth, tenth and eleventh respectively. The indi vidual title was copped by Rice’s Jeff Wells. Triumphant Steelers return to Pittsburgh DISCOUNT V2 PRICE injo, pi® We are all imtractfo! ouldlfcip 64809 Dintmen! 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It was Carson’s defensive unit that carried the burden in the Steelers’ pulsating 21-17 triumph over Dallas in Sunday’s Super Bowl showdown. Noll had total confidence in the defense’s ability to hold the Cowboys in the game’s final 82 seconds, and that led to his decision to surrender the ball on downs, instead of punting it away. Given an opportunity to make the decision a second time, would he still have turned the ball over on downs instead of punting? “You betcha,” said Noll. “It works, and I do any thing that works. ” Noll explained the Steelers’ think ing when they got the ball in the game’s final two minutes. “We ran the ball three times and got them to use up their time-outs,” he said. Now, with a fourth-and-nine fac ing Pittsburgh, it seemed like a punt ing situation. But Noll didn’t want to risk a block and so the Steelers ran one more play, then turned the ball over on downs. The gamble worked, with two last-gasp passes by Roger Staubach falling incomplete and the third one on the game’s final play being inter cepted by Glen Edwards. Noll said he thought the Steelers’ tough American Conference di visional race with teams like Cincin nati and Houston had helped pre pare his team for the playoffs. “It was nip and tuck football all year,” he said. “We had to struggle. It was pressure football.” So was Super Bowl X — the most exciting in this series that started a decade ago. “You had two tough defensive football teams, ” said Noll. “Defenses that . play percentage football. Against that, occasionally, you have to do things that go against the per centage.” VD WELCOME BACK So the more than 76,000 fans who jammed the Orange Bowl and the estimated 75 million more who watched this American sports classic on television saw passes on third- and-one plays, fourth-down gambles and a totally thrilling game. Jeff Wells gives speech at banquet Stellar distance runner Jeff Wells from Rice University was the guest speaker at the A&M Consolidated High School cross country banquet held last Saturday night in the school cafeteria. Wells is a two-time winner in the Southwest Conference cross country meet and finished 22nd at the NCAA meet last fall. Although beginning at Rice as a basketball manager. Wells developed into one of the country’s premier runners in the mile and three-mile event. He spoke to the audience concern ing the benefits of cross country, praising the “purity of the sport be cause you don’t need a lot of equip ment or facilities. All you need is some clothes, some shoes and a stop watch. ” Wells was fresh oft a victory that Saturday morning in the Houston marathon with a time of two hours and 17 minutes, some five minutes off the world record in that event. He said that running cross country is one of the primary reasons for his good health and is beneficial in building relationships with other people such as teammates, coaches and athletes from other schools. Deeply religious. Wells also accredited distance running with helping to discover the proper values in life and and in building individual character. Consolidated s girls and boys cross country squads, coached by assistant athletic director James Giese, were showered with honors during the season despite competing against AAAA schools much of the time. The girls’ team, in its first year of competition, finished third in the state. The Tigers boys’ team cap tured the state title with a narrow one point victory at the state meet. GIG 'EM 1 drooV Unfu'' Paid 3-30' AGGIES! SHOP THE NUMBER ONE BOOKSTORE FOR ALL YOUR BOOKS AND SUPPLIES OPEN 7:45-9:00 TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY Anniversary Celebration We’re rolling back our prices. Just for you. 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