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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JAN 30, 1976
Club Sports
By DANA McNABB
Battalion Staff Writer
The lacrosse, racketball, rifle and
rugby teams at Texas A&M will
begin their scheduled season of
competition with a possible NCAA
national championship in store for
the Rugby Club and a pre-season
coaches poll rating of number one in
the Southwest Conference for the
Lacrosse Club.
Houston will challenge A&M in
the Aggies’ first home game of the
season, Feb. 15.
The TAMU Lacrosse Club will
sponsor a lacrosse tournament on
April 24 in which their A team will
play three games and the B team one
game. LSU, Texas Tech, and Baylor
are the guests of the Aggies in this
tournament.
RUGBY
The Aggie rugby team is the de
fending NCAA national champion
team for 1974. Due to conflicts, an
NCAA rugby championship was not
held last year (1975), leaving the
TAMU Rugby Club with the honors
an additional year. Texas A&M will
host the 1976 NCAA National Col
legiate Rugby Championships on
March 27-28.
This competition will draw the 16
best college teams in the United
States to A&M. John Lipscomb said
of the A&M team: “A&M has an ex
cellent chance at winning the na
tional championship if all stays well. ”
The Aggie Rugby team is in the
Central Division of the Texas Rugby
Football Union. Union play for the
A&M group begins Feb. 7, with two
home games scheduled. At that time
A&M will take on the Austin Blacks.
The second home game will be a
match of the A&M team and Hous
ton Blacks on March 6.
RACKETBALL
A tournament in San Antonio,
Feb. 13-15 will be the Texas A&M
Racketball Club’s debut for the up
coming season. The Aggies plan to
enter 12 people in the tournament.
DeWare Field House will ac
commodate a home racketball tour
nament February 20-21. The tour
nament is open and although cluh
members may enter at no cost, a fee
of $3 to play is set for non-members.
Registrations for the tournament will
be Liken at 845-1074.
Singles and doubles racketball
scores will be posted in the future on
the racketball ladder in DeWare
Field House.
LACROSSE
The TAMU Lacrosse Club boasts a
number one rating in a pre-season
coaches poll, overcoming their pre
vious injury-riddled season in 1975.
Other teams competing in the
Southwest Conference include
Baylor, the University of Texas and
Texas Tech.
An intra-squad scrimmage will
swing the lacrosse team into their
official season Jan. 31, at 9 a.m., on
the Main Drill Field.
Streak of losses
hits Wake Forest
AP Sports Writer
Will the real Wake Forest basket
ball team please stand up.
At the beginning of the season, the
Demon Deacons couldn’t lose for
winning. Now they can’t win for los
ing.
“Right now, we just need a victory
more than anything else to bring out
the best in the team and get us back
where we were in the beginning,’’
Wake Forest Coach Carl Tacy said
Wednesday night following an 88-85
overtime loss to fourth-ranked North
Carolina.
The loss was the fifth straight and
sixth in the last seven games for
Wake Forest, an enigmatic team that
at one time had a 10-0 record and a
place in the nation’s Top Ten.
The Demon Deacons included
North Carolina, North Carolina
State and Maryland, three formida
ble Atlantic Coast Conference col
leagues, among their victims earlier
in the year.
But unfortunately two of the
games did not count in the league
standings and as a result, the
onetime giant killers are saddled
with a 1-5 ACC record and a dismal
outlook for the near future.
I think when you’re in a winning
rather than a losing streak like we’ve
been in, you have a better chance of
pulling out a game like we had to
night, Tacy said. “I think the team
CtlGlAS DE mm
RAVEL Tips
CL/^^EXICO
With vacation time fast approaching,
many of you will no doubt be traveling
to Mexico. Some of you might even be
coming back. Here are some helpful
hints.
1. A man on a burro always has the
right of way, unless he appears to be
a weakling.
2. In local cantinas, pouring a shot of
Cuervo down a man’s collar is not
thought to be humorous.
3. Falling onto a cactus, even an
actual Cuervo cactus, can be
a sticky proposition.
4. It is tough to find hamburger
rolls in the smaller towns; it’s
best to bring your own.
Football players
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By CARL KEY
Battalion Staff Writer
The Aggie Heart Award will lie
presented to one of the graduating
senior football players of the 1975
season.
The award will be given during an
honor awards program held in the
Rudder Tower Auditorium tomor
row at 6:30 p.m.
This is the only award other than
being named one of the team cap
tains which is chosen by the football
players themselves.
Stadium is
The Aggie Heart Awardgn
senior football player byavoti
varsity squad. The award is
upon such merits as effort,
determination, dedication am
other intangible traits.
The awards program is fret
public.
A film of the highlights oft!
season will be shown alongw
announcement of team captai
the presentation of the Heart!
The Heart Award has beet
sented 11 times since its incept
1965, with Ted Lamp winnit
award last year.
not complete
Photo by Cum Cope
The Rugby Club, defending national champions since 1974, prepares for the upcoming season.
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Associated Press
RIFLE RY
The Texas Aggie Rifle Team
kicked-off the new year with a nar
row 11-point victory over the Trinity
University Rifle Team in a match
fired at College Station last Satur
day. Robert Lunsford led the Aggies
with a score of 532.
The TAMU Rifle Team Coach,
Staff Sergeant Jesse Best, said that
normally the matches are not that
close and in the upcoming matches
with Prairie View A&M and the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin, the team
hopes to do much better. Texas
A&M is now 4-0 in the Southwest
Rifle Association competition. The
individuals in the match and their
scores were as follows: Robert
Lunsford (532), Jeff Potter (521),
Elizabeth Nealin (519), David Wel
don (514), Robert Stone (512) and
James Beal (510).
20 track teams invited
Bayou hosts meet
By PAUL McGrath
Battalion Sports Editor
gave it everything they had and
played well.’’
In other games involving ranked
teams, seventh-ranked Maryland
beat eighth-ranked North Carolina
State 102-84; lOth-ranked Notre
Dame routed DePaul 89-68 and No.
20 Virginia Tech crushed William
and Mary 105-79.
Mitch Kupchak scored 26 points
and Tom LaGarde added 19 to help
North Carolina squeeze the life out
of Wake Forest. Kupchak and
LaGarde combined for five vital
points in the overtime period as the
Tar Heels outscored the Deacons
11-8.
The regulation game ended with
the score tied at 77 as Wake Forest’s
Skip Brown missed what could have
been the winning basket in the last
two seconds. The victory gave North
Carolina an ACC-leading 6-1 record
and a 14-2 record overall.
Guards John Lucas and Mo How
ard combined for 59 points, with
Lucas equaling his career high with
34, as Maryland beat North Carolina
State.
Adrian Dantley moved into sec
ond place on the all-time Notre
Dame scoring list with 31 points to
lead the Fighting Irish past DePaul.
Russell Davis converted 19 free
throws and scored 27 points to pace
Virginia Tech past William and
Mary.
Some 20 track teams will converge
on Monroe, L.a. this weekend to run
in the Northeastern Louisiana Re
lays.
Texas A&M Track Coach Charles
Thomas will take a 25-man squad to
the Bayou Country as the Aggies are
on the road for the third consecutive
week. The Ags finished third in a
quadrangular meet in Baton Rouge
last Saturday.
No awards will be given and no
team points will be accumulated.
The meet, run on a plywood track,
will be divided into afternoon and
evening events. University division
and college division teams will com
pete in separate categories except in
the field events.
“They just shoot the gun and let
'em run,’’ said Thomas. “This looks
like it’s going to be a pretty tough
meet.’’
Five Southwest Conference teams
including A&M, will make the trip.
Rice, the University of Houston,
TCU and Baylor are among the 20
participants in the university divi
sion. The Aggies have competed
against all but Rice in previous
meets. This will be the Owls first
indoor endeavor of the year.
Alabama, Florida, LSU, Missis
sippi and Mississippi State will rep
resent the Southeastern Conference
at the meet. Florida has one of the
top mile relay teams in the nation
while LSU features its hurdlers
Larry Shipp and Allen Misher.
Several independents and schools
from smaller conferences round out
the meet.
For a trio of Aggies, this will be the
first outing of the indoor season.
Hurdler Shilton Baker is slated to go
in the 60-yard highs after recovering
from a sore knee. Freshman half-
miler Tony Wheeler will make his years.”
first appearance ever in an Aggie uni
form in the two-mile relay and the
880-yard dash. Sprinter Charles
Dawson is also expected to be ready.
Dawson is one of only six seniors on
the Aggie squad.
“We’ve improved tremendously
from the week before, Assistant
Coach Ted Nelson said. “Our young
men are working very hard. This is
the best attitude we’ve had in several
Houston passes take
third straight victory
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Houston Rockets
substitute forward John Johnson says
everyone thinks of him as a shooter
but he can pass the ball too.
Johnson had nine assists Wednes
day night as the Rockets scored a
108-93 National Basketball Associa
tion victory over the Cleveland
Cavaliers.
“Everybody thinks of me as a
scorer or shooter but I can pass the
ball, too, ” Johnson said. “I can pene
trate and then it’s tough for a canter
to pick me up because that means
their small forward has to guard our
center. And we have big guys who
can shoot.”
The Rockets outscored Cleveland
17-2 in the first five minutes of the
third quarter to secure the victory,
Houston’s third in a row.
Houston’s Eddie Ratleff and
Kevin Kunnert controlled a Rocket
defense that held the Cavs to 30
points in the first 20 minutes of the
second half. Ratleff blocked two
shots, had a steal and scored 11
points in the third quarter.
Calvin Murphy scored 25 points
for Houston, passed out 10 assists
and pressured the Cavalier guards
hill court during the second half as
the Rockets took over. Rudy Tom-
janoyich added 20 points for Hous
ton.
Houston was behind 49-48 at the
half but owned a 65-61 lead with
seven minutes to play in the third
quarter.
MONTREAL — The main Olym
pic stadium and swimming hall will
be ready for the 1976 Summer
Games in July although some of the
facilities will be temporary.
Quebec Municipal Affairs Minis
ter Victor Goldbloom, who is re
sponsible for the Olympics installa
tions board, told a news conference
Wednesday the stadium will he
completed at a more relaxed pace
after the Games are over.
The news conference was hilled
two weeks ago as the moment for the
announcement of a decision on
whether the Summer Olympics
were to take place.
“It is clear that the facilities will
not be complete, Goldbloom said.
“But facilities for athletes, officials
and spectators will be sufficiently
complete for the holding of the
Games.”
The optimistic prediction by
Goldbloom was based on continuing
good labor relations on the Olympic
site.
“Success is of course conditional
on the continued close cooperation
of all concerned,” he said, adding he
hoped the workers’ sense of pride
would prevent any walkouts in the
future.
While he said no specific assur
ance had been given that further
labor disputes would not disrupt the
current completion schedule, he
said he was heartened by reports
from board members concerning
their daily meetings with union rep
resentatives on the site.
A “disaster plan” was still avail
able, Goldbloom said, in case the
stadium could not be finished in time
for the opening. He refused to reveal
details of this plan.
There are 22 senior letter®
gible for the Heart Award, i
which have been named
season honors.
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sociated Press Southwest G
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The JTs, an off-campus independent
team ran over the Crocker Hall inde
pendent team, 84-14 on Tuesday night.
The game was actually a one-sided affair
with the experience and expertise of the
JTs prevailing. In the first half, the JTs
scored 42 points as opposed to 6 for the
Crocker team. Tom Smith was the lead
ing scorer for the JTs in the first half
with 10 points. Dave Fleig was next
with 6 in the lirst half. In the second
half, Fleig and Smith were once again
the top scorers with Fleig scoring 10
points to Smith’s 6.
The major difficulty faced by the
Crocker team was the inability of the
defenders to keep from fouling. In al
most all layups executed by the JTs, the
shooter was fouled while in the act of
shooting. Under IM rules, if a player is
fouled in the act of shooting and does
not make the goal, his team is awarded
one point and gets the ball out of
bounds. If the field goal is successful,
the scoring team receives one
additional point and the opposing team
gets the ball out of bounds.
The Crocker team made a total of 30
fouls in the game — 15 in each half,
while the JTs only had 4 fouls, all of
them oecuring in the second half of
play.
Remember, IM Basketball play
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begins next week and will contii for mi
throughout the semester. Games
played Monday through Thun
nights from 5:00 to 11:00 p.m. Any
interested in watching the play, even
they’re not playing, is invited toc< id terms.
Bryan Ma
and watch these games. Action tak
place both on the third floor and quest for;
main floor of G. Roll ie White. Station
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Special
Events
A mandatory team managers
meeting will be held on Thurs
day, February 12 at 5:00 p.m.
The meeting is for slow pitch
softball team managers and will
be held in room 267 of G. Rollie
White Coliseum. Each team
must send a representative as
the game schedules will be
given out only at this time.
Points Leaders ie coiie
lity Rate
In the battle for IM champioiw i ]j s { Q f
points, the following teams lead P l.(.]y w j la(
respective divisions as of the end oft' E. ^
Fall Semester. The Military leader n rini .
E-l with 304 points, followed doseU | r
E-2 with 287. In the Fish division Sri |L *.l .
leads with 279 points while H-2 isd® ai )
behind with 267. The fight for Civife L m
dorm sports supremacy is led by Dn* I e diner
with 417 points, with Walton in sec* 1 f e P ro Po:
with 375 and Moore third with firm
points. Keathley leads the Women’s^ re bill for t
vision with 279 points to Mosher’s® Calculated
while Hughes and Fowler round K
the division with 248 and 243 poft 1 I
respectively.
Ray Wottrich of the JTs, an off-campus independent team, goes up for two
points in a game last week against the independent team from Crocker Hall.
The JTs won the contest handily by the score of 84-14.
IM Calendar
Sport
Handball Singles
Slow Pitch Softball
Table Tennis Singles
Tennis Doubles
Golf Doubles
Wrestling
Fast Pitch Softball
Entries Open
1/26
2/2
2/2
2/9
2/9
2/16
2/16
Entries Close
2/3
2/10
2/10
2/17
2/17
2/24
2/24
Be sure to watch this ad weekly for
information about the Special events
planned for this semester by the IM
Department. The first of these events
will be a Frisbee throwing contest to be
held soon. More information will be In
next week’s ad. Other special events
now being planned include canoe rac
ing, arm wrestling, Co-Rec innertube
polo, and the second annual Superstar
competition.
Meanwhile, basketball competition
is being held each week, Monday
through Thursday nights from 5:00 till
11:00. The games are held on the third
floor of G. Rollie White as well as on the
main floor of the coliseum. Military,
Fish, Women, Civilian, Co-Rec, and
Recreational teams compete each night
so be sure to come and watch the action
even if you are not playing yourself.
Referees’ Corner
Four officials meetings are upcoming and should be put on your calend'
They include an optional rap session from 4:00 to 6:00 p. m., Feb. 3, in the MS'
per ce:
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Cafeteria, Main Floor, MSC. This is a basketball officials meeting as aretk tens
meetings on FebruarySand 12 in room 267, G. R. White at 7:00 or 8:00 p.m
The last meeting is a softball officials meeting to lie held in room 232ofC.
White at 6:30 p.m. on February 3.
This ad is prepared under the
direction of the Intramural Of
fice and is sponsored by McDon
ald s on University Drive. Pho
tos and stories b\ Paul Nettell.
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