THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEB. 20, 1976
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Disproving Bigfoot not easily done
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Today is Friday, February 20,
1976, the 33rd day of the spring
semester. There are 78 days until
Final Review, 84 days until the last
final exam.
On this date in 1965, 19-year old
sophomore Randy Matson shattered
the world indoor shot put record of
64 feet, 11-3/4 inches held by Gary
Gubner of New York University with
a heave of 65 feet, 8 1/2 inches at the
Will Rogers Indoor Games in Fort
Worth. Matson went on to better his
own record in the finals with a put of
66 feet, 2-1/4 inches.
On this date in 1950, Harry
Stiteler’s gridmen held their first of
four spring scrimmages for the SC
SI season. The Maroon team, led by
defensive tackle Jack Little and
halfback Yale Lary, defeated the
White team 20-7. The highlight of
the game was a 50-yard punt return
touchdown by leading ground gainer
Lary. ’
On this date in 1946, General
Dwight D. Eisenhower announced
his acceptance of College President
Gibb Gilchrist s invitiation to speak
at the Annual Aggie Muster in April.
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muddy terrain and through streams.
In addition, the prints lacked impact
ridges, which are microscopic im
pressions left by a stamping device.
One Bigfoot researcher, Peter
Byrne, contends the Bossburg
prints were a hoax. Byrne is the di
rector of the Bigfoot Information
Center in The Dalles, Oregon, a re
search center studying Bigfoot evi
dence.
Byrne said the prints were found
within 500 yards of the home of a
known Bigfoot faker, Ivan Marx. Ac
cording to Byrne, Marx moved into
Bossburg shortly before the prints
were found and none have been seen
there since Marx left.
Marx, a bearhunter and amateur
filmmaker, at one time worked at the
Bigfoot Information Center and tried
to sell the center a film sequence of
the animal for $25,000. Byrne said
the film was eventually shown to be
faked and was not purchased.
Byrne is, however, a believer in
Bigfoot.
“There’s too much evidence, ” he
said, noting the long history of con
sistently similar sightings of the crea
ture.
Bryant suggests Bigfoot could be a
surviving colony of large, manlike
animals known as Gigantopithecus,
which lived in the Himalayas and
China about 25 million years ago.
He said the seven-foot, 600-pound
animals could have migrated across
the former Bering Strait land bridge
and taken refuge on the steep slopes
of the Cascades Mountains.
Although eyewitness reports and
footprints seem to make the most
convincing case for Bigfoot’s exis
tence, there is a wealth of other less
reliable evidence, including movies,
photos, hair and fecal samples and a
tape recording.
An avid Bigfoot hunter, Roger Pat
terson, was riding horseback
through a snow-covered valley of
northern California when his horse,
apparently frightened by a Bigfoot
reared and threw him to the ground.
Patterson managed to get an eight-
second color film of it from about 100
feet away as it walked into the brush.
Bryant said a Hollywood costume
artist contends it is not a man in an
ape suit. However, anthropologists
are skeptical of the animal’s stride,
which is considered too short for an
animal of its height (about eight
feet).
Photos made of Bigfoot are hard to
analyze, Bryant said, because they
are usually of poor quality; they are
either out-of-focus or taken in poor
lighting.
One California Bigfoot hunter said
he knows a nesting place for the ani
mals and sent a tape recording and
hair samples to Bryant for his
analysis. The hair sample turned out
to be from a bear. Bryant said the
sounds on tape are definitely those of
a primate and are similar to a chim
panzee, gorilla and monkey, but the
recording is not foolproof evidence.
A hunter from Tacoma, Wash.,
found a six-inch spherical mound of
fecal matter in a mountain stream
and Bryant has been making tests on
it. The feces show the animal had
strictly a vegeterian diet, including
spruce needles, according to Bryant.
Judging from the diet, the feces do
not belong to a bear, Bryant said.
The size of the mound, he constend,
rules out the moose and elk. He said
it could belong to a horse or cow,
although those animals are not nor
mally found in such a remote area of
the Cascades.
The hunter did not see any tracks
near the stream, but Bryant says the
feces were sitting long enough for
any tracks to have disappeared.
Bigfoot would appear to be her
bivorous — it never attacks for food.
Albert Ostman, a lumberman who
was captured and held by a Bigfoot
family for six days, said they ate gras
ses, spruce and hemlock tips and
tubers. There are serious doubts,
however, as to whether a non-
carnivorous animal the size of Big
foot could survive in the Cascades’
environment.
Despite the heavy rainfall, the
vegetation is considered very low-
energy food. In fact, the Cascades
would be one of the least likely forest
regions where a Bigfoot could sur
vive. It does not have the bamboo,
celery, nettles, bark and plantlife of
tropical forests where large herbi
vorous primates, such as the mount
ain gorilla.
Since “The $6 Million Man Vs.
Bigfoot” was aired on television,
Bryant said he has had an increased
demand for his Bigfoot presenta
tions. This program and movies have
given Bigfoot national attention, he
said, and helped keep the myth
alive.
Bryant said Bigfoot, like the Abo
minable Snowman, the Loch Ness
Monster and aliens from outer space,
is the modern way for satisfying the
need for the mystical, the unsolv-
able.
The man on the street, he said,
can’t participate in discussing
theories on solving cancer, but
everyone can have a theory on Big
foot.
“That’s why this whole con
troversy stays alive,” he said.
MBA-LAW DAY
Saturday, February 21, 1976
Representatives from Texas law schools and several of the major business
schools, including Texas A&M, The University of Texas at Austin, Harvard Busi
ness School, The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania,
and The Sloan School of Industrial Management at MIT, are expected to be
present. The Seminar is designed to help students determine whether or not their
career interests would be better served by obtaining an MBA or Law degree.
7:45 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
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Luncheon reservations ($3.00 per person) should be placed before 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, February
19, 1976, at the Student Programs Office on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center
(telephone 845-1515).
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