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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MAR. 30, 1976
Page 11
gs begin spring drills
By TONY GALLUCCI
Battalion Staff Writer
eTexas Aggie Football, team
oil their best year since 1956,
Iractice today for the 1976-77
Itggies face their biggest loss
|niory Bellard has been in Ag-
1 when 23 senior lettermen
lia graduation. Included in
Inch are all-Americas Garth
Ipel, Ed Simonini and Pat
s. Other standout starters
who leave A&M are Carl Roaches,
Richard Osborne, Bruce Welch,
Glenn Bujnoch, Bubba Bean, Skip
Walker, Blake Schwarz and Jackie
Williams.
But the scene is far from bleak as
the positions once held by those
players have a host of excellent un
derstudies and newcomers compet
ing. Thirty lettermen return from
last year’s 10-2, nationally ranked
team.
Returning offensive starters in
clude center Mark Dennard, guard
Frank Myers, tackle Dennis Swilley,
quarterback David Shipman and
Fullback George Woodard. David
Walker, starting at quarterback two
years ago also returns.
Returning defensive starters in
clude end Tank Marshall, tackles
Edgar Fields and Jimmy Dean,
linebacker Robert Jackson, corner-
back William Thompson and safety
Lester Hayes.
One of the surprises for the up
coming session will be a look at some
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never had a better first half against
Indiana, nor a worst second half.
This was the first time they really
beat us.”
It was the third time Indiana has
beaten Michigan this season — the
others 80-74 and then 72-67 in over
time.
Orr said Michigan was running
well and shooting well until his club
got into foul trouble early in the sec
ond half, and eventually lost two
players — Britt, team captain, and
freshman Phil Hubbard, who had
fouled out in the two previous
Hoosier games.
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we were fouling them before the ball
dropped in,” Orr said. They just
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srines’ strong first half when
led 35-29. “But they were
er in the second. We are
to have lost to one hell of a
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na won despite losing
7 guard Bobby Wilkerson in
ening minutes. He suffered a
te concussion in a collision
ichigan’s Wayman Britt,
hen you lose someone so sud-
you don’t have much time to
about a lot of things,” Knight
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nent. We tried a couple of guys
len we went for more quickness
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i moving the ball from side to
getting it to the people who
score. It’s interesting that he
ayed hardly at all previously in
jurnament.”
sman came in with 42 seconds
the first half, and he stayed all
ay in the second half when the
ers broke the game wide open,
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on Tuesday 7-2, losing the first
fifth singles matches. Richard
ler shifted some of his team’s
pinel and ended up with a four
t|h sweep.
liday the Ags lost 5-4 to a tough
pnsin squad then bounced back
ia6-3 win over Lamar on Satur-
h Aggies resume conference
this afternoon against Houston
i. TCU comes to College Station
biday and the Ags travel to Waco
a match with Baylor on Sunday.
— Tony Gallucci
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Kent Be
nson, the Most Valuable player of
the 1976 National Collegiate Athletic-
Association basketball Cham
pionship, might best be described as
a Dave Cowens in a college uniform.
The 6-foot-ll Benson bulls to the
basket and seems to have a nose for
the ball, just like Cowens, the star
center of the Boston Celtics of the
National Basketball Association.
Benson, a 245-pounder with the
moves of a guard, scored 25 points,
grabbed nine rebounds and handed
out two assists as he muscled the un
beaten Indinan Hoosiers to the na
tional collegiate basketball cham
pionship.
Indiana crushed Michigan 86-68
Monday night to complete a march
through one of the toughest brackets
in NCAA tournament history. The
Hoosiers beat four of the Top Ten
ranked teams en route to their third
title in eight postseason ventures.
Both winning Coach Bobby
Knight and loser Johnny Orr put the
finger on Benson as the major differ
ence between the two Big Ten rivals.
Knight observed that Benson de
served the MVP accolade.
“He played an outstanding game,’’
said the Indiana coach. “He did an
outstanding job on the boards. He
got the ball for us.”
Benson, a junior from New Castle,
Ind., didn’t allow a little thing like a
cast on his left wrist to deter him.
He’s been playing with torn liga
ments, and has plans for an operation
during the off season.
And to hear Knight tell it, Benson
has yet to reach his peak.
“Benson has developed well at In
diana,” observed Knight, who has
encouraged the big guy to be aggres
sive.
“He’ll develop even more next
year,” Knight said. “He’s done an
outstanding job and he’ll do even
better,” the coach advised.
It’s hard to envision Benson any
better than he was against Michigan
Monday night. He was devastating.
Phil Hubbard, the talented Wol
verine center, fouled out trying to
stop the Indiana crasher.
Benson scored 10 points in the
first half as Indiana left, trailing
35-29.
“It was just a matter of gathering
myself together,” Benson said. “I
was a little tight in the first half. I
knew I had to take the ball stronger
to the hoop. I had to do my job re
bounding and defending.”
Then, Benson provided the un
derstatement of the night.
"I guess I just played harder in the
second half,” he noted.
Benson credits God with his de
velopment as the best center in col
lege basketball.
“Coach Knight helped me consid
erably, but everything I’ve done
goes back to my faith in Jesus Christ.
I played tonight (Monday) not for
myself, or for my teammates, but for
the glory of God. I get my emotional
energies from Jesus Christ. He’s my
only audience. I try to play for Him. ”
new offensive formations, including
one which sets a back in mobon from
the fullback position. Bellard said
earlier that the wishbone may still be
used in the coming season in refer
ence to news reports that the forma
tion of his invention had been scrap
ped.
The position in motion, known as
the floater, will be handled during
spring training by Mike Floyd,
Robert Verde and Randall Teate.
Both Floyd and Verde have played at
split-end for the Ags previously,
while Teate is a mid-term junior col
lege transfer.
The backs in the formation will
likely be Woodard, and Eddie Har
din, a reserve fullback behind
Woodard last year. Top candidates
for the back positions will be Adger
Armstrong, Gary Young, Darrell
Smith and Bobby Mitchell. High
Aggies beat Baylor 6-3,
then get first SWC loss
Associated Press
WACO, Tex. — Buster Turner’s
pinch hit three-run homer capped a
five-run seventh inning as the Texas
Aggies beat Baylor 6-3 Monday, but
the Bears gained a split of the
Southwest Conference baseball
doubleheader with 5-2 victory in the
second game.
Baylor led until the final inning of
the opener, when the Aggies
exploded for four hits that produced
the five runs. James Gibson got the
victory for the Aggies, his 10th this
year. Until Monday, Gibson had not
allowed a run for 52 innings.
John Schott scattered six Aggies
hits in the second game to hand
Texas A&M its first SWC loss of the
season. The Aggies led in the early
going, but Shane Nolen’s two-run
double tied it in the fourth and
Baylor went ahead for good on a solo
homer by Mike Wells.
Baylor’s record is 14-13 overall
and 6-5 in the SWC. The Aggies are
24-3 overall and 7-1 in the confer
ence.
The loss in the second game drop
ped the Aggies into second place in
the SWC race, behind Texas and
Houston which each have 11-1 loop
marks.
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Site
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Sept. 11
Virginia Tech
College Station
4 p.m.
Sept. 18
Kansas State
College Station
4 p.m.
Sept. 25
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Houston (Rice Stadium)
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 2
Illinois
Champaign
1:30 p.m.
Oct. 9
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1:30 p.m.
Oct. 16
Baylor*
College Station
1:30 p.m.
Oct. 23
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1:30 p.m.
Oct. 30
SMU*
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1:30 p.m.
Nov. 6
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Nov. 13
Arkansas*
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Nov. 20
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school sensation Curtis Dickey will
have to be reckoned with in August.
A battle is also shaping up at quar
terback where Shipman and Walker,
both starters in past seasons, will be
challenged by Keith Baker, a
freshman who saw limited action last
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The Aggies’ new “floating bone” formation includes a
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Vols, Horns run
‘dual’ at Dallas
By PAUL McGRATH
Battalion Sports Editor
Orange and white were the colors
of the day as the University of Ten
nessee and the University of Texas
track teams made a dual meet out of
the Dallas Invitational.
The Volunteers and Longhorns,
both having uniforms cast in similar
hues, between them won 13 of the 18
events, while finishing one-two in
the meet. The talented Tennessee
team amassed 139 points to Texas’
102. Kansas followed with 96, Baylor
with 72, Oklahoma with 61, Texas
A&M with 57, Oklahoma State with
19 and SMU with 8.
The Vols won both relays and
dominated the sprints. NCAA
finalist Reggie Jones won the 100-
meter dash in 10.0, one-tenth of a
second off the world mark. Jones also
anchored the Tennessee sprint relay
team which set a meet record with a
40.0 clocking.
In all, Tennessee won eight events
including a 46.6 victory in the 400-
meter dash by Lamar Preyor.
Texas’ Jim McGoldrick and Dana
LeDuc gathered 32 points in the dis
cus and shot put while teammates
David Shepherd and Frank Estes
finished first and second in the pole
vault at 17-1 and 16-6 feet respec
tively. This quartet scored almost
half of the Horns’ total points.
The Longhorns won five events,
finishing second in both relays. This
marked the first time this year that
the defending Southwest Confer
ence champs had finished ahead of
Baylor.
The Aggies placed 15 men in 17
events — they did not enter the tri
ple jump — but could finish no
higher than sixth. Yet, assistant
A&M track coach Ted Nelson was
pleased.
“Even though we finished sixth in
the meet we felt that we had some
real good performances,” he said.
Bill Newton had his best javelin
throw of the year with a 233-3 foot
toss. High jumper Don Riggs
equalled his personal best ever with
a leap of 6-10 feet. Ronnie Keyes
barely missed clearing the height,
hitting the bar with his heels.
Brad Blair placed third in the pole
vault with a season’s best vault of
16-6 feet. Sprinter Ray Brooks ran a
21.0 in the 200-meter dash for third
place, defeating one of the nation’s
top dash men in Tennessee’s Ronnie
Harris. Harris ran a 45.7 quarter last
year and was often under 21 seconds
in the furlong.
Shifton Baker had his best time of
the season in the 400-meter inter
mediate hurdles, placing fourth at
51.6. Teammate Curtis Collier had a
52.2 in the same event.
Distance specialist Manfred Kohrs
ran a 3:48.1 in the 1,500-meter run,
equivalent to a 4:06 mile time. Wal
ter Jachimowicz ran what compared
to a 4:09 mile.
“Our guys really feel good about it
(the meet),” Nelson said. “This may
sound hokey but its really not. Our
team spirit is as good as we’ve had in
a number of years.”
The Aggies will journey to Austin
this weekend to compete in the pre
stigious Texas Relays. Over 40 uni
versity division schools, including all
SWC teams, will be present at what
is one of the nation’s largest meets.
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