THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1976
Ags go to Drake Relays
By PAUL McGRATH
Des Moines, Iowa is usually a
uiet, conservative midwestern city
f about 400,000 folks. Of course,
ome of the city’s population have
een known to frequent those shady
ars in the middle of town. But for
he most part, the prime excitement
; watching the local college students
ip up the main drag in vehicles right
ut of American Graffiti.
Every April, however, the city
becomes alive with parades and
other such hubbub. The Drake Re
lays extravaganza is coming to town.
Worshipping
God is only
the start
of something
great.
This year’s version is the 67th an
niversary of what is one of the most
prestigious track meets in the na
tion. Over 60 university, college,
junior college and high school teams
converge on the one-time French
fortress with the intent of sharing
some of the glamour of the Drake
Relays.
Texas A&M captured some of this
limelight in 1970 when the 880-yard
relay foursome of Donnie Rogers,
Rockie Woods, Marvin Mills and
Curtis Mills broke the tape in 1:21.7,
a world’s record. The mark still
stands as a world and American re
cord although strangely. Southern
Cal holds the national collegiate re
cord in the event with a 1:20.7.
cord book bears his name six times.
And of course there was Curtis,
the anchorman of that record-setting
quartet. Mills had already been in
the national spotlight with a 44.7
open quarter at the NCAA meet, a
world record at the time. The elder
Mills had also anchored a 3:05.7 mile
relay effort in the Astrodome, a
globe mark for indoors.
That was six years ago, though,
and most of the records set by that
group are history now. This year the
Aggies of Coach Charles Thomas
hope for a new brand of Drake glory.
Thomas takes a 17-man squad to
Des Moines with the preliminaries
beginning this morning and the fi
nals being run Saturday morning and
afternoon.
Mark Lawless, Phil McClendon and
Arthur Nious. Twice this year the
Bears have embarrassed the Ags by
winning in more than comfortable
margins.
The Aggies will also compete in
the 440- and 880-yard relays with
Shifton Baker, Ray Brooks, Charles
Dawson and Chuck Butler handling
the baton in each event. The dis
tance medley team of Butler, Vogt,
Manfred Kohrs and Walter
Jachimowicz will also take part in the
relay carnival.
Baker will compete in the high
and intermediate hurdles as well as
the two relays. He took third in the
120-yard highs last year to Larry
Shipp and Allen Misher of LSU.
Teammate Curtis Collier, a
freshman, is slated for the inter-
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In running the four 220s, the
Aggie quartet averaged 20.4 a leg, -—
not exactly a bad piece of running.
Rogers was a long jumper when not
on the track and still holds the A&M
records for indoors and outdoors in
that event. Woods was a superb
sprinter and hurdler who the year
earlier had run a 9.3 100-yard dash in
the NCAA meet at Knoxville, Tenn.
Marvin was the younger half of the
Mills brothers act and the A&M re-
Texas A&M’s main hopes lie on
the two-mile relay team of Jim Bran-
nen, Tommy Glass, Joel Vogt and
Tony Wheeler. Brannen has had a
personal best in the open 880-yard
dash of 1:50.5 and although just a
sophomore, is the oldest of the four.
That is, if you exclude 23-year-old
freshman Tony Wheeler from
categorization as “old.” The South
African import has the best 880 time
in the Southwest Conference thus
far in the year, 1:48.7.
The Aggies will be hard-pressed
by Baylor’s foursome of Walker Lea,
mediates.
In the field events A&M will have
Brad Blair in the pole vault, Ronnie
Keys in the high jump, Tom Owen in
the long jump. Bill Newton in the
javelin, Frank West in the shot put
and Steve Stewart in the discus.
Stewart had his best throw ever last
weekend with a 186-3 foot toss.
All Southwest Conference schools
but Texas and Rice will travel to the
meet with the SWC having top en
tries of TCU in the 440-yard relay
and Baylor in the mile and two-mile
relays.
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last year. The Aggies will compete at the I
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