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I : ■ i ;ii ; ' 1 ! 1 ■ i ; Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1976 BATT PICKS College draft declared illega Aggies eager to open campaign New football season is here at last By GERARD O’DONOVAN Guest Commentary At about 3:30 pm on Saturday, the 1976 version of the Texas Aggie foot ball team will make their appearance at Kyle Field before what I hope will be a packed house. Their last ap pearance was on Novenber 28, 1975 when they beat Texas. With cautious optimism they take the field against Virginia Tech, a team that has al ready one victory beneath its belt this year. It has been a long wait since that November day but I have a hunch that the wait was worthwhile. Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Not till we are lost do we begin to under stand ourselves. We began that painful process just as John McKay was winning his last college game; we learned more from our two de feats than we did while winning ten. Were it not for the fact that Dick Vermeil(UCLA) outcoached Woody Hayes and knocked Ohio State from its too lofty perch, I might have done myself an injury over the Christmas holidays! If an average sports fan like myself can feel as I did, can you imagine how the Aggie players and coaches must have felt? You can’t, but if you want to forget the end of 1975 forever, why not pay a visit to Kyle Field on Saturday and watch the Aggies play. They are less talkative than last year but their game plan is to let their intensity of play do the talking. To go all the way, one has to win the first one, and then take them one at a time. Every team, including the Southwest Conference officers en masse, are always skyhigh when they play the Aggies! The oft mentioned names of Bean, Thomas, Osborne, TenNapel and Simonini will be heard no more but listen for Jackson, Woodard, Fields, Marshall, Ship- man, Hayes, Dickey, Floyd, and Tgate — and you will know that old football seasons never end, merely a new one begins. If we could get rid of all the cur rent SWC officers and most of the benevolent despots of the NCAA it would be an auspicious way to begin the new season. Many coaches have it up to here with the tomfoolery of the NCAA in the guise of ecomomy and from what we hear, wait until Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set — Sizing — Recxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair Aggie Charge Accounts 9-5:30 846-5816 Dairti Queen FRI., SAT. & SUN. SPECIAL HUNGR-BUSTER & FRIES $1.09 2323 S. Texas 693-4299 (Between K-Mart & Gibsons) Top of the Tower Texas A&M University Pleasant Dining — Great View SERVING LUNCHEON BUFFET 11:00 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. Each day except Saturday $2.50 DAILY $3.00 SUNDAY Serving soup 6- sandwich 11.-00 A M. - 1:30 P.M. Monday - Friday $1.50 plus drink Available Evenings For Special University Banquets Department of Food Service Texas A&M University “Quality First” next year. The NCAA has done very little positive since 1929. Where have they stood on the key issues? Aside!Last year they told everyone how many players could travel and how many players could suit up for home games. This year they told every-one how many coaches could suit up, on State and Local Univer sity property! Next year it will be the number of athletic scholarships that may be given. Would you believe 95? Now, Southern folk have always been known for their sanity and love of sports and though the SWC may not be the best around, it is far from being the worst. Wherever it stands, the “good old boys” who run the show are making damn sure that the Conference will sink lower by rees tablishing the limit of 55 players per game. I understand there was a vote on it-a vote that will haunt Texas against Oklahoma, Arkansas againat Oklahoma State and even more so, the weaker members of the confer ence when they play a non-SWC team. A change is needed among the heads of the SWC, from the commis sioner on down. Incumbency eats away at those all important neurons. In honor of the game, I exhort each member of the SWC ruling body to retire and let a new era take over. Too long have we listened to drivel, too long have we waited to hear what happens behind closed doors. No two issues are treated alike and in every “race” there is a favorite and the NCAA has its own. Meanwhile let us ignore such trivia and play ball. There are those armchair quarter backs and bathroom linemen who walk around campus nonchanlantly cursing about our dismal end to last season. There are those who tell me that “without the pass the game of football is unexciting.” I was at Cal during the Craig Morton days and he was the best passer around; look where it got the Golden Bears. There was another young fellow at Navy then, by the name of Staubach-he even won the Heisman Trophy and guess where his passing got him against Texas in the Cotton Bowl? You can look it up! Anyone who believes the Aggies will become a passing team better brace him self/herself, for they won’t. But any coach who thinks that A&M will play dead when they see a 10 or 11 man line, have something else coming. We will pass out of the 6 wishbone just as we will run out of the I. I would not want Rod Laver making a 10-footer for me at Pebble Beach anymore than I would opt for Jack Nicklaus to kick a penalty goal (place kick) for the TAMU Rugby team. By the same token I prefer to see the coach work on the T (for total) wishbone offense and for Tom Wil son to call the passing plays should the “T” begin to sputter. That is pre cisely the way it will be, all the way to the Cotton Bowl. There we will contain Tony Dorsett when the time comes. Any commentary like this one would be remiss if it did not offer an extra special congradulations to the recruiters for the fantastic job last year. And may I predict that they have only just begun! A barnyard of Secretariats are visible proofs that high school stars like what they see in Smalltown, USA. It is fitting to crawl out on a limb at this time and make a few predic tions. I see no reason at all why the 1976 Aggies will not enter the Texas game undefeated. By then I expect that Texas will have lost two, and neither to Oklahoma. Two years ago I selected Baylor to win the SWC and boasting aside, I even gave the correct score in the Baylor-Texas game. This Baylor team is better than the team of two years ago and though I respect what I saw of Texas’ defense at Kyle Field last November, I cannot buy it that a highly rated team such as Texas would have a walk-on mooing sig nals. And moreover, his back-up, Ted Constanzo could not start for any other team, I repeat, any other aTm aTm AGGIES. ARE YOU TIRED OF GETTING RIPPED OFF? Books, clothing, stereo, records, cameras, jewelry, furni ture and just about anything that you have in your room. Apt. or house. GET THE STUDENT CONTENTS COVERAGE POLICY SUPER LOW COST (S12 to S27 DOLLARS PER YR.) SUPER GOOD COVERAGE FOR INFORMATION CALL 846-1731 MARC L BLACK THE HERITAGE INS. ASSOCIATES. INC. 707 TEXAS AVENUE. SUITE 210 COLLEGE STATION. 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We wish Keith Baker, the running man, a speedy recovery and the best of good luck and health to Coach Bel- lard and all his charges. And as the 1976 team takes the field around 3:30 pm next Saturday I expect a standing rumult burst of applause. The Aggie crowds have become loud again so let us not be the ones to be the silent majority. See you there. Associated Press NEW YORK — With the Na tional Football League almost cer tain to appeal the ruling against its college draft, representatives of the owners and players agree that the chance of a modified draft has been improved. U.S. District Judge William B. Bryant ruled in Washington Wed nesday that the stocking of 28 teams with the nation’s collegiate talent, the NFL’s current system, is illegal because it violates antitrust laws. Bryant said the draft is, in effect, an agreement among NFL club owners “that the right to negotiate with each top-quality graduating col lege athlete will be allocated to one team, and that no other team will deal with that person. “This outright, undisguised re fusal to deal constitutes a group boycott in its classical and most per nicious form, a device which has long been condemned as perseaii tion of the antitrust laws,” the continued. Ed Garvey, executive direds the NFL Players Associata pressed delight at the rulini suggested it might spur them; to be more conciliatory in futi talks aimed at achieving a basic agreement with the players’m Sargent Karch, executivediiaj of the NFL Management Com the owner’s bargaining team,! the decision produced optima Bryant, he said, had expressed opinion that if an agreements draft were to be part of a basicil pact, it therefore would behci from antitrust action. AndKardi Bryant stated that thedraftsk he a mandatory part of any col bargaining. Garvey publicl) taken the opposite viewpointink instances. Women volleyen travel to Houston JOINS MARCO STAFF MARCO ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Former golfing great Gene Sarazen, has tutored Ladies PGA proette Pat Bradley of Westford, Mass., for years. Now she’s on the staff at Del tona Corp.’s Marco Island Country Club where Sarazen di rects the Tony Lema Memorial pro-am each March. Ms. Bradley, who turned pro less than three years ago, earned more than $39,000 the first six months on the 1976 tour. She recently won the Girl Talk Classic in New Rochelle, N. Y. Other pros who aided Ms. Bradley, 25, are John Wirbal of Nashua, N. H., and Eddie Bush of Miami. Their coaching helped her win the New Eng land title for a second time in 1973. The women’s intercollegiate vol leyball team gets its 1976 season underway this weekend in Houston with scrimmages and games against the University of Houston, Baylor, and Wharton Junior College. The Aggies begin their competi tion Friday night with scrimmages against Baylor(6 p.m.) and the Uni versity of Houston(8 p.m.). Saturday morning the Ags will face Wharton Jr. College in a scrim mage at 8 a.m. before taking on Wharton(10 a.m.), Baylor(l p.m.) andU. of H.(3 p.m.) in games which will count in the standings. Members of this years year’s vol leyball squad include Rita Kuntz(Sr.-Pasadena), JoAnn NicholsQr.-Galena Park), Ellen Morcom(Sr.-Houston), Vicki Marshall( Soph.-Beaumont), fracie Ghandler(Soph.-Midland), j Bunge(Fresh.-Houston), Bin Crim(Fresh.-Caldwell), El Schoen nagal( Fresh.-Humbk Laura Cobb(Jr.-East Berai Diane Dougias(Soph.-Mit Mardi Alexander(Sr.-Houston) Judy Bigon(Jr.-Temple). Kuntz, Marshall, Chtl Douglas, Alexander and Bi be the Ags’ starting lineup. Tryouts for the women’sinli legiate basketball team Monday, September 13at6:31 in the main floor of G. Rollie Coliseum. The workouts will be weekday between 6:30 p.m, 8:30 p.m. and will run for weeks. 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