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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1977
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By Paul McGrath
The Texas A&M track team will
ompete today in the Oklahoma In-
-jtational Indoor Meet as the Aggies
jontinue preparation for the South-
ves t Conference Indoor Meet on
Feb. 4.
Oklahoma City s Convention
Hhter will be the site of the 10
:eam meet.
Representing the Southwest Con-
'erence (SWC) besides Texas A&M
,vill be Baylor, SMU and TCU.
Competition from the Big Eight
piiference will include Oklahoma,
Oklahoma State, Kansas and Kansas
State. North Texas State University
.vill also compete.
fi The six-lane track is made of pine,
typical of most board indoor tracks.
The wooden oval is 176 yards in cir
cumference, making for 10-lap
miles.
Times in the running events are
generally slower indoors because
of the size of the track. Since they
are smaller than the 440-yard out
door tracks, runners must take more
curves, losing the speed advantage
of long straightaways. Also, because
most indoor tracks are made of
boards, speed is lost due to the
vibration of the track while runners
are competing. Inexperienced in
door runners often lose their bal
ance because of the ‘bounce-back’ of
wooden tracks. The wood is pushed
down by the force and weight of one
runner and bounces back for the
next runner, the upward force inter
fering with the rhythm and stride of
the next runner. The effect com
pares to the rickety bridges found in
amusement parks.
A&M Track Coach Charles
Thomas, now in his 19th season,
will be without the services of three
or four athletes. Pole vaulter Brad
Blair will be attending a funeral to
day, but may be able to fly into
Oklahoma City in time for the meet.
Blair set a school indoor record last
week in Baton Rouge with a vault of
16-4 feet, breaking the old mark of
15-6 feet held by himself and
Harold McMahan (1971). Blair’s
record vault is astonishing as he has
not vaulted continually in three
months.
Shot putter Frank West, like
Blair, a senior, will miss the meet to
catch up on some academic work.
The Aggies’ top two quartermilers,
Chuck Butler and Greg Clark, will
also be absent.
The Aggies will have Shifton
Baker and freshman Kent Figgs
entered in the 60-yard high hurdles.
Baker, one of the SWC’s top
hurdlers last season, ran a 7.24 in
the highs last week. Figgs, like his
brother, Karl, comes from Houston
Sterling and may also compete in
the 440-yard dash, depending upon
his success in the high hurdles.
Another freshman, Philip Steen
from A&M Consolidated, will also
compete in the 440.
Ron McGonigle and Karl Figgs
will run in the 600-yard run with
Reginald Jameson, another
freshman from Houston Sterling,
competing in the 300-yard dash. Jim
Brannen is scheduled for the 880-
yard run.
Tommy Glass, Joel Vogt, Ed
Dulak and Tony Wheeler, will
compete in the 1,000-yard run and
it will be this quartet, along with
Brannen, from which A&M’s two-
mile relay team will be formed. In
the mile run will be Manfred Kohrs,
who set a school record in the
two-mile run last week, and Walter
Jachimowicz.
The Figgs brothers, Baker and
Jameson will comprise the A&M
mile relay team.
In the field events, Pat Ruehle,
Jerry Strong and possibly Blair will
compete in the pole vault. Jameson,
another school record breaker with
a jump of 22-10 feet, Baker and
Steen will compete in the long
jump. The high jump will have Lyn
Byrd and Ronnie Keys and the shot
put will have Craig Carter, Randy
Scott and Tim Scott.
poach Dawson resigns at Baylor
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•mwHVACO, Tex.- Carroll Dawson,
basketball coach at Baylor
" University for the past 3-1/2 years,
Resigned yesterday.
Jfoawson, 37, said he was quitting
Btective immediately to “give the
new direction.”
The Bears have compiled an 8 : 6
record this season and are 3-2 in the
Southwest Conference. In pre
season polls, Baylor was predicted
to finish high in the SWC standings,
but recent losses to Texas A&M and
Southern Methodist apparently
prompted Dawson’s decision to
quit.
Baylor Athletic Director Jack Pat
terson said Jim Haller, Dawson’s as
sistant the past three years, would
take over the team, immediately.
Patterson said he was surprised at
Dawson’s sudden resignation.
“He is an outstanding young man
and the entire university and the
athletic department wish for him
the very best in the future, ” Patter
son said.
The Baylor Athletic Council late
Wednesday night accepted Daw
son’s resignation and passed a reso
lution commending him for his serv
ice to the university. The council
also recommended to the school
administration that Haller be given
the head coaching job.
Dawson, an all-Southwest Con
ference performer at Baylor in 1960,
joined the staff as an assistant coach
in 1964 and assumed the head
coaching job in 1973 when Bill
Menefee resigned.
Dawson had a 12-13 record his
first season, went 10-16 in 1974-75
and was 12-15 last year.
Haller, 31, joined the Baylor staff
in 1973 after taking McLennan
Community College of Waco to the
National Junior College Tourna
ment in his first year on the job. He
played college basketball at Sam
Houston State and junior college
ball at Lon Morris JC.
Haller received his master’s de
gree from Texas A&M where he
served as graduate assistant coach.
Goff beats the odds
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Battle of yesteryear
Last year in Houston Sonny Parker had an altercation with a
Houston cheerleader. The scuffle was quickly broken up by a
local policeman and Steve Jones, yet this incident demon
strates what can happen when people are placed in a pressure
situation. The game on Saturday will be pressure packed, with
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“The prince,” as he is known by
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shot well too, scoring 16 points in
the Ags big win over SMU.
The freshman from Homewood,
Illinois is going to have to keep pro
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with powerhouses Houston and Ar
kansas, who are on the schedule for
this week. But then isn’t that the
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