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r a\j<0 i i 11 i i /~\ i— i l 'f MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1977 Embrey s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set — Sizing — Reoxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair We Pick Up & Sport Shorts Bellard optimistic; Ags lose Leatherwood Sportsfolio By PAUL McGRATH 9-5:30 mm- Aggie Charge Accounts 846-5816 BUD WARD VOLKSWAGEN INC. 693-3311 NOW OPEN JIM’S PAWN SHOP Bryan, Tx. "We buy & sell’’ Open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 319 N. Bryan Coach Emory Bellard’s Texas A&M squad has received most of the early votes as the Southwest Conference favorite for the fall foot ball season. While Bellard points out the Aggies’ lack of depth in sev eral key positions, especially on de fense, he is nonetheless optimistic—and with good reason. The Aggies three top scorers will return this fall’ which includes the league’s top two point producers. Fullback George Woodard, placekicker Tony Franklin and halfback Curtis Dickey totaled 233 points between them out of A&M’s total of 364 points. Woodard led the league with 102 points on 17 touchdowns while Franklin was runnerup with 81 points. The Aggies also return their three leading rushers, Woodard, Dickey and quarterback David Walker. Walker was also the team’s top pas ser and Dickey was the second lead ing pass receiver. A Diamond in your Aggie Ring . — the final touch. Carl Bussells iamond Room MEMBER AMERICAN GEM SOCIETY 3731 E. 29th Town & Country Center 846-4708 Hours: Tuesday — Sunday // @/?/GSVtAL' ORIENTAL FOOD 11:30 A M. - 2:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. 1313 S. College Ave. Bryan. 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Will be ready for occupancy Au gust 15, 1977. One bedroom, fur nished, all bills paid except elec tricity. Make application at job site. 822-2366 or 1-817-772-6031, Waco. the upcoming season. Bellard just smiles and smiles. Punter David Appleby is another returnee Bellard says he will gladly welcome. Of the above mentioned return ees, only Walker will be gone after Texas A&M Baseball Coach Tom Chandler will be without one of his key relief pitchers next spring as junior righthander Del Leather- wood signed a professional contract with the Houston Astros. Leatherwood, from Houston St. Thomas, was one of two athletes signed by the Houston organization following the club’s summer tryout camp. Leatherwood posted a 3-1 record with the Aggies last season, striking out 20 batters in his 28 / innings on the mound. He recorded an earned run average of 4.71and walked 25 batters. American Parts, a nationally known automotive parts distributor headquartered in Houston, will help sponsor the 200-mile Indy car race at Texas World Speedway scheduled for July 31. Texas World Speedway officials extended their gratitude to the company by naming the Indy car event the American Parts 200. Houston’s A.J. Foyt and fellow Texas Johnny Rutherford will be two of the drivers contending for the checkered flag. Foyt won both the Indy and stock car events at the Speedway last year. Nearly 3.5 million Florida bass *have been stocked in Texas lakes and reservoirs this year. The Florida variety tends to grow faster than the native largemouth and on the average, lives longer and reproduces more quickly. The Florida bass are also able to adapt quite well to all Texas waters. Lake Amistad in South Texas re ceived the most fingerlings, some 603, OCX). Studies show the Florida bass are no more difficult to catch than the native variety. Dandy Don will return to Mon day Night Football this fall. Former Dallas Cowboy quarter back Don Meredith will rejoin Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford as a color commmentator. Meredith had left the ABC pro gram in 1974 for a contract with NBC. The Mount Vernon native and ex-SMU star often teamed with Curt Gowdy while with NBC and the two handled the Super Bowl last January. Meredith was part of the original Monday night team when the pro- gram first aired in 1970. After his de parture, ABC replaced him with Fred Williamson and Alex Karras for short periods of time. An NBC spokesman said Meredith just felt like going back to work with ABC to rejoin Cosell and Gifford. Wanted: One level-headed col lege graduate, preferably but not necessarily a math or statistics major. Anyone with a small degree of common sense and with the abil ity to count past 100 will meet our qualifications. Contact the National Collegiate Athletic Association as soon as possible. Taking into account the multi million dollar television contracts and the amount of statistical work done by the NCAA each year, it’s difficult to believe that such an or ganization cannot handle figures less than 150. Well, the NCAA just flunked a math test recently by producing the 30-95 scholarship rule. The ruling restricts the total number of football scholarships at member institutions to 95. How ever, since 1974 universities have been able to hand out 30 football scholarships per year. Perhaps the NCAA’s calculator blew or fuse or maybe there weren’t any pencils handy, but four times 30 does not come close to 95. Uh, oh. The NCAA has been accused of many things, but never of not being able to do grammar school mathema tics. This is the organization to which universities look for guidance and leadership. Hummm. The NCAA assumes that normal attrition and responsible recruiting will cause four times 30 to eventu ally equal 95. But what is normal attrition? And what is “responsible” recruiting? The NCAA declines to say. Thus far, only several Pac-8 Con ference schools say they could ad just to the rule successfully. But, the ruling has drawn flack from nearly everywhere else. “It’s a horrible rule,” John Majors, new Tennessee head coach said. ‘ “I’ve never failed to renew a player’s scholarship if he came to practice every day and put out, but I may have to because of this rule.” Worse yet, college coaches may have to resume the grim practice of running off players. In the past coaches would cull their squads of untalented players to give scholar- Pr ships to more talented playersoru cruits. To do so, special drills«■ made mandatory for those playen* he culled. Often these drills wj exceptionally brutal, but all wa done with one purpose in minil to cause a player to voluntarily^ up his scholarship. Nebraska’s Tom Osborne siij “It’s a cruel thing to do, butthev’i forcing us to do it.” NCAA Executive Director ilj) ter Byers is staunch in the defcnj of the ruling. “Some schools have been runt:-; what could be called large freskif tryout programs. The 30 (scholi ship limit) rule is designed tocurt^ those. The 95 rule is designed deal with redshirts ” he said To be redshirted means an efe sion of eligibility for one year, if a player is badly injured one» son, he may be redshirted in orfe to not lose that year of eligibility The NCAA also instituted theni ing to cut economic comers “In addition to cutting coil' Byers said, “the goal is tohelpllj “It st i.m., the ill-f room o Marshal the Cor male su competitive balance of collegefe resident ball. It’s better for the gameandlj those interested in football wltt more teams have a better chance, To make things equal. Words make Karl Marx proud. Naturally, those universities»iii large football programs find ill another burr in the saddle. “We’re just under the limitth season, but the following year going to be a problem for me anil lot of other folks,” LSU Coach Cb lie McClendon said. “Sayyouki the limit of 95 this year. Wei you’re not going to graduate! nlavers.” Osborne added, “Were penalized for doing a good joti keeping kids in school. Akidwli in the middle of his educationt really get hammered by 30-95 thought the whole grant-in-aid ids was to help a kid through Place an emphasis on the w hammered”. A football scholanli) at USC, for example, is worti nearly $27,000. That’s a figure the NCAAap parently didn’t take into account A fire Univers produce tim — a Pran paper- -fi Aeros join NHL United Press International HOUSTON — The Houston Aeros management Friday could not care less about the details of a proposed professional hockey merger. a.m. Th up and guisher. issued emerge; A Col to the fi; it before The f and cei toilet wi ing garb did not i room. 1 with sm Davis arson. ‘We’l Davis sa who did “Wei Maddox said. U; the fire, Maddox Dorm possibly dorm in put out them. “We that’s wl said. "B practical serious, someboe “We’re in,” said Harrison Vic kers, the executive vice president of the team, at a hastily called news conference. “We were advised that the National league Board of Gov ernors had agreed to a merger.” Word from the NHL, which was meeting in Chicago, said a commit- feP i^i( Swimmers: watch water If asked what they consider to be the greatest danger to swimmers on the coast, most people would say sharks. Not so, says the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. While at tacks by sharks are rare, currents and riptides have claimed a number of lives this year. Even if the water seems still on the surface, there is a constant, strong motion beneath. Wind action, pushing waves onto the beach at an angle, causes a cur rent called a set or drift, running parallel to the beach. Sometimes the drift is extremely fast and may carry a swimmer far from where he entered the water. Rather than swimming against the current, which is only tiring, a person should swim across it to the beach, or swim parallel to it and the shore. Most currents are 10 to 20 feet wide and parallel swimming enables the swimmer to reach safe water. In areas where there is a hole in a sandbar, the water will rush sea ward creating a strong outward cur rent. This may happen quite sud denly when a weak portion of a sandbar gives way under the con stant motion and pressure of the surf. In such cases, the swimmer can swim parallel or just relax and let the current carry him seaward until it dissipates and he can swim freely back to the beach. Such currents usually may be spotted from the beach by the sur face motion. There may be small, choppy waves in a criss-cross pat tern running perpendicular to the beach, or they may be of a different color with bits of grass or other de bris flowing toward open water. tee was formed to explore bility of joining the five-year-ol World Hockey Association withll well established NHL. But the Aeros preferred look at the NHL’s proposed del ment plan in which Houston five other WHA teams would in their own seperate division in NHL next season, and abundt champagne in the Aeros showed the management’s f “As is presently anticipated i Aeros will be part of a WHA dr ^ sion of the NHL next year,” Vida said. “We will qualify for the Sin ley Cup playoffs and our players® qualify for the NHL all-star ga® “And all I can say is it’s the 1* rthorities news we’ve ever had.” Vickers s eople and details of the proposed merger* -and plar sketchy but he said he understo the major road block left was( rthorities proval of an agreement by theWS luang Hoa teams. ‘I don’t anticipate any problei |j n h City Strong rip currents can start very near the beach and normally are caused by land depressions between breaking waves. After the wave breaks, the returning water will rush seaward along the depression. Rip currents may not be very wide nor very long, but may easily create panic in a swimmer and carry him quickly to deeper water. in accepting their invitation, said. “When we do accept itasli told, then we will be members of the NHL, period. Reports have indicated the WH eighter fr teams each will pay $3.2 entry fee. But Vickers said the0 is “less than $3.2 million.” Some of the stronger rip currents are formed along obstructions that extend into the Gulf from the beach, such as a jetty, pier or maybe even a beached shrimp boat. The jetty rip is quite dangerous and for this reason swimming usually is prohibited in these areas. Perhaps the most common cur rent is the undertow, created when the surf breaks on beaches and water rushes rapidly seaward pulled by gravity. The feeling of an under tow can he experienced by standing in the surfs edge at almost any beach. 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