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THE BATTALION Page 15 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1977 4 Ags join elite group Four outstanding athletes from the past have been elected to the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame, according to Gen. Mike Cokinos, president of the A&M Lettermen’s Association. They are VV.E. “Capp” Murrah ’22, C. Walemon “Cotton” Price ’40, Damon “Greek” Tassos ’45, and Carroll Broussard ’62. Murrah, who is deceased, was an All-Southwest Conference guard in 1919-20-21. He was a member of the Southwest Conference cham pionship football teams of 1919 and 1921. The 1919 team was unde feated and unscored on while run ning up a total score of 275-0. The 1921 team upset Centre College Soccer team splits scrimmage games Texas A&M was defeated by Michigan 41-3. The Ags next game is in Waco against Baylor. Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley By STEVE MAYER The Texas A&M men’s soccer team posted a 6-1 win over Rice University and a 5-3 loss to the Uni versity of Houston in scimmages this past weekend. During the Rice match, the Ag gies were forced to play with only 10 men. A&M center forward Steve Gill scored first after receiving an assist from halfback David Harmon. Gill chested the ball to the ground and shot it in from 15 yards in the 20th minute. In the 50th minute, left winger Mike Cronin made it 2-0 after put ting in a ball deflected off a Rice de fender. Fullback Dan Byerly scored next, putting a shot into the upper left corner of the net, from 35 yards. Cronin got a second goal after in tercepting a ball rolled by the Rice goalkeeper. The Aggies made it 6-0 when Mike Poniz placed a penalty shot into the lower right corner. Rice’s only goal came with four minutes remaining when a Rice forward beat an A&M defender and side-stepped goalkeeper Peter Aguirre. In Houston, the Aggies domi nated the Cougars during the first half. In the 30th minute, halfback Mourad Cherrak placed a ball through the Houston defenders to right winger Andy Case. Case out ran the defender and chipped the ball over the goalkeeper and into the net. A&M scored again when left winger Khalid Fityani received an assist from Cherrak. Fityani took tvVo steps and blasted in a left-footed shot from 25 yards. uwswwwuwwwuwuwra 22-14 in the Dixie Classic in Dallas. He received his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Administration in 1922. Murrah played professional football for the world champion Canton Bulldogs in 1923, St. Louis and Jim Thorpe’s Toledo Maroons. He was associated with Cities Service Oil Co. in Bartlesville, Oklh., before the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. Price, who lives in Odessa, was tri-captain of A&M’s 1939 National championship football team. He earned letters in 1937-38-39 as quar terback. He received his bachelor’s degree in Physical Education in 1940. Following service in VVVVII with the Navy, he played profes sional football for Detroit of the NFL and Miami of the AFL. He owned an insurance agency in Col lege Station until 1956 and is now the owner of an agency in Odessa. Tassos, who lives in San Antonio, was an All-Southwest Conference guard in football in 1944 and won the SWC shot put in 1945. He earned football letters in 1943-44 and track letters 1944-45. He re ceived his bachelor’s degree in Ag riculture in 1945. He played five years of professional football with Detroit and Green Bay. He owned a succession of restaurants in San An tonio before becoming a junior high coach. He contracted Lou Gehrig’s Disease in 1975 and is now working with youth programs in San An tonio. Broussard, who lives in Beau mont, was a Helms Foundation All-American in basketball in 1961 and 1962. He was All-Southwest Conference for three years and held all 13 A&M individual scoring rec ords. The four will be inducted during ceremonies at the A&M-Arkansas football game November 12 in Kyle Field. NCAA puts UH on year’s probation 5 Worldwide United Press International HOUSTON — Last spring Dar rell Shepard, one of the state’s top schoolboy quarterbacks, told the University of Texas he would accept their scholarship offer. But Shepard instead signed a Southwest Conference letter-of- ijjtent with the University of Hous- ^ Two days later the Odessa schoolboy was driving a 1977 irehird Trans Am with his name 'vntten in script across the trunk. The NCAA office in Mission, Kim,, late Tuesday announced the niversity of Houston football pro- grani had been placed on one-year probation for the illegal recruitment of Shepard. Several team members said they had been told of the probation. The probation is retroactive to Sept. 20, 1977. «J.. -s- The sanction disqualifies the Cougars from participating in a bowl game this season and will prevent them from making television ap pearances for one year beginning Dec. 4. 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