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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1977
It s bowl time again
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GEORGE WOODARD
DAVID APPLEBY
TONY FRANKLIN
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ABC-TV will have a feature on SWC kickers
(AfcM s Franklin, Arkansas Little and Texas’ Erx-
leben) on its evening news segment scheduled for
airing on Friday, Nov. 25, on the eve of the Aggie-
Longhorn game at Kyle Field. . . . Senior center
Mark Dennard is A&M’s nominee for the Kern Tips
award . . . “Winning would be nice,” Mark says,
“but I consider it a tremendous honor just to be
nominated for that award.’
A&M’s basketball team will be featured in two
prime-time TV games from G. Rollie White Col
iseum this season. The A&M-Houston game will be
at8 p.m., January 12 and the Arkansas-A&M game
will he at 8 p.m., February 9. The latter was moved
from February 7. Both TV contests will be Thursday
night affairs.
Texas A&M nudged the University of Texas, 42 to
44, here Saturday to win the Southwest American
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) re
gional cross-country meet, a 5,000-meter event run
over the Texas A&M University golf course.
Karen Bridges of Oklahoma State won the event
in 17:32 while Julia Campbell of Texas was second
at 17:57. Isabel! Navarro of Texas Tech was third at
18:14 while Martha Sartain of A&M was fourth at
18:21.
A&M, Texas and Texas Women’s University were
the qualifying teams for the national meet. Indi
viduals, in addition to the qualifying team mem
bers, who qualified for national, included Bridges of
Oklahoma State, Navarro of Texas Tech, and Sugar
ofOklahoma University; Joy Coch of Houston; Mer-
lene Flores of East Texas State and Sharon Nelson
of UT-Arlington. '
In addition to Sartain, A&M runners included
llena Hocking, 7th; Kim Mallory, 12th; Cindy Coc-
kroft, 14; Cathy Cocke, 15th; Susan Johnston, 21st;
Keress Hawkins, 25th; Jo Ellen Ronan, 35th and
Marly McGraw, 38th.
A&M Coach David Williams, pleased with his
teams performance, said: ‘‘We had a number of
gjrls injured and ill nearly all week and it was a
gutsy race by many of them.
Cindy Gremillion swept all four events and all-
around honors Saturday in a three-school women s
gymnastic meet hosted by Texas A&M.
She won the vault, balance beam, floor exercise,
uneven parallel bars and all-around with a total of
31.40 points. Her nearest competitor scored 25.55.
Tarleton State was second and Texas Women’s
University was third.
A six-man Texas A&M golf team will compete in
rfi | the 21-team Harvey Penick Invitational Monday
through Wednesday at the Morris Williams course
in Austin.
Coach Bob Ellis announced that his qualifiers for
this three-day, 54-hole meet will be Dave Ogrin,
Doug Ward, Mark Taylor, Biff Alexander, Dale
Carlise and Ricky Jamison.
The low five players for the 54-hole meet will
determine the team title. In addition, there will be
a team low-ball prize as well as individual medalist.
Among the top teams in the field will be Okla
homa State, Houston, University of Oklahoma, Oral
Roberts, LSU, New Mexico State and University of
New Mexico.
All of the SWC schools except Rice, Baylor and
Texas Tech will be in the field.
Plans are being formulated to have close-circuit
TV of the Aggie-Texas football game in G. Rollie
White Coliseum on Nov. 26.
Since the game long since has been a sellout at
Kyle Field, with some 6,000 folding chairs on the
track added to the 49,700-seat capacity, the close-
circuit TV could add another 6,000 fans in the bas
ketball coliseum.
An announcement of advance ticket sales likely
will come later this week. Prices will be $5.00 for
students, dates and general public.
Kevin Monk, Texas A&M senior linebacker from
Seguin, is among 11 outstanding college seniors
who have been named National Football Founda
tion and Hall of Fame Scholar-Athletes for 1977.
Monk, a Civil Engineering major with a 3.85
grade point average, is lettering for the fourth year
in football at Texas A&M this season.
Two of the oldest records held by one of the
greatest players in A&M football history likely will
be broken this season. Fullback George! Woodard
needs just one touchdown to tie the career record of
30 by Joel Hunt in 1925-27. Hunt’s career scoring
mark of 224 points probably will fall to junior kicker
Tony Franklin. The barefoot booter has 199 points
with four games left. He is averaging 7.9 points per
game this season and ranks 11th in the nation in
scoring. . . . Franklin added a new record against
SMU. He now has 85 extra point attempts, erasing
the mark of 83 by Darrow Hooper in 1950-52.
Hooper made 62 of his attempts while Franklin has
hit 79. The team also tied a school record with 29
first downs against SMU . . . That total was reached
against Baylor in 1926 and SMU in 1968. . . .
Emory Bellard players now hold or share 21 school
records and his teams hold or share 27 more.
Soph punter David Appleby also has a shot at the
school season record. He is averaging 43.6 yards per
kick, the same as Phil Scoggin in 1965. . . . A&M is
certain of setting new home attendance figure. The
record is 50,545 average for five home games last
year. A&M averaged 52,700 for its first two home
games and is assured of from 53,000 to 56,000 for its
final three against Arkansas, Texas and Houston.
That’s in a 49,700-seat stadium and one can see why
plans are under way to expand the capacity.
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
It’s getting to be bowl time again
around the country. Two of the
major candidates to fill one of the
post season positions will meet in
Kyle Field Saturday afternoon.
The Arkansas Razorbacks, 4-1 in
conference play and 7-1 on the year,
are invading College Station after an
impressive 35-9 victory over the
Baylor Bears last Saturday.
Although the Hogs scored 35
points in the game, their Heisman
Trophy candidate Ben Cowens was
held to 32 yards rushing, his lowest
total in three years.
When Cowens was stopped on
the ground, Arkansas went to the air
with quarterback Ron Calcagni at
the controls. Calcagni pierced the
Baylor secondary for 228 yards and
two touchdowns in the game.
Cowens and Calcagni are two of
the main reasons the Razorbacks are
ranked 9th nationally in scoring of
fense with a 33.5 points per game
average. But the offense hasn’t had
to work so hard this year to assure
the Hogs of a victory. The Arkansas
defense is ranked 1st nationally in
scoring defense, yielding only 6.8
points per game.
The tough Hog defense will have
to contend with a “new” George
Woodard on Saturday. Woodard has
lost 20 pounds since last week’s
SMU game. Weighing 266 Tuesday,
the A&M coaches hope Woodard
can be down to 260 by gametime. At
any weight, Arkansas defensive end
Jerry Saxton thinks Woodard will be
tough on the Hogs.
“A&M is very physical ball club,”
said Saxton. “Woodard will present
a problem to us. We ll have to gang
tackle him and tackle better than we
have been all year if we hope to stop
him.
“And this is the first time we ll
face a wishbone team this year,
added Saxton.
Yet quarterback Calcagni has a
nificance to the national rankings.
Representitives from the Orange,
Cotton, Sugar, Sun, Fiesta, Lib
erty, Bluebonnett and Gator Bowls
will all be in attendence for Satur
day’s game. Though Saturday’s win
ner isn’t assured of the conference
championship, in all likelihood it
will bring in the new year practicing
for one of the above mentioned
bowls.
And that’s incentive enough for
the Aggies and Razorbacks on
Saturday.
Top 20
Ag volleyball team
wins championship
The Aggie men’s undergraduate
volleyball team won the cham
pionship in its division of the Texas
A&M University Men’s Collegiate
Volleyball League Collegiate Club
Open held in G. Rollie White Col
iseum last Saturday.
In the undergraduate division,
Texas A&M defeated Texas Luthe
ran College, Rice University, the
University of Texas and the Univer
sity of Texas at Arlington on its way
to the championship.
The Aggies lost only one game (to
Rice), and they won all of their
matches in the round robin tourna
ment. ‘ A game is won by the first
team to score 15 points and the team
that wins two games wins a match.
The key to the undergraduates’
victory was their ability to block op
posing teams’ spikes.
The Aggies proved they deserved
the championship with impressive
wins in the Texas match. A&M beat
the Longhorns 15-7 and 15-8. The
match was highlighted by the Ag
gies’ ability to serve and spike. They
also blocked more than 10 Longhorn
spikes during the match.
The A&M-UTA match was mar-
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different view of the game this
weekend.
“Playing there (Kyle) is tough but
no one is going to shoot at us from
the stands,” said Calcagni. “Plus
there are only 22 players on the field
and 11 of them will be ours.”
The Razorbacks have an equalizer
to the Aggies’ Tony Franklin. Ar
kansas placekicker-punter Steve
Little is as much a scoring threat as
is the Arkansas backfield. Little has
kicked 14 field goals and 30 PATs
this year for a 9-point per game av
erage. He is only three field goals
away from the N CAA career record,
with 48 career field goals.
Included in his 48 are eight from
beyond the fifty yard line. Little
currently shares the NCAA record
field goal of 67 yards with Russell
Erxleben of Texas.
Little s 43.9 per punt average
ranks him 13th nationally and sec
ond in the SWC.
Saturday’s game marks the 51st
meeting between the two schools.
Arkansas holds a 28-19-3 overall
record against the Aggies. In last
year’s game, the Aggies overcame a
3-0 first quarter deficit with a 24-
point second quarter rally to bury
the Hogs 31-10 in Little Rock.
But this year it’s a new contest.
The Razorbacks and the Aggies are
national powers and the bowl
people are aware of this game’s sig-
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Alabama (1) 8-1
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4.
Ohio St. 8-1
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Michigan 8-1
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Penn St. 8-1
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Pittsburgh 7-1-1
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Nebraska 7-2
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Texas A&M 6-1
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Brigham Young 7-1
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Arizona St. 7-1
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