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SCOUNT ad Center Tarleton helps football program THE BATTALION Page 9 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1977 What happens when a college downgrades its football program to non-scholarship status? In the ease of Tarleton State Uni versity, such action upgraded it to a winner — a 7-3 season and its first championship in two decades. More importantly, it aroused a long- dormant school spirit — at least in terms of football. Football now ri- vals rodeoing as the top sport on campus, and that’s saying a lot for this 3,000-student West Texas school which has a far-reaching reputation for producing bareback riders and bull-doggers who think linebacking and the likes are for the faint-hearted. The results also have transformed Tarleton President W. O. Trogdon, who was compared to Judas by diehard fans when he made the non-scholarship decision, into a messiah who is receiving inquiries from all over the nation. Most of the calls are from representatives of other colleges faced with financial problems in its athletic programs and trying to determine if the con cept will work for them. It’s working for the five members of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which also offers non scholarship competition in basket ball, track, tennis and golf for both men and women, plus volleyball for women. In addition to Tarleton, the new conference includes one other Mosley modest about his sudden By JEANNE GRAHAM Where did HE come from?” "Where’s HE been all season?” The name on everyone’s lips after the A6cM-Houston football game is Mike Mosley — freshman quarter back that has suddenly taken the limelight. The 19-year-old, blond freshman led the Aggies two weeks ago past TCU 52-23, and this last weekend, turned the game against Houston into a 27-7 victory. But Mosley is modest about his success, and gives credit to the Bowling team wins tourney The Texas A&M men’s bowling team traveled to San Marcus this past weekend to bowl in a T1BC di- - visional tournament sponsored by SWTSU. The team’s first match of the day was against Baylor University, where they captured 23 1/4 points out of 24. The Ags second match was against SWTSU where they won 18 points. Dave Illingsworth had high series for the match with a 574 total and high game with a 233. Jay Chester had a 567 series and Mike Becker had a 557 series with a 220 game. The third match of the day was against Texas where A&M captured 15 points to the Longhorn’s nine points. This gave A&M a substantial lead in the division championship race, since Texas is the second place team. Becker had high series with a 611 total and a 234 game, while Steve Martin had a 537 series and Mike Oliveri had a 209 game. Becker had high average for the day with a 186, picking up splits during the tournament. Becker won eight out of nine individual points and Jay Chester won 7. Becker has captured the most match points in the division as of this tournament with Chester only two points behind him. The bowling team’s final tourna ment for the season will be January 28, 1978 in Austin. turn BUSINESS COLLEGE Inquire About Our Term Starting January 3 Phone 822-6423 or 822-2368 lA special 6-week typing course for Jbeginners will be offered in the jafternoons starting January 23. For Imore information, call 822-6423. NEED CASH? Lou gives cash now for used books & gives 20% more in trade. Loupot’s Bookstore Northgate-Across from the Post Office Tuptnamba Eddie Dominguez '66 Joe Arciniega ’74 13 dM) If you want the real thlno, not frozen or canned ... We call It "Mexican Food Supreme." Dellas location-. 5071 Northwest Hwy 552-8570 L. success other players for Saturday’s victory. T was nervous at first — afraid I’d get out there and mess up,” Mosley said. “But the guys helped me a lot. They’re easy to work with and be hind you 100 percent. ” There’s no hard feelings between Walker and I,” he added. “We talked it all out after the game. He’s one of my best friends on the team — I really like him a lot. At 6-foot-2-inches and 177 pounds, Mosley runs track as well as playing football. At Humble High School (outside of Houston) where Mosley’s dad is a football coach, Mosley was an all-star football, track and basketball player. He says he came to A&M because “the coaches impressed me, and they run the wishbone like we did in high school.” Mosley says he plans to run track for the A&M team this spring. In addition to athletics, Mosley likes to hunt, fish and play golf. He is a physical education major at A&M because “all freshmen football players are P.E. majors.” He ex plained that business was really his first choice, but now that he’s in P.E., he’ll probably stay there. “We’re all looking forward to next year,” Mosley said. “We’ve got a bunch of good freshmen coming up. I think we ll have a good team. state school, Sul Ross State Univer sity at Alpine, and three church- related schools, Austin College at Sherman, McMurry College at Abilene and Trinity University at San Antonio. Trogdon says league officials — and it’s the president who continues to call the shots — are not ruling out the possibility of adding more schools. He notes that one institution ex pressing interest is Mary Hardin- Bay lor College in Belton. Long an all-girls school, Mary Hardin-Baylor now has some 900 men enrolled and is facing the same HEW Title IX problem confronting other colleges and universities: providing equal athletic opportunities for both sexes. Unlike most other institu tions, however, it’s the Mary Hardin-Baylor boys who are the ob jects of concern. Trogdon says the Belton school’s major interest is in TIAA competition other than foot ball. The conference just completed its second football season and next year moves into the final phase of its start-up operation, a concept under which each member plays each other member twice during the sea son — once at home and once at the other team’s campus. Tarleton spent six years over its head in the Lone Star Conference before getting out and helping es tablish the TIAA. “We were spending sizable amounts of good money to get zap ped with 1-9 seasons and a loser’s outlook,” Dr. Trogdon quipped. “We re spending much less now and enjoying it more. The fun is back in football. There are more people around to enjoy it, too — all the way around. The Texans, as Tarleton athletic teams are known, used to play in largely empty stadiums — espe cially after the first half of most games, Trogdon recalled. Not only do Texas fans now turn out in goodly numbers for home games, they even follow the team. Also, the team now carries some 80 players — twice as many as in previous years. While many of the major football powers have lamented the NCAA policy reducing the number of scholarships from 50 to 30, the ac tion came at an opportune time for the newly formed TIAA, giving its members shots at some players who in other years would not have been available. “We ve been pleasantly surprised at the caliber of players we signed last spring,” observed Athletic Di rector and Head Coach Buddy Fornes. “The beauty of this program is that if the kids don’t make it in ath letics, he added, “they won’t be dropping out of school, since they aren t on scholarship in the first place.” While Tarleton is not awarding new scholarships, it is honoring the ones it gave before making its move, so it continues to have some sizable but diminishing expenses, not counting the ones it will continue to incur for travel, equipment and re lated items. 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