Page 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1978
sports
Basketball teams on
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Staff
The year was 1976. The place was
TCU’s Daniel-Meyer Coliseum in
Ft. Worth. The event was a basket
ball game between the Horned
Frogs and the Aggies of Texas
A&M.
It was a close contest between a
surprisingly strong TCU team that
had 4-4 conference record coming
into the game and a Texas A&M
team that sported such names as
Sonny Parker, Barry Davis and Ray
Roberts.
The game ended in a photo finish.
The score was 64-64 when Aggie
freshman Karl Godine released a
25-foot jump shot that swished
through the nylon at the buzzer.
giving the victory to the Aggies,
who went on to become conference
kings that year.
Ironically, in his return appear
ance in Cowtown tonight, the hero
of that 1976 game, Karl Godine,
may not see action. If coach Shelby
Metcalf plays only his “best nine
men” as he did against Texas,
neither Godine nor his roommate,
Jarvis Williams, will have any game
time against the Horned Frogs.
“Right now Karl and Jarvis are not
in that nine,” Metcalf said. “They
are not being punished. We just feel
that the pine men that we played
(against Texas) are the best we have.
I think they proved that fact.”
In all probability, Metcalf will use
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the same starting five against TCU
as he did against Texas: Joey Robin
son, Willie Foremen, Rynn Wright,'
Vernon Smith and Dave Goff.
Robinson led the Aggies’ scoring
assault on the Longhorns with 23
points. Foreman, with his snake’s
strike-like dunk shot, tallied 15
points. Freshmen Wright and Smith
led A&M’s rebounding effort. And
Goff, the Aggie field general, played
45 minutes of relentless basketball
against the Horns.
“We got 100 percent from every
body who set foot on the floor,” the
Aggie coach said.
The Aggies also have a good sixth
man in junior Wally Swanson. He
added 15 points to the Aggies’ total
against Texas and had a good night
on the boards with seven rebounds.
“I was surprised at how well
Wally played,” Metcalf said. “It
looks like he is finally coming on.”
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The Aggies take a 1-5 conference
record into tonight’s contest. After
six conference games, TCU has yet
to score a win.
The Horned Frogs, with Tim
Somerville in his freshman year as
head coach, have a very young
team. Six freshmen, three junior
college transfers and only two re
turnees comprise the TCU roster.
Junior Steve Scales is the Frogs’
leading scorer. He averages 15
points per game.
“Steve is a tremendous all-around
player,” Somerville said. “He plays
all phases of the game equally well.
Other leading players for TCU
are Aurdie Evans, a junior and Jim
Hund, a freshman.
“Evans is a great defensive
player,” the Frogs’ coach said. “He
lacks shooting skills, but don’t unde
restimate him. He can make up for
it in other ways.
“Jim Hund may have scratches
from his ankles to his hips before the
year is over. He will get on the floor
for loose balls or take a charge. No
price is too great to pay for him.
Plus he’s one tremendous shooter.
The A&M-TCU throw-in is at
7:30 tonight. While the men’s team
is in Fort Worth, coach Wanda
Bender’s Aggie Ladies will play
Lamar University in Beaumont.
The women are coming off an
upset victory over Texas in which
Von Bunn led the come-from-
behind effort with 25 points. That
game tips off at 7:00 tonight.
Jo Troell eludes a Texas defender as the Aggie
Ladies upset the Longhorns 59-52 Monday
night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The wom
en’s team travels to Lamar University
night, while the men’s team plays TCU in
Worth.
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Opie Taylor was heading out the
door, skates tossed over his shoul
der, when Andy spoke the ominous
words.
“Hold on a minute young man. I
reckon I d better check the calender
first, but I believe today is Satur
day.”
Opie stood still hoping his father’s
glance at the calender would prove
him wrong.
“Yep it’s Saturday all right. And
what do we do on Saturday?
“We clean out the garage, Pa.
“Then I reckon you d better put up
those skates and get that garage
cleaned out.
“OK, Pa.”
I arose from my chair, turned off
the television and looked at the
clock. It was 12:30 in the afternoon.
In seven hours Texas A&M and
Texas were to partake in one of the
most important basketball games of
the season. And frankly Shelby, I
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didn’t give a damn,
My enthusiasm for sports report
ing was in a ‘one-out-of-ten from the
field’ slump. Two long trips, my
girlfriend moving on to bigger and
better things, and a car that ran
when it wanted to, had much to do
with my poor percentage.
The sound of my phone buzzing
replaced my Walter Mitty day
dreams.
“What are you doing?” a familiar
voice drawled over the phone.
“Trying to get enthused about to
night s game,” I replied.
“Hey man you know how that’s
gonna turn out. Let one of your re
porters cover the massacre and let s
you and me go fishing.
“That sounds great. I’ll meet you
in an hour.”
Actually there ain’t nothin' in the
world this individual hates more
than fishing. But anything was bet
ter than basketball. So I delegated
my duties to someone else, grabbed
my fishing pole and headed for Lake
Sommerville.
After a 30-minute trip we arrived
at a picturesque marina overlooking
the fog-shrouded lake. Flinging
open the car door I was greeted by
two cats who eyed me like Dracula
gazing upon his helpless victim.
I decided to try the Aggie ap
proach.
“Howdy kitty, kitty, kitty,” I said
in my deepest voice.
My companion interrupted my
salutations.
“Say man you’d better leave those
cats alone. You don’t see the driver
of this truck do you?
I glanced at the red pick-up
parked next to us and shook my
head.
“Don’t that tell you something
about those cats?”
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drove up. It’s been awful slow
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telling a fish tale, I thought to
self. “It’s hound to be bad ifd
don’t hav e* any minnows in stod
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and walked out upon the dock
air was chilly, but not bad
winter’s afternoon. I grabbed n
brew, cast my hire upon the
and waited for a hungry f
strike. All of a sudden the quid
was shattered by my friend’s voi I
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sound. 1 looked up and saw win I y
was quacking. Two ducks were 1^
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my buddy shut up. I hoped the Pp-' 0
woman had gone home. It wase
harrassing to see a grown man ad ' e
like a duck.
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cold hands and a runny nose, wei
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plans for the evening
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to the Monday night massacre, F
companion said. “Not much else
do.”
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