Page 10 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978
Aggies halt Frogs’ losing streak 66-59
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M men’s basketball team
made it four in a row last night as the
bumbling TCU Horned Frogs snap
ped a 23-game conference losing
streak by defeating the Aggies 66-59.
But as A&M went down to defeat
three questions came to mind. What
happened to the team that took
Texas into overtime Monday night?
What has happened to the team that
was one of the pre-season favorites to
win the conference? What has be
come of Karl Godine?
From the opening throw-in it was
an uphill fight for the Aggies. TCU
jumped off to a 12-0 lead and held a
35-22 lead at the half.
“That was the worst first half of
basketball that an A&M team has
played in a long, long time,” said
coach Shelby Metcalf about the Ag
gies first half of play. “We didn’t get
off to a good start and we had to play
catch-up basketball. And the way
TCU was playing we just couldn’t.
“When TCU brought the ball
down on offense they ran a lot of time
off the clock setting up their shots.
It’s hard to catch up when you’re in a
hurry.”
And the Aggies never did catch
TCU. A&M pulled to within six
points with 1:35 left in the game.
TCU freshman guard Wendell Bates
hit both ends of a one and one to put
the Frogs up by eight, giving TCU its
first conference victory in more than
a year.
Texas coach Abe Lemmons said
after the game Monday night that a
team cannot play an entire season
with the intensity that A&M had
against Texas. If there was any ques
tion to his thought, the Aggies
proved Lemmons right last night.
The intensity that the Aggies had
shown against Texas was missing
against TCU.
“We played with a little intensity
in the second half but we didn’t have
Joe Namath retires
a thing in the first half, ” said Metcalf.
“But a good team can play with in
tensity through an entire season.
“But we re just not a good basket
ball team. We just seem to play well
enough to lose. All we can do is keep
practicing and not quit. ’
Guard Dave Goff seemed to have
the same feelings about the team’s
play.
“We’re good and we re talented as
individuals but we re just not a good
team. And I think one of our main
problems is that we don’t know how
to win.
“But we can’t just say that we re
going to turn the season around. We
have to go out and do it out on the
court. ”
One member of the team that sat
out last night’s game is Karl Godine.
Since seeing 15 minutes of action
against Texas Tech Saturday, Godine
hasn’t set foot on the court except in
warm-ups. And the junior guard
doesn’t know how to improve his
situation.
“I don’t know what it takes to get
into a ball game,” said Godine after
watching the Aggies lose to TCU. “I
just have to accept my situ
They (coaches) dish itoutandl
to accept it.”
Coach Metcalf had little to
Godine’s situation.
“I’m putting the best pla
have on the court. And 1 wil
tinue to play my best peoplenoi
ter who they are.”
Standing 1-6 and last in I
ference, the Aggies will try
group for their Saturday ti
game against Rice here at G
White Coliseum. Game timei
p.m.
United Press International
NEW YORK — It was sudden,
but not unexpected.
“Broadway” Joe Namath, the
flamboyant quarterback who
sparked the upstart 1969 New York
Jets to victory in Super Bowl III,
Wednesday announced his retire
ment after spending a season sitting
on the bench with the Los Angeles
Rams.
Namath, who signed with the
Rams as a free agent after spending
12 years with the Jets, started a few
games early in the season but lost
the job to Pat Haden in the first
month.
“It was no fun being a second-
string quarterback,” said Namath.
“Sometimes it was a bit melancholy,
looking around and knowing I
wouldn’t be playing football any
more. But other than that it was no
big deal. All I can say is, ‘thank you,
football fans.
“I have no regrets, I’m not bitter
about anything,” he added. “I
played 13 seasons. I remember after
my first knee operation, right after I
signed with the Jets, my doctor told
me I’d be lucky to play four seasons
with my legs. But I played 13.”
Namath has not indicated what
his plans are, but they are not ex
pected to include coaching. The
34-year-old star, who signed with
the Jets in 1965 for a then-unheard
of $400,000 bonus, has earned more
than $3 million in his football career
and says he is “solid” financially. In
addition to his athletic earnings,
Namath has played in three movies
and has numerous contracts to pro
mote men’s cologne and women’s
pantyhose, among other things.
“I don’t know for sure what I’m
going to be doing,” he said. “But
I’m not concerned.
David A. “Sonny” Werblin, the
man who signed Namath 13 years
ago, says he thinks a movie career
might be “the thing” for his ex-star.
“He’s been taking dramatic les
sons. He’s a real student,” said
Werblin. “He’s got many careers
ahead of him. ”
Alabama Coach Bear Bryant,
whose 1964 team Namath led to a
national championship, says he
hopes Namath will move back to
Alabama, where he runs a restaur
ant in Tuscaloosa.
because at the start of this past sea
son he figured Namath still was
healthy enough to lead the Los
Angeles Rams to a championship.
“I’m just happy he’s in a position
to retire when he wants to,” said
Bryant.
Weeb Ewbank, who coached the
Jets when Namath starred, said he
was somewhat surprised by
Namath’s retirement announcement
“I saw Joe in training camp in
1976 and I knew he wasn’t done
then because he could still really
throw,” said Ewbank. “And when
he went out to Los Angeles this sea
son I thought he would lead them to
a championship.
“I’m not questioning his decision
to retire, though, because it would
be unfair for me to make a judgment
when I only saw a little of him this
season. But I know he is the type of
person who can’t stand to sit around
the sidelines. It would kill him if he
was on a team, but couldn’t play. ”
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By DAVID BOGGAN
Batlulion Staff
Last night was not a good one for
Aggie basketball; both A&M teams
lost by identical 66-59 scores. While
the men’s team was defeated by the
TCU Horned Frogs, the Aggie
Ladies were defeated by Lamar
University in Beaumont.
The women’s game was a nip-
and-tuck contest until late in the
second half. With a 34-31 deficit at
halftime, the Aggies came out and
played a tight second half, exchang
ing the lead with Lamar several
times. Lamar took total command
with three minutes to go in the
game and left the Aggies seven
points behind at the final buzzer.
Foul trouble plagued the Aggies
early in the game. Von Bunn, the
Aggies’ most effective court com
mander, had four personal fouls
with 14 minutes still left in the first
half. This tended to render Bunn,
who has been the Aggies’ leading
scorer in six games, almost totally
ineffective in A&M’s efforts to de
feat Lamar.
Sheree Christian took high scor
ing honors for the Aggies with 14
points. Pat Werner added 12 points
to the Aggies’ cause as the Ladies
shot 45 percent from the floor and
72 percent from the charity stripe.
Susan Kimbro proved true to
form as she and Christian each pul
led down nine rebounds for the Ag
gies. Kimbro, who averages over
seven rebounds per game, missed
the Southwest Texas and the Texas
Tech games with an ankle injury but
came back against Texas and grab
bed a season-high 17 rebounds.
Leading scorers for Lamar were
Connie Swearingen with 23 points
and Sandra Thomas with 18 points.
The Aggie Ladies will get a sec
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to College Station on Feb. 7. Friday
night, Jan. 27, the Aggies face
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Stephanie Staubach is the only girl
in her third grade class who does not
have cooties.
Why?
Stephanie, eight, is Dallas Cow
boy quarterback Roger Staubach’s
daughter. Her classmates at Prairie
Creek Elementary School in
Richardson think she is special.
A third-grade boy told Stephanie
that she was the only girl in the class
who did not have cooties, Stephanie
said.
Cooties are imaginary germs that
are transmitted from girls to boys by
touch, she explained.
“I don’t know if that’s because of
my daddy or because I’m lucky and
just don’t have cooties. I don’t really
believe in them, anyway,” Stephanie
said.
“Boys always ask me questions
about the Cowboys but the girls in
my class don’t. They’re my friends
and we don’t talk about football or
the Dallas Cowboys.
“My best friend Laura doesn’t
watch football because she doesn’t
understand it. She didn’t know who
Daddy was, even after I told her,”
Stephanie said.
“I like to watch Daddy on TV but
sometimes it gets boring. It’s fun
when the Cowboys win, though.
Everybody in my family jumps
around,” she said.
“My mom likes to watch Daddy on
TV. She doesn’t scream or yell. She
just holds on to the sofa and worries, ”
the blond third-grader said.
What does the Superbowl mean to
Stephanie?
“It means Grandmother comes
and stays with us while Mom and
Daddy are gone. Tanya and I get to
stay up late every night and make
popcorn,” she said.
Tanya Staubach, 11, is Stephanie’s
sister.
just run around with the ball. Foot
ball is for boys,” Stephanie said.
“A lot of boys in my class ask me to
their birthday parties and sometimes
I’m the only girl there. But I don’t
mind,” Stephanie said.
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