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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1978 Page 7 ie sports V. oods to highlight basketball competition •' "lit National Sports Festival opens today ' Form at 8 : f United Press International fLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Jjr years and years Robert J. jhas told anyone who would lis- Ihat what the United States |pic program needed was a 1 summertime competition in jig the best amateur athletes jjation could produce, ay, Kane’s dream will become s a tremendous feeling, said president of the USOC, "to that the day has finally ar- ofu e people involved in this :t have done a better job of g it off the ground than I lit they could. first National Sports Festival illy opened Wednesday night a civic ceremony in a public And the four-day competition i this morning in 25 Olympic Weld tioiu »e has been president of the Font : 16 months and the first thing d when he took office was to anotli, ince his plans for the festival, lea was met with general indif- ce and a good deal of pes- tiers expect -etter punting simism. But Kane persisted and slowly the governing bodies of the Olympic sports began to fall in line. The fes tival has grown to 2,100 athletes, the largest such national gathering in the history of the country. With only 10 months planning, the event has gotten off the drawing board and some members of the USOC even go so far as to say that in a decade the mini-Olympics will be come bigger than the Super Bowl. There is also a chance it could flop and Kane is admittedly itchy over the outcome of his inaugural effort. "I guess you could say I feel a cer tain amount of trepidation,” Kane said Wednesday. “I naturally feel responsible for all this because I have been so insistent that we try it. "I will be greatly relieved when our first effort is completed. "But deep down I know this will be a success. The people who have worked have done everything they could. We have a marvelous group of athletes.” Some of the sports — swimming in particular — could not bring top United Press International ANGELO — There have mmerous football seasons that mton Oilers did not have a punter. And at times when employ a quality kicker, have since pointed out, they know it. mpies of active pro punters lers acquired and then dis- were Roy Gerela, Mark ley, Spike Jones and David poor record probably will tinue this season because the (inters who are in the Oilers gcamp competing for one job refctoven performers. They are ^S-vear veteran Jerrel Wilson, who j ■Required from Kansas City in ,i ie;-uff-season, and two-year pro ^ lift Parsley. Oilers head coach Bum Phillips iahoth have been booming punts “Well let each of them punt half a game for the four (preseason) games,” Phillips said. "Then we ll make a decision, if we haven t al ready done it.” The most prominent factor, if the punting is fairly equal, would ap pear to be the ages of the two pun ters. Wilson is 36 and Parsley is 23. Phillips said he will not consider that factor. Special teams coach John Paul Young, former linebacker coach at Texas A&M University, said he was watching the competition with a set point of view. "Cliff is our punter today. He’ll have to be beaten out,” Young said. Last season Parsley, a Grand view, Mo., native who led the Big Eight in punting three times while at Oklahoma State, punted for a 39.4-yard average in his rookie sea son with the Oilers. id®! 846-3380 Ml Sun Theatres 9 3 University 846 The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week Open 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Sat. 12 Noon - 12 Midnight Sun No one under 18 Escorted Ladies Free BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS 846-9808 !r> “lyhound gives you fee ways FAST. Greyhound Regular Package Express Servica, in many cases, can send your packages up to 500 miles in less than 24 hours. Best of all, Greyhound Package Express costs a lot less than many other shipping services. FASTER. If you've got a rush shipment that needs priority handling, Greyhound's Next,Bus Out'* Service can handle it. 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I think they wanted to see what this was all aboLit first and they also program so far in advance, it was hard to get such coverage. “We have already had talks with television people for next year and I am greatly encouraged about the prospects for live television for 1979.” Most of the competition that will catch the public eye will come in the same sports that creates most of the interest in Olympic years — track and field, basketball and boxing. Sprinter Harvey Glance heads the list of track stars who will begin competition Friday. Six national AAU champions will be boxing and the basketball tournament featuring four teams will have the very best of incoming college freshmen. One of the highlights of the festi val could come Saturday night when the South basketball team meets the squad from the East. The centers for those two teams will be 6-11 high school senior Earl Jones from Mount Hope, W.V., and 6-11 Rudy Woods who will enroll at Texas A&M this year. 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