Page 14 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1978
Sean
Petty
Some questions
to he answered
As the familiar sound of “Howdy” and the familiar weather of Sep
tember descend upon the Texas A&M campus, one question comes
into many people’s minds. You hear it in class or walking to class. The
number one question is, “What do you think about the Fightin’
Aggie football team this year?”
Well, what about the Fightin’ Aggie football team? If you read the
major preseason football magazines you find that most are in agree
ment that the Southwest Conference race should come down to Ar
kansas and Texas A&M. Not bad.
But the Aggies must answer a few more questions and work some
things out before they can make hotel reservations in Dallas Jan. 1,
1979.
Any number questions can be asked looking back on last season and
looking ahead to this year. For instance, can sophomore quarterback
Mike Mosley stay on his feet for more than 40 yards at a time or will
Coach Emory Bellard have to shorten Kyle Field?
There have been rumors spreading that the Aggies have a potential
Heisman Trophy winner in halfback Curtis Dickey. Will Dickey have
the chance to display his talents through the I-formation or will Bel
lard keep him tied up in the Wishbone?
A topic of main concern for the Aggies this year is the defense. Will
the defense properly jell this year and bring Texas A&M back to its
glory days of having one of the leading defenses in the nation? Will a
lineman or a linebacker be the leading tackier this year rather than
free safety Carl Grulich who often times was the last man between an
opponent running back and the end zone last year.
This year’s offense should score tons of points with one of the
fastest backfields in college football and a strong offensive line is
anchored by senior Cody Risien.
And what about those Fightin Aggie fans this year? It will be no
easy task just to attend the home games this year. You fans have had a
whole summer to shrink your bottoms to a width of 16 inches to
adjust to the new narrower seats in Kyle Field. But then, that is no
problem since Aggies stand the entire game anyway.
Speaking of standing, how many loyal Aggie fans will be able to
survive the home games? The athletic department has decided on the
perfect kickoff time of 1:30 p.m. for all home games. Of course that
has its pluses. You can stand there and lose 10 pounds just by attend
ing a football game.
Will the Aggies play the entire game against Baylor this year rather
than just the first half like last year?
Are the referees going to give Bellard five timeouts in the second
half against Arkansas this year because he did not use two of them in
the second half of last year’s game with the Hogs?
Can the Aggies have back-to-back victories at Memorial Stadium in
Austin? The Texas A&M track team closed out last year with the
conference championship there and hopefully the football team will
follow precedence.
One cannot help but feel that the Aggies should or could make it all
the way this year. But the Aggie fans must have patience and let the
football team answer all these questions one week at a time.
And, hopefully, as the final gun sounds in Austin on Dec. 2, 1978,
the Fightin’ Aggie football team can claim the title of SWC champions
and we can all get ready to pick cotton on the first day of 1979 in
Dallas.
Attitudes worry sociologists
It’s not how you play
game
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United Press International
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —
There’s a new slogan in the sports
world: “It’s not how you play the
game, it’s whether you win or lose,”
The motto worries two Purdue
University professors who see a
growing emphasis in school and club
athletics on winning, not
sportsmanship and physical fitness.
In the past boys have competed iii
sports more often than girls, says
Kathryn Johnsen, a sociology pro
fessor and director of Purdue’s Insti
tute for Social Change.
inter-school and inter-club competi
tion on top. Unfortunately, the em
phasis is on the top of the triangle. ”
Annarino, a member of the
American Alliance for Health, Phys
ical Education and Recreation,
adds: “We have lost intramural pro
grams, especially on the elementary
level, and yet intramurals develop
the same values as inter-school
competition, only without the pres-
“Men are geared to think they are
superior to women and sports com
petition exemplifies this,” she said.
“Males find their relative status
among each other through sports.
They haven’t had the opportunity to
compete with women in sports, so
when they are beaten by a woman it
bothers them.
Competition itself isn’t harmful,
Annarino said, but a coach should
make sure every child has a chance
to succeed.
in the economic world,” Johnsen
said. “But equally important is the
ability to learn cooperation, to live
by rules and to learn loyalty to one
another.
At John Strange Elementary in
Indianapolis, the emphasis is on
learning skills.
“We just play among ourselves
and try to stay away from that com
petitive spirit, says Dorothy Mer-
riman, head of the physical educa
tion department.
Mrs. Merriman stresses basics.
Grades one to three work on per
ceptual and sensory development.
Grades three to six conduct drill in
sports. All the classes are coed.
“In the early grades we try to
apply physical education to the
classroom,” she said. For instance
when we work on addition prob
lems, we ll bounce a ball or jump
rope for answers.
Mrs. Merriman s wants her stu
dents to develop a life-long^
for pin sical fitness and '
semester they participatedij
dancing festival at the
position ('enter.
Her school has initiatedi
tional after-school activity
gram. Almost all the student
ticipatc.
“If' they stay after schooij
sports activ ities," she said 1
must be getting somet
it."
“thing]
“If kids are rejected at an early
age because they’re not good
enough, they might not develop a
healthy attitude about physical fit
ness,” and this could affect them in
later life, he said.
“A marriage where both the man
and the woman are working is a
good example. There’s competition
between them. If the man hasn ’t yet
learned to cooperate with a woman
who might be making more money,
this couple is going to be in trou
ble.”
“We’ve become a nation of spec
tators and that’s my concern. From
kindergarten on, athletic programs
have to be able to give kids some
thing they can use when they get
out of school. ’
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She said segregation of boys’ and
girls’ games about age 6 helps widen
the gap between the sexes because
“the emphasis on teaching boys
masculinity makes them seek out
other boys to play with.”
Outdoor sports such as backpack
ing, hiking, sailing and surfing, and
indoor sports such as modem dance,
disco, karate and yoga are activities
which almost anyone can do with lit
tle instruction.
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When Anthony Annarino, a phys
ical education professor, talks of
school and club athletics competi
tion, he says: “You recognize the
scene: the Little League parent who
sits behind the backstop and yells at
his son.
“Our primary concern right now
is to make sure kids learn some
skills, and in learning the skills, that
they develop a healthy attitude
about using them,” Annarino said.
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“There’s a triangle, with physical
education programs on the bottom,
intramural sports in the middle and
Both professors would like less
emphasis on football and wrestling
and more on team sports in which
participation depends on ability and
skill instead of physical strength.
“We can’t leave competition out
of the socialization process when we
have a society based on competition
SATURDAY
NIGHT!
Pro report
Jones won’t play
United Press International
BALTIMORE — Baltimore Colts
quarterback Bert Jones will not play
in the season opener Monday
against the Dallas Cowboys because
of a shoulder injury, the Colts said
Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the Colts said
Coach Ted Marchibroda and team
physicians decided it was best that
Jones sit out Monday night’s game
because of the injury to his right
shoulder received against the De
troit Lions.
neck down as a result of a pass-play
coll ision with Oakland safety Jack
Tatum. Stingley suffered a blow to
his head from Tatum’s shoulder.
In addition to his salary for the
1978 season, approximately
$60,000, Stingley will receive half of
his 1979 salary, which would be ap
proximately $66,000 after a 10 per
cent increase for his option year.
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“They thought it not best for him
to play this game and to save him for
the rest of the season,” she said.
Backup quarterback Bill Troup
suffered a shoulder sprain against
the Lions and third string quarter
back Mike Kirkland was expected to
start against Dallas, with Troup
available for backup duty.
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