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the sports THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1978 Page 11 Extramural sports search for support is ¥ 111 By CLAY WEBER Imagine the Texas Aggie varsity football team cleaning up the stands of Kyle Field after a game in order to help raise money for tranaporta- tion to their next out-of-town game. Or imagine being confronted in the MSC by a varsity basketball player selling bumper stickers so he and his teammates will have money to pay the entry fee of their next basketball tournament. These are things that members of the Texas A&M Extramural Sports Association do to help raise money for their activities. Extramural sports clubs ar recog- jnized student organizations that are supported by tbe Office of Student Activities. Twenty-three sports are offered to Texas A&M students through the program, which in cludes activities from bike racing to orienteering to rodeo. Most of the clubs include both men’s and wo men’s teams. Team coaches are not paid. Money for the programs comes out of student service fees, the ex tramurals share of which amounts to about $24,000. Any extra money the clubs need must be earned themselves. Hence the water polo team cleans the stands of Kyle Field after football games in order to pay part of their transportation ex penses. Extramural sports clubs hav e ap pealed to several sources for finan cial help and in addition have also asked for help from the athletic de partment. According to Marvin Tate, assis tant athletic director,the money to help support these clubs is just not there. “We re not against extramurals in any way, said Tate. “It’s just a mat ter of dollars and cents. Supporting women’s athletics costs us around $450,()()() and has made our budget even tighter. “Football is our only sport that makes money and that comes through ticket sales, TV and radio revenue, bowl game money and contributions. Right now we can only support so many sports and we really can’t afford to take on any others. Tate said the athletic department had helped the water polo team re cently by taking it on temporarily as a sport in order for them to compete in a tournament. Tate also said the athletic de partment had helped the extramural program by allowing them the use of the weight room and Kyle Field. “Th ere are a lot of schools that just lock up their stadiums and the athletic facilities to the students, ”he said. John Kelly, a member of the vol leyball club, feels somewhat diffe rently. “I fell that if they spent one-tenth of what they spend on football for say, volleyball scholorships, we could have a really fine team,” he said. “We have guytf on this team us right now who are good enough to get volleyball scholorships at other schools. I came here wanting to play on a team but they don t put any money into it. “There is a lot of interest in vol leyball in Texas. It’s just a shame that good players have to go to California to play on scholorship. Another thing that people in the extramural sports department would like is recognition of their sports by the NCAA. Recognition Water polo is only one of the 23 extramural sports at Texas A&M. Many of these sports clubs have trouble meeting financial needs with their limited budgets. The water polo team supplements its income by cleaning the stands in Kyle Field after football games. Battalion photo by Pat O'Malley J.R. goes for record United Press International HOUSTON — Houston Astros pitcher J.R. Richard goes for a Single-season National League Jfrilte out record tonight in a game against the Atlanta Braves, ilichard, a 6-foot-8 righthander who throws a 95 mph fastball and a )mph slider, enters the game with Jra strike outs. He needs ll more bpass Tom Seaver as the most pro- bn the final day of the season, Oct. 1. In recording a 17-11 record, Richard has averaged 8.4 strike outs in his 33 starts this season. The pre vious Astros record for strike outs was 235 by Don Wilson. 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Six of the nine schools in the Southwest Conference must vote to recognize and participate in a sport in order for teams in that sport to participate in NCAA competition. “One of the reasons that the NCAA may object to non-varsity competitors is because they feel that they may not be properly super- vized,”Jim Jeter, supervisor of the extramural clubs at Texas A&M said. Jeter said the NCAA has a diffe rent committee for each sport and some will make exceptions to the varsity rule. “A lot of it just depends on the committee’s attitude toward the problem,” he said. Jeter is with in agreement with Tate about the difficulty of funding extramurals and feels the athletic department has a good attitude the situation. “I hate to see anyone put tbe monkey on the back of the athletic department because I know the situation that they are in,” he said. “And the department here now is so different from those in the past that they are willing to talk to you about matters of this type. “I believe that if the conference voted to have soccer as a varsity sport, Emory Bellard would go right out, get a good coach for soccer and start a good program. “If some extramural clubs can get some kind of varsity recognition, then that’s great. But if they cannot, then they will still provide a good program for A&M students,” Jeter said. Lewis examines team United Press International DALLAS — Whatever that in ward motivation is called that drives a football team to greater success, tbe Dallas Cowboys currently are without it. At least that’s the opinion of someone who has a front row seat, linebacker D.D. Lewis. The Cowboys’ 27-14 setback against Los Angeles Sunday showed they were very much human. “We need to get back that mental edge, Lewis said Monday. “Last year there was something in the back of our mind that no matter what the offense was doing we had to shut down the other team. “We need to get that back. We’ve got to be meaner. We have got to come out smoking in the weeks to come.” Lewis and the rest of the Cow boys made no excuses about the loss to the Rams. Los Angeles beat Dal las straight up — running over them early in the game and getting pin point passing later in the contest. “It was kind of a shocker for us, said Lewis. “The thing that troubles me is that they hit plays in the area that is supposed to be the str ength of our defense. 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