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By MARK PATTERSON
S ; V6re “»<* Battalion Staff
icu ar proo;; ^ was a t j re( } Happy Shelby
e 0na ' IMetcalf who returned to the met-
who calls i! K>pl ex Monday after a week-long
'dine of ]o!> to the Alaska and the Sea Wolf
mter-econoit P ass * c - U was there that the Aggies
Tide*market took two out of three games to finish
ctis beingfjj r *th the consolation prize in the
restigious tournament.
study by $ts "We learned more about our
iteandaHarj pam in three games up there than
which sho. we did in six weeks of practice,”
ans are del-i Metcalf said. “Before the tourna-
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nent we had gone as far as we could
go working against ourselves in
practice. We need game experience
that we can’t get against ourselves.
Games are the only place we can get
the work we need to improve.”
The Aggies had three chances in
Alaska, facing North Carolina State
in the opening round and Indiana
and Alaska in the consolation brac
ket. The Aggies dropped the opener
to the Wolfpack 81-65 but re
bounded to take a 54-49 decision
against the Hoosiers and a 100-70
win over the host team, Alaska.
“We didn’t have any problems or
aylor worms its way
out of loser’s image
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United Press International
DALLAS — Baylor coach Grant
Teaff used a weeklong psychological
Fort, highlighted by a surprising
ploy moments before kickoff, to
epare his team for what turned
t to be a stunning 38-14 triumph
over the Texas Longhorns last
iturday.
I worked on the players and my
self all week,” Teaff admitted
londay. “Sometimes you get a bad
otherhoode Hf image and you start to think of
ourself as a loser. Well others can
link of you that way, but if you
rtant reason k n ’t y 0 u will find some way or
risingirnle; jmehow to win. That’s what we
imptionini re ssed all week.”
ply no lone His plan was climaxed just sec-
whatadveK Lds before the team took the field
she said Saturday when Teaff dropped a
I i E'e-inch worm into his mouth to
I ^nJEnphasize a story he had told the
a! econonw r . . . . J c
ealized. H r am the ni S ht before.
m ountt0jB"When you just say I put a worm
iot mcludil mouth it sounds crazy,” Teaff
• l, said But you have to look at the
for the context of the thing. We had
1st our first five games by 22 points,
ie had been plagued by turnovers
hd when we lost to Rice (the week
U/j pfore the Texas game) it was the
DC its.
iB“Anybody who has been around
is game knows that when you win
Wis easier to win more and when
| Bu lose it is easier to lose more,
lavve. “We knew that in order to beat
jlexas we would have to turn this
national kt eam around mentally. You could
'heHousel^e it each week. We were getting
nittee bio that depressed state. This
vestigatio iwhole week was based on restoring
ng Jr. muiwtofidence.
e it failedl: Teaff began his campaign on the
piracy invfSunday night following the Rice
■me.
I met with the team for an hour
id a half, just on a gut level,” he
d, “The team made some strong
mmitments to me and to each
her that they would be willing to
lay the best they could possibly
|ay.”
Teaff also decided on Sunday that
e FBI si he would use running back Mickey
ated theB a m at quarterback, a decision that
s brotbp'd °ff handsomely during the
Id haveWfs game.
Blakeyf, Then on Monday afternoon I
onse “toa i Um ped on them real good trying to
contacts! khe their attention away from Rice
others, ]« a, d trying to make them mad at
mesbeM me ’ said Teaff. He told all of his
i and tlm Payers they would have to shave off
4, 1968. facial hair.
| “I thought they would be mad,”
e indtoliV 63 ^ sa ^- But it didn’t work out
iciatjon v that way. They were all anxious to
e myste.pt-
^ have te# ^
he* 1 Aggie notes
“On Friday I worked the team by
myself. The coaches were on the
road recruiting. We had been talk
ing all week about three basics —
re-establishing confidence, being
physically and mentally tough and
doing that little extra something that
makes the difference.
“So many times we an were just
an inch or six inches away or one
batted down pass or one play away
from being one of the six top teams
in America.
“That’s where the worm thing
came in. I told them a story about
two Eskimos in the northland who
were fishing.
“They went out on a frozen lake to
fish. They were 10 feet apart and
used the same type pole, same type
line, same size hook, same bait, ev
erything. But one fisherman caught
fish every day and the other one did
not.
“Finally the unsuccessful fisher
man went to the successful fisher
man and said. Hey, I want to know
your secret.’
“And the successful fisherman
reached in his mouth and pulled out
a worm and said, ‘you have to keep
the worm warm.’
“The point I was trying to make
was that the successful fisherman
was doing that little bit extra.
“On Saturday morning, after our
team meeting and devotional, I
drove all over town to find a place
where I could find a worm. I finally
found a box of those big old whop
pers. I chose one that was about half
as big around as my little finger and
four or five inches long. I took him
in my office and washed him up real
good.
“Then I got a vase from our
trainer and put the worm in the vase
and put the vase in my pocket.”
Teaff then went out to watch his
team warm up for the game.
“Every now and then I’d look to
see if he was OK, but the rascal died
on me. I had left the rest of the
worms in my car.
“Five minutes before the game
we called the team together, I
reemphasized all the points we had
talked about all week and then I told
them, ‘I’ll be the toughest coach on
the field. I’ll be keeping the worm
warm’
“Then I cocked my head back and
dropped the worm in my mouth. I
didn’t swallow him, though. The
team went beserk. One of the
coaches said when they walked out
of the locker room they looked as if
the weight of the world had been
lifted off their shoulders.”
Ags win consolation
notable J
iation' in®
tion by I*
,eys. He<<
his may! The Texas A&M women’s basket-
lations! ball team won consolation in the
FBI and® Southwest Missouri State Tourna
ment over the weekend.
Joselyi^ The Aggies defeated Oklahoma
vious de* University in the consolation game
>ut, be 52-45. The victory was a team effort
st onceis the Aggies’ leading scorer was
ton Bunn with only 10 points.
ie coito 11 Texas A&M lost in the opening
atestba 1 ; aund to Southern Illinois-
1, as wf! Carbondale 70-64. Again Bunn led
ment, jibe Aggies with 18 points. In the
cond game the Aggies defeated
is not it i Uaremore College 89-48. Peggy
ie seat Pope was high scorer for Texas
re been
ion.
A&M with 20 points. The Aggies are
now 5-1 for the season going into the
Geore West Tournament this
weekend.
Max King and Hendrik Roller will
represent Texas A&M in the NCAA
Indoor Doubles Tennis Tournament
Friday in Wichita, Kan. The team
qualified by winning eight of its nine
matches this fall.
“The national exposure is going to
do us good,” said Aggie coach David
Kent. “It is going to be tough com
petition but I think they can play
with anybody or they wouldn’t be
there.”
have any areas of concern that we
shouldn’t have at this point in the
year, ” Metcalf said. “Besides block
ing out on rebounds we need to
learn to run our offense against a
pressure defense, something we ha
ven’t been able to work against in
practice. We don’t have the depth
we need to run it in practice.
“The three teams we faced all ran
that kind of a defense. And we need
to develop more speed and quick
ness on both offense and defense.
We ll take a look at the players we
left at home and see what we have in
these areas.”
Metcalf took 11 players up to the
three-day tournament. Getting the
starting nod in the three games for
the Aggies were Dave Goff at point
guard, David Britton and Vernon
Smith at the wings, Rynn Wright at
the high post and Rudy Woods at
the low post.
Coming off the bench were Joey
Robinson, Roy Jones, Steve Syles-
tine, Doug Pederson, Jarvis
Williams and Bruce Baird.
“Our starters had a real fine tour
nament,” Metcalf said. “And Joey
(Robinson) and Roy (Jones) were the
best for us off of the bench. Against
Alaska Joey went six for six from the
field and four for four from the line.
And Vernon went 13 for 13 in the
same game. That’s some pretty good
shooting.”
Goff and Wright were named to
the 10-man all-tournament team
and were the most consistent
players for the Aggies, Metcalf said.
But the man in the bubble is
freshman Rudy Woods, who made
his collegiate basketball debut in the
weekend tourney. Woods is the
player most teams are looking at as
the key to the Aggies’ season. In his
first games as a college player
Woods played as his coach had ex
pected.
“He might be 6-11 but he’s still a
young man inside,” Metcalf ex
plained. “He has so much to learn,
but he still has that real good at
titude. He wants to learn.
“People need to be patient with
him. Rudy needs experience, ex
perience we haven’t been able to
simulate in practice. He went up
aganst 7-footers and one guy
7-foot-4 up in Alaska. All he needs
to gain is confidence in himself, and
he did with each game he played in
the tournament.”
Before the season Metcalf made
the statement that this year’s team,
with the pre-season schedule it has,
has the potential to become a good
team. After their showing in Alaska,
Metcalf maintains his earlier opin
ion.
“We re not a good team yet, but
we still can be,” Metcalf said. “After
this weekend we know what we
have and what we still need to work
on.
“But hey, we re 2-1 and we’ve
played two powerhouse teams. At
this point the team has done better
than I could have expected.”
The Aggies put their winning rec
ord on the line Saturday against
Southwest Texas in the home
opener for the Maroons. Tipoff is at
7:30 in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
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