THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 26. 1979
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By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
show their colors
ry Saturday in fall
In Dallas they’re red or blue. In Houston they’re usually red. And
Lubbock they wear red or black.
S^urday night, at Bryan’s Viking Stadium, they will wear maroon,
id plenty of it. It’s that leisure suit time of the year.
Itpnust be spring; football’s in the air. The 1979 football season
kicks off with the annual Maroon and White intrasquad game Satur
day,Isignaling the end of spring drills and the beginning of hope for
a two-nin|( next season.
?forhis®BN| matter what time of year, where ever you find college football,
'ou’ll find boisterous alumni cheering their schools on. They’ll be
tj there Saturday night, blazon in maroon.
Jersey colors are the identification factor used by teammates to
istjjiguish themselves from their enemies. The same holds true for
;isure suits. Around Kyle Field, a maroon double-knit, two-piece is
:i when 0| as niuch a sign of a friend as a Winnebago’s horn sounding the War
was fojHymn.
School colors are sacred to the institutions that they are identified
with. Everyone in the state knows Texas A&M fans by the maroon
and white. But years ago, before leisure suits became the trademark
of ayeturning Ag, red and white were the colors worn by the Aggie
Sail team.
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thefctory of the colors’ adoption begins in 1921. A poem praising
flirmcr Aggie football coach Charlie B. Moran appeared on the front
page of the Nov. 1, 1921, Texas Aggie newspaper to congratulate him
on being selected to the Coaches Hall of Fame:
He’s a grand old man.
Though we don’t like to brag.
And his worth he will prove to you soon;
H He’s the idol of the team we love.
That fights for the dear old maroon.
Rah! Rah!
And we stand by him,
Though we lose or win.
And our faith in him will stand.
Though other coaches may be good.
Take your hat off to Coach Moran.
The attempt to rhyme maroon with Moran was one of the first
mentions of the color in any connection with Texas A&M. Although
some A&M teams had worn a band of maroon and white around their
grey jerseys during the early 1920’s, the rallying colors of the Corps of
Cadets at athletic events, banquets and commencement were red and
white.
In September, 1923, James Sullivan, business manager of athletics,
officially dressed the football team in maroon jerseys. Like the Corps,
whp changed from the West Point style gray uniform to the olive drab
attire of World War I, Sullivan hoped to give the team a new look for
the 1923 season. Of the change Sullivan commented, “The darker
solid colors will add to the appearance of the team in that it will make
it look heavier and more uniform.”
Since 1923, maroon and white have been the official colors of Texas
A&M. And thank goodness. Can you imagine hundreds of orange
two-piece polyester suits from Sears roaming the campus every foot
ball weekend next fall? Or even this Saturday?
History could be made
Spurs closing in on title
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — The San An
tonio Spurs go after their first NBA
playoff series win in history tonight,
needing only one more triumph
over the Philadelphia 76ers to move
into the Eastern Conference cham
pionship round.
“We re not overconfident by any
means,” said San Antonio coach
Doug Moe. “We know what we
have to do to win. If anything, we re
a little nervous and anxious to get it
over with.’’
San Antonio took a 3-1 lead in the
series last Sunday with a 115-112
decision in Philadelphia. If the
76ers win tonight, the series will go
back to Philadelphia for game six
Sunday afternoon and if the series
goes a full seven games the finale
will be played next Wednesday
night in San Antonio.
This is the third year for the Spurs
in the NBA and they have made the
playoffs all three years. But in their
inaugural NBA season they lost to
Boston in two straight in the open
ing mini-series and last year the
Spurs fell to eventual champion
Washington in six games after win
ning their division.
In their 12 years of ABA-NBA
existence the Spurs have made the
playoffs 11 times, but have never
won a seven-game playoff series.
The Spurs hope to once again
contain Julius Erving, who scored
39 points in Philadelphia’s only win
in the series but who had managed
only four points through the first
three quarters last Sunday.
Larry Kenon, despite suffering a
fever early in the week, will again
be guarding Erving. Kenon missed
Tuesday’s workout, but was ex
pected to be at full strength for to
night’s game.
Moe, however, plans to put for
ward Allan Bristow back in the start
ing lineup despite the outstanding
job done in Sunday’s game by Mark
Olberding.
Olberding scored 17 points,
grabbed eight rebounds and helped
in the double-teaming of mammoth
Darryl Dawkins when the 6-11
Philadelphia hulk was in the game.
Dawkins scored only 13 points.
Moe said he used Olberding in
Philadelphia because Bristow — a
former 76er — seems to have a hard
time playing well against his former
teammates on their home court.
“I think Allan may get a little
paranoid when we play in Philadel
phia, said Moe. “It may be because
he used to be a 76er, but it seems
he’s never had a good game for us
up there.”
“It’s true players do better in
some places than in others,’ Bristow
said. “I know I do better at home
than on the road. I also know that
for us to win on the road we have to
be physical and that Mark and Goby
(Dietrick) are more physical than I
am.”
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