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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1979
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By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Sports Editor
Noblemen of Rice?
Hey, have you heard the latest Aggie joke?
If you haven’t heard it, you might have seen it. And if you haven’t
seen or heard it, let me tell it to you.
It seems the Aggies decided to add on to Kyle Field, their 54,000
seat football stadium, and expand it to hold 72,000. It seemed to be a
great idea because it meant more Aggies could watch the Aggie foot
ball team which means more money for A&M — which is good.
So the Aggies hired an Ag to do the job, Mr. H.B. Zachry, and he
was asked to start the job as soon as the Aggies and TCU Horned
Frogs walked off the field Nov. 25 — the Aggies last home football
game.
And much like the main man in the Bible, he said he would tear
Kyle Field down and rebuild it in three days or at least by the
beginning of the next football season when the Aggies would host the
Brigham Young Cougars. And everyone bought the idea.
But H.B. didn’t get the message from the man upstairs that it
would rain for forty days and forty nights in Aggieland, putting a halt
to his temple building for a while.
And get this, the Aggies probably won’t play a home football game
at home next year because the concrete monster we know as Kyle
Field will probably have more construction workers in the third
decks than football fans on Oct. 13, the date H.B. is to have finished
the home of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie football team (whoop).
Some joke, huh?
But looking at the situation realistically, it all adds up to a possible
big pain in the, well, never mind.
But the experts from Zachry say the stadium will be ready.
You thought you were going to get tickets so easily next year with
72,000 available seats didn’t you? Nope, sorry.
And I can see the story now, “The Texas Aggies will play the
Houston Cougars at Bryan’s Viking Stadium, Saturday Oct. 13 at 2:00
p.m. The drawing for the 1,000 tickets alloted to A&M students will
be held Friday afternoon. Good Luck.’’
Yea, but the experts from Zachry say Kyle Field will be ready Oct.
13.
Just think, no midnight yell practices at Kyle Field. Why, the beer
consumption in College Station could drop drastically next fall. No
following the band into Kyle Field. No pinching. No lights out. No
grode stories. No fightin’ Texas Aggie offense (whoop). Coach Tom
Wilson (whoop), no nothin’.
And what about all the reunions for the old Ags?
I will never be able to write, “Well, the Aggies are coming back
home after a long road trip.” The whole season will be a road trip.
What about all the season ticket holders? What season are they
holding their tickets for?
But the experts from Zachry assure us we will be sitting in Kyle
Field Saturday Oct. 13.
Somehow I find it hard to believe. And I’m not alone.
“I drive by Kyle Field every day,” said A&M athletic director
Marvin Tate, “and it looks like it’s going so slow but maybe once they
get all the groundwork done the rest of it will come up fast.
Tate is between the proverbial rock and hard place with season
ticket sales and plans for next season.
“I’m in a tough position,” he said. “I have to go with what the
Zachry people are telling me and every report we get says they are
going to make it. So as far as season tickets go, we are selling them for
Kyle Field.
“But if push comes to shove, we have talked to Bice and have an
agreement to play there if we run into problems here. Logistically it
would be very tough for us to play at Rice but we may have no choice.
“And we really don’t want to even talk about playing at Rice in
order to keep pressure on the contractor to get the job done here. We
don’t want to play at Rice or any other stadium except Kyle Field.”
And I’m sure you, the fans, don’t want to have to drive into Hous
ton every weekend we are supposed to have a home game. What
about when Rice plays at home also? Are we going to kick them out of
their own stadium or play double-headers or what?
“Today’s twin bill pits Rice against Texas and Texas A&M against
Houston in the nightcap,” the papers will say.
Tate said that the Aggies will play in Kyle Field if the stands are
finished but the pressbox isn’t. Thanks a lot. I can see myself and the
rest of the press being suspended from a crane 100-feet in the air,
swaying in the breeze with our notepads, hanging on for dear life next
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NEW YORK — “We just didn’t
want nobody to know.”
With those words, 19-year-old
jockey Ronnie Franklin dismissed
the more than $1.3 million wagered
Saturday by tens of thousands of
fans who had hoped to see Spectacu
lar Rid become racing’s third con
secutive Triple Crown winner.
Instead, they watched in confu
sion and disappointment as Bid
finished third behind Coastal and
Golden Act, the first time the al
leged “Horse of the Century” lost in
12 starts.
What Franklin, trainer Bud Delp,
and Harry, Teresa and Tom
Meyerhoff said they were conceal
ing was that Bid had injured his left
front foot on the morning of the
race. According to Delp, the big
gray colt had stomped on an open
safety pin in the straw of his stall,
driving it IV4 inches into his foot and
causing it to bleed profusely.
“It was in there pretty good,” said
Delp. “I could see it was hurting
him and when I pulled it out it hurt
him even more.”
Delp, however, said he continued
preparing the horse for the race as
planned, giving him a bath and
walking him 45 minutes. At 10 a. m.,
however, Delp said he notified the
Meyerhoffs that he might have to
scratch the colt. But by 3:30 in the
afternoon, when Bid did not seem to
'be showing any signs of lameness,
Delp decided to go ahead and run
him.
After Bid finished third, Delp still
did not mention the pin incident
because “we’d be making excuses
before a national TV audience.”
Harrelson drew a walk off loser
J.R. Richard, 6-5, to start the inning
and moved to second when Pete
Rose walked. Bowa then singled to
shallow left to score the slightly
built Harrelson, who crashed
through catcher Bruce Bochy to
reach the plate. GarryiMaddox
doubled home Rose-
However, officials at Belmont
said they were stunned by Delp’s
announcement and found it hard to
believe the incident was the real
cause of Bid’s loss.
Dr. Don Vallance of Baltimore
examined the colt when he arrived
there Sunday, and reported that the
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