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i Page 16 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29. 1979 LAST FLING BEFORE HITTING THE BOOKS 4th Annual LABOR DAY WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 1 & 2, 1979 ON THE WEST FAIR & RODEO GROUNDS ONE MILE SOUTH ON MAIN ST. **** Free Shuttle buses from downtown to festival grounds. Limited FREE parking on festival grounds. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 Brazos County Arena Bryan, Texas BAREBACK *35 TIE DOWN $25 RIBBON ROPING $15 TEAM ROPING $30 (TEAM) BARREL RACE *15 JR. BARREL RACE *5 BULL RIDING *35 JR. BREAKAWAY $12 Books Open Thursday Aug. 30th from 12-6 P.M Call 823-8660 East By Pass & Tabor Rd. Producer C«N RODEO COMPANY T fl£ T’RUL * NATIONAL " AGGIES — CHECK US OUT FOR SOUND BUYS S Guaranteed Service — World Wide — 100 K service centers to serve you. 5 year warranty on Optimus Minimus Mach Speakers. Compare most for your money at Radio Shack. . ✓Compare specifications and prices get the Culpepper Plaza College Station 10-6 M-Sat. 10-8 Thurs. 693-1444 i VISA 1125 Villa Maria Bryan 10-6 Mon.-Sat. 846-7384 Get the Friday Night Football Spirit at the First Annual Twin City Spirit Rally featuring players, bands and cheering sections from the 1979-80 Allen Academy Rams A&M Consolidated High School Tigers Bryan High School Vikings 5 p.m./Thursday/August 30/Culpepper Plaza Parking Lot This ad is a public service from the football fans at ANCO Dr. Doom dispute United Press International NEW YORK — Doctor who? That’s what Robert Brazile wanted to know the first time he was asked about awesome John Barefield, the St. Louis Cardinals’ attention-grabbing young linebacker, who is built like Mr. America, walks graveyards alone at night so he can meditate, keeps a quarter stuck in his ear and calls himself “Doctor Doom.” Brazile, who was the original “Doctor Doom”, has a few creden tials of his own. He was NFL Rookie of the Year with the Oilers four years ago and has only gotten better since. An All-Pro practically from the first day he came up, Brazile is football’s best outside linebacker next to Pittsburgh’s Jack Ham. So when he first heard how this new dude, John Barefield, straight out of Texas A&I, was going to tear up the league as a rookie last year, he frowned and said, “Doctor who?” He said some other things also, like John Barefield was still wet be hind the ears, etc. Since the Oilers and Cardinals never met last season, Barefield didn’t have an opportunity to show Brazile personally what he could do when push came to shove. A few weeks ago, he got his chance, though, in the season’s first pre season encounter at Houston, and although the Oilers won the ball game, 9-7, Barefield performed so spectacularly for the Cardinals’ spe cialty team, he could hardly help but earn Brazile’s professional ap proval. Doctor Doom had himself quite a game, a fact that didn’t escape Brazile’s attention. “I respect the guy,” Barefield says of Brazile. “He’s All-Pro, and in this business, that’s the ultimate. I ad mire the way he plays and what he has done, but I don’t feel he should have come down on me with those things he said last year. After he said them, everyone really put it on me. I’m not complaining, though. I still feel I’m the only Doctor Doom.” Last year was pretty much of a washout for Barefield because of the injuries he suffered. At one time or another he was out with a bad shoulder, a contusion of his thigh, a twisted knee or a pulled hamstring, first in one leg, then in the other. "I played in nine games on the specialty teams and it was an educa tion like no other I’ve ever gotten,” Barefield says. “There were things I didn’t understand at the beginning 1 ;. By our fourth regular game, though. I understood.” With all his problems, the muscu lar 24-year-old Victoria, Texas, na tive still found time to help save somebody’s life. It happened a year ago in St. Louis. He was in a station wagon on the way to take his physical when he noticed a woman, obviously in a state of deep agitation, waving her arms frantically beside a car parked on the side of the freeway. Barefield stopped and the woman tearfully explained her husband was suffering a heart attack. The Cardinals’ linebacker picked him up, put him in his own car. opened all the windows to ze j oxygen and sped off lookiiz ^ hospital. He found one a mij where he jumped out of the — nearly getting killed himse;’ other cars — and obtained ^ help. The man survived. “His wife sent me one of the & moving letters I’ve ever rear., Barefield says. “She told me j husband tried to reach me later • I was so busy with the team sc that, he never did. Itwasn’tme» saved his life, anyway, bee#* was out of my control. Itwass; good Lord’s hands and I was i glad I could contribute a little Battalion photo by Mark Fite He aint heavy, he's my fullback It’s been a long battle with the calorie but fullback George Woodard has won. Woodard is down to 246 pounds and said. “I was just tired of all the ‘how much do you weigh’ ques tions.” And although he has lost the weight, he now must learn the system and goes over some points with offensive backfield coach, Charlie Napper (above). OB some 3: 589 stiu ihiO pi they an in s windo' outsic )h, lo Bg to Id bin 1*^ 1ST BUPlISi lit teai 'tdTen Bible Study — Christian Fellowship — Rest Home & Outreach Ministries — Aggie Choir SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES L p/t/iS-el—1 Tauber Street r ’ F . B . d 8:45 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Bible Study 9:45 a.m. Seminars 6:00 p.m. F.B.C. 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