THE BATTALION Page 11
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1979
New game in town
By MIKE BURRICHTER
Battalion Reporter
The American and Danish Olym
pic Team Handball teams played an
official international match Mon
day night in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
One hundred and fifty spectators
watched the Danish team, ranked
4th in the world, defeat the young
Americans 25-11.
A fast-paced game that combines
the physical contact of hockey with
the skill of basketball, team handball
is roughly comparable to soccer ex
cept that players on two squads play
with their hands.
Second only to soccer in Europe,
team handball has been an Olympic
sport since 1934.
Played on a 20 x 40 meter indoor
court, usually a converted basket
ball court, it involves two teams of
seven players including a goalie.
Scores are made by throwing a ball
two-thirds the size of a volleyball
into a 2 x 3 meter soccer-type goal.
The goal is surrounded by a 6
meter semi-circle, in which no
player but the goalie may enter. The
ultimate score is to dive into the air
toward the goal from the 6-meter
circle where the defense usually sets
up. While in the air, the shooter
tries to throw the ball past the goalie
into the net.
The match in G. Rollie White was
hosted by Texas A&M University’s
men’s and women’s team handball
teams along with the MSG Recrea
tion Committee.
Team handball has been a sport at
the University for only two years,
but the men’s team finished fourth
in the country in collegiate play last
year and many Aggie players have
received national recognition.
Two Aggies, Bobby Wilson and
former Aggie basketball player Joey
Robinson are currently on the U.S.
Olympic team.
The game was brought to Texas
A&M by Mark Noble, who coached
the team for the past two years. He
has since departed, leaving the team
with no coach at this time.
“Most people who’ve never seen
the sport confuse it with handball
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Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
This is handball?
Yes this is team handball and it’s not played in your four-walled
court either. It’s a fast-moving game with a mix of soccer and
basketball. Rick Abrahamson of the American team takes a
shot against the Danish team during an official game played
Monday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
mfastorini will play Sunday;
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pass in pre-game warmups.
Pastorini said he could have
started, “But Bum wanted to go
ahead and start Giff, and as usual he
was right.”
Nielsen was the former NCAA
passing leader at Brigham Young
University in 1976. Against Kansas
City, he completed 12 of 18 passes
for 173 yards, he did not throw an
interception and he was showered
with praise from veteran Oilers.
“Knowing Dan,” center Carl
Mauck said, “it’ll be hard to keep
him out of next week’s game. That’s
Bum’s decision. But Giff did a good
job, and that’s what counts. He was
a big plus for us in a big game.”
Nielsen, 24, remained diplomatic
about his status, although he admit
ted he had told Pastorini he wanted
his job.
“1 told Dan that I wanted to play
well enough to keep him off the
field. Tm very pleased with the way
I played.’
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played on a four-wall court,” Ran
dall said. “When we try to tell about
it, the first question usually asked is
‘How do you get 14 people in that
little room?”’
Lucinda Sekal, team president,
was pleased with the crowd turnout.
Sekal, a senior physical education
major, started the women’s team
two years ago. The women’s team
has also competed on the national
level.
The Danish and American teams
have also played in Portland, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara
and San Antonio. The match played
Monday was their third official
game, the Danes have won all three
games.
The U.S. team travels to Mexico
City on Jan. 3 for the Western Zone
Olympic trials. Coach Mike
Cavanaugh feels the team has a good
chance to repeat their 1972 and
1976 performances and earn a spot
in the Olympics.
Ford wants extra year
United Press International
DALLAS — Southern Methodist
coach Ron Meyer said Monday
junior quarterback Mike Ford, out
for the season after knee surgery,
had indicated to him that he would
like to remain at SMU an extra sea
son if he should be granted a bonus
year of eligibility.
Southwest Conference officials
said that if Ford wanted the extra
year it was almost a foregone con
clusion that he would get it.
Ford, the NCAA’s total offense
leader a year ago, went out of last
Saturday night’s game against TCU
with a knee injury. Surgery was per
formed Sunday morning for a torn
ligament and Ford will miss the rest
of the season.
SWC rules say that if a player
competes in no more than 20 per
cent of a team’s games he is eligible
for a “hardship” judgment in which
he is granted an extra year of eligi
bility.
The alternative for Ford would be
to pass up a fifth year of schooling
and become eligible for the profes
sional draft in 1981.
Meyer also said the tackle which
put Ford out for the season was not
all that hard a blow.
“It certainly wasn’t malicious,”
said Meyer. “Mike had scrambled
out of the pocket and one of the
TCU tackles was pursuing him.
After Mike threw the pass the de
fender lunged and and did not even
hit him with a hard blow. Mike was
hit on the upper part of the thigh
and his leg just happened to be
planted the right way.”
Texas Christian coach F.A. Dry
expressed his disappointment that
Ford will not compete for the rest of
the season.
“It is regrettable anytime that a
fine football player like Mike Ford
get’s hurt,” said Dry. “A player like
Mike is good for college football.”
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