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THE BATTALION Page 15 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1979 Abilene Cooper tops school poll Texas High School Football Poll By United Press International DALLAS — The United Press International second week Texas High School football top 10 poll. Classes AAAA, AAA, AA and A, (with first place votes and won-loss records in parentheses), and total points: Class AAAA 1. Abilene Cooper (17) (3-0) 170 2. Plano (3-0) 148 3. La Porte (3-0) 135 4. Dallas Lake Highlands (3-0) 119 5. Seguin (3-0) 100 6. Temple (3-0) 78 7. Houston Stratford (1-1) 64 8. Conroe (2-0) 62 9. Midland Lee (3-0) 29 10. San Antonio Judson (3-0) 21 Class AAA 1. Jasper (12) (3-0) 165 2. Lubbock Estacado (4) (3-0) 155 3. Paris (2-0) 133 4. Beaumont Hebert (3-0) 109 5. Kerrville (3-0) 106 6. Huntsville (3-0) 74 7. Brownwood (1) (2-1) 71 8. McKinney (2-1) 47 9. Gainesville (3-0) 39 10. Pecos (3-0) 28 Class AA 1. Kenedy (12) (3-0) 158 2. Pittsburg (2) (3-0) 153 3. Childress (1) (3-0) 141 4. San Antonio Randolph (3-0) 110 5. Breckenridge (2) (3-0) 100 6. White house (3-0) 77 7. Hays Consolidated (3-0) 52 8. Bowie (3-0) 43 9 Wylie (3-0) 40 10. Idalou (3-0) 25 Class A 1. China Spring (17) (3-0) 170 2. Haskell (3-0) 145 3. Falls City (3-0) 136 4. Hawkins (3-0) 122 5. Seagraves (3-0) 104 6. Glen Rose (3-0) 83 7. Knox City (3-0) 66 8. Rotan (3-0) 50 9. Troup (3-0) 46 10. Mason (3-0) 20 n. Kubiil • Pat O’Malf A£rM students waiting on DeWare weightroom By ANGELIQUE COPELAND Battalion Reporter In 1969 the athletic department ied three' ^ w ^ at was °f the Astroturf Enos Cab om new ly carpeted Kyle Field pd carpeted the new weight facility hich was set up for the intercol- !giate athletes in DeWare Field louse. Three years later they opened the tors to the student body during le hours it was not in use by the Uhletes. At the beginning of this school ar, the DeWare weight room was t, CabelL nee again closed to all non- Rafael L tercollegiate athletes. The policy incides with the hiring of Mike ynt who is the first strength and ight coach for all A&M collegiate ims. Flynt said he made the change fer discussing the problems of the ightroom with A&M Athletic Di- ictor Marvin Tate. Flynt said that since arriving in the for eld out, ened the! pitch b) . Jose Cc ; down tk leno anil sin three si 11 to tbii :d two I light hits, e, Wallii scored ■ then s: give the Is singled uns in thfl nits in the FUL February, he had encountered theft id abuse of equipment by the stu nt body, plus failure of the in- ural department to adequately intain the machines. Flynt said several of the free- ight discs and dumbbell plates re stolen from the room during time it was open to the student ady. As a result, he had to lock up 100 pounds of weights each night. The weight room is also Flynt’s ice and he said he had to remove his files and records every night to keep students from going through them. “I couldn’t leave my personal be longings on my desk at night be cause students are not aware of the fact that everything in this weight room, from the turf up, is paid for by the athletic department and not their (student) tax dollars or tui tion,” Flynt said. “They think they can treat it like all the other taxpayers’ items they abuse. I even had to lock up my phone at night because everything that wasn’t bolted down was lifted.” Flynt said that some of the dam age to the equipment was not inten tional, but was a result of students not knowing the proper way to handle the machines. “They think that because this stuff is metal it won’t break, so they rear back and give it hell,” Flynt said. James Welford, associate director of intramural sports, said he be lieved the damage to the equipment was not due to student misuse, but just the great amount of wear and tear from regular use. “We would have over 100 stu dents come in to work out almost every night we were open,” Wel- fbrd said. Flynt said that before he closed the room to students, he had acted “more as a janitor than a coach.” “The weight room was supposed to be maintained by the intramural department, and I would venture to say that before I got here the machines were never cleaned and after I got here they vacuumed once every two weeks.” Welford said he was surprised that maintenance was one of Flynt’s complaints. “We made a deal at the first of the year (to clean and maintain the equipment) and I thought every thing was O.K. The machines were wiped down every hour, the floor vacuumed once a week, and we had a janitor to keep the floor picked up,” Welford said. Welford said plans for a compara ble weight room for the student body had been discussed, but warned that the department had no money for such a facility and he had no idea where it could come from. Tate estimated the cost of all the equipment in the DeWare room is approximately $60,000. Tate also said that he had had “at the most six” students come to com plain about the new policy. “I explained that use of the weight room was a privilege granted to the students by the athletic de partment that could no longer be ex tended since we hired a full-time weight coach. I think that most of them understand that we need the weight room to develop the kind of athletic program they can be proud of,” he said. All university students may work out in the free-weight room on the second floor of G. Rollie White after 5 p.m. daily. UPI top 20 United Press International NEW YORK — The United Press International Board of Coaches’ top 20 college football ratings, with first-place votes and won-loss re cords in parentheses (third week): 1. So. Calif. (32) (3-0) 564 2. Alabama (4) (2-0) 529 3. Oklahoma (2-0) 485 4. Texas (2) (1-0) 415 5. Nebraska (2-0) 320 6. Michigan St. (3-0) 316 7. Missouri (3-0) 304 8. Houston (2-0) 286 9. Washington (3-0) 201 10. Florida St. (3-0) 174 11. Ohio St. (3-0) 136 12. Purdue (2-1) 130 13. Michigan (2-1) 116 14. Arkansas (2-0) 95 15. LSU (2-0) 93 16. Notre Dame (1-1) 84 17. UCLA (2-1) 76 18. Penn St. (1-1) 63 19. N. Carolina St. (3-0) 38 20. North Carolina (2-0) 33 Note: By agreement with the American Football Coaches Associa tion, teams on probation by the NCAA are ineligible for top 20 and national championship considera tion by the UPI Board of Coaches. Those teams currently on probation are: Oklahoma State, Auburn and Memphis State. 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