Page 14 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1979
Battalion photo by Sam Stroder
A high-percentage shot
Rudy Woods, Texas A&M’s 6-11 center, slams the ball
through the hoop during one of the Aggie basketball team’s
workouts. The dunk shot is not as easy as it looks and, believe
it or not, the players have to work on it in practice.
Runners run for SWC title
By MIKE BUR RICHTER
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M cross-country coach
Ted Nelson will take a group of in
experienced runners to Willis,
Texas, Monday for the Southwest
Conference Cross-Country cham
pionship.
The runners will run a 10,000
meter — 6.2 mile — course set up
on the Texas National Golf Course,
which is seven miles north of Con
roe, to determine this year’s South
west Conference team and indi
vidual champions.
The meet will be hosted by the
University of Houston.
“The course has four or five dif
ferent types of terrain and that
makes for a tough course, ’ Nelson
said.
Last year, the Aggies, led by
seniors Manfred Kohrs and Lane
Mitchell, finished fifth in the con
ference. This year the only senior on
the team is Rick Huggins, who has
been the team’s No. 1 runner most
of the season.
Last week the Aggies went to
Georgetown for a meet with 12
teams from the Southwest, Lone
Star, and Southland conferences.
The men in maroon ended their
regular season by finishing ninth.
“At present, our team is weaker
than it has been for the past few
years,” Nelson said. “We are in a
rebuilding stage right now.
“We were also hurt when David
Nelson, our No. 2 runner and a
freshman, had knee problems early
in the season. He’ll be at the meet
Monday, but he’s missed out on a
lot of training. ”
Other younger runners who show
promise. Nelson pointed out, are
sophomore Ray Munich, the Aggies’
top finisher in last week’s meet, and
John Blyel, a junior who has consis
tently run third for the team this
year.
The cross country team does not
give out scholarships but three of
the runners are on track schol
arships, Nelson said.
“Three years ago the NCAA cut
track scholarships from 23 to 14,”
Nelson said. “It’s hard to maintain a
good track or cross country team
with that kind of cut. ”
The top three teams and the top
five individual finishers at Monday s
meet will go to the District Six cross
country championships on Nov. 10
at Georgetown. District Six is made
up of schools from all over the
Southwest.
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Polo team to vie for title
By MIKE BURRICHTER
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M’s undefeated water
polo team travels to Fordham Uni
versity this weekend to compete for
the National AAU championship.
Head Coach Dennis Fosdick said
he hopes the team will do well in
New York even though his team has
only played eight games. *
The water polo team is self-
supporting, raising money by clean
ing up Kyle Field after home foot
ball games. The money earned is
most of their income.
“We really couldn’t schedule
many games because we didn’t
know if the stadium would be
ready,” Fosdick said.
Water polo has existed at A&M
since the 1930s. Since 1970, when
Fosdick took over, the team has
amassed a record of 179-30-1.
In 1976, the Texas A&M Athletic
Department granted official NCAA
sanction to the team. During the
three years of NCAA eligibility, the
team was selected to play in the
eight-team NCAA championship
tournament twice; 1976 and 1978.
This year the team has returned
to club sport status. Marvin Tate,
Texas A&M Athletic Director said
the separation of the swimming and
water polo teams is the reason for
the University’s denial of varsity
status for the water polo team.
“In the past, swimmers played
water polo and water polo players
swam,” Tate said. “This year, we
hired a new swimming coach, Mel
Nash, and swimmers are not al
lowed to be on the water polo team.
The emphasis now is on swimming. ”
Fosdick had been the swimming
coach up until Nash was hired to
coach this year’s team.
“They (the athletic department)
just decided they weren’t going to
let us go NCAA this year,” Fosdick
said. “Before, we would make
yearly agreements with the athletic
department in the form of a con
tract. It usually said that we
wouldn’t ask for any money in re
turn for NCAA recognition. This
year they just said they weren’t
going to do it.”
Fosdick said the team was upset
because they couldn’t participate in
both sports and they couldn’t win
varsity letters as water polo players.
“George Dallam gave up a swim
ming scholarship to play for us,”
Fosdick said.
Fosdick is leaving Texas A&M in
December to go to Long Beach City
College where he will be head swim
coach and assistant to the water polo
coach.
The AAU championship in New
York will mark the first time since
1965 that the Aggies have competed
in an AAU event. The following
weekend, the Aggies host the
Southwestern Championship, with
teams from Arkansas, California,
Arizona and Texas scheduled to
compete.
“We have 30 games scheduled to
take place in that tournament,”
Fosdick said.
Not all Southwest Conference
schools have teams and the SWC
doesn’t have a league format.
As for the team’s chances in New
York, Fosdick is uncertain.
“Our biggest problem is that we
haven’t faced a decent team yet this
year,” he said. “Our starting team
usually plays just one quarter in
order to keep the game reasonably
close.
“We have the best team in Texas
and our second team is the second
best in the state.”
Opponents in the AAU tourna
ment such as Brown, Fordham,
Bucknell, Princeton and Pepper-
dine are all nationally ranked and
have played at least 15 games each,
Fosdick said.
“Right now the team we have is
more knowledgeable about the
sport than any team I’ve coached
since I’ve been here, Fosdick said.
“Physically, we are not in as good of
shape as I would like because
players aren’t going to two (polo and
swimming) workouts.
“This tournament should be in
teresting because we should find out
how we would have been ranked if
we would have been ranked and in
the NCAA.”
In New York, the Ags may face
Slippery Rock, a team coached by
1957 Texas A&M water polo all-
America Dick Hunkier.
The Aggie team is led by junior
Vince Tavarez, whom Fosdick says
is the best goalie in the South,
senior Steve Sampson, a 6-foot-6
senior whom Fosdick says has an
arm like a cannon and junior George
Dallam, the team’s defensive
specialist.
Jim Woodman, Bob Probe, Bob
Leeland, Jim Yates and the track
team’s number one javelin thrower,
Mike Newsome make up the the
rest of the team regulars.
Cleaning up Kyle Field after
home football games pays the team’s
transportation. Players usually stay
with students of the host school and
pay for their own meals. Last Sun
day, the 8-0 water polo team fi
nanced its trip to New York by
cleaning up Kyle Field again.
“I’m not complaining, Fosdick
said, “I think every team should try
to support themselves.”
Fosdick does think the University
needs more facilities though.
“We very desperately need more
facilities,” he said. “Now that it’s
getting cold the swimming and
water polo teams, as well as several
P. E. classes, have to share that in
door pool. ”
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