Page 12 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1979
Club sports depend on multiple fundini
By MIKE BURRICHTER
Battalion Sports Staff
Late in the afternoon, just when it
seems as though Texas A&M Univer
sity is shutting down and everyone is
going home, they take to the fields.
Some are clad in uniforms, others in
cut-offs and T-shirts. Some go
through their drills with the preci
sion of a swiss watch, while others
joke around and have a good time.
Some have typical Aggie beer bel
lies, while others are Olympic hope
fuls.
Ed Simmons, Bobby Wilson and
Vince Tavarez may not be household
names, but next summer they have
just as good of a chance as Curtis
Dickey, Rudy Woods or any other
Aggie sports heroes of wearing ma
roon white and blue in the Moscow
Olympic games.
Two thousand students participate
in extramural, or club sports at Texas
A&M. There are 45 clubs here, rang
ing from archery to parachuting to
wrestling. Of the 45, 25 are co-ed.
They have existed at A&M for years,
but always it seems, in the back
ground. The ‘big’ sports, such as
football, basketball and baseball,
take precedence.
Another reason for the relative
anonymity of these athletes is the
club sports financial state. James
Welford, Associate Director of Intra
mural and Recreational sports, says
there are three sources of income
from the school available to the
clubs.
“Student Services gave us about
$25,000 this year,” Welford said. “I
present the Student Finance Com
mittee with a budget each year. They
check it out and then allocate us
some money.
“This year, each club submitted a
budget to me. It totalled over
$100,000, Welford said, laughing.
“I made cuts from there.”
Welford said he allocates this
money according to need.
“Some clubs need more than
others,” Welford said. “When the
polo team goes on a trip, two guys
ride in a car that pulls a two-horse
trailer. We pay eight cents per mile
for transportation. People use their
own cars. We usually try to get as
many people as possible in each car
to cut expenses, but it can’t be work
ed out that way with polo.”
Welford said there are three areas
of expense in which the school will
help out financially.
“Travel and lodging is one area in
which we help,” he said. “We pay a
little for the gas, and lodging is an
area in which we can cut corners by
having team members stay with stu
dents of the host school of the tourna
ment. The other two areas in which
we assist the clubs are for tourna
ment entry fees and equipment. All
personal equipment is bought by the
team member. We buy things like
nets for soccer goals.”
Teams make their expenditures
and then present their receipts to
Welford, who then figures out how
much money will be reinbursed.
“They know better than to give me
a receipt for a keg of beer,” he said.
“But we do reimburse whatever is
covered. It usually takes three
weeks.”
The second source of income from
the school is from the Aggie Moms
and the Former Students Associa
tion. Welford said each organization
donates about $2000 a year to club
sports.
“This is an important asset be
cause it is cash-on-hand,’’ Welford
said. “If a club has an emergency
expense, we can. go right to that
account and give them money. For
instance, if a club has two tourna
ments within three weeks and going
into the second tournament they ha
ven’t been reimbursed for the first
tournament, then I give them some
money.”
The third source of income for
club sports is in its first year. Texas
A&M University President Jarvis
Miller started a fund to send clubs to
national and international events.
Twenty six thousand dollars was
allotted at the beginning of the year
for any team travelling to a national
event in which they have qualified.
Miller said although he is not an
avid sports fan, he realized the stu
dents needed a more ‘adequate vehi
cle’ in which to compete on the na
tional level.
“This will provide an extra incen
tive for the athletes to compete at the
national level,” Miller said. “It fills a
real need at this university.”
Welford said this new fund will be
a real life-saver for some clubs.
“Teams would compete at their
own expense all year and when na
tionals rolled around, ‘bang,’ they
noticed their checkbooks were hurt
ing,” he said.
Such was the case for the Skeet
and Trap Shoot club. Two years ago,
the Aggies won the NCAA cham
pionship in Bellvue, Ill. The team
was paced by Ed Simmons, who won
the individual championship. His
roommate, Les Meineke, placed
fifth overall. Last year, Meineke
couldn’t make the trip because he
didn’t have the money. Simmons
won the individual championship
again, but it wasn’t enough and the
Ags finished third. “Les’ absence de
finitely cost us the title,” Simmons
said.
Welford said the new fund may be
used for one national trip per year.
On that trip, each player is allotted
$150. The water polo team has
already used that trip, having gone to
Ne\v York for the AAU champion
ship earlier this semester.
Water polo coach Dennis Fosdick
took his undefeated team to For-
dham University last month. They
had a 4-2 record there, and finished
fifth in the tournament. George Dal
lam, Steve Sampson and Vince
Tavarez were selected for the All-
America team.
Fosdick had been the Aggie swim
ming coach as well as water polo
coach for the past eight years. His
water polo team had a record of 170-
30-1 during that period. From 1976-
78, the water polo team enjoyed var
sity status and competed in NCAA
events. When Mel Nash was hired to
coach this year’s swimming team,
Texas A&M Athletic Director Mar
vin Tate returned the water polo
team to club status to put the emph
asis on swimming. ’
To supplement the money they re
ceive from the university, the water
polo team makes money by cleaning
up Kyle Field after home football
games.
“They make a couple of thousand
dollars per game doing that,” Wel
ford said. This money is shared with
Team Handball which helps with the
clean-up duties.
Team handball has been an Olym
pic sport since 1934, and has existed
at A&M for the past three years. Last
year the team finished fourth in the
nation in collegiate play. Two play
ers, Bobby Wilson and former Aggie
basketball player Joey Robinson are
currently on the U.S. Olympic team.
The team handballers took their
Kyle field clean-up money and
money provided for them by Miller’s
new fund and went to Mexico for a
series of games aqainst Latin Amer
ican teams.
Another Aggie club that has
achieved a great deal of success is the
rugby team. In 1974, the Ags won the
national collegiate championship, in
the only year it was held. This year,
they have already won the Texas Col
legiate championship and will go to
regional playoffs next semester.
The ruggers don’t have their own
field, and must use the drill field for
home games. Welford said a rugby
field is in the planning stages.
On December 1st, the rugby team
will travel Tempe, Ariz. to play in
the Fiesta Bowl against Arizona State
University. Since this is not a nation
al event, the players must pay most
of their expenses. They are current
ly selling T-shirts.
Welford said the Extramural prog
ram will be greatly helped when
Kyle Field is completed.
“We will have 14 more raquetball
and handball courts, six basketball
courts, a gymnastics room, a Nauti
lus weiqht room, a shooting range
and a fencing room when Kyle Field
is completed, he said. “Right now,
the Athletic Department is using the
weightroom and no one else can.
These new additions should,
lot of facilities open to thed
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The New Bowling Champs
All the pins are down and the
bowling games are all played.
Some “mighty fine” splits and
spares as well as strikes hit the ten
pins as the contestants competed
for the All-University title.
In Men’s Class A, Dilligaf ousted
the Schocker Club 1940 pins to
1803 pins. The top three games
were bowled by David Imy, 202
pins for the Schocker Club, Jerry
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Ramp #5, 1050-1035. High bow
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In Women’s Class A the Strikers
struck out Pack-A-Derm 1744-
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with 271 pins for Keathley were
high scorers.
CoRec A was a high scoring game
with Pack 8 topping Grill Cheese
2044 to 1657. High scorers were
Pack 8’s Wayne Travis, 557, Jay
Chester, 519, and Jody Puckett,
506.
CoRec B saw 400 pins broken by
three persons as Spare Parts over
took the Rednecks 1582-1499. Carl
Janak bowled 430 and Eric Suarez
scored 404 for Spare Parts. Cindy
Fernandez knocked down 428 pins
for the Rednecks.
All the volleyball playoffs were
excellent competition, and congra
tulations are in order to all the par
ticipants. Here are the highlights of
the games:
In Men’s Class A, Bother’s B.S.
made short work of the Puryear
Playboys with the added luck of the
first serve of the match. Game
scores were 15-5, and 15-9.
In Women’s Class A, the Wall-
Eyed Spikes overcame the Golden
Spikes who won the Women’s In
dependent championship. The
scores stood at 15-4, and 15-8.
In Women’s Class B, the match
was close between the Haas Hon
eys and the Resistors. The Honeys
took the all-University title 10-15,
15-8, and 15-5.
Co-Rec Class A saw close action
as Rothers B.S. downed Best Ever.
The scores of the match were 15-
12, 10-15, and 15-10.
One-Legged Dog fell to the
Wrecks despite a strong comeback
in Co-Rec Class B competition.
Game tallies were 15-6, 13-15, and
15-4.
In Co-Rec C, the Multiple O’s
lost the battle as they were downed
by the Swingers 15-12 and 15-5.
And the Winners Are:
BOWLING (*indicates All-University Champions)
Class A:
Corps
A-l Animals
Fish
Squadron 10 Fish
Men’s Dorm
Schocker Club
Men’s Independent
Dilligaf 1
Women’s Dorm
Pack-A-Derm
Women’s Independent
Strikers*
Co-Rec
Pack 8*
Class B:
Corps
Fish
Men’s Dorm
Men’s Independent
Women’s Dorm
Co-Rec
Class C:
Squadron 4
Squadron 3
Puryear Ramp #8*
4 Diamonds
Moonlighters*
Spare Parts*
MiniMaxers
Men’s
VOLLEYBALL
Class A:
K-l “A”
Squadron 5
Corps
Fish
Men’s Independent
Rothers B.S.*
Women’s Dorm
Musketeers
Women’s Independent
Golden Spikes
Co-Rec
Rothers B.S.*
Women’s All-University
Wall-Eyed Spikes*
Class B:
Corps
A-l Animals
Fish
Squadron 7
Men’s Dorm
Moore Operators
Men’s Independent
Moses Awesome Roots*
Women’s Dorm
Haas Honeys*
Women’s Independent
Resitors
Co-Rec
Wrecks*
Class C:
Fanatics
Men’s
Women’s
Spikers
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