^Second Guesses Cycling team
by Jon Heidtke recruits Aggies
THE BATTALION Page 13
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1980
ate Coogs’ game absurd
It was halftime during the A&M-Houston game, and one of Hous-
n’s sports information department personnel started handing out
hirts to the press which had these words emblazed on them “The
alyTwo Day Football Game of the Century, Houston vs A&M, Oct.
-12, 1980.”
It was about this time the absurdity of whole thing struck me. If
aying a football game over two days is such an event, then why has it
ppened only once this century?
For a long time, I wondered why Houston is always called “Cougar
igh, but in the early morning hours (or was it just early in the third
larter) I knew my t-shirt held the answer.
wm Throughout the preceding week, Houston athletic officials claimed
Davis wou ^ be too hard to move the game to Rice Stadium on such late
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university would go this far to keep its
home field advantage. There was no
consideration by Houston for the
players, fans and media. ”
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ost of the year? Couldn’t they have devised a back-up plan in case a
iseball playoff game forced a rescheduling? I am afraid the answers to
iese question were too obvious for Houston athletic officials to see.
Oh sure, they did give A&M a couple of options which hurt me too
uch to even repeat. The bottom line is that A&M had no choice but to
jcome part of an NCAA record: the latest start for a game in this
:ntury. For you trivia buffs, the opening kickoff came at 11:33 p.m.
pringfield College and a Yale Alumni team started play at midnight in
ladison Square Garden in 1891).
Alan Jones, the new assistant athletic director in charge of promo-
ms at A&M. summed ut> Houston’s ineotitude best when he said. “I
ink it’s ridiculous that a major university would go this far to keep its
ome field advantage. There was no consideration by Houston for the
layers, fans and media. If it wasn’t ridiculous, then why did it take 89
sars for it to happen again?”
Derrick Grubbs, another member of the A&M sports information
jp^-tment, said Houston got caught up in its own frustrations. “I
ould think that with the inconviences caused by making us play at
at ungodly hour, that the Houston people would have put a little bit
extra effort into making better arrangements. They (Houston) just
)tcaught up in their own frustrations and let it get to themselves.”
After the game, the players on both sides said it was just another
une. Bull—if it was just another game the stands would have been full
d those fans that couldn’t have gotten in the game could have read
rout it in Sunday’s paper. But instead, the true fans suffered through
the smart fans slept through it and nobody really knew what hap-
jnend until Monday.
Jones said there is more to football then winning at all costs, but at
mgar High, classless winning must be the only thing.
olleyball team
ps season mark
I MIKE BURRICHTER
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M women’s vol-
team won a couple of morale
rs Tuesday night, defeating
Texas State and Texas
it’s University in Denton,
gs went to Denton Tuesday
ig, two days after their longest
d of the season. Long, be-
they’d lost five of six matches
(«|lk to a season record of 9-13.
I really needed these wins,”
Int coach Lindy Vivas said.
-«iad such a poor tournament this
‘R 3nd, we needed these teams to
* our morale.”
.-Ae first match, North Texas fell
|Ags, 15-7, 15-11 and TWU bit
list later in the evening by the
( s of 15-6, 15-6.
I h it weekend, the Aggies played
> * worst volleyball of the season,
ling twelth of 16 in the Houston
mal and losing a match to
Texas Tech at home Sunday.
“We got to play everybody
tonight,” Vivas said sifter the game.
“The matches were not that difficult,
so we got to look at everybody.”
Vivas and head coach Terry Con
don, who have yet to formulate a
stable starting lineup, think they
may have come up with a positive
force when they started two new out
side hitters Tuesday.
“We used Wendy Wilson and Eli
zabeth Echternach as our outside
hitters,” Vivas said. “They were
probably the big difference tonight.
We’re still not set with a starting
lineup, but these two girls have the
edge.”
The Aggies travel to Austin this
morning to take on the Longhorns, a
team that has accounted for three
A&M losses already this season.
“The girls are really looking for
ward to playing Austin,” Vivas said.
“Maybe we’re on the right track.”
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The Texas A&M University Cycl
ing Team, in conjunction with
Wheelworld, sponsored the annual
A&M Student Body Bike Race
Saturday in an effort to introduce
prospective members to the world of
cycling.
The race was broken down into a
men’s and a women’s division and
consisted of circling the drill field in
front of the MSC. The men’s division
consisted of 16 laps, or seven miles,
around the field while the women’s
was made up of eight laps, or three-
and-one-half miles.
Twenty-four people entered the
races, 21 in the men’s division and
only three in the women’s.
The top three finishers in each
category received trophies, with the
fourth and fifth place finishers re
ceiving records for their efforts.
Top finishers in the men’s division
were: Jim Orr, Scott Schaffer, Steve
Hench, Pat Moore and Chuck Still
well. Trish Hintzel won the women’s
division with Theresa Washburn and
Debbie Dominey finishing second
and third, respectively.
The A&M Cycling Team is an ex
tramural club and competes in va
rious stage races throughout the
area.
A stage race consists of three diffe
rent races: a 10-mile warmup race, a
60-mile road race and a 40-mile
criteria race.
Last weekend, the Aggie cyclists
competed in the Aledo Stage Race.
Team member Byron Gerhard
finished fourth in the open division
to lead the team.
This weekend the cyclists are com
peting in the Tyler Stage Race.
The cycling team sponsors the
Aggieland Stage Race held every
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