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Delay doesn ’t hinder Baylor
attack as Aggies fall to 6-3
by Frank L. Christlieb
Sports Editor
The lights went out on the
Texas A&M basketball team
Wednesday night, and the
Aggies were powerless to do
anything about it.
It’s doubtful Coach Shelby
Metcalf has ever endured a
game like the one played be
tween his team and the Baylor
Bears in Waco’s Heart O’ Texas
Coliseum. After spending a
power shortage-induced two
hours in a dark locker room at
halftime, Texas A&M could
never get untracked during the
second half of the game. As a
result, the Aggies lost 58-55,
dropping them into a three-way
tie for second place in the South
west Conference.
Texas A&M is now 13-6 over
all and 6-3 in the SWC, while the
Bears raised their season record
to 11-8 and their conference re
cord to 4-5.
The first half of the game
proceeded smoothly, with the
Bears taking a 32-31 lead at half
time. Although the Aggies were
having problems containing the
Baylor offense, events took
place in normal fashion, just like
any other college basketball
game.
However, at 8:25 p.m., about
10 minutes into the halftime
break, the coliseum died.’ All
power went out, while auxiliary
lights came on a few seconds la
ter for purposes of controlling
the crowd and avoiding confu
sion. The blackout, which re
portedly left a major portion of
the city without power, came ab
out when an automobile struck a
utility pole in the parking lot
outside the coliseum. The colli
sion triggered the blowout of a
power transformer, causing the
outage.
Both teams could do nothing
but wait for a decision to be
reached about the status of the
game. While the Aggies sat in
their locker room with only a
flashlight for company, officials
tried to decide whether to rectify
the situation or cancel the game
until another date.
At 9:20, power was restored,
but the lights were still out. Most
of the coliseum’s lighting con
sists of mercury vapor lights,
which take several minutes to
warm up and reach full illumi
nation. To further complicate
matters, these lights periodically
Hashed off and on, so the col
iseum was, for the most part, still
See DELAY page 15
Metcalf pleased with team’s
play; Naulls leads with 18
by Frank L. Christlieb
Sports Editor
The Texas Aggies learned
Wednesday night that some
things just can’t be stopped.
For starters, they couldn’t
stop Baylor’s Terry Teagle, who
finished the game with 24 points
and eight rebounds after having
scored a career-high 37 points in
a loss to Texas Christian Univer
sity Monday night. Teagle easily
won the battle of players coming
off career highs, as the Aggies’
Claude Riley scored only six
points after finishing with 38
Monday night against the Hous
ton Cougars.
But the factor that hadn’t
been anticipated, and therefore
couldn’t be stopped, was the
power failure which occurred
during halftime with the Bears
leading 32-31. After the long in
termission, the Aggies came out
colder than dry ice, shooting
only 27 percent from the field in
the second half.
The outage, caused when an
automobile struck a utility pole
outside Waco’s Heart O’ Texas
Coliseum, delayed the start of
the second half of the game for
nearly two hours. Texas A&M
Coach Shelby Metcalf tried to
have the game rescheduled, but
Baylor Coach Jim Haller
wouldn’t have it — he wanted to
finish the game then and there,
whether in lighted surround
ings or in darkness.
As a result of lighting prob
lems and Teagle problems,
Texas A&M lost 58-55 and fell
into a three-way Southwest Con
ference tie for second place with
the University of Texas and
See METCALF page 15
photo by Donn Friedmann
Coach Shelby Metcalf, assistant coach John Thornton and
referee Lynn Shortnacy talk about the lighting situation at
halftime of the Baylor-Texas A&M game. After a two-hour
delay, the Bears won by a score of 58-55.
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