Battalion/Page 19
February 10, 1982
sports
Wilson accepts position
with CS energy company
United Press International
Former Texas A&M head
football coach Tom Wilson has
announced plans to go into the
oil business.
Replaced in January by for
mer Pittsburgh coach Jackie
Sherrill, Wilson told a local tele
vision station Tuesday he had
been offered a partnership with
Sam Wood Jr. of the Wood
Energy Company in College Sta
tion.
He said his job at the com
pany would be to obtain leases
and to arrange financing of ex
ploration efforts. In his first
year at the energy company,
Wilson will continue to receive a
salary from Texas A&M on the
last year of his contract.
“Although I don’t know a
great deal about the oil and gas
business I think it’s something
that’s very interesting to me, and
creates a great challenge for
me,” Wilson told KBTX-TV.
Wilson became head coach at
Texas A&M in the fall of 1978.
His firing created controversy,
especially because of the six-
year, $1.3 million contract given
Sherrill.
Asked how he would feel
when football season begins,
Wilson said, “I don’t think that I
could have been in it as long as I
was and in the position I was,
and when that time comes not
miss it.
“It’s something that’s going to
stay with me for a long time and
maybe forever,” he said.
“I’m excited about watching
the football team at A&M this
next season. I think they have a
good chance to have a great
football team and I just wish
them all the luck in the world.
I’m glad that I’m going to be in
an area and position to be able to
watch them play.”
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Businessmen have
Alan to help keep
Rockies in Denver
United Press International
SAN DIEGO — The San
Diego Clippers, behind by 29
points early in the final period,
took coach Paul Silas’ advice and
played loose, but they ended up
losing to the Houston Rockets
anyway.
“It was a very lethargic first
half,” Silas said Tuesday night
after the Rockets cut short a late
Clippers’ rally en route to a 129-
121 victory over San Diego.
“We really didn’t do much at
all,” he said. “But we made
Houston run in the second half.
They brought in their big guys
and I think that was the differ-
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The Rockets, who survived a
53-point fourth-quarter surge
by San Diego, were led by Moses
Malone with 33 points. It was the
281st consecutive game that
Malone scored in double fi
gures.
Houston’s Calvin Murphy
and Elvin Hayes reached scor
ing milestones in the game with
Murphy going past the 17,000-
point mark in his career and
Hayes moving into fifth place on
the all-time scoring list. Hayes
scored 24 points and now has
25,203 points, moving past Jerry
West into fifth place.
“It was a combination of
things that we did well to win,”
Murphy said. “Our inside attack
got us the big lead. They came
back, but we maintained our
composure and put the game on
ice.
“I’m not doing anything spe
cial to celebrate. I’m really hap
py with another milestone con
sidering 12 years ago I wasn’t
supposed to be here.”
The Clippers, playing against
a reserve Houston lineup in the
fourth quarter, closed to within
117-113 with 2:31 left to play.
But Malone and Hayes came
back in and each hit a field goal
in the final minutes.
“We played a good game,”
said Houston coach Del Harris.
“We played well offensively. I
just oversubstituted in the last
quarter. It was a good lesson for
our players because when we get
a big lead some of the players
can get a little careless.”
Michael Wiley led San Diego
with 21 points and Jerome
Whitehead added 20.
“It was a good effort but I
wish we could have won,” White-
head said. “But I don’t feel bad
because we played a good game
in the second half.”
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DENVER — A group of local
businessmen is trying to find in
vestors to put up $1 million in
up-front money by today in an
effort to keep the Colorado
Rockies in Denver.
Allen R. Aden, board chair
man of First Financial Securities
Inc., said at a Tuesday night
news conference that his group
was looking for 10 corporate in
vestors and already had “some
(investors) in the bag.”
He said: “If we can come up
with $1 million by Wednesday,
our plan has a good chance of
succeeding.”
Aden said his group wanted
to “buy an option to purchase
the Rockies.” He said Rockies’
owner Peter Gilbert agreed to
the plan after lengthy negotia
tions Tuesday, but time was of
the essence.
Aden said Gilbert was “will
ing to give Denver one more
chance” to keep the franchise in
Denver.
He said the group was seeking
corporate investors to offer “up-
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to help operate the Rockies for
the remainder of this season.”
He added that any money put
forth on the option would apply
to the final purchase price.
Aden would not divulge the
proposed purchase price, but
said investors would be told ab
out the offer in detail.
“We are putting together a
three-year commitment,” he
said. “We feel we have put
together a package that will not
only properly promote the
team, but could quite well make
it profitable.”
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