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^ N rv°v* $49 ° o For Four Months “V' Hockey: a newAg tradition^ Tennis Racquetball Waliyball Weight Room Aerobic Classes Steam Room Saunas Whirlpools Some Limitations: 81 Non-Prime Time Hours Per Week $2.50 Per Person/Hour Court Fees Aerobic Classes Extra If you can live with these limitations its the best bargain in town!! For further information call 846-8838 or stop by the dub at 4455 Carter Creek. RACQUET CLUB 4455 CARTER CREEK 846-8838 Biomedical Science Association TDM'" 1°©© pan) By JOHN MAKELY Reporter Good news for Texas hockey fans. You probably didn’t know it, but the Texas A&M Hockey Club that’s ice hockey — hopes to be the team chosen from Texas to go to Huntsville, Ala. to compete in the American Intramural Hockey Championships. In their first year, wearing uni forms that didn’t quite match, the hockey team won. This year the team has new uniforms and a new attitude. The Aggies had winning records of 5-3-1 their first season and 6-4 last yedr. For the past two seasons the hockey team was run by the players, but this left the club somewhat disor ganized. New coach Mike Silvaggio prom ises a more organized 1984 hockey team with strict practices and more consistent player attendance. The Ags will start their third sea son in late October or early Novem ber. This will enable the team to have two or three practices on ice be fore the first game, forward Gordie Anderson said. The team plays ball hockey (hockey without the ice) in DeWare Field House twice a week. They would also like to practice once a week on ice,“ but it depends on money, because its (the ice time) very expensive down here,” goalie Blair Oliver said, “Ice rink rentals can run $150 an hour.” “A lot depends on funding from A&M,” defenseman Tom Anderson said. Team members contributed about $2000 for running the team last year. Confirmed games for the Aggies this year includes games against a team from the University of Texas, one from Southern Metnodist Uni versity and Tulane University. Possible matches include an as-of- yet unformed team from the Uni versity of Houston and men’s clubs from Houston and Austin. Dates and locations are to be announced later. The possible emergence of the A Texas A&M Hockey team player breaks down the ice as an SMU player makes a Photo by FETERI sprawling attempt to take the puck a* from him during action last season in baa South West Collegiate Hockey Asso ciation is one way the Ags hope will solidify the schedule and promote the sport to other schools currently without teams. Steve Mathiason, assistant com missioner of the South West Colle giate Hockey Association and for mer member of the A&M team said, with the reopening of the Sharps- town rink in Houston players at the University of Houston and Rice Uni versity are considering forming their own teams. Mathiason recently resigned from the 1984 hockey team. Of the new league Mathiason states,"It’s been informal the past few years, we were going to formal ize this season.” The future of the league appears to Ire up in the air. Coach Silvaggio said the 1984 hockey squad is self-sufficient. “They all started the idea." Silvag gio said. “The team has developed well. The team’s biggest concern is a lack of ice rinks in the area. The clos est games have been in Austin, Houston and Waco...tha kind of hard," lie said. I^rst season the team’s i the Spcnco ice rink it t rink hits since d Sharpstown skating rink will be the team's new nnl tl Followers of this should delight at tl planning the entire w Aggie nockev — something t Houston. 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Elections TOUR OF CLINICAL FACILITIES VETERINARY HOSPITAL United Press International AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Head Coach Fred Akers said Monday lin gering injuries may force the Long horns to use a pair of freshman tail backs in their season opener against Auburn Saturday. “Our tailback position is awfully unsettled,” Akers said. “Right now the only healthy ones at tailback are (freshmen) Kevin Nelson and Charles Hunter.” Akers said his more experienced running bdeks, Michael Brown and junior college transfer Norman Nunn, both have leg injuries that will keep them from being at full speed Saturday. “I’d rather have a healthy one out there,” Akers said. “If it comes down to health, I’ll put a freshman out there. “They’re not finished products yet and they will limit what you can do.” Akers also announced over the weekend that senior Todd Dodge would be the Horns’ starting quater- back, with his son Danny Akers and Bret Stafford serving as backups. “I think the difference is that in these early ballgames I want some body out there with experience,” he said. “He (Dodge) is the one with the most experience and that’s what we need. But that doesn’t mean the oth ers won’t play in the game.'’ Akers said he expected Auburn to field a team roughly equal in size and talent to the one Texas defeated last year 20-7 in its season opener. “They're going to be healthy, and 1 imagine angry. They’ll be looking for revenge for a couple of things. One, because we defeated them in their own stadium a year ago. and in their own words, they were emba- rassed in the Miami game." 4 he I igers will have an edge over I exas, Akers said, because they rid themselves of first-game jitteis against Miami and now are we rested after a week off. II Texas’ Fred Akers saysM play “healthy” runningU Challenging careers in Audit, Management Information Consulting or Tax CAMPUS INTERVIEW DATES SEPTEMBER 24-27, 1984 a Arthur Andersen v TOIN APO RUSH: SEPT. 11 tOI RUDDER 7PH "'SEPT. 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