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A&M’s only first at LSU meet
By TOM TAGLIABUE
Sports Writer
This past weekend’s LSU Invita
tional indoor track and field meet in
Baton Rouge, La. was supposed to
be a warm-up competition for Texas
A&M. Not much was expected of the
freshman-dominated squads, at
least, not from Aggie freshman Matt
Dunn.
Dunn, from Wimberley, won the
880-yard dash with a time of
1:52.31, and was the only Aggie to
Finish in first-place in the 30-team
meet.
The Aggies, who sent more than
30 of their 95 team members to the
meet, got second-place finishes from
freshman Randy Barnes in the shot
put, Kendrick Wesley in the 600 and
the mile relay team of Floyd Heard,
Wesley, Gary Pervis and Maurice
Holt.
Barnes, who won the shot put
with a throw of 61 feet, 5 3/4 inches,
also qualified for the NCAA indoor
nationals meet to be held March 14-
15 in Oklahoma City.
A&rM Assistant Track Coach Steve
Silvey said the overall performance
by the Aggies was close to what the
coaches had expected from the
team.
“They’re pretty close to what they
were (in the early December meets),”
Silvey said. “They’re going to be get
ting much better as the season pro
gresses.”
respec-
Matt Dunn
Silvey said the performances of
Dunn, Ian James in the long jump
and Huey Treat in both the two- and
three-mile runs, were the real bright
spots of the meet.
James was entered in his first
meet in more than a year, Silvey
said. He came in fifth-place with a
jump of 24 feet, 6'/a inches.
Silvey said Treat, who was red-
shirted last year, was a surprise be
cause he is not normally a distance
runner. Treat came in seventh in the
three-mile run (14:26.78) and ninth
in the two-mile run (9:14.46).
The Aggie women were not
nearly as fortunate as the men.
Their best finish was a sixth-place by
Brandy Stubblefield in the high
jump (5-5 3/4).
The only other women to place
were Kathy Craig and Beth Drees,
seventh and eighth place
lively in the two-mile run.
Silvey said the women had such a
poor showing because the other
teams simply out-performed the Ag
gies.
A&M only sent 10 of its 26 women
to the meet. Most of the women who
were left at home, were left because
the coaches felt they could not per
form on a high enough level, Silvey
said.
Silvey said the women were ex
pected to perform well in the field
events, particularly the shot put, but
there were just too many good
throwers to compete with at the
meet.
Other top performances were:
240-yard shuttle relay (4th) —
Ricky Alexander, Lawrence Felton,
James Humphrey and Lorenzo Wel-
born (29.6)
Triple jump (3rd) — Fransisco
Oliveares (50-10)
Long jump (7th) — Chris Walker
(24-2'A)
440 (6th) — Holt (48.77)
60-yard dash (6th and 8th) —
Stanley Kerr (6.32) and Heard
(6.38).
60-yard high hurdles (6th) — Fel
ton (7.41)
High jump (5th) — Ernie Mendez
(6-9 3/4)
Majority of NFL players fail to earn degree
Associated Press
DALLAS — Nearly 60 percent of
the National Football League’s play
ers who attended college failed to
earn college degrees, a Dallas news
paper reported in its Sunday edi
tions.
In a copyright story, the Dallas
Times Herald said it had done a
computer analysis of the biograph
ical records of 1,542 veteran profes
sional athletes on the rosters of the
NFL’s 28 teams at the start of 1985’s
training camps.
Only 41 percent of those players
graduated from the colleges they at
tended, the Times Herald said. And
the actual figure may even be lower,
said an NFL players’ representative
and some collegiate officials.
Mark Murphy, a former Washing
ton Redskin and now assistant to the
executive director of the NFL Play
ers Association, said figures he’s
seen actually suggest that only about
33 percent of the players graduated
from college.
“I hope your figure is right, but
I’m afraid the (graduation) informa
tion you’re getting is when a player
sits down with the team’s PR depart
ment and fills out a survey,” Murphy
told the Times Herald.
“You probably have a situation
where a player doesn’t want them to
think he hasn’t graduated and so he
checks off‘Graduated.’” s
The newspaper’s study also
showed that only 33 percent of black
players completed degrees, while 50
percent of white players earned de
grees.
In Sunday’s Super Bowl XX, the
Chicago Bears have a graduation
rate of about 52 percent — the fifth
best in the NFL — while the New
England Patriots’ graduation rate is
about 36 percent.
Tex Schramm, president and gen
eral manager of the Dallas Cowboys,
said, “It’s not real surprising to me. I
know that you hear of players who
say they are going back to school —
and a few do. But a large number
don’t.”
Forty-seven percent of the Cow
boys are college graduates, making
the Cowboys the eighth highest for
graduation rates in the NFL.
The newspaper also analyzed the
various college football conferences
and found the worst graduation re
cords in the Big Eight and Southeast
Conference, where only 34 percent
graduated.
The Ivy League had a 100-per-
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NFL players it produced.
The Southwestern Athletic Con
ference had a 51-percent graduation
rate; Southwest Conference had 42
percent; Atlantic Coast, 41 percent;
and Big Ten and Pacific, both 38
percent.
The best collegiate spawning
ground was at the University of
Southern California, with 50 percent
of its NFL players getting college de
grees.
The University of Texas, with 37
former players on NFL rosters, had
the third-highest number of alumni
in the league with 43 percent hold
ing degrees.
Among other Texas schools pro
viding large numbers of players to
the NFL, the percentage of grad
uates were 37 percent at Texas
A&M; 29 percent at Baylor; and 39
percent at Southern Methodist.
Southwest Conference Commis
sioner Fred Jacoby viewed the NFL
graduation figures with a note of
caution.
“I think it’s extremely difficult to
make a statement whether a man is
going to make a contribution to so
ciety one or two or three years after
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