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Matson’s A&M career
highlighted dismal ’60
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By Tim Stanfield
Sports Writer
Texas A&rM’s athletic success dur
ing the 1980s has dimmed — but not
erased — the dismal 1960s, when
Aggie football squads were usually
pitiful, and only an occasional
Southwest Conference title in base
ball, basketball or track broke the
Aggies’ chain of mediocrity.
Coach Jackie Sherrill’s Aggies
have won three consecutive SWC ti
tles with Cotton Bowl trips after each
one. All-SWC and All-American
players were numerous on each of
those squads, as they have been on
other A&rM athletic teams lately.
Nevertheless, none of the recent
Aggie heroes have even come close
to achieving the level of success one
Aggie had in the mid-1960s.
That man, Randy Matson, stood
out like a beacon on a dark, dreary
night. He not only won SWC indi
vidual championships in the shotput
and discus in each of his three years
on the A&M varsity, he added seve
ral NCAA indoor and outdoor
championships in both events and
took the silver medal in the the 1964
Olympics and gold medal in the
1968 Olympics (both in the shotput).
Matson is currently the executive
director of the Association of For
mer Students located in the Clayton
W. Williams Jr. Alumni Center. He
recently recalled those days when he
set the standard for everyone else in
the world in the shotput.
“I had grown up reading about
guys such as Dallas Long, Dave Da
vis, Gary Gubner and Parry
O’Brien,” Matson said. “Then, while
I was still in high school, I competed
against several of them in an A.A.U.
meet.
“Though I Finished fourth behind
O’Brien, Gubner and Davis, I still
made the squad that went to Europe.
“Even though I respected them I
never competed with anyone else —
just the tape. And I was never satis
fied with my performance.”
Matson quickly progressed from a
youngster who as a junior at Pampa
High School won the state title in the
12-pound shot with a toss of 64-7 to
the collegiate who won three consec
utive SWC titles in both the shot put
and discus, culminating his sterling
career by winning the gold medal in
the shotput in the 1968 Olympics in
Mexico City.
Matson’s career
• Silver Medal In shotput —
1964 Olympics
• NCAA Indoor Champion,
shotput— 1965
• SWC Outdoor Champion,
shotput and disc us— 1965-67
• Ail America, shotput and
discus — 1965-67
• Shotput world record —
1965 (70-714), 1967 (71 -5‘/a)
• NCAA Outdoor Champion,
shotput and discus — 1966-6 /
• Current SWC record holder
in discus (213-9'/a) 1967
• Discus world record (1967)
• Gold Medal in shotput —
1968 Olympics
Not only did Matson break nu
merous records along the way, many
of which he had set, but for a time he
was alone at the top in the world in
the shotput.
Shortly after he began tossing the
sixteen-pound shot in high school,
Matson unleashed one of 55 feet. At
that time the SWC record was 57
feet.
As a high school senior Matson
broke the SWC record with a toss of
60-6.
When he set the world record
with a toss of 70-7 in 1965, the next
best distance — other than his ow n
tosses — was 63 feet.
Finally on April 24, 1967, Matson
set SWC records in both the shotput
and discus with tosses of 7 1 -5Vj and
213-9'A* respectively.
t wenty years later A&M’s Randy
Barnes broke Matson’s shotput re
cord by four inches. The disc ns toss
is still a conference best.
“When 1 graduated from A&M a
person couldn’t make a living partic
ipating in track meets,” Matson said.
“1 was a stockbroker paid on com
mission at first and then moved to
West Texas State University where 1
was chief fund-raiser.
“I had certain things that had to
he done before I could work out.
Now I could make a good living in
track. Had that been the case before
I would have retired when I was
about 35 years old having to start all
over in a new career.”
Matson returned to College Sta
tion in 1972 working as a fund-raiser
for A&M before moving over to the
Association of Former Students. In
1980 he became its director.
The Assciation has 130,000 mem
bers, half of whom have graduated
since 1976. Matson has watched it
grow to the point that it no longer
automatically admits non-graduates.
“Of course we do {nit non-grad
uates on our rolls hut now they have
to request admission,” Matson said.
“A&M graduates about 6,000 stu
dents each year now each of which
becomes a member upon gradua
tion.”
Matson works with the Associa
tion’s Board of Directors as well as
the University administration and
has a 35-member staff . I hough not
affiliated in any way with the Uni
versity itself, the association, a non
profit organization, does handle sev
eral items that are related to A&M.
“We are involved in fund-raising
for the entire University, keep re
cords of our alumni in our computer
system and the A&M Ring office is
located in our building," Matson
said. “The 250 Aggie clubs around
the world are under our direction,
including ones in Japan, Italy, Nor
way and Turkey. Our alumni travel
agency annually sets up five or six
tours all over the world.”
Having such a full calendar takes
Matson away from his family, al
though he devotes as much of his
time to them as he can.
He and his wife Margaret have al
ways taken an interest in whatever
activity their three children have en
tered.
"Our daughter Jessicaisi
man here at A&M, whileoui
son Jim is a junior at A&M&
[dated (where he is a memfe
basketball squad)," Matson
“Our younger son Cole is atio
grader, and he too is invol
their basketball program.
“Margaret and I enjoy k;
our children participateinan
of activity. We see them asm
possible. I can recall watdn
three of them playing.soccer
they were younger.
“We have to enjoy them n,
l ause it won’t be too longbefc
will be through their school vej
Recalling his days as ana
Ma tson pointed out that lit
f eel any pressure until he ei
the* 1968 Olympics as thedeari
ite to win his specialty.
"Wl len I took the silver«
1964 at Tokyo, 1 was just lap
get a medal behind a guylikeh
Matson said. "But the time la
up to Mexico City wasmudil
ent.
“As the reigning world chaa
I was expected to win the sir
much like Jim Ryun wasp
easilv win his races. I wasp
to win my event but alwaysfdi
could have done belter. Ofi
Jim didn’t fare as well, some
that could have liappenedtomt
In 1970 Matson continud
winning ways in the shotputd
season-high 71-4 in a meetatle
ley, Calif.
But there were other oppra
ties available for him andMaia
tired from competition ski
thereafter.
What does the future hoi
Ranch Matson?
“This type of job isn’t om
lasts until retirement age,bill
happy with what I’m doingi
present moment,” Matson
“Getting into this new building
( hallenge, and being responsi
the- various entities withinitisn
challenge for me.”
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Rockets rip p
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New Jersey
HOUSTON (AP) — HousKi
Purvis Short scored 24pointsJ|
the Rockets hit a team recorif
consecutive free throws enrtU
to a 1 15-87 NBA victors
New Jersey Thursday night.
The Rockets did notmissaft
throw until 37 seconds remak
in the game when Lester Co® I
missed the first of two I* |
throws. Houston finished wiiL
of 29 at the line.
1 louston’s free throw pertl
mance eclipsed the previous^
cord of 18-for-18 free
against Boston Oct. 21,1978.
Rodney McCray hit 19 p®
for the Rockets.
If
LPGA season begins with Mazda Classic
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Patti
Rizzo one-putted six holes Thursday
on her way to a 5-under-par 67 and
the first-round lead in the $200,000
Mazda Classic, the opening tourna
ment of the LPGA season.
England’s Trish Johnson, playing
in her first LPGA event, and Missie
McGeorge were next at 68. Jody
Rosenthal, Amy Benz and Nancy
Lopez, who birdied her last two
holes, shot 69s at the 6,368-yard
Stonebridge Golf and Country Club
course.
Eight golfers were at 70, including
Amy Alcott and defending cham
pion Kathy Postlewait.
Rizzo, 27, was a All-American at
the University of Miami and finished
second in the 1981 U.S. Amateur,
but has won only two LPGA tourna
ments and none since 1985. She said
she believes 1988 will be the spring
board to better times on the LPGA
Tour.
“I think it’s going to start this year,
too,” she said. “I don’t feel like it was
a fluke today. I think my game’s
solid right now.”
Four of Rizzo’s six birdies came on
putts of 10 feet or longer.
son break at her home in Ft 1
Fla.
She said she worked hard to im
prove her putting during an off-sea-
Johnson also had a shat
game, which allowed her I
come seven missed greens.
She said a 7:42 a.m. ESTs®!
time kept her from beingnf
about playing in her first I
tournament.
“I think I was still halfaslf<!
the first tee. Plus, there
many people around.”
McGeorge, who has nevej
ished better than fourth inan®
tournament, missed only twofl
and had five birdies.
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