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LSU's appearance at Kyle Field on
eptember 14 of this year will mark
he beginning of R.C. Slocum's third
eason as head coach at Aggieland.
Slocum has compiled an impressive
U 7-7-1 record here and has directed
&M to the most lopsided bowl
ictory in history against BYU last
ear. Even so, the annual complaints
ave already begun to circulate.
Slocum is too conservative. Slocum
lost to Texas when he should have
one for the tie. Slocum should have
sed Lance, or he should have used
3ucky. Slocum plays wimpy non-
rposeisto conference games and combs his hair
lining, funny. He hasn't gone to the Cotton
le grount Bowl three years in a row like Jackie.
, .. Crucify him! Crucify him!
It's time for all the anal-retentive
mnchair quarterbacks to sit down,
adn fn in llshut U P an d ta ke an enlightening look
A&M football history:
In 1929 D.X. Bible left A&M football
after 11 years, five Southwest
. i ^Conference championships and 70
n aentiiii^ v i c tories to only 19 losses. His
successor, Madison Bell, managed
only a 24-21-3 record, with no
championships.
Homer Norton won three SWC
championships from 1934 to 1947 and
the National Championship in 1939.
Harry Stiteler and Raymond George
both followed him as head coach,
ompiling a glorious record of 20-35-6,
E th only two winning seasons
tween them.
The legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant
called A&M the toughest place in the
world to coach football. After four
years of alumni pressure, the Bear
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Cain not just for athletes anymore
New NCAA rule requires
changes in occupancy
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By David Leahy
The Battalion
Cain Hall will never be the same.
Beginning this fall, 35-40 of its resi
dents will not be athletes, a first for the
16-year old athletic dormitory.
TTiis comes as a result of an NCAA rule
adopted on January 10, 1991, at the 85th
NCAA Convention. Bylaw 16.5.2.2 of the
NCAA manual states:
“The institution may not house
student-athletes in athletics dormito
ries or athletics blocks within institu
tional dormitories on those days when
institutional dormitories are open to
the general student body."
The effective date of this rule is August
1, 1996, meaning Division I member in
stitutions have five years to comply with
the legislation.
"I'm not real excited about the rule,"
said TCU head football coach, Jim
Wacker. "With an athletic dorm, you
have better control of the athletes be
cause they're in one central location.
You're also able to better monitor grades.
I hope it changes."
The NCAA's objective is to integrate
the student-athletes "more completely"
into the student body. The rationale be
hind the rule is "to enable student-ath
letes to experience every facet of college
life similar to students in general."
Opinions concerning the rule seem
evenly balanced among SWC football
coaches.
"I think it's a good rule," said Rice
coach Fred Goldsmith. "I've coached at
schools that have had them (athletic
dorms) and not had them, and found
more problems at the schools that had
them.
"Anytime anything goes wrong, mo
rale problems are created, and we wind
up forcing rules on the athletes that other
Texas recruit
flunks exams
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Longhorn foot
ball recruit James Thornton of McKinney,
who failed to meet the minimum require
ment on entrance exams, may enroll at
the University of Kansas, it was reported
Wednesday.
"My heart is telling me to stay with
Texas, but's it probably best to go to Kan
sas," Thornton told the Austin Ameri-
can-Statesman on Tuesday.
Thornton said he scored 690 on his
third attempt on the Scholastic Aptitude
Test. He needed 700 to be eligible at
Texas.
The Southwest Conference adopted a
rule, effective this fall, under which
member schools cannot accept athletes
who fail to meet NCAA eligibility re
quirements for freshmen, including a
score of 700 on the SAT.
SONDRA ROBBINS/The Battalion
Cain Hall, Texas A&M’s athletic dormitory, will open its doors to non-athletes this fall semester in
accordance with new NCAA regulations designed to integrate athletes into the student body.
students don't have to abide," Goldsmith
said.
Texas Tech does not have an athletic
dormitory, but even so, the rule does not
please Head Coach Spike Dykes.
"I don't like it. The NCAA is acting like
the federal government," Dykes said. "I
don't believe in taking everything away
from a certain group of people just be
cause the rest of the people don't have
it."
Texas A&M Head Coach R.C. Slocum
agreed with Dykes.
"I don't agree with the rule. Each
school is a different situation," Slocum
said. "The NCAA shouldn't legislate
where athletes live. Let every school
house their own students and athletes
the way they want to."
Like Texas Tech, SMU does not have
an athletic dorm, but first-year coach
Tom Rossley sees the rule in a different
light.
"I think it's a good rule," said Rossley.
"I think the athletes spend too much time
with football, and should spend more
time with the student body.
"The rule is in the best interest of the
athletes," he said.
Although the rule has already been
adopted, "it is still up in the air," said Dr.
Steve Crews, director of Cain Hall. With
five years still remaining before the rule
goes into full effect, the dissenters hope
fora change.
Ag netters win
first round at
Jr. Davis Cup
POUGHKEEPSIE, New York-
notched first-round^wins at the United
States Tennis Association (USTA)
Junior Davis Cup Tournament at the
Poughkeepsie Tennis Club.
Brown, a senior at A&M, upset the
tournament's No. 4 seed Chris
Henderson of the Northeastern
Region 7-5, 6-4, while Phillips, a
junior at A&M, knocked off Tim
McNaney of the Southwestern Region
6-1,6-1.
Brown will face local favorite
George Banta of Poughkeepsie in the
second round, and Phillips will take
on Mark Kramer of Florida on Friday.
Starting times for the matches have
not been announced.
Brown and Phillips will team up for
the doubles competition which begins
on Friday at 12:00 noon (EST).
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