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B-CS, A&M to host 1994 Games of Texas
Event to earn
$2 million,
organizers say
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
For the second time in its
eight year history the Games of
Texas will be held in Bryan-Col-
lege Station.
Opening ceremonies for the
1994 Games will begin at 8:00
p.m. Friday at Olsen Field. The
athletes will march onto Olsen
field in an Olympic-style proces
sion and the audience will be en
tertained by a sky diving exhibi
tion, equestrian shows and a
laser and fireworks show. Cost
for the opening ceremonies is
Si.00 or a contribution to the
Brazos Food Bank.
Event coordinators estimate
that 7,000 athletes and 9,000
J fUMI
spec- -
tators
will at
tend the
Games,
with an
estimated
impact of between
S2 million-$3 million
on the B-CS commu
nity.
Wally Groff, athletic
director at Texas A&M
and one of the members of the
Games’ steering committee, said
the Games present a chance for
A&M to work with the commu
nity.
“It’s a cooperative effort with
the Bryan-College Station com
munity,” he said. “It’s good pub
lic relations.”
A&M has offered the
use of some of its
sports facilities during
the Games. The Ander
son Track Complex, Omar
Smith Tennis Center, Read
Building and Olsen Field are all
being used during the events
Saturday and Sunday.
rS!h. The Games will include a
^ number of venues. They are
Archery, Bowling, Canoe-
Schedule of Events
%
ing/Kayaking, Fencing,
Golf, Horseshoes, Soccer,
Softball, Swimming, Tae
Kwon Do, Tennis, Track and
Field and Windsurfing.
1994 marks the second year
that Bryan-College Station has
hosted the Games. The first
time the city hosted the event
was in 1988.
“When it came to the city in
Please see Games/Page 4
Event
Site
Date
Opening Ceremonies
C.E. “Pat” Oisen Field
Texas A&M
July 29
Archery
Brazos Valley Archery Club
Bryan
July 31
Bowling
Wolf Pen
College Station
Aug. 6, 7
Canoe/Kayak
Lake Bryan
Bryan
July 30,31
Fencing
Read Building
Texas A&M
July 31, Aug-1
Golf
Bryan Municipal
Bryan
July 30,31
Horseshoes
Sue Haswetl Park
Bryan
July 30,31
Soccer
Bryan Regional Athletic Park &
Soutwood Athletic Complex
Bryan, College Station
July 30, 31
Softball
Bryan Regional Athletic Park
College Station Central Park
July 29-31
Swimming TAAF
Adamson Pool
College Station
July 30. 31
Taekwondo
A&M Consolidated High School
College Station
July 30
Tennis
Omar Smith Tennis Center
Texas A&M
July 28-31
Track and Field
Anderson Track Complex
Texas A&M
July 29-31
Windsurfing
Lake Bryan
Bryan
July 30,31
Professional football makes Switzer feel old
Pain in back, neck and shoulder are
toughest problems for Cowboys' coach
Mark Smith/THE Battalion
Dallas Cowboys’ first-year head coach Barry Switzer takes questions from the
press after the morning session of the Cowboys training camp Wednesday.
AUSTIN (AP) — Barry Switzer is 56,
but his first professional football camp
with long days and long nights some
times makes him feel 10 years older.
“Fve got bone spurs in my neck and
right shoulder and it bothers me,” said
the Dallas Cowboys new head coach.
“Sometimes it starts tingling. Some
times I have a lot of pain.”
So much pain that Switzer woke up
at 4 a.m. Tuesday so he could adjust a
cervical collar that shoots electrical im
pulses into the damaged areas.
“I guess I had too many board drills
when I was a player at Arkansas stick
ing my head in there,” said the former
Razorback defensive lineman. “I even
put on that collar when I’m watching
film at night.”
Switzer also is bothered by nerve
pressure in his spinal area.
He called his neurosurgeon in Okla
homa City Monday night to tell him
about his problems.
“I’ll have to have it operated on
sometime, maybe after the season,”
Switzer said. “That’s why you see me
walk funny sometimes, kind of leaning
forward.”
Switzer said if it wasn’t for the pain
in his back, neck, and shoulder, he
would be cavorting about like a young
colt.
“I’m in good shape, but the grind of
two-a-days has taken its toll with these
bone spurs,” he said, rubbing his shoul
der. “I woke up at 4 a.m. today and put
on the collar and went back to sleep and
felt great when I woke up.
“I’m supposed to be some kind of wild
man, but I’ve been in bed almost every
night by 10:30.”
Fighting through the pain has been
the toughest thing for Switzer in his
first 10 days of training camp. Replac
ing Jimmy Johnson and facing the daily
horde of media have been easy.
“I think things have gone well,”
Switzer said. “The players are tired of
hearing about the Jimmy thing and I’m
tired of it, but that stuff is pretty well
dying out. It’s kind of like the jock itch.
Please see Switzer/Page 4
SWC coaches
argue counting
A&M games
DALLAS (AP) — The kickoff of the
second-to-last Southwest Conference
season is more than a month away,
yet league coaches already have
launched a war of words.
The bickering began Tuesday at
their annual gathering before media
at the Texas High School Coaches As
sociation convention in Houston. Sev
eral coaches argued that SWC games
against Texas A&M shouldn’t count
in league standings. The Aggies are
banned from the post-season by the
NCAA.
“That’s exactly the kind of attitude
that caused the conference to break
up,” A&M coach R.C. Slocum said
when told of his fellow coaches’ com
ments. “My feeling is that we should
be playing for the championship.
“It’s totally unfair that we were pe
nalized at all, so I would totally take
exception to somebody saying that.
But I can also understand why they
said it.
“It’s hard when you go three
straight years without being able to
beat somebody,” Slocum said.
The Aggies have won the last
three SWC titles but are ineligible for
a fourth-straight Cotton Bowl be
cause of the punishment stemming
from several players being paid for
work they didn’t do.
A&M’s games, however, will count
in the standings as it tries to add to
its league-record 22-game conference
winning streak.
New Rice coach Ken Hatfield, who
coached Arkansas to the Cotton Bowl
in 1988 when the Aggies were again
on probation, spoke against the SWC
policy of letting A&M’s games count
in the standings.
“I said it at Arkansas and I’ll say it
now: Their games should not count at
all,” Hatfield said. “They got mad
then, and they’ll probably get mad
now. But it isn’t fair that their games
should count.”
He was supported by Southern
Methodist coach Tom Rossley.
“If they’re on probation, their
games shouldn’t count,” he said.
This also was the first gathering of
the coaches since the league split ear
lier this year, with four teams headed
to what will become the Big 12, three
teams bound for the Western Athletic
Conference and Houston’s future un
determined.
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