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Thursday • July 6,19S
A&M football banquet
set for Aug. 8
The A&M Club will hold its annual
Coach's Night Banquet Aug. 8 at the
College Station Hilton.
The event, which will feature Texas
A&M Head Football Coach R.C.
Slocum as its main speaker, will fea
ture a silent auction containing many
pieces of Aggie memorabilia. All pro
ceeds from the auction will go to the
A&M Club's four-year endowed schol
arships for local high school graduates.
Tickets for the dinner are $20 per
person. For more information, call
775-0336.
Strike causes All-Star
ticket value to plunge
Not even an elegant stadium, a pen-
the
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an Nolan Ryan can heat up the demand
for tickets to the 1995 All-Star game.
The game July 11 at The Ballpark
in Arlington will go in the books as a
sellout, but look again. Out on the
street, the market for tickets appears
to have taken a direct hit from last
season's strike.
"The All-Star game has been a total
flop," said Barry Lefcowitz, head of
the National Association of Ticket Bro
kers, many of whose members are
stuck trying to get rid of seats at the
midsummer classic. "Without any
question the strike has had a dramatic
impact on interest in the All-Star game.
Or should I say lack of interest."
Surgery will end Astro
Hudek's season
HOUSTON (AP) — The season ap
pears to be over for Houston Astros re
lief righthander John Hudek, who will
undergo surgery to remove his top
right rib as a way to relieve pressure in
his right arm.
The rib is causing a vein to con
strict, affecting the blood flow to
Hudek's arm.
Although no date for surgery has
been set, Hudek has chosen Dr. David
Roos of Denver to perform it.
Hudek was examined by Roos,
who invented the surgical procedure
and has performed some 1,900 such
operations over the last six years.
Hudek said Tuesday Roos was opti
mistic about the pitcher's full recovery.
"He said there's not reason I won't
be able to pitch again next year," said
Hudek, who leads the Astros with sev
en saves but has been on the disabled
list since June 23.
"It's going to be a long rehab
process (six months), but I feel better
knowing that the operation will make
it better."
Seles plans return to
tennis next month
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A&M Football’s Field of Dreams
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Kyle Field was expanded for the third time in 1 980, with the
□ Nearing its seventh decade as the home
of Aggie football, Kyle Field keeps A&M
fans cheering and opponents at bay.
The following story is the third in a series of features on
Texas A&M’s athletic facilities.
By Nick Georgandis
The Battalion
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) —
Monica Seles plans to return to wom
en's tennis next month despite infight
ing among players on the WTA Tour
that led to a rejection of a proposal to
give her special ranking considerations.
"I never asked for anything," Seles
said Wednesday from her home in Flori
da, according to her spokeswoman.
Seles is set to announce her come
back Saturday during a news confer
ence at the Special Olympics in New
Haven, Conn., and is expected to play
her first Grand Slam event in 2 1/2
years at the U.S. Open in August.
First, Seles will play a televised
exhibition with Martina Navratilova
in Atlantic City on July 29.
She's been practicing daily,
coached by her father, and her come
back does not hinge on any al
lowances the WTA Tour makes for
her ranking.
"Monica has never asked for spe
cial ranking consideration, and her
decision on whether or not to return
has nothing to do with that," said
Linda Dozoretz, International Man
agement Group's spokeswoman for
Seles.
“It should be on the Code of Honor, Aggies don’t lie,
cheat, steal or lose at Kyle Field.”
Former Texas A&M All-American linebacker Antonio
Armstrong said those words the week before the Aggie foot
ball team went out and extended its home field undefeated
streak to 34 games, the longest in the NCAA, on Nov. 19
against Texas Christian University.
In recent years, especially during R.C. Slocum’s six-year
tenure as head coach, Kyle Field has become one of the
toughest places for opposing teams to win.
Named for Edwin Jackson Kyle, former dean of agri
culture and president of the athletic council at A&M,
the stadium’s construction began in 1927. The Aggies
won the inaugural game at Kyle Field, routing Trinity
45-0 on Oct. 1, 1927, and went on to win eight more
games at home over the span of two seasons before fi
nally dropping a home game.
The first loss at the Aggies’ new home came courtesy of
Centenary, which dropped A&M 6-0 in 1928. Despite sever
al mediocre seasons in the early 1930s, the team was al
ways successful at home, winning 16 of its first 20 games.
The second phase of Kyle Field was completed in the fall
of 1929, with a completed east grandstand and a horseshoe
section in the north end zone that increased the seating ca
pacity to 32,000.
In the years to come, Kyle Field would expand as the
Aggie football team made its long climb into national
prominence. In 1967, the seating was expanded, and in
1980, a third deck was added to bring the seating capac
ity to 70,210.
The biggest crowd ever at Kyle Field is 78,573, for a
game against the University of Texas in 1987. Additional
seating on the surface surrounding the field provided the
extra seats as the Aggies defeated the Longhorns 20-13 to
clinch their third consecutive Southwest Conference title.
That same season, A&M set a school record in 1987 by
averaging 66,623 fans per game, a 95 percent capacity rate.
At full capacity, Kyle Field is the second largest football
stadium in the Southwest Conference. Only UTs Memorial
Stadium seats more people.
Plans for an extra 3,000 seats, to be added in area
around the south end zone have been proposed, but Texas
A&M Athletic Director Wally Groff said the idea is “still in
the works.”
A large number of great games and sparkling plays have
been witnessed at Kyle Field, but several moments stand
out as some of the greatest in
college football history.
•In the 1991 home open
er against Louisiana State,
freshman Greg Hill set an
NCAA record by rushing for
212 yards in the first game
of his collegiate career. The
Aggies routed the Tigers 45-
7, beginning a 10-2, SWC ti
tle season.
•In 1976, placekicker Tony
Franklin boomed field goals of
65 and 64 yards, at the time
the two longest field goals in
NCAA history, as A&M
blanked Baylor 24-0.
•In 1956, the A&M played
Texas Christian in the famous
“Hurricane Game”. TCU was
ranked No. 4 at the time and
A&M was ranked 10th. The
game was played by high
speed winds and a torrential
rain storm, and reports of tor
nadoes in the area kept com
ing in during the second half. Texas A&M's original football stadium housed the football team from 1894 until
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During R.C. Slocum’s six-
year stint as A&M’s head
coach, the Aggies have a 34-1-
1 record at home. The only loss
at Kyle Field in Slocum’s
tenure came against Arkansas,
a 23-22 heartbreaker, in 1989.
Perhaps even more impres
sive than the Aggies’ record at
home is the way in which they
have won the games. Since
1989, the Aggies have
outscored their opponents
1,298-451, a difference of near
ly 20 points per game.
As the home winning streak
continues to grow, A&M’s op
ponents continue to attempt to
be the team to knock the Ag
Photo courtesy of Texas A&M Archives and Special Colk
gies out of the record books. For-The Aggie band performs at Kyle Field in the 1930s. The facility was built in 1927, am
mer standout running back a&M football team won 1 6 of its first 20 games there.
Rodney Thomas said that was now a'member oi tne Houston Oilers, said. TiteepinT
part of what makes the streak fun to keep alive. streak alive) is all about chemistry and making it won
“You’ve got so many people gunning for you,” Thomas* gether.”
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Wed., July 12 (6-9 pm) & Thurs., July 13 (6-9 pm)
Sat., July 22 (8:30-11:30 am & 12:30-3:30 pm)
STATE APPROVED DRIVING SAFETY COURSE
Register at University Plus (MSC Basement)
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