The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 298, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 19, 1967 Page: 3 of 6
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Tuesday, Dec 19, 1987 THIS CUERO RECORD fW
Texas Christian University
Vnmeeri bark fmm an early
lead by Sam Houston to defeat
the Rearkats 93-70 Monday night
while Ri.-e was petting clobber-
ed 90-68 by Davidson.
The Frogs led at the half 43-
34 Mike McCarty paced the
•earn with 16 points and 18 re-
bounds. although both Bill Meh-
rens and Albert MeCaskill scor-
ed 18 points each for Sam
Houston
The lOth-ranked Davidson
Wildcats were too much for
Rice in the Charlotte Invitation-
il Tournament.
The Wildcats were sparked j .Simmons 105-80 in
try the 23-point performance of
Mike Maloy.
Greg Williams led Rice with
14 points, follitwrd by Kill How-
ard and Farrar Stockton with
14 points
Second-ranked Houston Jump-|
ed all over Minnesota, defeat-1
:ng the Gophers 103-63.
AU-Amcnra Elvin Hayes,
dropped in 35 points to give
Houston its eighth straight win :
after Minnesota jumped to a 3-0 i
lead in the opening minutes j tenniai Basketball Classic.
Fan American College inched The Huron?, '-Dth three play- j
Both Gobbler Teams
Beat Shiner Fives
by St. Mary's University 73-71
although trailing by about 5 per
cent in accuracy.
Otto Moorp dumped in 21
pdnts and came up with 11 re-
bounds for Pan American.
The University of Texas at El
Paso lost to Howard 59-53 for
the school's first defeat in five
outings.
Nate Archibald fired in 19
points for the team, although
the Texas squad hit a cold 28
per cent from the floor.
ers 6-5 or taller, went ahead,
from the opening jump.
Iieroy Watson and ,T. W. Fair- !
man scored 17 points each forj
Hordin-Simmons, now 2-5.
The Stephen F. Austin Lum-j
berjacks snatched their ninth |
straight victory, 78-69, from out-
ranked Northwestern Louisiana.
Towering Greg Johns' n scor-
ed 17 points and grabbed 23 re-
bounds to lead the Lumberjack*.
Howard Payne's Dan Smith
hit 22 points In pacing his team
Sports Comments, [Etc.]
The Cuer<> C-.HIil'T q :inM; to he high point man in the.
First District 14-AAA e«Rte*t
ch'.s 70-59 in the -b.i-skotbnll Wf Snenz who registered 19. i T«n..aev S with the
game between the A teams • of H[1) Tur,;k nW, An(]y Brush led ; ^ei « 6 tljf the
the two schools Monday night in,.. chi _ fi„ ,vith is an(* isiB teams meeting at 6 ana tne
By CLAIRE HOWERTON j was hurt again in the Sunday j Shinei. „nil the Gobbler B team ; ‘.LPtivelv ' iA 8am« 10 follow at 7:30'
v | contest. Meredith has sPent! had no trouble in the first, game ] Th„ fVh,' , ‘ ,nd B tpam8!
Surely glad that it Is not New m„re time on the injured list' f 1ll0 night taking their count- '. for Barnes fn Edna
U^^son man he^ ^ the !etTarts 60^6. . 5K£ a break
Mike Barron hit for .3 punts for ciiristmas holidays. The
B teams will meet at 6:30 and
Trojans in Guard High School
rolled over the Shiner Oar.an-: Kame followed by Gobbler R.>! scheduled with the Beeville
* t— 11 ! rPr»r»'i*stne i« isil*»r,A
herf
jthe two schools Monday night in; Jhft'^Shlnlrr* five with iTand'ttl? teams5 th*
The powerful Eastern Michi-Jto a 92-70 win over East Texas
gan Huron* smothered Hardin- j Baptist.
first j Austin Pray State College de-
round of the Wayne State Cen-! feated Umnr Tech 95-81.
BASKETBALL
Cougars Close In
On Bruin Record
Year's yet and I have not made
that resolution about at least
starting the column the day be-
fore. because If I had It would
be broken already. Took the af-
ternoon off yesterday to attend
to some personal business and
therefore did not get going on
field, but Craig Morton has |
proved a good replacement.
I
The Colorado football team1
was enjoying the Texas sun-:
shine in Houston Monday in
preparation for its game with
this drivel. Those readers who j Miami Saturday in the BlUelxm
look forward to nasty cracks m.| Howl ai Rice Stadium.
Conference
Colendor
8v I’alUtd Pr>« International
Mason Standing*
about something or other will
be out of luck for several days,
however, as I somehow have
picked up the Christmas spirit
finally and at long last. I'm
even looking forward to cooking
the traditional bird and ail that
goe* with it.
j _
I The Astroworld, the family
entert: inment center adjacent
to the Astrodome, is scheduled
lor opening next summer and
the fabulous judge Hofheinz,
who air-conditioned the 9’■4
Coach Eddie Crowder said it;
w as one degree whe n t hey de-j
parted Bouider, Gilo, and that |
sounds pretty cold to me. Hous-j
ton can get pretty damp and j
cold but I never have heard of, throughout South Texas met
So. T exas
Golf Pros
Organize
G o 1 f professionals f r o in
! the A teams are scheduled for
: S p.m.
Aggies Given
'Bama Report
COLLEGE STATION flTD —
A detailed report on Alabama
was heard Monday by the Tex-
as A&M football squad.
The two teams will meet New
Year’s Day in the Cotton Bowl.
After hearing the report, the
Port Lavaca with the Calhoun1 Aggies went through a lengthy
County Randerabs. practice session.
Play will resume for the Gob-
blers Dec. 28 and 29 with parti-
cipation in the Yoakum Bulldog
Invitational Tournament, and
on December 30. the Gobblers
arc " bokod for two games in j
it going down that far.
T»em
W
I.
Pet.
Eeylor
4
1
.800
Texas A AM
4
3
.571
Ark*n«»»
2
2
500
Terh
3
4
429
Tex*.*
*
4
333
rrv
1
3
.250
Rice
1
4
200
5 50
0
5
000
NEW YORK (LTD UCLA, held down by Tennessee 3-0,
was selected unanimously as Kentucky 4-1 and Louisville 2-2.
the nation’s top college basket-j Davidson 5-1 and Princeton 5-1, acre, 710 foot-diameter Astro-
ball team again this week by j tied for 10th. | dome, is about to air condition
J the United Press International : Tennessee won its own Volun- j the outdoors as well. All out-
TV'ard of Coaches, but the ; tM.r classic to jump from 10th ' door shaded areas, including
Houston Cougars hiked their | p, seventh place with 97 points, j many of the rides as well as
record to 7-0 to close in on the -j$ ahead of the Wildcats, who I waiting areas, walkways, etc.,
idle Bruins j slipped two notches after losing! ore to lie air conditioned with
Houston captured the Blue- to North Carolina. Louisville j 2,000 ton* <>f cooling by Carrier
tumbled the farthest, however, Air Conditioning Co.
falling from fourth to ninth af-
ter tx ing lie den by Dayton for
Closed Circuit
Set for Game
HOUSTON tl’PIt
The Hous-
Monday at Victoria Country
Club to organize the now South
ern Texas Section of the na-
tional PGA.
The pros, representing the ci-
ties of San Antonio. Houston
Austin. Kerrville, Cuero, Corpus
Christi. Sinton, Alice, McAllen
ton Oilers-Miami Dolphin foot-jand 0lher valley courses, Lul-
bal! game will be shown on ing. Scaly and the host city.
bonnet Classic and then knock-
Young to move within 41 points
(.as I Week'* Result*
Notre Dame 79, SMU 59
Ric* 88, Tulane 81
CnVirado 9b, Texas 75
Arkansas 85, Centenary 65
Baylor 88. Loyola La. 75
Texas Tech 71, Oklahoma
up s perfect .350 points for the ; Louisville had 51 points. only
second w eek in a row by col- j three* more than Da \m I son,
lectmg all 33 first place ballots, j which beat William A Mary-
closed circuit television Satur-
day but will not be carried on
network television, Oiler offi-
cials said Monday.
The game will be shown on a
named Hardy Loudermiik of
San Antonio's Oak Hills Coun-
try Club as the first president
of the new division.
In the afternoon, the visiting
The injuries continue to
mount in the pro football ranks.
Coach Vince Lonbardi of the championship.
Green Bay Packers added to]__
. ............ _ ______ hi* list of walking wounded and j
'The Cougars, who received 11 af1Pr j,ising to Vanderbilt, and j-the New. York Jet* Joe Namath j
'more points than a week ag- ,, Pnnceton, which suffered its j is suffering a facial injury but
w-’>und up with 396 point* >>n th" ( {irgt defeat to Nortli Carolina, j anounced it would not keep him
1 strength of 30 second-place «jq,e Davidson Wildcats had from playing Namath was real-
votes i ninth a week ago. and ; ly mauled in the last game. Don
Meredith of the Dallas Cowboys
20-fout screen in the Houston ] professionals squared off for a
Convention and Exhibit Center, j four-man team tournament,
which seats 8,000 persons. j Dwight Nev<] of Kelly AFB
The game could give the Oil-1 was low individual with a 2-un-
ers the American Football dor-par 70 followed by Don Col-
League’s Eastern Division Pit with 72 and Joe Ballanger
of Austin municipal with 73
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; lieen ninth a week ago.
The 1'clans 3-0 have rolled ] j>nnorton had been seventh
_ -. ____I fn 37 strairht victories to bold'
Virth Texas 71. Texas AAM,^ f)rgf *4flee ,mrr ,hr ixe-;—~TZ
rn: wt lovoi* u 69 r?'inc* of ^r67 ,n HSPORTRAIl
Texas Terh 83. Onnmary 79 f™r Z 'V ra’T .u -
7 Texas A8M hP>‘ hivr Ka nH *" bu<
Kansss State 82.
K,„m* 78. Texas AAM 52
Dayton 82, Rice 56
Oklahoma City 98, TCV 86
Te*a* 56. Oklahoma State 54
Te*»* Tech W. 1/iyola La
T>U We«k'* Schediil*
MONDAY Sam Houston at
first-place vote.
Vanderbilt knocked off Duke
and Davidson,-a pair of Soutle
I em powerhouses, to bv*st its
; record to VO and retain a strong
-,ibo!d f>n third piace. The Com-
' rn'><iores gained 244 pjtnfs. 62
more than a week ago. as tlicy
„ ,r, „ , i, edged clwr to UOA,
, hih-
Tewsale an<1 Princeton pushed North, to different when a high-
ior r,r. in Otarkxtte Invitation- ] I Pr in’° ,hr offensive "Post" prv
f ; T airfield to rrmain in fifth p»-: sitjon against center* a foot tal-
'u'»M.rtr,iv , . ; sition with 156 isiin's on the ha- • ier
8anta Barbara at T«,w of * M % 8*^;]! Th' difference ts the deter-
rnttftanAV »rmv «I ttire played through Dec 16. «nd min itlon of Northeastern Urn-
Arkansas at Alabama^ TO' at I ^ l-um-.-d up frjmj versity s Leo Osg.Kxi, He leam-
f.e.rei* Tech Drnv-r at T< \a* l2,h ,u "lMh pliU' ' , ed h-w to be different year* ago
T ‘.u • jKMntu b^hirvi th** F*n«les, nft^r | on maradnm courts of Bos*
'■-I------*— Kansas State
It’s Determination
That’s Difference
Ry IHCK DEW , coperaiive program of work a
BOSTON (ITT - Something j semester, study a semester and ,
FRIDAY Oklahoma City at,
Bay i
SATURDAY
Army at SMU.
nn<J ■ ton's Roxhury ghetto and has
never sto()ped trying to make
dumping
North Carolina State
The next three places were' himself better than”bigger ri-
TiT at Memphis State
Basketball
Ratings
NEW YORK (1TD - The Unil-
i ed Press International third
weekly major eollcge basketball
ratings for the 1967-68 season
wilh first place votes and re-
eords through games of Der 18 fact that he was even playing.
! vals.
Dick Dukeshire, whose North-
! eastern Huskies currently are
ranked among the national col-
lege division leaders, first saw
Osgood when Leo was a hard-
working high school sophomore.
"We were scouting somebody
else at the time," Dukesh re re-
call*, "and Osg<vd was so small
we had to be impressed by the
Rift wrapped.
In Packs and Bo<*»
GIVE KING
EDWARD
im»rh$t itrg»$t S*ll/i>f Gift
In parentheses
1 UCLA
2 Houston
3 Vanderbilt
4 North Carolina
8 Boston Coll 3-0
6. Indiana V0
7 Tennessee 3 0
8 Kentucky 4 1
9. 1/Hjisville 2 2
10. tic Davidson VI
Princeton VI
Second 10: 12 Wyoming
13. tie Kansas and Bradley 34;
15. Dayton 27. 16. Utah 23; 17
St. John's 18; 19. Wisconsin 12;
19. tie Duke and Purdue 11.
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He had played against Jlm-
3- 0 350 my Walker ex-Providence Col-
7-0 306 j lege All-America and now a
VO 2441 professional on the schoolyard
4- 1 196 j courts in Roxbury and he had
115 clearly decided for himself that
111 I he was going to play with the
97! bigger guys
71 Wore Weight On Shoe*
51: "He started then to wear
weight* on his «hoes to help his
jumping ability. The result is
fantastic. Just the other night,
in the pre-gatne warmup, I saw
him tip In a ball with his elbow.
He can jump to the point of
bringing hi* eyes exactly level
with the rim. And he can get up
there from a single step where)
most player* need a two or
three step drive," DuVejhire
marvels.
Osgood, a .junior business ma-
jor in Northeastern's five-year
Tel-A- Win Co.
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so forth, made a quick arrival
with Dukeshire * Huskies a year
ago.
He was the team's leading
scorer with s 15.4 average a*
Northeastern built a 22-4 re-
cord. Osgood's work earned him
the title of Eastern C lege Ath-
letic Conference Sophomore of j
the Year, a richly deserved ho-]
nor according to Dukeshire.
"I've never seen a kid with]
the attitude he has. He's con-
sistant in every phase of his ]
game and is completely popular ]
with the other players He av-
eraged 15 4 last season and is ]
at 15 34 s<> far this year." said
the coach.
Quirk And Fast
"He jumps so well I can and
often do move him into the post
position. I've seen hint ouijump
centers a foot taller than he is
and of course his quickness and
speed let him go around them. ,
too."
Osgood, who does his work
period duties in recreation pro
grants throughout Boston, is.
studying under a Ford Founda-,
tion grant designed for deserv- \
mg Negro student* who might,
not have either the finances or
the academic history to permit i
a college education.
11 isn't at all surprising that
th'' determination he displays:
on the basketball court also}
shows up in the classroom. He's ;
a solid C-plus student and mak-1
ing steady progress from an ac-1
sdemic standpoint.
"He learned a long time
ago," Dukeshire said, ’‘that he
had to have something special;
going for him. H* decided on
determined hard work and I;
don't think he'll ever stop."
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