The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1966 Page: 15 of 18
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OWLOOK
By CHUCK YOUNG
Thresher Sports Editor
Writing an article about a Rice sports event before the activity
has taken place is usually a foolish thing to do, both because
Rice is a member of the Southwest Conference, where tough
rivalry breeds many upsets, and because the Owls' showing
in a given event traditionally has little to do with past perform-
ances..
Although writing about prospects for the coming season based
on vague remembrances of this year's results is a magnification
of this problem, it is in the nature of Thresher Sports Editors
to go out on their traditional limb as early as possible. And so
armed with pre-planned excuses and appropriate apologies, we
forge on.
Rice's sports year can be fairly well summarized by com-
parison with the famous little girls of whom the poet writes,
"When she was good, she was very, very good;
But when she was bad, she was horrid."
In track, for instance, Rice is in the process of building a
dynasty capable of competing with national powers like UCLA,
USC, and New Mexico. Already the varsity has the second best
mile relay time in the world, and all three relay teams have been
invited to Los Angeles' Coliseum Relays on May 13.
With a little luck in Austin Saturday, the team will earn
student manager Mike Carter a new watch for the third straight
year. Carter says, "I sure hope so—the championship watches get
awfully rusty in a year." If the Owls pull out this year's meet,
the strong corps of freshmen should produce a winner for a few
years to come.
In tennis, the nucleus of one of Rice's best teams in recent
years will return in the persons of John Pickens and Butch See-
wagen. This year has seen a victory over Trinity, another SWC
team title, and a first place in our own Rice Invitational Tourney.
Although next year's team will have little depth, Coach Sammy
Giammalva has a knack of producing better players each year,
so net prospects must be considered rosy.
Baseball poses something of a problem. The Owls' great pitch-
ing staff of juniors Ray Hooten and Bill Palmer, and sophomore
Ronnie Henson have been hurt by weak hitting, especially against
SWC teams, although we have a 13-9-1 over-all record.
These fine mound workers will be back next year, but a really
successful team will require a comeback from a fewr of this year's
team and the early development of part of this year's promising
frosh crop.
The basketball team presents new hope in the form of a
brand-new coach, Don Knodel from Vanderbilt, and a wealth
of talent fronj. a strong freshman team. The boys seem to have
considerable respect for the well-liked Knodel, and are anxious
to improve after the disasters of the past two years.
We come at last to the enigma of football. The Owls show
each ^ear that they^ areca/pable of breaking anyone by soundly
trouncing a couple of fine teams. Unfortunately, we in turn are
easily defeated by the average teams, to produce a generally bad
record. This is particularily maddening to students because it is
football, and only football, that friends at home are interested
in. Rice's failure to live up to its potential is thus a large factor in
the student's dissatisfaction with athletes. Furthermore, prospects
are dim for us this year because we open the season against
bowl winners UCLA, Tennessee, and LSU.
But Ye Olde Thresher Sports Editor has saved the day this
year. In a rash moment at dinner one night, I foolishly agreed
that should the Owls win but four games during the coming
campaign, I would submit my frail body to the ravages of three
days of spring football workouts.
Now having a positive, honorable goal rather than mere
victory or "Rice's Honor" toward which to work, it is likely that
the Owls will come through with at least a 6-4 record.
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Owl Golfer Third
Bill Jenkins, number one
player for the Rice golf team,
finished third in the SWC
Golf Tourney held last week-
end in Austin. This is the
strongest performance by an
Owl golfer in over a decade.
Unfortunately, Jenkins will
not be back next year but the
other three members of this
year's squad will all return.
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Rice Tracksters Fall To Mexico
Los gringos rapidos de Rice
Universidad gave way to a team
of selected Mexican track men
after winning eleven out of fif-
teen events last Saturday. The
final score in the Mexico City
competition was 79 to 74.
The Owls took first places
in each running event from the
200 meter dash to the 1500 met-
er relay and in several field
events.
The main reason for Rice's
loss was a lack of participants
in the hammer throw, triple
jump and the long jump. The
thin air of the mile-and-a-half
high city also figured in the
Mexican victory by causing
some of the Blue striders to
run their worst races of the
season and, in some cases, to
drop out entirely.
The usual group of John
Moss, Bob Thompson, Fred
Cloud, and Jimmy Ellington
won the 1500 meter relay in
3:12.8. Cloud, Ronney Conner,
Ellington, and Jimmy Epps re-
ceived gold medals for their
efforts in the 400 meter relay.
Moss and Greg Peters placed
one-two in the 800 meter run,
while Epps won the 200 meter
dash.
In the 400 meters, captain
Ellington paced off a phenome-
nal time of 46.1, equivalent to
a 46.6 in the 440-yard dash.
Joe Williams and Gerald
Holtzman took one-two posi-
tions in both the shot puit and
ithe discus, while Tommy Mar-
shall dazzled the crowds with a
vault of 15'.
With boosted spirits from the
refreshing trip southward, the
Owls are now ready to tackle
Texas in an attempt to be SWC
champions for the third year in
a row.
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Coyner, Sandy. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1966, newspaper, May 5, 1966; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244975/m1/15/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.