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Friday, December 5, 1952 THE BATTALION Page 5 •Letter To Coaches New Coach ingPlan Given To Mentors By ED HOLDER Sports Editor Everyone has their revolutionizing ideas about how to toach a football team. Here’s something new and written in a very impressive way by one of the Associated Press’ top feature men. And we think he has something. Certainly A&M could use the idea, find a few of the other low-riding SWC members could too. With the record this league left in intersectional play this season, teams around the conference should employ some thing such as suggested below. Raymond Holbrook wrote this letter to the nation’s coaches, and it would be a good idea if they took notice. Dear Coach: Since it will soon be safe for you to bring your family back to the campus and Zubpovich, Kowkowski and the rest of the squad soon will be devoting full time to their ballroom dancing, fingerprinting and auto driving courses, I am flip ping you a bullet pass. And if you don’t fumble it, Coach, there will be a new era in football at Q. U. Not Personal in any Way What I am going to say is not cd. You have made only two major personal in any way. I demonstrat- advancements in the history of ed clearly I am without personal modern mayhem. The first was the rancor when I insisted that the forward pass and it took you fellows let you get out of your coaches half a century to think car before we rolled it into Scum up the second great milestone, Creek after that 76-0 drubbing by the two-platoon system. And at Happy Valley Teachers College the rate the coaching fraternity is Tjack in 1937. thinking it will be another half But frankly, Coach, you, along century before your mental pro- with football itself, have stagnat- cesses make another first down. . Get Set Coaches Now get set, Coach, for that bullet pass that will put Q. U. de cades ahead of the game. Keep your eye on the ball. Here it comes. It’s the four-platoon system. The two-platoon system has helped Q. U.’s game considerably but since the Mountain View The- logical School Parsons edged us, 49-0, this fall, I am sure you will agree with me it leaves something to be desired. What Q. U. needs is four teams — the “offensive offensive” and “defensive offensive” squads when we have the ball and the “offen sive defensive” and “defensive de- Tensive” platoons when we don’t have the ball which seems to be most of the time. Send In Offense 4 Yon can send in the “offensive offensive”» platoon when caution can be thrown out of the stadium and the boys can triple lateral to their hearts’ content to run up the biggest score possible. We had the opportunity to employ such a platoon when we smothered the local high school squad 13-0 back in 1939. Then there is a need for a “de fensive offensive” squad, a cau tious but agressive eleven that can make good solid four and five yard gains every time on ground plays, hold onto the ball, and pro ject a slim lead—which is the kind of a lead we usually have when Vc have a lead. The “offensive defensive” team /ould be useful when things get tough but we still have a chance to regain the initiative. It should be made up of good pass intercep tors, fumble recovcrcrs, and a few adroit clippers. It should be the type of a team that can get possession of the ball. Then you send in the “defensive offensive” platoon until they build up a safe lead so you can send in the “offensive offensive” team to wind up the game in a blaze of glory and touchdowns. The “defensive defensive” pla toon would be a face saver, a last- ditch squad you could send in to pi’otect your job as well as to salvage what little honor Q. U. now has in football circles. Its *sole purpose would be to keep the opposition from making any touch downs or as few touchdowns as possible. ; For this platoon you need elev en good ticklers, who unencum bered with any hopes of ever car rying a ball, could go about their Work as methodically, as efficient ly, and as contentedly as the jug ular-vein slashers in a slaughter house. The advantages of the four- platoon system would extend be yond the stadium. Perhaps you ai’c aware, Coach, that because of the current criticism of commercialism in college sports, a few eyebrows have been raised at the 100 schol arships which are yours to dis pense. With four platoons to man, you should not only be able to justify that number but perhaps get it raised to 150. And it should be easier to re cruit good men. You would be able to offer shorter working hours and with the increased man power, the ardous chores that ac company the athletic scholarships could be lessened. Instead of having to feed the goldfish in Memorial Fountain every week, Kowkowski Avould only (See COACHES, Page 6) HAPPY AFTER VICTORY—The Aggie Soccer team is very pleased with their recent victory Thanksgiving morning over the University of Texas. The game was played in 40 degree weather, with strong winds, and the Cadet squad pounced the UT team 4-0. (Kneeling L to R) Guillermo Cardenas, captain, John Koratha, Victor Artecona, Aris tides Casas, and Guy Fernandez. (Standing L to R) Joaquin Ortiz, Aquilino Vilanueav, Juan Letts, Guillermo Fernandez, Carlos Molina, Jim Lester, and Ernesto Pabon. Little, Graves UP All-SWC All-America Jack Little and All- SWC Ray Graves of the Aggies have been chosen on the United Press All Conference team. Marshall Rush, Aggie defensive guard, made the second team and Don Ellis, offensive halfback was placed on the third. Little was selected on several All-America teams as a junior last year and again this year. He has been outstanding on the Aggie team as an offensive and defensive guard. He formed the mythical “stone wall” on the right side of the line, and succeeded in stopping ball darriers from running over his position. Another Aggie great, Graves, won the quarteback post over T. Jones of Texas. Graves wound up the season second in total offense. Although he missed half of the SMU game, all of the Rice game, and a quarter of the Texas game, Graves was only 49 yards behind Jones. Rush was selected for the sec ond team because of his great de fensive play for the Cadets this year. Rush was very fast at the guard post, and was used as a line backer frequently. He led the team in number of tackles in several games this year, and will be sore ly missed next year. Ellis the flashy halfback from La., was selected on the third team. He was placed along with Billy Quinn, who set a new scoring rec ord for sophomores this year. Leading the conference in kick off returns and placing high in rushing and pass receiving honors, Ellis was a constant threat with his fine openfield naming. He is one of the fastest men on the squad and very hard to catch. El lis will be back next year to run (See ALL SWC, Page 6) CHS Cagers By Navasota Romp 58-34 Basketball season opened at A&M Consolidated High School last night with a Tiger win over the Navasota Ramblers, 58-34. Coach Othel Chafin of Consolidated played the same six boys who won district championship last year. Fred Anderson played a heads- up game for the Tigers. He was high-point man with a total of 17 points. Joe Motheral was second with another 13 points for the ma roon and white. Bobby Jackson and Byron Andrews were third with 11 points each for Consoli dated. It was a double sweep for the Basketball (Continued from Page 4) “The game should be a good one as well as a close one,” Floyd said, “and although we. are inex perienced, we have more overall depth than ever before. At least nine players look very good and should see a lot of service.” The varsity this season will in augurate a new merit system. Squad members will select the out standing player of the week for both the varsity and freshman squads. Each week the picture of the two winners will be placed in the northeast display window of the MSC. The display will be appropriately titled. Besides the varsity and freshman player of the week, it will contain pictures of coaches and other athletic officials. Assisting Floyd with the varsity squad is Raymond Walker, guard on the Farmer team last season. The freshman coach is Larry Hayes, who was graduated from Oklahoma A&M in 1949, where Floyd received his degree in 1941 Tigers with Coach Jim Bevan’s Consolidated B team winning their game by 34-17 points. J. B. Car- roll was high man for the B team with 13 points. Roland Beasley was second with 8. John Bill Gib son played a good defensive game for the Navasota B team. Box score for the varsity game: Consolidated Tigers (58) Name fg ft Byron Andrews 4 3 Fred Anderson 8 1 Bobby Jackson 5 1 David Bonnen 3 0 Pinky Cooner 0 0 Joe Motheral 6 1 Navasota Ramblers (34) Name fg ft Croddock 2 1 Buchanan 0 0 Brown 2 1 Yarborough 3 2 Thigpen 2 2 Webb 5 0 Pf 1 2 4 0 0 3 pf 3 0 1 1 1 1 tp 11 17 11 6 0 13 tp 5 0 5 8 6 10 Students, Professor Give Papers in SA Dr. J. R. Couch of the poultry, biochemistry, and nutrition depart ments and 10 graduate students in poultry nutrition presented re search papers at the meeting of the Southwestern Section of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, held in San Antonio. The afternoon session was called a “Texas A&M Seminar.” The pap ers were presented by Dr. Couch, V. M. Doctor, R. L. Atkinson, R. L. Jacobs, J. F. Elam, G. W. An derson, W. L. Tidwell, L. L. Gee, R. L. Reid, H. K. Daugherty, A. A. Camp, J. W. Dieckert, R. T. Shillings, and Raymond Reiser. Sc*. CONFERENCE IN THE CLOUDS. Among the undergraduates on any college campiis, you'll find the talk reaching up to the clouds./And once in a while— in a class room, around a study table, or even in a bull session — a really big idea is born. Big ideas come, too, from the men 8nd women in laboratories, business offices, shops. But often these professionals are exploring a path first glimpsed in college. How do we know? 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