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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1955)
THursday, February 24,1958 THE BATTALION f Page $ Conrad, Dendy Star in Grid Practice Sophomot’es Bobby Conrad and Billy Dendy highlighted A&M’s second day of spring football prac tice yesterday, climaxed by a rug ged 40 minutes of scrimmages staged by »ix full teams. Head coach Paul Bryant sent bis 80-man squad through its second two-hour workout in a row and dialled it on just about every phase of football in the book. He was assisted by Jim Owens, Regional Cage Meet Set Here Region 8 high school basket ball champs in class A and AA will be decided here Saturday in a tournament.at White coli seum. Six games ai-e scheduled, with the A title ganie at 7:15 p.m. and the A A championship game at 8:45. Llano, district 23-A winner, and Thomdale, 22-A titlist, open play at 8:45 a.m. New ton, 17-A, and Buna, 20-A, meet at 10:15 a.m. Teague, 19-AA winner, tackles Gatesville, 21-AA, at 11:45 a.m. San Marcos, 23-A A, plays Spring Branch, 18-AA, at 1:15. Tickets ai’e 60 cehts per ses sion. Elmer Smith, Tom Tipps, Phil Cuthin, Pat James, Willie Zapalac and Jerry Claiborne, and 1954 starters Bennie Sinclair and Larry Winkler. Conrad, a quarterback, and Den dy, a halfback, each intercepted two passes in scrimmage, both re turning one all the Way. Both also ripped off impressive gains on of fense. Conrad’s TD i-eturn was a one-handed snatch near the side line. Elwood Kettler quarterbacked the Red team and Conrad the Blue eleven. Kettler had Dendy at left half, Jack Pardee at fullback, and Gene Henderson and Loyd Taylor alternating at right half. Bobby Drake Keith, switched from halfback, and Gene Stallings were the ends, Darrell Brown and Jack Powell, tackles, Jim Stanley and Dennis Goehring, guards. Herb Wolf and Lloyd Hale alternated at center. Conrad’s all-soph backfield was John Crow and Ed Dudley at the halfs and Ken Hall at fullback. The two elevens squared off in the final 20-minute scrimmage and came off about even. In tbe other' contact sessions, the Whites, quarterbacked by sen ior Ronald Robbins and soph Cae sar Fulton, took on Jim Wright’s Purples, and the Oranges of Pat Patrick took on Donald Grant’s Greens. The first scrimmages ipatched the Whites and Blues, Purples and Greens and Reds and Oranges. PORT R T S H O s By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Flditor In the last few years the trend in collegiate athletics has be§n toward shorter and more restricted practice per iods, especially in football. The Pacific Coast conference and the Ivy league at one point even went so far as to eliminate spring football sessions entirely. The National Collegiate Athletic association rules that its members can have 20 practice days in a 36-dav period. Southwest conference teams, under league rules, have an even shorter time—18 practice days in 28. __ _ Emphasis Taken Off Work—Bryant Last night, after A&M’s second day of spring drills, Paul Bryant let it be known what he thought SOPHOMORES For The Best In . . . Summer Serge Both Air Force and Army Good Quality Materials ZUBIK’S UNIFORM TAILORS North Gate Rely On Us for Superior Service When you put clothes in our hands, you know they’ll be returned clean, well pressed and in top form. Our reputation rests on your satisfaction. / GREENVILLE AT LOVERS LANE OFF CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY RESERVATIONS EM-2688 COMING FRIDAY. MARCH «. WOODY HERMAN Faced with tbe problem of de veloping sophomore linemen to fill vacancies left by departing letter- men, Bryant said, “For the most part they’re eager, and that’s the important thing.” Later he said, “We’d have a pretty good team if we didn’t have to rush through practice.” The Cadets have their annual Maroon-White intrasquad game set for March 5, a week from Sat urday. In addition to the sort mm ages, tbe squad went through sessions on blocking, tackling, passing, pass defense and signals, then finished the workout with wind sprints. J of the present situation, and in typically outspoken terms. In all fairness to Bryant, it should be made clear that he wasn’t peeved at the Aggie practice showing. “The rule-makers have taken the emphasis off work,” Bryant charged. “You can’t make a football player anymore — now you’ve got to go out and recruit one—you’ve got to try to get . some ready-made ones.” It’s Bryant’s contention that the more time an athlete spends in practice, the more he’ll hit the books. “When a student is in some kind of supervised activity — and I don’t mean just football—he’ll spend more time instead of less in the study hall and library,” Bryant said. “Take those guys in the corps. I’d like to see them learn to shine their shoes in 18 days. “It used to be that if you found a player with just a little ability and something here (thumping his heart), you could work with him and make a football player out of him. The premium is not on work anymore, it’s on pure ability.” ‘Like In Washington’ Bryant continued, “I think our legislation in collegiate athletics is a lot like our legislation in Wash ington—it encourages people to sit around on their tail, and I don’t think that’s the Amertcan way. At least, it didn’t use to be that way.” Disagreeing with those who say athletic practice must be strictly limited, else it would take up too much studying time, Bryant cracked, “I’d like them to check the records and let’s just see if students are making more A’s now than they used to. I don’t think they are—I know they’re not mak ing as many touchdowns.” (See SPORT SHORTS, page 5) BETTER FOODS FOR LESS! ,\e 'f THESE VALUES GOOD THURS., FRL, AND SATURDAY IN OUR BRYAN STORE—SOUTH COLLEGE AT HIWAY 6 MAYONNAISE LARGE EGGS Kraft’s Pt. Jar SUNFAUM Fresh—Doz. 47c NITLARB Fresh—IXtxz. ARMOUR'S LARD »«~3 Lb. Carton 54c 39c Weingarten’s Own, Fresh J W SPECIAL - 1 lb. ‘kg'. 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