THursday, February 24,1958
THE BATTALION
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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