Spring Drills Begin
Tuesday, February 21, 1956
THE BATTALION
Page 3
70 Footballers Report
Ed note: First in a series of
articles about A & M football
spring training- by two of the
players who are actually living
it.
By LUTHER HALL
and
BOB CLENDENNEN
If you’ve gone out for any
sports, here or in high school,
you know how you feel
after the first practice day:
tired and stiff. We’re no dif
ferent after yesterday’s two-hour
session on Kyle Field.
Coach Paul Bryant gave 70 of
us a rundown on what to expect in
the next 17 practice periods, which
summed up briefly means “work,
work and more work.” Last spring
a couple of us were injured on the
second or third day of practice be
cause we started heavy contact
work almost immediately.
This year we’ll take things
“easy” for the first six or seven
practices. In the first few work
outs we won’-t have any full scale
scrimmages, but instead concen-
tx-ate on the fundamentals of block
ing and tackling. And of course,
we’ll “run, run, run,” to get rid of
a few excess pounds picked up in
Sbisa since the end of the football
season.
Some of us have changed posi
tions since the final gxxn last fall.
The fullback slot seemed compara
tively empty yestexday after four
former fullbacks moved into new
homes elsewhere on the team.
Roddy Osbox-ne switched from full
to quarterback. Roddy is no strang
er to the man-under position, how-
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SHULTON Now York • Toronto
evei’, having
school.
Two other
Kenneth Hall
have changed
another, John
played it in high
foi'mer fullbacks,
and Geox-ge Gillar,
to halfback, while
Tx-acey, moved to
end. Tracey started out as an end
on the Fish team last season, but
was switched to fullback after the
first game.
Don Watson, a halfback last
year, is now at quarterback. Don
played some quartei’back last fall,
but will concentrate on signal call
ing this spring. Bobby Conrad
played just about evex-y position on
the team last fall and is now at
x-ight half, probably to stay. Only
change in the line so far finds
Bobby Lockett moving from guard
to tackle.
Last season, as you know, we
wei-e outweighed by every team we
played. But this season we’ll have
quite a few “big ’uns” ourselves.
Tackles Charlie Krueger, 220 (he’s
still a growing boy) and Jack
Powell, 225, could get heavy sup-,
port in the line fi-om sophomores-
to-be Kenneth Beck, 230-pound Cen
tex’, Toinimy Howai’d, 206-pound
guai'd and ends Don Usi’y, 200,
Tx-acey, 215, and Don Smith, 195.
Fmirth Place Ags
To Play Froggies
By BARRY HART
Assistant Sports Editor
A&M’s inspiring basketballers, still in the SWC fourth
spot after losing a 92-80 thriller to SMU last Saturday, move
into Fort Worth Wednesday to trade baskets with the hapless
TCU Horned Frogs.
With their finest season in four years insured, the Aggies
ar^ out to get back on the winning road against the cellar
dwelling Frogs. A&M downed-*
TCtl,
AGGIE COACH PAUL BRYANT and six of the 70 foot
ballers who reported for spring grid drills yesterday. A&M
is well stocked in lettermen for next season with 24.
Trip;
Maroon Band
s D-Field
In Ping Pong
Maroon Band bolted into the
upperclassman ping pong fi
nals yesterday by downing D-
Field Artillery, 3-2. A1 Cordes,
Ken Livingston, and Charles
Voelter pi’ovided the necessary
wins for the Maroon team.
OTHER MEMBERS of the win
ning team were A1 Guevara and
Tom Zipp. The Artillery line-up
featured Dick Miller, Jim Spencer,
Dan Winship, James Boyei’, and
Jerry McGown.
Sqd. 6 completed league play
with a pei’fect slate, handing B-
Engineers a crushing 31-14 defeat
for their first loss in freshman
basketball. Floyd Thompson led
scoring for the league champs with
six baskets. Don Kixk was second
with six points. Tom Brown and
Don Moskal added four each. Noi’-
man Neely, Bruce Hudson, and
Ray Gai’cia each dropped in two.
GEORGE KING paced the En
gineers with six points. Calvin
Brummett and Homer Hershey
sank three and Mike Ruiz added
two.
Sqd. 11 copped another league
title by defeating C-Field Ax-tillery
cagers, 23-17. Robert Carey scox-
ed 10 points, leading in point mak
ing for the champs.
C-AAA clipped Sqd. 23 in anoth
er basketball game while C-Infan-
ti’y defeated A-^ignal, 31-20.
Tankers Blast SMU;
Host Texas Saturday
A&M’s unbeaten swimming team
collide^ with the University of Tex
as here Saturday afternoon in
Downs Natatorium in its toughest
test of the year.
Coach Art Adamson’s Aggies
splashed to their sixth straight
triumph of the season here last
Satuxday by smashing powerful
SMU, 55-29. The Cadets set two
new Aggie pool records in trounc
ing the Mustangs. Tetsuo Oka-
moto, speedy Brazilian waterbug,
set a new 440-yard freestyle mark
of 5.58.
An Aggie tx-io of Norman Ufer,
Gayle Klipple and Richard Weick
set a new pool record in the 300-
yax-d medley relay with the time of
2:58.6. A&M swept six of nine
possible first places in the Satux’-
day meet with Hunkier, Ripley
Woodai’d and Okamoto turning in
imjividual wins.
Okamoto was the top winner for
the Aggies, gaining two firsts. Be
sides his record shattering effort
in the 440 he also grabbed 220-
yard freestyle honors.
Jerry Mount, Weick and Hunk
ier combined to take top laui’els in
the 400-yai’d freestyle medley in
a time of 3:39.9. SMU’s freshmen
defeated the Aggie Fish, 49-28, in
a preliminary xxxeet.
SMU won first places in the
three-meter diving-, 100-yafd free
style and 200-yard breaststroke.
84-74, in their other
conference meeting and own
a 3-6 league record to the
Frogs’ 1-9.
Although out rebounded, 62-31
by the tall, talented Mustangs,
spox-ting only one Texan in their
starting lineup, the Aggies battled
their league-leading opponents to
a standstill for 24 minutes. The
Cadets were leading by eight points
at one time and left the floor with
a 40-37 max-gin at inteimission.
“THE KIDS DESERVE a lot of
ci’edit,” said Coach Ken. Loefflex - ,
“Thex*e was more hustle than ever
befox-e. We played their bx-and
of ball, wei’e out rebounded two
to one, yet led for more than half
the game. We played a terrific
game.”
With Bill Bx-ophy and Don Bil-
bi*ey setting the pace, A&M jump
ed out to an 18-12 lead in a blis
tering opening six minutes. Geox-ge
Mehaffey gave the Cadets their
lax-gest lead of the night with a
layup to make it 32-24, but 6-8
Jim Kx-ebbs and Bobby Mills com
bined to cut the max-gin to three at
the half.
THE AGGIES COULDN’T hold
their 50 per cent shooting pace,
however, and Larry Showalter’s
set shot put the Ponies out in
front to stay, 46-44, four minutes
deep in the second half. Mills
and Rick Herrscher thiew in 12
points between them in the next
six minutes as SMU moved away
to a 63-47 lead with 10 minutes
left to play.
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Fresh from a crushing win over
the University of Texas, A&M’s
fencing team opexxs a new ex - a in
SWC athletics Friday when it tang
les with the new Air Fox-ce Acad
emy Falcons at Denver, Colo.
Nineteen of the fencers who won
21 of a possible 27 matches from
the Longhorns last Saturday will
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this year’s team are Cai’l Hill and
Don Roth.
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