Thursday, March 15,1956
THE BATTALION
Page 3
‘The Bryant Way’
■ A&M Footballers
Defensive Minded
By LUTHER HALL and BOB CLENDENNEN
You’ve probably read newspaper stories about how much
Coach Bryant stresses defense, and maybe you’ve wondered
why. On the sports pages it’s always the offense that wins
the ballgame, but there are actually more chances to score on
defense than on the attack.
Here are at least seven ways the defense can win a ball-
game: (1) Good, hard gang
tackling to cause opponent
fumbles, (2) Deflecting or in
tercepting an opposing quar
terback’s pitchout, (3) A hard
* charging line can make the quar
terback throw the ball high and
set up a, possible pass intei-ception
(4) Blocking a punt, (5) An “on-
*sides” kick, or short kick-off, where
an alert defense covers the ball,
(6) Blocking a field goal try and
(7) Gang tackling a punt or pass
receiver and causing him to fum
ble.
THESE ALL SEEM elementary,
but with Coach Bryant they’re the
end result of constant drilling—not
luck. As you remember we won
several ballgames last fall using
these defensive maneuvers, such
as that on-sides kick-off recovery
11 against Rice that set up our win
ding TD.
Many people are amazed by our
ability to get downfield quickly un-
* der punts, but here again it’s “prac-
ice that makes perfect.” We work
on covering the punt constantly.
Our punters line up about 13-yards
behind the line of scrimmage and
have about two seconds to boot the
ball. Only 2.6 seconds elapses be
tween the time the ball leaves the
centers’ hands and the time the
punter gets his kick away.
Wrestling Team
Host In Tourney
A&M’s unbeaten wrestling team
tvill be host at the Southwest Col
legiate Wrestling Tourney Satur
day from 1-7 p. m. Six teams are
entered in the meet, including the
University of Texas, Houston,
Baylor, Rice and A&M’s varsity
and Fish squads.
WHEN A PUNT receiver knows
we’re going to be breathing down
his neck, it sometimes makes him
a little nervous. The average for
punts returned against us last fall
was only three yai'ds.
The art of “quick-change” is
another thing Coach Bryant is
stressing this Spring. That is, the
ability of the player to react to
a sudden change from defense to
offense, such as on an intercepted
pass.
Ag Tracksters Meet
UT, Rice in Houston
HOLD THAT TIGER!—Aggie gridders mix it up in spring practice,
only two more days of workouts remaining.
The Cadets have
A&M’s tracksters will be looking
for their first meet victory of the
young season Saturday when they
challenge Rice and the University
of Texas in Houston.
The Aggie Fish will battle the
Rice Slimes as Texas’ Shorthorns
will bypass this one to run in the
big Foi-t Worth meet.
Coach Frank Anderson will be
counting on the muscles of weight
men Bobby Gross, Tom Bonorden,
Herman Johnson and Harry Cox
and pole vaulters Winton Thomas,
James Clark and Jim Jackson to
counteract the sprinter-laden Long-
hom Crew.
The Aggie mile relay team of
Eddie Bussa, Bill Holloway, Bob
McKnight and Johnny Roberts beat
Texas in the Laredo meet.
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Okamoto Swims Today
SWC Tankers Tangle
By BARRY HART
Assistant Sports Editor
Tetsuo Okamoto opens A&M’s
bid for the Southwest Conference
swimming crown at Austin today
in his specialty, the 1500-meters.
The conference has voted to
lift the post-season .probation on
Coach Art Adamson’s fin men
and allow them to enter a team
in the NCAA finals in New Ha
ven, Conn., March 28-30 should
they win the title.
A&M hopes to break their 10-
year title drought and break into
Texas’ monopoly in the splash
sport. The Aggies’ only outright
championship came in 1945 and
they shared a crown with the Long
horns in 1944. SMU is the only
other team to ever capture the
honors in the 24 years it has been
on the SWC calendar, winning in
1953 and 1954.
Okamoto hits the water at 7:30
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tonight in the first race of the
meet. The sophomore sensation
from Sao Paulo, Brazil took third
in the 1952 Olympic 1500-meters
and will be favored. There will
he no preliminaries in the 1500,
with the six best times getting
the point positions.
The Aggies have splashed to nine
straight victories so far this sea
son. They downed all three of
their SWC opponents, Texas, SMU
and Rice in dual meets and swam
to the title in the conference re
lays. A&M was in the same unde
feated situation a year ago, only
to lose to Texas in the meet that
counted.
The Aggies return five confer
ence champions from the 1955
meet. Dick Hunkier won the 50
and 100-yard freestyle events.
Dick Weick took first in the 200
breaststroke and the 200-yard
individual medley and Norman
Ufer captured the 100-yard back-
stroke.
Weick holds three conference rec
ords—the 100-yard butterfly, the
200-yard breaststroke and the
200-yard individual medley. A sen
ior, this will be his final SWC
meet for the Maroon and White.
The Aggies pin part of their
sprint hopes on Peru’s Jose Me
rino, who successfully defended
his South American 100-meter
freestyle championship recently
and holds that continent’s re
cord in the event.
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medley. A senior, Weick hails from College Station. The
SWC meet opens today at Austin.
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