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RODDY OSBORNE—Junior quarterback shifted in Spring
training by Coach Bryant from right halfback arid fullback
where he lettered in ’55. Outstanding on defense, he’ll
share the man-under job with Jimmy Wright.
’56 TV Schedule
Sept. 22—Gqprgia Tech-Kentucky at Lexington, day
(National)
Sept. 29—Baylor-Texas Tech at Waco, day (Regional)
Oct. 6—TCU-ArikanSas at Fort Worth, day (National)
Oct. 13—Texas-Oklahoma at Dallas, day (Regional)
Oct. 20—Rice-S^VIU at Houstjon, night (Regional)
Oct. 27—OkIm homarNotre Dame, at South Bend, day
(National)
Nov. 3—Texas A&M-Arkansas at College Station, night
(Regional)
Nov. 10—A Big Ten game to be picked later, day (National)
Nov. 17—TCU-Texas at Fort Worth, day (Regional)
Nov. 24—UCLA-USC at Los Angeles, day (National)
Nov. 29—Texas A&M-Texas at Austin, day (Regional)
Dec. 1—Army-Navy at Philadelphia, day (National)
Dec. 8—Pittsburgh-Miami at Miami, day (National)
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Thursday, September 13, 1956 PAGE 3
headaches in 1956 will be his man-
under and the job will fall to not
one but two men this fall—Roddy
Osborne and Jimmy Wright.
Osborne, the 1955 fullback and
right halfback, was switched back
to his old high school position by
Bryant at the beginning of Spring
training and has looked good since.
Outstanding on defense, Roddy
can run with the ball and will be
a good man on the run-or-pass op
tions.
‘Osborne’s a good little play
er,” declares Bryant. “He’s
real good on defense and will
throw all right, not that he’ll
break any passing records, he
hasn’t had much work on it
yet.”
Wright, the number one quarter
back in 1955, will be back to shai'e
the load with Osborne for his jun
ior year. The Edinburg boy hit on
24 of 67 passing attempts last sea-
Wright had only four intercepted
and netted 368 yards. His 43-yard
beauty to Loyd Taylor was the
winning points in the tremendous
four-minute spurt against Rice.
“Wright is a good passer,”
observes Coach Bryant. “He
played well last year for a
sophomore and can really
throw that ball. Nothing ever
seems to bother him, either.
We’re going to let them battle
it out for the starting job and
see how it goes. We’ll fit our
attack around the quarter
backs rather than fit them to
the offense. *
We’re not going to play that
racehorse type of football. We get
back to the line from 11 to 16 sec
onds, and that’s plenty fast enough.
If we can run 70 plays a game,
we figure we can win it.”
Behind Osborne and Wright are
sophomores Luther Hall and Hal
GENE STALLINGS—A&M’s fine all-SWC left end. As a
junior last year Stallings picked off four enemy passes to
lead the Cadets in that department and will be among the
Southwest’s finest receivers again this season.
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halfback, did both for the 1955
Fish eleven and is a comer. San
defur looked good upon occasion
for the first-year team last season,
but had a shoulder operation and
did nothing in the Spring. He
doesn’t figure to play too much
this fall.
Cadets Have
Won All But 7
First Games
In 59 years of football compe
tition, A&M has lost only seven
opening games with two ties on
the red side of the ledger.
Two of the first-game losses
were to the Villanova ’Wildcats,
and Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant
hopes that three is a lucky number
and we’ll turn the tide in 1956.
Opening games defeats were to
Houston University (not Cougars)
10-0, in 1897; Howard Payne, 13-
7, in 1922; LSU, 34-14, in 1942;
Villanova, 34-14, in 1948; Villa-
nova, 35-0, in 1949; Texas Tech,
41-9, in 1954; and UCLA, 21-0, in
1955.
The most lop-sided opening
game victory by the Aggies was
in 1920 when the Cadets tore Dan
iel Baker, 110-0. The largest crowd
to see a home opener was in 1949,
27,000, and last year’s crowd of
65,343 in Los Angeles was the lar
gest for any opener.
JIMMY WRIGHT — Edinburgh’s junior passing ace who
will share A&M’s 1956 quarterback duties with Roddy
Osborne. Wright hit six touchdown passes in 1955, in
cluding the one that sunk the Rice Owls, and his heaves
were good for 368 yards gained.
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