The Battalion ..... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 6 Thursday, September 13, 1956
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LOYD TAYLOR—A&M’s sparkling little right halfback
who plucked the Rice Owls clean last November, scoring 14
points in 58 seconds in the Aggies’ memorable 20-12 lash
ing of the Houston team.
Bryant to Use Both Split,
Straight-T to Move Ball
College football teams are be
coming increasingly difficult to
“type” as to offensive manuevers
and the 1956 Aggie team is no
exception.
The cadets will be fundamentally
a sti’aight and split-T team and
much of their hopes for moving the
ball depend on this quick-hitting,
“fire-away” brand of offense. Run
ning is the keynote but the option
run or pass will be used more fully
this season.
The Aggie version of the T is
basically a straight-ahead, man-
for-man blocking attack. There is
very little pulling out of linemen
and emphasis is on speed in hitting
the point of attack rather than
faking the defense out of position.
Some “delayed attack” plays will
spice the offense much in the same
manner as a baseball pitcher uses
a change of pace.
Coach Bryant and his staff will
also exploit some of the many
facts of the multiple-type offense
and a greater variety of offense
formations can be expected by
A&M fans in 1956.
Crow, Watson, Taylor
Solid at Halfback Spots
“We have three first-string half
backs,” declared Coach Paul Bry
ant in reference to his, Aggie back-
field.
John Crow is solid at left helf,
but right now I consider both Don
Watson and Loyd Taylor as first-
team right halfbacks. Either can
and will be able to run at both
halfs, should one or the other win
the right position.”
Crow the big, elusive Louisiana
boy from Spring Hill was the Ags
second leading ground gainer last
year, although he was out all but
a few minutes of the TCU game
and didn’t suit up for Baylor.
“I think Crow has grown up
now,” affirmed the head man.
“He played some fine ball last
year, in fact he played terrific
games against LSU, SMU and
Texas, especially Texas. He’s
our biggest threat to go all
the way.”
Behind Crow, if anyone is need
ed, is junior squadman Carlos Es-
quival, sophomore John Polk and
newcomer Emmett Smallwood.
Smallwood, low hurdler and
broad jumper for the Aggie track
team, was a 1954 Fish starter but
didn’t come out in 1955.
“We’re taking a good look at
Smallwood,” said Bryant. He’s
plenty fast and might do us some
good.”
Taylor is the man who bombed
Rice clear out of Houston last fall,
scoring 14 points in 48 seconds in
that never-to-be-forgotten last four
minutes. Loyd led the A&M scor
ers in ’55 with 31 points, includin
13 of 15 extra points.
“Loyd is a sound football
player, small but strong,” com
mented Coach Bryant. “He
does a good job at anything
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he tries and he’ll be one of
our three top halfbacks until
somebody beats him out.”
Watson will be remembered, if
he never plays another down of
college football, for his memorable
afternoon in Fort Worth last Oc
tober in A&M’s 19-16 win over
SWC Champion TCU. Don caught
a pass for the Aggies’ first touch
down and his 51-yard sprint up
the middle put A&M out in front
to stay.
Little at 5-10 and 155, Don is a
fine -athlete with lots of desire.
He’s a two-year letterman.
Back of these two are Bobby
Conrad and Kenneth Hall. Con
rad, the most versatile player on
the squad, played quarterback,
both ends and both halfbacks as
a sophomore in 1955. . Bobby had
a disappointing Spring, but in
Bryant’s words “. . . is a good
athlete and we hope he’ll come
through at halfback. We know he
can play end.”
Hall, the most publicized high
school athlete to ever come out of
Texas has been disappointing so
far, but may explode any minute.
As Coach Bryant says “. . . he
catches your eye. Even running
on the field. Hall has lots of abil
ity, we hope he’ll make a football
player for us.”
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TCU Sport Poll
Picks Winner
Only Six Times
A good example of the difficulty
in picking a winner in the South
west conference from year to year
is the record of the TCU Pre-
Season Poll, conducted by the TCU
Sports News Service each year
before the season gets underway.
The Horned Frog poll has been
in operation since 1934, but they
have picked the actual winner only
six of those 22 years. 1955 was
their worst call in history as they
chose the Rice Owls to capture the
SWC crown only to watch the
Houston bunch lose six straight
league games and wind up deep in
the cellar.
The only times the poll has been
correct were when they picked
TCU in 1938, SMU in 1940, Texas
in 1943, 45 and 1950, and Rice in
1953. The TCU guessers picked
A&M in 1936, 1937 and 1942, but
the Aggies disappointed them and
wound up in third, fifth and fifth
place respectively.
JOHN CROW—spells triple trouble for A&M opponents
from his left halfback spot this season. The Aggies’ sec
ond leading ground gainer in 1955, Crow is expected to be
one of the finest backs in the Southwest this year.
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