The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 4 Tuesday, November 27, 1956
Bryant and Staff Took
Ags to Top In 2 Years
By DON BISETT
The A&M football team has
moulded itself into a feared ma
chine and the men who have guid
ed this accomplishment are Paul
“Bear” Bryant and his assistants.
The men on the team and those
who know football are the first
to give our coaches the credit for
this performance.
Coach Bryant played his college
ball at Alabama in the mid-thirties
under Frank Thomas. His coach
ing started as an assistant at
Alabama and continued at Vander
bilt until World War II. He coach
ed Maryland to a 6-2-1 season in
1945 before going to Kentucky
where he was head coach for eight
years. His record there was terrific
as he took his teams to four bowl
games, winning three of them and
having an overall record of 60-23-5.
This is Bryant’s third year here
at A&M where his record to date is
16-11-2. This gives him an overall
record of 82-36-8 which marks him
as one of the most successful
coaches in the business.
His assistants include a former
all-American in Jim Owens who is
a developer of all-Americans at his
position at end. Owens has been
on the Bryant staff since 1950
when he joined him at Kentucky.
He was the coach of Howie
Schellenberger and Steve Meilling-
er when they made All American
at Kentucky.
Phil Cutchin is a backfield as
sistant for the Aggies having come
here with Bryan from Kentucky
also. His coaching career has run
since 1946 excepting a stint in the
service in the Korean conflict.
Elmer Smith came to the Aggies
from Southern Arkansas State Col
lege. His Magnolia Arkansas team
had a record of 54-27-2 which any
man can be proud of.
Jerry Claiborne played under
Bryant at Kentucky then was
coaching there when Bryant asked
him to come to the Aggies. He
is a line coach who works especially
with the ends.
Willie Zapalac is the only man
on the staff who played his foot
ball at A&M. He played here on
the 1941-42 and 46 squads. Zapalac
is a backfield coach who is help
ing to develop such stars as jCrow
and Pardee.
Tom Tipps played ball at Sul
Ross before amassing a great high
school coaching record at Pampa
then coming to A&M as assistant
line coach.
Pat James played under Bryant
at Kentucky where he starred at a
guard position. Here he helps
with the mighty A&M line.
A newcomer to the coaching
staff this year is Sam Bailey who
followed Smith from Arkansas.
He had six years experience as a
backfield coach before joining the
A&M staff.
Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant
TCU Calls Aggies ‘Pros’
Quoted from TCU “Skiff” of
Nov. 23:
First off, since we don’t want
to get left behind, a few words
about our friends from College
Station. The Aggies seem to have
taken the refusal of the NCAA to
lift the bowl ban imposed on them
rather bittex-ly. The yelps have
been loud and long.
But we wonder, if the Aggies
had thus far lost nine straight.
just how loud or long would their
yells be?
Just because the players they
bought and paid for happen to do
the job for which they were hired
is no reason for sympathy.
Of course, the Frogs, or any
other team in the conference, won’t
like the idea of being “cheese
champs,” but then, jieither do they
like the idea of having a semi-
pro team in amateur confer
ence.
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BRYANT AND HIS SENIORS—(kneeling from left to right) Dee Powell, Jack Pardee,
Gene (Bebes) Stallings, Lloyd Hale, Bob Clendennon. (Standing from left to right)
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