Depth, Middle Strength
Major Grid Concern
As Ags Open Practice
By JIM CARRELL
“Depth at every position and
strength down the middle” says
Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, “are
weaknesses that must be rema-
died”, when the 1956 Southwest
Conference football' champion Tex
as Ag-gies open Spring practice
Monday.
Greatest losses to the Aggies
are in the middle of the line, at
center and guard and the fullback
slot in the backgield.
Graduation of guards Dee Pow
ell and Dennis Goehring and cen
ter Lloyd Hale weakened the Ca
det forward wall with losses of
All-American fullback Jack Par
dee and George Gillar, tabbed by
Bryant at the end of the season
as “the finest ball-carrier in the
conference”, hampering an other
wise experienced backfield.
Candidates for the 1957 varsity
will come from 19 lettermen off
last ■ year’s squad and a “so-so”
freshman squad that won one and
lost four.
Abundance of quarterbacks re
solves a major problem of a year
ago with the return of capable
man-unders in all-conference Roddy
Osborne, Jimmy Wright and Bob
by Conrad, who doubles as a half
back.
Loss of the top men up front in
the line, according to Bryant, will
necessitate that the quarterback
ing be “much more sound and con
sistent”.
To replace the formidable Par
dee and Gillar at fullback only let-
terman Richard Gay returns. But
by many “Little Richard” is re
garded as “more than able” to
r.tep into the slot left vacant by
his distinguished predecessors.
Ray, a 5-11, 190-pounder from
Shreveport, La., impresses with ex
cellent defensive credentials, and
is a fine ball-carrier and blocker to
boot.
All-American candidate John
Crow of Spring Hill, La., and Loyd
Taylor of Roswell, N. Mex., two-
year lettermen at their respective
left and right halfback positions
leave little to be desired either on
offense or defense, except suitable
replacements. Other than the three
quarterbacks only halfback Carlos
Esquivel of Edinburg is a return
ing letterman.
Left tackle Charles Kreuger, 220-
pound all-American from Cald
well; left end Bobby Marks, 190-
pounder from New Orleans and
right end John Tracey, 215-pound-
er of Philadelphia are returning
starters from the forward wall
which led Texas A&M to its first
conference championship since
1941 and first undefeated season
since 1939.
Other returning lettermen in the
line include guard Murry Trimble,
Hanceville, Ala.; guard Jim Lang
ston, Texas City; guard Tommy
Howard, Galveston; tackle Jim
Stanley, Lynch, Ky.; tackle Ken
Beck, Minden, La.; center John Gil
bert, Russellville, Ark.; guard Har
old Price, Comanche; tackle A.
L. Simmons, San Antonio and end
Don Smith, Phillips.
“Our freshmen will have to help
us”, Bryant stated. “They were
not impressive last fall in contact
and speed. They’ll have to bow
their necks this spring,” he ad
ded.
Coach Bryant lists as most im
pressive among the freshman,
quarterback Charles Mjlstead of
Tyler, halfback Henry Colwell, a
5-10, 170-pounder from Abilene,
end Ed Neill, a 6-3, 182-pounder
of Port Lavaca and guard Albert
Taylor, a 5-10, 210-pounder of
Harlingen.
Milstead, 6-2 and 185 pounds, an
all stater in high school and fresh
man quarterback last fall is a top-
rated prospect at that position.
Milstead runs the option play with
finesse, is a fine passer and punt
er and plays a sound defensive
game at linebacker.
Colwell, a halfback from the 1955
state champion Abilene team, com
mands attention on the basis of his
performance on defense and is a
gifted ball-carrier. Taylor was re
garded as one of the quickest and
most aggressive linemen on the
1956 freshman squad.
Other strong contenders expec
ted from the freshman team are
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Gordon LeBeouf, halfback from
Port Neches; Gale Oliver, tackle
from Refugio and Larry Ward, end
at Nederland high school, switch
ed to center as a freshman.
Three new Aggie assistant
coaches will be on hand for the
spring training. They are Carney
Laslie, assistant head coach and
recent line coach under Earl Blaik
at West Point; J. T. King, former
line coach at Texas, and A. O.
“Bum” Phillips, former head coach
at Nederland high school.
They will join the holdover as
sistants: Phil Cutchin, Elmer
Smith, Pat James, Sam Bailey and
Willie Zapalac.
ACE PORT-SIDE HURLER—Galveston’s Toby Newton,
all-Southwest Conference pitcher in 1956 as a sophomore.
Newton had a 3-4 record, but struck out 76 batters in
64 2/3 innings with a 3.0 ERA. —Photo by Chuck McCain.
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Friday, February 22, 1957 PAGE 5
Keii Hal! at Houston U;
Declines Owens’ Bid
Kenneth Hall, who dropped out
of A&M suddenly last fall after
the Baylor game, has enrolled in
the University of Houston for the
Spring semester.
Contacted by THE BATTALION
at his home in Sugarland last night
by phone. Hall said he definitely
would not play any football at
the Houston school, but “. . might
run track next year. I haven’t
talked to anyone about that yet.”
Hall, a 6-2, 210-pound fullback
and one of the nation’s most high
ly-sought athletes upon his grad
uation from Sugarland High School
in the Spring of 1954, revealed
that ex-Aggie assistant coach
Jim Owens, now head man at the
University of Washington, ap
proached Kenneth and wanted to
take him to the coast. Hall de
clined when he discovered that he
would be eligible only one season
in the Pacific Coast Conference.
A high school star who broke
all existing Texas scoring records
in his four-year career, Hall was
a standout on the ’54 Fish team
that captured the Southwest Con
ference Frosh title and was a sec
ond-string fullback on the 1955
Squad before dropping out after
A&M’s 19-16 victory over TCU.
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