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Aggie Nine Opens
With Cougars Here
By JIM CARRELL
A cold, stiff breeze blew from the north, providing
wintry-like spring training weather for the A&M baseball
club, as they continued in the second week of workouts on
Kyle Field.
The Aggies, fifth-place finishers in the Southwest Con
ference last year with a 5-9 record, open with the University
of Houston Cougars at 2 p.m
Saturday, beginning a 24-
game season.
“We haven’t been able to
workout enough to know who
is going to play Saturday with all
this bad weather,” stated Coach
Beau Bell. “We’re used to bad
weather when baseball practice
starts, but it seems to be a little
worse this year than ever before,”
he continued.
In an informal intrasquad game
yesterday Behn Hubbard crashed
out a home run over the right field
fence with Lefty Paradowski and
Wayne Scharper starting on the
mound for opposing squads.
Expecting to improve on a 10-13
season last year, A&M returns
nine lettermen, but must receive
help from sophomores, particularly
behind the plate and in the out
field.
Strong on pitching, the Aggies
must give better defensive sup
port and improve on a team sea
son batting average of .212, which
dropped to .191 in conference last
year.
Lettermen returning, led by cap
tain and two-year letterman Dick
Munday, are: pitchers Paul Lang,
Doug Mullins, and Toby Newton;
catcher Louis Nelson; infielders
John Hoyle and Joe Worden and
outfielders Hubbard and James
Smotherman.
Roy Robertson, Colorado College
football coach, took part in foot
ball, basketball and track at Mc
Pherson College in Kansas.
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Wednesday, February 27, 1957 PAGE 5
By BOB CLENDENNEN
(Ed’s, note: This is the first
in a series of articles by Bob
Clendennen, a two-year letter-
man at tackle for the Aggies
and now a student-coach dur
ing Spring training along with
the other nine graduating
seniors.)
Autumn-like weather and a host
of new faces on the coaching staff
Tuesday greeted the returning Ag
gie championship team out to- find
ways to defend their Southwest
Conference crown.
The 104-man group wasted no
time in getting down to the stuff
from which more champions are
made — fundamentals. To Coach
Paul “Bear” Bryant, the word
“fundamentals” means nothing
more or less than stance, starts,
one-on-one blocks, and timing.
Along with the new coaches came
some new ideas for getting the
most from the 18-day practice ses
sion. Coach Carney Laslie, (lately
from West Point), brought with
him a new type of agility drill for
linemen which should improve their
pursuit and help eliminate their
losing, sight of the ball during a
play.
The squad divided into five teams
yesterday, with regulars and hope
fuls alike battling to move up, or
in some cases, to stay where they
were put after a preliminary
evaluation by the coaching staff.
Interior linemen worked against
each other in small groups for 40
minutes, then joined together for
work on running plays up the
middle — an- area which Bryant
had expressed concern about in
an earlier interview.
The final 40 minutes of a
two-hour workout saw two
teams, orange and blue, ex
change blows in a pass offense
VICTORY IN AUSTIN
(Continued from Page 4)
since 1923 topped it off.
After the game started it was
n’t long before Coach Ken Loeff-
ler began his well-known frantic
antics along the sideline, hopping
from the bench to shout instruc
tions or to rebuke a player sound
ly for a mistake. His actions be
came more and more pronounced
as the game progressed.
At .one point a Texas lassie ask
ed an Aggie in front of her
“Don’t you all hate him for the
way he carries on?” The Aggie
turned around and replied, “We
love him!”
Texas fans soon began riding
Loeffler. They too became loud
er and louder, declaring that the
Aggies had no chance of winning.
A little bald spot on Loeffler’s
head was already red from the ex
citement, but it grew redder. Af
ter a particularly resounding quip
aimed at him, the little coach spun
around and quieted his tormentors
by saying, “You better beat us to
night, because you won’t do it
again.”
Late in the final period the fans
from the “40 Acres” questioned a
foul called against the Steers, and
the barrage of coins began. Ted
Harrod, playing his next-to- last
game for A&M, picked up the first
missile that landed and handed it
to an Aggie bystander, ordering
him to “hold this for me; I want
to keep it, by God.” Then he
calmly sank the two free throws.
The outnumbered Aggie follow
ers felt victory when the maroon
and white pulled ahead, and later
when the pride of Texas, Ray
Downs, fouled out. They filled the
heavy air with yells when the
game ended in a display of wild
ball tossing and wild shots. And
a roar, both of anguish and de
light, arose when big Jim Mc-
Nichol, high scorer for the even
ing*, was fouled in the closing sec
ond.
McNichol toed the free-throw
line, surrounded by friends and
foes. Amidst urges from the
friends and bitter challanges from
the foes, he nonchalantly dropped
both post-game shots through the
net. Then he was engulfed by
whooping Aggies who escorted him
to the dressing room, cutting thru
mobs of glaring T.U. students in
the process.
Filing to the dressing room
came the Aggie subs who had kept
their vigil on the bench through
out the game. A would-be Texas
aggressor pulled one player from
the rank, but before he could let
loose with the ensuing blow, the
Cadet’s flying fists stopped his ad
vances.
It was interesting to watch the
bruises welling up under his eyes.
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drill and wind up the session
with a snappy scrimmage
which gave up-coming sophs
their first chance to taste
varsity linemen. The former
freshmen gave good account
of themselves, while the offen
sive-minded blue team ground
up good yardage on options
and wide sweeps.
All last season, opponents had
worked on the Aggies’ pass de
fense. There were several “holes”
in the defensive patterns, and it
became a sore spot before the
season ended. To offset this
potential liability, Bryant has al-
i*eady begun to instill in his pass
defenders a burning desire to
INTERCEPT.
“We only intercepted 20 passes
last fall” said Bryant. “We should
have had 30.”
Many changes will take place,
but the primary one will be in the
heart and desire of the defenders.
Bryant has always maintained
that the best defense is a good
offense, but from the look of
things to come, he isn’t counting
on touchdowns alone.
Bryant’s philosophy and
guiding goal from now on is
to develop all the players pos
sible to their finest. He would
like to have four teams capable
of being on the field at any
time. To do this, each player
will have to improve his speed,
agility, and reactions. Team
speed will be of even greater
importance next fall, and “The
Bear” intends to have every
one on the squad at his best
for next year, THE BIG
YEAR AT A&M.
The players seemed to enjoy the
workout. They left the field at a
fast run without any windsprints
or laps.
A soph halfback summed it up
for me while we were waiting for
a ride back to the dorm. He said,
“We didn’t have a very hard work
out. Did we?” He was assured
that there was more and better
things to come; the advice which
I now pass on to you.
BEHN HUBBARD — the
A g g i e s returning right
fielder who did not play in
1955. Hubbard lettered in
1954 and 1956.
The New York Giants of 1933
won 91 games in taking the Na
tional League pennant. Two years
later they won the same number
but finished third.
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