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College Station, Texas
Friday, October 15, 1965
THE BATTALION
Ken Caffey
To Play On
Wants Chance
Both Platoons
Ken Caffey of the Texas Ag
gies is a hard-tackling defensive
specialist who thinks he has more
ability as an offensive fullback.
Actually, he’d like to be on the
field all of the time.
“I like defense,” Caffey says,
“but I like offense, too. I don’t
really know if I have more ability
on offense but sometimes I kinda
think I do.”
Caffey plays what the Aggies
term the “rover” on defense. Ar
kansas calls a similar position on
their defense the “monster.”
Ken is the younger brother of
Green Bay Packer linebacker Le
roy Caffey. When Ken was a 5-3,
115-pound freshman at Thorndale
High, he replaced the 6-2, 200-
pound Leroy in the Thorndale
backfield when the latter was
sidelined with a fractured collar
bone. “They put me at wingback
and moved someone else to Le
roy’s fullback slot,” Ken recalls.
But, he lettered four years in
high school and was a starting
halfback-linebacker his final
three years. He scored 180 points
his senior year which ranked him
second among all Texas school
boys that year.
Leroy was at A&M then and
that influenced Ken’s decision on
where to go to college. Top, a
cousin named Dick Todd (one of !
The
COFFEE LOFT
The Old Bank Building at
North Gate
Presents
This Friday 8 - 12
the following
All Classical Evening
For Both
Faculty and Students
TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto for piano
and orchestra No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, or.
23 (35:00 min.)
DVORAK: Symphony No. 5 (From
"The New World”) (45:00 min.)
TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto for violin
and orchestra (33:00)
WAGNER: Die Meistersing-er: Pre
lude To Act I (10:00)
MENDELSSOHN: Incidental music to
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
(40 :00)
BEETHOVEN : Leonore Overture No.
3 (15:00)
RACHMANINOFF: Concerto for piano
and orchestra (40:00)
the all-time great backs in Ag-
gieland grid history) had played
here.
Ken, now a junior in eligibility,
has become a key cog in the Ag
gie playing picture this year. He
KEN CAFFEY
started only one game as a fresh
man, lost the battle of the books
that year, regained his eligibility
and played enough last year to
letter although he started only
one game, as a defensive half
back.
He won the starting rover po
sition last spring and hasn’t re
leased his hold on it during the
first four games of the 1965 cam
paign. It’s a position which re
quires rapid thinking and quick
reaction and the hard-nosed Caf
fey has done well in both depart
ments.
“We’ve got some good senior
leaders on the team, especially
Joe Wellborn and Dude McLean,”
Caffey says. “But, Coach Stall
ings is the whole deal on our
showings so far. He just inspires
us to want to play.”
Caffey is a business major spe
cializing in personnel manage
ment and he’d like to try his hand
at pro football when he finishes
at A&M. “That’s still quite a
ways off and a lot of things could
happen,” he says.
Aggie Intramural Director
Worked At Huntsville Prison
Raymond Fletcher is used to
all-male institutions.
The 30-year old intramural di
rector was in charge of the rec
reation of prisoners at the state
penitentiary in Huntsville for two
years before coming to Texas
A&M.
Asked if the two state institu
tions have anything in common,
Fletcher points out the rigid dis
cipline employed at both. “Pris
oners have specific duties to car
ry out just as the members of the
corps do here,” he explained.
In comparing- the intramural
systems Fletcher praised the
A&M program, saying, “It’s
much larger and offers more
sports in which to participate.”
He also feels that the students
display a great deal more ath
letic ability than the prisoners.
However, he points out that
there is a basic difference in the
attitude of the prisoner toward
intramurals and that of the stu
dent. He notes, “The prisoner is
much more enthusiastic. If a stu
dent misses a football game here,
he doesn’t get too shaken up
about it. He’ll have a date or go
to a movie or something that
night. But the prisoner won’t be
g'oing anywhere.”
Before directing intramurals at
the Texas Prison Fletcher
coached junior high football and
basketball for four years in Port
Arthur.
The Sam Houston State grad
uate is married and has two
children.
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100 Players
Begin SWC
Cage Practice
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
One hundred guys in short
pants and gym shoes will turn
out Friday for the start of South
west Conference basketball train,
ing. It will be a month and a
half before they play any games.
A fight between Texas Tech
and Southern Methodist looms,
with Texas A&M a possibility to
beat out both of them.
Some recent changes in per
sonnel have also changed the pic
ture considerably.
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Southern Methodist, which a
month ago was a solid choice to
rack up the title it shared with
Texas last season, now is rated
only an even chance of making
Norman Reuther, whose failure
to pass sufficient school work
lost the title for Texas Tech last
winter and subsequently was
barred from athletics for disci
plinary reasons, is returning to
the team and will give Tech three
starters and eight lettermen.
Texas A&M has picked up
Randy Matson, the world’s record
shot put star, to give it height
and rebounding power, and this
makes the Aggies, already with
six lettermen, top contenders,
They have one of the best play
ers in the nation in John Beasley,
the 6-9 guy with the talented
scoring touch.
Southern Methodist has six re
turning lettermen, including Car-
roll Hooser, the giant all-confer
ence center, and prospects are
bright indeed on the hilltop.
FROGGIE GROUND GAININ’ CHAMP
Steve Landon, 192-pound halfback, will be urday night. Landon is the SWC’s number
one of the problems the Aggies will have to three ground gainer with 249 yards net on
solve when they attempt to defeat TCU Sat- 42 carries.
Anderson Will Try Defense
Texas has only one returning
starter, Mickey White, but there
are six lettermen on the roster.
Coach Harold Bradley complains
that it is the least experienced
squad he has had but it still
looks capable of contending.
LUBBOCK, Tex. (A 3 )—Assign
ing Texas Tech’s great offensive
threat, All-America Donny An
derson, defensive duties this week
isn’t as drastic a move as some
may think.
Alarmed by injuries to his de
fensive unit, coach J. T. King has
been practicing Anderson and
three other members of the offen
sive platoon — guard Chester
Howard, tackle John Porter, and
quarterback John Scovell — on
defense in getting ready for Ok
lahoma State here Saturday.
Anderson’s been there before
—with good results.
Playing in his first collegiate
game as a sophomore in 1963,
Anderson intercepted a Washing
ton State pass and returned it 43
yards for the go-ahead touch
down.
A week later he turned in two
gems against Texas, batting
down the ball after Knox Nun-
nally had gotten behind the sec
ondary and Laster on a kickoff
return.
But King took advantage of
the rules change last year to
make Anderson an offensive spe
cialist.
Texas Christian’s prospects are
indeed looking up, with all of last
season’s starters back along with
four more lettermen. Big point-
maker Gary Turner furnishes the
punch.
Arkansas also looks better with
eight of nine lettermen return
ing, five of them seniors, headed
by Ricky Sugg. But there is a
lack of height, something that’s
still needed in basketball al
though not as pronounced as it
was several years ago.
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