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College iStation, Texas
Tuesday, April 29, 1969
THE BATTALION
Stallings Says Practice Is ‘Going Well’
By RICHARD CAMPBELL
In the spring of the year, a
young man’s fancy naturally
turns to thoughts of love, but
not so football coaches. Aggie
Head Coach Gene Stallings has
other thoughts on his mind this
spring, that of finding a win
ning combination before the grid
wars begin in September.
In a press conference in the
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White Coliseum Monday after
noon, he had nothing but praise
for his spring football partici
pants.
“I feel that we have gotten
quite a bit accomplished so far
this spring,” Stallings said. “I’m
very encouraged at the progress
which the offensive line has dis
played in practice thus far.”
The A&M gridders are head
ing into their third week of
spring training winding up with
the Maroon-White game sched
uled for Saturday, May 17 at
2:30 p.m. Stallings announced
that he will divide the squad as
evenly as possible between Ma
roon and White teams to assure
a good, competitive contest.
The Aggie coach said, “I’m go
ing to divide ’em so evenly that
I won’t know myself which team
will win.
Stallings said that there has
been a lot of contact work be
cause “we are trying to find
people to play in the offensive
line and the only way to learn
how to block is at full speed.”
However, as a result of the
scrimmage on Saturday, six more
Aggie hopefuls joined the corps
of the walking wounded. Andy
Philley, Allan Hanson, Mike
Bunger, Andy Tewell, Mike Cas
well, and Edwin Ebrom.
“If we had to play these boys
today (Monday), they probably
couldn’t go,” Stallings continued.
“But they should be ready by the
end of the week.”
The Aggie mentor told of sev
eral of the problems faced by the
team before fall practice begins.
“Of course our biggest prob
lem lies this spring in our abil-
Aggies Drop Pair To Rice,
Face Cougars In Houston
ity to find an offensive line,” he
said. “Of course, a big question
mark on any team is the quar
terback. But I feel that block
ing, especially the blocking in
the line, is more important.”
Depth at all positions seems to
be one of the strong points for
the Aggies with a good repre
sentation of last year’s unde
feated freshmen team vying for
starting slots.
The quarterback spot is one
of the most hotly contested on
the team with Jimmy Sheffield,
Robert Stansberry, and Rocky
Self all showing the ability to
move the team. Sheffield, a 6-0,
180 pounder from Houston Wal-
drip holds a slight edge right
now but Stallings said “all are
doing pretty good jobs”.
Stallings said that only two
positions were set in the offen
sive line, senior center Jack Ko-
The Aggie baseballers contin
ued having trouble scoring runs
over the weekend as they dropped
two of three games to the Rice
Owls in Houston.
Coach Tom Chandler’s crew
split a doubleheader with the
Owls Friday, winning the first
game 3-1 and losing the second
3-1. Rice won Saturday’s single
game 3-0.
A&M is in Houston this after
noon for a non-conference game
with the University of Houston.
The Aggies defeated Houston
earlier in the season on Kyle
Field. The season comes to an
end this weekend when the Ag-
jgies host Texas in the final
Southwest Conference series.
Bob Long drove in two of
the Aggies’ runs with a double
and a homerun to pace the five
hit attack. Boyd Hadaway, Dave
Elmendorf and Benesh contribut
ed the other A&M hits.
In Friday’s second game, the
Owls jumped on Aggie starter
Doug Rau for the three runs in
the first and then hung on for
the victory. Rau is now 2-2 in
SWC play.
The Aggies had eight hits in
the game but could come up with
only one run. Pete Maida paced
the attack with two hits.
David Ownby set the Aggies
down on two hits in recording the
Rice win Saturday. A&M came
close in the ninth but two long
drives fell just short.
Golfers Near Title
The Texas Aggie golfers came
up with their biggest win of the
year Saturday afternoon as they
downed the Texas Longhorns 314-
214 to increase their Southwest
Conference lead to three points.
The Aggies now lead the rest
of the SWC pack by three points
with a 2414-514 record to 2IV2-
814 mark for the second place
Longhorns.
Texas won the first foursome
2-1 when Chip Stewart of Texas
beat A&M’s Duke Butler two and
one and Richard Ellis of A&M
beat Rik Massengale of Texas
two and one. Stewart and Mas
sengale won the foursome play
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On Adami’s A ble Shoulders
John G. Adami Jr., better
known as Buster, the hard-hit
ting Texas A&M football line
backer, currently is going
through his final spring training
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ward to the climactic Maroon-
White game the afternoon of
Saturday, May 17.
Adami has been a two-starter
at linebacker for the Aggies, per
haps playing somewhat in the
shadow of two-time All-America
Bill Hobbs. But, his senior sea
son next fall should find him
emerging into his own as a lead
er of the A&M defensive unit.
Leadership, intelligence and
football toughness are traits
Adami has shown for a long,
long time.
At Freer High School he was
an honorable-mention all-state
quarterback, president of Freer’s
national honor society and vale
dictorian of his graduating class.
At Texas A&M he has made
the distinguished student list, is
currently company commander of
the athletic ROTC army com
pany and made the academic A1I-
SWC team last fall.
Adami, a 6-1, 209-pounder, has
had a lot of athletic thrills but
the greatest came in the dying
moments of the 1967 Aggie-Tex-
as game when he was a sopho
more. A&M had a 10-7 lead but
Texas was driving when Adami
made a diving interception of a
pass that sealed the decision and
gave the Aggies the Southwest
Conference championship.
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1-up.
The Aggies took the second
foursome 2V2-V2. A&M’s Reggie
Majors halved his match with
Dean Overturf and Aggie Bill
Wade beat Tom Kite 1-up. Ma
jors and Wade won the four
some 1-up.
Majors ended as the medalist
for the match with a three-over-
par round, due mainly to the
high winds in which the match
was played.
A&M has two matches remain
ing in conference play meeting
the Baylor Bears here today on
the A&M course and Friday in
Fort Worth against TCU.
var and senior tight end Ross
Brupbacher. “Kovar has been
doing an excellent job and Brup
bacher is better at this stage than
I thought he would be at his new
position.”
He said that there was a good
chance that 10 to 12 sophomores
could be listed as starters at the
end of spring training.
Among the sophomores with
a chance to finish as starters are
offensive guards Robin Davis
and Leonard Forey, offensive
tackle Philley, tailbacks Steve
Burks and Gary Armbrister,
fullback Marc Black, defensive
ends James Dubcak and Wayne
Wheat, defensive guard Van
Odom, linebackers Tewell, Steve
Luebbehusen, Clifford Thomas,
Mike Lord and defensive second
ary players like Ebrom, David
Hoot, Bunger, Corky Sheffield,
Chris Johnson, and Bland Smith.
“Actually, a spring game is not
really an accurate picture of the
overall team,” Stallings said.
“But it does give you a good
idea of a boy’s desire.”
POWER PLAY
Steve Burks, a 5-11, 171-pound sophomore from Dumas,
digs for extra yardage in the scrimmage Saturday on Kyle
Field. Burks at present is the starting tailback for the
Aggies and is expected to provide some of the added run
ning strength this fall for A&M. (Photo by Mike Wright)
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