Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 10, 1969
THE BATTALION
Youthful Coaches
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Guide ’69 Aggies
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A coaching staff with a defi
nite accent on youth will assist
Head Coach Gene Stallings this
fall as the Aggies try to rebound
from their 3-7 season.
The newest addition to the
staff is Bobby Marks hired earli
er this year from Sam Houston
high school in Houston where he
was head coach. He will be in
charge of coaching the lineback
ers and will also do scouting and
recruiting.
Jim Keller, last year’s fresh
man coach, returns for his sec
ond season after guiding the 1968
fish to an undefeated year.
This will open Stallings’ fifth
campaign at the Aggies helm and
his second as Athletic Director.
A CAPTAIN of the undefeated
1956 Aggie team, Stallings spent
seven seasons as an assistant to
Bryant at Alabama. He returned
here late in 1964, and in 1965 his
team won three games, including
a 14-10 upset of Georgia Tech.
The following year, the Aggies
led the conference standings un-
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH
GENE STALLINGS
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til mid-season and weren’t elimi
nated from contention until the
final week.
Born in 1935 at Paris, Texas,
Stallings became an all-around
sports star at Paris High School,
where he captained football, bas
ketball and golf teams. He let
tered all three years at A&M in
football and was all-conference
his junior year.
ELMER SMITH, assistant head
coach, approaches his 16th season
on the Aggie Staff. He came here
in March 1954 from a head coach
ing job at Southern State College
in Magnolia, Ark. He is chief
assistant to Stallings, and re
cruits players in Northeast Tex.
A native of Casa, Ark., Smith
will observe his 62nd birthday a
week before the season opener
against LSU. He is a 1931 grad
uate of Hendrix College and holds
a master’s degree in physical
education from Peabody in Nash
ville, Tenn. As coach at Southern
State from 1946-54, Smith posted
a 57-27 record with perfect sea
sons in 1951 and 1952.
DEFENSIVE Coach Dee Pow
ell joined the staff in January
1965, coming here from Alabama,
where he was an assistant coach.
His duties include overall defense,
scouting and recruiting in the
Houston area.
Powell was born in Lockhart
in 1935 and was graduated from
Lockhard High School in 1952
after playing guard for two
years. He was guard and center
on the 1954-55-56 Aggie teams.
He worked with Alabama’s de
fense in 1963 and with the of
fense in 1964.
Offensive Coach Bud Moore
left his job as assistant coach at
Kentucky in January, 1965, to
join Stallings’ staff. He was of
fensive line coach that fall and
became coach of the overall of
fense last year. In addition to
coaching and scouting duties,
Moore recruits players in South
Central Texas.
MOORE PLAYED football, bas
ketball, baseball and track at
West End High School of Bir
mingham, Ala. At the University
of Alabama, he played football
and baseball three years. Before
joining the Kentucky coaching
staff in 1962, he coached the
Gadsden, Ala., high school team.
Loyd Taylor, offensive back-
field coach, came to A&M in ear
ly 1965 from Oklahoma State
University, where he was an as
sistant coach. He is responsible
for training offensive backs, ex
cept quarterbacks, and split ends.
He also is a scout, and recruits
players in North Central Texas.
Born in Roswell, N. M., in 1936,
Taylor was an all-state halfback
at Roswell High School. He was
a halfback and place kicker three
seasons at A&M. After gradua
tion, Taylor became an assistant
coach at Eagle Pass and then at
Karnes City.
LINEBACKERS Coach Don
Watson was an assistant coach
at South Carolina before joining
Stallings in December 1964. His
duties also include recruiting in
Houston.
A McAllen native, Watson
played football, basketball and
track at Franklin High School in
Franklin, and was named to the
All-State team as a halfback. At
A&M, Watson won national
Back-of-the-Week honors at half
back and played in the 1956 Blue-
Gray All-Star Game. He is 34
years old.
Jack H u r 1 b u t, quarterback
coach, has been with the staff
since December 1964. In addition
to coaching quarterbacks, Hurl-
but recruits in Southeast Texas.
BORN IN Houston in 1941,
Hurlbut was graduated from Al-
dine High School in 1959 after
playing football, basketball, base
ball and track. He was a quarter
back and defensive halfback for
the University of Alabama for
three years. After graduation in
1964, he coached at Galveston’s
Ball High School.
Ralph Smith, end coach, came
back to A&M in December, 1964,
from an assistant coaching job
at Odessa High School. He works
primarily with defensive ends,
and recruits in East Texas.
A native of Borger, Smith
played end three seasons at Phil
lips High School in Borger. After
graduating in 1957, he played on
Aggie teams in 1958-59-60.
HELMS, WHO will continue to
coordinate recruiting in his as
sistant varsity coach position, has
been here since August 1965. He
came to A&M from Uvalde,
where he was head high school
coach.
Bom in San Augustine, Helms
played high school football at
Childress, where he was an All-
State end. He played three years
at end for Texas A&I. He earned
a master’s degree in physical edu
cation there, and has served as
line coach at Brownsville Junior
College and head coach at high
schools in Freer, Laredo, San
Benito and Uvalde.
The youngest member of the
staff is Lide Huggins, a defensive
backfield coach and the recruiter
for West Texas. He came to
A&M in August 1965 as a stu
dent assistant.
BORN IN Mullins, S. C., the
25-year-old Huggins played quar
terback and halfback for Mullins
High School. He was a safety at
South Carolina for three years,
This is his first coaching assign-
ment.
Keller joined the staff in June
after serving as student coach
one season. He was born in At
lanta, Texas, and played quarter
back in football, forward in bas
ketball and ran the quarter mile
in track at Terrell High School,
He was All-State two years in
football and one year in basket
ball. At Texas A&M he played
quarterback-safety three years
and forward two years.
Trainer Billy Pickard, a San
Antonio native and a 1956 A&M
graduate, approaches his fourth
season here. He had been trainer
more than seven years at Brazos-
port High School and one year at
Port Arthur High School.
Pickard was trainer in the 1960
Texas High School All-star game
and was president of the South
west Athletic Trainers Associ
ation in 1960-61.
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1969 TEXAS AGGIE COACHES
These coaches will assist Stallings in guiding the 1969 Aggies. They are (L to R) : Trainer Billy Packard, Lide
Huggins, J. W. Helms, Dee Powell, Bud Moore, Stallings, Elmer Smith, Ralph Smith, Jack Hurlbut, Don Watson, and
Loyd Taylor. Not pictured are Freshman Coach Jim Keller and new linebacker coach Bobby Marks.
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