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College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 18, 1969
THE BATTALION
Burks Wants LSU Win
Football coaches are always
searching for ’’winners” and there
couldn’t be a more thoroughbred
breed of winner than Texas
A&M’s Steve Burks.
Three years at Dumas High
School under coach Bill Spann
produced three district titles and
two bi-district championships.
Burks moved his headquarters to
A&M and was starting tailback
for the first undefeated fresh
man team in the school’s records.
The 5-11, 170-pound sophomore
will make his varsity debut Satur
day night against LSU in Baton
Rouge as one of a large group
of rookies who are looking to
continue their winning ways.
Based on his spring showing,
Burks will see a lot of action
this season.
With Stegent sitting out the
LSU tilt due to a pulled ham
string Burks is now the No. 1
tailback. His spring showing
prompted coach Gene Stallings to
say that tailback would be in
good hands this fall. “We won’t
lose much by putting Burks in
there,” Stallings said. That is
high praise for the sophomore
considering that starter Larry
Stegent is expected to be one of
the nation’s best ballcarriers this
fall.
Burks has shown surprising
durability for his size, carrying
the ball 30 times or more in spring
scrimmages. Stallings already
knew he had exceptional speed
since Burks won his district 100-
yard dash in 9.7 and 220-yard
dash in 21.7, so the durability was
a real bonus.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Benny
Burks of Dumas, Steve spent the
they’ll just knock you down and
run over you.”
Burks doesn’t have any second
thoughts about his choice of
schools. “I wouldn’t want to be
anywhere else,” he said. “A&M
doesn’t have all the conflict that
others have.”
In his spare time Burks likes
to straddle a horse and take a
jog in the country. But with plans
to be a veterinarian, he won’t
have much spare time in the next
few years.
Meanwhile, he’ll be satisfied
just to keep his winning streak
going.
Cross Country
OpensSaturday
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tion and getting in shape for the
fall.
“I’m really looking forward to
the season,” he said. “There is a
lot of spirit among the players.
They all want to win. We don’t
look at it as a rebuilding year.”
During the spring, Burks dis
covered that the adjustment from
freshman ball to varsity was
harder than from high school to
the frosh team. “The assign
ments are much more compli
cated, and the players you are
competing with and against are
more experienced.”
Texas A&M’s cross country
team will open its 1969 season
Sept. 20 in Baton Rouge against
LSU.
Coach Ted Nelson said his
team would be young and inex
perienced with three freshmen
joining two sophomores and a
senior on the squad. The roster
includes Paul Shimon, senior
from Alexandria, Va.; Charles
Barton, sophomore from San An
tonio; Steve Gonzalez, sophomore
from San Antonio; Sammy Skin
ner, freshman from Deer Park;
Charles Johnson, freshman from
San Francisco, Calif.; and Dennis
O’Brien, freshman from Houston
Memorial.
The schedule has 11 meets,
closing with the Southwest Con
ference meet Nov. 17 in Lubbock
and the NCAA meet Nov. 24 in
New York.
The schedule
1969 Cross Country Schedule
He also learned that he has to
work on his blocking. “You can’t
just stand in their way and hope
they trip over you. If you do,
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FROM THE PRESSBOX
Hogs, Horns Collide
For SWC Title Dec. 6
by Richard Campbell
GETTING READY
Aggie QB Jimmy Sheffield hands the ball off to fullback
Marc Black in Wednesday’s practice for the LSU game Sat
urday night in Baton Rouge. Both Sheffield and Black will
be starting for the Maroon and White. (Photo by Mike
Wright)
Kicker Bellar
Finds A&M Home
College football coaches spend
a lot of time, effort and worry
each year trying to persuade high
school athletes that their par
ticular college is the place to
play. The thoroughness of recruit
ing leaves very little chance for
a good one to get away.
Texas A&M’s Mike Bellar
proves that coaches aren’t in
fallible, though . . . particularly
a coach at Eastern New Mexico,
a school that had Bellar before
A&M.
But let the sophomore place-
kicking specialist tell the story:
“I didn’t have many offers after
high school, so I went to Eastern
New Mexico. The coach there
said I wasn’t good enough to be
a college kicker. Robin Davis (a
high school teammate at Sudan
and now a sophomore lineman at
A&M) said to come on down to
A&M. He said Coach Stallings
gave everyone a chance, and that
the coach would lay it on the
line whether I was good enough
or not. It was either that or go
into the service, so I came to
A&M.”
Bellar had to sit out a year to
establish his eligibility, but A&M
coach Gene Stallings caught a
couple glimpses of Bellar prac
ticing by himself and saw enough
to call Bellar “the best kicking
prospect I have ever seen.”
During a fall scrimmage ses
sion, Bellar attempted field goals
of 37, 38 and 47 yards . . . and
split the uprights on every one.
Stallings’ only concern is how
the 5-11, 175-pounder will do un
der game conditions.
“I’ve thought about that, Bellar
admits. “There is more pressure
in a game. And there is more
pressure just coming off the
bench and kicking rather than
playing and kicking. But the way
Coach Stallings runs practices,
I don’t think the pressure will
affect me that much. I’ll just have
to concentrate on kicking.”
Bellar will also handle kick
offs for the Aggies. “He’ll kick
the ball out of the endzone every
time, if we don’t overwork him,”
Stallings says.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Way-
mon Bellar of Sudan, Bellar was
an all-round athlete in high
school. He played linebacker and
fullback in football and was all
district in golf, basketball and
track.
Bellar credits A&M’s weight
program with strengthening his
legs and enabling him to better
his best high school effort of 37
yards. He is majoring in physical
education at A&M and plans on
a coaching career.
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This Saturday plunges the Southwest Conference
officially into action with only Southern Methodist getting a
preview last week. The Mustangs fell to Air Force in a
nationally televised game and now the other teams will get
their chance.
1969 will be the season of artificial turf, televised games
and predictably, lots of excitement. Both Arkansas and Texas
have installed Astroturf surfaces for the fall grid wars and
eight games have been scheduled thus far on TV involving
SWC teams. As for excitement, Arkansas has a balanced
attack with cool junior quarterback Bill Montgomery
directing while Texas brings their bruising ground game back
under the tutelage of talented signal-caller James Street. SMU
is the unofficial champion of the nation in providing thrills as
junior passer Chuck Hixson runs their NCAA passing machine
to perfection.
In looking at the conference as a whole, it should be
certainly stronger than last year with at least two teams, the
Razorbacks and Longhorns, ranked at various positions in the
Top Ten depending upon which poll. With the talent
distrubuted as evenly as it is, with only Texas and Arkansas
clearcut leaders, the task of picking the order of finish for the
SWC becomes a guessing game at best. But I feel when the
dust clears on Dec. 6 after the presupposed title match
between the Hogs and Horns in the Ozarks, this will be the
way they stand:
ARKANSAS — The Sugar Bowl champs look too strong for
the rest of the field. They have talent, experience,
momentum, and best of all, smooth quarterback Bill
Montgomery. Their schedule is anything but tough and you
know that Coach Frank Broyles is smiling this year in the
Ozarks.
TEXAS — The Longhorns were the strongest finishing team
of anyone in the nation last year and many felt that they
should have shared the national title with Ohio State. This
may have been premature last year, but watch out this year.
The ‘Wishbone T’ boys minus one are back in the person of
Steve Worster, Ted Koy, and, of course, supercool QB James
Street. With some breaks, the 1969 national title could have
an orange hue.
TEXAS TECH — Just a hunch, but the Raiders are depending
upon defense for their forte this year and a team doing that
can’t be beaten too bad. Admittedly they lack a certain
ingredient on the offensive side, but I remember their
quarterback Joe Matulich from last year against A&M and
he’s back again.
SMU — This one is based almost solely on the performance of
the Mustangs in the Air Force contest last week. QB Hixson
had a typical performance but the defensive team looked
pathetic at times, especially the secondary. I don’t think that
Excitement ’69 will be anything like it was in ’68.
A&M — This one is strictly a dark-horse pick. The Aggies are
green with more than 60 sophomores on their roster. But :
these sophs are briming over with talent and if they mature in |
the tough preseason games then the upset-minded Cadets will
figure somewhere in the title picture.
BAYLOR — With a new head coach (Bill Beall) came a new
mascot symbol, a growling bear instead of the Gentle Ben
type they previously had. Also new is the enthusiasm of the
’69 squad and don’t be suprised if they win a few because of
the changes. Their schedule is rough but, perhaps, so are the
Bears.
TCU — The Horned Frogs are the picture of frustration. They
finally found a good quarterback, but he is soph Steve Judy,
with no experience. They finally have bruiser Norman
Bulaich ready to tote the ball, but he is injury-prone. Should
they make it through their non-conference schedule they
may be too shellshocked to go through the conference race.
They tackle Purdue, Ohio State, and Miami (Fla.). Enough
said.
RICE — Even if the Owls win one game this year, it will be an
improvement over last year’s 0—9—1 mark. Again they play a
tough schedule and with the conference teams so evenly
matched in strength, they have few bright spots. One bright
one will be soph QB Stable Vincent, the first black signal
caller in the SWC. Expect an upset or two from the Owls but
beyond that, don’t count on much.
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