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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 11, 1971
A prize recruit
on the first try
By CLIFFORD BROYLES
Battalion Sport Editor
Spec Gammon usually just takes care of the public relations work
around the A&M Athletic Department, but since the football season
ended he has taken it upon himself to help the Aggie football fortunes.
His efforts payed off Tuesday morning when Gary Vaughan, a 6-8
255 pound tackle, signed a letter of intent to play football for the
Aggies.
It’s a long story and it actually started two years ago. Gammon,
who quarterbacked his 1939 high school team at Coalgate, Oklahoma,
to the first undefeated season in the school’s history, was invited back
to speak at his high school’s football banquet. There he met a
sophomore tackle who at that time stood 6-6 and weighed in at 225.
He remembered him and waited for two years. Then, after
Vaughan finished his senior football season, Gammon spent a weekend
in Coalgate and put his impression on the boy.
“I enjoyed talking with Gary. When you’re trying to put
something over, you can do it if you believe in it and I was trying to sell
Texas A&M.”
Gary has a brother, Mike who’s a junior in high school and a little
smaller. He only stands 6-7 but he weighs 260.
A good year for Gary could mean another bonus prize for next
year.
Gary was from a small school and despite his team’s 2-8 record,
was chosen as an alternate to the All-State team in Oklahoma.
Several schools, aside from the Aggies, were interested in
Vaughan. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were there, as they are for all
the top schoolboys in their state. The University of Arkansas also put in
a strong bid.
Two weekends ago, Vaughan visited the A&M campus with his
family and Gammon said he was really impressed.
“The first thing that he was really impressed by was the spirit of
the student body at the Tech game and also the A&M weight room,”
Gammon said.
“He wanted to work on the weight program and I even had
Randy Matson ready to call him if we needed it and tell him how good
Coach Emil Mamaliga (A&M weight training coach) was.”
Vaughan—despite is size—has never worked on weights, so his
mother transferred him to nearby Ada High School, where he can put
the shot his last semester and also work on Ada’s weight program. Ada
won the state football championship last fall.
Also, Coalgate doesn’t have a track program and Vaughan wants
to put the shot. While on campus visiting, he talked to the Aggie track
coaches and picked up some information on how Randy Matson used
to train.
But it wasn’t a sure thing, the signing of Vaughan. He was visiting
Oklahoma State last weekend and Gammon wanted to make sure he
hadn’t been persuaded otherwise.
Gammon spent Friday and Saturday in Fort Worth with the
track team and then drove to Coalgate Sunday.
When signing day came Vaughan told Gammon, “I don’t want to
sign. I’m not going to sign with Oklahoma State, but I’m just going to
wait a while before I do.”
He had gotten a letter from a place called Notre Dame and they
wanted him to fill out a questionnaire and look at some of his films.
And you know Notre Dame, with its illustrious history, can hold
a spell over an athlete, even if he just gets an offer.
But Spec put the word right to him and told him that if he
waited, A&M might run out of the 50 alloted scholarships and
Oklahoma State could too, and then where would he be if Notre Dame
looked at the Films and decided they didn’t want him.
So he decided to put his name on the dotted line and is now
committed to the Aggies.
“Recruiting is a real tough job. It makes me really appreciate and
respect the job the coaches do. 1 can understand how it is tough to
work an area,” Gammon said of his first shot at recruiting college
athletes.
Asked if he was going to do any more recruiting, Gammon said he
would if he was needed.
But for now the first recruiting try for the sports information
director of Texas A&M was a success and maybe a double victory if
they can land brother Mike next year.
Vol.
Marvin Tate II signs a pre-enrollment football applied
with Texas A&M while Aggie head coach Gene Sti
lings, left and assistant coach Barney Welch looko
Tate, 6-2, 185, played tight end and defensive halfbat
for Stephen F. Austin High in Bryan. His father, Ms
vin Tate, played guard for three years at Texas Aii
and now is associate athletic director.
Ags set to defend
mile relay title
By CLIFFORD BROYLES
Battalion Sports Editor
The last time the Texas A^ffies
were there, they set a world
record in the mile relay as they
burned the Astrodome Tartan
track to the tune of 3:05.7 for
the five-lap indoor track in the
Astrodome Federation Track and
Field meet.
Saturday night, in the meet’s
final event, the Aggies will gun
at the top spot with only half of
the foursome running.
Curtis and Marvin Mills will
take half of the race and Skelly
Strong and Don Kellar or David
Morris will run the other legs.
William Blackmon, who ran a
leg on the record-breaking team,
will save himself for an 880 leg
in the spring medley relay. Harold
McMahan, who ran the first leg
on that team, is working solely in
the pole vault pit this year.
“We’re going to really go after
the relays,” head track coach
Charlie Thomas said. Thomas
said Marvin and Curtis would run
in the mile relay only.
The meet starts Friday morn
ing with preliminary running
events in the high school, junior
college, college and university
divisions.
Finals in only one university
division event are scheduled for
Friday. The high jump is slated
to go Friday and the Aggie duo
of Ben Greathouse and Marvin
Taylor, who both cleared 6-8 last
week, will be entered, along with
15 other jumpers who have
cleared 6-10, including Ron Jour-
dan who has cleared 7-2 and Pat
Matzdorf who has cleared 7-1.
McMahan and Larry McIntyre
will compete in the pole vault,
which has finals set for Saturday
with Friday morning prelims.
Rockie Woods, who did not run
in the Fort Worth meet last week
because of a slightly pulled ham
string, is scheduled to see his first
action of the season in the 120-
yard high hurdles, along with
Donny Rogers.
Pat Bradley will run the mile
for the Aggies and Robert Brew
and Gary West will run in the
440.
Steve Barre and Allen Swag-
erty are slated to run in the 100-
yard dash and Barre will run a
220 leg on the Aggies’ sprint
medley relay.
Rogers will run the 220,Di
Morris will run the 440 and Bln
mon the 880.
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