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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1971)
ii " 1" . T f r. Awmm 4, mi THE BATTAUON tkm ^mt4 Aggies have Bryant-oriented staff mm Bapt. 11 wbm Um i1f|iw boat WlrkMa State aa Kjrla PlaU. Chariaa H. (Pa«) Gabrtl, who Jatoad Um AAM staff la Um ■prtec, wfll ha la ciMr*a of Um ■ffa—hra Uaa. Oakral eomm to fra* Oklahoma State whata ha was Um affamhrt co ordinator far aaa af Um up aad caaUaS major callags football who haaSod Um affaaaa for Um coach CharUa sifaad after saaaaa at AAM. Is at VandarbtH. H array Aar Son bark, a dafan- ahra tarkla on Um 1MT Soath- woat Caafaranca champion ASM aqaad, will ha startinc hia first saaaaa as coach af tha dafaaahra line. Last year Asc ban back was a fall-UaM varsity assistant after sanrinff tha IMS season as a stu- Gabrsl Bad Moore, Head coach will bapia bis i charra af the StalUnffs season in this fall trend that saw ABM football at its law sat last soaaon. ABM has a 22-39-L record durtnc Stalliaffs* tenure, iarludinc a 7-4 Sovth- waat Conference tltlaot in 1MT. Stailinffs earned throe varsity letters at Ajrrieland a a d a r Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant aad was tri-captain for tha unbeaten ItM team. He later joined Bry ant as an assistant coach at the University of Alabama. Returning: for his seventeenth season on the staff is assistant head coach Elmer Smith. Smith, a member of the Arkansas Hall of Fame because of his athletic how not to lose’ (CsnUaaed from papa 1) with Charloa BilUacaley aad Gary Smith. Harrtap suffered a broken lap in sprinp practice but is ex pected to ha available in tha fall. Pour lettermea from last year’s backfie Id—seniors Daop NeiU aad Marc Black aad jaaiors Brad Du- sak aad Daop Rahhias—are vyinp far Um fullback spot aad one of them coaid end up at another spot in Um backfield in the touph competition. Joey Herr and Huph McElroy, two seniors who were the team’s laadinp wide recehrtrs with 21 receptions apiece last year, will be the laadinp candidates for the winpback position aKhouph the laadinp freshman pass catcher Bobby Huphes from Houston Sam Houston and Billy Joe Polaeek. who missed last season with an injury, are rated as contenders. Tlpht end Homer May led the Apples in receivinp with 26 catches and the 6-2, 225 plant from Lubbock to rated as the pre season pick for All-Southwest tipht end by the Texas Football Mapasine. His five touchdown passes caught last year equalled the number caupht by the rest of the team. Yet senior Mitch Robertson finished ahead of May on the Apple depth charts after sprinp practice aad a battle supreme can be expected there. Robertson is expected to take over tha puntinp chores from Jim my Sheffield, who now is tryinp to make it as a punter with tha Buffalo Bills of the National Football Laapue. Bill Nutt, a freshman from Branham, will pro vide the stronpeot ehallenpe for Robertson and his 40.7 averape includes a 76-yard pern apainst Rica. Sheffield averaped 40.2 last year. Ed Marsh of Baylor led the conference with a 40.4 averape. . The battle for the offensive line is war, as only All-Southwest Conference guard Leonard Forey was holding down his position in the right side of the line and was being pushed by Mike Park, who worked at canter last year. Coach Stallings’ shifts in the offensive line has Ralph Sacra, who was shifted to the offense in mid season, at right tackle and Robert Gerasimowici, a junior from Dickinson, at center. Todd Christopher, who started last season as a promising soph omore defensive end and moved to linebacker when the position became saturated with injuries, now to the number one left guard. Four lettermen are battling for the left tackle spot with Buster Calloway out front at the time, although Ted Smith, Clifton Thomas and Benny DeWitt are in the battle. DeWitt held the post last year but missed sprinp training due to personal prob lems. Smith worked at center last year. la all, 11 lettermen are seeking the interior offensive line posi tions and add to that junior col lege transfer center Skip Kuehn and you have war. Four lettermen are leading the fight for the defensive line with juniors Kent Finley and Max Bird at the ends and senior Van Odorti aad junior James Du beak at the tackles. Boies and Bruce Best both are fighting for defensive lias posts as they start their second year of varsity play. Bruce missed spring training due to an operation for a detached retina. Another war could occur at linebacker where the Aggies have Grady Hoermann, Mike Lord, Steve Loebbehuaen and Dennis Camith set to battle for two spots. Camith suffered a broken leg in sprinp workouts and missed most of last season with an injury but still is rated highly. Of this foursome only Hoer mann avoided a major injury last year. Sophomore Billy Wtobold is expected to cause some noise from there also. Dave Elmendorf is gone and the Aggies have a hole to fill in in the defensive secondary. Lee Hitt, who spent a lot of time on the bench while Elmendorf was around, to a leading candidate for the job, although Clifford Thomas and kickoff specialist Mike Bellar could move in. David Hoot, who tied for the league lead in interceptions with Elmendorf with six, is the strong safety, although Mike Bunger and Thomas are challenging. Ed Ebrom returns for his third letter at left comerback and Bland Smith for his second on the right side, but junior Robert Murski and Chris Johnson, who missed last season with an injury, are in the Tight for the two positions. 1971 will be a challenge year for the Texas Aggies. They will be out to break the spell. Only time will tell if the Aggies “Learned how not to loss.” stuff far the first Mms under Bryant in 1664. As with tbs majsrity of tbs staff, the name of Bryant has influenced defensive coach Dee Pew all, guartarhaek coach Jack Hurtbutt and rocehriap coach Bobby Marks, who also learned souse of their football from tbs Bear. Powell, now in his fifth season, was a center and guard along with Marks, who was an Ail- Southwest Conference end. In the Bryant era. Both finished a year after Stafliaga. That year, 1M7, Stallings coached the Ag gie Fleh. Powell later coached under Bryant at Alabama and Hurl- but, who new to starting his sixth year on the staff, was a quarterback on the 1662. 1668 and 1964 Crimson Tide squads that took home bowl victories. Hurl but coached one year as a defensive backfield coach, since he also worked in the de fensive secondary as s player under Bryant. He has been a quarterback coach since that first season. His most noticeable grad uate to Edd Hargett, who spear headed the 1967 champions and to now one of the top signal call ers for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. Marks joined the Aggie staff in 1969 after a very successful stay as head mentor of the Hous ton Sam Houston football pro gram. But he didn’t just leave the Sam Houston program be hind. Marks, "who scouts in the Gulf Coast area, has brought in some of his former high school players, including quarterback Lex James, fullback Doug Neill and receivers, Thomas Burke and Bobby Hughes. * Lance Van Zandt and John Paul Young, who both have coached under Stallings for one season return to coordinate the defensive secondary and line backers respectively. Van Zandt previously coached nt New Mexico Highlands and West Texas State before coming to AAM and Young, who was an outstanding linebacker at the University of Texas at El Paso for four years, was an assistant coach at Oklahoma State prior to coming to AAM. He also coached as an assistant under Hayden Fry at Southern Meth odist University. - Jim Keller swaits another group of prospective Aggie foot ball stars as he begins hto fourth season as AAM freshman coach. Keller’s teams have a 9-6 record in three eoaaono. He was a var sity quarterback-safety for three oeaeone during hto playing days ia the early sixties for the Ag gies. He came to AAM on bas ketball scholarship, however, end also played two years on the varsity cage squad. Barney Welch, one of the load ing Southwest Conference foot ball officials for several yean, to entering hto second soaaon as varsity assistant and to in charge of the Aggies’ vast recruiting program. . 4 I Welch got a before and after look at college athletics as he started hto career at AAM before World War II but entered the service after hto sophomore year. He repumcd to complete hto eli gibility in the 1946 and 1947 sea- fl sons and then served as director I of intramural athletics at AAM'" in 1948. 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