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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.
Elmer Smith
John Paul Young
Lance Van Zandt
/Hi
Jim Keller
Bobby Marks
Jack Hurlbut
Harvey Aachen beck
Barney Welch
Pug Gahrel
Mike Lord
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