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THE BATTALION Tuesday, September 7, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 5 Some changes for the better By JOHN CURYLO TY ; With the beginning of another sports year Saturday night, I’m sure every Aggie would like for things to be much different from last year. The first area is the won-lost column. After nine straight losses in football, coaches, players, and students can think of nothing better than to have a good season. Second, attitude is a big factor. The Twelfth Man is reputed to have undying loyalty, and such loyalty will be replenished greatly by a few more wins. But more impor tantly, the general attitude around the campus will improve. Last year, the student body was so down in the dumps that we looked and acted like losers. It’s time for this to change. Third, and most important, is conduct during the games. The Aggies play in such madhouses as LSU’s Tiger Den, Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium, and Texas Tech’s Jones Stad ium. It’s about time opponents dreaded Kyle Field just as much. Too recently, we have been so hospitable that other teams love it here. This is not to say that A&M should throw turkey eggs, the way they do in Lubbock, or that trash, both material and verbal, should be thrown at opposing players on the sidelines. Pure noise, supporting the Aggies, used to be enough to unnerve the visitors. When this again becomes the case, we will be the ones to win in Kyle Field. Following this point is another: A&M has never had cheerleaders, they are yell leaders. Well, ideally, this year they will become roar leaders. The final point concerns yell practice. Midnight yell practice, though too rowdy, is well attended. It would be nice if more people turned out for the other yell practices, too. Early in the week, the team is working out during the 7:15 yell practice. And, during the Thursday yell practice that precedes away games, the team participates at Hender son Hall. If anyone thinks that the team is not affected by yell practice, just ask them. Fan support has everything in the world to do with team performance. The part the Twelfth Man plays is a significant one; it can mean the difference between winning and losing. It’s traditional to meet the team at Easterwood Field when they return from games. Such an event should occur regardless of the outcome. If we don’t care enough to show up at the airport, why should the team care enough to do their best? So this year, let’s all do what we. can to be different than last year. If we all do our share, then the victories will be something we are responsible for, and they will be that much more enjoyable. i|: :|t * * * Tickets are still available for the Wichita State game under the Family Plan. Fans are also reminded that the mayors of Bryan and College Station have proclaimed this “Maroon and White Week.” Football Cardinals need to win, but they’re still a year away ST. LOUIS UP)—The St. Louis Cardinals, frustrated in their bids for top National Football League status since winning in 1947 while Chicago based, are probably at least a year away from a championship. The burden of winning is on tall Bob Hollway, former defen sive architect of Minnesota Vik ing teams hired to replace de posed Charley Winner as head coach in February. But Hollway, schooled in pa tience through 20 seasons as an assistant, seems determined to at tack basics and install with soundness his philosophies before pursuing football’s elusive title. “I want my players quick, I want them disciplined and I want them aggressive; I want them to think positive,” Hollway said aft er assuming the reins. In an effort to fit into their conception of the Hollway mold, linemen and backs on the largely veteran Cardinals squad reported to camp in late July at less than their 1970 playing weights. Rigorous training ensued and Hollway labeled the rough prod uct the equal of former Viking powers. Yet the team has stum bled and been prone to error in losing two of its first three ex hibition games. Slow off the mark has been a running attack featuring power houses MacArthur Lane and Cid Edwards. A pass defense fre quently brilliant in 1970 has leaked. Hollway has expressed keen interest in an improved pass rush from an energetic and still-ma turing front four, but the coordi- Lineup adjusted by Frog coaches nation between the defensive line and linebackers has yet to be achieved. If there is but one key to how well the Cardinals’ defense will perform in Hollway’s first sea son it probably is in the person of 6-foot-2, 235-pound Jamie Rivers, the middle linebacker. The quiet Rivers, a play diag nostician heralded for his part in three successive Cardinal shutout triumphs in 1970, is an excellent and strong tackier with skills yet to be polished in interceptions. Better at interceptions and a Pro Bowl veteran at left line backer is Larry Stallings, a nine- season player. Rocky Rosemana, in his fourth NFL season, is the likely right linebacker. Roger Wehrli and Miller Farr are excellent cornerbacks and all- pro Larry Wilson masterminds the pass defense at left safety, but right safety Jerry Stovall is fragile. With Stovall sidelined late last season, the Cards were vulnerable. Hollway describes the Cardinal offense as swifter and more ca pable infinitely of the “big play” than was Minnesota during the Vikings’ march to the 1969 NFL title. Jim Hart demonstrated im provement in finding secondary pass receivers in 1970 but is more methodical than quick and is be ing extended by Pete Beathard for the job as top quarterback. Either will have the benefit of stellar receiving in wide re ceivers John Gilliam and Dave Williams and Pro Bowl tight end Jackie Smith, who combined catches in 1970. Gilliam and the 6-foot-4, 235-pound Smith, a nine-season vet, have exceptional speed. THERE’S mORE THRU ORE BARR RR0HRD... 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