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Tuesday .March 21,1972 THE BATTALION Page 6 College Station, Texas Bellard, Aggies begin spring training workouts today By JOHN CURYLO Battalion Sports Editor The new football era at A&M officially begins today at 4:00 when 120 Aggie football players have their first spring practice session under the guidance of Emory Bellard. With the Wishbone at hand and winning in mind, the new coach and his staff get things going for the 1972 version of the Aggies. The main tasks in early drills will be establishing a working re lationship and familiarity between coaches and players and, of course, learning the Wishbone. Bellard dreamed up the offense for the Texas Longhorns a few years ago, and it has been copied far and wide ever since. The key to the whole thing, as the University of Texas found out, is the quarterback. James Street, Eddie Phillips and Donnie Wigginton—now one of Bollard's assistants—operated it effectively enough to win Southwest Confer ence championships. The three top candidates for the position are Lex James, Tim Trimmier and Don Dean. James ran the triple option as a sopho more and was injured most of last season, but he is expected to be the starter this time around. Trimmier spent most of his soph omore year last season as a back up quarterback, while Dean guided the highly successful Fish last fall. Brad Dusek, a stellar safety last year, returns to the fullback position he played as a sopho more. Mark Green, who led the excitement of a four-game win streak last fall, gets the nod for one of the running back positions. The other will be held down by Bob Jennings, the transfer from Eastern Arizona Junior College. Of the 120 candidates, 34 are lettermen from last year’s 6-6 team. There are 22 lettermen who played out their eligibility, with the defensive ibackfield being the place most damaged by gradua tion. Among the returners are Bus ter Callaway, Todd Christopher, Ralph Sacra, Robert Gerasimo- wicz, Skip Kuehn and Homer May in the offensive line. The defen sive front features veterans Max Bird, Boice Best, James Dubcak, Kent Finley and Bill Wiebold and linebackers Grady Hoermann and Dennis Carruth. Ricky Spencer and Robert Murski were wide receivers last season, but Murski may return to defensive back, the position he played as a sophomore. Pat Mc Dermott, the record-holding place kicker, is back for his third year. The players have been involved in an extensive off season train ing program of running and weight-lifting. The coaches have been off recruiting, but a special effort has been made to establish a rapport with the returning players. Practices are scheduled for daily, with scrimmages planned each Saturday. The team takes a five-day break for the Eastei holidays, and the spring game ii set for April 22. Athletic department officiali have announced that all practice sessions will be open. Faculty, staff, administration and students are welcome to watch all work outs. This policy will be in effect throughout the spring and during the season next fall. Rugby Club wins again; champions of Falstaff Invitational The Rugby Club of A&M reach ed for and attained great heights of excellence to completely dom inate the first annual Falstaff Invitational Rugby Tournament. Held at Galveston on March 18- 19, this tourney attracted teams from all over Texas and Louisi ana, with some regretted last- minute cancellations from Rut gers University and the Naval Academy. The Aggies fielded two teams with the Number 1 squad listed as a favorite. Other teams play ing were Harlequins and Dallas, both from Dallas, Austin Gold and NOW OPEN! ADULT LIBRARY CLUB 333 University Drive ADULT ART MOVIES Open 7 Days A Week 3 p. m. Till Midnight Escorted Ladies Vt Price Monday Bring Date or Friend Free. No One Under 18 Admitted. 2 Full Features 16mm Color Sound. Features Change Every Thursday. Adult Library Club Phone 846-9990 Clip This Ad For $1.00 Discount. AMRU.S') LAST DAY TODAY “STRAW DOGS” With Dustin Hoffman STARTS TOMORROW dyood secretoJUf ftKouJS HouJto tote com oft tet boss. _THE Secretary RELEASED BY UNITED FIM ORGANIZATION i IN £610* 151 mmsm LAST DAY — 4:30 - 8:30 P. M. “GONE WITH THE WIND” STARTS TOMORROW Walter Matthau In “KOTCH” Skyway Twin EAST SCREEN AT 6:45 P. M. “SUMMER OF ’42” At 8:45 p. m. “WAIT UNTIL DARK” WEST SCREEN AT 6:40 P. M. “GO BETWEEN” At 8:30 p. m. “RUN WILD RUN FREE” A&M Polo Glib defeated at national college tourney The Aggie Polo Club lost to Virginia, 19-9, in the National In tercollegiate Polo Championship held at Darien, Conn., last week. It was the first indoor meet A&M had participated in, and the lack of practice slowed the Ag gies. Plans are being made for A&M to host an outdoor cham pionship meet next year. The Ag gies have been invited to partici pate at the nationals again next year. Defending national champion Yale, five-time winner of the crown, lost to Connecticut Thurs day, also. This upset put Connec ticut and Virginia in the finals Saturday. Sports schedule Wednesday Oklahoma City, here Tennis, 1:30 Swimming: NCAA meet, West Point, N. Y. Football: Spring workout, 4:00 Thursday Tennis: Rice tournament, Hous ton Swimming: NCAA meet, West Point, N. Y. Football: Spring workout, 4:00 Friday Baseball: SMU, Dallas, double- header, 1:00 Tennis: Rice tournament, Hous ton Swimming: NCAA meet, West Point, N. Y. Golf: Morris Williams meet, Aus tin Football: Spring workout, 4:00 Saturday Baseball: SMU, Dallas, 2:00 Tennis: Rice tournament, Hous ton Swimming: NCAA meet, West Point, N. Y. Golf: Morris Williams meet, Aus tin Track: College Station Relays, here Football: Scrimmage Rugby: Dallas, there Monday Tennis: West Texas State, here, 1:30 Football: Spring workout, 4:00 Purchase offer made for Rams LOS ANGELES (A>) — An of fer of $18 million reportedly has been made for the purchase of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League. Sports Editor Bud Furillo of the Los Angeles Herald-Exam iner wrote Monday that the bid had been made by a Southern California contractor. Identified as the prospective buyer was Carlos Romer of San ta Monica and Hawaii. LIFE INSURANCE IS NOT THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SO MANY PRETEND IT IS. It’s both simple and understandable. No obligation. May we talk about it? Bob Phillips 707 University Drive 846-8031 S? PROVIDENT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA In the coming months, the Ag gies will participate in meets in Houston, San Antonio and Dallas, with hopes to travel to Oklahoma City for a match. Austin Black Rugby Clubs, St. Edward’s Rugby Club, also of Austin, Houston Rugby Club and NASA Bay Bombers Rugby Club, Alpine Rugby Club from Alpine, Texas, Galveston Rugby Club, the host team, and two Louisiana Clubs, Hammond and LSU. The two days of continental rugby saw clear blue skies with bright sunshine making ideal spectator weather, but hot play ing conditions. The standard of rugby was superb, with the two A&M teams shining above all. The Second squad playing in spired rugby won its way into the semi-finals as did the First team, and it seemed that the two A&M squads would meet in the Championship game. Fate decreed otherwise in a magnificently fought game where the A&M 2 team fell 3-0 to the Dallas Harle quins Rugby Club who went on to meet the A&M 1 team for the Championship. The Number 2 squad was the equal of any club’s first 16, with one exception. The A&M 1 squad looked absolutely invincible, play ing inspired rugby with impec cable precision and teamwork. In three games this team scored 90 points having only 15 scored against them. Led by Butch Pres ton and Steve Sturman these Ag gies showed with no small degree of conviction that their speed is [tremendous and their tackling power awesome. The results speak {for themselves. In their first game A&M routed NASA 22-0. They followed this by smashing the Austin Black Club 34-12, and finally crushed Harlequins 34-3 to take home the four-foot cham pionship trophy. Since January 1971 the A&M 1 squad has entered four tourna ments and won them all. Last year they were champions of the Austin Invitational and the Lone Star Invitational in Houston, and this year they won the Mardi Gras Tournament in Louisiana and now the Falstaff Invitational. They are the present reipiing Texas Rugby Union Champions, and since last January have tie enviable 34-2-0 record. They next play against Dallas Rugby CM on March 26 at Dallas in Glencoe Park at 3:30 p.m. The A&M 2 squad will play first at 2:00 p.m. The Rugby Club of A&M would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the Former Stu dents’ Association for their gift of $160.00 which made their en try to this Falstaff Tournament possible. HPSPil ,V:# V:ll 7 an ■■I -. 7 'vV« '7 ' 7 %. i • ^ ‘ -Vvi > "" - 11 H V,.. . ■ • 7- Pictures talk. Some little boys don’t. Some inner-city ghettos have special schools. For little boys who don’t talk. Not mute little boys. But children so withdrawn, so afraid of failure, they cannot make the slightest attempt to do any thing at which they might fail. Some don’t talk. Some don’t listen. Most don’t behave. And all of them don’t learn. One day someone asked us to help. Through Kodak, cameras and film were distributed to teachers. The teachers gave the cameras to the kids and told them to take pictures. And then the miracle. 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