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377 University North Gate
Page 2
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 2, 1972
THE BATTM-he B
Football coaching staff has talent and backgroun
Experience and enthusiasm are
the trademarks of the A&M foot
ball coaching staff working with
Emory Bellard this year, and
those two traits paid off with
the fine list of recruits signed to
scholarships.
Bellard and his assistants
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showed their knowledge and or
ganization during spring train
ing, with the drills showing a
great deal of planning and tim
ing.
As overall coordinators of the
offensive and defensive units,
Bellard has two former Univer
sity of Houston assistants who
have worked together since join
ing the Cougar staff on the same
day in 1965.
Ben Hurt will serve as offen
sive coordinator, in addition to
his duties with the offensive line.
Hurt served seven years as a
high school coach before going
to Houston, where he coached the
defensive line.
Naturally, Bellard will coach
the offensive backs. Hurt has
two other coaches working with
him on offense, R. C. Slocum and
Dan LaGrasta. Slocum coached
at Lake Charles High for two
years before moving into the col
lege ranks at Kansas State for
two seasons. LaGrasta was Bel-
lard’s assistant at Breckenridge
and San Angelo Central from
1955-66. When Bellard moved to
the University of Texas in 1967,
LaGrasta took over the head job.
Ben Hurt
Melvin Robertson
Melvin Robertson is the defen
sive coordinator and secondary
coach. He was a high school
coach 14 years before being hired
by the Cougars. At Houston, he
was assistant head coach and de
fensive coordinator.
Robertson has two assistants
who are holdovers from the 1971
A&M coaching staff and one who
was a high school coach last year.
Dee Powell, a former Aggie foot
ball player, begins his eighth
season on the A&M coaching
staff. He headed the defense for
six of those years, and will coach
the defensive line this year. Fol
lowing his graduation in 1957, he
worked for Bear Bryant at Ala-
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R. C. Slocum
Dan LaGrasta
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Dee Powell
John Paul Young
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Swede Lee
Paul Register
Rex Norris
Donnie Wigginton
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bama during spring training be
fore serving five years in the Air
Force. After that, he returned to
the Crimson Tide staff for two
years before coming back to
A&M.
John Paul Young begins his
third year as linebacker coach
for the Aggies. He coached one
year at his alma mater, the Uni
versity of Texas at El Paso, be
fore going to Jacksonville High
for three years. He served as an
assistant at Southern Methodist
University for two years and
Oklahoma State for one year be
fore joining the A&M staff.
The other defensive coach Is
Swede Lee, who will work with
the defensive ends. Lee began his
career at Amarillo High in 1958.
He was head coach at Comanche
in 1959 and was an assistant at
Texarkana for two years and
head coach for three seasons.
After a year as head coach at
Galveston Ball, he was an assist
ant at the University of Okla
homa for a year. He was out of
coaching for a year, then went to
Pampa in 1968, where he coached
the team to its first district title
in 21 years.
A trio of coaches will work
with the freshman squad. The
head freshman coach is Paul Reg
ister, who coached Hurst-Bell to
a pair of 9-1 seasons before com
ing to A&M. He began coaching
at Galveston Ball before moving
to Spring Branch, where he got
the head job in 1965. From there,
he went to Hurst-Bell.
Rex Norris will be tin
man line coach for AAM,
joined the staff in June,
an assistant coach at Ce
Turner High for six
was line coach and defeul
ordinator when he leftii;
become an assistant at)
Junior College in Corsi«
Donnie Wigginton, tb
horn quarterback last ya
coach the freshman
backs. He tied the Unira
Texas school scoring
14 touchdowns set by Stev
ster in 1970.
Although the staff
has a wide background,!!
without its associations
playing and coaching days
11 men who hope to mab
a Southwest Conference
er in 1972. For instance:
—Bellard had LaGrasti
assistant in the high sck
for 12 years and coack
ginton at Texas forfouri
—Hurt and Robertson
together seven years at E
while Powell and Younf
been together two sec
A&M.
—Hurt coached
Orange High, and
coached Wigginton i
Branch.
—R egister’s 19M
Branch team lost to Belk
Angelo Central team 21-11
state finals.
—Norris played two
San Angelo College unk
Bumgardner, A&M’s
counselor for athletes.
Sloe
Ags in the pro
Leonard Forey, David Hoot, Doug Neill, Lee Hitt,
Robertson and R. J. Englert are the newest additions to an outsfi
group of former A&M athletes now competing in professional at
Forey is an offensive lineman with the Cleveland Browns,li
a safety for the Houston Oilers, Neill is working as running back:
Chicago Bears, Robertson is trying to earn a job as a punter fortis
England Patriots, and Lee Hitt is a cornerback with the Gw
Packers.
This fivesome brings to 18 the number of Aggies in the N:
Football League.
Englert, who was named to the second team All-Americab
unit as a centerflelder last spring, is in the San Francisco I
organization. He currently is playing for a minor league
Decatur, Illinois.
Other A&M pro football players include Charlie aoi
Krueger, San Francisco 49ers; Lee Roy Caffey and Mike Clark,:
Cowboys; Dave Elmendorf, Los Angeles Rams; Larry Stegent,St
Cardinals; Ross Brupbacher, Chicago Bears; Edd Hargett, NewO
Saints; Bill Hobbs, New England Patriots; Steve O’Neal, NewYoii
Tommy Maxwell, Oakland Raiders; Mo Moorman, Kansas Cityt
Grady Allen, Atlanta Falcons, and Jack Pardee, Washington Rec
In addition, Billy Bob Barnett, former basketball and football sir
for A&M, is playing in the Canadian Football League. Barnettf
one year for the Chicago Bears.
The only Aggie playing in major league baseball is Daveb:
of the Baltimore Orioles, although A&M can boast of several
league players. Billy Hodge is in the San Diego Padres organii
Doug Rau and Bob Long are playing for farm teams of the Los A
Dodgers, Cliff Davis is with a Houston Astros farm club, aK
Camili is playing for a Cleveland Indians minor league team.
In golf, A&M graduates Bobby Nichols and Ralph Johns!
on the professional tour. Billy Martindale, the golf coach at Sft
Methodist University, is a former touring pro and an Aggie grad.
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