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Page 6 College Station, Texas Tuesday, August 29, 1972 THE BATTALIC Athletic Department run by a variety of individual || E 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 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. 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. Naturally, Bellard will coach the offensive backs. Hurt has Track outlook is promising after frustrating 1972 season Aggie track took a downward plunge in 1972, but things defi nitely look better in the years to come. Injuries and a shortage of top- quality seniors hurt the thinclads of Coach Charlie Thomas and his assistant, Ted Nelson. A fifth place finish and no first place events were the results of the Southwest Conference meet, but A&M still can claim two out door and one indoor world record. The main losses to graduation were high jumper Marvin Taylor, hurdler David Prince, pole vaulter Billy Hoffman and sprinter Steve Barre. The standout lettermen include half mile-mile relay men Willie Blackmon and Horace Grant, quarter miler-mile relay team members Robert Brew, Doug FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED Brodhead and Wayne Mills, sprinters Gerald D’Ambrosio, Marvin Mills, Billy Porter, Don- ny Rogers and Alan Swagerty, hurdler Scott Jones, high jumper Phil McGuire and pole vaulter Harold McMahan. Incoming freshmen are led by the Sealy standout Sammy Dierschke, who may rank with Randy Matson as one of Thomas’ greatest recruiting accomplish ments. Listed as a sprinter, Dierschke was named the out standing schoolboy tracksters in the state. A pair of African distance run ners will be on the squad. Adolph Tingan and T. B. Yemme, both from Ghana, have been signed. Quartermiler Harold Davis from Houston Jones, miler Paul Good man of Houston Milby and hurd ler Keith Bucy of Midland are the additions in the running events. New field men are R. C. Grice, a long jumper from Hous ton Worthing, Craig Carter, a shot putter from Lubbock Mon terrey and javeling throwers Bill 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 Bol 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. 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 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 the fresh man line coach for A&M, having joined the staff in June. He was an assistant coach at Carrollton Turner High for six years and was line coach and defensive co ordinator when he left in 1970 to become an assistant at Navarro Junior College in Corsicana. Donnie Wigginton, the Long horn quarterback last year, will coach the freshman offensive backs. He tied the University of Texas school scoring record of 14 touchdowns set by Steve Wor- ster in 1970. Although the staff obviously has a wide background, it is not without its associations from the playing and coaching days of the 11 men who hope to make A&M a Southwest Conference contend er in 1972. For instance: —Bellard had LaGrasta as an assistant in the high school ranks for 12 years and coached Wig ginton at Texas for four seasons. —Hurt and Robertson coached together seven years at Houston, while Powell and Young have been together two seasons at A&M. —Hurt coached Slocum at Orange High, and Register coached Wigginton at Spring Branch. —R e g i s t e r ’ s 1966 Spring Branch team lost to Bellard’s San Angelo Central team 21-14 in the state finals. —Norris played two years at San Angelo College under 1 Bumgardner, A&M’s acaJ counselor for athletes. Jince ;M’s s-u >, the - jroved id the mp of load* to Ben Hurt [he KSsn at of ir afte gradua. • the w Melvin Robertson nKs sl ’ 1 npetitio aTm (T7j J 7 V:;* JBMffilf K8 M R. C. Slocum Dan LaGrasta t r Dee Powell John Paul Youn^f Why Pay More? I University Approved Used Books Ful1 Refund Through Sept. 15 'W‘ mw ***«*»■ mmw ' j " ‘ lli ii iii! 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