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! 'h*
Lou has worked All Summer in acquiring these books from colleges
throughout the states to give Aggies A Better Price than anyone else.
Freshman Books For Fall Semester *72*
Course
Author
Title
New
Price
Lou’s
Used Price
Ag. Eco. 105 — Roy: Economics: Application to Agriculture &
Agricultural Business
Ag. Egn. 101 — Beakley: Engineering: An Intro, to A Creative Approach
An. Sc. 107 — Campbell: Science of Animals that Serve Mankind
An. Sci. 108 — Berry: Basic Animal Science Lab Manual
Biol. 101 — Weire: Botany
Biol. 101 — Lab Manual - Biol. Staff
Biol. 102 — Porter: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
Biol. 102 — Reeves: Flora of South Central Texas
Biol. 107 — Painter: Biology Today
107 — Pabramoff: Lab. Outlines & Lab. Studies in Biology
Hickman: Biology of the Invertebrates
Boolootian: Illustrated Lab. Text in Zoology
Biol. 113 — Curtis: Biology
Biol. 113 — Kimball: Cell Biology
Biol. 113 — Wincehster: Human Genetics
Biol. 113 — Odum: Ecology
Biol. 113 — Ellington: Chemical Communications
Biol. 114 — Undecided
Biol. 123-124 — Robertson: The Lab. in Biology
Bana, 117 — Undecided
Biochem. 107 — Scientific American Offprints
Chem. 101-102 — Brooks: Chemical Concepts w/Lab. Book & Study Guide All for
7.95 - 5.95
9.95 - 7.45
12.50 - 9.40
4.00 - 3.00
12.75 - 9.55
Biol
Biol. 108
Biol. 108
8.25 - 6.20
2.75 - 2.05
1111 New Books
1111
12.00 - 8.95
7.00 - 5.95
12.00 - 8.95
4.50 - 3.40
2.95 - 2.20
3.90 - 2.85
6.00 - 4.45
Chem. 103—Brescia: Fundamentads of Chemistry
Chem. 106 — Fernandez: Modern Chemical Concepts
Chem. 113—Frantz: Chem. Princ. in the Lab. w/o Reports
E. G. 105-6 — Earle: Engineering Design Graphics
E. T. 105 — Groneman: Technical Woodworking
E. T. 106 — Walker: Modern Metalworking
Engl. 103-4 — Guth: Words & Ideas
Engl. 103-4 — Decker: Patterns & Exposition
E. D. 101 — Feldman: Art As Image & Idea
E. D. 103 — Josef: Interaction of Color
Hist. 105-6 — Hicks: History of Am. Democracy
Hist. 105 — Forbes: Paul Revere & the World He Lived In
Hist. 105 — Cotton: U. S. Grant & the Am. Military Tradition
Hist. 106 — Goldman: Crucial Decade
Hist. 106 — Stover: American Railroads
Hist. 101-2—Ferguson: Survey of European Civilization
Hist. 101 — Tarn: Alexander the Great
Hist. 101 — Mattingly: Man in the Roman Street
Hist. 101 — Machavelli: The Prince
Hist. 102 — Markham: Napolean
Journ. 102 — Rivers: Mass Media,& Modern Society
Mgmt. 105 — Price: Issues in Business
Mgmt. 106 — Sartain: Supervisor & His Job
Math. 101 — Russell: Intermediate Algebra
Math. 102 — Beckenbaugh: College Algebra
Math. 103 — Heineman: Plane Trig. w/Tables
Math. 104 — Wade: Contemporary Analytic Geometry
Math. 121 — Thomas: Calculua & Analytic Geometry
130—Munem: Functional Approach to Math.
101 — Undecided
112 — Beer: Vector Mechanics for Engineers
Fr. 101—Brown: French Writing, Reading, Listening & Speaking
Germ. 103 — Lohnes: German: A Structural Approach
Rus. 109— Clark: Russian for American
Sp. 105 — Undecided
Sp. 106—Thompson: Speaking & Understanding Spanish
Phil. 101 — Stace: Religion and the Modern Mind
Phil. 101 — Kronovert: In Pursuit of Awareness
9.95
12.95 - 9.70
9.25 - 6.95
13.25 - 9.95
8.60 - 6.40
7.96 - 5.95
6.50 - 4.90
5.25 - 3.95
Math.
M. E.
M. E.
10.95 - 8.20
2.35 - 1.50
1.95 - 1.45
1.45 - 1.15
2.95 - 2.20
12.95 - 9.70
1.95 - 1.50
1.45 - 1.15
.75 - .55
1.00 - .85
1111
9.95 - 7.45
10.95 - 8.20
9.95 - 7.45
9.95 - 7.45
8.50 - 6.40
8.50 - 6.40
13.95 - 10.50
9.75 - 7.30
14.50 - 8.95
8.95 - 6.70
8.95 - 6.70
14.00 - 10.50
7.50 - 5.65
2.25 - 1.70
4.50 - 3.40
ALL BOOKS GUARANTEED to be the right book for the given course
Available At
At
North Gate
Loupot's
“Shop Loupot’s and Save’
At
North Gate
Paul Register
Rex Norris
Donnie Wigginton
Picture Yourself Part
of the Aggieland
A Great Aggie Tradition
1973 YEARBOOK SCHEDULE:
Fish: Sept. 5 - Sept. 29
Fish Makeup: Oct. 2 - Oct. 6
Seniors & Grads: Oct. 9 - Nov. 3
Makeup: Nov. 6 - Dec. 1
Juniors & Sophomores: Jan. 15 - Feb. 23
Makeup: Feb. 26 - March 16
^XAS W
in ra
'id at t\
University Studio
115 N. Main At North Gate
College Station — 846-8019
“Official Yearbook Photographer”
Orj
Sene