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College Station, Texas
Thursday, October 26, 1972
THE BATTALION
New Coach, New Image
Rejuvenated Bears Shucking Losing Traditions
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By KEVIN COFFEY
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Trying to shuck its biggest
tradition, losing, the Baylor
Bears have turned into an ag
gressive and exciting football
team in 1972.
During the three year regime
of Bill Beall the Bears could
manage only three wins while
compiling 28 defeats. Baylors
opposition ran up a total 839
points to the Bears 294 during
that time spread. Beall’s crew
could manage but one Southwest
Conference victory and that
came at the hand of the Texas
Aggies in 1970.
This year’s Baylor team looks
nothing like the teams of the
past.
They have a new head coach
in Grant Teaff. Teaff was head
coach at Angelo State University
before being tapped for the Bay
lor job.
Teaff saw the challenge of re
building Baylor’s football image
and went on a recruiting cam
paign which brought 14 of the
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players into the Baylor fold.
The Bears also have a new
astroturf covering for Baylor
Stadium which could have as
many as 45,000 homecoming fans
to watch the battle with the
Aggies.
Baylors fortunes on the foot
ball field have changed along
with all the face lifting. They
beat a rugged Georgia team stat
wise but lost on the scoreboard
24-14. They then blanked Mis
souri 27-0 and won two games
in a row for the first time since
1966 by beating Miami (Fla.)
10-3.
Since then Baylor has dropped
games to Arkansas 31-20 and
Oklahoma State 20-7, but the
Bears are a three point favorite
over the Aggies.
Baylor runs its offense out of
the I slot formation. They have
rushed the ball for an average
of 3.2 yards a carry and passed
33 percent of the time. Starting
quarterback Neal Jeffery has
completed 56.1 percent of his
passes and has suffered five in
terceptions this year.
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There are now 12 freshmen on the A&M varsity, six of which will
start against the Baylor Bears in Waco Saturday night.
Richard Osborne and Carl Roaches alternate at split end, Bubba
Bean at left halfback, Skip Walker at right half, Henry Tracy at right
guard and Ed Simonini at strong linebacker.
Others are Ronnie Hubby, playing second team behind both
Walker and Bean; Alvin Bowers, who has started in two games due to
injuries to fullback Brad Dusek, and now second team; Glenn Bujnoch,
second team left tackle; Dennis Smelser, second team right guard; Blake
Schwarz, second team right defensive tackle and Pat Thomas, working
at the cornerback position.
No other Southwest Conference team comes near the number the
Aggies have in the varsity lineup. If all these freshmen letter this fall,
the Aggies could have an unbelieveable number of four year lettermen
in 1976.
Coach Bellard says that he’s not looking toward 1973 by letting
these youngsters gain needed experience, but it looks like a good guess.
He says the reason these freshmen are playing is because they play with
a tremendous amount of desire and are willing to really get after the
opposition.
I guess that’s a fair assumption since the Fish, even without some of
its great players, have been undefeated this year while soundly
trouncing all who have crossed its path.
Don’t be surprised if even more freshmen are brought up as the
season progresses. Look for linebacker Garth TenNapel who has
intercepted two passes, recovered a fumble in the end zone after a
blocked punt and leads the team in tackles. Another candidate is Kent
Krueger who has blocked two punts and has plugged up the middle of
the Fish defensive line. Tyrone Wright also has a chance to move up.
His left guard position is the favorite path of fish runners so far this
year.
With these fine freshman, the Aggies should have the nucleus of
which to build a winning football team. Bellard and his staff did a fine
job recruiting these young men and are in the midst of getting another
fine group this season.
Maybe the Aggies just have a hard time getting warmed up for the
first and third quarters. A&M has put 13 points on the board in the first
quarter and six in the third. The opponents have scored 47 and 38
during the same time span.
A&M’s top quarter is the second. The Aggies have scored 58
compared to the opponents 21. Don’t get too excited about us warming
up and getting the opponents in the fourth though. Aggies have been
outscored 40-21.
We need to figure out a way to play four second quarters.
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Wonder what the point spread is for the A&M—Baylor game?
Pick the Bears by 94 points.
The Bears lost to Oklahoma State by 13 and Colorado lost to OSU
by 25, making the Bears 12 better than Colorado. Colorado beat
Oklahoma by six, making Baylor 18 better than the Sooners. Oklahoma
beat Texas by 27, making Baylor 45 points over Texas. Texas defeated
Texas Tech by five, which means Baylor is 50 points over the Raiders.
Tech beat Arizona by 25, which gives Baylor 75 over the Wildcats.
UCLA beat Arizona by 11, making Baylor 64 up on UCLA. UCLA beat
Nebraska by three which puts Baylor 67 points over Nebraska.
Nebraska beat A&M by 27—so there it is, Baylor by 94. Any bets?
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Jeffery’s favorite target is
Charles Dancer, a JC transfer
from Navarro, who has hauled
in 20 of the 56 Baylor comple
tions.
Joining Jeffery in the Bear
backfield will be tailbacks Gary
Lacey and Brian Kilgore. Lacy
was a Jr. College All-America
at Wharton where he piled up
over 2,000 yards during his two
year career. He was coached in
high school by A&M’s offensive
line coach Dan LaGrasta.
The Baylor fullback is Gene
Wilson. Wilson is small as full
backs go tipping the scales at
192 pounds. Wilson is a senior
with two varsity letters.
Baylor rounds out its receiv
ing corps with tight end Ken
Townsend joining the talented
and elusive Dancer.
Baylor’s offensive line situa
tion was perhaps best described
by Teaff who said, “realistically,
our offensive line is likely to be
only average . . . and your of
fense can be as good as your
offensive line.”
The question mark offensive
line is made up of Lee Wright
and Richard Mason at the tackles,
David Walters and Harold Rodg
ers at guard with Cary Dorman
at center. Mason is a junior
while the rest of the line is all
seniors.
The Baylor defense is giving
up the identical number of points
the offense is scoring, 78. It is
led by all-America candidate
Roger Goree.
Against Arkansas Goree
blocked two punts and was in on
18 tackles. In the Oklahoma
State game he recovered three
fumbles, forced another, had
seven tackles, nine assists while
sacking the quarterback for
losses on two different occasions.
In short, Goree is a quality ball
player.
Mike Black joins Goree at de
fensive end. Coy Zunker and Joe
Johnson of Bryan are the tackles
iwith Millard Neely the nose-
guard. Neely was JC All-Ameri
ca at Tyler.
Paul Savage and Derrel Luce
are the Baylor linebackers.
The Baylor pass defense con-
ists of corner backs Ira Dean and
Keith Stone. Stone was a all
conference performer at Wharton
Jr. College last year. Tommy
Stewart is the Bear safety and
Tommy Turnipseede is the Bay
lor roving back.
Baylor will throw everything
it has against the Aggies and the
outcome should be interesting.
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