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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Page 5
Spring training for A&M’s football will conclude Saturday with the
annual Maroon and White clash on Kyle Field Saturday afternoon at
1:30.
From the beginning, the drills were not highly important. No one
really needed to prove themselves as the coaching staff had a good idea
who were the horses on which to ride toward a Southwest Conference
football championship in the near future.
There were some surprises, certainly, but where a performer
needed to jump out was at quarterback. But, as expected, none arose.
A&M will conclude spring drills right where it left off for two years in a
row—without a proven quarterback.
As bad as things look now, don’t count on another 3-8 season.
Help is on the way. The help may be unproven in collegiate athletics
but they do have a solid base from which to work.
Four quarterbacks were signed by coach Emory Bellard and his
staff this year and will come to the Aggie camp highly-touted in both
team leadership and ability.
First off is state 4A champion Odessa Permian’s David Shipman,
6-2, 220, who led the Panthers to an undefeated season scoring 23
touchdowns as a triple option quarterback.
Another is 6-0, 175, David Walker, voted the most outstanding
athlete in Louisiana, who completed 58 per cent of his passes for 1,857
yards and 16 touchdowns. Carl Menger and Joe McReynolds are also
super-talented quarterbacks that are expected to be fighting for the
starting job in the Aggie camp this fall.
Menger, 6-0, 188 from Houston Westchester was voted the top
Wishbone quarterback by Texas Football magazine before his senior
year. He was an all-stater as a junior but suffered an untimely accident
in the summer prior to his senior year.
McReynolds, who still has not signed a national letter with Bellard
as yet but is expected to be wearing Maroon and White when the
whistle blows, was first team All-America from Purcell, Okla. At 6-3,
185, he has the tools to be an outstanding collegiate quarterback as do
the others.
The other positions on A&M’s first unit are well-manned though
some depth is needed and will be gained next fall with all freshman
being able to compete for varsity spots. Bellard has announced that no
freshman schedule will be played by his team and has notified all other
conference schools of his decision. Bellard feels the freshman he has
signed up are too talented to waste on a freshman schedule. As many
remember, last year’s freshman unit was 4-1 and no less than 19
freshmen were carried on the varsity roster and thus could not compete
on the freshman team. Bellard feels this year’s recruits could be more
talented than last year’s with as many as 30 varsity prospects compared
to 25 last year.
Where the Aggies look to be surely set from spring training are at
the skill positions; three runningbacks and two receivers. All members
of this group are freshmen that started for the Aggies in last year’s
campaign. Bubba Bean, who has gained much-needed blocking knowl
edge and found out how to play with injury, is set at left halfback.
Alvin Bowers, at 6-0, 220, is both strong and quick at his fullback spot.
The other halfback is Skip Walker, the most consistant performing
running back in the Aggie camp last fall.
At the end positions are two of the best anywhere in Carl Roaches
and Richard Osborne. Last year both alternated at split end but Bellard
now feels that these two must be on the field at the same time with the
talents they both possess. Osborne was moved to tight end and has
learned his blocking techniques well but has not lost his nack for
catching the ball in a crowd. Roaches with 9.4 speed, tough physical
composure and nack of finding the open seam is still very much
present at split end.
The Aggies also have a fine defense as portrayed this spring. Three
junior college transfers have bolstered a defensive unit that was nearly
wiped out by graduation.
James Daniels, 6-2, 180, and Tim Gray, 6-1, 190 have taken over at
left safety and right cornerback respectively with great results as echoed
by defensive coordinator Melvin Robertson. At left cornerback is
freshman Pat Thomas who saw quite a bit of action last fall and Larry
Ellis has held his right safety spot from last year.
Ellis is the only senior letterman still on the squad from last year.
The Aggies lost such performers as Mark Green, two-year starter at right
halfback, Bill Wiebold, two-year starter at defensive tackle, Dwight
LaBauve, last year’s left safety and others before their last year of
eligibility because of various reasons since last fall. The experience will
be sorely missed but the talent can be easily replaced.
Where the Aggies are not well-manned is in the offensive and
defensive lines. That’s where the games are won and lost—in the
trenches. There is no true starter in the bunch but there is some talent.
Tremendous work has been accomplished in teaching fundamentals this
spring but only next September will tell the tale in that all-important
facet of Texas A&M’s football team.
The Aggies will have an exciting team this fall and, though a
conference title seems about a year away, will be enjoyable to watch.
Saturday’s spring game, even though without the services of a winning
quarterback, should be interesting.
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Texas A&M’s sixth annual
Media Golf Tournament will be
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Friday beginning at noon.
Over 80 news media people and
24 A&M athletic staffers, includ
ing all the coaches, will tee off
to start the big spring weekend
which will include a poolside
cocktail party and banquet Friday
night at the Ramada Inn and the
spring football slated Saturday.
The news media will be com
peting for 20 prizes offered by
the athletic department. The in
dividual with the lowest score
will win a new set of clubs. Scor
ing is to be compiled by the blind
Callaway system which will be
revealed at the end of Friday’s
play.
Second through fifth prizes
will be a set of irons and sixth
through ninth places will win a
new set of woods. The tenth
through nineteenth places will
win a new pair of golf shoes.
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one on the par 3 fifth hole. If
more than one aces the hole,
which is unlikely, they will share
the prize. If no one aces, which
is most likely, a luggage bag goes
to the news media golfer getting
nearest the hole. A travel bag
goes to the A&M staff golfer
nearest the hole.
The A&M staff golfer with the
best total round score will win
a new golf bag.
To begin the round of play,
each media golfer will be given a
dozen new Spalding Top-Flite
balls and a Texas A&M hat. Each
staffer will be given six new balls
and a hat.
There will be no defending
champion at this year’s tourney
as last year’s winner, Jim Lewis
of KWTX-Waco, has not entered.
He shot a scratch 72 at the A&M
course last year.
Wives of the staff and media
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For the ladies, a noon sherry
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crest, followed by a buffet lunch
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