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College Station, Texas Friday, October 26, 1973 JHE BATTALION
Pat Thomas Brings Speed
To Defensive Secondary
The Texas Aggies admittedly
have perhaps the fastest football
team in their history this season
but all of the fleetness isn’t lim
ited to the offensive unit.
Sophomore Pat Thomas, the
resident at left cornerback on the
Aggie defense, is one speedster
not on offense. Defensive coor
dinator Melvin Robertson says,
“Thomas has the fastest feet of
any player Pve ever coached.”
This week, Thomas will have to
utilize his quick feet and speed be
cause the Baylor Bears invade
Kyle Field with the SWC’s top
passing game and some of the
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best speed in the league.
Thomas has about 4.5 speed
for the 40-yard dash. He display
ed it in the season’s opener
against Wichita State when he
leaped into the air to intercept
a pass and then raced 51 yards
for a touchdown. “Man, that felt
good,” he said after the game.
“It was my first score since high
school.”
In high school, he was an all-
state fullback for Plano and he
helped lead his team to the state
championship. When he arrived
on the Aggie campus, help was
needed in the secondary and he
was moved onto the varsity be
fore the season was over and
finally finished as a starting cor
nerback. He’s been there / ever
since and now, though only a
sophomore, he’s considered one of
the very best in the SWC.
He’s the only Aggie with two
interceptions this season and
that’s half of the team’s total.
Also, he has pounced on two en
emy fumbles and he’s put a lot of
bumps and bruises on ball car
riers with his solid tackling.
When he’s not in action, Thom
as is the happy-go-lucky type, a
big smile beaming across his face
and humorous, kidding remarks
aimed at his mates. But, when it’s
time to buckle on his helmet and
step into action, he’s all busi
ness.
At Plano High, Pat was an all-
around athlete who competed in
football, basketball, track and
baseball. In one football game he
had 254 yards rushing and scored
five touchdowns.
Now, though, he’s on the other
side of the scrimmage line and
his interest is to stop the enemy
from rolling up yardage, complet
ing passes or scoring touchdowns.
He’ll have his work cut out this
Saturday afternoon because the
Baylor offense will put a lot of
pressure on the Aggie defense.
Those who know Pat Thomas best
are confident that he’ll rise to the
occasion and give one of his bet
ter performances—and that could
range in the super category.
UNDER THE GUN — A&M
Larry Ellis, James Daniels and
workout Saturday as they face
in Baylor’s Neil Jeffrey.
defensive backs Tim Gftj
Pat Thomas should
the SWC’s leading pad
Ten Napel Grabs SWC Hono
AP Names Garth Defensive Player of the Week
Garth Ten Napel
By DENNE H. FREEMAN
Associated Press Sports Writer
A&M linebacker Garth Ten Na-
pel’s hobby is drag racing and
he’s not bad at dragging down
enemy ball carriers either.
Ten Napel made 12 tackles and
sacked the quarterback four times
Saturday in a 35-16 victory over
Texas Christian to earn The As
sociated Press Southwest Confer
ence Defensive Player of the
Week.
The 6-foot-2, 202-pound sopho
more from Euless races a 1962
pickup truck with a 427 horse
power engine in it during the
drag racing season in Kennedale.
“It’s something to do,” Ten
Napel says.
Ten Napel was particularly
pleased to make some big plays
in front of the home folks. Euless
is near Fort Worth.
However, he adds “I didn’t feel
like I played that good a game.
I got blocked quite a bit . . . but
those big plays made me feel
better.”
Ten Napel said “I believe we
can win the Southwest Conference
with the team now ... if we
don’t turn the ball over in the
danger zones.”
He said the erratic Aggie of
fense had put the defense into
holes until Saturday when fresh
man David Walker took over the
helm.
“Turnovers hurt the defense
mentally,” Ten Napel said.
Ten Napel says he wishes he
was a little taller so he could see
over some of the giant offensive
linemen now playing collegerj
ball.
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lege were so tall I had taj
following the football,” Tet!|
pel said.
Ten Napel has been overei
owed most of the season
Simonini, another sophomore,^
is working at an All-SWC]
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Simonini,” Ten Napel said,
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every game.
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I was goofing up because ofj
weak side option I was takind
quarterback instead of thefi
back,” he said. “I went baclj
my man in the second half.'
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The Aggie offensive line, which
was at its finest hour against
TCU, will have co-captain Ricky
Seeker at center, Bruce Welch
and freshman Billy Lemons at
guards and Glenn Bujnoch and
Dennis Smelser at tackles.
Aggie receivers, who saw a
drought in passing last week, are
Carl Roaches and tight end Rich
ard Osborne. Roaches also returns
punts and kickoffs for the Aggies,
ranking second in the latter.
Defensively, the Aggies are the
conferences’ top unit but have
their work cut out for them
against a balanced Baylor attack.
The Bears will probably throw
more than any team the Ags have
faced this year.
Don Long and Paul Hulin are
the Aggie defensive ends. Against
TCU Frog Quarterback Kent
Marshall optioned the ends off
for good gains, but after a half
time adjustment, they shut down
the TCU ground game. They will
be joined by tackles Warren Tra
han and Ted Lamp in the defen
sive front four.
The second team defensives
for the Aggies is compriseil
four freshman in Brad Bii^
and Tank Marshall at the
with Jimmy Degn and Terry^
lis at the guard spots.
Co-captain Ed Simonini, Gil
Ten Napel and Ken Stratton ij
the A&M linebackers with<
provided by John Paul McCfl
bly and freshman Lester Haisj
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that should get a workout agaid
the air-minded Bears are 'll
Gray and Pat Thomas at
corners with Larry Ellis
James Daniels at the safet*
Jackie Williams has also WoA
himself into a regular po
in the defensive backfield.
This will be the 70th meetii
between the schools. A&M It*
last year 15-13 and A&M
the series, 39-23-7. Baylor
10-9 here in 1971 on a 53-J*|
field goal by Pat McDermott
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sas in Fayetteville and Ba)
faces TCU in Waco.
ALWAYS A DEEP THREAT is A&.M’s split receiver
Carl Roaches. Roaches is the second leading kickoff return
man in the conference. Roaches also returns punts for the
Ags and is the SWC’s No. 8 pass catcher.
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